All posts tagged "mayflower"
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39.7K2Connecticut6 Places That Became a Summer White House
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
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8.3K7Politics and MilitaryThe Peace Policy of Passaconaway and the Founding of New England
One of the first American Indians to come to the attention of English explorers visiting New England was an exceptionally tall leader...
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7.5K2bostonJustin Winsor, the Genealogy Nut Who Founded the Library Profession
Libraries might be very different places today were it not for Justin Winsor, who became the head librarian at the Boston Public...
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20.4K32MassachusettsSam Adams Walked Into a Tavern and Started a Revolution
Sam Adams was a devout Puritan who brought his religious convictions to the fight for American liberty. That did not mean he...
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22.2K7MassachusettsBartholomew Gosnold, the Founding Grandfather of the 13 Colonies (and Namer of Cape Cod)
When Bartholomew Gosnold and his small crew came to anchor on the Maine coast in 1602, an Indian wearing imported European shoes...
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49.4K87MassachusettsThe Great Migration of Picky Puritans, 1620-40
When the Pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation in 1620, they began what was called the Great Migration – great not because of...
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