All posts tagged "navigation"
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5.1KBusiness and LaborFive Heroic Moms in New England History
With Mother’s Day soon upon us, it’s a good time for a reminder about heroic moms. For much of New England history,...
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21.7K10MassachusettsThe Stolen Library That Launched America’s 1st Math Genius, Nathaniel Bowditch
In 1791, two Salem ministers let an 18-year-old apprentice named Nathaniel Bowditch use their private library. Maritime navigation would never be the...
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21.2K18Business and LaborMary Patten, 19 and Pregnant, Takes Command of a Clipper Ship in 1856
Mary Patten never set out to be a sea captain, but that’s what she became in 1856. She had married Joshua Patten,...
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16.2K15MassachusettsThe Great Boston Revolt of 1689
Colonists in Boston revolted against a hated English governor 86 years and one day before the the world heard the shot in...
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8.9K14Business and LaborPaul Cuffe and the Back-to-Africa Movement
The Back-to-Africa movement began with a wealthy mixed-race Quaker named Paul Cuffe. He brought African-American Bostonians to a Sierra Leone colony in...
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10.8K3ConnecticutGeorge Washington’s Submarine: The Turtle, Made in Connecticut
New York Harbor — September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall Street in New York City, where the Staten...
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