All posts tagged "newspapers"
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9.0K1Politics and MilitaryThe Irish-American Army That Attacked Canada from a Vermont Farm
Alvah Richard couldn’t believe that fanatical Irish-American army was back. For the second time in four years, the self-proclaimed Irish Republican Army...
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9.2K4MassachusettsJames Somerset, the Boston Runaway Who Ended Slavery in England
In 1771, James Somerset languished in an English prison ship that would soon set sail for Jamaica. There, James Somerset would be...
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7.8K2MassachusettsWhen Massachusetts Was a Paradise for Tramps
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...
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7.0K2ConnecticutMore Revolutionaries Died in Prison Than on the Battlefield. A Lot More.
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionaries imprisoned in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death –...
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4.9KConnecticutSeven Mule Barnum Gets Roasted by Mark Twain
P.T. Barnum’s cousin wanted to go down in history as a statesman and an industrialist, but he could never escape his nickname:...
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11.1K2ConnecticutThe Tariffville Disaster Inspires the First Emergency Phone Call
The Tariffville disaster, a train wreck near Hartford, prompted the first-ever emergency telephone call when a doctor summoned help from a local...
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