All posts tagged "protest"
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7.0K4Crime and ScandalMary Rogers Brings the Capital Punishment Wars to Vermont
In 1905, Mary Rogers faced the hangman’s noose for murdering her husband. There was virtually no doubt of her guilt. But as...
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51.5KBusiness and LaborArt Young – Connecticut Cartoonist for Truth, Justice and the Working Man
A century ago, Connecticut’s Art Young was a radical political cartoonist, and many of his drawings would be as relevant today as...
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38.2K5MassachusettsChristopher Seider: The First Casualty in the American Revolutionary Cause
Christopher Seider was just 11 in 1770, a working boy in Boston at a time when the city was awash in the...
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8836MassachusettsAlexander Scammell, the Lovesick Revolutionary War Hero
On a June night in 1777, Gen. Alexander Scammell poured out his heart in a letter to Abigail Bishop of Mistic, Mass....
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9.8K13MassachusettsThe Heroic Last-Minute Rescue of the Old South Meeting House
Of all the dramatic events that took place at Boston’s Old South Meeting House, the battle to save it from destruction in...
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7.7K5Crime and ScandalJennie Cramer – New Haven’s “Beautiful Victim” of 1881
Jennie Cramer and her mother Christina had an awful fight on Thursday, August 4, 1881. Jennie and her friend Blanche Douglass had...
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14.0K6Arts and LeisureLouisa May Alcott, Spinster, Enjoys Valentine’s Day 1868
Louisa May Alcott, spinster, wrote an essay to challenge the prevailing wisdom that a woman needed a husband to be happy. It...
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6.2K6MassachusettsBetsey Guppy Chamberlain Promotes the Radical Notion That Indians Are People
Betsey Guppy Chamberlain, a half-Algonquian mill girl, published some of the first – if not the first — criticisms of the way...
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5.9K9Flashback PhotosFranklin Roosevelt Celebrates Franksgiving, er, Thanksgiving
On Aug. 14, 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt invented a new holiday: Franksgiving. He did it by declaring Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the...
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4.2K2VermontGeorge Seldes, The Last Great Muckraker, Never Tired of Protesting Even at 104
When George Seldes died in 1995 at the age of 104, a delegation of investigative journalists journeyed to his home in Hartland...
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