All posts tagged "roosevelt"
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5.2KbostonEat Like A President, Part II
In honor of President’s Day, the New England Historical Society brings you another guide to how to eat like a president. We...
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13.5K6Business and LaborThe Brunswick Children Strike the Cabot Mill
In the summer of 1881, eight-year-old children working in a Brunswick, Maine, textile mill found out eight-year-old children working in a Lewiston,...
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3.3K1Arts and LeisureConnecticut’s George Bye –Ten Percent of Anyone Who Was Anyone
Imagine hosting a dinner and inviting Hillary Clinton and Rush Limbaugh to sit side by side and they both cheerfully agreed. Hard...
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12.1K3MassachusettsMr. Marconi Builds a Radio Station on Cape Cod and Comes to the Rescue of the Titanic
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
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10.6K4Politics and MilitaryWhy Vermont Declared War on Germany Months Before Pearl Harbor
Nearly three months before Germany declared war on the United States, Vermont declared war on Germany. Pearl Harbor, of course, triggered the...
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13.2K1ConnecticutItalians in New England Declared Enemy Aliens in WWII
Angela Puleo was one of thousands of Italian immigrants stigmatized as enemy aliens by the government during World War II . Two...
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7.9K1Crime and ScandalMaine’s Mildred Gillars Wanted Fame and She Got It in WWII
Mildred Gillars paid a price for the fame she craved so desperately. She became one of the most hated women in America...
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10.3K7MassachusettsJonathan Edwards Loses His Pulpit Over Bad Books
Jonathan Edwards, the great Puritan theologian, helped ignite a religious revival known as the First Great Awakening across the 13 colonies. He...
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Seabiscuit Takes His First Step to Fame at Suffolk Downs
Seabiscuit, the knock-kneed little horse with the big heart, met the man who made him a champion at Suffolk Downs Race Course...
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10.7K3Arts and LeisureMajor Taylor, World-Famous Black Athlete in 1899, Dies in Obscurity in 1932
Fifty years before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball, Major Taylor conquered bicycle racing despite death threats and deliberate injury. At the...
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