All posts tagged "Scottish-American history"

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  Williamina Fleming, From Scottish Maid to Harvard Astronomer

  Williamina Fleming worked as a maid for an astronomer who got frustrated with his staff at Harvard. One day he supposedly exclaimed,...

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  The Vermont Sleeping Sentinel: A Strange Civil War Legacy

  When William Scott of Groton, Vt., signed up to fight for the Union at the start of the Civil War, the eager,...