All posts tagged "Tufts"
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7.4KConnecticutWhat the Insider’s Guide to Colleges in New England Said in 1972
In 1972, undergraduates at the Yale Daily News published The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, an entertaining but blatantly sexist description of...
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8.2K1ConnecticutThe Antis: Women Who Fought Against the Vote
In the late 19th century, women known as antis began to organize against women who wanted the right to vote. The antis...
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6.4K2New England PlacesSix of the Oldest Hospitals in New England, From Wine to Women
New England’s oldest hospitals are all younger than such venerable institutions as schools, banks, businesses and taverns. Hospitals had been run for...
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7.3K5Arts and LeisureThe Many Loves of Henry Tufts: Original Colonial Badboy
Few criminals built a record as long or as celebrated as Henry Tufts. While history of the colonial era tends to focus...
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3.8K5Arts and LeisureFlashback Photos: The Carnegie Libraries of New England
Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the mayor of Worcester, Mass., was so eager for a Carnegie library in his...
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27.9K4Business and LaborPercy Spencer Melts a Chocolate Bar, Invents the Microwave Oven
Percy Spencer had only a fifth-grade education, but that didn’t stop him from earning patents crucial to winning World War II –...
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10.3K7Business and LaborThe Bates Bedspread of Maine, America’s Favorite Counterpane
The Bates Bedspread, once found in nearly every household, has links to presidents, First Ladies, a famous midwife and countless women who...
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6366MassachusettsAlexander 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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12.4K4Arts and LeisureThe Liberated Wife Who Really Was Wonder Woman
Elizabeth Holloway Marston was one-half of the inspiration for Wonder Woman, the superheroine who first appeared in comic books the month Pearl...
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9.1K15ConnecticutStep Right Up! 14 Little-Known Facts About The Entertaining Life of P.T. Barnum
Think you know all about P.T. Barnum, newspaper editor, progressive mayor and hospital founder? Though a legend for his hoaxes and his...
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