All posts tagged "U.S. Supreme Court"
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4.9KArts and LeisureRachel Field, Rediscovered on a Maine Island
Rachel Field today is remembered through her children’s book, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, but she also wrote several bestsellers for adults,...
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5.6KbostonBrahmin Anti-Semites Fight the Brandeis Nomination to the Supreme Court
Louis Brandeis didn’t become one of the greatest Supreme Court justices ever without a dogfight. The bitter battle over the Brandeis nomination...
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8.1KMassachusettsBenjamin Roberts Fights To Integrate Massachusetts Schools—and Wins in 1855
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
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19.0K3Connecticut6 Places That Used To Be Part of a Different State
For centuries, New England’s borders were anything but stable, and New Englanders didn’t agree on what they were. Maine was once part...
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10.7K19MassachusettsTouched With Fire – Oliver Wendell Holmes and America’s Deadliest Day
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., left Boston in 1861 an ideological foot soldier for the Union Army. He returned from the war –...
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5.1K3MassachusettsBoston Ladies Free the Child Med From Slavery
A six-year-old girl named Med changed the course of history when she left her home in Louisiana on May 1, 1836. She...
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