All posts tagged "US Supreme Court"
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9.1KCrime and ScandalThe Murder of Mary Bean, Pregnant Mill Girl
One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
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10.4KMassachusettsHenning Jacobson Loses His Fight With the Board of Public Health Over Vaccination
Henning Jacobson, a Swedish minister, in 1905 refused vaccination during a smallpox epidemic in Cambridge, Mass., in 1905. Then he refused to...
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8.8KBusiness and LaborHow Narragansett Beer Survived Prohibition (But Still Couldn’t Escape the Government)
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, anyone who walked into a New England tavern and ordered a beer probably got a Narragansett....
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13.0K8MassachusettsJohn Adams Outlaws Fake News in 1798 – and Dooms His Presidency
Government criticism of ‘Fake news’ is nothing new. And trying to silence it was as unpopular in the early days of the...
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