All posts tagged "Vietnam War"
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7.9K2MassachusettsNew England’s Gun Valley, Child of the Springfield Armory
New England’s Gun Valley began with George Washington, who in 1777 scouted the site on an old Puritan muster ground in Springfield,...
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8.5K1Massachusetts9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobby Kennedy
Many viewed the death of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as the loss of the last great leader. Assassins’ bullets had taken the...
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5.4K1ConnecticutNine New England Tax Resisters
Abolition, war and injustice have inspired tax resisters in New England since even before the American Revolution. And well after the American...
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16.9K5Arts and LeisureRose Wilder Lane, the Secret Behind the Little House Books
In 1931, 44-year-old Rose Wilder Lane saw a manuscript of a book called Pioneer Girl. It told the story of a homesteader...
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15.3K9ConnecticutAvoiding Armageddon: How the 1970 Riots in New Haven Never Happened
Everyone thought riots in New Haven would break out on May 1, 1970. But they didn’t. The reasons include unorthodox policing, black...
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14.3K7Arts and LeisureThe Other Boston Tea Party, The Hippest Club in Town
Boston and Cambridge were centers of the Sixties counterculture, and from 1967-70 the other Boston Tea Party was the epicenter of the center....
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