All posts tagged "Vietnam War"
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11.5K2MassachusettsNew 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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10.7K1Massachusetts9 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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6.7K1ConnecticutNine 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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21.6K5Arts 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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12.7K4Arts and LeisureBuffy Sainte-Marie Fights For Her Indian People
Buffy Sainte-Marie was a rising star in the 1960s until her activism on behalf of her Native-American people put a lid on...
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17.6K9ConnecticutAvoiding 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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