All posts tagged "White House"
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14.8K21New HampshireThe Triumph and Tragedy of Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was elected as the 14th and possibly worst president of the United States on Nov. 2, 1852. During his presidency...
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20.8K14MassachusettsThe Heat Wave of 1896 Launches Teddy Roosevelt to the White House
When the heat wave of 1896 finally ended on Aug. 13, 1896, it left behind a record of suffering and death ‘long...
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5.1K10Politics and MilitaryGregarious Grace Coolidge, Who Filled in the Silences
Grace Coolidge burst out laughing when she glanced through a boardinghouse window and spotted her future husband shaving in long underwear and...
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8.7K14MassachusettsCalvin Coolidge – Silent Cal or Cheap Cal?
Reading Connecticut Gov. Wilbur Cross describe Calvin Coolidge got us thinking about how the former governor and president may have been misnamed....
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13.4K4MassachusettsDorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce: The Battle for the Mentally Ill
Before she led the Union Army nursing corps during the Civil War, New England’s Dorothea Dix led the most ambitious reform efforts...
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5.9K12Business and LaborPaul Cuffe and the Back-to-Africa Movement
The Back-to-Africa movement began with a wealthy mixed-race Quaker named Paul Cuffe. He brought African-American Bostonians to a Sierra Leone colony in...
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5.7K7New HampshireThe Stealth Campaign To Bring the Christmas Tree Into American Homes
Sarah Josepha Hale famously campaigned to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, but less well known are her stealth efforts to bring the...
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4.5K4Business and LaborHorace Vose, the RI Turkey Farmer Who Fed 11 Presidents on Thanksgiving
Horace Vose, a ]Westerly, R.I., turkey farmer, sent his turkeys to 11 presidents for four decades of Thanksgiving dinners and drama. Every...
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16.0K5Business and LaborHoward Johnson Goes From 1 Restaurant to 1000 and Back
What does ‘28 Flavors’ mean to you? If you’re of a certain age, it means the restaurant founded by Howard Johnson. Just...
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5.0K1MassachusettsMammoth Cheese Rolls from the Berkshires to Washington
If you were in Washington on New Year’s Day, 1802, you would undoubtedly recall the Big Cheese of the time. No, not...
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