All posts tagged "women"
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3.6KCrime and ScandalIn 1919, A Private Detective Nailed the Murderer of Lucina Broadwell
When Barre, Vt., police in 1919 first saw the naked body of Lucina Broadwell in a vacant lot, they immediately suspected her...
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5.5KMassachusettsSeven Fun Facts About Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass rose from slavery in the South to international prominence as a writer, orator and anti-slavery activist. He didn’t spend a...
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3.6KMassachusettsJames Somerset, the Boston Runaway Who Ended Slavery in England
In 1771, James Somerset languished in an English prison ship that would soon set sail for Jamaica. There, James Somerset would be...
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4.4KPolitics and MilitaryRhode Island’s Little Annapolis: The PT Boat Training Center at Melville
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
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6.0KReligion and Social MovementsThe Vermont Eugenics Survey Purifies the Population’s Polluted Protoplasm
The Vermont eugenics survey began with the rural exodus of Vermont farmers and didn’t end until well after Hitler used its ‘philosophy’...
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4.5KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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2.7KMassachusettsHow Louisa May Alcott Voted for the First Time in 1880
On March 29, 1880, Louisa May Alcott voted with 19 other women for the first time at the Concord Town Meeting. The...
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3.7KMassachusettsHarriet Jacobs, Enslaved, Tells of Her #MeToo Moments. No One Believes Her.
Harriet Jacobs, held in slavery, wrote a book about her sexual oppression that people didn’t believe for more than a century. Then...
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4.2K2Politics and MilitaryChamplain, the Irish Lake
Between 1840 and 1860, a great wave of Irish immigrants washed up on the shores of Lake Champlain. So many, in fact,...
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4.4K1MassachusettsHow John Adams Became A “Church going Animal”
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
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