A tip of the hat by a Revolutionary War hero convinced teen-aged slave Lewis Hayden he deserved respect. It was 1825, and the Marquis de Lafayette was passing through Kentucky …
Religion & Social Movements
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Until his death in the early 1990s, Harrison Fitch rooted for the basketball team that stood by him when racists on an opposing team refused to play. It was 1934, …
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On April 1, 1887, apprentice teacher Annie E. Fales wrote about her day supervising 10-year-old children as part of her studies at the Worcester Normal School. She enjoyed being in …
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The Puritans had barely arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when they banned gambling. And then they banned a lot of other things. Following the path of similar countries who …
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One can only imagine the reception Mark Twain got for his comments at the Monday Evening Club in Hartford on March 22, 1886. Twain praised the Knights of Labor as …
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When the Irish famine ships arrived in Boston in the 1840s, tens if not hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Ireland already made their mark on New England. By 1790, …
