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Canceling Citizenship Ceremonies at Faneuil Hall was an Affront to its History | CommonWealth Beacon
In the place where we have expanded the idea of who is an American, immigration authorities slammed the door shut
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The public fury resulting from the U.S. government’s enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Trump administration’s immigration policies today are remarkably similar, writes Nick DeLuca.
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One of Nichols’s favorite sayings was, “All that holds Wyoming together is baling wire and capable women.”
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It’s a complex dynamic that poses a number of challenges and questions about who lived here, when they lived here, what happens when different cultural identities collide, and whose story ultimately gets told.
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The West Florida Expedition was an attempt by New Englanders to expand the institution of slavery into the Mississippi Delta and to build wealth on the backs of enslaved people.
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All history is dyed in the color of the present moment.
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Phineas Lyman’s efforts on behalf of the Company of Military Adventurers were so exhaustive that even Benjamin Franklin took notice.
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The Proclamation of 1763 outlined West Florida on paper. Who it was that actually occupied the land, though, was a different matter.
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This is the story of a group of New Englanders who sought their fortune in the West and lost it all along the way.
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I’ve been thinking to myself after another season at the National Parks of Boston: if it comes to it, what should we rename Faneuil Hall?
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At one particular stop on my Freedom Trail tour, I observe that each generation has had to fight for their rights and freedoms from the earliest colonial days to the present.
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Just as important as what maps show is what they don’t show. Any time we look at a map, we see a landscape as filtered through the mapmaker’s judgements, prejudices, and cultural context.
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The Boston Evening-Post that day ran a curious front-page story titled “The surprising account of those spectres called vampyres.” That’s right. Vampires.
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This is the final installment in a multi-part series exploring the youth and adolescence of Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service and the first director of color, and how the context of his early years informed his tenure atop the NPS.
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This is part IV in a multi-part series exploring the youth and adolescence of Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service and the first director of color, and how the context of his early years informed his tenue atop the NPS.
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This is part III in a multi-part series exploring the youth and adolescence of Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service and the first director of color, and how the context of his early years informed his tenure atop the NPS.
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This is part II in a multi-part series exploring the youth and adolescence of Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service and the first director of color, and how the context of his early years informed his tenure atop the NPS.
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This is part I in a multi-part series exploring the youth and adolescence of Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service and the first director of color, and how the context of his early years informed his tenure atop the NPS.
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I’ve been thinking recently about how to revive this blog and make better use of it. I’d like to focus on historical exploration and analysis and, when possible, localize my subjects and comment on broader national trends.
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If confirmed as National Parks Service Director, Chuck Sams III will be the first person to hold the position in an official capacity since the Obama administration. Here’s why that’s important.
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My alma mater uses the name Masconomet to perpetuate a false narrative. Now is the opportune moment for it to reduce — by at least one — the list of Massachusetts high schools that misuse Native American imagery.
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The name on the school is a shameful reminder of how Native Americans were treated by colonists, forced to assimilate, and mocked for their traditions. Most shameful of all is the name Masconomet is used as a prop to uphold a false historical narrative by citizens who see it instead as a source of “profound…
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My worry is that Trump may silence elements of the past that the present anti-racist movement has shown absolutely still require a public reckoning.
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Statue parks could be meaningful way to help eliminate Lost Cause nostalgia from Confederate monuments.
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The Cape Cod National Seashore was innovative. It was the first park for which the federal government provided funding; for which people were intentionally left in place within the park’s bounds; and the first with a mandate for preserving the character and the way of life of the land.
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In September 1902, Theodore Roosevelt had a near-death experience in the Western Massachusetts city of Pittsfield.
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George Washington is an American legend. But he was also human, with human tastes. This article explores George Washington’s sense of humor.
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What is the origin of the weird town name of Satans Kingdom, a village in Northfield, Massachusetts.
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Fun Fact: Only one U.S. President took part in naming a town after himself and it wasn’t George Washington.
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