American History
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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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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.
The Sketch Book of Nick DeLuca 