Articles with keyword "Massachusetts"
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The Trial of Anthony Burns
Students reevaluate the trail of the last fugitive slave and the judge who judged him.
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Strange Alliances
With the fates of North America still uncertain, the French and three Indian tribes raid a British settlement.
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Hawthorne’s Virtual Salem
A website offers tools to explore the world of the nineteenth-century author.
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Revolt of the Masses
From Mass Moments, a website (www.massmoments.org) that is a daily almanac of significant events in the state’s history. It can also be received as a podcast or RSS feed.
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A Prison Debate
Massachusetts compiles the history of the Norfolk Prison Debate Team, which even beat the likes of Oxford's best.
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Reverberations of the Fourth of July
MASSACHUSETTS On July 5, 1852, while citizens across the country were still celebrating American freedom, Frederick Douglass, the country’s most prominent former slave, delivered arguably the century’
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Black Walden
The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.




