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The Puritans and New England — most people today can’t think of one without the other. That’s because while the English religious group we call the Puritans migrated from England…
Questions of gender identity and sexuality are nothing new. Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands — people assigned female at birth who transed gender,…
In his forthcoming book, A Resistance History of the United States, public historian Tad Stoermer argues that the U.S. was shaped by resistance—but not in the way we’ve been taught. The…
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What if America’s founding wasn’t inevitable? Long before the Articles of Confederation, colonial Americans spent over a century struggling to unite—and mostly failing spectacularly. Discover the forgotten stories of America’s…
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Written in 1943 by Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain is among the best-selling children’s books of the 20th century. Intended for middle schoolers, the novel’s protagonist is 14-year-old Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith…
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Since the late 1800s, African American women have organized to create memorials commemorating Black women across time. As members of clubs, preservation organizations, and other groups, Black women have told…
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After Major John Pitcairn was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill, he was remembered in Britain as “a Gentleman of universal good character.” In Massachusetts, however, people still accused…
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In the 1770s, Boston was in a state of transformation and upheaval. While we mostly think of the American Revolution as the driver of this whirlwind of change, a technological…
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A once-in-a-lifetime paint restoration project was completed at Old North Church in 2024 and 2025! Expert conservators painstakingly removed layers of white overpaint to reveal some of the church’s colonial-era…
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For thousands of years, women cooked over open fires or hearths — using simple tools, a limited list of local seasonal ingredients, and without printed recipes for guidance. In the…
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When we think about Americans who changed the course of history, we rarely think about children. In the popular imagination, young people usually stand on the sidelines of history, sheltered…
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