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A Baby in Every Bottle: Lydia Pinkham, Purveyor of Patent Medicine and Sex Education

A Baby in Every Bottle: Lydia Pinkham, Purveyor of Patent Medicine and Sex Education

Lydia Estes Pinkham was a nineteenth century entrepreneur who sold patent medicine to women desperate for help with their medical and…
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The Founders Abhorred a Mob

The Founders Abhorred a Mob

The American Revolution was not brought about by a mob. In fact, in the eleven years leading up to the Declaration of Independence…
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Amy Lowell, Making the World Safe for Poetry

Amy Lowell, Making the World Safe for Poetry

In December 1917, Amy Lowell’s local newspaper, The Brookline Chronicle, ran a notice that caught her eye. U.S. Army training camps were in…
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Discovering Inspiration in a Trunk Full of Letters

Discovering Inspiration in a Trunk Full of Letters

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The Tyranny of False Patriots and Lessons of Historical Ones

The Tyranny of False Patriots and Lessons of Historical Ones

Americans carrying assault weapons into public spaces, whether it is to intimidate or “to protect,” are not patriots. Armed to the teeth…
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How I Wrote American Rebels

How I Wrote American Rebels

First, the why?
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365 Books: A Year of Mourning and of Joy

365 Books: A Year of Mourning and of Joy

Fourteen years ago, my oldest sister died of cancer. Three years later, I began a year of reading a book a day as a way to cope with my…
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America’s First Impeachment

America’s First Impeachment

The very first case of impeachment in America was brought in 1774, instigated by the colonial House of Representatives against Peter…
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Writing History, My Own and Others’

Writing History, My Own and Others’

My fourth book, titled American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution, coming out in 2020…
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James Russell Lowell, Early Rapper

James Russell Lowell, Early Rapper

The other day on Instagram, I shared four anti-war lines from James Russell Lowell’s serial poem, The Biglow Papers. Tricia Tierney, friend…
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Partisan Courts and the American Dream of Justice

Partisan Courts and the American Dream of Justice

The fight for independence in the 1770s was in large part motivated by the colonists’ disgust with how the King and Parliament sought to…
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