History Today: When Saudi Arabia's King Faisal was assassinated by his nephew 50 years ago
On March 25, 1975, a gun attack in Riyadh claimed the life of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, sending shockwaves across the ...
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Why Faneuil Hall Is the Perfect Metaphor for the American Revolution's Complicated Definition of Liberty
In the early 19th century, the city expanded the hall ... The Reverend John Gibbons, a Unitarian minister and activist who ...
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In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace
The doted-on only child of elderly Unitarians with progressive ideas ... seeing the descendants of her short union with the 19th century’s most glittering celebrity go their own way into adulthood.
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The Daring 19th-Century Reformers Who Sought to End Prostitution by Offering Financial and Emotional Support to Urban Sex Workers
Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit
Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary ...
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How an 18th-Century Female Physicist Broke Boundaries and Inspired the Generations Who Followed
Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...
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Minnesota’s governors’ 19th Century unrestricted power to pardon
Minnesota’s governors enjoyed power to pardon, or commute the sentence of anyone convicted of a crime in state courts.
These women with central Pa. ties contributed to suffrage, temperance, abolitionist movements | Column
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp, who fought for equality, left marks on Harrisburg that are still visible today.
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A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: ‘Elphie’ getting ‘Wicked’ to blind date comedy
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Gregory Maguire plans one of his few “Elphie: A Wicked ...
'Give me liberty or give me death' turns 250. Here's what it meant in 1775
Malcolm X referenced it in his 1964 “Ballot or the Bullet” speech, demanding equal rights for Black Americans. President ...
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The Forgotten Woman Who Preached in Congress
In the 19th-century, Harriet Livermore boldly defended a women’s right to speak in the church and pulpit.