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Was your ancestor from Keene or a nearby town? Here's a mention of Scammel recruiting in Keene in May 1777 in “A History of the Town of Keene” (1904) by General Simon G. Griffin.
October 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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King George III in coronation robes, c.1765 - source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
#NoKings #AmericanHistory #USA250
King George III in coronation robes, King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820, oil on canvas by Allan Ramsay, painted c. 1765, in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Source: Wikimedia
October 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Labor Day look-back - Facing a 20% decrease in wages and an increase in weekly work hours from 48 to 54, 17,000 workers of the Amoskeag & Stark manufacturing companies went on strike. The nine-month strike was led by the United Textile Workers of America (UTW). #AmericanHistory #USAhistory
A parade of strikers on April 10, 1922, shown crossing the McGregor Bridge from the east side to the west side of the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire. The strike involved 15,000 Amoskeag Manufacturing Company workers and 2,000 Stark Manufacturing Company workers. These companies produced cotton, wool, and linen textiles. This labor action was led by the United Textile Workers of America (UTW).
September 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Here's is Matty Knight's 1871 patent for her "bag machine." She reportedly made her first invention at age twelve in Manchester, New Hampshire, when she invented a stop-motion device to prevent shuttles from flying off of the textile machines at the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. #AmericanHistory
A technical drawings in black ink on white paper of the side of a paper bag making maching and a view looking down on the machine. Titled: Margaret E. Knight Bag Machine and date stamped "Patented July 11 1871"
July 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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At the height of the Civil War, Robert Smalls—an enslaved harbor pilot in Charleston, South Carolina—carried out one of the most courageous and cunning acts in US history— commandeering a Confederate ship and sailing it to freedom.
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The cover of the hardcover edition of the graphic novel "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls."
July 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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"South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene"
"Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life." #AmericanHistory
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Book cover photograph image of four Black women wearing formal summer clothing (early 20th century) seated and facing the camera. Book title: "Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene."
July 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Text of Amdt14.S1.1.2 Citizenship Clause Doctrine United States Constitution - constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
Credit: Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press - www.timesfreepress.com/staff/clay-b...
Heavily armed ICE agent in helmet and face mask about to "arrest" a newborn baby in a hospital nursery with a man looking on from the window holding a newspaper with the headline "Birthright Citizenship Ruling."
June 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The 19th Century - when there were no vaccines. Let's not go back there...#AmericanHistory
Grave marker for an infant who was born and died in 1881 located in a Manchester, New Hampshire cemetery
June 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Victory Monument, Manchester, New Hampshire dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1929
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Inscribed: In memory of the Manchester men who died in the Great War that the world be made safe Democracy…In a righteous cause they have won immortal glory and have nobly served their nation in serving mankind. Woodrow Wilson.
May 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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In today's Boston Globe - more at: www.bethwolfensbergersinger.com/the-boston-g...
New Hampshire-born Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. #americanhistory #newhampshire
April 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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It's time to think about the Revolutionary War!
Massachusetts 250 - Experience the birthplace of American Liberty, where history was made, and the future was forged.
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Color illustration of colonial soldiers in a snow-covered farm field standing ready for action with a house and outbuildings shown on the left of the image.
April 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM