New England

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• SOURCE: Lowell Sun
  12/31/2020
  

  Partnership Led By UMass Lowell Preserves “Little Canada”

  An undergraduate honors course in history led by Robert Forrant is developing public history markers to commemorate the Le Petit Canada neighborhood of Lowell, Massachusetts. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/3/2020
  

  Statue of White Woman Holding Hatchet and Scalps Sparks Backlash in New England

  Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/5/2020
  

  MIT Professor Tunney Lee, an Architect, Urban Planner, and Historian of Chinatown, Dies at 88

  “He was great public servant," said former Governor Michael S. Dukakis.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  6/29/2020
  

  Slavery Persisted in New England Until the 19th Century

  Historians Margaret Ellen Newell and Christy Clark-Pujara show that slavery was both practiced in many northern colonies and states and was integral to their economic development. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/20/20
  

  Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape

  by Wyatt Oswald, David R. Foster, and Elizabeth Chilton

  Our new research, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, tests this human-centric view of the past using interdisciplinary, retrospective science. The data we collected suggest, in New England, this assumption is erroneous.

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• 10/21/18
  

  What Was Life Like in a 19th Century Fishing Village in Massachusetts?

  by Robin Lindley

  That’s the story maritime attorney Bradley Bagshaw tells in a novel. (Interview)