by Nina Sankovitch In the following excerpt from American Rebels, Nina Sankovitch discusses the education of John Hancock and John Adams from childhood schoolhouses and tutors to Harvard.
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American Rebels: The Education of Hancock and Adams
Tagged with: American Rebels, American Revolution, John Adams, Nina Sankovitch
Posted in Early Modern History, Military History
Posted in Early Modern History, Military History
It Wasn’t All About Taxes: Royal Tampering With the Colonial Courts and the American Rebellion
by Nina Sankovitch Taxes, duties, and the stationing of troops to enforce payment of both were all causes of the American rebellion against the British. But not the only causes.
Tagged with: American Rebels, American Revolution, John Adams, Nina Sankovitch
Posted in Early Modern History, Military History
by Nina Sankovitch Taxes, duties, and the stationing of troops to enforce payment of both were all causes of the American rebellion against the British. But not the only causes.
Posted in Early Modern History, Military History
Amy Lowell: Making the World Safe for Poetry
by Nina Sankovitch 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 need of books for their libraries. Amy called up Miss Louisa M. Hooper of the…
Tagged with: american history, Amy Lowell, Army training camps, Donald Evans, dough boys, History, Literature, Nina Sankovitch, Poetry, Poetry Society of America, Soldiers, World War I
Posted in Modern History
by Nina Sankovitch 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 need of books for their libraries. Amy called up Miss Louisa M. Hooper of the…
Posted in Modern History
When the Lowell Women Broke the Boston Brahmin Rules
by Nina Sankovitch On a late winter’s evening in the year 1902, Amy Lowell took to the podium at a meeting of the Brookline school board to protest the reappointment of an aged and ineffective teacher. The audience was shocked by…
Tagged with: 1902, Amy Lowell, Bessie Lowell Putnam, Boston, Boston Brahmin, boston upper class, Katie Roosevelt Bowlker, Lowell, Lowell family, Nina Sankovitch, pre-eclampsia, prenatal care, prenatal clincs, suffragettes, THE LOWELLS OF MASSACHUSETTS, women's rights, Women’s Municipal League, Women’s Municipal League of Boston
Posted in Contemporary History
by Nina Sankovitch On a late winter’s evening in the year 1902, Amy Lowell took to the podium at a meeting of the Brookline school board to protest the reappointment of an aged and ineffective teacher. The audience was shocked by…
Posted in Contemporary History
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