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2015
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-- Cleopatra It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch...
2) John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
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2020
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Look for Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s new book, Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby *NOW A NEW YORK TIMES “An expert, extremely detailed account of John Adams’ finest hour.”— Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre The An eye-opening story of America on the edge of revolution. History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country’s second president. But in...
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"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case...
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