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Welch v. Tufts lawsuit (1760)
The case is an appeal heard before the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the highest court in Massachusetts prior to the American Revolution. The case originated in the Charlestown Inferior Court when Phoebe Tufts sued Thomas Welch for slander and...
Lynn Riggs to Barrett Clark, Election Day Letter, 1928
The Cherokee dramatist Lynn Riggs, the author of six plays produced on Broadway, was born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, in 1899, a decade into the land runs that led to the loss of millions of acres of Indigenous land. Soon after his eighth birthday in...
The Higher Patriotism
Jane Addams traveled to Boston with Mary McDowell to attend the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress, October 3-8, 1904. This document is pulled from the final three paragraphs of speech Addams delivered on October 5, at the Park Street Church the Public Meeting of...
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