Friday, October 3, 2025

The Hammer of Witches

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We've got an evil one this week, both in terms of a book's subject matter and its impact in the world. Back in the fifteenth century...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Bloodletting for a Dim Future

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When people think of the invention of moveable type and the start of commercial printing in the West, their minds usually go to monumental w...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Exhibit: "From Vision to Reality: The Appalachian Trail from Then to Now"

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One hundred years ago, the first Appalachian Trail Conference was convened by the Federated Societies on Planning and Parks in Washington DC...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Censoring the Censor

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 Anthony Comstock was a man with an obsession and that obsession was vice. He started the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (N.Y....
Friday, September 5, 2025

Will that be Cash or Beef?

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When Hanover decided to erect a new meeting-house in 1794 it needed to find a way to pay for it. The meeting-house would serve many uses: a ...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Learning to Lead

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On June 8, 1863, concerned members of Philadelphia's Union League gathered to listen to a talk by George L. Stearns, an abolitionist and...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Two Shootings, One Mistake: The Cost of Leniency in Dartmouth’s Boom Boom Lodge Debacle

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Colloquially known as the Boom Boom Lodge incident, the fatal shooting of graduating student Joseph Maroney in 1920 unsettled Dartmouth Coll...