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The Bookshelf is NHPR's series on authors and books with ties to the Granite State. All Things Considered host Peter Biello features authors, covers…
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School may be out for the summer, but some teachers in New Hampshire have been keeping busy by becoming students again. At a teachers’ workshop in Keene,…
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Since World War II, as many as 100,000 service members have been “less than honorably discharged” for being gay. Now, four years after the repeal of…
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Prior to the Civil War, images of war were the stuff of legends and mystery – then came the photographs of Alexander Gardner. Today, the legacy of a…
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Historians often interpret the Civil War in terms of important battles, and number of lives lost. But what about food? Today, we explore a history of the…
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2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. While many of us remember the war in terms of battles and lives lost, people of the era also…
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Abraham Lincoln is most often remembered for preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, and his untimely death. But—a less- documented aspect of Honest…
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Memorial Day is probably the most archives-centric holiday in the year. While many holidays are a flush of personal memories and family traditions,…
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In 1986 there were an estimated 50,000 Civil War re-enactors in the U.S. Since 2000 their ranks have been cut in half. Today on Word of Mouth: the decline…