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Historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history.
The most contested "bunker" eyewitness corpus in the provided reporting concerns the Battle of Bunker Hill, where multiple American and British (including Loyalist) first‑person accounts diverge on tr...
The word “gerrymander” originated in Massachusetts in 1812 as a sarcastic coinage linking Governor Elbridge Gerry’s name to an oddly shaped state senate district that critics said resembled a salamand...
The word “gerrymander” and the political cartoon that popularized it date to Massachusetts in 1812, after Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a redistricting law on February 11, 1812 that produced an oddly...