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Revolutions
RevolutionsJamie Eves, Windham Town Historian, 17 March 2020I have been thinking a lot about revolutions lately. Partly, this is because I am teaching the American Revolution — we got it in before the...
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Samuel Huntington and the Articles of Confederation Jamie Eves, Windham Town Historian, 22 March 2020I am “distance teaching” during the Coronavirus / COVID-19 Crisis, and so am corresponding with...
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Paul Revere’s Ride: A Requiem for Nation? Jamie Eves, Windham Town Historian, 5 April 2020On a cold April 5, 160 years ago today, a despondent Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited the burying ground of...
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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Jamie Eves, Windham Town Historian, 30 April 2020I am thinking a lot lately about civil wars and divisions within nations. One reason for this is that my freshman...
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Disputed Elections
Disputed ElectionsJamie H. Eves, Windham Town Historian, 1 Nov. 2020 (updated 15 Feb. 2021) Most of the time, elections in the United States go pretty smoothly. One candidate wins, the others...
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Alfred Avery Burnham
Civil War Congressman Alfred Avery Burnham Read the Emancipation Proclamation from the Back of a Railroad Car … Sort OfJamie H. Eves, Windham Town Historian, 13 Dec. 2022The Connecticut Eastern...
View ArticleThe Lost Cemetery
The Lost CemeteryJamie H. Eves, Windham Town Historian, 4 Dec. 2022Four years ago, several of us went searching for the Lost Cemetery of Windham, CT. The Hale Collection, a compendium of American...
View ArticlePuptent Poets
Puptent PoetsJamie H. Eves, Windham Town Historian, 5 Dec. 2022On Memorial Day weekend in 2019, while picking up litter with the Willimantic Trash Mob along Bridge Street, I found two leaves from a...
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The Story of a Trade Card
The Story of a Trade CardJamie H. Eves, Windham Town Historian, 18 April 2023Artifacts tell stories, which is a major reason why museums collect and preserve them. Recently, another museum in another...
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Three Stories Told by an 1890s Trade Card
Three Local History Stories Told by an 1890s Trade CardJamie H. Eves, Windham Town HistorianRecently, the Mill Museum received a donation of the trade card pictured below. Trade cards were commonplace...
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