The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library held a drop-in session with archival materials on key documents included in the book “Yale and...
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The 1800 election shows there is nothing new about conspiracy theories, and that they really take hold when we don't trust each other.
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Morse code creator Samuel FB Morse made long-distance chats almost instantaneous with his co-invention of the telegraph, which he patented in 1847.
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The artist and inventor's 1826 painting makes no attempt to hide the age of the Revolutionary War hero, depicting him in noble detail against a rich symbolic...
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Jedidiah Morse in 1789 described Newport, Rhode Island as the 'Eden of America' in the 'First Geography of the United States'
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On the occasion of Amherst's Bicentennial, we present an excerpt from Eye, Mind, Heart: A View of Amherst College at 200, one of the...
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America was under attack from shadowy foreign conspiracies and imaginary enemies — when John Adams was president...
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Betty Evangeline Morse, 92, of La Grande, died June 11 as a result of an accident in her garden. Interment will be at Valley View Cemetery...
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The painting of Samuel F. B. Morse -- like much of early American art -- is essentially unknown in Europe.
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When something—say, a canyon or mistake—is truly enormous, the same old small time words like colossal and massive don't always get the job...
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