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		<title>The Edwards Family Home Site in Boston’s North End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Edwards Family property was located on Back Street (now Salem Street) in the North End of Boston. It was two blocks from Paul Revere’s home in North Square and three blocks from Christ Church (Old North Church) on Salem Street. Before purchasing the Back Street property, my sixth great grandfather Captain Benjamin Edwards (1685-1751) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2011/10/24/the-edwards-family-home-site-in-boston%e2%80%99s-north-end/</link>
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		<title>A Dramatic Reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, in the spirit of the holiday season, I’ll be stepping out of the colonial period and traveling to Victorian era Boston to remember Charles Dickens’ historic visit to the city in 1867 and his highly acclaimed readings of A Christmas Carol. I’ll also be introducing you to a gentleman whose recent dramatic performances of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/12/09/a-dramatic-reading-of-charles-dickens%e2%80%99-a-christmas-carol/</link>
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		<title>The Unsolved Mystery at Old North Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who doesn’t appreciate a good mystery –  especially one that dates all the way back to the beginning of the  American Revolution! On the evening of April 18, 1775, “a friend” of  Paul Revere held two lanterns in the northwest window of Christ  Church (Old North Church) steeple to signal patriots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/12/01/the-unsolved-mystery-at-old-north-church/</link>
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		<title>USS Constitution and the Battle that Earned her Nickname</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No trip to Boston’s Freedom Trail is complete without a visit to the Charlestown Navy Yard to tour USS Constitution – one of the first vessels in the United States Navy and the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. Built at Edmund Hartt’s shipyard in Boston and launched in the fall of 1797, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/09/30/uss-constitution-and-the-battle-that-earned-her-nickname/</link>
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		<title>Who Lies in the Edwards Family Tomb at Copp&#8217;s Hill?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was 2 ½ years old, I traveled to Boston with my family and walked along the Freedom Trail for the very first time. During that trip, we visited Copp’s Hill Burying Ground and one incident that occurred there is forever etched in my memory. I recall all the fuss that was made over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/09/22/who-lies-in-the-edwards-family-tomb-at-copps-hill/</link>
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		<title>President Washington Visits Boston – Eyewitness &amp; Press Accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 15, 1789 President George Washington left New York for a tour of the eastern states. During this trip he visited a number of towns in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire including: New Haven, Hartford, Worcester, Boston, Salem, Newburyport and Portsmouth. President Washington&#8217;s visit to Boston began on Saturday, October 24, 1789. On that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/06/26/president-washington-visits-boston-%e2%80%93-eyewitness-press-accounts/</link>
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		<title>A Loyalist&#8217;s Account: Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post contains the complete text of a unique primary source – a fascinating letter that was printed in the September 9, 1775 issue of The London Chronicle.
The letter was written by an unnamed Boston merchant and Loyalist and addressed to a friend in Scotland. On June 24, 1775 the merchant wrote a detailed account [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/03/25/a-loyalists-account-lexington-concord-and-bunker-hill/</link>
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		<title>Unique Private Tours of Historic Boston for Groups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your group, organization or family planning a trip to Boston in the near future?
Are you looking for a memorable way to see the historic sites at your own pace with a knowledgeable guide?
If the answer to these questions is “Yes” then the six-minute video below on my private tours of Historic Boston will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/03/16/innovative-school-programs-your-students-will-love/</link>
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		<title>Colonel Shaw, Sergeant Carney and the 54th Massachusetts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Boston Common, at the corner of Beacon and Park streets, stands what many consider to be the greatest public sculpture in the United States – The Shaw Memorial. The picture in this post is a shot I took of two of the twenty-three marching African American soldiers featured in the memorial. An excellent video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/02/28/colonel-shaw-sergeant-carney-and-the-54th-massachusetts/</link>
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		<title>Remembering Alex Haley and Roots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with my series of posts for Black History Month featuring outstanding African Americans, today I’ll be remembering Alex Haley and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Roots. Whenever he spoke about Roots while giving talks in various parts of the country, Alex Haley would recall how, as a young boy, he sat on the front porch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/02/15/remembering-alex-haley-and-roots/</link>
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