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181. Digital Collection -"Deerfield"- Sheldon talks about Monuments [Online Collection]

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... 1848, and the erection of the Civil War monument in the town in 1867 ... one of the country's first such memorials. In 1869, George Sheldon, a ...

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182. Digital Collection -Cars at Open House [Online Collection]

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... village of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The Civil War monument, dedicated in 1867, ... in the center of the picture. The occasion is the first open house, ...

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183. Digital Collection -Some pages of letter to Francis Higginson from father Stephen Higginson II [Online Collection]

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... the range of Northern views on the Civil War in his reaction to South Carolina ... from the Union. He believed that slavery held back the United States' progress ...

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184. First Person Oral Histories - Dr. Ruth B. Loving

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... #11: Ruth talks of her Civil Rights work Audio also available in MP3 ... about four years old because the world war...was coming...one was coming ...

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185. Digital Collection -"Quakers Plan More Gifts for Vietnam War Victims" article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper [Online Collection]

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... Canadian border in an act of peaceful civil disobedience. Their act was illegal because ... label levels: Demonstrations against the Vietnam War were not the exclusive arena of college ...

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186. Digital Collection -"Views of Readers: CD Seeks Volunteers" editorial in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper [Online Collection]

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... bombings during the Second World War. Civil defense planning included developing plans for evacuation ... the 1950s. The threat of nuclear war was the main context but Cold War ...

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187. Digital Collection -"Deerfield- It's Early Beauty Has Never Left" article from Tercentenary Recorder newspaper [Online Collection]

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... tradition of hard won survival. The Civil War in 1861 brought another change of ... people of the young Deerfield men gone off to fight their southern brethren, few ...

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188. Digital Collection -"Sundry Items"- military figures for states [Online Collection]

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... first blood had been shed in the Civil War. The siege of Fort Sumter ... South Carolina, had been bloodless (although two men were accidentally killed when a ...

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189. Digital Collection -Confederate Currency from the State of North Carolina [Online Collection]

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... states printed their own currency during the Civil War as well. These bills, ... state of affairs during the American Revolutionary War, the Confederate states printed their own ...

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190. Digital Collection -"Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A." [Online Collection]

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... patriotic images sold and distributed during the Civil War. Above his head are allegorical ... . To the left, Treason stands holding a torch and flail in either hand ...

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