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Jacqueline Bouvier married John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1953 in Newport, Rhode Island Jacqueline Kennedy’s official White House portrait From history.com: On this day in 1929, President John F. Kennedy’s beautiful and popular wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, is born into a prominent New York family. Jacqueline, or “Jackie” as…
Read More »Mark Arsenault tells us in today’s Boston Globe that the dispute of long-standing between the Archdiocese of Boston and Boston College on one side and the family of William Cardinal O’Connell on the other – has been settled. Those following the lengthy dispute know that the Archdiocese and BC wanted…
Read More »There’s a great article in yesterday’s New York Times that examines efforts by those in the social sciences and especially historians to utilize GIS technology to better understand the past. GIS, or Georgraphic Information Systems, uses computerized maps as a starting point and then adds layers of other information –…
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