History

Lowell “Boxer’s Life” – Micky Ward and “The Fighter”

 Irish Micky Ward and  Mark Wahlberg Boston Herald sports and boxing writer Ron Borges has a timely interview with  Lowell’s Irish Micky Ward in today’s edition. In a few days Paramount Pictures will release the long-awaited, shot-in-Lowell movie about Ward and his fighting career culminating (in the movie) with his victory…

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The Civil War: Secession and Slavery

By the fall of 1864, Union commander Ulysses Grant had concluded that the surest way to end the Civil War was to decisively defeat the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee and the surest way to do that was to continue to drive on Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy.…

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