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Politics & Governing

We Tried to Save the Murals

by Vintage Pics

Harold Whitehouse Jr weighs in on ths lost Glady Brannigan murals

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Ghost of a Scandal in 1905

by Vintage Pics

Scandals in Americans using foreign policy for commercial gain are are nothing new

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John Paul Jones in Portsmouth

by J. Dennis Robinson

250 years later, we're still talking about his visit

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The Ever-changing Story of South Meetinghouse

by Guest Author

It may look like a church on a hill, but it's been recycled many times

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Sam Allen Bought New Hampshire

by J. Dennis Robinson

For a quarter million dollars, he owned it all, or thought he did

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What Lies Beneath “New Portsmouth”?

by J. Dennis Robinson

A controversial North End hotel dig yields ground-breaking colonial history

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“March of Time” Redefined Broadcast News

by J. Dennis Robinson

Louis de Rochemont newsreels used fakery to dramatize facts

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The Lost Interview with Historian Dorothy Vaughan, Part 2

by J. Dennis Robinson

A lost 1969 interview reveals the candid opinions and emotions of the city's original preservationist

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Taft, Graft, and a Bull Moose in 1912

by Vintage Pics

Politics and prostitutes in Portsmouth

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First Blacks of Portsmouth, Part 2

by Valerie Cunningham

Through the American Revolution and into the 19th century

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Things You Never Knew About Old Portsmouth Library

by J. Dennis Robinson

The life of the Portsmouth Academy building over 200 years

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Two Men Who Tore Down Portsmouth

by J. Dennis Robinson

Treadwell and Wentworth mansions lost to history.

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