The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen’s Bureau) was established to aid runaway slaves who flocked to Union army camps during the Civil War. Postwar, Bureau duties vastly expanded to include responsibility for military and civil order. Diane M. Boucher provides an overview of Bureau officials’ efforts to provide education, health care, housing […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.