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New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England; Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire; and Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island.

In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies. (Full article...)

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Tuck Hall, the School's main administrative building

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration (or the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, as it is now called) is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Founded in 1900, Tuck is the oldest graduate school of business in the world, and was the first institution to offer master's degrees in the field of business administration. Tuck is one of six Ivy League business schools and it consistently ranks in the top five in many business school rankings.

Tuck grants only one degree, the Master of Business Administration (MBA), alongside shorter programs for executives and recent college graduates, although there are opportunities for dual degrees with other institutions. The school places a heavy emphasis on its tight-knit and residential character, and has a student population that hovers near 500 students and a full-time faculty of 46. Tuck claims over 8,400 living alumni in a variety of fields, with the highest rate of alumni donation of any business school. (Full article...)

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The only authenticated portrait of Emily Dickinson later than childhood.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. (Full article...)

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Gerrymandering

Credit: Elkanah Tisdale (1812)

1812 political cartoon that led to the term Gerrymandering; originally appearing in the Boston Centinel

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Image 1Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 2A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 3Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 4Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 5Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 69. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 7The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 8Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 9Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 10The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 11Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 12Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 13A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 145. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 15Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 16A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 177. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 18Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 19New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 20An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 21Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 22Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 23Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 24Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 25Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 26First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 27The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 284. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 29A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 30Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 31The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 32Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 33Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 3410. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 351. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 36Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 37The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 388. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 39Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 406. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 41New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 42An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 43Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 44A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 45Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 46World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 47A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
Image 48A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 49The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 50New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 513. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 52The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 53A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 54Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 552. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)

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Connecticut
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.6°N 72.7°W

Connecticut is the 3rd least extensive, the 29th most populous, and 4th most densely populated of the 50 United States. Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and "The Land of Steady Habits", Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.

The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. (Full article...)