Portal:New England/Did you know/2


 * ... that Major League Baseball player Dan Coogan later coached the baseball teams at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Bowdoin College, and Georgetown University?
 * ... that Gene Sharp's book on the American Struggle for Independence supports President Adams' claim that the revolution was "substantially effected before hostilities commenced"?
 * ... that Harriet Hanson Robinson went on strike from her job as a bobbin doffer at age eleven?
 * ... that during the Antinomian Controversy, Anne Hutchinson withstood two separate trials without counsel before being banished from Massachusetts?
 * ... that in 1885, American neurologist James Leonard Corning became the first to perform neuraxial anesthesia?