History
All of the states making up the Northeast were among the original Thirteen Colonies, though Maine and Vermont were part of other colonies before the United States became independent. The two regions that form parts of the Northeast have distinct histories.
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“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“I assure you that in our next class we will concern ourselves solely with the history of Egypt, and not with the more lurid and non-curricular subject of living mummies.”
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There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)