
Jack Tager
Contributor
LOCATION: Amherst, MA, United States
Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Co-author of Massachusetts in the Gilded Age; Historical Atlas of Massachusetts; and Massachusetts: A Concise History.
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Massachusetts, constituent state of the United States of America. It was one of the original 13 states and is one of the 6 New England states, lying in the northeastern corner of the country. Massachusetts (officially called a commonwealth) is bounded to the north by Vermont and New Hampshire, to…
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