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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1858 | Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" | Longfellow's poem rivaled Thanksgiving in American memory and helped perpetuate the mystique of the spinning wheel. See The Age of Homespun, page 27. | poetry, pilgrims" plymouth | |
| 1866 | John Greenleaf Whittier, "Snowbound" | poetry | ||
| 1881 | Controversy over John G. Whittier's "The King's Missive" | In letters to the Boston Daily Advertiser, Whittier and historian George Ellis argued over the imprisonment of Quakers in 17th century Boston. | Quaker, Whittier, poetry |