>>EXCERPT ONE | In 1861, a mob ransacked the offices of the Democratic newspaper the Bangor Daily Union, threw the presses and other materials thrown into the street and burned them. Editor Marcellus Emery escaped unharmed and it was only after the war that he resumed publishing.
>>EXCERPT TWO | Daniel Bendann was charged in April 1865 on a charge of disloyalty, described in the complaint as “a Jew” and a “notorious, violent, and dirty sneaking Rebel.”
>>EXCERPT THREE | Emma Goldman: Entrepreneur. Goldman, her lover & his cousin moved to Worcester, and opened a photography studio. No customers came. They then fitted out a derelict shop and served sandwiches and coffee. Soon they paid back their landlord & bought a soda fountain.