All posts tagged "publishing"
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7.3K2Arts and Leisure6 Places That Appear in Currier & Ives Prints
Currier & Ives produced thousands of hand-colored lithographs that together create a panorama of the mid-19th century. The firm got its start...
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5.6K7bostonIn 1872, the Boston Globe Began With a Whimper Not a Bang
The big news on the front page of the first Boston Globe on Monday, March 4, 1872 was church attendance the day...
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10.0K8Politics and MilitaryJustin Morrill, Vermonter, Raises U.S. Tariffs in 1861
Justin Morrill for 30 years led the fight to raise tariffs on goods that competed with U.S. products. For that, he took...
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11.1KArts and LeisureA Christmas First for New England? Each State Can Claim One.
New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
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10.7K1Business and LaborLouis Prang Invents the American Christmas Card in Boston
Boston became the birthplace of the American Christmas card when a failed revolutionary -- a German one -- arrived on its shores. Louis Prang...
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5.8K5Arts and LeisureCharles Dickens Brings ‘A Christmas Carol’ — and Christmas — to Boston
Charles Dickens didn't think much of American slavery on his first visit in 1842. But he loved Boston enough to return after...
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5.2KArts and LeisureThe Two Loves of Louisa May Alcott
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she wrote a book about a young girl named Sylvia in love with an intellectual...
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8.4K4bostonThe Woman Suffrage Cook Book Prints Recipes for Subversion
Putting together the first woman suffrage cook book in 1886 must have been a lot like herding cats for Hattie A. Burr...
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12.0K2Arts and LeisureThe Fall River Skeleton in Armor
The Fall River skeleton discovered in 1832 in a sand bank near a church had an unusual feature: It was clad in...
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9.3K1Business and LaborBoston Housewife Susan Stavers Invents Minute Tapioca
In the late 19th century, a Boston landlady named Susan Stavers served a sailor some tapioca pudding. He complained about it --...
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