Business and Labor
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6.0KSix Stops From the People’s Guide to Greater Boston
One of our favorite books of 2020 is the People’s Guide to Greater Boston, a tour guide that goes beyond the usual...
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3.8KThe Working Girls of Boston: Immoral Floozies or Honest Toilers?
During the Gilded Age, the working girls of Boston had to contend not just with low pay but with reputations as immoral...
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6.4KThe Fuller Brush Man Gets His Foot in the Door
The Fuller Brush Man for decades roved American cities and towns with a smile, a sample case and a good pair of...
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6.1KWhen New Englanders Feared a French-Canadian Immigrant Conquest
When French-Canadians came to work in New England’s textile mills in the later 19th century they sparked conspiracy theories of an immigrant...
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6.5KNative-American Slavery in New England
Native-American slavery began almost as soon as English colonists arrived in Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay. The earliest records date...
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7.0KWood River Junction Was the First
Before Three Mile Island, before Chernobyl, Wood River Junction in Charlestown, R.I., had the first civilian nuclear accident resulting in the death...
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