Business and Labor
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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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8.9K1Before Dunkin’, New England Had the Waldorf Lunch System
Before New England gave the world Howard Johnson’s, Dunkin Donuts, McDonald’s and Subway, it invented the Waldorf Lunch. The Waldorf Lunch System...
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7.3K1Not Just From the South: the Great Black Migration to New England
In the early part of the 20th century, entire church congregations from Americus, Ga., moved to Hartford during the great black migration...
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4.9KJohn William Sterling, a Well-Respected Man With a Secret
John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...
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9.6K1The Rise and Fall of the Fore River Shipyard
The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...
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5.4KFive Heroic Moms in New England History
With Mother’s Day soon upon us, it’s a good time for a reminder about heroic moms. For much of New England history,...
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