Business and Labor
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6.9K1When Poor Apprentice Laborers Were 2 Years Old
In 1754, Boston’s overseer of the poor bound out Joseph Clifton, aged two, as an apprentice to Aaron Clinton, a brickmaker in...
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5.7KHow Narragansett Beer Survived Prohibition (But Still Couldn’t Escape the Government)
Narragansett beer survived Prohibition, but it couldn’t escape the government. Not because government agents tried to shut down the brewery during Prohibition,...
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7.7K10 Holiday Gift Ideas for the History Lover in New England
Does your holiday shopping list have a history lover on it? Check out these holiday gift ideas for the history lover to...
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35.2KThe Working Man’s Friend Who Busted the Hartford Newsies Strike
The New York-based strike, immortalized in the Disney film Newsies, succeeded in 1899. The Hartford newsies strike 10 years later did not...
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10.7K1James Edgar Invents the Department Store Santa on a Whim in 1890
The world’s first known department store Santa Claus owned his own store and paid his employees good wages. He gave them shares...
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8.0K6The Dutch in New England: More Than Sinterklaas and Koekjes
Today the remnants of the colonial Dutch in New England are pretty much limited to the region’s outer rim: At Smith’s Castle...
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