Business and Labor
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6.8KWhen 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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7.2KNative-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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7.8KWood 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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9.7K1Before 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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8.1K1Not 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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5.4KJohn 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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