Business and Labor
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11.2KThe Ku Klux Klan Fights the Battle of Greenville, Maine
In 1924, dozens of Ku Klux Klan members paraded through the tiny logging town of Greenville, Maine, to bully some outsiders into...
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6.9KSix Places Products Were Made
Back in the day, products were made in New England — a lot of products. The early cod fishermen and Yankee traders...
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5.1KAlfred Winslow Jones, The Unlikely Inventor of the Hedge Fund
Alfred Winslow Jones had been a spy, a sociologist, a magazine writer and a Communist before he invented the modern hedge fund...
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5.6K2Saving the Historic Gas Station
Once New Englanders decided to save the historic Old South Meeting House in 1876, they began to preserve other kinds of historic...
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3.7K1The House Servant’s Directory
Robert Roberts, butler to the rich and famous, wrote a popular house servants’ directory that defined polite society before the Civil War....
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7.7KSix New England Places To Learn About Irish History
Outside of Ireland, New England may be one of the best places to explore Irish history. After all, many people of Irish...
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