Business and Labor
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8.3KThe Unmaking of Rhode Island’s Manville Jenckes Mills
In 1923, Senator Henry Lippitt decided it was time for him to retire. At age 66, he had served in the U.S....
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12.1K4Six Historic Boats, From Schooners to Submarines
Historic boats are as much a part of New England as Revolutionary battlefields and old taverns. The region has a fascinating maritime...
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14.1K3Girl Power in 1824: The First Factory Strike in America
America’s first factory strike happened just 30 years after America’s first successful textile mill started churning out cotton cloth in Pawtucket, R.I....
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31.6K1How the French-Canadian Textile Worker Came to New England
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
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9.8KThe Great India Rubber Panic Launches Charles Goodyear on a Crusade
Charles Goodyear might have live out his life as an obscure hardware store owner if the Great India Rubber Panic never took...
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8.9KElleanor Eldridge, ‘Laboring Colored Woman,’ Wins Justice in 1838
Elleanor Eldridge was an African-American woman born free in Rhode Island because her father fought in the American Revolution. During a lifetime...
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