During the Gilded Age, the working girls of Boston had to contend not just with low pay but with reputations as immoral...
In 1754, Boston’s overseer of the poor bound out Joseph Clifton, aged two, as an apprentice to Aaron Clinton, a brickmaker in...
The New York-based strike, immortalized in the Disney film Newsies, succeeded in 1899. The Hartford newsies strike 10 years later did not...
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....
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
Thousands of the historic barns of New England have survived severe weather, westward migration, suburban sprawl and competition from corporate agribusiness. Often...