During the Gilded Age, the working girls of Boston had to contend not just with low pay but with reputations as immoral...
The Ashton Valve company was born out of Henry G. Ashton’s desire to make boiler rooms a safer working environment. In its...
The old saying “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” may have applied to politics, but never to ketchup. The historic novelist...
Henry Adams during his lifetime was known as a snob and a grouch. He was, after all, an Adams, the grandson and...
When French-Canadians came to work in New England’s textile mills in the later 19th century they sparked conspiracy theories of an immigrant...
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...