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....
Historic gardens have a special appeal to New Englanders if only because of our harsh winters and long dreary springs. Though they...
In March of 1905, with spring weather coming, the operators of the Grover shoe factory in Brockton, Mass., decided to switch off...
In 1884, a French parish in Fall River, Mass., locked its Irish pastor out of the church and made his life a...
The great 1755 earthquake was part of a series of earthquakes (probably related to each other) that wracked both sides of the...
On the night of March 22, 1715, Jeremiah Meacham was troubled, as usual. He had secluded himself on the second story of...