In 1847, a Maine ship captain invented the donut as we know it today – with a hole. On the day Lewis...
A powerful Massachusetts politician in 1845 learned the hard way not to mess with the mill girls – and especially not with...
Frances Perkins was having tea with her friend, Mrs. Gordon Norris, in New York City, on the afternoon of March 25, 1911, when...
The great shoemakers strike of 1860 began with 3,000 Lynn, Mass., shoe workers who deliberately chose George Washington‘s birthday to start their righteous rebellion....
Harriet Hanson Robinson went to work as a Lowell mill girl when she was 10 years old to help support her family....
New England shopping malls not too long ago were monster-sized, congested and commonplace. But in the early days, they were not a...