All posts tagged "labor"
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12.4K32MassachusettsSam Adams Walked Into a Tavern and Started a Revolution
Sam Adams was a devout Puritan who brought his religious convictions to the fight for American liberty. That did not mean he...
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27.0K6New HampshireA German POW Escapes the WWII Prison Camp in Stark, N.H.
On Aug. 1, 1944 German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire, eluding the manhunt...
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6.4K6MaineJames Healy, Portland’s African-American Bishop Who Passed for White
James Healy, born a slave, became the Roman Catholic bishop of Portland and founder of the Diocese of Manchester in the late...
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10.3K23MassachusettsDaniel Webster Risks It All on the Seventh of March
The Seventh of March Speech was one of the most famous orations delivered by Daniel Webster, an orator who had no equal....
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6.3K7Crime and ScandalJason Fairbanks Had Two Faces. One Killed Eliza Fales.
The issue is settled: Jason Fairbanks murdered Eliza Fales in 1801, but the story of exactly what happened has never been completely...
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11.8K12Flashback PhotosHow Victory Gardens Helped Win World War II
Victory gardens helped win World War II because they allowed the U.S. government to divert scarce tin supplies for military use. They...
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19.4K5New HampshireThe Tragic Love Affair of Former NH Gov. John Winant and Sarah Churchill
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Winant carried on a secret love affair with Winston Churchill’s favorite daughter during World War II. It...
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4.3K5Business and LaborFlashback Photos: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Working-Class Joan of Arc
In 1906, 16-year-old Elizabeth Gurley Flynn stood on a soapbox near New York’s Times Square and delivered a fiery speech championing workers’...
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19.5K8Business and LaborEmma Nutt, The World’s 1st Woman Telephone Operator
When Emma Nutt reported for work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston on Sept. 1, 1878, she became the...
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7.5K16Politics and MilitaryCalvin Coolidge Takes the Oath of Office by the Light of a Kerosene Lamp
Calvin Coolidge, vice president of the United States, was vacationing with his wife at his family’s homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vt., on...
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