The Civilian Conservation Corps gave millions of young men a job and their families a lifeline with money they sent home every...
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George Washington famously acknowledge the Boston Irish on March 17, 1776, when he ordered new code words to pass through Continental Army...
In 1754, Boston’s overseer of the poor bound out Joseph Clifton, aged two, as an apprentice to Aaron Clinton, a brickmaker in...
A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still...
The New York-based newsies strike, immortalized in the Disney film of the same name, succeeded in 1899. The Hartford newsies strike 10...