All posts tagged "trade"
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11.3K9Business and LaborBridgeport Women Workers and the Birth of the Eight Hour Day
On one summer day in 1915, thousands of women walked off the job in Bridgeport, Conn., demanding the eight hour day and...
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26.6K21MassachusettsAnti-Irish Know Nothing Mob Burns a Charlestown Convent in 1834
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...
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30.8K19Arts and LeisureRockport Motif No. 1, The World’s Most Celebrated Fishing Shack
A red fishing shack at the end of a granite wharf in Rockport, Mass., is an unlikely celebrity. The picturesque old building,...
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