After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on ot...

Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the human...

This book describes how after a century and a half in New England, the Yankees-direct descendants...

At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as you...

In the 19th century, knitters from the Midlands of England, made poor by the increasing flow of w...

After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on ot...

From its earliest days, Boston decreed that its children be taught to read and write English and ...

On October 19, 1781, British general Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, ef...

Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independ...

Between 1881 and 1914, more than two million Jews came to America. Most were poor, from the stult...

This book examines the life and legacy of John Lowell Jr (1799-1836) through the establishment of...

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In the 19th century, knitters from the Midlands of England, made poor by the increasing flow of w...

'The national struggle to ban child labor began in the mid-19th century and ended with the passag...

Before the automobile age, when Americans lived close to their families and walked to work, the c...

When Nathan Appleton and his colleagues built their first textile mill on the banks of the Merrim...