Ralph Waldo Emerson supplied the ideas. Charles Stearns Wheeler helped put them into practice. From 1836 to 1842, Wheeler edited Emerson’s manuscripts, prepared publications and contributed his classical scholarship to …
Religion & Social Movements
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The New England Women’s Club, formed in Boston in 1868, fostered social interaction through various activities designed for self-improvement. Although the pioneering club had its heyday in the late-19th and …
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During the 1830’s many New Englanders began moving westward, looking for cheaper and more fertile land. This wave of New England westward migration carried families along routes like the newly …
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The first colonial American printing press appeared in 1638 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628-1691), founded by English Puritans. The focus was on religious works, legal documents, almanacs and translated …
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In 1838, a handful of immigrant families stepped off the Boston docks onto a steamboat bound for a new Irish utopia in Aroostook County, Maine. They hoped the County’s rich …
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On the Feast of St. Sebastian, in foul weather or fair, an outdoor spectacle takes place in the streets of two places: Middletown, Conn., and Melilli, Sicily. Hundreds of the …
