Just in time for Halloween, here's some trick-or-treating you can do without leaving your home! There were many candy factories in Greater Boston in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Juneteenth
Today is Juneteenth, a symbolic day celebrating freedom for the descendants of formerly enslaved people. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Yet, many enslaved people, including 250,000 in Texas, were forced to continue their labor until 1865. On June 19th of that year, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced the official…
America Transformed: Opening Day!
The 19th century was a period of dramatic expansion in the United States. Now open at the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Central Library in Copley Square, America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century shows this expansion through a series of maps. Part One: The U.S. Expands Westward, is up from now until November 2019. The Opening…
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