History Corner

If we had to date the convergence of the women's rights movement with the anti-slavery movement in the United States, 1837 is a strong candidate. Of course, that confluence of 1837 did not come out of nowhere. A number of Black and white women, sometimes allied and sometimes independently, became involved in anti-slavery activism earlier in the 1830s. When their activism took the form of speaking about political matters to large audiences, especially when those audiences were

Join one of our blog writers, Memoria, in remembering the iconic Midnight Ride as a fuller historical narrative, while also touching on Sybil Ludington, another icon of the Revolutionary War that has seeped into public memory. Join Memoria in exploring these two examples of public memory and how it impacts the way we learn history and let it define us today. Paul Revere has been an iconic figure in Boston ever since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s immortal 1861 poem “Paul Revere

The King and the ministers who managed the British Empire had one central goal: enriching England. The Industrial Revolution began in the English textile industry even before the American Revolution.