Search Results
…Brattle Street (historic “Tory Row”), made their wealth through enslaved labor in Jamaica and/or they enslaved people at their homes and estates in Cambridge. The owners of the HLN House…
Read More
…him for his labor at the Longfellow House can be found here. The papers of slaveholders can also be found in the Harvard archives, including those of the Bordman Family,…
Read More
…of COVID-19 and structural racism. In each weekly installment we will focus on a different sector and time period, but our underlying questions remain the same: what essential labor have…
Read More
…one and all who have labored so untiringly for the institution and the comfort and happiness of its inmates, and we will ever pray that God may bless and reward…
Read More…not colleges, make Cambridge famous.” Those factories needed workers, and as women entered the workforce in large numbers, male academics debated this shift, asking, “Is women’s labor parasitic?” The basis…
Read More
…ever heard was the first I ever gave.” James also established the first U.S. experimental psychology laboratory, and oversaw Harvard’s first doctorate in psychology, earned by G. Stanley Hall in…
Read More
…Although nominally about labor laws, this case involved fundamental issues of gender norms, immigration and class status. The cast and crew of “We Were Here” saw the case as an…
Read More
…The origins of Cambridge Public Elementary Schools’ Nomenclature by Talia Franks Changing Tides in Cambridge Industry by Beth Folsom ‘Changing Tides in Cambridge Industry’ talk will examine wave of labor…
Read More…reform, labor organizing . . . that list might go on and on, and some of the words (let’s try “school reform”) would not mean what they mean today. In…
Read More
…in Cambridgeport was home to many of the workers who labored there, including Irish in the 1850s and 1860s, French Canadians in the last quarter of the 19th century and…
Read More