Today being #Thanksgiving, we can enjoy being treated to a host of historical commentaries & corrections
Gifted for you from behind the paywall, this important piece from 2021
Thanksgiving anniversary: Wampanoag Indians regret helping Pilgrims 400 years ago: Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621 Washington Post
#Massachusetts again: my colleague Professor Emerita of Photography Sandra Matthews & Nolumbeka Project President David Brule recently published their Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land a photobook of historical & contemporary structures to make us think about the land of the Commonwealth
If you're in #Massachusetts, please join me at the Writers' Loft's annual #literary extravaganza and winter bazaar on Saturday 12/2/2023! I'll be there starting around noon to celebrate the launch of the #poetry anthology I participated in called #GnomesAndUngnomes and to pick up some #gifts for the #kids in my life from #local#authors and #illustrators.
The address:
The Writers' Loft
43 Broad St.
Suite B404B
Hudson, MA
Five-College Seminar in the History of the #Book hosted by Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of #Massachusetts-Amherst
Today in Labor History September 30, 1912: The Lawrence, Massachusetts “Bread and Roses” textile strike was in full swing. On this date, 12,000 textile workers walked out of mills to protest the arrests of two leaders of the strike. Police clubbed strikers and arrested many, while the bosses fired 1,500. IWW co-founder Big Bill Haywood threatened another general strike to get the workers reinstated. Strike leaders Arturo Giovannitti and Joe Ettor were eventually acquitted 58 days later. During the strike, IWW organizers Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn came up with the plan of sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to live with sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, a move that drew widespread sympathy for the strikers. Nearly 300 workers were arrested during the strike; three were killed. After the strike was over, IWW co-founder and socialist candidate for president, Eugene Debs, said "The Victory at Lawrence was the most decisive and far-reaching ever won by organized labor."
Several novels have been written against the backdrop of this famous strike: The Cry of the Street (1913), by Mabel Farnum; Fighting for Bread and Roses (2005), by Lynn A. Coleman; Bread and Roses, Too (2006), by Katherine Paterson
At a time when people increasingly feel disempowered and without outlook, the "mill girls of Lowell" offer an inspiring story of human triumph in face of withering conditions.
This profile from @librarycongress notes that he was seen as a failure in his lifetime, and that, although he is today venerated and best known as the philosopher of nature and the simple life, as well as a civil libertarian, he was also much more.
Did you know of his interest and expertise in #maps and #cartography?
Hello #Fediverse! This is GBH News bringing you the world from #Boston.
#massachusetts Gov. Healey is addressing the Irish Parliament. Links to the why behind the trip below. #ireland
A suspect was arrested in the #Newton triple murder.
A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav #Klimt has sold for $108.4 million in London, making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. #art