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In 1824, General Lafayette was invited by President James Monroe to return for a grand tour of the United States.
In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting some of the first Black members of the Boston City Council.
In Boston's Ward 20, over 2,300 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 20 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
In Boston's Ward 19, over 2,400 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 19 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
In Boston's Ward 16, over 2200 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 5 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
Boston's 1920 Women Voter Register is full of immigration stories. With the recent transcription of Boston's Ward 5 women voter register, the Mary Eliza Project has found a new story: the tale of two...
by Anna Boyles In the 1910s and 1920s Boston, one would have been met with a dizzying number of rental options. The city’s women’s voter registrations from the fall of 1920 reflect Boston’s diverse...
In 1873, Boston women couldn't vote in local, state or federal elections. But could they run for office? Some women decided to find out. Hijinks ensued.
In Boston's Ward 5, over 920 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 5 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
In Boston's Ward 15, over 1800 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 15 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
In Dorchester's Ward 21, over 1600 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 21 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
In Boston's Ward 4, over 1900 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 18 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
Spiritualism grew in popularity in Northeastern states after both the U.S. Civil War and World War I.
In Charlestown's Ward 4, over 1400 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 4 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
The New England Deaconess Hospital nurses and students joined the many other medical professionals and employees of Ward 14, covering today’s Longwood Medical Area, to claim their right to the vote.
In Boston's Ward 14, over 1900 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 14 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
In Dorchester’s Ward 17, over 2100 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 17 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.
We've finished transcribing our Ward 3 Women's Voter Registers from 1920 and have added them into an easily accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset.
Awake! Awake! ye sisters all, in this our glorious land, and muster to the bugle call to lend a helping hand; to set the strife where such be rife, good will to all and cheer, clean government, new...
by Anna Boyles New England religious leader Mary Baker Eddy oversaw the building of her new religion’s Mother Church on Huntington Avenue in Boston in 1894. Just sixteen years later, a massive...
Sarah Cannon’s 1893 voting registration reveals her eagerness to vote as a U.S. citizen– and the story of a devoted marriage.
We've finished transcribing our Ward 12 Women's Voter Registers from 1920 and have added them into an easily accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset.
By Anna Boyles Shoe maker, shoe stitcher, shoe worker, shoe inspector, machine operator, topmaker, and eyeleter — these are some of the shoe industry-related occupations that women reported when they...
We've finished transcribing our Ward 2 Women's Voter Registers from 1920 and have added them into an easily accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset.
by Anna Boyles The 1880 United States Census reports that roughly fifty-percent of immigrants from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island settled in Massachusetts, while nearly thirty-percent of New...
In Boston's Ward 10, over 800 women registered to vote between August 12 and October 13, 1920. We have finished transcribing the Ward 10 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at...
In 1917, Boston's first female bootblacks fought Mayor Curley and Boston's City Council to save their jobs.
In Dorchester's Ward 11, over 1500 women registered to vote between August 12 and October 13, 1920. We have finished transcribing the Ward 11 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at...
by Anna Boyles Boston women’s voter registrations from 1920 reveal that a number of women migrated from southern states to make neighborhoods such as the South End and Lower Roxbury their home...
We've finished transcribing our Ward 1 Women's Voter Registers from 1920 and have added them into an easily accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset.
