Boston Massachusetts

Boston: the Noble Experiment, Honey Fitz and the Boston Plan: Progressive Chamber and Charismatic Irish Mayor in the Progressive Era

March 3, 2020 edcurmudgeon

Boston: Blending City Beautiful, Structural Reform and Policy Swirls—and the Machine On March 30, 1909, at the prestigious Boston City Club, the opening speaker,

Machines and Bosses in Progressive Era: Cincinnati Cox, New York City Tammany and Buffalo

March 3, 2020 edcurmudgeon

Machines and Bosses Our history distinguishes machines from (1) bosses, (2) city-wide and centralized versus ward and decentralized organization, and (3) their voting constituency, always

March 2, 2020 edcurmudgeon

Boston Boston: Hugh O’Brien, Boston’s first Irish mayor, appeared on the scene in 1885. O’Brien, businessman and politician, and editor of Shipping and Commercial

7.14 Yankee Diaspora

September 15, 2019 edcurmudgeon

Theme 2: Module 2: The Yankee Diaspora The diffusion of Atlantic coastal political cultures into the interior, straight thru to the Pacific coast is amazingly

7.11 Early Republic and Gilded Age Second Wing

September 15, 2019 edcurmudgeon

Yet again I am wont to say those who have not read Theme 1’s “Wings of Community Development” are likely to be left wandering in

7.10 Early Republic CD: The Brahmin Elect, Josiah Quincy

September 15, 2019 edcurmudgeon

Theme 2 Module 4 Early Republic CD: Brahmin Elect, Josiah Quincy First CD Wing—The Elect–Foundation Wing As Two Ships devotes considerable space to the development

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