Project Topics: Community and Reform

Italian Immigrants in Progressive Era Boston

Italian immigrants emigration to the United States affected Americans, especially in Boston. The racial and ethnic prejudices and discrimination by American and Bostonian society, was a factor in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case that proved monumental in Italian ethnic relations in the United States in the twentieth century. How the press handled and covered these Italian ethnic relations and the case was a major factor in the development of the racial and ethnic tensions at that time.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

This post describes how Mount Auburn Cemetery represents a shift in American ideologies and describes its impact on urban history.

Religious Reform Movements in Boston

In Boston there were two religious groups that were having similar moral and religious reform movements in the early nineteenth century. The Evangelicals and the Unitarians has many similarities in their doctrine and had many of the same motives in their reform movements. The overlapping views of Evangelicals and Unitarians in Boston lead to religious […]

The Elite Class of 19th Century Boston

The population of Boston grew from 25,000 people to a quarter of a million people throughout the 19th century.  As the population size changed, the number of elites in the city changed as well.  As the 19th century went on, the new generations of elites created more of a cultural and class effort than their […]