| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1805 | | Rock outcropping in Franconia Notch first noticed by road workers. | | Old Man, profile |
| 1810 | | Congress commissions a census on manufactures | Memories of revolutionary spinning meetings encourage domestic production. | women's work |
| 1813 | | Agricultural fairs called "Cattle Shows" begin displaying household manufactures | By the 1820s, the annual shows also include "fancy work." | women's work |
| 1820 | | Witch of New England published | This anonymous work was only the first of several literary treatments of the seventeenth-century witch hunts. Like others, it emphasized the dangers of delusion. | |
| 1826 | | Lowell, Massachusetts incorporated | | economy, women's work |
| 1828 | | Female textile workers strike at Dover, N.H. | See documents on the course Web site related to Dover strikes. | women's work |
| 1830 | | New Hampshire legislature encourages sericulture | In the 1820s and 1830s several states offered bounties. In most places the "silk craze" had collapsed by 1840. | women's work |
| 1832 | | Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England" | | labor, women's work |
| 1834 | | Textile strikes at Lowell, Massachusetts and Dover, N.H. | In this and the 1836 strike at Lowell, workers compared themselves to slaves. | women's work |
| 1834 | | Shoebinders of Lynn, Massachusetts form a society "for the protection and promotion of Female Industry" | Its leaders helped to form the Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1837. | women's work |
| 1837 | | For women, rural outwork is the dominant form of wage labor. | A Massachusetts census shows that almost half of wage workers were braiding palm-leaf and straw for hats. | women's work. |
| 1837 | | Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" | "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." | |
| 1837 | | Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes" | With her sister, Angelina, Grimke traveled throughout New England, meeting with female wage workers as well as abolitionists. | women's work |
| 1839 | | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches | One of many ethnographic works published by the Indian agent and self-taught scientist, it contained a version of the myth of Hiawatha. | Indians |
| 1841 | | Catharine Beecher, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy" | | women's work |
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| 1845 | | Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative. | He became a powerful voice in both the anti-slavery and women's rights movements. | slavery, abolition |
| 1848 | | Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention | | |
| 1854 | | Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes" | | women's work, maritime |
| 1855 | | Herman Melville, "Tartarus of Maids" | In the 1850s, Melville published many short stories and sketches in Harper's and Putnam's magazines. | women's work |
| 1858 | | Winslow Homer illustrates rural New England life. . | See "Husking Corn," Harper's Weekly, November 13, 1858, in "Selected Slides: Homer" | women's work, homespun |
| 1860 | | Shoe workers strike in Lynn, Massachusetts and neighboring towns. | Female strikers invoke the memory of the revolutionary heroine Molly Stark. | women's work |
| 1868 | | Winslow Homer illustrates life in Lowell Mills | See "Morning Bell" and "Bell Time" in Selected Slides: Homer. Also see HarpWeek (Hollis e-resources) issues of July 25, 1868 (p. 472) and December 23, 1873 (p. 1116). | women's work |
| 1870 | | French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns | | labor, economy, immigration |
| 1870 | | Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants. | In Boston, 8 of 10 household servants are foreign born. In textile mills, most are immigrants or the children of immigrants. | women's work, population, immigration |
| 1888 | | Whittier supports women's suffrage. | | suffrage, Quaker |
| 1912 | | Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities | | immigration, labor |
| 1912 | | Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts | For photos and original documents provided by the SUNY-Binghamtom, "Women and Social Movements" Web site see, "The 1912 Lawrence Strike: How Did Immigrant Workers Struggle to Achieve an American Standard of Living?" | labor, economy |
| 1931 | | Grant Wood paints :The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere | | |
| 1997 | | "National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program" established by the National Park Service. | | |
| 2003 | | Boston Women's Memorial features Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone | | statue |
