In 1829, American women preparing their family’s Thanksgiving feast could turn for guidance to one of the country’s first self-help books: “The Frugal Housewife” by Lydia Maria Child, a beloved ...

The New-England Boys’ Song About Thanksgiving Day Over the river and through the woods, To Grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow.

Some people are born activists. Others have activism thrust upon them—a process that may take decades or emerge from a sudden, transformative eruption of conscience. Lydia Maria Child belongs in the ...

The Medford Historical Society and Museum announced an upcoming series of public programs, titled “Lydia Maria Child: Author and Abolitionist,” which offers a review of Child’s life and activism ...

THE portrait which confronts the reader who opens the volume of Mrs. Child’s Letters, 1 is of a vigorous, resolute old lady, with a large head, strong lines about the mouth, a kindly eye, and an ...

Lydia Maria Child may be best remembered today for that beloved poem about going over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house, “The New-England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day.” But ...

"Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life" tells the story of what brought Child to this moment and the extraordinary life she lived in response. Through Child’s example, philosopher Lydia Moland ...