Best known for the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," Julia Ward Howe spent decades at the center of Boston's reform networks, from abolition to women's clubs...
Boston was a headquarters of the American campaign for women's voting rights for more than half a century, home to national organizations, an influential newspaper and...
In 1951, a newspaper columnist suggested linking Boston's historic sites with a single walking route. The idea became the Freedom Trail. Here is how it began...
Where an elevated highway once loomed, the Rose Kennedy Greenway now offers gardens, fountains, a carousel, rotating public art and food trucks. Here is a closer...
New Balance began in 1906 as a small Boston maker of arch supports. Its story, from orthopedic products to a footwear company that still manufactures in...
Long before it became a global chain, Dunkin' began with a Quincy entrepreneur selling coffee and doughnuts to factory workers. Here is the business history of...
In 1974 a federal judge found that Boston's School Committee had deliberately segregated the city's public schools and ordered busing to integrate them. This feature looks...
For a century, Scollay Square was Boston's liveliest and roughest entertainment district. In the 1960s, urban renewal erased it and built Government Center. Here is how...
For its first half century, MIT was a Back Bay institution known as "Boston Tech." In 1916 it moved across the Charles to a grand new...
On November 28, 1942, fire swept through a crowded Boston nightclub, killing nearly 500 people. Here is what happened, why so many died and how the...
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