Boston's 1846 ether demonstration changed surgery, but four men claimed the discovery. Here is the bitter priority dispute and how anesthesia spread around the world within...
After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a broad coalition of Bostonians organized to shelter freedom seekers, frustrate slave catchers and fight in court. The Boston...
After the Revolution, Boston merchants turned to China, trading Northwest Coast furs and later opium for tea, silk and porcelain at Canton. The fortunes they made,...
Founded in 1807 by a literary club of young Bostonians, the Boston Athenaeum became one of the country's great independent libraries, an early art gallery and...
From a small Boston office in 1831, William Lloyd Garrison launched a newspaper that demanded the immediate end of slavery. Here is the story of the...
For nearly 175 years, the Charlestown Navy Yard built, repaired and supplied the ships of the U.S. Navy. Its granite dry dock, quarter-mile ropewalk and wartime...
Ribbon cuttings get the headlines, but repairs keep cities running. An argument for giving maintenance of roads, pipes and transit the attention it deserves.
In April 1704, Boston's postmaster began printing a weekly sheet of news. The Boston News-Letter lasted more than seventy years and launched American journalism, and its...
From a small Puritan settlement on the Shawmut Peninsula to a global center of medicine, education and research, Boston has repeatedly rebuilt itself. This overview covers...
The Central Artery/Tunnel Project took years of planning and more than a decade of construction beneath a working city. Here is how it was engineered, why...
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