When cold nights give way to thawing days, sap starts running in New England's maple trees. A look at how syrup is made and how to...
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...
Back Bay was once a foul-smelling tidal basin. Over several decades in the 19th century, Boston filled it with gravel hauled by train and laid out...
Just after noon on January 15, 1919, a giant molasses tank burst on Commercial Street in the North End. This is the story of that day:...
Irish immigrants came to a hostile Yankee city, especially during the famine years of the 1840s, and changed Boston's neighborhoods, workforce, churches and politics. This feature...
In 1854, the arrest of a young man who had escaped slavery turned Boston into a city under military guard. Here is the story of Anthony...
In the decades before the Civil War, Boston became the center of the American movement to end slavery. Black and white activists, writers and lawyers turned...
In the winter of 1775 to 1776, Henry Knox hauled dozens of cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. Mounted overnight on Dorchester Heights, they forced the...
For more than two centuries Boston made its living on the water, from cod and wharves to ice, clipper ships and global trade. This overview traces...
A February storm tests patience, backs and sidewalks. It also shows what a neighborhood is made of. A reflection on winter, shared space and small kindnesses.
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