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Of Sailing Ships & Steeples

December 6, 2018 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By Bernard Trubowitz Twelve years before immortalizing Paul Revere with pen and paper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow began a different poem with the following lines: Build me straight, O worthy Master!Staunch and strong, a goodly vesselThat shall laugh at all disaster,And with wave and whirlwind wrestle! It is quite appropriate that the man who wrote a […]

Filed Under: 19th century, 20th century, boston as seascape, maritime history, occupation: jobs and trades, old north history

Symbol of America’s Origin Story: The Old North Church

August 17, 2018 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By Rob Super In 1975 as part of the celebration of the United States Bicentennial, President Gerald Ford lit the “Third Lantern,” a lantern that still hangs in Old North Church’s sanctuary, to commemorate the hanging of the signal lanterns on the night of April 18, 1775. President Ford remarked that Two hundred years ago […]

Filed Under: 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, american revolution, occupation: physical space, old north history, religious history

Beneath Boston

October 26, 2017 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By Erin Driscoll Chan Krieger and Associates “Boston Over Time: Filling In the Land 1630-Present,” 2008. For thousands of years before Europeans arrived, Native Americans lived on the narrow 800-acre Shawmut Peninsula. As illustrated in “Boston Over Time: Filling In the Land 1630-Present,” much of modern Boston rests on nearly 5,000 acres of added land, […]

Filed Under: 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, archaeology, boston as landscape, geography

Victorian Mothers and their Progressive Daughters: Examining early 20th Century Reforms through one Beacon Hill Family

March 24, 2017 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By Elise Couture-Stone Editor’s Note: This piece marks our final contribution in celebration of Women’s History Month. You can learn more about the Nichols Family by visiting the Nichols House Museum or by visiting their website at http://www.nicholshousemuseum.org/ Tucked away in one of Boston’s most famous neighborhoods, stands a small, unassuming brick house. Federalist in architecture, […]

Filed Under: 19th century, 20th century, architectural history, boston as mindscape, women in history

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