This silent film of various Boston sites isn't super exciting necessarily and there aren't even title cards to provide a narrative. But films of cities a century ago are pretty cool and a lot of you know Boston well, so have fun with it.
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I published an essay not long ago in Where Are the Workers? Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites about the lack of labor history in National Park Service sites..
This is the grave of Samuel Crocker Cobb. Born in 1826 in Taunton, Massachusetts, Cobb grew up pretty well off, but not extremely well off. Cobb became a leading Boston.
This is the grave of John Bigelow. Born in 1797 in Groton, Massachusetts, Bigelow was the son of the well-known lawyer and future Massachusetts Speaker of the House Timothy Bigelow. Like his father, John went to Harvard and then into the law. As one would...
FILE — Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu campaigns in this Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021 file photo, in Boston. Boston mayoral hopefuls Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George to meet in.
This is the grave of Kevin White. Born in 1929 in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, White grew up in an Irish-American political household. Yes friends, those do exist.
I mentioned last week that I had written the conclusion for the brand new book from Haymarket Press, Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston. I interviewed the editors--Avi Chomsky and Steve Striffler--and it is available on YouTube. Got cut off...
I was very happy to write the conclusion for the new book of essays organized and edited by Aviva Chomsky and Steve Striffler, Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century.
In Civic Center Park during Denver protests in early June against racism and police brutality after George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. Over the next several days.
Boston, MA - 6/2/2013 - (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff) Tonight's selection is this 1972 documentary about Boston's North End, titled Little Italy. I've gotten to know the neighborhood a bit over the years living in Providence. But what I most know it for is its...
This is the grave of Thomas Menino. Born in 1942 in Boston, Menino grew up in the lower middle class. His father was a foreman at a Westinghouse plant. Menino.
Since the election, my daily historical reading has taken on a different tone. Not in the sense of what I am reading, which hasn't changed. But rather, my reactions to.