Category: North End History
By Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis
Has it been awhile since your high school history classes? Have you been watching too many…
By Jared Ross Hardesty, PhD
On the night of May 31, 1743, terror struck the Rising Sun. As the ship tracked eastward off the coast of…
By Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis
Has it been a while since your high school history classes? Have you been watching too many…
By Samuel Zeiberg Boston in the early 1720s was a town in the midst of an epidemic. Brought to Boston on a ship from the carribean in early…
By Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis
Has it been awhile since your high school history classes? Have you been watching too many historically…
By Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis
Has it been a while since your high school history classes? Have you been watching too many historically…
This month we were grateful to Place Based Boston for asking us to share a reflection on how Jared Hardesty’s recent research findings about a…
By Amanda Tuttle
At 12:45 pm, on January 15, 1919, a tsunami-like wave swept down Commercial Street in Boston’s North End neighborhood. This…
Every year for the past three decades, the annual Lantern Ceremony at the Old North Church & Historic Site has begun with a musical kick-off…
By Bernard Trubowitz
New England’s history and development is inextricably tied to the sea, and by no accident. The ocean provides many…