The Royall House and Slave Prison
The slave quarters at Medford’s Royall House and Slave Prison are believed to be, according to the museum, “the only known extant separate slave quarters in the northern United States.”…Continue Reading →
Remembering Three Enslaved People Who Poisoned Their Captor: A Cambridge Symposium
“One of the things that makes us uncomfortable is the history of violence, but the 250th [anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence] is all about the celebration…Continue Reading →
Century-Old Shipwreck Emerges From Sand At Ipswich’s Crane Beach
In February, pieces of a century-old shipwreck began emerging from the sand at the northwest end of Ipswich’s Crane Beach—a jagged, 50-foot-long fragment of the starboard side of schooner’s wooden…Continue Reading →
At Boston’s Old North Church, Reprinting The Dangerous Ideas That Sparked A Revolution
Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →
‘Age of Roe’ Surveys Activism For And Against Legal Abortion In U.S.
“The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America” at Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library’s Poorvu Gallery in Cambridge from Oct. 24, 2022, to March 4,…Continue Reading →
At Old Sturbridge Village, 1830s America Comes Alive With Chickens, Sheep, Cows, Pigs
Part of the fun of an old timey living-history museum like Old Sturbridge Village is the feeling that you’ve stepped off a time machine into the past—in this case, peacetime…Continue Reading →
Where Anne Hutchinson Stopped On Her Way To Exile
In April 1638, Anne Hutchinson, the Boston midwife and spiritual leader, was exiled by court order and “tarried” at her family’s home in what’s now Quincy on her way to…Continue Reading →
Fixing The Nearly 300-Year-Old Clock Inside Boston’s Old North Church
A clock shaped a bit like an exclamation point, with a bronze sun shining at the center of its black face, has kept time inside Boston’s Old North Church since…Continue Reading →
The View From Mount Misery in Lincoln, Massachusetts
The first article in Wonderland’s series about Miserable Places: At 227 acres, Mount Misery is considered to be the largest conservation area in Lincoln, Massachusetts. When we arrived on a…Continue Reading →
Erik Larson’s ‘The Splendid And The Vile’: Churchill And Leadership During A National Calamity
As best-selling historian Erik Larsons’ new World War II book “The Splendid and the Vile” (Crown Publishing) opens, the military forces of Nazi Germany are rolling over France and the…Continue Reading →