This is the grave of Maurice Tobin. Born in 1901 in Boston, Tobin grew up in Irish Catholic politics land, which was a rich and fertile soil for a young man with political interests, as Tobin would have. It was a working class family, as...
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This is the grave of Benjamin Roberts. Born in Boston in 1815, Roberts grew up in the small Black middle class of that city at that time. His father was.
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.
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. One of the points I learned in researching this is that the Lowell National Historic...
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..
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 their final debate Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, before next week's historic election in a city...
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.
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 Labor Movement in Boston, which is just published by Haymarket Books. I am also hosting...
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.