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 a servant--but about the most successful servant in the country. In fact, in 1827, he...
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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..
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 merchant, involved in foreign trade with both Europe and South America. Cobb was also heavily...
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.
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 in Boston. His father and maternal grandfather had been both city council presidents. So his...
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.
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 at least, I am going to be linking to and writing up a bunch of...
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.
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.