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 went to St. Thomas Aquinas High School and then briefly to Boston College. But he...
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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.
I'm not sure how many museum exhibits have dealt with the disaster that is urban renewal honestly, especially in the affected neighborhood. So I really want to see this exhibit..
The ridiculous attempt to put the Olympics in Boston in 2024 is dying on the vine. Hosting the Olympics is a terrible idea for any city. For a old, cramped, expensive city like Boston with no room to grow and huge traffic problems, it's pretty...
Even if you think that prisoners are better off doing work outside than being stuck in their cells, I hope we can all agree that prisoners being paid 20 cents.
A reader sent this to me, to which I give thanks. This is the cover of the February 12, 1898 issue of Harper's. Thanks to Google Books, the greatest invention.
I trust you spent the week celebrating the 267th anniversary of the Boston Impressment Riot appropriately.
The Boston public school system is eliminating history and social science departments, merging them with other departments that don't matter because they aren't on the standardized tests. No doubt this.
The Boston Globe is having a big sad because mayoral finalist and union member (Laborers Local 223) Marty Walsh votes in the state legislature closer to the AFL-CIO than Koch.
On September 9, 1919, the police force in Boston went on strike, the most aggressive action to date by American public sector workers. The harsh response from the government of Massachusetts both set back public sector unionism and changed American political history. The police had...
Questions: Are Chechens white? Asking for a friend. Will the United States ever cease its strong support for Russian imperialism in the Caucasus?
The end of an era in Boston, as school busing is officially ended. It's true that busing didn't really work very well. It was a clunky approach to a horrible.