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  • Research
    • Conduct Research
    • Researching A Person?
    • Researching A Building?
    • Using Our Archive
    • Index Of Finding Aids
    • History Cambridge Collaborative
  • Feeling
    Curious?
    • Ways To Explore
    • History Hubs
    • Articles
    • History Hive
    • Self-Guided Tours
    • Oral Histories
    • Works In Progress
  • What’s On?
    • Ways To Engage
    • Events
    • News
    • Tory Row Anti-Racism Coalition (TRAC)
    • Neighborhood History Centers
    • Volunteer
  • Support
    • Ways To Support Us
    • Give Online Now
    • Individual Support
    • Sponsorship
    • Legacy Giving
    • Volunteer
    • Bookstore
  • About
    • About Us
    • History Cambridge Collaborative
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Explore articles, including columns from Cambridge Day, written by History Cambridge staff, interns, and volunteers as well as our partners in the History Cambridge Collaborative.

Composer Leroy Anderson: Cambridge Born and Bred

Commentary on Radical Protests in the 1960s

The Cyclotron by Bruce Irving

Washington Elm Debate Rages On: Fact or Legend?

The Makings of City Streets By Michael Kenney

Cars in Cambridge by Doug Brown

Chestnut Trees in Cambridge by Jason Weksner, Arborist

Lights, camera, action…

Looking Backward: Club 47 and the 1960s Folk Music Revival

The Remarkable John “Jack” Emerson: Founder of the J. H. Emerson Company

Bob Dylan went electric in Cambridge

The Story of the Bee

If This House Could Talk

1905: A Year of New Beginnings

Posted in Did You Know

Fort Washington, 1775-1975, and Other Cambridge Fortifications

Posted in CHS Proceedings
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