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Man and a woman standing in front of a counter smiling

Joyce Chen started with a 250-seat restaurant, went to 350 and only grew her empire from there

Members of the Cambridge Railroadmen’s Union who went on strike in 1887

Gilded Age Cambridge eyed the Haymarket Affair as misconduct from ‘those Bohemian anarchists’

Laundresses at a Revolutionary Army camp, circa 1780.

Upcoming History Cafe will pose the question: Washington slept here, but who made his bed?

What is in a name? The origins of Cambridge Public Elementary Schools’ Nomenclature

A political cartoon from the 1870s portrays Irish men, women, and even young children drinking whiskey.

From Papists to Patriots: St. Patrick’s Day in Cambridge

The rear of the Arsenal Square monument in Neighborhood 9, northwest of Cambridge Common.

The ‘Hiker’ statue is monumental miseducation about Filipinos in Cambridge and 51 other cities

History Cambridge will bring an art installation to Brattle Street to focus on neglected Black past

Jennat Jounaidi standing in front of a tree overhanging water

Teens will spotlight neighborhood features thorough a project by CRLS’ Jennat Jounaidi

A Brief History of “Ten Ten”

Grendel’s Den: 50 years of Stories to Tell

Thanksgiving in Civil War Cambridge

A Lost Park: Longfellow’s Parklands

Apply to Become a History Cambridge Fellow

History Hive: Harvard Square Police Kiosks

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Cambridge and the Smallpox Epidemic, 1893-1903

R. Buckminster Fuller in Cambridge

History Hive: Mrs. McCartney