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Archival photos found while inventorying at the Harvard Plate Stacks are being rehoused.

Pandemic provided impetus to preserve a legacy: The Women Computers of Harvard Observatory

Mayor Barbara Ackermann addresses the Cambridge City Council in 1972.

History Hub has stories of women to celebrate changing Cambridge since Battle of Bunker Hill

Posted in Did You Know

The Tot Lot child care nears a 50th anniversary with the same cooperative model from its birth

Posted in Did You Know

Nora Sokolovska, left, and Katrina Pallais in 2023

Growing up in Cambridgeport has been idyllic, but Gen Zers see the area changing around them

Posted in Did You Know

Bilingual signs at Kahnawake in the First Nations Reserve, Quebec, Canada

You live in Anmoughcawgen

Posted in Did You Know

Boats on the Charles River off Cambridgeport in the early 19th century.

The War of 1812 sank trade in Cambridgeport, risking good livings at sea for Black residents

Posted in Did You Know

Black History in Action for Cambridgeport’s Kris Manjapra inside St. Augustine’s Church.

Black History in Action for Cambridgeport’s revival of St. Augustine’s Church honors a lengthy legacy

Posted in Did You Know

An artist’s impression of a Freedmen’s Bureau Industrial School in 1866.

Rediscovering the Howard Industrial School: Freedom, Work, and Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge

Posted in Did You Know

A Morse School kindergarten class picture with Louis Fenerlis in the back row next to his beloved teacher, Miss Toomey.

Growing up in Cambridgeport was unforgettable for Louis Fenerlis, the child of Greek immigrants

Posted in Did You Know

A banner at the North American Indian Center of Boston is by Sage Carbone.

We’re searching for the Indigenous voices of Cambridge

Posted in Did You Know

A scene from the 2022 Many Helping Hands community walk.

Community walk for Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates history of city visited by MLK himself

Posted in Did You Know

Nick’s Beef and Beer House

Joyce Chen Restaurant

Cambridge School of Culinary Arts

India Pavilion

Legal Seafoods

Julia Child’s Kitchen

Simeone’s

Wursthaus

The Tasty Sandwich Shop

Shed light on untold stories and silenced voices.

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Articles

Pandemic provided impetus to preserve a legacy: The Women Computers of Harvard Observatory

History Hub has stories of women to celebrate changing Cambridge since Battle of Bunker Hill

The Tot Lot child care nears a 50th anniversary with the same cooperative model from its birth

Growing up in Cambridgeport has been idyllic, but Gen Zers see the area changing around them

You live in Anmoughcawgen

The War of 1812 sank trade in Cambridgeport, risking good livings at sea for Black residents

Black History in Action for Cambridgeport’s revival of St. Augustine’s Church honors a lengthy legacy

Rediscovering the Howard Industrial School: Freedom, Work, and Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge

Growing up in Cambridgeport was unforgettable for Louis Fenerlis, the child of Greek immigrants

We’re searching for the Indigenous voices of Cambridge

Community walk for Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates history of city visited by MLK himself

Nick’s Beef and Beer House

Joyce Chen Restaurant

Cambridge School of Culinary Arts

India Pavilion

Legal Seafoods

Julia Child’s Kitchen

Simeone’s

Wursthaus

The Tasty Sandwich Shop

Shed light on untold stories and silenced voices.

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