Articles

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.

When The Port Was a Port

A Close-up of Huron Avenue

The Cyclotron

Annette LaMond: Economist Turned History Enthusiast

‘Quiet Courage’: Maria Baldwin and the Racial Politics of Education in Cambridge

Mercy Scollay and the Lifelong Work of Mending

Phyllis Wallace et all

Phyllis Ann Wallace, A Leader for Equal Opportunity

Eva Neer : My Neighbor, Groundbreaking Biochemist

Businesses Well Lived: City Girl Café

Businesses Well Lived: Joie de Vivre

Businesses Well Lived: Harding House

Who Is Essential Cambridge? Part 4: COVID-19

Who Is Essential Cambridge? Part 3: Nurses

Who Is Essential Cambridge? Part 2: Teachers

Who Is Essential Cambridge? Part 1: War and Industry

Brief History of the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House and Enslaved People

Revisiting the Cambridge Women’s Suffrage Movement

A people’s mayor — remembering Barbara Ackermann

Al Vellucci

Observatory Hill

Shed light on untold stories and silenced voices.

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