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

March 20, 2023
Mayor Barbara Ackermann addresses the Cambridge City Council in 1972.

As this Women’s History Month draws to a close, History Cambridge invites you to learn more about some of the women who have had an impact on the community and to think about stories that haven’t yet been told.

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

March 13, 2023
A Tot Lot event in 2017.

Tot Lot was the first child care center in 1970s working-class Cambridgeport, and was designed to have parents working in the classrooms alongside the teachers.

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

March 6, 2023
Nora Sokolovska, left, and Katrina Pallais in 2023

Neither Nora Sokolovska nor Katrina Pallais can imagine a better place to grow up than Cambridgeport. And the 17-year-olds don’t just mean in comparison to other Cambridge neighborhoods. They mean on the face of the earth.

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You live in Anmoughcawgen

February 27, 2023
Bilingual signs at Kahnawake in the First Nations Reserve, Quebec, Canada

For millennia before this area became known as Cambridge, it was called Anmoughcawgen – in the Algonquin Natick dialect, “fishing weir” or “beaver dam,” which described the neighborhoods from Alewife to Kendall/MIT. A Participatory Budgeting project will return traditional Eastern Woodland languages to city property.

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

February 20, 2023
Boats on the Charles River off Cambridgeport in the early 19th century.

The military and diplomatic skirmishes of the early 19th century created greater opportunities for Black sailors, as shipowners and captains took any able-bodied men they could find, regardless of race.

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

February 13, 2023
Black History in Action for Cambridgeport’s Kris Manjapra inside St. Augustine’s Church.

As the Cambridgeport neighborhood grew and changed over decades and many Black residents were displaced, St. Augustine’s had a period of disrepair.

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

February 10, 2023
An artist’s impression of a Freedmen’s Bureau Industrial School in 1866.

Above Image: An artist’s impression of a Freedmen’s Bureau Industrial School in 1866. (Image via House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College) By Beth Folsom, 2023 By the time of the Civil War, enslavement had been illegal under Massachusetts law for almost eight decades. But the end of formal enslavement for Black…

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

January 30, 2023
A Morse School kindergarten class picture with Louis Fenerlis in the back row next to his beloved teacher, Miss Toomey.

Louis Fenerlis, of Louie’s Haircuts in Boston, considers himself to be a proud product of Cambridgeport. When his family moved during during his first year in high school, he says he never adjusted to the new town.

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We’re searching for the Indigenous voices of Cambridge

January 23, 2023
A banner at the North American Indian Center of Boston is by Sage Carbone.

How did you learn about Native American/American Indian people? Your experiences and memories will be helpful primary source material for our scholars.

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

January 16, 2023
A scene from the 2022 Many Helping Hands community walk.

For the second year, Many Helping Hands 365 will join with community partners in leading a community walk to highlight the history and present of Cambridge’s Black and Brown community in The Coast, Riverside and Cambridgeport neighborhoods.

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