The Revolution’s 250th anniversary approaches, demanding answers to how we commemorate
Does the American Revolution matter? What, if anything, can it teach us today? Who and what has been left out of previous commemorations, and how can we ensure that we tell a more complete version for all of Cambridge?
Read MoreSummer play with teens set at Foundry of 1911 gave power to workers left out of history books
The cast and crew of “We Were Here” saw an opportunity to go beyond the written record to explore the lives and experiences of these women – as workers, but also as mothers, daughters, sisters and friends.
Read MoreHistory Cambridge is answering your questions about Cambridgeport
Above image: Detail of David Fichter’s “Celebrate the Coast” sculpture, McElroy Park (Photo credit: History Cambridge) In 2023, History Cambridge is focusing on Cambridgeport, exploring the people, places, and stories that have shaped the neighborhood. As part of this effort, we are asking residents what they want to know about Cambridgeport, and endeavoring to bring…
Read More‘Beating the Belt’ highlights women’s activism fighting against state’s superhighway project
The stay-at-home mothers with young children of the 1960s forged friendships fighting alongside other community activists in a yearslong battle against the Inner Belt and the destruction of thousands of local homes and businesses.
Read MoreIce Cream has a cool local history, and it begins with the ice itself, carved from our local ponds
Americans consume more ice cream per year than residents of any other country, and residents of Cambridge and Somerville have reason to eat even more.
Read More‘Reading Frederick Douglass Together’ events mark the Fourth poignantly and powerfully
Public readings of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” have become increasingly widespread and popular as an American celebration of how far we have come and contemplation of how much we have left to do.
Read MoreNew play at Foundry explores a century-old story of women, work and immigration in Cambridge
Women workers at Blake & Knowles Steam Pump in East Cambridge were controversial in 1911. Their story will be staged at that same Foundry this year.
Read MoreGrowing up in Cambridgeport from the 1930s into the 1950s with Patricia Ann Smith Lucas
Ann Lucas grew up on the eastern edge of Cambridgeport surrounded by members of her extended family after her grandparents arrived from North Carolina during the Great Migration of African Americans from the Southern states.
Read MoreBottle trees are sprouting up in new locations, continuing to honor the enslaved in Cambridge
If you travel regularly along Brattle Street west of Harvard Square, you may have asked yourself in recent weeks, “Where are the blue bottle trees?”
Read MoreGallery 263 in Cambridgeport is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a birthday bash
This multifunctional space might have a yoga class, talk or foraged banquet in addition to art, and its building has served a variety of purposes since the 1890s.
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