Posts Tagged ‘Indigenous History’
15,000 Years of Gossip: History of Gold Star Road, Part I
By Haakon L. Chevalier, 2026 Introduction Over forty years ago, I moved to Gold Star Road, a tiny street in North Cambridge off Massachusetts Avenue. For most of that time, I knew almost nothing about its history, and figured it couldn’t be very interesting. How wrong I was! There were so many questions: Who lived…
Read MoreMetacom’s Resistance: Marking 350 Years of Conflict, Coexistence, and Indigenous Presence
by Beth Folsom, 2026 There is much ado about marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this July, but this year also marks 350 years since the conflict that many of us know as King Philip’s War. Alternately called Metacom’s War or Metacom’s Resistance, this three-year conflict between groups of Indigenous New Englanders…
Read MoreMarch 24: Metacom’s Resistance: Re-telling King Philip’s War and Its Legacy
Tuesday, March 24, 20266:00pm – 7:30pmCambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway and onlineFree The Past is Now: An Intertribal Panel on King Philip’s War, Past and Present Is King Philip’s War really part of the past? Four Indigenous speakers tell us that it’s still deeply present. People who are not Indigenous often think of Metacom’s Resistance…
Read MoreRevolutionary History Series Continues With a Focus on Indigenous Relations
By Beth Folsom, 2026 In January 1776, General George Washington met with a delegation of diplomats from the Caughnawaga Mohawk Nation at their Cambridge camp, where they had been staying for over a week, awaiting word of a possible commission for their leader, Atiatoharongwen, in the Continental Army. As Dr. Ben Pokross recently explored in…
Read MoreOct 20: The History and Future of the Massachusetts State Flag
Discover the historical context and contemporary debates surrounding the Massachusetts state flag, seal, and motto. This presentation, led by Sage Carbone and Dr. David Shane Lowry, examines the complex history of these symbols and their impact on the community. In light of the Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission’s open call for public input,…
Read MoreWatershed: An Excursion in Four Parts
by Emily HiestandFirst published by The Georgia Review and Beacon Press in 1998. Updated slightly in 2021 for publication in This Impermanent Earth, and in 2024 for History Cambridge. Part One | Street Like travelers who want to keep some favorite place from being overly discovered, the residents of our neighborhood sometimes confide to one another in a near-whisper, “There’s no…
Read MoreMajor General Daniel Gookin
by Rev. Warner Foote Gookin, 1912 Three hundred years ago, at a date still undetermined, one of the great men of Cambridge was born in England, – one who was great enough, at least, to deserve this passing tribute, the only recognition, I believe, to be given him in the tercentenary of his birth. It…
Read MoreIf you have a New Year’s resolution to research local history, History Cambridge can be of help
Whatever your interest or motivation about the past, History Cambridge can help you find the resources to conduct your own local history research.
Read MoreA new year, and History Cambridge puts focus onto a new neighborhood: North Cambridge
History Cambridge embarked on programming in 2023 that focuses on one of Cambridge’s 13 neighborhoods each year, and for 2024 it’s North Cambridge.
Read MoreCelebration and advocacy for Native American history goes well beyond November
In National Native American Heritage Month, remember that Indigenous stories are still being created as well as commemorated in the past. The story of Indigenous Cambridge is still being written.
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