From Indigenous homelands and Puritan settlement to revolution, immigration, industry, catastrophe, sport, and reinvention, Boston is a city built in layers.
Read MoreBoston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project moved a highway underground, reshaped downtown, and became synonymous with the promise and peril of megaprojects.
Read MoreFenway Park has survived wars, championships, heartbreak, redevelopment pressures, and generations of Boston memory.
Read MoreOn January 15, 1919, a massive storage tank failed in the North End, sending a deadly surge of molasses through the neighborhood.
Read MoreMass Irish immigration transformed Boston’s neighborhoods, churches, politics, labor force, and identity.
Read MoreIn November 1872, fire swept through Boston’s commercial district, destroying hundreds of buildings and reshaping downtown.
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The 1854 arrest of Anthony Burns transformed Boston into a fortified stage for America’s escalating conflict over slavery.
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Boston’s abolitionists turned newspapers, lecture halls, churches, and streets into arenas in the national struggle over slavery.
Read MoreBoston’s merchants and sailors connected New England to an Atlantic economy that brought wealth, risk, exploitation, and global influence.
Read MoreIn March 1776, American forces fortified Dorchester Heights and made the British position in Boston untenable.
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