HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

This week, we’re trying something a little bit different. This fall and winter, the Old North Church historic site has been hosting a series of conversations about radical Black abolitionist David Walker, and his book An Appeal to the Colored Citize ...

The new book Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands explores how the city of Boston has transformed the islands on its doorstep time and time again, as the city’s needs shifted over the centuries. From a valuable si ...

The early years of James Gately, who was better known as the Hermit of Hyde Park, were shrouded in mystery. Gately was an Englishman who came to Boston after his life took a bad turn. He had trouble making money when he got here, got robbed of his ...

Dr. Per-Olof Hasselgren is a practicing surgeon and author of the recent book Revolutionary Surgeons: Patriots and Loyalists on the Cutting Edge, which is a profile of eleven Revolutionary War surgeons. Dr. Hasselgren joined Jake to discuss the Bost ...

Got leftovers? Boston's first celebrity chef would know just what to do with them. No, I don't mean Julia Child. A generation before Julia launched her career, Fannie Farmer published a cookbook that revolutionized the way that recipes are present ...

These days, your Thanksgiving turkey arrives at the grocery store by refrigerated truck, but it wasn't always this way. Back in the 19th century, farmers would walk from Vermont, driving flocks of thousands of turkeys before them, until they got to ...

By now, you're probably done with Thanksgiving dinner. If your family is anything like mine, you've probably moved on to the drinking course. Just try to keep it under control. At least more under control than John Adams' kids, who were right in t ...

A lot of us are spending the day in our kitchens today. From her years on WGBH, Julia Child's kitchen is almost as familiar to most Americans as our own. However, before she was a TV chef, before she was even Julia Child, young Julia McWilliams was ...

Tomorrow, we will celebrate Thanksgiving in Massachusetts for the 400th time. It's worth taking a moment this evening to reflect on the circumstances that made that first Thanksgiving possible. In the years before colonization, a deadly epidemic sw ...

I always grew up thinking of the song “Over the River and Through the Wood” as a Christmas carol, but it was originally titled “The New England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day.” Get ready for tomorrow's big day with the song’s quaint themes of trad ...