HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

Where two history buffs go far beyond the Freedom Trail to share our favorite stories from the history of Boston, the hub of the universe.

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 44m. Bisher sind 375 Folge(n) erschienen. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 days 20 hours 19 minutes

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Bonus: Boston Marriages in Literature and Life


For Pride Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every Wednesday this month. Enjoy! A new form of relationship known as "Boston Marriages" arose between 19th century women, which had all the emotional tra ...


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 June 16, 2021  33m
 
 

Bonus: The Girl in Pantaloons


For Pride Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every Wednesday this month. Enjoy! Emma Snodgrass defied the gender roles of the 1850s, getting arrested multiple times in Boston for appearing in public u ...


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 June 9, 2021  30m
 
 

The Liberty Riot (episode 224)


On June 10, 1768 a riot swept through Boston that forced Royal officials to flee for their lives, saw a boat bodily carried onto the Common and burned, and in the end helped bring on the Boston Massacre less than two years later. John Hancock, later ...


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 June 7, 2021  1h3m
 
 

Bonus: The Hub of the Gay Universe with Russ Lopez


For Pride Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every Wednesday this month. Enjoy! In this episode, Dr. Russ Lopez discusses his recent book, The Hub of the Gay Universe: An LGBTQ History of Boston, Prov ...


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 June 2, 2021  1h31m
 
 

The Mysterious Murder (Maybe) of Starr Faithful (episode 223)


When Starr Faithfull’s body washed up on a Long Island beach 90 years ago, the case became a national obsession. At the center of the story was a beautiful young flapper, with a diary full of covert sexual conquests, a sordid history with a prominen ...


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 May 24, 2021  45m
 
 

Julia Child, from the OSS to PBS (episode 222)


At the outbreak of World War II, president Roosevelt decided to create a single centralized agency to organize the nation’s many competing intelligence services. Not the CIA, which would come a few years later, but the Office of Strategic Services. B ...


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 May 10, 2021  43m
 
 

Boy Wonder Arrested as Ringleader when Reds Riot in Roxbury (episode 221)


On May Day in 1919, Roxbury socialists marched in support of a textile workers' strike in Lawrence.  The afternoon turned violent, with police firing shots to disperse the crowd.  In the aftermath, two officers were killed and a mob formed that hunte ...


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 April 26, 2021  55m
 
 

Puritans in Paradise (episode 220)


In the 1820s, waves of Christian missionaries were dispatched from Boston, believing they might never return. They didn’t know much about the land they were going to settle in or the people they were trying to convert, but what little they had heard ...


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 April 12, 2021  55m
 
 

Expo 76: Future Vision or Fever Dream? (episode 219)


During the Kennedy administration, a group of Boston businessmen led by a millionaire dairy farmer hatched an audacious plan. They proposed building an experimental city of the future on made land, piers, and floating platforms connecting Columbia P ...


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 March 29, 2021  52m
 
 

Disaster at Bussey Bridge (episode 218)


March 14 is the anniversary of one of the worst railroad accidents that ever happened in Massachusetts. On March 14, 1887, a train filled with suburban commuters was on its way from Dedham to Park Square station in Boston, stopping in West Roxbury a ...


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 March 14, 2021  47m