HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor Richard T Greener grew up in Boston in the shadow of the abolition movement, graduated from Harvard, and became one of the foremost Black intellectuals of his era. However, soon after publishing his most influential work, when it seemed li ...

For Black History Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every few days this month. Enjoy! David Walker was one of America’s first radical abolitionists, a free African American man who moved to Boston in ...

For Black History Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every few days this month. Enjoy! 50 years ago this week, residents of one Boston neighborhood carried out an act of civil disobedience, bringing a ...

For Black History Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every few days this month. Enjoy! For decades, a 1967 riot that rocked Roxbury’s Grove Hall neighborhood was generally referred to in the mainstrea ...

From his Harvard graduation in 1895 to his death in 1934, William Monroe Trotter was one of the most influential and uncompromising advocates for the rights of Black Americans. He was a leader who had the vision to co-found groups like the Niagara M ...

For Black History Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every few days this month. Enjoy! “The Birth of a Nation” was one of the most controversial movies ever made, and when it premiered on February 8, ...

For Black History Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every few days this month. Enjoy! Historian Millington Bergeson-Lockwood, author of Race Over Party: Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Ninete ...