HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

A little more than three years ago, cohost emerita Nikki and I were on our way to see the Hamilton musical for the first time. In our excitement, we decided to record an episode about an 1806 political duel in Boston that had a lot of parallels with ...

For Black History Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every few days this month. Enjoy! Here are three classic episodes honoring black and white abolitionists in 19th Century Boston. Recorded in Februa ...

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 Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled on Roberts v Boston 170 years ago this month. When five year o ...

For Black History Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every few days this month. Enjoy! Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US in 1864, and she spen ...

For Black History Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every few days this month. Enjoy! This week we’re revisiting two classic episodes to highlight injustice in how the death penalty has been applied ...

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 Boston slave trade began when a ship arrived in the harbor in the summer of 1638 carrying a cargo of enslaved ...

They stockpiled guns and ammunition. They built homemade bombs. They had a hit list of a dozen members of Congress who were targeted for assassination. They believed themselves to be patriots, with soldiers and police officers among their ranks. ...

The first commercially viable telephone network was created by a Boston inventor and entrepreneur. Not Alexander Graham Bell, who is credited with inventing the telephone, but Edwin Thomas Holmes. Starting in the 1850s, his father Edwin Holmes crea ...

In November 1718, a tragedy on Boston Harbor cut short the lives of six people, including the first keeper of Boston Light and four members of his household. To find out what happened that morning, we’re going to look at what Boston Harbor was like ...

The Puritan dissenters who founded the town of Boston are remembered as a deeply religious society, so you might think that Christmas in Puritan Boston would be a big deal. You’d be wrong though. Celebrating Christmas was against the law for decade ...