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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episode 273: When Boston Brought Baseball to Britain
Spring in Boston means baseball, and this week we're talking about the time in 1874 when the Boston Red Stockings tried to bring America’s national pastime to Britain. 120 years before the World Baseball Classic, Boston’s biggest baseball promoter d ...
episode 272: The Persuasive Powers of John Adams
John Adams later described the prosecution of William Corbet as a case “of an extraordinary Character, in which I was engaged and which cost me no small Portion of Anxiety.” In 1769, four common sailors were brought into Boston to stand trial for mu ...
episode 271: The Court Street Mutiny
On April 9, 1863, a shooting was carried out in a basement just off of Court Street, behind Boston’s Old City Hall. The gunman was a Union cavalry officer, who belonged to one of Brahmin Boston’s most wealthy families. The victim was a new Irish Am ...
Bonus: My Personal Evacuation Day
Just a quick bonus episode, so I can tell you about a change to my personal life and what it means for the show.
episode 270: The Gettysburg Cyclorama: Mystery of the South End
Starting in 1884, audiences of veterans, schoolchildren, and everyday Bostonians streamed into a cavernous, castle-like building on Tremont Street in the South End to witness the closest thing to virtual reality that existed at the time. The buildin ...
BHM Bonus: Reading David Walker
For Black History Month, we're dropping a classic episode into the feed as a bonus every few days... Last winter, the Old North Church historic site hosted a series of conversations about radical Black abolitionist David Walker, and his book An Appe ...
episode 269: Annie Burton’s Restaurant
Annie L. Burton was an entrepreneur and restaurateur, who moved to Boston as a young woman after spending her childhood enslaved on an Alabama plantation. Annie spent decades as a domestic servant, first in the south, and then in the north, in Newto ...
BHM Bonus: Doctor Crumpler
For Black History Month, we're dropping a classic episode into the feed as a bonus every few days... Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US in 1864, and she spent most of her adult life in Charles ...
BHM Bonus: Birth of a Nation in Boston
For Black History Month, we're dropping a classic episode into the feed as a bonus every few days... “The Birth of a Nation” was one of the most controversial movies ever made, and when it premiered on February 8, 1915 it almost instantly became the ...
BHM Bonus: Lewis Latimer
For Black History Month, we're dropping a classic episode into the feed as a bonus every few days... African American inventor and draftsman Lewis Latimer’s parents self-emancipated to give their children the opportunities afforded to those born int ...