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If you’ve ever eaten a vegetable and thought “This would taste better with candy on top,” then you’re probably a sucker for sweet potato casserole, or candied […]

On November 2, 1915, Massachusetts residents could have given women the right to vote. And they didn’t. According to the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, a […]

On October 28, 1932, Sylvia Plath was born in Boston. The influential poet spent her formative years in and around Boston before leaving for Smith […]

On this day 37 years ago, the newly constructed John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Columbia Point was officially dedicated. A ceremony on October 20, […]

When a devastating new epidemic began to take hold in the United States in the early 1900s, it wasn’t long before the smart folks at Harvard began to […]

In February 1939, a British freighter called the Lutzen set sail from Saint John, New Brunswick, to New York, hauling a whopping 320 tons of frozen […]

On this day 324 years ago, the last eight victims of the Salem witch trials were put to death. They were hanged September 22, 1692, rounding out […]

Boston became Boston 386 years ago. On September 16 (or 17, depending on who you ask) the small village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, switched its name […]

During this week in 1776, George Washington was feeling a bit drunk with power. In all his boldness, he decided to ask a favor of […]

Alexander Graham Bell is probably most famous for a little invention known as the telephone. In fact, he made the first-ever two-way long distance telephone call between Boston and […]

Fifty-one years ago this week, the Green Line became green, the Blue Line adopted its cobalt hue, and so on. The four branches of the MBTA’s […]

Nantasket Beach in the summertime is a pretty nice spot to be. On August 18, 1887, it was especially nice because the Boston Strong Boy himself had […]

Monday, August 15, 2016, would have been Larz Anderson’s 150th birthday. Who is Larz Anderson, you ask? He’s a car collector, amateur horticulturalist, foreign ambassador, Harvard […]

On one oppressively hot day 124 years ago, police met a gruesome scene on 92 Second Street in Fall River. August 4, 1892, marks the […]

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born as Jacqueline Bouvier on July 28, 1929, in Southampton, New York. Soon after, as a toddler, she became an excellent equestrian. […]