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In this interview, Kevin Levin describes the real Robert Gould Shaw hiding behind the bronze monument on Beacon Hill, a wealthy but aimless young man whose memory lives on through a fateful summer afternoon in South Carolina. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/a-g...

We're just a few months away from the 110th anniversary of Rat Day in Boston. Perfect moment to bring back a citywide rat catching contest!! www.hubhistory.com/episodes/rat...

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Long lines for early voting on Boston today. Everyone was mildly annoyed by the wait, but not too annoyed to break out in applause every time a poll worker announced "we have a first time voter here!"

This is sad. General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s historic World War II globe was broken when Pete Hegseth’s team dropped it while trying to move it into his office.

🗳️ Stella Parton (Dolly’s Sister) is among the Tennesseans reporting voting machines tried to flip her @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social vote to Marsha Blackburn🤔😕 www.instagram.com/p/DewwVI9ERq...

Check out this subway car, captured in a tunnel #onthisday in 1914!

“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Your regular reminder that there was an excellent podcast about the rocking rise and mob-driven fall of The Channel, but good luck finding it these days.

We have a date, a venue, and (finally) a panel! Come celebrate a decade of the HUB History podcast with a free live podcast episode on November 13. Special guests Jonathan Chu and Lori Rogers-Stokes will explore how a Puritan colony became today's progressive Massachusetts. www.hubhistory.com/live/

We bought a house! Well, a timber house frame. We’ve been waiting to share this huge news with you all! We are finally the proud owners of the frame of the c. 1675 Capen House, originally built in Dorchester. (1/3)

On this day in 1804, Old North's first steeple was knocked down in a windstorm known as “The Great Gale of Boston.” Two years later, a new steeple was added — it was 15 feet shorter than the original. Our second steeple, pictured here, survived until Hurricane Carol blew it over in 1954.

Where can we find evidence of queer and trans lives in the 19th century? And what do we do when the evidence is missing? The second episode of "Queer Boston's Pursuit of Happiness" is available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and your favorite podcast app. www.queerhistoryboston.org/public-histo...

Resisting authoritarianism is an American tradition. In April of 1775, Paul Revere and his allies risked everything to warn Patriots that British troops were heading to Concord. Where did Revere and his friends get the courage to defy authority? What would it take for you to do so?

In this episode, our first ever HUB History feed takeover, as we debut the new podcast "Queer Boston's Pursuit of Happiness" and interview host Joan Ilacqua. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/int...

Whenever we go through our photo archive, we always end up finding something unusual! Apparently, in 1987, the church hired a pest-sniffing beagle from Terminex Pest Control. The beagle must have done good work, because the sanctuary remains pest-free!

Dolly wouldn’t want that #airport #dolly

We often talk about Boston's colonial history as starting with the Arbella fleet in 1630, but our latest podcast examines three English settlements on Boston Harbor in the decade before Boston was founded. Listen now! www.hubhistory.com/episodes/bef...

Remove the Harvard of it all, this is still a nice piece of print, photo, and video journalism. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/25/m...

John and Elizabeth Humphries were a free Black couple who worshiped at Old North Church in the 1740s. The Humphries seem to have been kind and charitable people. We know that they took in Jerusha Will, a terminally ill Indigenous woman who was also a member of this church.

It's a perfect day to show some love for Dolly while supporting an indie podcast for progressive Appalachians (also available on stickers, mugs, socks, etc): appodlachia.dashery.com/products/185...

If it was going to be that easy for Jolene to take him away, he wasn't worth Dolly's time in the first place.

So today is a meteor shower, an eclipse, and the 350th anniversary of Metacomet's death? Cotton Mather would see signs and portents in the skies.

Awwww... www.boston.com/travel/local...

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

is there a Kalshi for how many ICE agents will get self-inflicted wounds on their penises?

I suppose I would be remiss if I let a partial eclipse pass without posting a link to this past podcast episode about Boston's experience with eclipses and smoke-fueled "dark days." www.hubhistory.com/episodes/ecl...

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Vandals thehill.com/opinion/ener...

I've often wondered about this steep, strange strip of land next to Copps Hill Burying Ground. aknextphase.com/copps-hill-t...

To quote Britney, I did it again. Took just over a minute off of the two mile PR I set a month ago.

"Old soldiers never die; they just run away inside a catering cart."

10 AUGUST 1776, CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS: Having received no answer from John Hancock, Harriet Temple writes to John Adams “to procure me some relief, in my present Emergency” of “the distrest Situation which myself, and large family are reduced to.” founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...

If anyone attending this session caught the reference to "warning out," this is the podcast episode for you... bsky.app/profile/hubh...

I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.

Just attended @hubhistory.com’s talk about the British Empire’s switch from the Julian to Gregorian calendar. 🗃️ #HistoryCamp

The first talk I attended today was the panel “Telling Complex & Hard Histories: Interpreting Slavery at Small Historic Sites,” moderated by @hubhistory.com. #HistoryCamp 🗃️

Welp. futurism.com/science-ener...