The stay-at-home mothers with young children of the 1960s forged friendships fighting alongside other community activists in a yearslong battle against the Inner Belt and the destruction of thousands of local homes and businesses.

Americans consume more ice cream per year than residents of any other country, and residents of Cambridge and Somerville have reason to eat even more.

Public readings of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” have become increasingly widespread and popular as an American celebration of how far we have come and contemplation of how much we have left to do.

Women workers at Blake & Knowles Steam Pump in East Cambridge were controversial in 1911. Their story will be staged at that same Foundry this year.

If you travel regularly along Brattle Street west of Harvard Square, you may have asked yourself in recent weeks, “Where are the blue bottle trees?”

A survey reveals that many of us were taught little about the experiences of the peoples who called this place home for centuries before Europeans arrived.

A Cambridgeport Apple Festival on April 26 offers apple crafts, recipes and a hands-on exploration of the history of the city, its orchards and its people.

Visitors are welcomed to the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House for the final week of “Forgotten Souls,” to be removed April 7 as its installation comes to a close.

As this Women’s History Month draws to a close, History Cambridge invites you to learn more about some of the women who have had an impact on the community and to think about stories that haven’t yet been told.

The military and diplomatic skirmishes of the early 19th century created greater opportunities for Black sailors, as shipowners and captains took any able-bodied men they could find, regardless of race.