Tonight’s ‘How Has Food Mended Cambridge?’ explores how our cuisines shaped community
Hear a panel discuss the coming of Asian, African, Latin American and Middle Eastern restaurants affected Cambridge in the 20th century. To what extent did they create a deeper awareness of the struggles and contributions of immigrants? How did eating “new” foods affect the political climate?
History Cafés introduce us to abolitionist women who buoyed Black city life from 18th century on
History Cambridge hosted Harvard and Simmons educators at History Cafés in the spring exploring the history of the city’s Black community, including abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, who ran boarding houses in the city, and threads of the Black experience through the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
The Cambridge Historical Society, begun in 1905, is now History Cambridge – your new-old friend
Big changes are coming to the Cambridge Historical Society – so big that you’ll begin to see it in a whole new light, starting with the most fundamental of things: its name.
Fayerweather Street School students in the ’80s mapped their neighborhood address by address
A Fayerweather Street School class in the 1980s spent five months studying a stretch of Huron Avenue, with students from age 8 to 11 interviewing the elderly, shopkeepers, customers and passersby, surveying, mapping and finally publishing an intensive snapshot of the era.
Self-guided tour No. 4: Take a quick spin through our political movements on the back of a bicycle
From its creation by a group defined by religious and political extremism, Cambridge has been the home of people with strongly held convictions.
Cantabrigians with roots in the Caribbean contribute vibrancy of immigrant experience
The Caribbean Heritage Oral History Project collected interviews of nine Cambridge residents who were born in or have roots in the Caribbean, part of asking: Where is Cambridge from? Areas of ancestry included Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Suriname and Trinidad.
Vietnam War and Harvard expansion resistance merged in protests that drew thousands in 1969
In Cambridge, as in the rest of America, the late 1960s was a period of unrest and upheaval. A couple of years ago, with the theme, “How Does Cambridge Engage?” the Historical Society looked back 50 years to the spring of 1969 for some answers.
Lois Lilley Howe pioneered as female architect, and her homes are still found throughout city
Lois Lilley Howe, born and raised in Cambridge, was a trailblazer – one of the first women to graduate from MIT’s architectural program, the organizer of Boston’s only all-woman architectural firm in the early 20th century and the first woman elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Businesses Well Lived: Starting with three stories in which decades of work ended amid a pandemic
The Cambridge Historical Society and Cambridge Local First have joined forces to find out how the pandemic has affected small businesses, starting with City Girl Café, Harding House and Joie de Vivre.
How to help Cambridge heal from Covid-19
Our thoughts and experiences about the pandemic are populating our beloved places in Cambridge, even if we can’t.
