James Printer and John Sassamon are among the many examples of Indigenous people – often apprenticed to Christian missionaries – who used assimilation to their advantage to reclaim their humanity and rights.

Since its installation in June, “Forgotten Souls” has drawn more than 1,000 viewers, History Cambridge estimates. On Saturday, the public is invited to a celebration at 159 Brattle St. for the art.

In Cambridge and other cities, the Fourth of July was sometimes a “Pageant of Nations” that featured immigrants celebrating their country of origin while emphasizing their patriotism as assimilated Americans.

Over the century that family of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in West Cambridge there was a strong queer presence in their home, much of which was documented and preserved for us to study today.

Descendants of Tony and Cuba Vassall were guests at Sunday’s Juneteenth gathering at the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, where their family was once enslaved by Loyalist who fled on the eve of the American Revolution.

In the decade preceding Cambridge Electric Light’s illumination of Cambridge Street, when trolley tracks ran from Inman to Porter Square, a little delicatessen began welcoming hungry patrons. Rebecca “Ma” Edelstein greeted guests with “es and es,” Yiddish for “eat and eat” – which the wide-ranging fare of the S&S Restaurant still encourages diners to do.

June is National Caribbean Heritage Month, and History Cambridge invites you to tell us your stories: What is your connection to the Caribbean? Were you moved by the bottle tree “Forgotten Souls of Tory Row” installation and the history it represents?

History Cambridge’s public art installation, “Forgotten Souls of Tory Row: Remembering the Enslaved People of Brattle Street,” is on the front lawn of its headquarters this summer, reminding that slavery was a very real, ever-present institution in Northern colonies and, later, states – including Massachusetts.

History Cambridge explores the ties between immigration and industry in a History Café, “Changing Tides in Cambridge Industry,” taking place at 7 tonight. We will be joined by Andrew Robichaud, professor of history at Boston University, to discuss the various migrant groups who played crucial roles in the development of the city’s industrial sector.

Joyce Chen was Boston’s first real celebrity restaurateur and holds indisputable importance in U.S. culinary history. In the same era Julia Child was changing America’s palates through French cooking, Chen was doing just that with regional Chinese, introducing dishes such as Peking duck, hot and sour soup and moo shu pork.