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 broader history of Fort Washington Park in Cambridgeport will be explored in a virtual History Cafe on May 3 with local historians and artists.

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.

The Menotomy, now called Alewife Brook, was described as a “beautiful outlet” undulated through marshes and meadows from Fresh Pond to the Missi-Tuk.

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.

Harvard Library curatorial assistants are working to inventory objects and materials in a collection for the first time, all the way back to the 19th century.

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.

Tot Lot was the first child care center in 1970s working-class Cambridgeport, and was designed to have parents working in the classrooms alongside the teachers.

Neither Nora Sokolovska nor Katrina Pallais can imagine a better place to grow up than Cambridgeport. And the 17-year-olds don’t just mean in comparison to other Cambridge neighborhoods. They mean on the face of the earth.

For millennia before this area became known as Cambridge, it was called Anmoughcawgen – in the Algonquin Natick dialect, “fishing weir” or “beaver dam,” which described the neighborhoods from Alewife to Kendall/MIT. A Participatory Budgeting project will return traditional Eastern Woodland languages to city property.