If you have a New Year’s resolution to research local history, History Cambridge can be of help
Whatever your interest or motivation about the past, History Cambridge can help you find the resources to conduct your own local history research.
A new year, and History Cambridge puts focus onto a new neighborhood: North Cambridge
History Cambridge embarked on programming in 2023 that focuses on one of Cambridge’s 13 neighborhoods each year, and for 2024 it’s North Cambridge.
Reclaiming William Wells Brown, an abolitionist, lecturer, author and doctor with Cambridge ties
Abolitionist William Wells Brown traveled in the 1800s in support of an immediate end to enslavement and for equal rights for Black Americans brought him around the country, across the Atlantic and ultimately to Cambridge.
History Cambridge looks back on ‘Good Riddance 2020’ event
Did you participate in our “Good Riddance 2020” event? How do you look back at that event three years later? Have your hopes for 2021 (and beyond) come to fruition? What do you see as the legacy of these past several years in the Cambridge community?
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Mars-view art and a Skate Day to Beyonce
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s “The View from Mars” gallery reception, a Community Skate Day in Kendall Square, dance to Queen Bey, historic tours, solstice celebrations, song, shopping, poetry and much more.
Cambridge’s candy history is more than just a sweet story
Cambridge’s role as a center of candy-making includes ties to the plantation slavery that dominated the Caribbean economy in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
History Cambridge’s holiday party looks back on ‘Year of Cambridgeport’
Thursday is History Cambridge’s celebration of this year of Cambridgeport. Stay tuned for information about an upcoming Year of North Cambridge.
Attend meetings in Cambridge from Dec. 1-8 about street cleaning test and charter review (corrected)
Public meetings this week look at the outcome of a street-cleaning test and proposed changes to Cambridge Street and Massachusetts Avenue, ways to get gas cars off city streets and a proposed rooftop garden for the high school.
In Marcine Karon’s lifetime, there was little need to leave Central, and Harvard was another world
Marcine Karon, 96, looks back contentedly on a life in Cambridgeport and says she wouldn’t have wanted to spend her life anywhere else.
Celebration and advocacy for Native American history goes well beyond November
In National Native American Heritage Month, remember that Indigenous stories are still being created as well as commemorated in the past. The story of Indigenous Cambridge is still being written.
