1600-1799
The Granary Burying Ground
New England’s “Dark Day”
The Sons of Liberty
Cowpaths of Waltham
Shays’ Rebellion
Boston’s First Duel
Pope’s Night
1800-1899
Black Sam the Pirate
Boston Athenaeum’s book bound in
human skin
Heywood’s Brook in Concord
The Lost Pirate Treasure of “Dungeon
Rock”
The Boston Slave Riot and the Trial of
Anthony Burns
Edwin and John Wilkes Booth
Mark Twain Visiting Boston’s Literary
Crowd
Old Ironsides
1900-1949
Moxie Soda
Charles Ponzi
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Old Howard Burlesque House
The Great Boston Molasses Flood
Harry “Bucky” Lew
Robert Goddard
1950-2009
Local Surfing History
ZOOM
James Brown’s concert on the night of
the King assassination
The Busing Crisis
William Moulton Marston
The Boston Strangler
Boston Punk Rock
WBCN Breaks “Roxanne”
The Gardner Museum Heist
Student Activism on Immigration at
Harvard
Celtic Rookie Dee Brown
Whitey Bulger, Fugitive
The Mooninite Bomb Scare
Town-Gown Relations in Cambridge
