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When Boston’s City Hall was formally dedicated 45 years ago this week, the imposing concrete structure had already created “controversy,” a polite way of saying […]

Contrast this recent snowstorm with that from another February 6 in Boston. This morning, the Globe describes yesterday’s surprisingly empty streets and sparse workplaces. All […]

Shortly before 2 a.m. one January morning in 1912, a small fire started in the basement of the Revere House hotel in Boston’s Bowdoin Square. […]

In 1992, WCVB marked 20 years on the Boston airwaves with a special news broadcast looking back at the station’s history. The occasion was anchored […]

Around 7:30 p.m. on January 17, 1950, several armed men in Halloween masks walked out of the Brinks building on Prince Street in Boston with […]

On December 13, 1936, the Boston Redskins played a championship game against the Green Bay Packers at the New York Polo grounds. They lost 21-6 […]

Each year the City of Boston receives a Christmas tree from Nova Scotia. The gift promotes Christmas tree exports and goodwill between the regions, but […]

There’s a fine pranking tradition at the Harvard Yale game, the second oldest, though certainly not the highest-caliber, college football rivalry in the land. The […]

As the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, many are revisiting this moving recording of Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Erich Leinsdorf informing […]

On November 9 and 10th, 1872, a pretty sizable portion of Boston burned down. The Great Boston Fire of 1872 started in the basement of […]

On October 31, 1963, two kids celebrated Halloween by paying their dad’s office a visit. “Halloween visitors with the President,” housed at the J.F.K. Library […]

In addition to engaging in some good natured trash talking with St. Louis, the Boston Symphony Orchestra marked an anniversary of sorts this week. On […]

It being Red Sox playoff season, what better occasion to revisit a time when the Kenmore Square Citgo Sign’s status as a cultural icon was […]

On October 13, 1860, pioneering photographer James Wallace Black took the earliest surviving aerial photograph in the United States, shown above, from a hot air balloon floating […]

With the Red Sox preparing for their first playoff game this Friday, let’s look back to this day 110 years ago when the Boston Americans […]