And This Is Good Old Boston

On the 28th of July, 1888, the Boston Globe ran an article titled South End, 60 Years Ago, with the typical subtitles: Time and People Erase...

Somehow, I seem to have let this wonderful book slip through the cracks, but my recent post on the Duke Ellington band shook the cobwebs...

On July 26, 1939, the Duke Ellington band played a show on the summer terrace rooftop venue of Boston's Ritz Carlton hotel. One set...

May 10, 1919 In the early years of the 20th century, James Reese Europe was probably the leading African American figure in popular musi...

In Imagining Boston , author Shaun O'Connell provides a survey of the best known authors who came from Boston, spent time in Boston,...

I've had an eye out for Boston-themed poetry for a while now, and just came upon a keeper in the 1936 anthology Best Loved Poems of the ...

I just found another Boston history blog that's definitely worth a look: Irish Boston History and Heritage . My own Boston Irish history...