Category: Slavery
By Nikki Stewart, Executive Director and Catherine Matthews, Director of Education
A horrific discovery has been the catalyst for a new reckoning…
By Gregory N. Flemming
With additions and edits by the Old North Education Department
Near the very front of the Old North Church is…
By Amy Budge
With additional information added by the Old North Education Department
“With an extension of her allusion religious…
By Amy Budge
“And who sat up there?”
This is a question often received in reference to Old North’s upper gallery. From the lower level,…
Welcome to our Season 1 finale of “99% Sure”, a video series where we take a deeper dive into the legends, people, and events of Old North…
By Jared Ross Hardesty, PhD
On the night of May 31, 1743, terror struck the Rising Sun. As the ship tracked eastward off the coast of…
By Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis
Has it been a while since your high school history classes? Have you been watching too many…
By Samuel Zeiberg Boston in the early 1720s was a town in the midst of an epidemic. Brought to Boston on a ship from the carribean in early…
On Friday, June 19, we mark 155 years since Union General Gordon Granger announced General Order Number 3 (proclaimed on June 19, 1865), which…
The Messenger series features scholarly articles exploring how Old North and our region fit into a greater historical perspective while…