Category: The Messenger
Walking through Boston’s North End, it’s hard to ignore the beautiful brick tenement buildings that line the crowded streets. Built during…
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 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…
The Messenger series features scholarly articles exploring how Old North and our region fit into a greater historical perspective while…
By Amanda Tuttle
At 12:45 pm, on January 15, 1919, a tsunami-like wave swept down Commercial Street in Boston’s North End neighborhood. This…
By TJ Todd
This article is the third in a three-part series. Read Part 1 and Part 2 first.
Ultimately, the most compelling part of the story,…
By TJ Todd
This article is the second in a three-part series. Start with Part 1 here.
The odds were even more stacked against the Amistad…
By TJ Todd
This article is the first in a three-part series.
In the early morning of July 2nd, 1839, off the shore of Cuba aboard a Spanish…
By Bernard Trubowitz
Twelve years before immortalizing Paul Revere with pen and paper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow began a different poem with…
By Bernard Trubowitz
New England’s history and development is inextricably tied to the sea, and by no accident. The ocean provides many…