Jake @ HUB History
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A Boston history podcast that goes far beyond the Freedom Trail. https://t.co/vQvU2kWRCF
Boston, MA
Joined January 2012
250 years ago tonight, Billy Simpson was killed by a British cannonball near the Mystic in Somerville, the first soldier from outside New England to give his life in the American Revolution. Learn more about Boston's hot siege summer in our new podcast.
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After the Battle of Bunker Hill in June, the siege of Boston reverted to a stalemate through the summer of 1775. While Benedict Arnold would lead some of the Continentals north from Cambridge into...
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250 years ago this week, a Black man named Caesar Marion was jailed for leading a protest in British-occupied Boston. Listen to our latest podcast as we try to reconstruct his story from the scant sources historians have uncovered.
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In this episode, we go in search of a Black Bostonian who was “well known” to his contemporaries, including Boston newspapers, but who was all but forgotten by history. If not for a one-paragraph...
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250 years ago this week, America's first lighthouse went dark, as Continentals in whaleboats raided Little Brewster Island for a second time to deny the navigational aid to the British Navy. Learn about three raids on Boston Light in our latest podcast.
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In July 1775, the siege of Boston was approaching its peak, with the New England militias that had been surrounding Boston itself since April coalescing into the brand new Continental Army and the...
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EXTRA! EXTRA!. 131 years ago this week, Boston's newsboys fell silent. Listen to our latest podcast to learn how newspaper vendors became emblematic of child labor in Boston and how these tiny workers unionized to fight for more rights and better pay.
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A while back, my niece Sophie convinced me to watch the Disney live action musical Newsies. The 1992 film features an 18 year old Christian Bale as a homeless New York City newsboy who organizes an...
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250 years ago today, George Washington arrived in Cambridge to take command of the newly created Continental Army. Listen to this partner episode with @AmRevPodcast to learn how he got there.
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This week we celebrate another important anniversary in the lead up to America’s 250th birthday. On July 3, 1775, George Washington assumed command of the newly created Continental Army at their...
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought 250 years ago today. Listen to our interview with Mike Troy of the @AmRevPodcast to learn how the battle unfolded and why Boston still treats the anniversary as a holiday.
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June 17th, 2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was the largest Revolutionary War battle to take place in the Boston area and the bloodiest battle of the war (at...
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392 years ago, Governor John Winthrop was given a potentially sinful gift: the first fork in Boston. But why was this humble utensil associated with the devil, and how did it gain acceptance in Boston? Listen now!.
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Instead of the 250th anniversary of an event from the American Revolution in Boston, we’re rewinding the clock 392 years to the spring of 1633, when the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony...
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250 years ago this week, war came to the Boston Harbor Islands, first at Grape Island and then Noddles and Hog Island. Listen now!
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Over the past few episodes, we’ve seen how Massachusetts troops drove the British back from Concord and Lexington to Boston, then created elaborate siege lines that kept the redcoats bottled up in...
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Before he was America's most famous traitor, Benedict Arnold was just the hero Boston needed to secure the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga that drove the redcoats out of town forever. Listen now!.
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Every Bostonian knows Fort Ticonderoga as the source of the cannons that Henry Knox brought to Boston, secretly hauled to the top of Dorchester Heights in the middle of the night, and used to drive...
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The moment the last redcoat retreated into Boston 250 years ago today, a grinding siege began that lasted eleven months and effectively secured independence for Massachusetts. Listen now!.
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From the moment the April 19, 1775 battle of Lexington and Concord ended until the British gave up and evacuated the city in March 1776, Boston was the epicenter of the American War for Independenc...
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As our 250th anniversaries continue apace, let's compare the Longfellow poem that made the midnight ride of Paul Revere famous to Revere's own descriptions of that fateful night in April 1775. Listen now!.
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Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. This week marks the 250th anniversary of our American Revolution, with the first battles taking place in Lexington and...
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This week's podcast takes us from Boston, Massachusetts to Boston, Lincolnshire to captivity on the remote Coast of Vancouver Island. Listen now!.
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222 years ago, on March 22, 1803, a teenaged sailor named John R Jewitt from Boston, Lincolnshire was onboard the ship Boston from Boston, Massachusetts when it was captured in Nootka Sound on the...
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In this episode of HUB History, Elena Palladino discusses the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir, the four towns that were sacrificed for its construction, and her book Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley. Listen now!.
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This week, we’re speaking with Elena Palladino, the author of the recent book Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin. This book outlines the 20th century development of...
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250 years ago today, Thomas Gage, the royal governor of Massachusetts and commander of British forces in North America, ordered two undercover spies to into the countryside to figure out how to attack patriot strongholds when spring came. Listen now!.
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250 years ago this week, General Thomas Gage, the royal governor of Massachusetts and commander in chief of all British forces in North America, sent two British spies into the rural communities...
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In this week's podcast, I talk to Embrace Boston's president Imari Paris Jeffries about the Boston that Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King experienced. Listen now!.
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This week, Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries joins us to talk about the years when Martin Luther King, Jr lived in Boston. As you’ll hear him say in just a few minutes, Dr. King is a figure that most of us...
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In this week's podcast, I talk to the author of the first biography of Emily Hale, the Boston actress who was a longtime love and secret creative muse to poet T.S. Eliot. Listen now!.
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In this episode, Sara Fitzgerald joins us to discuss her new book The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T.S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime. It is the first book-length biography of Emily Hale, the...
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Land making in Boston is one of my favorite topics, but one I've never tackled on the show. That's why I was glad to join @stabert on Explain Boston to Me to discuss how Boston built the Back Bay and beyond.
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We’re talking with Jake Sconyers, host of the Hub History podcast, about the work it took take transform Boston from a 475 acre peninsula surrounded by sea and marshland to a booming city comprised...
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Lions and elephants and alligators, oh my! This week's HUB History podcast traces some of Boston's first experiences with exotic animals. Listen now!
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Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! This week, we’re talking about Boston’s first encounters with exotic animals. I will be talking about the very first lion to make an appearance in Boston, but...
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30 years ago today, a zealot with a gun walked into two clinics in Brookline and opened fire, killing two young women and wounding five others in the worst anti-abortion violence to that time. Listen to that story and a classic cautionary tale.
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Thirty years ago this week, Brookline became the site of the most deadly anti-abortion violence in American history, at least up to that point. Sadly, right wing extremists and religious terrorists...
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In the latest HUB History podcast, we look at the first American Christmas cards. Starting in the Roxbury factory of immigrant chromolithographer Louis Prang in 1875, these bursts of color were soon sold around the world.
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Have you ever wondered where the tradition of sending Christmas cards every year came from? While the first Christmas cards appeared in Britain back in the 1840s, it was a German immigrant named...
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