In 1980, Ivor Walsh started a project he’d work on for the rest of his life. Every day for 20 years, he meticulously crafted a miniature replica of the Boston streetcar system. Modeling it after the ...

The well-meaning sisters Schlegel and the mansplaining Henry Wilcox are bound for the opera stage: “Howards End,” the E.M. Forster novel adapted into a 1992 film and 2017 BBC television series, will ...

A commuter waited for a bus beneath the McCarthy overpass — a vestige of planning ideas from the 1950s, when the goal was to eliminate bottlenecks for auto drivers.The Bowker Overpass, which connects ...

In 1950, if you headed away from Boston's Symphony Hall on Massachusetts Ave. toward the South End, you'd encounter an archipelago of jazz clubs. Establishments included the Savoy Ballroom, the ...

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(Original Caption) Boston: Four Young Starters. Lou Boudreau, Red Sox Manager is flanked by four of his outstanding rookies who have all but replaced regulars in the starting lineup. Left tor right ...

In 1951, two young Black women stood in line to enroll for courses at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music. Each gifted with the voice of a nightingale, they’d arrived separately, with a ...

BOSTON -- The 1950 Boston Red Sox hold the record for the most runs scored in a single season in franchise history. The 1950 team, which featured Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, Vern Stephens ...

Summer is a time when many of us like to relax; when we tend to be a bit more carefree. Kids are off from school, enjoying ...

Boston has many cultural districts and ethnic neighborhoods, from Chinatown going back to the 1870s, to the more recently designated Little Saigon in Dorchester. But did you know that from the 1890s ...

With the holidays right around the corner, it's the perfect time to see what an old-fashioned American holiday season looked like. The Boston Public Library has a collection of photos by Leslie Jones, ...