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Host of HUB History, a Boston history podcast that goes far beyond the Freedom Trail. Freelance podcast producer. Recovering marathoner and current YMCA swimmer. Dog lover. 🔗 HUBhistory.com 📍 Boston, MA 🎧 HUB History

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Old North @oldnorth1723.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Resisting authoritarianism is an American tradition. In April of 1775, Paul Revere and his allies risked everything to warn Patriots that British troops were heading to Concord. Where did Revere and his friends get the courage to defy authority? What would it take for you to do so?
Statue of Paul Revere with the text "On Courage" below it.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 07/09/2026
In this episode, our first ever HUB History feed takeover, as we debut the new podcast "Queer Boston's Pursuit of Happiness" and interview host Joan Ilacqua. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/int...
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Introducing "Queer Boston’s Pursuit of Happiness," with Joan Ilacqua (episode 361) - HUB History: Boston history podcast
For months now, listeners have heard me talking about another podcast I’ve been working on, but I haven’t shared much about what it is. This week, we introduce the brand new podcast “Queer Boston’s Pu...
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Old North @oldnorth1723.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Whenever we go through our photo archive, we always end up finding something unusual! Apparently, in 1987, the church hired a pest-sniffing beagle from Terminex Pest Control. The beagle must have done good work, because the sanctuary remains pest-free!
A Terminex employee posing with a beagle in one of Old North Church's box pews in 1987. A beagle and his handler sniffing for pests around Old North Church's altar.
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Red State Update @redstateupdate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dolly wouldn’t want that #airport #dolly
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 04/09/2026
"Only the US voted no" 😆😂🤣🤣😭
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 31/08/2026
We often talk about Boston's colonial history as starting with the Arbella fleet in 1630, but our latest podcast examines three English settlements on Boston Harbor in the decade before Boston was founded. Listen now! www.hubhistory.com/episodes/bef...
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Before Boston: Early Englishmen on the Bay (episode 360) - HUB History: Boston history podcast
Before John Winthrop’s Puritan Arbella fleet made landfall in 1630 and set the standard narrative of Massachusetts Bay, a rowdy and disparate cast of English traders, eccentric recluses, and ill-fated...
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 29/08/2026
I'm watching Dolly in 9 to 5 and remembering that it's based on the true story of a women's labor movement in Boston and the title of their newsletter, "9to5: Newsletter for Boston Area Office Workers." www.mawomenshistory.org/exhibits/ros...
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From Roses to Raises: Women’s Fight for Just and Equal Pay in Massachusetts | Massachusetts Women's History Center
Women in the Commonwealth have often led the way in the fight for just compensation and equal pay in the United States. From the 1830s Lowell mill girls "turn outs" to 140 years later with the 9to5 mo...
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our lady of the cow parsley @ladycowparsley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yes you DO need one
A green tee shirt with white block lettering saying, "Raise Hell, Praise Dolly"
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Remove the Harvard of it all, this is still a nice piece of print, photo, and video journalism. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/25/m...
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They knew their ancestor fought in the Revolution. No one told them he was enslaved by a Harvard overseer. - The Boston Globe
The research is part of Harvard’s long-running and controversial effort to investigate its ties to slavery.
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Old North @oldnorth1723.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
John and Elizabeth Humphries were a free Black couple who worshiped at Old North Church in the 1740s. The Humphries seem to have been kind and charitable people. We know that they took in Jerusha Will, a terminally ill Indigenous woman who was also a member of this church.
The gallery of the Old North Church.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 26/08/2026
It's a perfect day to show some love for Dolly while supporting an indie podcast for progressive Appalachians (also available on stickers, mugs, socks, etc): appodlachia.dashery.com/products/185...
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Raise Hell, Praise Dolly by Appodlachia
As of August 25, 2026, all profits we make from this design will be donated to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 26/08/2026
If it was going to be that easy for Jolene to take him away, he wasn't worth Dolly's time in the first place.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 13/08/2026
So today is a meteor shower, an eclipse, and the 350th anniversary of Metacomet's death? Cotton Mather would see signs and portents in the skies.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 13/08/2026
Awwww... www.boston.com/travel/local...
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Visit to Boston made Boca Raton resident feel miserable about living in Boca Raton
A Boca Raton resident was left questioning why he lives in Boca Raton after a trip to Boston left him blown away with the city.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
is there a Kalshi for how many ICE agents will get self-inflicted wounds on their penises?
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 12/08/2026
I suppose I would be remiss if I let a partial eclipse pass without posting a link to this past podcast episode about Boston's experience with eclipses and smoke-fueled "dark days." www.hubhistory.com/episodes/ecl...
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Eclipse Fever (episode 298) - HUB History: Boston history podcast
Eclipses happen when the moon passes between the sun and the earth during the daytime, briefly blocking the light of the sun from the face of the earth. Over the past few years, observers in the US ha...
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 12/08/2026
Do you still have a pair of eclipse glasses hanging around? A partial eclipse just started that will peak in Boston at 1:55pm. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/u...
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 12/08/2026
Vandals thehill.com/opinion/ener...
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Historic preservation rule changes threaten more than just monuments
This overhaul will threaten historic sites in every community, in every state.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 11/08/2026
I've often wondered about this steep, strange strip of land next to Copps Hill Burying Ground. aknextphase.com/copps-hill-t...
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Copp's Hill Terrace: Witness to History
A massive granite promontory and park off Charter Street, Copp’s Hill Terrace has witnessed Boston history since it was built in the 1890s. Today it offers a wonderful panoramic view of Boston Harbor.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 11/08/2026
To quote Britney, I did it again. Took just over a minute off of the two mile PR I set a month ago.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 11/08/2026
"Old soldiers never die; they just run away inside a catering cart."
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Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
10 AUGUST 1776, CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS: Having received no answer from John Hancock, Harriet Temple writes to John Adams “to procure me some relief, in my present Emergency” of “the distrest Situation which myself, and large family are reduced to.” founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 10/08/2026
If anyone attending this session caught the reference to "warning out," this is the podcast episode for you... bsky.app/profile/hubh...
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 10/08/2026
In the latest episode of HUB History, @thegurglingcod.bsky.social joins me to discuss poverty, poor support, and the practice of "warning out" in Boston and early New England. Listen now! hubhistory.com/359/
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Warning Out in early New England, with Jonathan Beecher Field (episode 359) - HUB History: Boston history podcast
In this episode, Clemson professor Jonathan Beecher Field helps us explore the history of poor support in early New England and the surprising practice known as “warning out.” In the 17th- and 18th-ce...
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.
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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just attended @hubhistory.com’s talk about the British Empire’s switch from the Julian to Gregorian calendar. 🗃️ #HistoryCamp
A white man with glasses and dark hair standing in front of a projected slide of a Hogarth satirical print about an imaginary Election riot
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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The first talk I attended today was the panel “Telling Complex & Hard Histories: Interpreting Slavery at Small Historic Sites,” moderated by @hubhistory.com. #HistoryCamp 🗃️
Looking from audience seating down to a four person panel sitting at a table – left to right: a white man with dark hair and glasses; a white womsn with blonde hair and glasses; a Black woman; and another white woman with glasses, this one with grey hair.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 05/08/2026
Welp. futurism.com/science-ener...
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It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 03/08/2026
The Province of Massachusetts Bay built Boston Light in 1716 and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts rebuilt it in 1776, at our own expense. If the federal government doesn't want it anymore, the Commonwealth shouldn't have to bid on our own asset. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/03/b...
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A new steward for Boston’s oldest lighthouse? - The Boston Globe
Federal government puts Boston's Harbor's oldest lighthouse complex up for sale to nonprofits.
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Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This was a fun one. Pretty sure we could have stretched this into like 3 hours of just being map nerds. Thanks for inviting me, Jake!
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 27/07/2026
In this week's episode of HUB History, history meets cartography in my conversation with @awoodruff.bsky.social about his new book Boston in 50 Maps. Listen now! www.hubhistory.com/episodes/bos...
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Boston in 50 Maps, with Andy Woodruff (episode 358) - HUB History: Boston history podcast
Andy Woodruff’s new book Boston in 50 Maps goes beyond familiar compilations of public-domain historic maps of Boston, Woodruff’s work offers an engaging, data-driven look at the Hub through 50 origin...
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Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We found two major shoe factories that employed new women voters in the 1920 Boston voter registers. Learn more about the Boston stitchers, topmakers, and eyeleters who registered to vote after the 19th Amendment. sites.google.com/view/maryeli...
Women factory workers at Hood Rubber Factory stand around table of shoes, circa 1900-1930, Watertown Public Library
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 16/07/2026
Up close and personal with USS Constitution last night.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 16/07/2026
"Purgery"
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 16/07/2026
Dramatic skies over Boston as the smoke cleared this evening
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Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Boston on Monday versus Boston on Wednesday. 📷: @body.bybekah
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Umm…. There are going to be several hundred early American historians in Philadelphia, beginning tomorrow. Maybe some of us will have something to say. They supposedly did this last night because of the All Stars game. They goofed.
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Here's a list of salaries for every teacher in Boston in 1823. John Russwurm, Master of the African School, earned far less than any white instructor, male of female. Russwurm, who had graduated from Bowdoin, would go on to co-edit Freedom's Journal, the nation's first African American newspaper 🗃️
A list of teachers' salaries in Boston in 1823. Most white school masters earned $1200 a year. Ushers (essentially teaching assistants) earned $750. John Brown Russwurm, Master of the African School, earned just $225 for the year. His assistant, Sally Parkman, $180.

Source: Boston Board of Aldermen Docket Documents, 1823, Boston City Archives
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 15/07/2026
With a weak and yellow sun barely visible in our smoky skies, it's a perfect day to listen to this classic podcast about eclipses and smoke events in Boston history. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/ecl...
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 13/07/2026
In our latest podcast, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr each visit Boston for the first time, then have their final, fateful, face-to-face meeting in Boston years later. Listen now! www.hubhistory.com/episodes/ham...
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Hamilton and Burr in Boston (episode 357) - HUB History: Boston history podcast
For fans of the Hamilton musical, many members of the cast of characters have appeared on the podcast in the past. We talked about the years when Angelica Schuyler lived under an assumed name in Bosto...
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 09/07/2026
I set a new PR for two miles in the pool this morning, a distance I have only tackled a handful of times in the past because it takes so darn long.
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Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
After the 19th, Boston women still had to clear hurdles to claim their voting rights. Clerks asked for birthplaces, occupations, age (under oath!), marital status, proof of citizenship, and sometimes for women to read lines from the State Constitution. Read more: sites.google.com/view/maryeli...
Newspaper headline reading "How Old Are You, Madam. That questions makes many of our new voters squirm and, as the Town Clerks say, some look old for their years - but they are registering, though most of them say they are strong "antis" by Marjory Adams
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Nikki Stewart @nikkijstewart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book:
While John Adams and fifty-five men in Philadelphia debated a resolution on independence and the final wording of the Declaration of Independence, the people of Boston declared their own independence from smallpox. The measures taken in both cities provided hope that America would not only be a republic free of a king but also a country free from disease. On July 3, 1776, a day after independence was declared in Philadelphia, the Massachusetts General Court voted to allow inoculation. Despite the dangers of infection, the people of Boston and the surrounding areas cheered the news. Ezekiel Price, a court official and insurance broker, declared “Liberty is given for to inoculate for the small-pox; many begin upon it this afternoon.” Hannah Winthrop described the scene: “Boston has given up its Fears of an invasion & is busily employd in Communicating the Infection. Straw Beds & Cribs are daily Carted into the Town.” She wrote that “Men Women & children eagerly crowding to inoculate is I think as modish as running away from the Troops of a barbarous George was the last year.” Dr. James Warren wrote to John Adams that the “rage for inoculation” had “whirled me into its vortex.…”  Warren and his wife Mercy Otis joined Abigail Adams and her four children who had been invited to be inoculated at Abigail’s uncle’s house in Boston along with Abigail’s sisters Elizabeth Cranch and Mary Shaw and their families. Even though Boston was teeming with the sick, the prospect that the city could conquer smallpox made it "a scene delightful indeed." Cotton Tufts was satisfied that he could now "take my leave of Earth, satisfied that the Day of American Redemption was at Hand."
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Liam @othemts.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
New Hampshire’s finest exports on display in Boston’s neighborhoods tonight.
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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I really appreciate that the further this country slides into authoritarianism, the more woke the Boston Pops Fourth of July program gets.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 05/07/2026
@universalhub.com Inside the Storrow Drive tunnel immediately before an impromptu chorus of patriotic anthems broke out.
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 04/07/2026
"I went with the multitude into King's Street to hear the proclamation for independence read and proclaimed. When Col. Crafts read from the balcony of the State House the Proclamation, great attention was given to every word. Thus ends royal authority in this State, and the people shall say Amen."
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