- Old North Church
- Boston
Where the two lanterns were displayed on April 18, 1775, as a signal to ignite the Revolutionary War.
www.oldnorth.com
- Boston Tea Party@ - Boston
Learn about Boston Tea Party, where the American colonists directly protested against Great Britain by destroying crates of tea bricks on ships in Boston Harbor. Sites feature historical background, description, eye witness accounts, pictures, ideas, and opinions about the revolt which sparked the American Revolution.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Revolutionary_War__1775_1783_/Boston_Tea_Party
- Boston African-American National Historical Site
- Boston
www.nps.gov/boaf
- Great Molasses Flood@ - Boston
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Great_Molasses_Flood
- Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire@ - Boston
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Cocoanut_Grove_Nightclub_Fire
- Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
- Boston
Continuing series of conferences, exhibitions, and publications whose purpose is to explore everyday life, work, and culture in New England's past.
www.bu.edu/dublinseminar
- Charlestown: History in Pictures and Maps
- Charlestown
History of Charlestown, Massachusetts as expressed in maps from the 18th century to the present, as well as historic engravings and postcards.
www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown
- Nineteen Nineteen: The Boston Police Strike in the Context of American Labor
- Boston
Undergraduate essay by Zachary Moses Schrag.
www.schrag.info/research/thesis.html
- Revere Beach: History
- Revere
Features old photos and historical facts about the old beach-front amusement park.
www.reverebeach.com/hist2.htm
- Boston Irish Famine Memorial
- Boston
Tribute to an entire generation of Irish men, women, and children whose lives were disrupted by a series of events that comprised The Irish Famine.
www.boston.com/famine
- Information Wanted
- Boston
Archive of a column published in the Boston Pilot from 1831 to 1921, with advertisements from people looking for lost friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States.
infowanted.bc.edu
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