The 10 Best HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History Podcast Episodes
1) Episode 1: Remember remember the fifth of November (Oct 30, 2016)
How did early Boston “celebrate” on November 5th each year? By drinking, brawling, and burning effigies of the Pope, of course. That story, and all the important historic anniversaries for October 3...Show More
2) Episode 3: Slower than molasses (Nov 13, 2016)
When an industrial tank collapsed in Boston’s North End in 1919, a wave of molasses destroyed the surrounding neighborhood. 21 people were killed and at least 150 were injured, along with an untold n...Show More
3) Episode 4: The Thanksgiving minisode (Nov 20, 2016)
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! This week, we’re doing a mini-sode (miniature episode, get it?) on this week’s historical anniversaries, with a quick discussion of Boston’s first Thanksgiving. Enjoy! ...Show More
4) Episode 2: How Cotton Mather saved Boston (Nov 6, 2016)
When smallpox threatened Boston in 1721, Cotton Mather was a leading advocate of inoculation. How did this influential Puritan, best known for his role in the Salem witch trials, become an advocate f...Show More
5) Episode 5: Secret Nazis on Boston Harbor (Nov 27, 2016)
At the end of World War II, the Allied powers raced across Germany, competing to capture technology related to Nazi super-weapons and the scientists who developed them. The US military operated a sec...Show More
6) Episode 6: The First Boston Revolution (Dec 4, 2016)
Early one April morning, Boston rose up in revolt, overthrowing the widely hated royal governor. A provincial militia surrounded the city, while the Royal Navy backed British authorities. But this w...Show More
7) Episode 7: Jane Toppan, Nightmare Nurse (Dec 11, 2016)
In 1901, a woman named Jane Toppan was arrested on Cape Cod for murder. By the time she went on trial, she had confessed to killing 31 people in Boston, Cambridge, on the Cape, and around the region, ...Show More
8) Episode 8: The Holiday Minisode (Dec 18, 2016)
Life got in the way this week, and we didn't have a chance to prepare a full episode. We're going to do a miniature episode (minisode!), on this week’s historical anniversaries, with a quick discussio...Show More
9) Episode 9: The Zoo Shipwreck (Dec 25, 2016)
There is a long history of shipwrecks in Boston Harbor. Many are terrifying, some are tragic. But one shipwreck is such an oddity that Boston hasn't stopped talking about it for the past 75 years. ...Show More
10) Episode 10: The Grisly Fairbanks Murder (Jan 1, 2017)
In August of 1801, a young man named Jason Fairbanks showed up on his sweetheart's doorstep. He was covered in blood, and telling the story of a suicide pact gone wrong. This tale of a rich kid gone...Show More