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History of Boston presentation

Name: History of Boston presentation
Start: 2025-01-09T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-09T17:00:00-05:00

January 9 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

History of Boston
Presented by Daniel Dain
Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2pm at Wellesley Free Library and online. Register

Boston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the first civil rights movement, the abolition movement, and the women’s rights movement. But the city that gave us the first use of ether as anesthesia, the telephone, technicolor film, and the mutual fund—the city where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott founded their world-changing partnership—was also the hub of the anti-immigration movement, the divisive busing era, and decades of self-inflicted decay. Boston has the most important history of any American city. Yet its history has never been given a comprehensive treatment until now.

Join Dan Dain as he acts as your tour guide from the arrival of First Peoples up to the election of Boston’s first woman and person of color as mayor. Dain’s masterful work explores the policies and practices that took Boston from its highest heights to its lowest lows and back again, and examines the central role that density, diversity, and good urban design play in the success of cities like Boston.

This series is presented in partnership with the Wellesley Historical Society.