Episode 7: Jane Toppan, Nightmare Nurse (Dec 11, 2016)

Episode 0: Welcome to HUB History!: Welcome to HUB History! We can't wait to share our favorite stories from Boston's long history. The first episode will air on October 30. In the meantime, visit http://HUBhistory.com/ to subscribe. by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 21.1: The Tremont Street Subway Explosion (Mar 19, 2017): On March 4, 1897, a giant explosion rocked the corner of Tremont Street and Boylston across from Boston Common. Ten people were killed, and dozens were injured. How did construction of America’s first subway lead to this disaster? And why was it s ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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 number of horses. This tragedy is made all the wor ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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 31 to November 6 in our debut episode. Show notes ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 14: Go in Peace, or Go in Pieces! (Jan 29, 2017): Lewis Hayden was born into slavery in Kentucky. When he was ten years old, his owner traded him to a traveling salesman for a pair of horses. But Hayden and his family eventually escaped to freedom, and they settled in Boston. Their Beacon Hill ho ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 13: Katherine Nanny Naylor, Boston's Original Nasty Woman (Jan 22, 2017): Boston in the 1600s was a theocracy, where the Puritan church ruled, and women were seen in many ways as the property of their husbands or fathers. Against that backdrop, a woman named Katherine Nanny Naylor stands out. She was able to win a divorc ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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, and she’s suspected of killing 100 or more. From a ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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 notes at: http://HUBhistory.com/004 by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 15: Resist! Shadrach Minkins and the Fugitive Slave Act (Feb 5, 2017): With our new President doing his best to enforce unjust executive orders, we thought this would be a good moment to revisit an era in which Boston resisted an unjust law. After Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, abolitionists in Boston ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 11: The Ursuline Convent Riots (Jan 8, 2017): Welcome to part one of our inauguration special. On a hot summer’s night in 1834, rumors swirled around a Catholic girls’ school in Charlestown. Catholicism was a frightening, unfamiliar religion, and Catholic immigrants were viewed with great susp ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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 astray could be ripped from the today's tabloid h ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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 secret program that located high-value scientists, sm ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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 discussion of Christmas in Puritan Boston. Enjoy! Show not ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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 for scientific medicine? Listen to this week’s epi ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 25: The Court Martial of Paul Revere (Apr 16, 2017): This week we celebrate Patriots’ Day, and the anniversary of Paul Revere’s famous ride. It’s easy to forget that Paul Revere’s story didn’t end on April 18, 1775. This week, we bring you a less glorious story about Paul Revere, one that’s not shrou ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 30: Resurrection Men, a Brief History of Grave Robbing in Boston (May 22, 2017): Boston, today a city rich with world-class hospitals and medical schools, has a long history of medical innovation. This week, we take a look at the characters who laid the foundation for these advancements - Resurrection Men. What founding father w ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 23: The Groundbreaking Grimke Sisters (Apr 2, 2017): In March 1870, forty-two women marched into their polling place in Hyde Park and illegally cast ballots in the local election. They were led by local residents and radical activists Sarah and Angelina Grimké. The Grimké sisters were born into a sla ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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 wasn't Lexington or Concord. This was the 1689 rev ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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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. When a freighter called The City of Salisbury stea ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 16: Our Temple of Justice is a Slave Pen! (Feb 12, 2017): This week, we’re going to wrap up our series on the Fugitive Slave Act, and the efforts of black and white abolitionists in Boston to resist what they saw as an unjust law. In last week’s show, we discussed how Lewis Hayden and the Vigilance Committ ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 27: Burned at the Stake (May 1, 2017): Despite what a lot of people think, the victims of the Salem witch trials were hanged, not burned at the stake. However, in the history of Massachusetts, two women were executed by burning them at the stake, one in 1681 and another in 1755. If witc ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 18: Dr. Rebecca Crumpler's Trailblazing Career (Feb 26, 2017): This week, we’re going to talk about a woman who studied medicine at a time when very few women could access higher education at all, and an African American who became a physician at a time when half of this country believed that she could be owned ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 12: The Tragedy of Sacco and Vanzetti (Jan 15, 2017): Welcome to part two of our inauguration special. On August 22, 1927, Bartolomeo Sacco and Nicola Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair at Boston's Charlestown State Prison. They were foreigners, accused of murder and ties to a shadowy terrori ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 24: The Parkman Murder, Boston's Celebrity Trial of the (19th) Century (Apr 9, 2017): In 1849, Boston was rocked by the crime of the (19th) century when Professor John Webster murdered Dr. George Parkman in his lab at Harvard Medical School. The world was riveted by the investigation and trial that ensued, while the Boston Brahmins we ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 37: This Week in Boston History (minisode Jul 17, 2017): Your humble hosts are out having summertime fun this week. Don't worry, though... Jake is flying solo this week, and bringing you this week's historical anniversaries. Show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/037 by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 20: John Hancock's Private Army (Mar 12, 2017): When British General Thomas Gage arrived in Boston in 1774, he was met on Long Wharf by the patriot leader John Hancock at the head of an armed militia unit... But not for the reason you think. Since 1772, Hancock had been the Captain of The Governo ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 26: Isaiah Thomas and the American Oracle of Liberty (Apr 23, 2017): This week, we’re going to talk about Isaiah Thomas. Not the NBA star, but the colonial printer and founder of the Massachusetts Spy, whose office became known by the British as the Sedition Foundry. He snuck his presses out of Boston on the eve of ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 17: Vikings on the Charles River (minisode Feb 19, 2017): Your hosts Nikki and Jake are away this week, but through the magic of podcasting, we’re still able to bring you this mini-sode. Since we’re exploring Iceland, land of the Vikings, it only makes sense to bring you the story of a 19th Century Boston ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Episode 19: A Tale of Two Hermits (Mar 5, 2017): This week's episode examines two people who chose to live as hermits in and around Boston. When you think of a hermit, your mental image is probably a monk or an aging eccentric in a cabin in the woods somewhere. But our subjects this week sought o ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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Ep49: The Tong Wars and the Great Chinatown Raid (Oct 9, 2017): This week's episode takes on the early history of Boston’s Chinatown, two murders that took place there at the turn of the twentieth century, and a terrifying crackdown on Chinese Americans in Boston that sparked an international incident and has par ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

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