16 min listen
Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston
Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston
ratings:
Length:
108 minutes
Released:
Jun 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this episode, Seth Bruggeman discusses his recent book Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston. In it, he traces the development of the Freedom Trail and our Boston National Historic Park, examining the inevitable tension between driving tourism revenue to Boston and doing good history. He delves into the politics surrounding our local historic sites during the trauma of urban renewal in Boston and the violence of the busing era that followed. He also argues that the Freedom Trail and related sites have been used to defend dominant ideas about whiteness at several different points in Boston’s contested history.
Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/251/
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/251/
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Released:
Jun 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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