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Ken Turino and Max van Balgooy, co-editors of the new "Interpreting Christmas at Museums and Historic Sites," will host History Hour on Nov. 26 at 3 p.m. ET. Meet and chat with your peers on how to best interpret Christmas at your site. Register at tinyurl.com/HH1124.

Came within hailing distance of my mile PR in the pool this morning.

The missing chapter: Filling in the blanks of the Bay Area’s Native American history pod.link/1158506231/epi…

94 years ago this week, Boston aired America's first television commercial... by accident. Learn how it happened in the latest HUB History podcast. hubhistory.com/episodes/bosto…

After being mostly silent on social media for a long time, I'm going to try posting like it's the old days for the next couple of weeks... but I'll probably do it over here:

In the latest HUB History podcast, we look at the first American Christmas cards. Starting in the Roxbury factory of immigrant chromolithographer Louis Prang in 1875, these bursts of color were soon sold around the world. hubhistory.com/episodes/ameri…

30 years ago today, a zealot with a gun walked into two clinics in Brookline and opened fire, killing two young women and wounding five others in the worst anti-abortion violence to that time. Listen to that story and a classic cautionary tale... hubhistory.com/episodes/bosto…

Lions and elephants and alligators, oh my! This week's HUB History podcast traces some of Boston's first experiences with exotic animals. Listen now! hubhistory.com/episodes/beast…

Land making in Boston is one of my favorite topics, but one I've never tackled on the show. That's why I was glad to join @stabert on Explain Boston to Me to discuss how Boston built the Back Bay and beyond. bleav.com/shows/explain-…

In this week's podcast, I talk to the author of the first biography of Emily Hale, the Boston actress who was a longtime love and secret creative muse to poet T.S. Eliot. Listen now! hubhistory.com/episodes/the-s…

In this week's podcast, I talk to Embrace Boston's president Imari Paris Jeffries about the Boston that Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King experienced. Listen now! HUBhistory.com/320

250 years ago today, Thomas Gage, the royal governor of Massachusetts and commander of British forces in North America, ordered two undercover spies to into the countryside to figure out how to attack patriot strongholds when spring came. Listen now! hubhistory.com/episodes/drink…

In this episode of HUB History, Elena Palladino discusses the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir, the four towns that were sacrificed for its construction, and her book Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley. Listen now! hubhistory.com/episodes/water…

This week's podcast takes us from Boston, Massachusetts to Boston, Lincolnshire to captivity on the remote Coast of Vancouver Island. Listen now! hubhistory.com/episodes/the-s…

As our 250th anniversaries continue apace, let's compare the Longfellow poem that made the midnight ride of Paul Revere famous to Revere's own descriptions of that fateful night in April 1775. Listen now! hubhistory.com/episodes/paul-…

The moment the last redcoat retreated into Boston 250 years ago today, a grinding siege began that lasted eleven months and effectively secured independence for Massachusetts. Listen now! hubhistory.com/episodes/bosto…

Before he was America's most famous traitor, Benedict Arnold was just the hero Boston needed to secure the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga that drove the redcoats out of town forever. Listen now! hubhistory.com/episodes/a-her…

250 years ago this week, war came to the Boston Harbor Islands, first at Grape Island and then Noddles and Hog Island. Listen now! hubhistory.com/episodes/bosto…