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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PHOTO SOURCES

TIMELINE

INTRODUCTION

THE BASIC FACTS

EARLY BOSTON, 1630–1760

The First Government

Boston Turns into Massachusetts

Indian Wars

Loss of the Charter

Science and Religion

Foreshadowing the Revolution

The Great War for Empire

REVOLUTIONARY BOSTON

King George III and His Colonists

The Stamp Act

The Declaratory Acts

The Boston Massacre

An African American Voice

The British Occupation

April 19, 1775

Bunker Hill and Breed’s Hill

A Different Solution

From Revolution to Nationalism

End of the Eighteenth Century

The Physical Scene

NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON

Miscellany

The War of 1812

Boston as Seen by Lafayette

Turning Water into Dry Land

The Cause of Humankind

The Torch Passes

The Irish

Boston Area Humanitarians

Coming of the Civil War

African American Soldiers from Boston

Boston’s Triumph and the Golden Years

The New Trinity Church

Boston in 1874

Ethnic Wars

THE MODERN METROPOLIS

World War I

Aftermath of the Great War

Postwar Conservatism

The 1930s

World War II

Urban Renewal—Phase One

The 1960s

The Kennedy Influence

The 1970s

Pride and Shame

Blizzard to Blizzard

The Shocking Charles Stuart Case

Tall Ships and Tall Buildings

The Big Dig

Turn of the Century

Ethnic Realities

THE BOSTON MARATHON

The Beginnings

Tarzan

The Great Boom

Women in the Marathon

The 1980 Debacle

Financial Crisis

The Women’s and Wheelchair Races

The Bombings

THE RED SOX

The Lowest Decade

The Yawkey Era

The Williams Era

The Yastrzemski Era

The Season of 1978

The Post-1978 Slump

The World Series of 1986

Close But No Cigar

The New Millennium

Road to the Championship

Redemption Achieved

OTHER GREAT BOSTON SPORTS

The Celtics

New England Patriots

The Boston Bruins

POLITICAL DYNASTIES AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Colonial and Revolutionary Politics

The Era of Good Feelings

The Fitzgeralds

The Kennedys

President Kennedy

The Kennedy Senators

All Politics Is Local

Governor Dukakis

Senator Kerry

Governor Romney

The Bulgers

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Harvard

Harvard in Transition

MIT

Boston College and Boston University

Other Schools

Lesser-Known Schools

MUSIC, RADIO, AND MUSEUMS

Fiedler and the Boston Pops

Folk and Rock Music

Museums, Libraries, and Archives

BOSTON IN MOVIES AND TELEVISION

Boston on TV and in the Movies

STREETS, SQUARES, AND NEIGHBORHOODS

Squares

Neighborhoods

HOSPITALS, LIBRARIES, AND THE BUILDING BOOM

How Boston Became a “Medical Town”

The Building Boom

UNIQUE BOSTON

The Weather

Generation Shift

PROMINENT BOSTONIANS

Rugged Individuals

Men and Women of Action

The Artists

BOSTON TRIVIA AND THE BOSTON ACCENT

Colloquialisms

Trivia

APPENDIX: MAJORS OF BOSTON

FURTHER READING

INDEX