West Cambridge history events, planning for 400th anniversary continue as organization looks forward to being more flexible.

Since its 1630 founding to the intricate details of the city today, Jane Merrill’s most recent publication leaves no stone unturned when chronicling Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Harvard University’s ...

Times may change, but the past still matters. These 14 projects are the latest to earn recognition for preservation work.

The 400th anniversary of Cambridge’s settlement as New Towne in 1630 by the Massachusetts Bay Company is nine years away, but a local history-centered nonprofit has begun unifying community-based ...

Beginning in the early 19th century, a series of reforms transformed Cambridge University, which had become a mathematical backwater in the 18th century, into a pre-eminent centre for mathematical ...

The history of Cambridge is dominated by men, household names like Henry VIII, Stephen Hawking, and Crick and Watson whose eureka moment at the Eagle pub famously unravelled the secrets of DNA. But ...