Category: Features

  • Digitizing Morgan v. Hennigan

    Digitizing Morgan v. Hennigan

    By Andrew Begley Archives Specialist, National Archives at Boston; Co-Chair, Digital Commonwealth Outreach and Education Committee Over the last five to ten years, a number of archives and libraries in the Boston area have digitized rich collections of materials related to school desegregation and busing in the city of Boston. Collections at the Boston City…

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  • Season’s Greetings

    Of the many holidays we celebrate at this time of year, Christmas is certainly the best marketed.  Chances are, whether you decry this or embrace it, you can’t escape it.  The images in this post are for the Richard Schwarz Toy Emporium.  First of all, we need more toy emporiums.  (Emporia?)  Who wants to go…

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  • Snow

    Every year there is a first substantial snow of the year.  As I type this, snow has just started falling in Boston.  Over the course of the Thanksgiving weekend, the prediction has gone from “up to 12 inches” to 6-12″, to 4-6″ to “wintry mix”.  I have no idea how much snow we’ll get in…

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