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William James, Harvard’s first professor of Psychology, was probably the most famous Theosophist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. (It was here where James William James, Harvard’s first professor of Psychology, was probably the most famous Theosophist from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Marie Sinclair. (wiki)   Marie Sinclair (1830-1895) was the only surviving daughter of Don José de Mariategui, of Santa Catalina, the

Tech Review has graced coffee tables of MIT alumni for 125 years. Here’s how it all began—and how the fledgling magazine helped rally alumni to oppose a merger with Harvard.

    Progressivism is a theology. It is a truth-claim. It is not a synonym for “good.” It belongs to catechists. It was the prevailing belief of

The steaming kettle has been a Boston landmark since before Government Center existed, dating back to a 19th-century tea shop.

The inauguration of a new ferry, HSC Cheriyapani linking India and Sri Lanka has brought back memories of the old Boat mail, an express train and ferry service that connected Madras and Colombo via Dhanushkodi. Arup K Chatterjee looks back at the cultural legacy of the Boat Mail and the economic and political signficance of the new ferry service.

In recent decades, suburban towns have doubled down on the status quo, or made zoning even more restrictive, all but guaranteeing that single-family home prices will remain shockingly high.

On this day, 201 years ago, gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe was born. The master of the macabre came into this world right here in Boston. But, as legend has it, Poe hated his home town — and Boston hated Poe right back.

The skeletal enclosures have stood unused in Franklin Park for decades, the last traces of the zoo's one-time grandeur.

You can never know Dorchester well enough, especially on deadline. Ed Forry learned that lesson again, on his tenth time as publisher and editor of the Dorchester Day supplement to the weekly Dorchester Argus-Citizen. The year was 1983, and the insert’s red-white-and-black cover saluted a high point of the preceding twelve months with a lead photo of President Ronald Reagan