Jun 09 2022
Born In Cambridge: 400 Year Of Ideas And Innovators

Born In Cambridge: 400 Year Of Ideas And Innovators

Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society at Massachusetts Historical Society

Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of “firsts”: the first college in the English colonies, the first two-way long-distance call, the first legal same-sex marriage. In 1632, Anne Bradstreet, living in what is now Harvard Square, wrote one of the first published poems in British North America, and in 1959, Cambridge-based Carter’s Ink marketed the first yellow Hi-liter. W.E.B. Du Bois, Julia Child, Yo-Yo Ma, and Noam Chomsky all lived or worked in Cambridge at various points in their lives. Born in Cambridge tells these stories and many others, chronicling cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations that all came from one city of modest size across the Charles River from Boston.

Dates & Times

2022/06/09 - 2022/06/09

Location Info

Massachusetts Historical Society

1154 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02115