Category: Social History (30)
Large Beacon Hill residence Boston
Notable Women of Beacon Hill
Walk the streets of Beacon Hill, where many notable women artists, abolitionists and authors lived and worked
Private Tours : Additional Tours by Request
Night view of the north end Boston
The Dark Side of Boston
Hear tales of misery, misfortune and murder - all based on true historic events!
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
Myrtle Street Beacon Hill Boston
The North Slope of Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill Social History Series
Private Tours : Additional Tours by Request
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Josephine St. Pierre Rupin, Martin Robinson Delaney, William Cooper Neil, Frederick Douglas
Black Voices: Writers for a 19th Century Revolution
Discover stories of Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
Boston Chinatown Gate
Boston’s Chinatown
Visit one of Boston’s most vibrant neighborhoods, and one of the few surviving Chinatowns on the East Coast
Walking Tours : Boston Neighborhood Tours
Gravestone reading Memento Mori
Grave Undertakings
Explore Boston's burying grounds and learn about the customs surrounding death in Puritan New England
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
Boston Tea Party
Toward a More Perfect Union
New for 2025! Boston is often called the cradle of liberty—but what does that legacy mean today?
Walking Tours : New for 2025
Boston Public Library
Becoming Back Bay
Learn why Boston's Back Bay is considered a marvel of 19th Century civil and social engineering
Walking Tours : Boston Neighborhood Tours
Arlington Street Church
Churches of the Back Bay
Marvel at Back Bay's historic churches
Private Tours : Additional Tours by Request
Painting of a woman in ballet pose
Fierce and Feminine: Great Women of Boston
Meet some of the great women in Boston history who made the city and the nation what they are today
Private Tours : Additional Tours by Request
Adath Jeshurun
Jewish Roxbury: A Walk Through Grove Hall and Elm Hill
New for 2025! Gain a deeper understanding of Boston's Jewish community in Grove Hall and Elm Hill
Walking Tours : New for 2025
lit pumpkins in the dark
Beacon Hill with a BOO!
For more than 30 years, this tour has been part of any great Halloween celebration in Boston.
Walking Tours : Annual Events
Betances Mural
Art Introspective: Copley Square to the South End
Discover a trove of unknown and underappreciated works of art
Private Tours : Additional Tours by Request
A Woman Booster for the Trade Union League
Working Women: Boston Women Find Their Voice
Learn about the women who led Boston’s women’s trade unionism and suffrage movements
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
Shaw Memorial
Slavery and Abolition in Massachusetts
Explore Massachusetts' long and complex history of slavery
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
Women's suffrage poster 1915
Road to the Vote: Boston Suffragists
Boston's places, people and protests that helped win the vote for women
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
Star of David stained glass in Circular Window
Jewish Beacon Hill
Learn where Boston’s Jewish West End residents worked, lived and worshipped - including The Vilna Shul
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
Map of old Shawmut Peninsula overlayed on Modern Boston
Before Boston: Shawmut Peninsula through 1630
Explore 12,000 years of human activity on Shawmut Peninsula, the lands we now call Boston
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
victorian women in affectionate pose.
Boston’s LGBTQ Past
Trace the stories, individuals, spaces, and events that shaped queer life in the city
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
Boston Common
Boston Common: Past Lives and Hidden Stories
Join us to discover the many lives of Boston Common and its people
Walking Tours : Boston Social History Tours
re-enactors of British loyalists in boston
Boston’s Loyalists
Hear the stories of Bostonians who remained loyal to the British crown
Walking Tours : Revolutionary History Tours
Painting of Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin: Son of Boston
Celebrate the life of Boston-born Benjamin Franklin by visiting his homes and haunts in Colonial Boston
Walking Tours : Revolutionary History Tours
The Old State House Boston
Adams Family in Boston
Follow the words and history of the Adams Family over four generations
Walking Tours : Revolutionary History Tours
Maverick Square Mural in East Boston
East Boston: Maverick Square and Beyond
Learn how East Boston began as a planned community that became today's vibrant and diverse neighborhood
Private Tours : Additional Tours by Request
Paul Revere's house in Boston's North End
The North End: Boston's Immigration Gateway
Explore Boston’s oldest neighborhood and discover the charm of this unique, compact city space
Walking Tours : Boston Neighborhood Tours
Stoddards storefront Boston
