News and Updates

Are you hep to the jive?  Do you have the heebie jeebies?  Then this news will make you blow your top! In honor of our founding president, Richard O. Card, we are excited to announce The South End Jazz Open Read More …

Press Advisory For Immediate Release Contact: Stacen Goldman or Hope Shannon 617-536-4445 admin@southendhistoricalsociety.org HISTORICAL SOCIETY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO PUBLISH BOOK ABOUT NOTABLE SOUTH ENDERS Boston, MA— South End Historical Society Executive Director Hope Shannon has signed with Arcadia Publishing to Read More …

Last Thursday, we welcomed local author Richard Vacca. Mr. Vacca published The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Places, Faces, and Nightlife 1937-1962 last May with Troy Street Publishing. Mr. Vacca spoke to a packed audience here at the SEHS. Want to know Read More …

We would like to thank Lynne Potts, a local South End author. Ms. Potts read excerpts from her new book, A Block in Time: A History of Boston’s South End from a Window on Holyoke Street, last Thursday evening at the Read More …

THIS Thursday, February 21st, at 6:30pm, we welcome Lynne Potts, local South Ender and author of A Block in Time: A History of the South End From a Window on Holyoke Street. Lynne will read select passages from her book. Read More …

Our February News and Events update is now available. Click here to read: February news and updates

Recently, a pair of newspaper articles from 1912-1913 have been making the rounds of pop culture blogging websites Jezebel, Gothamist, and The Huffington Post.  In December of 1912 The New York Times published that Elsie Scheel, a 24 year-old co-ed Read More …