boston (mass.)

Depicts the life of Crispus Attucks, an important figure in African American history, from slavery, to working as a whaler and rope-maker, to his death. Includes descriptions of several other African Americans who played important roles in the American Revolution.

Color photos fill this overview of Boston's "Big Dig"--the Central Artery/Tunnel Project--which began in 1991, designed to relieve the city's traffic problems; describes the project's origins and planning stages and the work involved in its completion.

The past comes back to haunt three men who shared a friendship as children when Sean Devine, now a policeman, is assigned to investigate the murder of Jimmy Marcus's teenager daughter, a crime the third member of their group, Dave Boyle, is suspected of committing.

Jenna Blake investigates a major crime wave in the Boston area.

Profiles the lives of three families in the 1970s as they deal with urban racial issues and school desegregation in Boston over a ten-year period. Follows the McGoff, Twyman, and Diver families, which include a widowed Irish-American family, an African-American family, and a white liberal middle-class family. Describes each family's historical roots and the role of the public figures who shaped the course of the families' lives.

Explores what the Boston Red Sox 2004 World Series victory meant to the team's fans, who had endured eighty-six years of disappointment as their team lost series after series.

Contains a behind-the-scenes look at the Boston Red Sox World Series winning 2004 season, including information on the history of the rivalry with the New York Yankees, and providing details from the locker room to the field, as the Red Sox shook the curse and defeated the Yankees in the American League Championship series.

Traces the history of the Boston Red Sox since Babe Ruth went over to the New York Yankees in 1920 and examines the curse that some maintain was laid upon the Sox after Ruth's departure.

Living with her family near Boston, five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, feels the effects of the War of 1812.

Chronicles the January 15, 1919 Boston Molasses Flood that killed twenty-one people when over two million gallons of molasses poured out of the steel tank that stored it and traveled through the city's North End.