First, some Boston history...

The lines to buy what Charles Ponzi was selling on School Street in 1920 went around the block... but they should have saved their money. He was running nothing more than a pyramid scheme.

The story of Onesimus and the Small Pox epidemic of 1712

In 1950, it was The Crime of the Century and it happened right here...

She was Boston's very own Rosa Parks who, in 1851, made her stand at the venerable Howard Theater

Thomas Edison, the Wizard of... Scollay Square?

The bizarre 1920 tragedy of the Great Molasses Flood

What the telephone, television, and Boston Cream Pie have in common? They were all invented here...