Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators

by Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta

Book Overview

Anne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262046806
• ISBN13: 9780262046800
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 9.2"