The USS Bunker Hill with Bob Begin

Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United States

The USS Bunker Hill was an aircraft carrier which saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War Two. Built in Quincy, MA and launched one year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she would be the victim of Kamikaze attacks off Okinawa on May 11,1945. Suffering heavy casualties and damage, her crew would keep […]

“Rebooting American Healthcare” with Amy Finkelstein

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Few of us need convincing that American health insurance needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. In her 2023 book We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care, Professor Amy Finkelstein and her co-author Liran Einav marshal original research, […]

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Michael Brophy Presents The Orphan Train Movement

Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United States

From 1854 to 1929, over 200,000 children were transported by train from New York to the Midwest and beyond and adopted by new families. The program was organized by reformers in New York in an attempt to both remove them from the squalor and poverty of the city and help provide labor for farms out […]