PLACE IN MASSACHUSETTS
HISTORY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
General:
*
found at Healey Library and most public libraries
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…..,
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Howard, A Long Deep Furrow:
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Abbott,
Richard H., Cotton and Capital:
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Bender,
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1988.
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Dalzell,
Robert F. Jr., Enterprising
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…..,
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…..,
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Kathryn, The Fugitive’s
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…..The
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…..and
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Tom, et al., Commonwealth
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Miller,
William Lee, Arguing About
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Mulkern,
John R., The Know-Nothing
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Thomas H., Civil War Boston:
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….The
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Theodore, Nature Incorporated:
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Thernstrom,
Stephen, Poverty and Progress:
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….The
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Ulrich,
Laurel Thatcher, A Midwife’s
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David, Cities and Immigrants.
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Zevin,
Robert, The Growth of Manufacturing
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Age
Conuel,
Thomas, Quabbin: The Accidental
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Formisano,
Ronald P., Boston Against
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Research Journals
Common-place:
The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, American
Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA 01609. Online at http://www.common-place.org
Great
Migration Newsletter”, c/o New England Historic Genealogy Society,
101 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02116-3087.
Historical
Journal of Massachusetts, Institute for Massachusetts Studies,
Westfield State College, Westfield, MA 01086.
Massachusetts
Historical Society Proceedings, Massachusetts Historical Society,
1154 Boylston Street. Boston, MA 02215. Also publishes The Massachusetts Historical Review .
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for more details.
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England Journal of History, New England History Teachers Association,
Bentley College, Waltham, MA 02452.
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“The
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Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands. Published quarterly by
the Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, P.O. Box 1310 Edgartown,
MA 02539.
Note: Vol 41, No. 3 (February 2000) has articles
on 2O0 years of Indian schools and on the rise and
fall of the whaling industry.