MASSACHUSETTS BIBLIOGRAPHY
General:
Brown, Richard B., Massachusetts, A History (New
York: W. W. Norton), 1972.
Hart, Albert, Ed., The Commonwealth History of
Massachusetts, 5 Vols. (New York: States History
Co.), 1927-1930.
Committee for New England Bibliography, New England
Bibliographies,9 Vols. (Hanover, NH: Univ. Press
of New England) Vol. 1, Haskell, John D. Jr., Massachusetts:
A Bibliography of its History, 1972; Vol 8 includes
Massaachusetts additions, Roger Parks ed., 1989; Vol.
9 includes Massachusetts additions to 1994, Roger
Parks ed., 1995.
Kaufman, Martin, John W. Ifkovic and Joseph Carvalho
III eds.,
A Guide to the History of Massachusetts
(New York: Greenwood Press), 1987.
Sherer, Thomas E. Jr., The Massachusetts
Atlas, A Student's Guide to the Geography of the
Bay State (Old Lyme, Ct, Kilderatlas Publ. Co.) 1995.
Also Teacher's Guide to The Massachusetts Atlas.
Massachusetts
Communities: Cities & Towns Profiles
Massachusetts Facts, Office of the Secretary
of State, Citizens Information Service, Ashburton
Place, Boston, MA 02108. This can be downloaded
from texts on http://www.msp.umb.edu/texts.html
Massachusetts State Archives, Town Maps, 1794,
1830 series, State Archives Building, 220 Morrissey
Boulevard, Bosotn, MA 02125. See also Mass. Archives
collection, and public records of state government.
Whitehill, Walter Muir, Boston, A Topographical
History (Cambridge: Belknap Press), 2nd ed. 1968.
Massachusetts; A Pictorial History (New York:
Chas. Scribnerís & Sons) 1976.
Wilkie, Richard and Jack Tager, Historical Atlas
of Massachusetts (Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press),
1991.
Winsor, Justin, ed., The Memorial History
of Boston, 4 vols. 1881 (Boston: Tercentennial
Ctte.) 1932.
WPA Guide to Massachusetts. The Federal Writersí
Project Guide to 1930s Massachusetts, orig. 1937.
New edition with introduction by Jane Holtz Kay (New
York: Pantheon Books), 1983.
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Native Peoples, European Contact
& Colonial Period:
Allen, David Grayson, In English Ways
(Chapel Hill: Un. of N. Carolina Press), 1981.
Bailyn, Bernard, The Peopling of British North
America (New York:Knopf), 1986.
New England Merchants in the 17th Century,orig.
1955 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press), 1979.
Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians,
Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New
York:) 1983.
Demos, John, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life
in Plymouth Colony (New York: Oxford Univ.
Press), 1970).
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early
America (New York: Knopf) 1994.
Dexter, Lincoln A., Maps of Early Massachusetts:
pre-history through the Seventeenth Century.
Compiled, edited and published by Lincoln A. Dexter,
Brookfield, MA, 1984.
Fischer, David Hackett, Albion's Seed: Four British
Folkways in America (New York, Oxford Univ.
Press), 1989.
McManis, Douglas R., European Impressions of the
New England Coast, 1497-1620 (Chicago) 1972.
Colonial New England: A Historical Geography (New
York: Oxford Univ. Press), 1975.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, The European Discovery
of America, The Northern Voyages AD 500-1600.
(New York), 1971.
Builders of the Bay Colony (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin), 1958.
Pierson, William, Black Yankees: The Development
of an Afro-American Subculture in 18th Century
New England (Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press), 1988.
Russell, Howard, A Long Deep Furrow: Three Centuries
of New England Farming (Hanover, NH: Univ.
Press of New England), 1976.
Indian New England Before the Mayflower (Hanover,
NH: Univ. Press of New England), 1980.
Rutman, Darrett, Husbandmen of Plymouth, Forms
and Villages of the Old Colony, 1620-1692 (Boston:
Beacon Press), 1967.
Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town(Chapel
Hill, Univ. of N. Carolina Press), 1965.
Salisbury, Neal, Manitou and Providence: Indians,
Europeans and the Making of New Engalnd 1500- 1643.
(New York:), 1982.
Sly, John F., Town Government in Massachusetts,
1620-1930 (Hamden, CT: Archon Books), 1967.
Trigger, Bruce G. ed., Handbook of North American
Indians, vol. 15 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian),
1978.
Zuckerman, Michael, Peaceable Kingdom, New England
Towns in the Eighteenth Century (New York,
Knopf), 1970.
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Revolution
& New Federalism:
Bailyn, Bernard, Ideological Origins of the American
Revolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press), 1967.
Enl. ed. 1992.
Brown, Richard D., Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts:
The Boston Committee of Correspondence and the
Towns, 1772-1774 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press),
1970.
Commager, Henry Steele, Documents of American
History (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall), 9th
ed. 1973.
Fischer, David Hackett, Paul Revere's Ride (New
York: Oxford Univ. Press), 1994.
Fowler, William M., The Baron of Beacon Hill:
John Hancock (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), 1980.
Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan(New York: Longman),
1997.
Gross, Robert, The Minutemen and Their World (New
York: Hill & Wang), 1976.
In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian
Rebellion (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Va),
1993.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Maritime History of Massachusetts
1783-1860, 1921 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin),
1979.
OíConnor, Thomas H., This Momentous Affair:
Massachusetts and the Ratification of the Constitution
of the U.S. (Boston Public Library), 1987.
Szatsmary, David, Shays' Rebellion: The Making
of an Agrarian Insurrection (Amherst: Univ.
of Mass. Press), 1980.
Taylor, Robert J., Western Massachusetts in the
Revolution (Providence: Brown Univ. Press), 1954.
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Nineteenth Century
Industrialization, Civil War, Immigration, Urbanization,
Reform
Abbott, Richard H., Cotton and Capital: Boston
Businessmen and Antislavery Reform, 1854-1868
(Amherst: University of Mass. Press), 1991.
Blewitt, Mary H., Men, Women, and Work: Class,
Gender and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry:
1780-1910 (Urbana, IL: Un. of Illinois Press),
1988.
Blodgett, Geoffrey, The Gentle Reformers: Massachusetts
Democrats in the Cleveland Era (Cambridge:
Harvard Univ. Press), 1966.
Brooks, Van Wyck, The Flowering of New England,
1815-1865 (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.),1936.
Dublin, Thomas, Transforming Women's Work: New
England Lives in the Industrial Revoluton (Ithaca:
Cornell Univ. Press), 1994.
Faler, Paul, Mechanics & Manufacturers in
Early Industrial Revolution - Lynn, Mass., 1780-1860
(Albany, NY: State Un. of NY Press), 1981.
Formisano, Ronald P. and Constance K. Burns, eds.,
Boston 1700-1980: The Evolution of Urban
Politics (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), 1984.
Handlin, Oscar, Boston's Immigrants (Boston:
Harvard Univ. Press), 1979.
The Uprooted, (Boston: Little Brown), 2nd enl.
ed. 1990.
and Mary Handlin, Commonwealth: Study of
the Role of Government in the American Economy -
Massachusetts 1774-1861 (Cambridge: Belknap Press),
1969.
Hodgkins, J. E., The Civil War Diary of Lt. J.E.
Hodgkins; 19th Mass. Volunteers, from August 11,
1862 to June 3, 1865., ed. by Kenneth C. Turino with
intro. by Steven C. Eames (Camden, ME: Picton
Press), 1994.
Miller, William Lee, Arguing About Slavery (New
York: Knopf), 1996.
Mulkern, John R., The Know-Nothing Party in Massachusetts:
The Rise and Fall of a Peopleís Movement
(Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press), 1990.
O'Connor, Thomas H., Civil War Boston: Homefront
and Battlefield (Boston: Northeastern Univ.
Press), 1997.
The Boston Irish: A Political History (Boston:
Northeastern Univ. Press), 1995.
Renehan, Edward, Jr., The Secret Six: The True
Tale of the Men Who Conspired With John Brown
(New York: Crown Publishing Co.), 1995.
Steinberg, Theodore, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization
and the Waters of New England (New York:
Cambridge Univ. Press), 1991.
Tager, Jack and John W. Ifkovic eds, Massachusetts
in the Gilded Age (Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press),
1985.
Thernstrom, Stephen, Poverty and Progress: Social
Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City {Newburyport}
(Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press), 1964.
The Other Bostonians (Cambridge: Harvard
Univ. Press), 1973.
Ward, David, Cities and Immigrants. A Geography
of Change in 19th Century America (New York:)
1971.
Warner, Sam Bass, Jr., Streetcar Suburbs: The
Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (Cambridge:
Harvard Univ. Press), 2nd ed. 1978.
Zevin, Robert, The Growth of Manufacturing in
Early 19th Century New England (New York), 1975.
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Twentieth Century
Metropolitan Mass., Depression, to Post-War Information
Age
Abrams, Richard M., Conservatism in a Progressive
Era: Massachusetts Politics, 1900-1912 (Cambridge:
Harvard Univ. Press), 1964.
Commager, Henry Steele, The American Mind: an
Interpretation of Thought and Character since 1880's
(New Haven: Yale Univ. Press), 1950.
Conuel, Thomas, Quabbin: The Accidental Wilderness,
Massachusetts Audubon Society; (Brattleboro, Vt:
Stephen Greene Press), 1981.
Formisano, Ronald P. , Boston Against Busing:
Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960ís and
the 1970s (Chapel Hill, University of N. C. Press)
1991.
Garrity, W. Arthur, Jr., The Boston School Decision
(Boston:The Community Action Committee of Paperback
Booksmith), 1974.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, The Fitzgeralds and the
Kennedys (New York: St. Martins Press), 1991.
Halberstam, David, The Best and the Brightest
(New York: Random House), 1972.
Huthmacker, J. Joseph, Masssachusetts People and
Politics, 1919-1933 ( New York: Atheneum), 1969.
Juravich, Tom, et al., Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters
in the History of Massachusetts Workers and
Their Unions (Amherst: Univ.of Mass. Press), 1996.
Kozol, Jonathan, Death at an Early Age (New
York: New American Library), repr. 1985.
Leuchtenberg, William E., The FDR Years: On Roosevelt
and His Legacy (New York: Columbia University
Press), 1995.
Lukas, J. Anthony, Common Ground: A Turbulent
Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
(New York, Knopf) 1985.
Russell, Francis, A City in Terror: 1919: The
Boston Police Strike (New York: Viking Press),
1975.
Tragedy in Dedham: the Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti
Case (New York: McGraw Hill), 1971.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., A Thousand Days: John
Fitzgerald Kennedy in the White House (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin), 1965.
Robert Kennedy and his Times (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin), 1978.
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Massachusetts Research Journals
Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings,
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street.
Boston, MA 02215.
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,
Wesstfield, MA 01086.
New England Journal of History, New England
History Teachers Association, Bentley College, Waltham,
MA 02452.
New England Quarterly, 239 Meserve Hall, Northeastern
University, Boston, MA 02120. See http://www.newenglandquarterly.org/
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History, Geography, Government:
Curriculum Materials, Standards
Commonwealth Museum. Places of Massachusetts:
Local Studies Sourcebook, Office of the Secretary
of State, Archives Building, 220 Morrissey Blvd.,
Boston, MA 02125. This can be downloaded from the
Massachusetts Studies Project - Texts at http://www.msp.umb.edu/texts.html.
A Primer on Local History, The Massachusetts Ratification
of the US Constitution, Commonwealth Museum,
Office of the Secretary of State, 1988.
Cobblestone Publishing Co., Peterborough, NH 03452-7380.
Many issues of Theme Packs and Primary Sources relate
to Massachusetts.
Hakim, Joy, author of 10 Volumes in History Curriculum
series, (New York: Oxford University Press), 1993-93.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., primary source
documents, including examples from Mass., can be seen
online at http://www.loc.gov/
Massachusetts Department of Education, 450 Main Street,
Malden, MA 02148. Education Reform and Curriculum
Frameworks: History/Social Science Standards online
at http://www.doe.mass.edu
Massachusetts Studies Project, ILT, Graduate College
of Education, University of Mass. Boston, Boston,
MA 02125. 617-287-7654. Homepage http://www.msp.umb.edu.
Mass. Council for the Social Studies newsletter,
Newsline, Carlyjane Dunn Watson, ed., Bourne
High School, 75 Waterhouse Rd., Bourne, MA 02532-3899.
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington,
DC 20408. Many primary sources relate to Massachusetts.
See The
Digital Classroom for sample lessons and documents.
National Council for the Social Studies, 3501 Newark
St., NW, Washington, DC 20016: Official journal, Social
Education, issued monthly, (see feature Teaching
with Historic Documents) National Guidelines at
http://www.ncss.org
National Geographical Society, Key
to the National Geography Standards
Geography for Life: National Geography Standards,
Washington, DC, 1994
National Trust for Historic Preservation and National
Register of Historic Places,
Teaching with Historic Places, New York, 1995,
in cooperation with National Park Service, http://www.nps.gov/
New York State Archives and Records Administration,
Consider the Source: Historic Records in the Classroom,
See Other Services at http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml.
Perspectives on History Series, including
primary sources; many books relate to Massachusetts.
Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., Carlisle Ma 01741. Paperback
for grades 5-12.
A listing of Children's Trade Books Related to
Massachusetts is now in progress and not yet online.
See Children's
Literature Bibliography for draft of Kid
Lit by Cheryl Ann Schwartz, which contains many history
and geography related books.
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his support of this bibliography.
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