Bibliography
and Website Resources for Summer Institute, 2004
Compiled by Bobby Robinson, Massachusetts Studies Project
- Massachusetts General
and Its Towns in the Colonial/Constitution Periods
- English
Ways
- Colonial
America, Everyday Life and Death
- Revolutionary
Period (including selected biographies)
- Founding
Documents, Constitution Era
- Economics,
the Land and the Sea
- Press, Propaganda, Cartoons,
Broadsides
1. Massachusetts
General and Its Towns in the Colonial/Constitution Periods
Brown, Richard B., and Jack Tager, Massachusetts,
A Concise History. Amherst, MA: University of Mass.
Press, 2000.*
…..., Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The
Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns,
1772-1774. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970.
Demos, John, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life
in Plymouth Colony. New York: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1970.
Dickson, Brenton, H. and Lucas, Homer C., One Town
in the American Revolution, Weston, Massachusetts,
Weston Historical Society, c1976.
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.
Haskell, John D. Jr., Massachusetts: A Bibliography
of its History, Vol. 1*, Committee for New England
Bibliography, New England Bibliographies, 9 Vols.,
Hanover, NH: Univ. Press of New England, 1972; Vol 8
includes Massachusetts additions, Roger Parks ed., 1989;
Vol. 9 includes Massachusetts additions to 1994, Roger
Parks ed., 1995.
Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities &
Towns in Massachusetts. Prepared by the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, William F. Galvin, published by
the New England Historic & Genealogical Society,
1997.*
Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Institute
for Massachusetts Studies, Westfield State College,
Westfield, MA 01086.
Kaufman, Martin, John W. Ifkovic and Joseph Carvalho
III eds., A Guide to the History of Massachusetts,
New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.*
Kennedy, Lawrence W., Planning the City Upon A Hill:
Boston since 1630. Amherst: University of Mass.
Press, 1992.
Lockridge, Kenneth, A New England Town: The First
One Hundred Years; Dedham, Massachusetts, 1637-1737.
New York, Norton, 1985. .
Massachusetts Biographical Index, 2 Vols. 1998.
Somerset Publications, Inc. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080.
See also The Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, 2
Vols. 1999.*
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Maritime History of Massachusetts
1783-1860, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979,
orig. 1921.*
Richards, Leonard L., Shay's Rebellion: The American
Revolution's Final Battle. University of Penna.
Press, 2003.
Rutman, Darrett, Husbandmen of Plymouth, Farms 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.
Sewall, Samuel, Diary and Life of Samuel Sewall
(1652-1730), M. Yazawa ed., Boston: Bedford Books, 1998.
Sly, John F., Town Government in Massachusetts,
1620-1930. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1967.
Szatsmary, David, Shays' Rebellion: The Making of
an Agrarian Insurrection. Amherst: Univ. of Mass.
Press, 1980.
Tager, Jack and John W. Ifkovic eds, Massachusetts
in the Gilded Age, Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press,
1985.*
Taylor, Robert J., Western Massachusetts in the
Revolution, Providence: Brown Univ. Press), 1954.
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. New edition
with introduction by Jane Holtz Kay. New York: Pantheon
Books), 1983. Orig. 1937, The Federal Writers’ Project
Guide to 1930s Massachusetts.*
Zuckerman, Michael, Peaceable Kingdom, New England
Towns in the Eighteenth Century, Westsport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1983. Out of print, but available in
most libraries. Valuable look at many Massachusetts
towns.
Curriculum/Websites:
American Antiquarian Society, guide to its immense
collection of primary source manuscripts, images and
prints at http://www.americanantiquarian.org
Abigail's War: The American Revolution through
the Eyes of Abigail Adams, from Mass.
Historical Society Download at http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/education/
Developed by Rachel M. Ottman, Grade 5 Teacher,
McCarthy Middle School, Chelmsford, Massachusetts.contains
Rationale / Teacher's
guide and student activity book,
based on letters exchanged between John
and Abigail Adams during the time of the American
Revolution Following a lesson introducing primary
sources, the book offers exercises on the Battle of
Bunker Hill, wartime economy, and everyday life on
the Revolutionary War home front.
"The Boston Massacre". There are many sites online
dealing with this subject. One example is "John Adams
and the Boston Massacre: A Triumphant Lawyer, A Tragic
Episode" from National History Day website http://nationalhistoryday.org/03_educators/teacher/boston.htm
which includes transcriptions of court proceedings
and depositions.
Deerfield,
Memorial Hall Museum, "American
Centuries, View from New England, Lesson on "The English
Settlers at Deerfield",
Massachusetts Studies Project website at http://www.msp.umb.edu/summer2004/index.html
Your home base for the summer institute. Search for
lessons and content for your research topic.
Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point is the location
for finding census, state and local government records.
The Massachusetts Archives Collection covers Records,
1629-1799 in 328 Volumes, with historical summaries,
lists of governors and archival records, including
Colonial, Revolution periods. http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arccol/colidx.htm
Massachusetts Government site. http://www.mass.gov:
check out About Massachusetts under State Govt. See
especially interactive history section - History resources
at http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/history.htm:
Fun facts for kids at http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/funfacts.htm
Massachusetts Historical Society, www.masshist.org
Home of Adams family papers and many other important
Mass. collections. See this year in Mass. History,
See Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Also publishes The Massachusetts Historical Review.
See Library Index to Diaries, Manuscripts.
Northeastern University publishes the New England
Quarterly. Look for articles on Massachusetts at http://www.whc.neu.edu/history/NEQ.home
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2. English Ways
Allen, David Grayson, In English Ways, Chapel
Hill: University of N. Carolina Press, 1981.
Bailyn, Bernard, The Peopling of British North America,
New York: Knopf, 1986.
Cressy, David, Coming Over: Migration and Communication
Between England and New England in the 17th Century.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Fischer, David Hackett, Albion's Seed, Four British
Folkways in America. Oxford University Press, 1994.
See the Chapter on East Anglia to Massachusetts, pp.13-205,
which covers the Exodus of the Puritans, the Origins
of the Great Migration — Religious, Social, Regional,
Origins of the Massachusetts Elite, the East of England;
as well as a close look at Massachusetts Bay " New Paradise",
covering family and home life, speech, building, learning,
death practices, and other social, cultural, political
and economic ways, as well as settlement patterns and
emvironment.
"Great Migration Newsletter", c/o New England Historic
Genealogy Society, 101 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02116-3087.
Curriculum/Websites
Annenberg CPB Learner, chronology of Colonial America,
English settlement, which relates what is happening
in Europe with new colonial settlement dates. http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog02/feature/index_text.html
American Centuries, View from New England, Memorial
Hall Museum, Deerfield, Lesson
on The Dedham Deed contains notes by Susan
McGowan about Vacuum Domicillium: The Social and
Cultural Landscape of 17th Century New England
by David Grayson Allen.
Timelines and Oral Histories from Edsitement, National
Endowment for the Humanities. See My History is America's
History which provides resources re. timelines. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=406
Tom Snyder'sTimeliner: Easy to use timeline creation
tool. This educational software product is described
on the website, with examples that provide a teacher
model. http://www.tomsnyder.com
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3. Colonial America, Everyday Life and Death
Butler, Jon, Religion in Colonial America. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Earle, Alice Morse, Home Life in Colonial Days.
Stockbridge, MA: Berkshire Traveller Press, 1974 (written
in 1898! But still a favorite re. home crafts and culture).
See other works by same author on customs and manners
of Colonial America.
Forbes, Harriette Merrifield, New England
Diaries, 1602-1800. New York: Russell & Russell,
1967. In public libraries.
Fowler, Samuel Page; Puritan Personal Writings.
Diaries of John Hull; Edward Pierce Hamilton. New
York: AMS Press, 1983.
Hawke, David F. Everyday Life in Early America.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1988.Kamensky,
Jane, The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Murdock, Kenneth B. Literature and Theology
in Colonial New England. Reprint edition.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970.
Tunis, Edwin, Colonial Living. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 ed. (Original .
Old but still good with illustrations useful for classroom
use.)
Curriculum/Websites
"A Midwife's
Tale", from Martha Ballard's 18th century diary, presented
on American Experience, PBS; see teacher's guide at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/midwife/tguide.index.html;
about diaries and history at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/midwife/sfeature/sf_diaries.html
"A Study
of Local History Through an Examination of Community
Cemeteries", presented by Steve Kocur for Mass. Studies
Project's Place in Mass. History, http://orr.mec.edu/~skocur/unit.htm
Bibliographical Notes, Contemporary Documents and Writings
on Early America, including Massachusetts.
http://www.englishcountrydancing.org/colonial11.html
Bibliography: Colonial
America - Books : Non-Fiction (journals, biographies,
diaries, etc.)
Cemetery
Exercise Resources: website links and lesson ideas at
http://www.acu.edu:9090/~armstrong1/geography/cemdex.html
Colonial
Law and the Massachusetts Bar, from Against the Grain
Press: http://www.atgpress.com/inform/ab005.htm
Early Colonial
Literature to 1700, with links to biographical information
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/amlitcol.htm
Journal Common-place: The Interactive Journal of
Early American Life, American Antiquarian Society,
Worcester, MA 01609. Online at http://www.common-place.org
New England Ancestors website of NEHGS has databases
online related to Massachusetts cemeteries, census and
vital records, diaries, journals and other personal
records. http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/
Stannard, David E., The Puritan Way of Death: a
Study of Religion, Culture, and Social Change. New
York: Oxford University Press. 1977. 1979 Book review
http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jan1978/v34-4-bookreview7.htm
for
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4. Revolutionary Period (including selected biographies)
Ellis, Joseph J.,
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation.
New York: Knopf . (also under Constitution
period - see excerpt)
Farager, John Mack, The Encyclopedia of Colonial
and Revolutionary America, Facts on File, 1990.
Fischer, David Hackett, Paul Revere's Ride,
Oxford University Press, 1994.
……, Washington’s Crossing, Oxford University
Press, 2004. (see online excerpt below)
Fleming, Thomas, Liberty! The American Revolution,
New York: Viking Press, 1997.
Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable
Man. Boston, Little Brown
Isaacson, Walter, Benjamin Franklin, New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Kaplan, Sidney; Kaplan, Emma Nogrady, The Black
Presence in the Era of the American Revolution,
Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.
Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect
and Ideology in Revolutionary America. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1986.
Lance, Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty,
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995 .
Maier, Pauline, From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial
Radicals & the Development of American Opposition
to Britain, 1765-1776, New York, Random House, 1991
McCullough, David, John Adams New York: Simon
& Schuster, 2002.
Nash, Gary , The Urban Crucible: Social Change,
Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American
Revolution, Harvard UP, 1979.
Norton, Mary Beth, Liberty's Daughter's: The Revolutionary
Experience of American Women
Pierson, William, Black Yankees: The Development
of an Afro-American Subculture in 18th Century
New England, Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press, 1988.
Wood, Gordon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1992.
Curriculum/Websites
American
Revolution, http://www.mce.k12tn.net/revolutionary_war/american_revolution.htm
Music,
lessons, links from Mountain City Elementary
School, Mountain City, Tennessee
Digitized text of The American Revolution. By
John Fiske, in two volumes
completely transcribed., 1881 http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/revwar/book/index.html
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/revwar/book2/index.html
Very detailed but still relevant, written by Harvard's
librarian at end of 19th c.
Hakim, Joy,
A History of US, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999. Outstanding textbook series in 11 books.
See especially Book Three: From Colonies to Country.
PBS series "Freedom! A History of US" based on these
texts at http://www.pbs.org/historyofus.
Webisode 1 - Independence; Webisode 2 - Revolution.
Excellent biographies of major players included in sidebar.
"Liberty!
The American Revolution", Excellent PBS series on videotape.
Website contains background information and resources
including teachers guides to six sessions which can
stand alone. http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
PBS also offers excellent webpages on Benjamin Franklin
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/resources_relatedpbs.html
and George Washington http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/
Liberty's
Kids at http://pbskids.org/libertyskids/
WGBH series for elementary school ages that includes
stories, games, Ecards, archives, then and now timeline,
and more. Being rebroadcast this summer, teachers can
videotape.
Library of Congress: American Memory: Historical Collections
for the National Digital Library. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
The American Memory website is the Library of Congress'
location for the digitization of vast collections of
documents relating to American history and government.
Use search feature to locate Revolutionary era primary
sources, especially re. Massachusetts.
National Park Service, "" (National Parks related to
Colonial and Revolutionary History). See Boston National
Historical Park http://www.nps.gov/bost
(detailed lesson on Bunker Hill available); Minute Man
National Historical Park http://www.nps.gov/mima;
and Adams National Historical Park http://www.nps.gov/adam.
"Kid Info
on the Revolution" http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/American_Revolution.html
References and Resources, with links to many sites.
Timeline 1764-75 an dother timelines, information on
taxation and British laws leading to war, Spy letters,
founding documents, biographies.
Social Studies
School service has videocassettes on the Revolutionary
War, including battles at Lexington and Concord, and
Bunker Hill. See their catalog online http://socialstudies.com
"The
American Revolution: Recommended Reading" by Theo
Logos, history enthusiastFrom Amazon.com, annotated
list
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5. Founding Documents, Constitution Era
Berkin, Carol. A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the
American Constitution, 2002.
Bernstein, Richard. Are We to Be a Nation? The Making
of the Constitution. (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press), 1987.
Commager, Henry Steele, Documents of American
History (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall), 9th ed.
1973. Many Massachusetts documents are included.
Hakim, Joy. From Colonies to Country. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1993.
Kruman, Marc. Between Authority and Liberty: State
Constitution Making in the Revolutionary Era, 1999
Maier, Pauline, American Scripture: Making
the Declaration of Independence, Alfred A Knopf,
1997.
O’Connor, Thomas H., This Momentous Affair: Massachusetts
and the Ratification of the Constitution of the U.S.
(Boston Public Library), 1987.
Wood, Gordon. Creation of the American Republic,
1776-1787, University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
See other books on this period by the same author.
Curriculum/Websites
Background on the "Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy",
with lesson involving Federalist paper on British
monarchy and writing of Constitution" From National
Endowment for the Humanities Edsitement catalog of
subjects and lesson plans. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=462
Search for other lessons related to Constitution
Founding
Brothers.
read this excerpt re. Revolutionary aftermath/Constitution
challenge from Joseph Ellis book at http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/ellis-founding.html
Founding
Fathers Info includes documents online: Federalist
Papers, Declaration of Independence, US Constitution
(and Amendments) Bill of Rights, at http://www.foundingfathers.info/
National Archives Teaching With Documents Lesson
Plan: "Images
of the American Revolution"
Search National Archives collections for related
Constitution primary sources and also Digital
Classroom main page for other classroom lessons.
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6. Economics,
the Land and the Sea
Bernard and Lotte Bailyn, Massachusetts
Shipping, 1697-1714, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1959.
William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists,
and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill &
Wang, 1985.
Stephen Innes, Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic
Culture of Puritan New England (1995
Foner, Phillip Sheldon, Labor and the American Revolution.
Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 1976.
Heyrman, Christine L., Commerce and Culture: The
Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690
– 1750 (1989)
Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That
Changed the World (Viking, 1998)
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Maritime History of Massachusetts
1783-1860 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), 1979,
orig. 1921.
Russell, Howard, A Long Deep Furrow: Three Centuries
of New England Farming (Hanover, NH: Univ. Press
of New England), 1976.
Schlesinger, A. M., The Colonial Merchants and the
American Revolution, 1763-1776 (New York, 1918
Smith, Philip C. F. , ed., Seafaring in Colonial
Massachusetts (Colonial Society of Mass., 1980)
Vickers, Daniel, Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries
of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
(UNC Press, 1994)
Curriculum/Websites:
American Centuries, View from New England, Memorial
Hall Museum, Deerfield Account
books: excerpts from lesson on African American Presence
in Deerfield
Colonial Shipbuilding: Lesson about all-New England
but relates to Mass. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/livinginourworld/PDF/Fifth
grade lessons/Chapter 14 lesson 1 The Northeast Region,
New England.pdf
Conservation New England, "A Timber Shortage: how the
colonial housewives obliterated New England's forests
for the sake of a bar of soap" The clearing of land
for farming and household needs. http://site.www.umb.edu/conne/aileen/muchado.html#anchortimb
"Economics in the new colonies" Two lessons for third
grade introduce this topic and concepts of trade and
bartering. http://www.cstone.net/%7Ebcp/3/3DHistory.htm
MCAS History and Social Science Resources - Economics
Lessons at http://www.mcasmentor.com/history_links.htm#economics
Section on American and Massachusetts Economic History
includes sample lesson on Causes of the Revolution re.
taxation (also ties in music!): http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/revwar1/
Sea Education Association lesson on oceanography and
maritime history (a whaling voyage) http://www.sea.edu/k12lessonplans/K12WhalingVoyage.htm
National Park Service, "Teaching with Historic Places"
- Maritime, The Penniman House, Cape Cod - A Whaling
Story (19th century whaler, but good background information)
at http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/maritime.htm
Webquest: Interesting comparison of economic reasons
for settling 13 colonies and major occupations in Colonial
period. http://www.webquest.org/pme/colonies.php
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7. Press, Propaganda, Cartoons, Broadsides
Alexander, John K.
The Selling of the Constitutional Convention: A History
of News Coverage. Madison: Madison House,
1990.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the
American Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967.
Bailyn, Bernard / The Press and the American Revolution.
Worcester, Mass. American Antiquarian Society, 1980.
Berger, Carl. Broadsides and Bayonets: The
Propaganda War of the American Revolution. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.
Breen, T.H. The Marketplace Revolution: How
Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Brown, Richard D. Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion
of Information in Early America, 1700-1865. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Brown, Richard D. The Strength of the People: The
Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1996.
Brown, Walter. John Adams and the American
Press: Politics and Journalism at the Birth of the Republic.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 1995.
Commager, Henry Steele (ed. with Richard B. Morris),
Spirit of Seventy-Six; The Story of the American Revolution
as Told by the Participants. Orig.1958, rev. ed
DaCapo Press, 1995.
This 2-volume set has broadsides, letters, and speeches
of both the famous and obscure telling the story of
the American Revolution from the Boston tea party in
1773 to George Washington's resignation from the army
in 1783..
Copeland, David A. Colonial American Newspapers:
Character and Content. Newark: University
of Delaware Press, 1997.
Copeland, David A. Debating the Issues in
Colonial Newspapers: Primary Documents on Events of
the Period. ( Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press),
2000.
Humphrey, Carol Sue. This Popular Engine:
New England Newspapers During the Revolutionary War,
1775-1789. Newark: University of Delaware
Press, 1992.
Smith, Jeffery A. Franklin and Bache:
Envisioning the Enlightened Republic. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1990.
Walett, Francis G. Massachusetts Newspapers
and the Revolutionary Crisis. Boston, 1974.
Walett, Francis G. Patriots, Loyalists, and
Printers: Bicentennial Articles on the American Revolution.
Boston: American Antiquarian Society, 1976.
Warner, Michael. The Letters of the Republic: Publication
and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Curriculum, Websites:
Newspapers in Revolutionary Era America and the Problems
of Patriot and Loyalist Printers, part of E Pluribus
Union project at Assumption College, funded by NEH http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/1770s/pprinttoryloyal.html.
Writing, Speaking, Picturing, Celebrating, Revolutionizing,
Institutionalizing, and eventually Digitizing the American
Revolution.
What it means to be an American, http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Intros/introamericanid.html
"What is an American?" excepts from "Letters from an
American Farmer" by Crevecouer.(1787) part of online
Teaching Guide for Freedom, A History of US Teaching
Guide, Segment 2, Webisode PBS series.
"Revere, Patriotic Engraver" (about the Boston Massacre
engravings) http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/revere/chapt1/index.html
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