Massachusetts History

 
Anne Hutchinson: Unsung Heroine of History
by Bianca A. Leonardo, Winnifred K. Rugg
The story of her excommunication, banishment and tragic death in the young colony. Db.
Paperback from Tree of Life Publishing

The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
by George Howe Colt
Hardcover from Scribner

A Brave Black Regiment: The History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1863-1865
by Luis F. Emilio, Louis F. Emilio, Gregory J. W. Urwin
Listed under Civil War Massachusetts

Boston: A Topographical History, Third Enlarged Edition
by Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence W. Kennedy
Book Description: This urbane and delightful book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation and is richly illustrated with 32 additional photographs and drawings. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline. Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping the human features of a beloved city. 
Paperback from Belknap Pr

Boston A to Z
by Thomas H. O'Connor

Boston Tea Party : Rebellion in the Colonies (Adventures in Colonial America)
by James E. Knight, David Wenzel (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 9-12

The Boston Irish : A Political History
by Thomas H. O'Connor

Cape Cod
by Henry David Thoreau
Listed under Henry David Thoreau

Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700
by Frank R. Holmes
Listed under New England Genealogy

Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
by Marion Starkey
Listed under Salem Witchcraft Trials

Dark Tide : The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
by Stephen Puleo
Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents in a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that traveled at thirty-five miles per hour. When the tide receded, a section of the city’s North End had been transformed into a war zone. The Great Boston Molasses Flood claimed the lives of twenty-one people and scores of animals, injured more than a hundred, and caused widespread destruction. The Publisher
Hardcover from Beacon Press

A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point-A Community History
by Jane Roessner
Paperback from Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies

Fixed : How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball
by David Porter
Listed under Massachusetts Sports

The Fifth of March : A Story of the Boston Massacre (Great Episodes)
by Ann Rinaldi (Author)
Reading level: Young Adult

From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors
by Lawrence J. Vale
Hardcover from Harvard Univ Pr

Gaining Ground: The History of Landmaking in Boston
by Nancy S. Seasholes
Hardcover from MIT Press

The Hub : Boston Past and Present
by Thomas H. O'Connor

Journey Around Boston From A to Z
by Martha Day Zschock
(Hardcover)

Lost Boston
by Jane Holtz Kay (Author)
(Paperback)

The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860

King Philip's War: Based on the Archives and Records of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and Contemporary Letters
Listed under Connecticut History

Farmers & Fishermen : Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
by Daniel Vickers

Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 : Massachusetts
by United States Bureau of the Census
Listed under Massachusetts Genealogy

The Heart of the Commonwealth : Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713-1861
by John L. Brooke

Journey Around Boston From A to Z
by Martha Day Zschock
Hardcover from Commonwealth Editions

A Journey to the New World : The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower,1620 (Dear America)
by Kathryn Lasky
School & Library Binding from Scholastic

Keeping Hearth & Home in Old Massachusetts: A Practical Primer for Everyday Living
by Carol Padgett
Hardcover from Menasha Ridge Press

The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook
by David Kent
Includes the complete transcript of Lizzie Borden's testimony at the inquest.
Hardcover from Branden Publishing Co
1992

Land of the Commonwealth: A Portrait of the Conserved Landscapes of Massachusetts
by Richard Cheek (Photographer), John Updike, Robert E. Cook

A Little Commonwealth : Family Life in Plymouth Colony
by John Demos

The Laces of Ipswich: The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry, 1750-1840
by Marta Cotterell Raffel, Marta M. Cotterell
Paperback from University Press of New England

Mapping Boston

Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Theodore E. Stebbins, Peter C. Sutton (Photographer)

More Once Told Tales of Worcester County
by Albert B. Southwick

Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin DAVIS Vol. III Neal-Wright
by Walter Goodwin Davis, Gary Boyd Roberts
Listed under New England Genealogy

N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims
by Robert D. San Souci, N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator)
(Paperback)

1918 : Babe Ruth and the World Champion Boston Red Sox
by Allan Wood
Listed under Babe Ruth

Once-Told Tales of Worcester County
by Albert B. Southwick

Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine
by M. William Phelps
Listed under Serial Killers

Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647
by William Bradford
(Paperback)

A People's Army: Massachusett Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War
by Fred Anderson
Paperback from Univ of North Carolina Pr

Puritans: An American Family Portrait
by Jack Cavanaugh
Paperback from Chariot Victor Books
1994

Roadside Geology of Massachusetts (Roadside Geology Series)
by James William Skehan
Listed under Roadside Geology

The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
by Jack Beatty
Paperback from DaCapo Press

The Story of the Pilgrims (Pictureback)
by Carolyn Croll, Katharine K. Ross
Paperback from Random House (Merchandising)

Stuart Davis in Gloucester
by Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis, Judith McCullock, Sharon Workey, Sharon Worley
Hardcover from Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Sea Stories of Cape Cod and the Islands
by Admont G. Clark, Admont Gulick Clark
(Hardcover)

The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-To-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
by Marilynne K. Roach
Listed under Salem Witchcraft Trials

So Far From Home : The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)
by Barry Denenberg
Listed under Dear America Series

Walden
Listed under Henry David Thoreau

Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
by Russell Duncan
Listed under Civil War Massachusetts

Women and the City: Gender, Power, and Space in Boston, 1870-1940
by Sarah Jane Deutsch
Hardcover from Oxford Press

Massachusetts Facts and Symbols (McAuliffe, Emily. States and Their Symbols.)
by Emily McAuliffe, Mary Ellen Sorensen
School & Library Binding from Bridgestone Books

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The Saltworks of Historic Cape Cod : A Record of the Nineteenth Century Economic Boom in Barnstable County
by William P. Quinn
Out of Print - Try Used Books
 
 

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