Historic New England

American passage :the communications frontier in early New England /Katherine Grandjean.

312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "We know surprisingly little about the way news and people traveled in early America. No postal service or newspapers existed-- not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of l...

Creators: Grandjean, Katherine, 1977-

GUSN: 361507

Call Number: Stacks F7.G736 2015

Buried in shades of night :contested voices, Indian captivity, and the legacy of King Philip's war /Billy J. Stratton ; foreword by Frances Washburn ; afterword by George E. Tinker.

xvi, 203 pages ; 24 cm, "Billy J. Stratton's critical examination of Mary Rowlandson's 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase M...

Creators: Stratton, Billy J., 1970-

GUSN: 361508

Call Number: Stacks E87.R8 S77 2013

Brethren by nature :New England Indians, colonists, and the origins of American slavery /Margaret Ellen Newell.

xi, 316 pages ; 25 cm, "In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shap...

Creators: Newell, Margaret Ellen, 1962- author.

GUSN: 361509

Call Number: Stacks E98.S6 N49 2015

A storm of witchcraft :the Salem trials and the American experience /Emerson W. Baker.

xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort thei...

Creators: Baker, Emerson W., author.

GUSN: 361510

Call Number: Stacks KFM2478.8.W5 B35 2015

Unfreedom :slavery and dependence in eighteenth-century Boston /Jared Ross Hardesty.

xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "In Unfreedom, Jared Ross Hardesty examines the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston. Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of a continuum of ...

Creators: Hardesty, Jared, author.

GUSN: 361511

Call Number: Stacks F73.4 .H37 2016

Paths, tracks, and trails :designing for pedestrians and cyclists /edited by Paolo Ceccon & Laura Zampieri.

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 31 cm, Walking and cycling are becoming a fashionable lifestyle choice both as a low-impact exercise and a healthy means of travel. There is ever-growing demand for the construction of pedestrian and cyclist paths internationally, and i...

Creators: Ceccon, Paolo, editor. Zampieri, Laura (Architect), editor.

GUSN: 361512

Call Number: Stacks NA9074.P38 2016

Green space in the community /edited by Steffan Robel.

248 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, "Public Green Space in the Community refers to the public space that is located in sections of residential land, often a space providing entertainment facilities and a place for the community to interact across various activities. As one of the most important...

Creators: Robel, Steffan, 1972- editor.

GUSN: 361513

Call Number: Stacks SB472.45 .G74 2016

American ceramics now /Twenty-seventh Ceramic National Exhibition ; [editor of catalogue, Thomas Piché, Jr.].

80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Date: 1987.

Creators: Piché, Thomas. Everson Museum of Art. Ceramic National Exhibition (27th : 1987 : Everson Museum of Art)

GUSN: 361514

Call Number: Coll NK4008.C468 1987

Creations in clay :contemporary New England ceramics /[foreword by Susan Strickler ; introduction by Gillian Nagler ; essay by Gerry Williams.

40 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 2004.

Creators: Strickler, Susan E. Nagler, Gillian. Williams, Gerald, 1926-2014. Currier Museum of Art.

GUSN: 361515

Call Number: Coll NK4008.C74 2004

A spectacle in motion :the grand panorama of a whaling voyage 'round the world.

2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 28 cm, "This two-volume publication dives into the detail and narrative of the Panorama and allows people to quite literally hold the entire artwork in the palm of their hands. A maritime artwork of national historical importance, the Panorama is a fi...

Creators: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885, artist. Purrington, Caleb, 1812-1876, artist. New Bedford Whaling Museum,

GUSN: 361530

Call Number: Stacks G545.S64 2018

American furniture 2018 /edited by Luke Beckerdite.

vii, 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Beckerdite, Luke, editor. Chipstone Foundation,

GUSN: 361531

Call Number: Coll NK2405.A6 2019

The Newport experience :sustaining historic preservation into the 21st century /Jeannine Falino ; foreword by Denis de Kergorlay, afterword by Trudy Coxe, edited by Terry Dickinson, Lise Dube-Scherr, Katherine Garrett-Cox, and Gary Ruff.

xx, 162 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm, "Preserving historic houses. Preserving Colonial-era Georgian to Gilded Age mansions. History of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, 75 years. Conservation of American architecture, decorative arts and landscape...

Creators: Falino, Jeannine J., author. Kergolay, Denis de, writer of foreword. Coxe, Trudy, writer of afterword. Dickinson, Terry, editor. Dubé, Lise, editor. Garrett-Cox, Katherine, editor. Ruff, Gary, editor. Preservation Society of Newport County,

GUSN: 361587

Call Number: Stacks NA7235.R42 N497 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

Writings on landscape, culture, and society /Frederick Law Olmsted ; Charles E. Beveridge, editor.

xx, 802 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans ; 21 cm., A highly varied collection including letters, travel sketches, newspaper articles, essays, editorials, design proposals, official reports, and autobiographical reminiscences. Subjects include li...

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, author. Beveridge, Charles E., editor.

GUSN: 359344

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 $b A533 2015

Thirty-eight :the hurricane that transformed New England /Stephen Long.

xv, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm, "The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England's most damaging weather event ever. To call it "New Englands Katrina" might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island a...

Creators: Long, Stephen, 1953- author.

GUSN: 359345

Call Number: Stacks QC945 $b.L66 2016

Imagining Ichabod :my journey into 18th-century America through history, food, and a Georgian house /Paula Bennett.

252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Creators: Bennett, Paula, MEd, author. Agrafiotis, Sandy, photographer.

GUSN: 359346

Call Number: Stacks F29.S67 B46 2016 (and 1 more)

The art and science of Abbott Handerson Thayer /Kevin M. Murphy.

126 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm., Though perhaps best known for his portraits, American painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) also developed detailed theories of animal camouflage. With his fine-arts training and his careful observations of nature, Thayer created w...

Creators: Murphy, Kevin M. (Kevin Michael), author. Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921. Paintings. Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921, artist. Williams College. Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359347

Call Number: Coll ND237.T5 $b A4x 2016

Canoes :a natural history in North America /Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims ; foreword by John McPhee.

xxxiv, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 x 27 cm, Ancient records of canoes are found from the Pacific Northwest to the coast of Maine, in Minnesota and Mexico, in the Southeast and across the Caribbean. Neuzil and Simms tell the story of that singular American artifact, so ...

Creators: Neuzil, Mark, author. Sims, Norman, author. McPhee, John, 1931- author of foreword.

GUSN: 359348

Call Number: Stacks VM353.N48 2016

American impressionist :Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals /edited by Austen Barron Bailly and John W. Coffey ; with contributions by Austen Barron Bailly, Kathleen M. Burnside, John W. Coffey, Hal Weeks, and a photo essay by Alexandra de Steiguer.

124 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm, "American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals traces Hassam's artistic exploration of Appledore Island, the largest island of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, where he traveled nearly every summer for thirty years...

Creators: Bailly, Austen Barron, editor. Coffey, John W. (John William), 1954- editor. North Carolina Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 359349

Call Number: Coll ND237.H345 A4 2016 (and 1 more)

Cyanotypes :photography's blue period /edited by Nancy Kathryn Burns, Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs ; Kristina Wilson, Associate Professor of Art History, Clark University.

95 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm

Creators: Burns, Nancy Kathryn, editor, curator. Wilson, Kristina, editor, curator. Worcester Art Museum, Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)

GUSN: 359350

Call Number: Stacks TR415.C93 2016 c.1 (and 1 more)

Mount Washington :the crown of New England /P. Andrew Spahr ; with essays by Karen E. Quinn, Inez McDermott, Peter Crane.

111 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 29 cm

Creators: Spahr, P. Andrew. From wilderness to icon. Quinn, Karen E. Readjusting the view. McDermott, Inez. To see wonders and beauties. Crane, Peter (Peter Joseph). Scientists and artists in the White Mountains. Currier Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359351

Call Number: Coll F41.6.W3 M95 2016

The lively place :Mount Auburn, America's first garden cemetery, and its revolutionary and literary residents /Stephen Kendrick ; illustrations by Matthew A. Longo.

254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "When Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, located not far from Harvard University, was also a place that reflected and instilled an imperativ...

Creators: Kendrick, Stephen, 1954- author. Unitarian Universalist Association.

GUSN: 359352

Call Number: Stacks F73.61.M8 $b K45 2016

Shelburne Farms :house, gardens, farm, and barns /Glenn Suokko ; foreword by Alec Webb ; afterword by Megan Camp.

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm, The text tells the story of Shelburne Farms, once a magnificent Gilded Age country estate conceived by America's leading aristocrats of the day, Eliza "Lila" Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb. Built between 1886 and 1905, the houses and barns, desi...

Creators: Suokko, Glenn, author. Webb, Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt, 1860-1936, contributor. Webb, William Seward, contributor. Webb, Alec, writer of foreward. Camp, Megan, writer of afterword. Robertson, R. H. (Robert Henderson), 1849- designer.

GUSN: 359379

Call Number: Stacks F59.S49 S86 2017

You had a job for life :story of a company town /Jamie Sayen.

283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, Absentee owners. Single-minded concern for the bottom line. Friction between workers and management. Hostile takeovers at the hands of avaricious and unaccountable multinational interests. The story of America's industrial decline is all too familiar--and yet, some...

Creators: Sayen, Jamie, author.

GUSN: 359380

Call Number: Stacks HD9828.G76 S29 2018

Summer over autumn :a small book of small-town life /Howard Mansfield.

127 pages ; 19 cm, Howard Mansfield's new book, Summer Over Autumn: A Small Book of Small-Town Life is named for what Mansfield calls the moment in late summer when the season is still going strong but you get that first glimpse at autumn. "There's a moment every summer when I look up at a nearby ...

Creators: Mansfield, Howard, author.

GUSN: 359381

Call Number: Stacks F44.H4 M36 2017

Universalists and Unitarians of Maine :a Comprehensive History /by Peter Tufts Richardson.

vii, 686 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm, "Maine's oldest church is Unitarian, founded in Portland in 1674. Half of Maine's early governors were Unitarians. Maine's oldest Universalist congregation was founded in rural Norway in 1798. Inland Universalists prevailed against the...

Creators: Richardson, Peter Tufts, author.

GUSN: 359382

Call Number: Stacks BX9933.5.M2 R53 2017

Art & industry in early America :Rhode Island furniture, 1650-1830 /Patricia E. Kane ; with Dennis Carr, Nancy Goyne Evans, Jennifer N. Johnson, Gary R. Sullivan.

xiii, 494 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm, This book presents new information on the export trade, patronage, artistic collaboration, and the small-scale shop traditions that defined early Rhode Island craftsmanship. This stunning volume features more than 200 illust...

Creators: Kane, Patricia E., author. Carr, Dennis (Dennis Andrew), author. Johnson, Jennifer N., author. Sullivan, Gary R., author. Evans, Nancy Goyne, author. Yale University. Art Gallery,

GUSN: 359383

Call Number: Coll NK2435.R4 A78 2016

William Merritt Chase :a modern master /Elsa Smithgall [and four others] ; with a foreword by D. Frederick Baker.

xix, 227 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), one of America's influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best k...

Creators: Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916, artist. Smithgall, Elsa, author. Baker, D. Frederick, writer of foreword. Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916. Paintings. Phillips Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fondazione Musei civici di Venezia, Museo d'arte moderna Ca' Pesaro, Terra Foundation for American Art,

GUSN: 359384

Call Number: Coll N6537.C464 A4 2016

The Blue Garden :recapturing an iconic Newport landscape /by Arleyn A. Levee ; edited by Sarah Vance.

207 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 31 cm, 1 videodisc (32 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in., Among the many notable gardens created by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and the Olmsted firm, the "Blue Garden" designed for Arthur Curtiss and Harriet Parsons James f...

Creators: Levee, Arleyn A., author. Vance, Sarah, editor Harvey, Millicent, photographer Lee, Marianne, photographer Redwood Library and Athenaeum,

GUSN: 359385

Call Number: Stacks SB466.U7 B58 2016

The instruction of young ladies :arts from private girls' schools and academies in early America /Robert Shaw and Jane Katcher.

79 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Creators: Shaw, Robert, 1951- author. Katcher, Jane, author. Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.),

GUSN: 359386

Call Number: Coll NK806.S53 2016

Polygamy :an early American history /Sarah M.S. Pearsall.

xv, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America. Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian S...

Creators: Pearsall, Sarah M. S., author. Yale University Press,

GUSN: 359396

Call Number: Stacks HQ981.P43 2019

Saving Thoreau's birthplace :How citizens rallied to bring Henry out of the woods /Lucille Stott.

vi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Stott, Lucille., author. Myerson Collection.

GUSN: 359397

Call Number: Stacks PS3053.S368 2018

Olmsted in Seattle :creating a park system for a modern city /by Jennifer Ott.

175 pages : color illustrations, maps, plans, facsimiles ; 23 x 26 cm, "In the midst of galloping growth at the turn of the twentieth century, Seattle's city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture fi...

Creators: Ott, Jennifer, 1971- author.

GUSN: 359398

Call Number: Stacks SB472.7 .O88 2019

Boston in transit :mapping the history of public transportation in the hub /Steven Beaucher.

ix, 579 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 x 29 cm, "Boston in Transit is a comprehensive history of public transportation infrastructure and the modes of transit that have moved Boston for nearly four centuries. Since Boston's founding in 1630, public transportation has been...

Creators: Beaucher, Steven, author. WardMaps LLC,

GUSN: 359399

Call Number: Stacks HE310.B6 B43 2020

The daguerreian annual 1995 :official yearbook of the Daguerreian Society /Laurie A. Bary, editor.

xi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1995.

Creators: Bary, Laurie A., editor. Daguerreian Society.

GUSN: 359404

Call Number: Ref. TR365.D34 1995

Rare light :J. Alden Weir in Windham, Connecticut, 1882-1919 /edited by Anne E. Dawson ; with essays by Charles Burlingham, Jr., Rachel Carley, and Jamie H. Eves.

xvi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., Rare Light is a collection of essays exploring little known facets of the life and career of a major American Impressionist painter. J. Alden Weir (18521919) painted some of his finest canvases while living in Windham in eastern Connecticuts picturesque Quiet...

Creators: Dawson, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth), 1956- editor.

GUSN: 359405

Call Number: Stacks ND237.W4 R37 2016 c.1 (and 1 more)

The last of the hill farms :echoes of Vermont's past /Richard W. Brown ; with a foreword by Thomas P. Slayton.

133 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Brown, Richard, 1945- author, photographer.

GUSN: 359406

Call Number: Stacks F50.B749 2018

Gothic to goth :romantic era fashion & its legacy /Lynne Zacek Bassett.

99 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm, The Romantic movement rejected Enlightenment reason, and embraced instead the imagination and the unknown. Costume of the early nineteenth century integrates the elements of history, imagination, religion, and even landscape central to the Romantic sensibility...

Creators: Bassett, Lynne Z., 1961- author.

GUSN: 359407

Call Number: Coll GT525 .G68 2016

Baskets of time :profiles of Maine Indian basket makers /David Shultz.

145 pages : color illustrations, color map, color portraits ; 26 cm, By the early 1990s, the art of Wabanaki basketry was considered nearly extinct. Today it is recognized as a vibrant and evolving form of Native American art. In their own words, seventeen artists and families share their wide-rangi...

Date: 2017.

Creators: Shultz, David.

GUSN: 359408

Call Number: Coll E78.M2 S348 2017

The world of credit in colonial Massachusetts :James Richards and his daybook, 1692-1711 /edited by James E. Wadsworth.

xviii, 356 pages ; 26 cm

Creators: Richards, James, 1658-1711, author. Wadsworth, James E., 1968- editor.

GUSN: 359409

Call Number: Stacks HF5680.R53 2017

The summer camp memory book :a pictorial treasury of everything, from campfires to color wars, you loved about camp /Richard J.S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman.

viii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã1983.

Creators: Gutman, Richard. Gutman, Kellie O.

GUSN: 359416

Call Number: Stacks GV193.G87 1983

Massachusetts :its historians and its history : an object lesson /by Charles Francis Adams.

110 pages ; 21 cm

Date: 1893.

Creators: Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915.

GUSN: 359417

Call Number: Stacks F64.A21

Webster's first Bunker-Hill oration /edited by Louise Manning Hodgkins.

v, 51 pages : portrait ; 17 cm.

Date: Ã1889.

Creators: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Hodgkins, Louise Manning, 1846-1935.

GUSN: 359418

Call Number: Stacks E241.B9 W23

Architecture in colonial Massachusetts :a conference held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, September 19 and 20.

xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Date: 1979.

Creators: Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 359419

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 1979

The private collection of William S. Reese /Christie's

2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Creators: Goetzmann, William N. Bill Reese remembered. Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc.,

GUSN: 359426

Call Number: Stacks Z1363.C47 2022

Thoreau's animals /Henry David Thoreau ; edited by Geoff Wisner ; illustrated by Debby Cotter Kaspari.

xxiv, 256 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm, "From Thoreau's renowned Journal, a treasury of memorable, funny, and sharply observed accounts of the wild and domestic animals of Concord."--Front flap.

Creators: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, author, illustrator. Kaspari, Debby Cotter, illustrator. Wisner, Geoff, editor.

GUSN: 359427

Call Number: Stacks PS3042.W56 2017

The architecture of Paul Rudolph /Timothy M. Rohan.

ix, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm, Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) shaped both late modernist architecture and a generation of architects while chairing Yale's department of architecture from 1958 to 1965. Based on extens...

Creators: Rohan, Timothy M., author.

GUSN: 359428

Call Number: Stacks NA737.R8 R64 2014

Making it modern :the folk art collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman /Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson ; contributions by Kenneth L. Ames, Barbara Haskell, Cynthia Nadelman, and Elizabeth Stillinger.

375 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm

Creators: Hofer, Margaret K., 1965- author. Olson, Roberta J. M., author. New-York Historical Society, Albuquerque Museum, Addison Gallery of American Art,

GUSN: 359429

Call Number: Coll N5312.H64 2015

Encyclopedia of local history /Carol Kammen and Norma Prendergast.

xvi, 539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "How is local history thought about? How should it be approached? What is the context behind local events and institutions? Where does one start? Through brief, succinct notes and essay-length entries, the Encyclopedia of Local History presents ideas to consi...

Date: Ã2000.

Creators: Kammen, Carol, 1937- Prendergast, Norma.

GUSN: 359434

Call Number: Stacks E180.K25 2000

Wetherby's Gallery :painting, daguerreotypes, & ambrotypes of an artist /Marybeth Slonneger.

iii, 184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Slonneger, Marybeth. State Historical Society of Iowa.

GUSN: 359435

Call Number: Stacks TR647.W4445 2006

The Mount, home of Edith Wharton :a historic structure report.

256 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã1997.

Creators: Marshall, Scott. History of The Mount and report preparation. John G. Waite Associates, Architects.

GUSN: 359436

Call Number: Stacks PS3545.H16 Z748 1997

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