Historic New England

The Lowell experiment :public history in a postindustrial city /Cathy Stanton.

xvi, 299 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Stanton, Cathy.

GUSN: 242387

Call Number: Stacks HT177.L73 S83 2006

Moving encounters :sympathy and the Indian question in Antebellum literature /Laura L. Mielke.

xii, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Mielke, Laura L.

GUSN: 242389

Call Number: Stacks PS217.I49 M54 2008

Prodigy houses of Virginia :architecture and the native elite /Barbara Burlison Mooney.

ix, 366 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Mooney, Barbara Burlison, 1952-

GUSN: 242391

Call Number: Stacks NA7613.V8 M66 2008

Inventing American modernism :Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus legacy at Harvard /Jill Pearlman.

x, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Pearlman, Jill E., 1954-

GUSN: 242393

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA2300.H352 P43 2007

Historic photos of Boston /text and captions by Timothy Orwig.

x, 206 p. : chielfy ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Orwig, Timothy, 1959-

GUSN: 242395

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.37.O68 2006

Building Victorian Boston :the architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant /Roger G. Reed.

xiii, 224 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Reed, Roger G., 1950- Bryant, Gridley James Fox, 1816-1899.

GUSN: 242397

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.B743 R44 2007

Electra to the rescue :saving a steamboat and the story of Shelburne Museum /Valerie Biebuyck ; afterword by Elliot Bostwick Davis.

47 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 x 25 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Biebuyck, Valerie.

GUSN: 242399

Call Number: Coll. F59.S49 B54 2008

Architectural improvisation :a history of Vermont's design/build movement 1964-1977 /edited by Janie Cohen ; essays by Danny Sagan and Kevin Dann.

84 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), plans ; 24 cm., A radical, Vermont-based architectural movement characterized by organic forms, improvisational processes, hands-on methods, and natural materials.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Cohen, Janie. Sagan, Danny. Dann, Kevin T., 1956- Robert Hull Fleming Museum.

GUSN: 242401

Call Number: Stacks NA730.V4 A73 2008

Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson :a journey into America's architectural past /Hugh Howard.

xii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Includes information on Charles Bulfinch, classicism, Charles Louis Clerisseau, Elenora Coolidge, Maria Hadfield Cosway, Derby Mansion, Federal Hall (New York), Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Monticello, Andrea Palladio, Charles Willson Peale, Anna Mari...

Date: 2006.

Creators: Howard, Hugh, 1952-

GUSN: 242403

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA2543.S6 H69 2006

Portraits of a people :picturing African Americans in the nineteenth century /Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw ; contributions by Emily K. Shubert.

183 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1968- Shubert, Emily K. Addison Gallery of American Art. Delaware Art Museum. Long Beach Museum of Art.

GUSN: 242405

Call Number: Stacks N7593.2.S53 2006

A shoe-maker's story :being chiefly about French Canadian immigrants, enterprising photographers, rascal Yankees, and Chinese cobblers in a nineteenth-century factory town /Anthony W. Lee.

vii, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., "On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--t...

Date: c2008.

Creators: Lee, Anthony W., 1960-

GUSN: 242407

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.A336 L43 2008

Town born :the political economy of New England from its founding to the Revolution /Barry Levy.

vi, 354 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm., In Town Born, Barry Levy shows that New England's distinctive and far more egalitarian order was due neither to the colonists' peasant traditionalism nor to the region's inhospitable environment. Instead, New England's labor system and relative equality were every b...

Date: c2009.

Creators: Levy, Barry.

GUSN: 242409

Call Number: Stacks HC107.A11 L48 2009

Stories in stone :how geology influenced Connecticut history and culture /Jelle Zeilinga de Boer.

206 p., 12 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle.

GUSN: 242411

Call Number: Stacks QE93.Z45 2009

Stopping places along Duxbury roads /Margery L. MacMillan.

108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1991.

Creators: MacMillan, Margery L. Duxbury Rural Historical Society (Duxbury, Mass.)

GUSN: 242413

Call Number: Stacks F74.D95 M35 1991

Duxbury :a guide /Katherine H. Pillsbury.

viii, 136 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Pillsbury, Katherine H. Duxbury Rural and Historical Society (Duxbury, Mass.)

GUSN: 242415

Call Number: Stacks F74.D95 P54 1999

A city so grand :the rise of an American metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 /Stephen Puleo.

xiii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., The book is a history of Boston's emergence as a world-class city. Once upon a time, Boston Town was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of th...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Puleo, Stephen.

GUSN: 242417

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.P966 2010

Maid as muse :how servants changed Emily Dickinson's life and language /Aâife Murray.

xi, 299 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Murray, Aife.

GUSN: 242419

Call Number: Stacks PS1541.Z5 M86 2009

Bold vision :the development of the parks of Portland, Maine /edited by Theo H.B.M. Holtwijk and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

xiv, 225 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 x 32 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Holtwijk, Theo H. B. M. Shettleworth, Earle G.

GUSN: 242421

Call Number: Stacks SB482.M2 P725 1999

Scrapbooks :an American history /Jessica Helfand.

190 p. : ill. ; 24 x 32 cm., Scrapbook makers preserve on the pages of their books a moment, a day, or a lifetime. Examine the history of the American scrapbook-- their origins, their makers, their diverse forms, the reasons for their popularity, and their place in American culture.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Helfand, Jessica. J.M. Kaplan Fund.

GUSN: 242423

Call Number: Stacks TR465.H445 2008 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Glass plates and wooden boats :the yachting photography of Willard B. Jackson at Marblehead, 1897-1936 /Matthew P. Murphy.

192 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Murphy, Matthew P. Jackson, Willard B.

GUSN: 242425

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR670.5.M87 2006

Beautiful ambrotypes :early photographs /edited by Heather Forbes ; introduction by Paul Cox.

[48] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1989.

Creators: Forbes, Heather, 1948-

GUSN: 249104

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR15.F67 1989

"The troubled roar of the waters" :Vermont in flood and recovery, 1927-1931 /Deborah Pickman Clifford and Nicholas R. Clifford.

xix, 229 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Clifford, Nicholas Rowland.

GUSN: 249105

Call Number: Stacks F54.C58 2007

Museums and memory /edited by Susan A. Crane.

x, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Crane, Susan A.

GUSN: 249106

Call Number: Stacks AM7.M8815 2000

A patchwork garden :unexpected pleasures from a country garden /Sydney Eddison.

225 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Eddison, Sydney, 1932-

GUSN: 249107

Call Number: Stacks SB466.U7 E334 1990

Landscape with figures :nature & culture in New England /Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

xx, 317 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Ryden, Kent C., 1959-

GUSN: 249108

Call Number: Stacks GF504.N45 R93 2001

A history of American architecture :buildings in their cultural and technological context /Mark Gelernter.

xxii, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Gelernter, Mark, 1951-

GUSN: 249109

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA705.G35 1999

The naked Quaker :true crimes and controversies from the courts of colonial New England /Diane Rapaport.

xii, 145 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Rapaport, Diane.

GUSN: 249110

Call Number: Stacks HV6793.N295 R36 2007

Masonic temples :freemasonry, ritual architecture, and masculine archetypes /William D. Moore.

xix, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., "In Masonic Temples, William D. Moore introduces readers to the structures American Freemasons erected over the sixty-year period from 1870 to 1930, when these temples became a ubiquitous feature of the American landscape." "Using New York State as a case study, Moore no...

Date: c2006.

Creators: Moore, William D., 1963-

GUSN: 249111

Call Number: Stacks NA8001.M66 2006

Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn :a social history of the tea room craze in America /Jan Whitaker.

xiii, 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Date: c2002.

Creators: Whitaker, Jan.

GUSN: 249112

Call Number: 85M Stacks GT2905.W44 2002

A time to every purpose :the four seasons in American culture /Michael Kammen.

336 p., 48 p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c2004.

Creators: Kammen, Michael G.

GUSN: 249113

Call Number: Stacks E169.1.K295 2004

Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants in the mill city :changing families, communities, institutions-- thirty years afterward /edited by Tuyet-Lan Pho, Jeffrey N. Gerson, and Sylvia R. Cowan.

xiii, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Pho, Tuyet-Lan. Gerson, Jeffrey N., 1956- Cowan, Sylvia R.

GUSN: 249114

Call Number: 85M Stacks E184.K47 S68 2007

Snow in America /Bernard Mergen.

xxi, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Mergen, Bernard.

GUSN: 249115

Call Number: Stacks QC929.S7 M44 1997

Snow Squall :the last American clipper ship /Nicholas Dean ; expedition accounts by David C. Switzer.

xvi, 301 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Date: 2001.

Creators: Dean, Nicholas. Switzer, David C.

GUSN: 249116

Call Number: Stacks VM311.S7 D43 2001

The lost fleet :a Yankee whaler's struggle against the Confederate Navy and Arctic disaster /Marc Songini.

xii, 432 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Songini, Marc L.

GUSN: 249117

Call Number: Stacks SH383.2.S66 2007

Quick escapes Boston :25 weekend getaways from the hub /by Sandy MacDonald.

xiv, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: MacDonald, Sandy.

GUSN: 249118

Call Number: Stacks F73.18.M33 2000

Saving America's treasures /National Trust for Historic Preservation ; photographs by Ira Block ; text by Dwight Young ; essays by Ian Frazier ... [et al.].

192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Young, Dwight. Block, Ira. National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. National Geographic Society (U.S.)

GUSN: 249119

Call Number: Stacks E159.S26 2000

Massachusetts from colony to commonwealth :an illustrated history /Judith Freeman Clark & Robert J. Allison ; picture research by Ruth Owen Jones.

338 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c2002.

Creators: Clark, Judith Freeman. Allison, Robert J. Jones, Ruth Owen.

GUSN: 249120

Call Number: 85M Stacks F64.C58 2002

New Haven Railroad /Peter E. Lynch.

160 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Lynch, Peter E., 1945- New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company.

GUSN: 249121

Call Number: Stacks TF25.N726 L96 2003

New Hampshire then and now :contemporary photographs and essay /by Peter E. Randall.

xiv, 162 p. : chiefly ill., col. map ; 24 x 31 cm.

Date: 2006

Creators: Randall, Peter, 1940- New Hampshire Historical Society.

GUSN: 249122

Call Number: Stacks F35.R37 2006

Picturing Nantucket :an art history of the island with paintings from the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association : works by artists born before 1900 /edited by Michael A. Jehle ; with essays and catalogue by Margaret Moore Booker ... [et al.] ; additional contributions by Peter Benes ... [et al.].

ix, 253 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Jehle, Michael A. Booker, Margaret Moore. Benes, Peter. Nantucket Historical Association.

GUSN: 249123

Call Number: Stacks ND1460.N33 N36 2000

A place of beauty :the artists and gardens of the Cornish Colony /Alma M. Gilbert & Judith B. Tankard.

viii, 136 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Gilbert-Smith, Alma. Tankard, Judith B.

GUSN: 249124

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB466.U65 N524 2000

Portable and prefabricated houses of the thirties :the E.F. Hodgson Company 1935 and 1939 catalogs : an unabridged reprint /[text additions by] Paul H. Tedesco and [composition and design by] James B. Tedesco.

xlii, 63, 48 p. : ill., plans ; 28 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Tedesco, Paul H. Tedesco, James B. Dover Historical Society (Dover, Mass.) E.F. Hodgson Co.

GUSN: 249125

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7205.T43 2007

Light on the hill,by Russell E. Miller.

v. illus., facsim., map, ports. 25 cm.

Date: [1966]-

Creators: Miller, Russell E.

GUSN: 249126

Call Number: Stacks LD5393.M5 1966

American diaries in manuscript, 1580-1954;a descriptive bibliography.

xvi, 176 p. 25 cm.

Date: [1974]

Creators: Matthews, William, 1905-1975. Matthews, William, 1905-1975. American diaries.

GUSN: 249127

Call Number: Stacks PS669.3.M32 1974

Textiles in New England II :four centuries of material life /editor, Peter Benes ... [et al.].

272 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1999, c2001.

Creators: Benes, Peter. Boston University. Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (24th : 1999)

GUSN: 249128

Call Number: 85M Stacks F1.D82 1999

Samuel Adams :father of the American Revolution /Mark Puls.

273 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm., "A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers, Samuel Adams forced Britain into coercive military measures that ultimately led to America's irreversible split from the empire. He was behind nearly every major protest over British rule, and his pioneerin...

Date: 2006.

Creators: Puls, Mark, 1963-

GUSN: 249129

Call Number: Stacks E302.6.A2 P85 2006

Sojourner Truth :a life, a symbol /Nell Irvin Painter.

xii, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women - indeed...

Date: c1996.

Creators: Painter, Nell Irvin.

GUSN: 249387

Call Number: Stacks E185.97.T8 P35 1996

Reflections in Bullough's Pond :economy and ecosystem in New England /Diana Muir.

x, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., The author uses Bullough's Pond in Newton, Massachusetts to trace the history of man's relationship with nature including survival, innovation, exploitation, and conservation.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Muir, Diana.

GUSN: 249388

Call Number: Stacks HC107.A11 M84 2000

Letters of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American Renaissance woman /edited, with an introduction, by Bruce A. Ronda.

xviii, 477 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894. Ronda, Bruce A.

GUSN: 249389

Call Number: 85 Stacks CT275.P484 A4 1984

From Shaker lands and Shaker hands :a survey of the industries /M. Stephen Miller.

xv, 190 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Miller, M. Stephen.

GUSN: 249390

Call Number: Stacks BX9784.M55 2007 c. 1 (and 1 more)

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