Historic New England

A guide to medieval English tithe barns /by James W. Griswold.

vii, 85 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Griswold, James W., 1909-

GUSN: 242371

Call Number: Stacks NA8230.G75 1999 (and 1 more)

The words of Abraham Lincoln /selected and with an introduction by Larry Shapiro.

xiii, 113 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Shapiro, Larry, 1958-

GUSN: 242373

Call Number: Stacks E457.99.W67 2009

The presence of the past :popular uses of history in American life /Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen.

x, 291 p. ; 24 cm., "Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen asked 1,500 Americans about their connection to the past and how it influences their daily lives and hopes for the future. The result is a surprisingly candid series of conversations and reflections on how the past infuses the present with meaning...

Date: c1998.

Creators: Rosenzweig, Roy. Thelen, David P. (David Paul)

GUSN: 242375

Call Number: Stacks E179.5.R67 1998

First lady of letters :Judith Sargent Murray and the struggle for female independence /Sheila L. Skemp.

xvi, 484 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Skemp, Sheila L.

GUSN: 242379

Call Number: Stacks PS808.M8 Z87 2009

Allston-Brighton in transition :from cattle town to streetcar suburb /William P. Marchione.

159 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Marchione, William P., 1942-

GUSN: 242381

Call Number: Stacks F73.68.A44 M36 2007

Women and material culture, 1660-1830 /edited by Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan.

xii, 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Batchelor, Jennie, 1976- Kaplan, Cora.

GUSN: 242383

Call Number: Stacks HQ1587.W627 2007

Passion for reality :Paul Cabot and the Boston mutual fund /Michael R. Yogg.

242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Yogg, Michael R.

GUSN: 242385

Call Number: Stacks HG4621.Y64 2006

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

Folk art in Maine :uncommon treasures, 1750-1925 /edited by Kevin D. Murphy ; photography by Ellen McDermott ; introduction by Stacy C. Hollander ; project directors, Charles E. Burden and Raymond C. Egan.

143 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 x 29 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Murphy, Kevin D. McDermott, Ellen.

GUSN: 242427

Call Number: Coll. NK835.M2 F65 2008 (and 1 more)

Longfellow's early home ...illustrated by copyright photographs from the Lamson studio, Portland, Me.

54 p.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Johnson, Mrs. Mary Kellogg, 1836-

GUSN: 258412

Call Number: Stacks PS2284.J6 1905

Every lady her own shoemaker :or, a complete self-instructor in the art of making gaiters and shoes /by a lady.

39 p., 6 leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 16 cm.

Date: 1989]

Creators: Shine, Carolyn R.

GUSN: 258413

Call Number: 85M Stacks TS990.E83 1989

Exterior decoration :a treatise on the artistic use of colors in the ornamentation of buildings, and a series of designs, illustrating the effects of different combinations of colors in connection with various styles of architecture ; with a new introd. by Samuel J. Dornsife.

95 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 x 39 cm.

Date: 1976, c1975.

Creators: Dornsife, Samuel Jonathan. F.W. Devoe & Co.

GUSN: 258414

Call Number: Stacks TH8025.E98 1976

New directions in American architecture,[by] Robert A. M. Stern.

128 p. illus., plans. 25 cm.

Date: 1969.

Creators: Stern, Robert A. M.

GUSN: 258415

Call Number: Stacks NA712.S7 1969

Richard Meier, architect :buildings and projects, 1966-1976 /introd. by Kenneth Frampton ; postscript by John Hejduk.

238 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Meier, Richard, 1934-

GUSN: 258416

Call Number: Stacks NA737.M44 A55 1976

The architecture of Arata Isozaki /Philip Drew.

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

Date: c1982.

Creators: Drew, Philip, 1943-

GUSN: 258417

Call Number: Stacks NA1559.I79 D73 1982

Hugh Newell Jacobsen, architect /designed and edited by Massimo Vignelli ; photographs by Robert Lautman ; introduction by Vincent Scully ; text edited by Kevin W. Green.

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

Date: c1988.

Creators: Jacobsen, Hugh Newell. Vignelli, Massimo. Lautman, Robert C. Green, Kevin W., 1950-

GUSN: 258418

Call Number: Stacks NA737.J3 A4 1988

Artistry and innovation in Pittsburgh glass, 1808-1882 :from Bakewell & Ensell to Bakewell, Pears & Co. /Arlene Palmer.

206 p. : ill., geneal. table ; 32 cm.

Date: c2004.

Creators: Palmer, Arlene M., 1950-

GUSN: 258419

Call Number: Coll. NK5101.P58 F75 2004

Design Research :the store that brought modern living to American homes /by Jane Thompson and Alexandra Lange ; foreword by Rob Forbes ; afterword by Paul Goldberger ; design by Pentagram ; edited by Ruth A. Petalson.

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

Date: [c2010].

Creators: Thompson, Jane (Jane Fiske) Lange, Alexandra. Peltason, Ruth A.

GUSN: 258420

Call Number: 85M Stacks HD9773.U7 D478 2010

Celebrating the American home :50 great houses from 50 American architects /Joanne Kellar Bouknight.

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

Date: 2005.

Creators: Bouknight, Joanne Kellar.

GUSN: 258421

Call Number: Stacks NA7208.B67 2005

Mechanic Street :uncovering the history of a Maine neighborhood /by Eleanor Motley Richardson.

152, [9] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Richardson, Eleanor Motley.

GUSN: 258422

Call Number: Stacks F29.R66 R534 2008

Stories of early 20th century life /compiled from a bicentennial oral history of Arlington, Massachusetts ; interviews by John F. Crowley and Norman Hurst ; edited by Oakes Plimpton.

x, 176 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1992.

Creators: Crowley, John F. Hurst, Norman, 1944- Plimpton, Oakes. Arlington Arts Council (Arlington, Mass.)

GUSN: 258423

Call Number: Stacks F74.A7 S76 1992

Robbins Farm Park, Arlington, Massachusetts :a local history from the Revolutionary War to the present /Oakes Plimpton.

149 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Plimpton, Oakes.

GUSN: 258424

Call Number: Stacks F74.A7 P58 2007

Stoughton /David Allen Lambert.

127 p. : chiefly ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: 2009.

Creators: Lambert, David Allen.

GUSN: 258425

Call Number: Stacks F74.S886 L363 2009

Wakefield revisited /Nancy Bertrand.

127 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm., Since its settlement in 1639, the town now known as Wakefield has enjoyed a rich and varied history. Wakefield Revisited celebrates the personality of this community. Featured are some of the town's most unforgettable characters; from 19th-century house painter Frankl...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Bertrand, Nancy, 1952-

GUSN: 258426

Call Number: Stacks F74.W1 B47 2010

Bennington /Bennington Historical Society and Bennington Museum.

128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2002.

Creators: Bennington Historical Society (Bennington, Vt.) Bennington Museum.

GUSN: 258427

Call Number: Stacks F59.B4 B46 2002

Pownal /Pownal Historical Society.

127 p. : chiefly ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Pownal Historical Society.

GUSN: 258428

Call Number: Stacks F59.P85 P69 2010

Brockton /James E. Benson.

127 p. : chiefly ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Benson, James E.

GUSN: 258429

Call Number: Stacks F74.B8 B46 2010

Bridgewater /David R. Moore.

128 p. : chiefly ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Moore, David R. (David Richardson), 1949-

GUSN: 258430

Call Number: Stacks F74.B7 M75 2003

The 1938 hurricane along New England's coast /Joseph P. Soares.

127 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm., The Hurricane of 1938 was one of the most devastating storms to strike New England's Atlantic coast. It forever changed the landscapes of cities and towns in its path. Throughout the hurricane, the Coast Guard worked tirelessly to provide aid to countless displaced re...

Date: c2008.

Creators: Soares, Joseph P.

GUSN: 258431

Call Number: Stacks QC945.S62 2008

Guide to Oak Hill Section 18 :Cedar Grove Cemetery, Dorchester, Massachusetts /compiled by Robert Bayard Severy, photographer, secretary and historian of the Dorchester Historical Society.

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 22cm.

Date: 2011.

Creators: Severy, Robert Bayard, compiler, author of introduction, etc. Dorchester Historical Society. Cedar Grove Cemetery (Boston, Mass.).

GUSN: 258432

Call Number: Stacks F73.61.C43 S48 2011

Eden on the Charles :the making of Boston /Michael Rawson.

xii, 367 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm., Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don't think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Rawson, Michael.

GUSN: 258433

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.R39 2010

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