Historic New England

A passion for collecting :the art of displaying objects from the exotic to the everyday /Caroline Clifton-Mogg ; photography by Simon Upton.

192 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 2002.

Creators: Clifton-Mogg, Caroline. Upton, Simon, 1967-

GUSN: 258436

Call Number: Coll. NK 2115.5 .C58 C58 2002

Out of the attic :inventing antiques in twentieth-century New England /Briann G. Greenfield.

xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Briann G. Greenfield traces the transformation of antiques from family keepsakes to valuable artistic objects, examining the role of collectors, dealers, and museum makers in the construction of a new tradition based on the aesthetic qualities of early American furnishin...

Date: c2009.

Creators: Greenfield, Briann (Briann G.), 1970-

GUSN: 258437

Call Number: Stacks NK1133.28.G74 2009 (and 1 more)

Domestic broils :Shakers, antebellum marriage, and the narratives of Mary and Joseph Dyer /edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth A. De Wolfe.

xii, 160 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Dyer, Mary M., b. 1780. De Wolfe, Elizabeth A., 1961- Dyer, Joseph. Compendious narrative elucidating the character, disposition, and conduct of Mary Dyer, from the time of her marriage, in 1799, till she left the society called Shakers, in 1815.

GUSN: 258438

Call Number: Stacks BX9773.D94 2010

The pilgrim soul /Anne Miller Downes ; with new illustrations by Gloria J. Laurie.

iv, 277 p. : ill. ; 21 cm., Dolly Copp and her husband, Hayes, moved to a New Hampshire homestead in the 19th century and, "built a farm, raised a family, and warmly opened their home to the many travellers who passed by their door."

Date: 1997.

Creators: Downes, Anne Miller.

GUSN: 258439

Call Number: Stacks PS3507.O777 P55 1997

Israel Potter :his 50 years of exile /Herman Melville; introduction by Ian S. Maloney.

xvii, 205 p. 21 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

GUSN: 258440

Call Number: Stacks PS2384.I7 2006

Beyond freedom /by Patricia Q. Wall.

174 p. : map ; 22 cm., " 'It's hopeless for us.' Five years ago, young Matty Warren never dreamed of saying such a thing. When her family gained their freedom in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and moved to the North Slope Village on Beacon HIll, she was a joyful optimist. ... Now, at age fifteen, she ca...

Date: 2010.

Creators: Wall, Patricia Q.

GUSN: 258441

Call Number: Stacks PZ7.W355 B49 2010

Stone by stone :the magnificent history in New England's stone walls /Robert M. Thorson.

xiii, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm., Presents a geo-archeological study of New England's stone walls exploring how they were built, their physical properties, and the function and structure of the walls.

Date: 2002.

Creators: Thorson, Robert M., 1951-

GUSN: 258442

Call Number: Stacks TH2249.T46 2002

A short guide to writing about art /Sylvan Barnet.

xv, 366 p. : ill. ; 22 cm., This book is for art courses where there is a writing component. Would you like your students to have the tools to write confidently about art? This best-selling text has guided tens of thousands of art students through the writing process. Students are shown how to analy...

Date: 2011.

Creators: Barnet, Sylvan.

GUSN: 258443

Call Number: Stacks N7476.B37 2011

Boston radio :1920-2010 /Donna L. Halper.

127 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Boston's radio history begins with pioneering station 1XE/WGI, one of America's first radio stations, and includes the first station to receive a commercial license, WBZ; the first FM radio network, W1XOJ and W1XER; and one of the first news networks, the Yankee News Service....

Date: c2011.

Creators: Halper, Donna L.

GUSN: 258444

Call Number: Stacks PN1991.3.U6 H265 2011

Boston Public Library /Catherine J. Willis ; foreword by Amy E. Ryan.

128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Willis, Catherine J. Ryan, Amy E.

GUSN: 258445

Call Number: Stacks Z733.B752 W6 2011

Historic New England :an exhibition and sale of paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture illustrating four centuries of the history, culture, and natural beauty of the New England Region to benefit Historic New England.

1 v. (unpaged) : ill (chiefly col.), map ; 15 x 23 cm.

Date: 2010]

Creators: William Vareika Fine Arts (Firm)

GUSN: 258446

Call Number: Stacks N6515.H47 2010

In search of Motif No. 1 :the history of a fish shack /L.M. Vincent.

158 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Date: 2011.

Creators: Vincent, Lawrence M.

GUSN: 258447

Call Number: Stacks F74.R68 V56 2011

Beacon Street :its buildings & residents /Robert E. Guarino.

190 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 2011.

Creators: Guarino, Robert E.

GUSN: 258448

Call Number: Stacks F73.67.B43 G83 2011

Ten tea parties :patriotic protests that history forgot /by Joseph Cummins.

224 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: c2012.

Creators: Cummins, Joseph.

GUSN: 258449

Call Number: Stacks E210.C86 2012

Signing their rights away :the fame and misfortune of the men who signed the United States Constitution /by Denise Kiernan & Joseph D'Agnese.

254 p. : ill. ; 20 cm., Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the thirty-nine signers of the United States Constitution, including Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and James McHenry.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Kiernan, Denise. D'Agnese, Joseph.

GUSN: 258450

Call Number: Stacks E302.5.K54 2011

Bad for democracy :how the Presidency undermines the power of the people /Dana D. Nelson.

xviii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Nelson, Dana D.

GUSN: 259734

Call Number: Stacks JK516.N35 2008

The Documentary history of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800 /with a foreword by Warren E. Burger ; Maeva Marcus, editor, James R. Perry, editor ; James M. Buchanan, associate editor, Christine R. Jordan, associate editor ; Stephen L. Tull, assistant editor ... [et al.] ; Marc Pachter, illustrations editor.

: ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1985-<2007>

Creators: Marcus, Maeva, 1941- Perry, James R., 1950-1990. United States. Supreme Court.

GUSN: 259735

Call Number: Stacks KF8742.A45 D66 2007

In the past lane :historical perspectives on American culture /Michael Kammen.

xvi, 277 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Kammen, Michael G.

GUSN: 259736

Call Number: Stacks E169.1.K256 1999

Finding Katahdin :an exploration of Maine's past /by Amy Hassinger.

x, 448 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 26 cm.

Date: 2001.

Creators: Hassinger, Amy.

GUSN: 259737

Call Number: Stacks F19.3.H37x 2001

The forts of New France in northeast America, 1600-1763 /René Chartrand ; illustrated by Brian Delf ; series editors, Marcus Cowper and Nikolai Bogdanovic.

64 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 25 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Chartrand, René.

GUSN: 259738

Call Number: Stacks UG413.C3 C43 2008

Freud's memory :psychoanalysis, mourning, and the foreign body /Rob White.

vi, 183 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: White, Rob, 1970-

GUSN: 259739

Call Number: Stacks BF109.F74 W52 2008

Imagining New England :explorations of regional identity from the pilgrims to the mid-twentieth century /Joseph A. Conforti.

xiv, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., This work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New En...

Date: c2001.

Creators: Conforti, Joseph A.

GUSN: 259740

Call Number: Stacks F4.C76 2001

Music in rural New England family and community life, 1870-1940 /Jennifer C. Post.

xiv, 313 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Date: c2004.

Creators: Post, Jennifer C.

GUSN: 259741

Call Number: Stacks ML200.P67 2004

Basic perspective drawing :a visual approach /John Montague.

ix, 253 p. : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: Montague, John, 1944-

GUSN: 259742

Call Number: Stacks NC750.M648 1998

The Papers of Francis Bernard :Governor of colonial Massachusetts, 1760-69 /edited by Colin Nicolson.

v. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 26 cm., "The Bernard Papers is a comprehensive selection of the correspondence and other papers of Sir Francis Bernard (1712-1779), governor of colonial Massachusetts between 1760-1769. This volume is the first of a projected three volumes of edited transcripts co...

Date: 2007-

Creators: Nicolson, Colin, 1961- Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712-1779. Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 259743

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 2007 v.73 (and 1 more)

Catalogue of books in the Massachusetts historical library :an annotated edition of the 1796 library catalogue of the Massachusetts Historical Society /compiled by John D. Cushing ... [et al.].

xvi, 598 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1996.

Creators: Cushing, John D., 1922- Massachusetts Historical Society.

GUSN: 259744

Call Number: 85M Ref. Z1295.M39 1996

"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

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