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The following books are available for $8.50 each (includes postage and $1.00 PayPal fee). These edited collections were published through Westfield State College’s Institute for Massachusetts Studies. See below for tables of contents.
Checks should be made payable to the Historical Journal of Massachusetts, and sent to: Editor Mara Dodge, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Westfield State College, 577 Western Avenue, Westfield, MA 01086.
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Sports in Massachusetts: Historical Essays
Edited by Ronald Story
Massachusetts Baseball and Cricket, 1840-1870, George Kirsch 1
Take Me to the Brawl Game: Sports and Workers in Gilded Massachusetts
Robert Weir 16
A Game of Synthesis: Basketball’s Transformation of an Evangelical Idea
Michael Trotman 37
The Old Ballparks of Massachusetts, Richard L. Miller 51
“Millions of Flakes of Fun in Massachusetts”:Boston and the Development
of Skiing, 1870-1940, E. John B. Allen 69
From Subsistence to Sport: Blood Sports in Massachusetts
Jan Dizard 96
Baseball at the Eastern Women’s Colleges: During the Victorian Period
Gai Berlage 109
The Manager’s Endgame, Glenn Stout 121
Harvard and the Color Line: The Case of Lucien Alexis, Jr.
Patrick B. Miller 137
Minor Frustrations: The Demise of Bush League Baseball in Massachusetts
Jerome M. Mileur 165
Readings on the History of Sports 167
Massachusetts Politics: Selected Historical Essays
Edited by Jack Tager, Martin Kaufman and Michael Konig
Jack Tager, “From a ‘City Upon a Hill’ to a Metropolitan Polity” viii
Thomas McMullin, “Introduction: The Struggle for Power in Massachusetts” 1
Jack Tager, “The Language of the Unheard’: Boston and Rioting
In Pre-Revolutionary America” 7
Michael C. Batinski, “Elisha Cooke, Jr. and the Problem of Legislative
Leadership in the Eighteenth Century” 32
Matthew H. Crocker, “The siege of Boston is once more raised”:
Municipal Politics and the Collapse of Federalism, 1821-1823” 52
Lori Bogle, “Paradox Of Opportunities: Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell,
And the Tragedy of Freedom” 72
Henry Bedford, “The Lawrence Strike of 1912 and the Failure of the
Massachusetts Socialist Party” 90
Ronald Petrin, “Ethnicity and Urban Politics: French Canadians in
Worcester, 1895-191” 104
Ronald Story, “Government and the Use of Power in Massachusetts” 121
Lawrence Kennedy. “Boston’s First Irish Mayor: Hugh O’Brien, 1885-1889” 128
Kathleen Banks Nutter, “Women Reformers and the Limitations of Labor Politics
In Progressive Era Massachusetts” 153
James J. Kenneally, “A Delegation Divided: Massachusetts and the Nomination
of Dwight D. Eisenhower” 174
Michael F. Konig, “Federal Defense Politics and the Closing of the
Springfield Armory” 191
Jack Tager, “Urban Renewal in Boston: Municipal Entrepreneurs
and Urban Elites” 223
Education in Massachusetts: Selected Essays
Editors: Michael F. Konig and Martin Kaufman
Brian C. Mitchell, “Educating Irish Immigrants in Antebellum Lowell” 3
Robert T. Brown, “The Reform of the Normal School, 1894-1914” 17
Richard A. Yanikoski, “Harvard University’s Early Quest for a Graduate
School of Theoretical and Practical Science” 36
Ivan Greenberg, “Reformers, Workers, and the Half-Day Mill School
Movement of the 1870’s” 65
Timothy J. Meager, “The Delayed Development of Parochial Education
Among Irish Catholic in Worcester” 80
Mary J. Oates, “The Professional Preparation of Parochial School Teachers,
1870-1940” 103
Mary Roth Walsh and Francis R. Walsh, “Integrating Men’s Colleges at the
Turn of the Century” 123
Jack W. Berryman, “Early Black Leadership in Collegiate Football” 139
James W. Fraser, “Honey Fitz and Boston’s School, 1905-1913” 155
John P. Whittaker, “Bringing College to the People” 175
Edmund B. Thomas, Jr., “Patriotism vs. Academic Freedom; The Teacher’s
Oath of 1935” 199
Robert Paul Gabrielsky, “Construction and Protest at the University
of Massachusetts in the 1960s” 219
Labor in Massachusetts: Selected Essays
Editors: Kenneth Fones-Wolf and Martin Kaufman
The Transition to Industrialization: Editor’s Note 1
Kenneth Fones-Wolf
The Changing Division of Skill and Responsibility Among Boston 15
Housewrights, 1787-1837 by Lisa B. Lubow
Women’s Work in the Western Massachusetts Rural Economy 30
Marjorie Ruzich Abel
Minders of Machines 1825-1845 53
Timothy C. Coogan
Aftermath of a Disaster: The Collapse of the Pemberton Mill 77
Clarisse A. Poirier
The Rise and Fall of Craft Unionism: Editor’s Note 98
Kenneth Fones-Wolf
When Friends Fall Out: Charles Litchman and the Role of Personality in the
Knights of Labor by Robert E. Weir 103
We are Freeborn American Women: The Persistent Politics of Native-Born,
New England Women as Nineteenth-Century Industrial Workers 124
Mary H. Blewett
Resistance, Reform, and Repression: Italian Immigrant Laborers in
Clinton, 1896-1906 138
Jill Lepore
Worcester, Open Shop City: The National Metal Trades Association
and the Molders’ Strike of 1918-1920 168
Bruce Cohen
Maintaining Unions in a Worldwide Political Economy: Editor’s Note 199
Kenneth Fones-Wolf
Unions, Labor Markets, and Deindustrialization: The Holyoke Textile
Industry 207
William Hartford
The Long Strike: The Practice of Solidarity Among Boston’s
Packinghouse Workers 233
Jim Bollen and Jim Green
The Fight Against Question Two: Craft Unions in the Political Arena,
1988 258
Mark Erlich