RECENT ISSUES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SPRING 2010
ARTICLES:
EDITOR’S CHOICE: The Mill River Flood of 1874: From Williamsburg to Northampton by Elizabeth M. Sharpe
PHOTO ESSAY: “A Million Things to Get Done:” The Skinner Family Servants (Holyoke)
by Kate N. Thibodeau
Young Patrick A. Collins and Boston Politics after the Civil War by Lawrence W. Kennedy
“Red Riots” and the Origins of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, 1915-1930 by Shawn M. Lynch
Esther Forbes’s Rainbow on the Road: Portrait of the 19th Century Provincial Artist by Kent P. Ljungquist
Defending the “New England Way”: Cotton Mather’s “Exact Map of New England and New York” by Jefferson Dillman
TEACHING RESOURCES:
Teaching Massachusetts History: Onliine Resources by Kate N. Thibodeau
Mass Moments: Teaching Resources from Mass Humanities
New Museums and Historic Sites: Florence and Turner’s Falls
BOOK REVIEWS
The Great Gypsy Moth War: The History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901 by Robert J. Spear
REVIEWED BY CORINNE H. SMITH
Beyond Vietnam: The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990 by Robert Surbrug
REVIEWED BY ROBERT E. WEIR
Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth edited by Lynne Zacek Bassett
REVIEWED BY DIXIE WEBB
Boston Women’s Heritage Trail: Seven Self-Guided Walks Through Four Centuries of Boston’s Women’s History by Polly Welts Kaufman, Jean Gibran, Sylvia McDowell, and Mary Howland Smoyer
REVIEWED BY KATE CULKIN
Asian Americans in New England: Culture and Community edited by Monica Chiu
REVIEWED BY KAM TEO
King Caesar of Duxbury – Exploring the World of Ezra Weston, Shipbuilder and Merchant by Patrick T.J. Browne
REVIEWED BY ANTHONY MANN
Emerson by Lawrence Buell
REVIEWED BY PAUL E. TEED
Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Stauffer
REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER CAMERON
The Fragile Fabric of Union; Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War by Brian Schoen
REVIEWED BY STEPHEN DONNELLY
Introduction to African American Photographs: Identification, Research, Care & Collecting, 1840-1950 by Ross J. Kelbaugh
REVIEWED BY YUYA KIUCHI
Fresh Pond: The History of a Cambridge Landscape by Jill Sinclair
REVIEWED BY CAROL BUNDY
Fall 2009
PHOTO ESSAY: The Allen Sisters: “Foremost Women Photographers in America”
by Suzanne L. Flynt
EDITOR’S CHOICE: Mr. and Mrs. Prince: An African American Courtship and Marriage in Colonial Deerfield
by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
African American Heritage Trails: From Boston to the Berkshires
by Anita C. Danker
“Something Will Drop:” Socialists, Unions, and Trusts in Nineteenth-Century Holyoke by Joshua L. Root
“Until Death Do Us Part”: Wills, Widows Women, and Dower in Oxford County,
1805-20 by Jean F. Hankins
Politics, Honor, and Self-Defense in Post-Revolutionary Boston: The 1806 Manslaughter Trial of Thomas Selfridge by Jack Tager
“Weltering in Their Own Blood”: Puritan Casualties in King Philip’s War
by Robert E. Cray, Jr.
Teaching the History of Education in Collaboration with a College Archive
by Kelly Kolodny, Julia Zoino-Jeannetti and Colleen Previte
BOOK REVIEWS (12)
Spring 2009
ARTICLES:
Don’t Smile for the Camera: Another Angle on Early Photography by Suzanne L. Flynt
Massachusetts Folk Art in the 21st Century: New Immigrants Redefine Tradition by Maggie Holtzberg
“Take Me to the Brawl Game”: Sports and Workers in Gilded Age Massachusetts by Robert Weir
Mrs. Elizabeth Towne: Pioneering Woman in Publishing and Politics (1865-1960) by Tsivia Gover
Black and Irish Relations in 19th Century Boston: The Interesting Case of Lawyer Robert Morris by William Leonard
“Won’t Be Home Again”: A Lynn Grocer’s Letters from the California Gold Rush by Michael Gutierrez
Gentlemen and Scholars: Harvard’s History Department and the Path to Professionalization, 1920-1950 by William Palmer
Building to a Revolution: The Powder Alarm and Popular Mobilization of the New England Countryside, 1774-1775 by Patrick Johnston
TEACHING RESOURCES