BOOK REVIEWERS NEEDED

The Historical Journal of Massachusetts is looking for reviewers for the following books. If you are interested, please download our Reviewer Form. We welcome suggestions of other new publications which are not on this list that focus on either Massachusetts or New England history. Reviews should be 500-800 words (download our complete guidelines here). Note: Books go quickly so not everything on this list may be available. E-mail all correspondence to booksreviews@wsc.ma.edu

We also publish reviews of exhibits and websites sponsored by museums and historic sites relating to Massachusetts history.

In addition, we are currently seeking new peer reviewers to help evaluate submitted articles. They are usually asked to review one article per year relating to a topic of their choice. Qualifications: M.A. or special expertise in an area; publications. If interested, please download and complete the reviewer form highlighted above.

10/29/09 BOOKS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

GENERAL OVERVIEWS

  1. Baker, James W. Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday (2009)

  2. Clark, Bob. Westfield, Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone (2008)

  3. DeBlasio, Donna, Charles Ganzert, David Mould, Stephen Paschen, and Howard Sacks. Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History. (2009)

  4. Danker, Anita. Multicultural Social Studies: Using Local History in the Classroom. (2005)

  5. Dobbs, G. Michael. Postcard History Series: Springfield, MA (2008) (almost no text)

  6. Orwig, Timothy. Historic Photos of Boston. (2007)

  7. Seasholes, Nancy S. Walking Tours of Boston’s Main Land (2006)

  8. Sharpe, Elizabeth Amherst A-Z: Amherst, Massachusetts, 1759-2009 (2009)

COLONIAL PERIOD/ AMERICAN REVOLUTION

  1. Levy, Barry. Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from It’s Founding to the Revolution (2009)

  2. Kaminski, John P. Ed. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume VI. (2000)

  3. Milford, T.A. The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career  (2005)

  4. Turco, Lewis Putnam. Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England, 1580-1697  (2009)

1789 - 1900

  1. Lee, Anthony W. A Shoemaker’s Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town. (North Adams, MA) (2008)

  2. Foote, Lorien. Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis G. Shaw and Nineteenth Century Reform, 1809-1882   (2003)

  3. Douglas Currie, Ruth. Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger’s Wife, Ardent Feminist. (2004)

  4. Reed, Roger. Building Victorian Boston (2007)

  5.  Wolff, Katherine. Culture Club: The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum (2009)

  6. Romer, Robert H. Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts (2009)

  7. Malone, Patrick M. Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America 2009)

  8.  Levinston, David (ed.) African American Heritage in the Upper Housatonic Valley (2006)
    27. Blachowicz, James. From Slate to Marble: Gravestone Carving in Eastern             Massachusetts, 1770-1870 (2006)
  1. Dwyer-Ryan, Meaghan, Susan Porter, and Lisa Davis. Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston, 1854-2000   (2009)

  2.  Quincy, John Jr. Quincy’s Market (2003)

  3. Barber, Shelley (ed.). The Prendergast Letters: Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland, 1840-1850 (2006)

1900 - Present

  1. Foster, Charles H. W. Ed. Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation: A Heritage of Civic Engagement. (2009)

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  3. Whalen, Carmen Teresa and Victor Vazquez-Hernandez. The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives. (2005)

  4. Weisberg, Stuart E. Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman (2009)

  5. Barnet, Anne Alison. Extravaganza King: Roger Barnet and Boston Music Theater (1853-1933)  (2004)

DVDs

    1. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (2008)

    2. Dynamite, Whiskey, and Wood: Connecticut River Log Drives 1870-1915