Recently added articles from Historical Journal of Massachusetts:
The Literary and Military Career of Benjamin Church: Change or Continuity in Early American Warfare
Jul 01, 2007; ... Much of American scholarship on the colonial era has focused on the cultural and political transformation of Englishmen into Americans in thirteen of Britain's American colonies. This is one way of solving the problem of the American Revolution - explaining why on earth these people rebelled?2 ...
"The Most Agreeable Country": New Light on Democratic-Republican Opinion of Massachusetts in the 1790s
Jul 01, 2007; ... Among recent notable trends in eighteenth century American historiography are complementary emphases on "Atlantic history," resonating with current scholarly interest in hemispheric relations and globalism, and a simultaneous stress on regionalism: the relations between the divergent sections ...
A Massachusetts Yankee in the Court of Charleston: Jasper Adams, College President in Antebellum South Carolina
Jul 01, 2007; ... Massachusetts clergyman and educator Jasper Adams (1793-1841) was among the line of notable descendants of Henry Adams (1583-1646), who fled persecution in England circa 1630 and settled on a farm in the Braintree area, then part of Boston. The most notable of Henry Adams's descendants include ...
Book Notes
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Dalai Lama at MIT. Edited by Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc. 2006. Harvard University Press, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. $24.95. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama and several neuroscientists got together for a series of discussions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Locating "Wissatinnewag": A Second Opinion
Jul 01, 2007; ... Appearing in the Winter 2006 issue of the Historical Journal of Massachusetts was an article about the identity of the Indian word "Wissatinnewag" by Marge Bruchac and Peter Thomas. As they explained, the word is found in only one place: a July 1663 letter that John Pynchon of Springfield wrote ...
Destination: Holyoke
Jul 01, 2007; ... Kate Navarra Thibodeau, Destination: Holyoke, Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA, 2006. Holyoke' s history - of a place both grim and colorful - is brought to life with photographs and anecdotes in the new paperback book, Destination: Holyoke, written by Kate Navarra Thibodeau. Thibodeau ...
The Complexities Found, as Well as Insights Gained, From the Identification of a Birthplace of Free Public Education: The Case of Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Jul 01, 2007; ... The debate over when and where free public education began in the United States continues to demand attention. Understandably, this is a complicated debate that entails reflection on what free public education means, consideration of how one could identify the birth of this activity, and ...
Political Places of Boston: From the Backrooms to the Golden Dome
Jul 01, 2007; ... Clint Richmond, Political Places of Boston: From the Backrooms to the Golden Dome, Muddy River Press, Brookline, MA, 2004. There are many guides for getting around Boston: sightseeing, historical, sports, college hang-outs, etc. Clint Richmond has written an original type of guide. He ...
From Norton to Saint-Gobain, 1885-2006: Grinding Labor Down
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Norton Company dates back to 1858 when two Bennington Vermont men, Franklin Norton and Frederick Hancock, founded a pottery shop in Worcester, Massachusetts. The shop was relocated to 41 Water Street after its original location on Washington Square was undermined by railroad construction ....
"Charmed with the French": Reassessing the Early Career of Charles Bulfinch, Architect
Jul 01, 2006; ... Charles Bulfinch casts a long shadow on Boston, his hometown and the major seat of American Federalist architecture. In the last half-century, he received enough scholarly attention to put him on par with other important Bostonians born in the colonial period. Nearly as many full-length ...
Greenfield Tap & Die: Economic and Historical Analysis
Jul 01, 2006; ... Greenfield, Massachusetts is located in Franklin County in the northwest part of the state. Founded in 1763, with 365 residents, the town grew quickly due to its strategic location at the junction of the Deerfield and Connecticut rivers.1 Growth was fostered by these rivers that supplied the ...
Interpreting the Place Space of an Extinct Cultural Landscape: the Swift River Valley of Central Massachusetts
Jul 01, 2006; ... The study of cultural and historical geography encompasses a wide array of subject matter, including the historical reconstruction of the geography of a place, the investigation of the changing geography of a place in the past, and individual and collective understandings and interpretations of ...
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Jul 01, 2006; ... Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Little Brown and Company, 2003, Boston. Robert Dallek stands as one of the finest presidential biographers in the historical profession. In his previous work on Lyndon Johnson, Dallek demonstrates a remarkable ability to ...
Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
Jul 01, 2006; ... Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834, Northeastern University Press, 2000, Boston. In what seems to be the beginning of a bad joke, Henry Creesy walks into a Newburyport bar in the Prologue to Fire & Roses. The description of his ...
Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America.
Jul 01, 2006; ... Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America. Joseph A. Conforti. Baltimore, 2006 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4319). $19.95. The creation of colonial New England by Puritans, non-Puritans, Native ...
The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career. T.A. Milford. Lebanon, 2006 (University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon, NH 03766). $26.00. Three generations of the Gardiner family are explored, with an emphasis on liberal ...
Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deefield, Massachusetts
Jul 01, 2006; ... Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deefield, Massachusetts. Michael C. Batinski. Amherst, 2004 (University of Massachusetts Press, P.O. Box 429, Amherst, MA 01004). $24.95. Greenfield, MA, native Michael C. Batinski offers an imaginative study detailing the ...
Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science
Jul 01, 2006; ... Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science. Miriam R. Levin. Lebanon, 2004 (University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon, NH 03766). $26.00. "Is there another way to do science?" This particular ...
Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England
Jul 01, 2006; ... Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England. Jenny Hale Pulsipher. Philadelphia, 2005 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4112). $35.00. Southern New England endured a series of ...
Early New England: A Covenanted Society
Jul 01, 2006; ... Early New England: A Covenanted Society. David A. Weir. Grand Rapids, 2005 (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 255 Jefferson Avenue S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49503). $34.00. David A. Weir explores the theological concept of "covenant" in early New England society. His analysis of ...