Living on the Boott: historical archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusettsxvi + 93 pages including index, information learned from an excavation of the boarding house in Lowell Massachusetts that was home to working class men from the Boott Cotton Mills, bw illustrations
This module consists of 26 collections from the holdings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the first North American historical society and the first library to devote its primary attention to collecting Americana. The collections digitized by ProQuest from the holdings of the Massachusetts ...
The indoor Hall of the Adirondacks houses the Living River Trail and its live exhibits, including the otters at Otter Falls. The trail takes you on a journey from the marsh, past a deep lake, past a bog and forests up a river filled with trout to the summit of an alpine peak where ...
When this Georgian Colonial was built, it was constructed to the satisfaction of wife Margaret who loved many homes in New England and this home shares many attributes of some of her favorite houses. At the time of construction, Cass was the President of the Daisy Air Rifle factory and was...
Engages with current theory in an accessible manner. Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming local experiences of people into global patterns. Summarizes not only the current state of historical archaeology, but also sets the course for the field in decades to come. ...
My thesis strives to broaden the national picture of nineteenth century poorhouses by incorporating data from poorhouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Massachusetts. Like a few other historians before now, I find invalid most of Katz's seven generalizations. Some poor...
AMY AGNE grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, a historic suburb of Boston where Revolutionary War reenactments were performed every year. She was drawn not only to United States history, but also to the historical architecture of Boston with its Colonial houses, brownstone buildings, and cobbleston...
Historical Old Landowner Town Maps: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New York for genealogy
Siheyuan houses with a back gate are rare. The back gate is usually located at, or close to, the end of an edge of the last courtyard, where it enables the circulation connecting from the Siheyuan interior to the exterior space. Usually, the front gate and the back gate cannot be loca...
1980 Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760–1800. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst. Google Scholar Anderson, Amanda 1993 Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenne ss in Victorian Culture. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. Google ...