For related subject research guides see: African-American
History, American
History, Political
Science, and Sociology.
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Ely Library Catalog
Also see the guide
to searching the Ely Library Catalog. Recommended search: Subject
browse: Massachusetts -- History.
Massachusetts Virtual
Catalog
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/mvc.html
This works best to locate materials you know already exist. The
author and title searches are the best options in this catalog.
WorldCat
Searches catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. It
is a better option than Massachusetts Virtual Catalog when you do not know
if the items you are searching for exist. A good choice for subject
searching.
Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, Colony, Province and State. Hart, Albert Bushnell. New York: States History Company, 1930. (STACK F64 .H32)
Maps of Early Massachusetts : Pre-history through
the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Lincoln A. Dexter. Wilbraham,
Mass. : Dexter, 1979.
(REFERENCE G1231.S1 D4x 1979)
The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1941.
(STACK HF3161.M4 M6 1941)
Massachusetts : a Bicentennial History. Brown,
Richard D. New York : Norton, 1978.
(STACK F64 .B86)
Massachusetts : a Concise History. Brown, Richard
D., et al. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
(STACK F64 .B86 2000)
The Massachusetts Adventure : a Guide for Teachers.
Thomas,
Courtney Johnson and Myers, Susan. Layton, Utah : Gibbs-Smith, 2000.
(ERC F64 .I35 Gr.3-4 2000 Teacher Guide)
Massachusetts from Colony to Commonwealth :
an Illustrated History. Clark, Judith Freeman, et al. Sun
Valley, Calif. : American Historical Press, 2002.
(STACK F64 .C58 2002)
The Story of Western Massachusetts.
Wright, Harry Andrew. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1949.
(STACK F64 .W85 1949)
America:
History & Life Limited
to WSC community use
(Internet Site: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#AHL)
Provides citations to dissertations and journals published worldwide
including selected historical journals from major countries, state and
local history journals, as well as a selection of journals in the social
sciences and humanities relating to the history of the United States and
Canada from prehistory to the present. The database provides full-text
links to many journal articles in Project Muse, JSTOR, Ebsco, and other
full-text databases in our collection. For more information on using
this database, see our Search
Guide.
History
Resource Center: U.S. Limited
to WSC community use
(Internet Site: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#History Resource)
Provides a complete overview of U.S. history with comprehensive coverage
of the most-studied events, issues and current information. Coverage includes
content that is 50% or more from primary source documents, including monographs,
pamphlets, first-person accounts, etc. Additional content includes documents
from digital archives, encyclopedic articles, country and era overview
information; full-text periodicals and journals; a historical bibliography;
and links to digitized special collections. For more information on using
this database, see our Search
Guide.
JSTOR Limited
to WSC community use
(Internet Site: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#JSTOR)
Contains PDF full text of many scholarly journals, including a collection
of 39 History journals. Since coverage is retrospective, the latest
3-5 years of journal issues are not available. For more information on
using this database, see our Search
Guide.
MassVirtual Catalog
Project
Muse Limited to WSC community use
(Internet Site: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#Project Muse)
Contains the full text of journals for many subjects, including History,
and American and Native American studies. The latest 5-10 years of journal
issues are available. For more information on using this database, see
our Search Guide.
In
the First Person
(Internet Site: http://www.inthefirstperson.com)
A database indexing primary source documents
available in digital repositories. This database indexes letters, diaries,
oral histories, and personal narratives relating to all subjects and eras
of American History. These documents can be searched by keyword or subject.
The online files available include audio, video, and text versions of the
accounts.
Academic
Search Premier Limited to WSC community
use
(Internet Site: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#Academic)
General subject coverage. For magazine and journal references as well
as full-text articles. For more information on using this database, see
our Search Guide.
Expanded
Academic ASAP Limited to WSC community
use
(Internet Site: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#Expanded Academic)
General subject coverage. For magazine and journal references as well
as full-text articles. For more information on using this database, see
our Search
Guide.
Massachusetts
Newsstand - ProQuest, Inc. Dates Vary by Newspaper
Updated Daily
Access to full text from 12 Massachusetts Newspapers;
Zimmer
Index
http://www3.websearchstudio.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=Zimmer
An index to late 19th & early 20th century newspaper articles compiled
by the librarians at the Massachusetts State Library. The Zimmer
Index aims to cover "newspaper articles of interest to legislators and
citizens of the Commonwealth. This resource indexes newspapers from Boston
and the surrounding area from 1878 to 1937."
Archives
in Massachusetts (New England Archivists)
http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/resources/internet_resources/new_england/massachusetts.html
List of archives in Massachusetts that have websites. Includes
sites of interest in Western Massachusetts including the Springfield
Armory, UMass
Amherst Special Collections and Old Sturbridge
Village.
Boston Athenaeum,
Digital Collections
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/digital.html
Founded in 1807, the Athenaeum is one of the oldest and most distinguished
independent libraries in the United States. The Athenaeum's digital
collections include the Boston African Americana Collection and the Alexander
Parris Project. The Boston African Americana Collection is a database
containing "images and transcriptions of over five hundred items spanning
the years 1770 to 1950, with the bulk of the collection falling around
1865." The Alexander Parris Digital Collection "includes architectural
and mechanical drawings, specifications, correspondence, and accounts,
and span Parris’s career, from 1803 to 1851."
Massachusetts Historical
Society
http://www.masshist.org/
An independent research library founded in 1791 that aims to "promote
the study of the history of Massachusetts and the nation." The website
offers many documents online,
including the Adams family papers.
Massachusetts Historical
Commission
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/
The state agency that oversees the preservation of historical sites
in Massachusetts. Includes links to useful forms and publications.
Provides a virtual tour to the exhibit Archaeology
of the Big Dig.
The Mayflower Society:
General Society of Mayflower Descendants
http://www.themayflowersociety.com/
Hereditary organization founded "more than one hundred years ago, [by]
a group of descendants of the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620,
[and] saw the need for a national society to honor their memory." Features
a list of the families who arrived on the Mayflower at what is now Plymouth,
Massachusetts, the Mayflower Compact, a brief history, an application form,
and links to state groups and related sites.
Salem Witch
Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
An "electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the
Salem [Massachusetts] witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the
court records." Contains an overview essay about the trials, court records,
maps, profiles of notable people, and links to related archives. Also includes
full text works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mary E. Wilkins [Freeman]. From
the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
The State Library of Massachusetts
http://www.mass.gov/lib/
The State Library offers a "growing collection" of digital
resources, as well as information about their holdings.
The
State Normal School, Westfield
http://www.hampdencountyhistory.com/westfield/wn/index.html
Book that documents the history of the State Normal School, which is
now Westfield State College, from 1839-1907. Book is entirely reproduced
here, with easy access to chapters through the table of contents.
Du
Bois: The Activist Life
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/exhibits/dubois/intro.htm
This site, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries,
features a biographical essay and chronology of the scholar, author, sociologist,
co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), and editor of The Crisis and other journals. Also contains a description
of the W.E.B. Du Bois Papers collection and an exhibit of materials from
the collection.
The Battle of Bunker Hill:
"The Decisive Day Is Come"
http://www.masshist.org/bh/
The story of the famous battle of June 17, 1775 is told here with "personal
accounts and eyewitness descriptions of the battle, along with contemporary
maps, drawings, engravings, broadsides, and artifacts, either preserved
by the participants or found on the battlefield." Also includes biographical
sketches of the authors and recipients of the documents presented. From
the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Birthplace
of John F. Kennedy: Home of the Boy Who Would Be President
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/33jfk/33jfk.htm
This lesson plan about John F. Kennedy "can be used as a biographical
study, an introduction to the Kennedy presidency and the turbulent sixties,
or as part of a unit on post-World War II American history." Provides readings,
images, activities, and a map of the area around the John F. Kennedy National
Historic Site in Brookline, Massachusetts. Part of the Teaching With Historic
Places Lesson Plans program of the National Park Service (NPS).
The
Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts: Building America's Industrial
Revolution
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/21boott/21boott.htm
This lesson plan is based on the national historic park that is the
site of "mills built from the mid-1830s to the early 20th century, reflecting
the early use of waterpower, steam power, and finally electric power."
Discusses the Industrial Revolution, cotton mill equipment, the textile
industry, and related topics. Includes images, maps, and related resources.
From the National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places program.
Hancock
Shaker Village
http://www.hancockshakervillage.org
This village is run by a nonprofit organization
"that preserves and presents to the public the Shakers' legacy at their
community in Hancock, Massachusetts. The Shaker Central Ministry closed
the community in 1960." The site features a virtual tour of the grounds,
a history of the Shaker social and religious movement in America, a bibliography
(from 2001), a Hancock community census, and related information.
Hoophall.com
http://www.hoophall.com/
The official site of the Naismith Memorial Basketball
Hall of Fame. Contains biographical information, including statistics and
photos, about the individuals (players, coaches, contributors, and referees)
and teams enshrined as basketball's best. The history section contains
a biography of James Naismith and some of his stories and speeches, origins
of the Hall, and information on other milestones of the sport.
John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library and Museum
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
This library and museum is dedicated to the memory of President Kennedy
and contains "historical materials chronicling mid-20th century politics
and the life and administration of John F. Kennedy." Many online
resources including materials for teachers, image galleries, and searchable
archive and manuscript records.
A
Historical Investigation into the Past: Lizzie Borden/ Fall River Case
Study
http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/lizzie/
Contains "late nineteenth century primary source
materials from the Lizzie Borden axe murder trial and from Fall River,
Massachusetts." Includes photographs, illustrations, census data, maps,
newspaper clippings, Borden family documents (land purchases and sales,
wills, credit ratings, a family tree), and transcriptions of Edmund Pearson's
"Trial of Lizzie Borden" (1937) and Edwin H. Porter's "The Fall River Tragedy:
A History of the Borden Murders" (1893). From the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst.
Added to LII: 2002-05-01
Museum of Afro American History
Boston
http://www.afroammuseum.org
This institution is "dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately
interpreting the contributions of African Americans during the colonial
period in New England." The site features information about museum exhibits,
the African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School, and the Black Heritage
Trail (a "walking tour encompassing the largest collection of historic
sites in the country relating to the life of a free African American community
prior to the Civil War"). Includes links to related sites.
New
Bedford Whaling Museum
http://www.whalingmuseum.org/
This museum "is the largest museum in America
devoted to the history of the American whaling industry and its greatest
port" in Massachusetts. Its site features databases of online collections
(objects, photos, and logbooks), an overview of museum exhibits, and links
to online exhibits, such as on the photos of sailboats by Norman Fortier
and paintings of sailing ships and Arctic seas by William Bradford.
Old Sturbridge Village
http://www.osv.org
This living history center in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, depicts village
life in early 19th century New England. The "Learning Lab" section of the
site provides annotated images of objects, historic documents, papers and
articles, and graphics of the period. The site also features materials
for children (such as craft instructions, games and puzzles, and articles),
lesson plans, a quilt exhibit, and a virtual tour of the center. Searchable.
Peabody
Essex Museum
http://www.pem.org/index.html
This museum of art, architecture, and culture
located in Salem, Massachusetts contains 200 years of history. It encompasses
American Decorative Arts; Asian, Oceanic and African Arts and Culture;
Asian Export Art; Early American Architecture; Maritime Art and History
(including Scrimshaw and Folk Arts, a section on Signal Flags Systems ,
and ship riggings ); Native American Art and Archaeology; and Natural History.
The museum also includes the Phillips Library, which is one of New England's
largest research libraries.
Pilgrim Hall
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/plgrmhll2.htm
This site combines images of items from the museum with well-documented
historical information to illuminate the Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag
Nation (American Indian tribe) story to 1692. Includes the background of
the settlers, the voyage of the Mayflower, and the "First Thanksgiving."
Also provides brief biographies of colonists, articles about the colony,
and transcripts of documents such as wills, inventories, and the Mayflower
Compact.
Places Where
Women Made History
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/pwwmh/
This site "focuses on 75 historic places in New York and Massachusetts
associated with the varied aspects of women's history." Learn about the
"many American women who made outstanding contributions to education, government,
medicine, the arts, commerce, women's suffrage and the early civil rights
movement." Provides itineraries, maps, site descriptions, and more. From
the National Park Service (NPS).
Plimoth Plantation
http://www.plimoth.org
This living history center in Plymouth, Massachusetts, re-creates a
1627 Pilgrim village that was "built by English colonists in the midst
of the Wampanoag homeland." The site features a virtual tour of the village
and a Wampanoag homesite, articles about the colonists and Native Americans,
Thanksgiving recipes, and an interactive feature about the first Thanksgiving.
Also includes tourist information for Plymouth.
Sports Temples of Boston:
Images of Historic Ballparks, Arenas and Stadiums, 1872-1972
http://www.bpl.org/sportstemples
This exhibit provides "images of the greatest sports battlegrounds
in Boston. These images span 100 years from 1872 through 1972." Features
the Boston Arena, Boston Garden, Braves Field, Fenway Park, Charles River
Speedway, and other arenas. Each image is accompanied by a brief description
and history of the stadium. From the Boston Public Library.
U.S.S. Constitution:
"Old Ironsides"
http://www.ussconstitution.navy.mil/
Official site for this ship docked in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and
recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest commissioned
warship afloat. The site offers a virtual tour of this ship constructed
in the 1790s, a timeline, images of the ship and its crew, event information,
and related articles. Also includes links to related sites. From the U.S.
Navy.