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This selection of books includes a list of titles based on research completed at the Massachusetts Historical Society as well as a list of recommended books on relevant subjects. All of these books are available at Amazon.com. Please use the links below and 10% of your purchase at Amazon will go directly to the MHS.


Douglass And Melville

Douglass And Melville: Anchored Together in Neighborly Style
By Robert K. Wallace
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The Nature of Sacrifice

The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64
By Carol Bundy
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Revolutionary Generation

Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men And The Consequences Of Independence
By Conrad Edick Wright
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Empires at War

Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763
By William M. Fowler, Jr.
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Masquerade

Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
By Alfred F. Young
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Dynasty's End Out Here at the Front: The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall
by Judith S. Graham, Ed.
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Boston, a Topographical History

Boston
A Topographical History

by Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy
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His Excellency

His Excellency: George Washington
by Joseph J. Ellis
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Founding Mothers

Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston: Harvard's H. Langford Warren
by Maureen Meister
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Founding Mothers

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts
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Gaining Ground

Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
by Nancy S. Seasholes
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Sable Island

Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of A Dune Adrift in the Atlantic
by Marq De Villiers, Sheila Hirtle
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John Adams

John Adams
by David McCullough
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The Age of Homespun

The Age of Homespun
Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Founding Brothers

Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis
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Hope and Glory

Hope and Glory
Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment

edited by Martin Henry Blatt, Thomas J. Brown, and Donald Yacovone
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Jack

Jack
A Life Like No Other

by Geoffrey Perret
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Mapping Boston

Mapping Boston
edited by Alex Krieger, David Cobb, Amy Turner, and Norman B. Leventhal
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Massachusetts, A Concise History

Massachusetts
A Concise History

by Richard D. Brown and Jack Tager
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Massachusetts, A Concise History

Midwifery and Medicine in Boston
Walter Channing, M.D., 1786–1876

by Amalie M. Kass
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America's First Dynasty

America's First Dynasty
The Adamses, 1735–1918

by Richard Brookhiser
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Dynasty's End
Dynasty's End: Bill Russell and the 1968-69 World Champion Boston Celtics
by Thomas J. Whalen
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