Massachusetts (U.S. state)/Bibliography
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Bibliography
Overviews and Surveys
- Brown, Richard D. and Jack Tager. Massachusetts: A Concise History (2002), most recent scholarly history
- Hall, Donald. ed. The Encyclopedia of New England (2005), many long essays by scholars
- WPA. Guide to Massachusetts (1939)
Scholarly Secondary Sources
- Abrams, Richard M. Conservatism in a Progressive Era: Massachusetts Politics, 1900-1912 (1964)
- Adams, James Truslow. Revolutionary New England, 1691-1776 (1923)
- Adams, James Truslow. New England in the Republic, 1776-1850 (1926)
- Andrews, Charles M. The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths (1919) short survey
- Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride (1994) explains 1775 in depth
- Conforti, Joseph A. Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century (2001)
- Cumbler, John T. Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England, 1790-1930 (1930) environmental history
- Green, James R., William F. Hartford, and Tom Juravich. Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions (1996)*
- Huthmacher, J. Joseph. Massachusetts People and Politics, 1919-1933 (1958)
- Labaree,Benjamin Woods. Colonial Massachusetts: A History (1979)
- Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 (1921)
- Peirce, Neal R. The New England States: People, Politics, and Power in the Six New England States (1976) in-depth coverage of the state in 1960-75 era
- Porter, Susan L. Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts (1996)
- Starkey, Marion L. The Devil in Massachusetts (1949) on the Salem witches
- Tager, Jack, and John W. Ifkovic, eds. Massachusetts in the Gilded Age: Selected Essays (1985) essays by scholars on ethnic groups
- Zimmerman, Joseph F. The New England Town Meeting: Democracy in Action (1999)