Bibliography of Boston


The following is a list of works about Boston, Massachusetts.

Nonfiction

General

Bibliographies

1700s

  • 1800s-1840s

  • 1850s-1890s

  • * : Early and Colonial Periods
  • * : Provincial Period
  • * : Revolutionary Period. The Last Hundred Years, Pt.1
  • * : Last Hundred Years, Pt.2. Special topics
  • Bacon, Edwin M., and Edward, George, , Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886.

  • 1900s-1940s

  • Statistical analysis of census data.

    1950s-1960s

  • Henretta, J.A. "Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston", The William and Mary Quarterly 22: 75-92.
  • Ward, D. "The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Boston's Central Business District", Economic Geography 42 : 152-171.
  • On geography and neighborhoods.

  • 1970s

  • The standard history for the period.
  • VOGEL, MORRIS J.   "BOSTON'S HOSPITALS, 1870-1930: A SOCIAL HISTORY.".
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  • 1980s

  • Short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. See index at pp. 406–411 for list.
  • Tager, Jack, and John W. Ifkovic, eds. Massachusetts in the Gilded Age: Selected Essays, extensive coverage of Boston.
  • Vogel, Morris J. The Invention of the Modern Hospital: Boston 1870-1930

  • 1990s

  • 2000s

  • Thomas H. O'Connor, Boston, A to Z
  • Tager, Jack. Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence
  • Tager, Jack. Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence.
  • Matos Rodrííguez, Féélix V. "'The Browncoats are Coming': Latino Public History in Boston." Public Historian 23.4 : 15-28.
  • Bjarkman, Peter C. Boston Celtics Encyclopedia.
  • Rawson, Michael. "The nature of water: reform and the antebellum crusade for municipal water in Boston." Environmental history 9.3 : 411-435.
  • Dolin, Eric Jay. Political waters: the long, dirty, contentious, incredibly expensive but eventually triumphant history of Boston Harbor, a unique environmental success story.
  • Minardi, Margot. "The Boston inoculation controversy of 1721-1722: an incident in the history of race." William and Mary Quarterly 61.1 : 47-76.
  • Carr, Jacqueline Barbara. After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775-1800. Upne, 2005.
  • Kaufman, Polly Welts, et al. Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Seven Self-guided Walking Tours Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's History.
  • Nathan, Gavin. Historic Taverns of Boston: 370 Years of Tavern History in One Definitive Guide.
  • Kay, Jane Holtz. Lost Boston, destroyed buildings.
  • Puleo, Stephen. The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day.
  • Gelber, Scott. "'The crux and the magic': The Political History of Boston Magnet Schools, 1968–1989." Equity & Excellence in Education 41.4 : 453-466.
  • Wolff, Katherine. Culture club: The curious history of the Boston Athenaeum.

    2010-present

  • York, Neil L. The Boston Massacre: A History with Documents.
  • Johnson, Arthur M., and Barry E. Supple. Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads.
  • Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston Public Library.
  • Holmes, Pauline. A Tercentenary History of the Boston Public Latin School, 1635–1935.
  • Bagley, Joseph M. A history of Boston in 50 artifacts.
  • Levesque, George A. Black Boston: African American life and culture in urban America, 1750–1860.

  • Fiction