Historical Book Reviews - Boston 2009

 

A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike by Francis Russell

            Andrew Peralta

 

American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor

           Heather Davis

           Krista Kincaid

           Todd Searing

 

Boston Against Busing; Race, Class, and Ethnicity by Ronald P. Formisano

            Natalee Steffen

            Matt Buckles

 

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood by Stephen Puleo

            Tiffany Clark

 

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States by Priscilla Murolo and A. B. Chitty

            Amy Courson-Brock

 

Founding Myths: Stories that Hide our Patriotic Past by Ray Raphael

            Kyle Sondgeroth

 

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

            Deborah Stapleton

            Karen Klebbe

            Marcia Wickes

            Deborah Wascher

            Leslie Leman

            Mary Ciaccio

 

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

            Rebecca Cortright

 

Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fisher

            Karen Easton

 

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin

            Cheryl Barringer

            Katie Hickey-Snyder

            Kay Grabow

            Matt Goerss

            Peggy Christensen

 

Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall by Eve LaPlante

            Mary Reger

 

Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll

            Ralph Dady

 

The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove by William Moran

            Christine Cahill

            Joy Aulph

            Krista Ruud

            Priscilla Kron

 

The Boston Italians by Stephen Puleo

            Greg Stock

 

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands

            Debra Costello

 

The Forgotten Fifth by Gary Nash

            Brandon Sethi

            Izona Burgess

            Jennifer Varvel

            Marianne Whitacre

 

The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony by James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz

            Michael Cahill

 

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, America’s First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

            Mary Anne Jusko

 

Ye Heart of a Man by Lisa Wilson

            Tonia Kirby

 

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