Article Archive, 1972 – Present
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Winter 2023, Vol. 51, No. 1
Westfield’s “Grande Dame”: Alice Burke, New England’s First Female Mayor (1939) by Phil Slater
Summer 2022, Vol. 50, Nos. 1 & 2: 50th Anniversary Double Issue
Marked Territory: Rethinking Massachusetts’ Roadside Histories by Emma Boast
Photo Essay: Restoring Massachusetts’ 1930 Tercentenary Signs by Alessandra Frank
Editor’s Choice: Catherine Beecher, Horace Mann, and the Feminization of Public School Teaching by Dana Goldstein
Massachusetts Exceptionalism as Identity and Debate by Jerold Duquette and Erin O’Brien
The Rise, Fall, and (Possible) Resurrection of Lowell by Robert Forrant
Who Were the Members of Springfield’s League of Gileadites? by Cliff McCarthy
“My Father Died Twice”: Family History, Memory, and the Life of a WWII Veteran by Robert Weir
Summer 2021, Vol. 49, No. 2
“The 1918-19 Influenza Epidemic in Boston, Lowell, and Fall River” by J. Alexander Navarro
“The Viking Saga Continued: Leif Eriksson, Anne Whitney, Boston, and the Nation” by L. Mara Dodge
Winter 2021, Vol. 49, No. 1
Photo Essay: “African American Gravestones in Western Massachusetts” by Bob Drinkwater
“’In a Good Cause’: Framingham and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage” by Anita Danker
“Westfield’s Hawaiian Missionaries in the 19th Century” by Robert Brown and L. Mara Dodge
“’The Dread Influenza’: Milford in the Grip of the 1918 Pandemic” by Linda Hixon
Summer 2020, Vol. 48, No. 2
“From Redmen to Minutemen: The University of Massachusetts and Its Mascot” by Robert E. Weir
“’Lord, Is It I?’: The Sermons of Edward Hitchcock” by Robert T. McMaster
Winter 2020, Vol. 48, No. 1
Photo Essay: “On A Roll: The Story of Paper Making in Turners Falls” by Sheila Damkoehler
Editor’s Choice: “’White and Peaceful Wings’: Debating U.S. Imperialism in 1898″ by Stephen Kinzer
“John Brown’s Transformation: The Springfield Years, 1846-1849” by Joseph Carvalho III
“The Payton Family of Westfield: An African American Success Story, 1845-1954″ by Robert T. Brown
“A Stone’s Throw to Belchertown: Milestone Markers Along a Massachusetts Bay Path” by Nolan Cool
“Thomas Graves, Phillip Wells, and Colonial Mapping in Massachusetts, 1629-1688” by Nathan Braccio
Summer 2019, Vol. 47, No. 2
Photo Essay: “Conservation Treatment of William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation” by Jessica Henze
“Slavery in Westfield: The Documentary Record, 1713-1790″ by Joseph Carvalho III
“The Revolutionary War Pension Act of 1818″ by Ann Becker
Winter 2019, Vol. 47, No. 1
Editor’s Choice: “The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Massachusetts” by Mark Paul Richard
“Survival of the Pilgrims: A Reevaluation of the Lethal Epidemic Among the Wampanoag” by John Booss
Summer 2018, Vol. 46, No. 2
Editor’s Choice: “Boston’s New Immigrants and New Economy, 1965-2015” by Marilynn S. Johnson
“Romancing the Stone: Invented Irish and Native American Memories in Northampton” by Robert E. Weir
Winter 2018, Vol. 46, No. 1
Editor’s Choice: “Dissenting Puritans: Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer” by Francis J. Bremer
“New Bedford’s Infamous 1983 Rape Case: Defending the Portuguese-American Community” by Mia Michael
Summer 2017, Vol. 45, No. 2
“William Pynchon, the Agawam Indians, and the 1636 Deed for Springfield” by David M. Powers
Winter 2017, Vol. 45, No. 1
Editor’s Choice: “Louisa May Alcott: A Literary Biography” by Harriet Reisen
“Smallpox at the Siege of Boston: ‘Vigilance against this most dangerous enemy’” by Ann M. Becker
“A Generation of Hope, Pain, and Heartbreak: The Worcester Molders’ Union 1904–1921” by Bruce Cohen
Summer 2016, Vol. 44, No. 2
Photo Essay: “Yankee Brutalism: Concrete Architecture in new England, 1957-1977” by Brian M. Sirman
“The Making of an Irish and a Jewish Boston, 1820-1900” by Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan
Winter 2016, Vol. 44, No. 1
Editor’s Choice: “The New Boston: A People’s History” by Jim Vrabel
Photo Essay: “Sculptor Theodora Alice Ruggles Kitson: ‘A Woman Genius'” by Christine C. Neal
“Stricken: The Impact of Disease on Two Massachusetts Families, 1911-50” by Anita C. Danker
“The Women of Hopedale Sewing Circle, 1848-63” by Linda H. Hixon
Summer 2015, Vol. 43, No. 2
“The Puerto Rican Community of Western Massachusetts, 1898-1960” by Joseph Carvalho III
“Phillis Wheatley: Researching a Life” by Vincent Carretta
Winter 2015, Vol. 43, No. 1
“Shays’ Rebellion: Reclaiming the Revolution” by Tom Goldscheider
Summer 2014, Vol. 42, No. 2
Photo Essay: “A Brief History of Fenway Park” by Kevin Jones and L. Mara Dodge
Editor’s Choice: “Remaking Boston, Remaking Massachusetts” by Brian M. Donahue
“Constructing Legends: Pumpsie Green, Race, and the Boston Red Sox” by Robert E. Weir
“A Fraternity of Patriarchs: The Gendered Order of Early Puritan Massacusetts by Matthew J. Reardon
Winter 2014, Vol. 42, No. 1
Photo Essay: “Northampton Silk Threads: The Asia Connection” by Marjorie Senechal and Stan Sherer
“Cholera in Worcester: A Study of the Nineteenth- Century Public Health Movement” by Alan Ira Gordon
Summer 2013, Vol. 41, No. 2
The Veteran’s Education Project of Amherst by Robert M. Wilson
John F. Kennedy: Public Perception and Campaign Strategy in 1946 by Seth M. Ridinger
Beyond the New England Frontier: Native American Historiography Since 1965 by Ethan A. Schmidt
Winter 2013, Vol. 41, No. 1
Editor’s Choice: Elinor Frost: A Poet’s Wife by Sandra L. Katz
2012 Special 40th Anniversary Double Issue, Vol. 40, No. 1 & 2
Foreign Affairs and the Ratification of the Constitution in Massachusetts (1789) by Robert W. Smith
Bewitched and Bewildered: Salem Witches, Empty Factories, and Tourist Dollars by Robert Weir
Special Double Issue, Vol. 39, No. 1 & 2
Photo Essay: “‘Cranberry Pickers’ Mural at the Wareham Post Office” by Bernice L. Thomas
The Puritan Origins of Black Abolitionism in Massachusetts by Christopher Cameron
The Maya of New Bedford: Genesis and Evolution of a Community, 1980-2010 by Lisa Maya Knauer
Spring 2010, Vol. 38, No. 2
Young Patrick A. Collins and Boston Politics after the Civil War by Lawrence W. Kennedy
Fall 2010, Vol. 38, No. 1
Photo Essay: In the Details: Style in New England Architecture by Aaron M. Helfand
“Militant Mothers”: Boston, Busing, and the Bicentennial of 1976 by Kathleen Banks Nutter
John Denison Hartshorn: A Colonial Apprentice in “Physick” and Surgery by Catherine L. Thompson
“Murder by Counseling”: The 1816 Case of George Bowen (Northampton) by Jack Tager
Fall 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2
“African American Heritage Trails: From Boston to the Berkshires” by Anita C. Danker
“’Something Will Drop’: Socialists, Unions, and Trusts in 19th Century Holyoke” by Joshua L. Root
“’Weltering in Their Own Blood’: Puritan Casualties in King Philip’s War” by Robert E. Cray, Jr.
Spring 2009, Vol. 37, No. 1
Photo Essay: “Don’t Smile for the Camera: Another Angle on Early Photography” by Suzanne L. Flynt
“’Take Me to the Brawl Game’: Sports and Workers in Gilded Age Massachusetts” by Robert Weir
“Mrs. Elizabeth Towne: Pioneering Woman in Publishing and Politics, 1865-1960” by Tzivia Gover
“’Won’t Be Home Again’: A Lynn Grocer’s Letters from the California Gold Rush” by Michael Gutierrez
Summer 2008, Vol. 36, No. 2
“The 1953 Worcester Tornado in its Time: Panic and Recovery” by Lianne Lajoie
“They Came Here to Fish: Early Massachusetts Fishermen in a Puritan Society” by Serena Newman
“Addie Card: The Search for Lewis Hine’s ‘Anemic Little Spinner’” by Joe Manning
“Bela Pratt’s Angel of the Battlefield: Good out of Evil” by Leslie Jane Sullivan
Winter 2008, Vol. 36, No. 1
“A Bridge for Crispus Attucks?” by Anita Danker
Summer 2007, Vol. 35, No. 2
“Locating Wissatinnewag: A Second Opinion” by Lion Miles
Winter 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1
“Beyond the Scarlet ‘A’: Hawthorne and the Matter of Racism” by Richard Klayman
“Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Mentor at Harvard” by Gerald Vaughn
Summer 2006, Vol. 34, No. 2
“From Norton to Saint Gaubin: Grinding Labor Down in Worcester, 1885-2006” by Bruce Cohen
“Greenfield Tap & Die: Economic and Historical Analysis, 1912-1992” by Rebecca Ducharme
Winter 2006, Vol. 34, No. 1
“‘Tyrant and Oppressor!’: Colonial Press Reaction to the Quebec Act” by Paul Langston
“Locating Wissatinnewag in John Pynchon’s Letter of 1663” by Marge Bruchac and Peter Thomas
Summer 2005, Vol. 33, No. 2
“No Early Pardon for Traitors: Rebellion in Massachusetts in 1787” by John Dryden Kazar
“The Political Evolution of Northampton, Massachusetts, 1970-1995” by Robert Driscoll
“The Aftermath of the Salem Witch Trials in Colonial America” by Marc Callis
Winter 2005, Vol. 33, No. 1
“The Civil War Draft in Palmer: Reaction of a Small Town” by Amber Vail
“A Mirror of Boston: Faneuil Hall at the Turn of the 19th Century” by Christopher Harris
“Northampton Local Monuments: Testament to an Enduring Historical Legacy” by Jill Walton
Summer 2004, Vol. 32, No. 2
“Alternative Communities in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts” by Marsha Hamilton
Winter 2004, Vol. 32, No. 1
“Charter Changes in Boston from 1885-1949” by Charlie Tebbetts
“Fitz Hugh Lane and the Legacy of the Codfish Aristocracy, 1830-1964” by Sharon Worley
“Oxenbridge Thacher (1719-1765): Boston Lawyer, Early Patriot” by Clifford Putney
Summer 2003, Vol. 31, No. 2
Summer 2003, Vol. 31, No. 2
“David Rozman and Land-Planning in Massachusetts, 1927-1961” by Gerald Vaughn
Summer 2002, Vol. 30, No. 2
“The Groton Indian Raid of 1694 and Lydia Longley” by William Wolkovich-Valkavicius
“The Devil and Father Rallee” by Thomas Kidd
“The Role of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment in Potter’s Raid” by Leonne Hudson
Winter 2002, Vol. 30, No. 1
“A Pox on Amherst: Smallpox, Jeffrey Amherst, and a Town Named Amherst” by Francis Flavin
“Brahmins Under Fire: Peer Courage and the Civil War Harvard Regiment” by Richard Miller
Summer 2001, Vol. 29, No. 2
“Indian Land in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts” by Christopher Hannan
“’A Brave Man’s Child’: Theodore Parker and the Memory of the American Revolution” by Paul Teed
“New England and Early Conservationism: The North American Review 1830-1860” by Edward Spann
Winter 2001, Vol. 29, No. 1
“Monster of Monsters and the Emergence of Political Satire in New England” by Alison Olson
“Bunker Hill Refought: Memory Wars and Partisan Conflicts, 1775-1825” by Robert Cray
Summer 2000, Vol. 28, No. 2
“Progressive Nativism: The Know-Nothing Party in Massachusetts” by Steven Taylor
“The Enigma of Mount Holyoke’s Nellie Neilson (1873-1947)” by Gerald Vaughn
Winter 2000, Vol. 28, No. 1
“Who Were the Pelham Shaysites? (1738-1883)” by Robert Lord Keyes
“Pulpits and Politics: Anti-Catholicism in Boston in the 1880s and 1890s” by Lawrence Kennedy
“The Blackstone Canal, 1796-1828” by Richard Wilson
Summer 1999, Vol. 27, No. 2
“‘Every Composer to be his own Carver’: The Manliness of William Billings” by Eben Simmons Miller
“Politics of the Boston Irish, 1861-1920” by Patrick Kennedy
Winter 1999, Vol. 27, No. 1
“Petersham’s Ayers Brinser (1909-1967): Distinguished American Conservationist” by Gerald Vaughn
Summer 1998, Vol. 26, No. 2
“Where Did Captain Martin Pring Anchor in New England?” by Richard Whalen
“The Boston Longshoremen’s Strike of 1931” by Francis McLaughlin
Winter 1998, Vol. 26, No. 1
“‘Melancholy Catastrophe!’ The Story of Jason Fairbanks and Elizabeth Fales (1801)” by Dale Freeman
“Springfield’s Puritans and Indians: 1636-1655” by Marty O’Shea
Summer 1997, Vol. 25, No. 2
“The Crispus Attucks Monument Dedication” by Dale Freeman
“The New Deal Origins of the Cape Cod National Seashore” by Douglas Doe
Winter 1997, Vol. 25, No. 1
“School Suffrage and the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage in Massachusetts, 1879-1920” by Edmund Thomas
“Black Citizenship and Military Self-Presentation in Antebellum Massachusetts” by Hal Goldman
“The Massachusetts Veterinary Profession, 1882-1904: A Case Study” by Philip Teigen and Sheryl Blair
Summer 1996, Vol. 24, No. 2
“The Early Years of the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge” by Douglas Doe
“Two Years in Blue: The Civil War Letters of Joseph K. Taylor” by Kevin Murphy
“Ambiguous Loyalties: The Boston Irish, Slavery, and the Civil War” by Brian Kelly
“John Adams v. William Brattle: A Non-Debate on Judicial Tenure, 1763-1772” by Thomas Martin
Winter 1996, Vol. 24, No. 1
“Reading Between the Lines: Early English Accounts of the New England Indians” by Michael Puglisi
“Confronting Jim Crow: Boston’s Anti-Slavery Tradition, 1890-1920” by Mark Schneider
Summer 1995, Vol. 23, No. 2
“Development of the Boston Area Highway System” by Michael Passanisi
“Factionalism in Post-Revolution Boston” by Myron Wehtje[
Winter 1995, Vol. 23, No. 1
“The Hoosac Tunnel: Massachusetts’ Western Gateway” by Terrence Coyne
“William Lloyd Garrison and the Crisis of Nonresistance” by Lawrence Jannuzzi
“Building Boston’s Back Bay: Marriage of Money and Hygiene” by Allan Galper
Summer 1994, Vol. 22, No. 2
“The Founders of the Boston Bar Association: A Collective Analysis” by Alan Rogers
“This Greenback Lunacy: Third Party Politics in Franklin County, 1878” by Kathleen Banks Nutter
“The Negotiation of Power Relations in a Puritan Settlement” by Aristide Sechandice
“Nathaniel Ames, Sr. (-1764), and the Political Culture of Provincial New England” by William Pencak
Winter 1994, Vol. 22, No. 1
“The CIO in Rural Massachusetts: Sprague Electric and North Adams, 1937-1944” by Maynard Seider
Summer 1993, Vol. 21, No. 2
“Frolics for Fun: Dances, Weddings, and Dinner Parties in Colonial New England” by Bruce Daniels
“Bidwell’s Saltbox House” by Shirley Clute
“Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879): The First Female African-American Journalist” by Rodger Streitmatter
“Gender Barriers to Forming a Teachers’ Union in Boston (1919-1965)” by Kathleen Murphy
Winter 1993, Vol. 21, No. 1
“Urban Renewal in Boston, 1950-1976” by Jack Tager
“Party and Politics: Ashburnham in the 1850s” by Joseph von Deck
“The Home for Aged Colored Women, 1861-1944” by Esther MacCarthy
“New England Academy Education in the Early Republic” by Brian Cooke
Summer 1992, Vol. 20, No. 2
“Railroad Rivalry in the 19th Century Connecticut River Valley” by Larry Lowenthal
“Controversy over the Legal Profession in Post-Revolutionary Boston” by Myron Wehtje
“Labor and the State in Worcester: Organization of the Metal Trades, 1937-1971” by Bruce Cohen
Winter 1992, Vol. 20, No. 1
“Forest Conservation Policy in Early New England” by Yasuhide Kawashima
“Free Blacks and Kidnapping in Antebellum Boston” by Peter P. Hinks
“Worcester County Soldiers in the Civil War” by Pamela J. Cummings
“Religious Opposition to the Massachusetts Lottery” by Susan Ponte
“Development of the Assabet Mills in19th Century Maynard” by John R. Mullin (early 19th century)
Summer 1991, Vol. 19, No. 2
“The Massachusetts Miracle, 1947-1988” by Jack Tager
“Fairground Days: When Worcester Was a National League City, 1880-1882” by Charles Goslow
“Agricultural Science and Tobacco Agriculture in the Connecticut River Valley” by Gregory Field
“The Politics of Abolition in Northhampton” by Michael D. Blanchard
Winter 1991, Vol. 19, No. 1
“Dr. Gamaliel Bradford (1795-1839), Early Abolitionist” by James W. Mathews
“Lillian Clayton Jewett and the Rescue of the Baker Family, 1899-1900” by Roger K. Hux
“The Evolution of the Marshall Street Complex in North Adams, 1861-1985” by Robert Paul Gabrielsky
“The Spanish Influenza of 1918 and Berkshire County” by Dennis J. Carr
“The European Journey of the Stebbins Family of Springfield (1882)” by Pamela J. Getchell
Summer 1990, Vol. 18, No. 2
“Joseph Knight Taylor (1840-1864): ‘Plain Path of Duty’” by Donna Gnatek
“Fear of British Influence in Boston, 1783-1787” by Myron Wehtje
“A Massachusetts Perspective on the Income Tax Amendment” by David A. Rawson
Winter 1990, Vol. 18, No. 1
“The Yarmouth Register and the Emerging Crisis over Slavery” by Paul R. Mangelinkx
“Medical Practice in the Connecticut River Valley, 1650-1750” by Paul Berman
“The Workingman’s Party of Hampshire County, 1811-1835” by Marc Ferris
“The Ku Klux Klan in the Nashoba Valley, 1840-1933” by William Wolkovich
Summer 1989, Vol. 17, No. 2
“Elkanah Watson (1758-1842) and the Early Agricultural Fair” by Mark A. Mastromarino
“The Monarch of Hampshire: Israel Williams (1723-1788)” by Deborah Day Emery
“The Working Poor of Pre-Revolutionary Boston” by Eric G. Nellis
“The Humorous Side of Shays’ Rebellion” by William Pencak
“An Ambiguous to the Market: The Early New England-Barbados Trade” by Larry D. Gragg
Winter 1989, Vol. 17, No. 1
“Water-Cure in the Bay State” by Susan E. Cayleff
“The Ideal of Virtue in Post-Revolutionary Boston” by Myron F. Wehtje
Summer 1988, Vol. 16, No. 2
“Governor Francis Bernard and His Land Acquisitions, 1762-1779” by Ruth Owen Jones
“Jedidiah Morse and the Illuminati Affair: A Re-Reading, 1789-1799” by Richard J. Moss
“The Worcester Machinists’ Strike of 1915” by Bruce Cohen
“The Spirit of Reform in Hopkinton, 1829-1849” by John J. Navin
January 1988, Vol. 16, No. 1
“The Know-Nothings in Quincy” by James Tracey
“Emerson and the Campaign of 1851” by Leonard G. Gougeon
“Samuel Hopkins and the Coming of the Church of England to Great Barrington” by Michael Winship
“Fall River and the Decline of the New England Textile Industry, 1949-1954” by Bruce Saxon
“Springfield’s Union Relief Association, 1877-1886” by David W. Anthony
“The Limits of Partisanship in Gilded Age Worcester: The Citizens Coalition” by Robert J. Kolesar
June 1987, Vol. 15, No. 2
“Boston and the Calling of the Federal Convention of 1787” by Myron F. Wehtje
“An Experiment in Labor Peace: Haverhill, 1890-1930” by Paul H. Tedesco
“Ethnicity and Urban Politics: French Canadians in Worcester, 1895-1915” by Ronald A. Petrin
“The Development of the Massachusetts District Courts, 1821-1922” by Kathleen McDermott
January 1987, Vol. 15, No. 1
“Philip English and the Witchcraft Hysteria of Salem Massachusetts” by Bryan F. Le Beau
“The New England Textile Strike of 1922: Focus on Fitchburg” by Edmund B. Thomas, Jr.
“The Transformation of Agriculture in Brookline, 1770-1885” by Ronald Dale Karr
“Jonathon Bliss: Massachusetts Loyalist” by William L. Welch
“‘American Herbarium’: Key to Deerfield’s Historic Landscape” by William W. Jenney
“Boston and the New Nation, 1783-1786” by Myron F. Wehtje
June 1986, Vol. 14, No. 2
“Women in the Boston Gazette, 1755-1775” by Susan Dion
“The Massachusetts Land Lottery of 1786-1787” by William L. Welch
“Selling Massachusetts Medicines 1708-1889” by J. Worth Estes
“The Steam Power on the Connecticut, 1787-1826” by Guy A. MacLain Jr.
“The Daily Transactions of a Westfield Pastor, 1726-1740” by Walter L. Powell
January 1986, Vol. 14, No. 1
“Harvard and Yale in the Great Awakening” by Ross W. Beales, Jr.
“The Massachusetts Whigs and Industrialism” by Thomas Brown
“Profiles of Nineteenth Century Working Women” by Marjorie Ruzich Abel
“Domestic Violence in Colonial Massachusetts” by Brend D. McDonald
June 1985, Vol. 13, No. 2
“Boston Two Hundred Years Ago” by Myron F. Wehtje
“The Beginnings of Theological Education at Andover” by James W. Fraser
“Two Centuries of Oligarchy in Brookline” by Ronald Dale Karr
“Cardinal and Cleric: O’Connell and Mullen in Conflict” by William Wolkovich (early20th century)
“The Spirit of the Springfield Armory” by Stanislaus Skarzynski
“Labor in a City of Immigrants: Holyoke, 1882-1888” by Marianne Pedulla
“The South Hadley Canal, 1795-1847” by David Bell
January 1985, Vol. 13, No. 1
“Captain Myles Standish’s Military Role at Plymouth” by John S. Erwin
“General Edward A. Wild and Civil War Discrimination” by Richard Reid
“Women at Work: Views and Visions from the Pioneer Valley, 1870-1945” by Donna S. Kenny
“The Mount Tom Electric Railway at Holyoke, 1900-1915” by Robert A. Young Jr.
“Israel Williams and the Hampshire University Project (1761-1764)” by William L. Welch
“Novanglus and Massachusettensis: Different Conceptions of a Crisis” by Jonathan M. Atkins
June 1984, Vol. 12, No. 2
“Boston’s Celebration of Peace in 1783 and 1784” by Myron F. Wehtje
“Reverend Lyman Whiting’s Test of Faith (Massachusetts 1854)” by Robert M. Taylor Jr.
“The Boston Vigilance Committee: A Reconsideration” by Gary L. Collison
“Mayor John F. Fitzgerald and Boston’s Schools, 1905-1913” by James W. Fraser
“The Emergency Relief Committee of Fitchburg, 1931-1934” by Edmund B. Thomas, Jr.
January 1984, Vol. 12, No. 1
“American Officer Development in the Massachusetts Campaign, 1775-1776” by Victor Daniel Brooks
“Boston’s Response to Disorder in the Commonwealth, 1783-1787” by Myron F. Wehtje
“The Dedham Temporary Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners, 1864-1909” by Mary J. Bularzik
“The Professional Preparation of Parochial School Teachers, 1870-1940” by Mary J. Oates
June 1983, Vol. 11, No. 2
“Edward Everett and the Constitutional Union Party of 1860” by Thomas Brown
“Educating Irish Immigrants in Antebellum Lowell” by Brian C. Mitchell
“Irish Regiments in the Union Army: The Massachusetts Experience” by William L. Burton
January 1983, Vol. 11, No. 1
“Constructing the Western Railroad: The Irish Dimension (Middlefield)” by Edward O’Day
“Scandal Behind the Convent Walls: The Know-Nothing Nunnery Committee of 1855” by John R. Mulkern
“The Philosophy of Loyalism among the Ministers of Western Massachusetts” by Thomas S. Martin
January 1983, Vol. 11, No. 1
“Integrating Men’s Universitys at the Turn of the Century” by Mary Roth Walsh and Francis R. Walsh
“Educational Patterns of French-Canadians in Holyoke, 1868-1910” by Pater Haebler
“Sylvester Judd: Historian of the Connecticut River Valley, 1789-1869” by Altina Waller
January 1982, Vol. 10, No. 1
“Charity for a City in Crisis: Boston 1740-1775” by Peter R. Virgadamo
“‘The Hinterland of Belief’: The Revolutionary Correspondence of Edmund Quincy” by Robert V. Sparks
“Pulling Together and Drawing Apart: A Comment” by Robert A. Gross
June 1981, Vol. 9, No. 2
“The Boston Pilot Reports the Civil War” by Francis R. Walsh
“Baker’s Chocolate: The Making of a Name” by Elinor F. Oakes
“The Celebration of the Fourth of July in Westfield, 1826-1853” by Anne Marie Hickey
January 1981, Vol. 9, No. 1
“Blackinton: A Case Study of Industrialization” by Elizabeth Allegret Baker
“Industry and Society in 19th Century Massachusetts: A Commentary” by Carl Siracusa
“Defending Orthodoxy in Massachusetts: 1650-1652” by Timothy J. Sehr
“‘This Poor People’: Seventeenth Century Massachusetts and the Poor” by Charles R. Lee
“The Puritan Self-Image and Enemies Within: Commentary” by Francis Bremer
June 1980, Vol. 8, No. 2
“Exposure of Prostitution in Western Massachusetts” by Karen A. Terrell
“The Massachusetts Clergy and the New Deal” by Monroe Billington and Cal Clark
“Springfield’s Citizen-Soldiers in the Spanish-American War” by Leo J. Leamy
January 1980, Vol. 8, No. 1
“The Presidential Election of 1932 in Western Massachusetts” by Philip A. Grant, Jr.
“Western Massachusetts in the Know-Nothing Years: An Analysis of Voting Patterns” by John Mulkern
“Sanitation and Cholera: Springfield and the 1866 Epidemic” by Margaret M. Phaneuf
“The Rise of the New Divinity in Western New England, 1740-1800” by Joseph Conforti
“In the Wake of the Awakening: The Politics of Purity in Granville, 1754-1776” by Gregory Nobles
June 1979, Vol. 7, No. 2
“Early Medical Care in Deerfield” by Mark C. Kestigan
“Public Education in Holyoke, 1850-1873” by Gary L. Courchesne
“Blacks in Springfield, 1868-1880: A Mobility Study” by Joseph P. Lynch
“Jonathon Ashley: Tory Minister” by Robert C. Coughlin
January 1979, Vol. 7, No. 1
“The Massachusetts Suffrage Referendum of 1915” by Robert Granfield
Fall 1978
No issue published.
Spring 1978, Vol. 6, No. 2
“Recreation in Chicopee 1853-1857” by John A. Koziol
“Research Aids: Genealogy in Western Massachusetts” by Ellen M. Coty
Fall 1977, Vol. 6, No. 1
“Demographic Study of Easthampton, 1850-1870” by Paul Hynek
“Thomas Sheldon: Forgotten Resident of Westfield (1787-1838)” by Charles Bockelman
“Witchcraft in Early Springfield: The Parsons Case” by Christine Wrona (mid 17th century)
Spring 1977, Vol. 5, No. 2
“The Last Shall Be First: The Amherst University Days of Calvin Coolidge” by Thomas W. Kilmartin
“An Overview of the Criminal Justice System of Hampshire County, 1677-1728” by Evlyn Belz Russell
“The Silk Industry in Northampton” by Ronald Savoie
”To Secure the Party: Henry L. Dawes and the Politics of Reconstruction” by Steven J. Arcanti
“Greek Immigrants in Springfield, 1884-1944” by George T. Eliopoulos
Fall 1976
No issue published.
Spring 1976, Vol. 5, No. 1
“Westfield’s Black Community, 1755-1905” by Michael Camerota
“1876: Local Observance of the Centennial” by Joanne E. Moller
“George Thompson and the Springfield 1851 ‘Anti-Abolition’ Riot” by Theresa A. Harrison
Fall 1975, Vol. 4, No. 2
“’A Lamentable and Woeful Sight’: The Indian Attack on Springfield” by Richard J. Pinkos
“The Real William Pynchon: Merchant and Politician” by Stephen J. Cote
“Death in Colonial New England” by James J. Naglack
“The Stockbridge Indian in the American Revolution” by Deirdre Almeida
Spring 1975, Vol. 4, No. 1
“Rural Medical Practice in Early 19th Century New England” by Joseph Carvalho III
“The Hopedale Community” by David M. Coffey
“Prohibition and its Effect on Western Massachusetts, 1919-1920” by Debra P. Sansoucy
“Housing in Holyoke and its Effect on Family Life, 1860-1910” by Paul N. Dubovik
“Quabbin Reservoir: The Elimination of Four Small New England Towns” by James Naglack
Fall 1974, Vol. 3, No. 2
“The Epidemic Cholera in Springfield 1832 and 1849” by John E. Doyle
“The Railroad Comes to Springfield” by Mark Mackler
“Springfield during the Civil War Years 1861-1865” by Edward M. Morin
Spring 1974, Vol. 3, No. 1
“The French in Holyoke, 1850-1900” by Therese Bilodeau
“Chicopee’s Irish, 1830-1875” by John E. Doyle
“The Westfield Home Front During the Civil War” by Madeline Warner
“Noah Atwater (1752-1799) and His Contribution to Westfield Life” by Kathleen Girardi
Fall 1973, Vol. 2, No. 2
“Marriage Customs in Colonial New England” by Irene Ktorides
“The Charleston State Prison (1804-1878)” by Anne Bauer
“Benjamin Franklin and the Inoculation Controversy” by Kathe Palermo Gwozdz
Spring 1973, Vol. 2, No. 1
“The Effect of the Civil War on Shaker Societies” by Stephen Paterwic
“Life and Death at Andersonville Prison” by Ann Clearly
“The Horse Distemper of 1872 and its Effect on Urban Transportation” by Sr. Denise Granger
Fall 1972, Vol. 1, No. 2
“The Trolley Car as a Social Factor: Springfield, Massachusetts” by Scott R. Johnson
“The Social Impact of Radio” By Douglas Stanley
Spring 1972, Vol. 1, No. 1
“William L. Bulkley and the New York Negro, 1890-1910” by George Psychas
“William Lloyd Garrison and the Election of 1864” by Paul H. Julian
“The Indians of Eastern Massachusetts, 1620-1645” by Frederick F. Harling