BOOK REVIEWERS NEEDED

The Historical Journal of Massachusetts is looking for reviewers for the following books. If you are interested, please download our Reviewer Form. We welcome suggestions of other new publications which are not on this list that focus on either Massachusetts or New England history. Reviews should be 500-800 words (download our complete guidelines here). Note: Books go quickly so not everything on this list may be available. E-mail all correspondence to booksreviews@wsc.ma.edu

We also publish reviews of exhibits and websites sponsored by museums and historic sites relating to Massachusetts history.

In addition, we are currently seeking new peer reviewers to help evaluate submitted articles. They are usually asked to review one article per year relating to a topic of their choice. Qualifications: M.A. or special expertise in an area; publications. If interested, please download and complete the reviewer form highlighted above.

 4/20/10 BOOKS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW
Contact: Intern.masshistory@wsc.ma.edu
GENERAL OVERVIEWS

  1. Brown, Kathleen Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America (2009)

  2. Clark, Bob. Westfield, Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone (2008)

  3. Penna, Anthony N. and Conrad Edick Wright. Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings (2009)

  4. Seasholes, Nancy S. Walking Tours of Boston’s Main Land (2006)

  5. Sharpe, Elizabeth Amherst A-Z: Amherst, Massachusetts, 1759-2009 (2009)

  6. Shockley, Megan Taylor The Captain’s Widow of Sandwich: Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 (2010)

  7. Weber, Jody. The Evolution of Aesthetic and Expressive Dance in Boston (2009)

  8. Worcester Historical Museum: Landscape of Industry: An Industrial History of the Blackstone Valley  (2009)

  9. Krahulik, Karen Christel. Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort (2005)

  10. Braden, Al. The Connecticut River: A Photographic Journey Through the Heart of New England (2009)

  11. Dolin, Eric Jay. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in North America (2010)—Advance Copy with final copy coming later


    COLONIAL PERIOD/ AMERICAN REVOLUTION

  12. Bunker, Nick. Making Haste From Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History (2010)

  13. Wilson H. Kimnach, Caleb D. Maskell, and Kenneth P. Minkema ed. Jonathan Edwards’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: A Casebook (2010)


    1789 - 1900

  14. Charyn, Jerome. The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson (2010)

  15.  Dolan, Neal. Emerson’s Liberalism (2009)

  16. Greenwood, Janette Thomas. First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900 (2009)

  17. Reed, Roger. Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant  (2007)

  18. Malone, Patrick M. Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America (2009)

  19. Murray, Aife. Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life and Language (2009)

  20. Levinston, David (ed.) African American Heritage in the Upper Housatonic Valley (2006)

  21. Dwyer-Ryan, Meaghan, Susan Porter, and Lisa Davis. Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston, 1854-2000  (2009)

  22. Wardrop, Daneen. Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing (2009)

  23. Bosco, Ronald and Joel Myerson (editors). Emerson: Bicentennial Essays (2009)

  24. Barber, Shelley (ed.) The Prendergast Letters: Correspondence from Famine-Era Ireland, 1840-1850   (2006)

  25. Trimpi, Helen P. Crimson Confederates: Harvard Men Who Fought For the South (2010)


    1900 - Present

  26. Barnett, Anne Alison. Extravaganza King: Roger Barnet and Boston Music Theater (1853-1933)  (2004)
  27. Haynie, Aeron and Timothy Miller (editors). A Memoir of the New Left: The Political Autobiography of Charles A. Hayne (2009)
  28. Juravich, Tom. At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century (2009)
  29. Swidey, Neil. The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives (2008)

DVDs

    1. Dynamite, Whiskey, and Wood: Connecticut River Log Drives 1870-1915

    2. The Wounded Eros: Remembering Charles Hammond Gibson, Jr., 1874-1954