Article Archive, 1972 - Present
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Winter 2021, Vol. 49, No. 1
Editor’s Choice: “The Color-Blind Commonwealth? Edward Brooke’s Senate Campaign in 1966” by Jason Sokol
“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
“Massacre at Portudal?: Reexamining the Rainbow, Boston’s First Transatlantic Slaving Voyage, 1644–45” by Sean M. Kelley
Book Reviews (9)
Summer 2020, Vol. 48, No. 2
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
Winter 2019, Vol. 46, No. 1
Summer 2018, Vol. 45, No. 2
Winter 2018, Vol. 45, No. 1
Summer 2017, Vol. 45, No. 2
Winter 2017, Vol. 45, No. 1
Summer 2016, Vol. 44, No. 2
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
Winter 2015, Vol. 43, No. 1
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
Summer 2013, Vol. 41, No. 2
Winter 2013, Vol. 41, No. 1
2012 Special 40th Anniversary Double Issue, Vol. 40, No. 1 & 2
2011 Special Double Issue, Vol. 39, No. 1 & 2
Spring 2010, Vol. 38, No. 2
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
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
Summer 2007, Vol. 35, No. 2
Winter 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1
Summer 2006, Vol. 34, No. 2
Winter 2006, Vol. 34, No. 1
Summer 2005, Vol. 33, No. 2
Winter 2005, Vol. 33, No. 1
Summer 2004, Vol. 32, No. 2
Winter 2004, Vol. 32, No. 1
Summer 2003, Vol. 31, No. 2
Winter 2003, Vol. 31, No. 1
Summer 2002, Vol. 30, No. 2
Winter 2002, Vol. 30, No. 1
Summer 2001, Vol. 29, No. 2
Winter 2001, Vol. 29, No. 1
Summer 2000, Vol. 28, No. 2
Winter 2000, Vol. 28, No. 1
Summer 1999, Vol. 27, No. 2
Winter 1999, Vol. 27, No. 1
Summer 1998, Vol. 26, No. 2
Winter 1998, Vol. 26, No. 1
Summer 1997, Vol. 26, No. 2
Winter 1997, Vol. 26, No. 1
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
Summer 1995, Vol. 23, No. 2
Winter 1995, Vol. 23, No. 1
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
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
Summer 1992, Vol. 20, No. 2
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
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
Summer 1988, Vol. 16, No. 2
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
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
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
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
January 1983, Vol. 11, No. 1
June 1982, Vol. 10, No. 2
January 1982, Vol. 10, No. 1
June 1981, Vol. 9, No. 2
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
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
January 1979, Vol. 7, No. 1
Fall 1978
No issue published.
Spring 1978, Vol. 6, No. 2
Fall 1977, Vol. 6, No. 1
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
Fall 1975, Vol. 4, No. 2
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