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These resources for students and teachers are recommended by educators who visit, use, and work at national parks in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. History and Social Science Early America and Americans (Beginnings to 1650) Cronon, William. (1983). Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York, NY: Hill and Wang. Settlements, Colonies, and Emerging American Identity (1600-1763) Butterfield, L.H., Marc Friedlaender & Mary-Jo Kline. (1975). The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society. Carlson, Stephen P. (1979). The Scots at Hammersmith. Saugus, MA: Eastern National Park and Monument Association. Clark, Mary Stetson. (1991). Iron in Colonial Times. USA: Publishing Center for Cultural Resources. Dow, George Francis. (1988). Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. New York, NY: Dover Publications. Earle, Alice Morse. (1993). Home Life in Colonial Days. MA: Berkshire House Publishers. Hakim, Joy. (1993). From Colonies to Country. New York, NY: Oxford University Press Children's Books. Kemper III, Jackson. (1987). American Charcoal Making. Elverson, PA: Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. McGovern, A. (1992). ...If You Lived in Colonial Times. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc. Watson, Bruce. (1991). "Forging the Future," in Cobblestone. Petersborough, NH: Cobblestone Publishing, Inc. Whitman, Maryann. (1995). Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site. A Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan. Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation. The American Revolution: Creating a New Nation (1750-1815) Cobblestone Publishers. (1988). "Salem and the East Indies Trade." in Cobblestone, Vol. 9, Number 9. Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone Publishers. Bliven, Bruce. (1987). The American Revolution. New York, NY: Random House. Bober, Natalie S. (1998). Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution. Aladdin Paperbacks. Bolster, W. Jeffrey. (1997). Black Jacks - African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Callahan, North. (1958). Henry Knox, General Washington's General. Rinehart & Co. Carter, Alden R. (1988). The American Revolution. New York, NY: Franklin Watts. Christman, Margaret C. S. (1984). Adventurous Pursuits: Americans and the China Trade, 1784-1844. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Cobblestone Magazine. (Sept. 1983) Patriotic Tales of the American Revolution. Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone Publishing, Inc. Coburn, Frank Warren, ed. (1995). Muster Rolls of the Participating Companies of American Militia and Minute Men in the Battle of April 19, 1775. Eastern National Park and Monument Association. Commanger, Henry Steele. (1982). The Great Declaration: A Book for Young Americans, Eastern National Park & Monument Association for the National Park Service. (Reissue of 1958 edition published by Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.) Creighton, Margaret S. (1982). Dog Watch and Liberty Days. Worcester, MA: Mercantile Press.
Ferris, Robert G. & Richard E. Morris. (1982). Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Flagstaff, AZ: Interpretive Publications, Inc. Forbes, Esther. (1987). Johnny Tremain. Yearling Books. Fritz, Jean. (1987). Early Thunder. New York, NY: Puffin Books. Fritz, Jean. (1996). And then What Happened Paul Revere? Paper Star Press. Horton, James O. & Lois E. Horton. (1998). In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Lathom, Jean Lee. (1955). Carry on Mr. Bowditch. Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin,Co. Maier, Pauline. (1997). American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Minute Man National Historical Park. "A Bridge To The Past: Teacher's Guide to the North Bridge and Battle Road Units of Minute Man National Historical Park." Available at Minute Man NHP book store. Morison, Samuel Eliot. (1961). Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press. Morrissey, Brendan. (1995). Boston 1775: The Shot Heard Around the World. Osprey Publishing Co. National Park Service. (1989). Salem: Maritime Salem in the Age of Sail. Washington, DC: United States Department of the Interior. Nell, William C. (1968). The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution. Ayer Co. Publishers. Nichols, George. (1970). Salem Shipmaster and Merchant: An Autobiography. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press. Nylander, Jane. (1994). Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Osborne, Angela. (1989). Abigail Adams. New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers. Reit, Seymour. (1992). Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution (Great Episodes). Harcourt-Brace. Unknown author. The Lexington - Concord Battle Road: Hour-by-hour account of events preceding and on the history-making day April 19, 1775. Available through the Concord, MA Chamber of Commerce. Zobel, Hiller B. (1996 reissue). The Boston Massacre. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co. Expansion, Reform and Economic Growth (1815-1861) Deyrup, Felicia Johnson. (1970). Arms Making in the Connecticut Valley. Pennsylvania: George Shumway Publisher. Hounshell, David A. (1984). From the American System to Mass Production 1800 - 1932. Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. Blewett, Mary H. ed. (1982). Surviving Hard Times: Working People of Lowell. Lowell, MA: Lowell Museum. Cherry, Lynne. (1982). A River Ran Wild. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace, and Co. Dalzell, Robert. (1987). Enterprising Elite. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Dublin, Thomas. (1981). Farm to Factory: Women's Letters 1830-1860. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Dublin, Thomas. (1993). The Story of an Industrial City. Washington D.C.: National Park Service. Dublin, Thomas. (1979). Women at Work. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Dunwell, Steve. (1978). Run of the Mill. Boston, MA: David R. Godine. Eno, Arthur L. (1976). Cotton Was King: A History of Lowell. Lowell, MA: Lowell Historical Society. Lowell National Historical Park. (1998). A New England Mill Poster. Available through Lowell National Historical Park bookstore. Macauley, David. (1983). Mill. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co. Macauley, David. (1988). The Way Things Work. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Malone, Patrick. (1983). Canals and Industry. Lowell, MA: Lowell Museum. McCully, Emily Arnold. (1996). The Bobbin Girl. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Books, USA, Inc. Patterson, Katherine. (1991). Lyddie. New York, NY: Penguin Books. Robinson, Harriet Hanson. (1976). Loom & Spindle or Life Among the Early Mill Girls. Kailua, HA: Press Pacifica. Weible, Robert, ed. (1991). The Continuing Revolution. Lowell, MA: Lowell Historical Society. The Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) Adams, Charles Francis. (1983). Charles Francis Adams 1835-1915: An Autobiography. New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers. Clark, David C. (1994). Arms for the Nation Springfield Longarms. Pennsylvania; South Greensburg Printing Co., Inc. Cox, Clinton. (1993). Undying Glory: The Story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. Scholastic Professional Books. Douglass, Frederick. (1993). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Bedford Books. Duberman, Martin B. (1960). Charles Francis Adams 1807-1886. CA: Stanford University Press. Gougeon, Len & Joel Myerson, eds. (1995). Emerson's Antislavery Writings. CT: Yale University Press. Jacobs, Donald M., ed. (1993). Courage and Conscience: Black & White Abolitionists in Boston. IN: Indiana University Press. Ketchum, Richard M., Editor & Bruce Catton, Narrator. (1960). The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. New York, NY: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. Truth, Sojourner, edited by Margaret Washington. (1993). The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Vintage Books. The Advent of Modern America (1865-1920) Bodnar, John. (1985). The Transplanted. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Claflin, James. (1998). Lighthouses and Lifesaving along the Massachusetts Coast. South Carolina: Arcadia Press. Denenberg, Barry. (1997). So Far from Home, The Diary Of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl. New York, NY: Scholastics, Inc. Dunlap, Julie. (1994). Parks for the People: A Story about Frederick Law Olmsted. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books. Emerson, Ralf Waldo. (1990). Essays: First and Second Series. Vintage Books. Hunter, Louis C. (1979) A History of Industrial Power in the United States 1780-1930. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press Mayerson, Evelyn Wilder. (1990). The Cat Who Escaped From Steerage. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Johnston, Johanna. (1975) Frederick Law Olmsted: Partner with Nature. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, and Company. Raber Associates Consultants in the Historical and Social Sciences. (1989). Conservative Innovators and Military Small Arms: An Industrial History of Springfield Armory 1794-1968. So. Glastonbury, CT. (unpublished report available through Springfield Armory NHS) Smithsonian Institution. (1978). The Smithsonian Book of Invention. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Tifft, Wilton S. (1990). Ellis Island. Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books. The United States and Two World Wars (1914 to 1945) Colman, Penn & Shakti Gawain. (1995). Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front during World War II. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc. Hartmann, Susan M. (1982) The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers. Honey, Maureen. (1984). Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender and Propoganda during World War II. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. Sinnott, Susan. (1995). Doing our Part: American Women on the Home Front During World War II. New York, NY: Franklin Watts, Inc. Whitman, Sylvia. (1992). V is for Victory: The American Home Front during World War II. Lerner Publications Company. The Contemporary United States (1945 to the Present) Sorenson, Theodore, ed. (1988). "Let the World Go Forth:" The Speeches, Statements, and Writings of John F. Kennedy. Delacorte Press.Goodwin, Doris Kearns. (1987). The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga. New York: Simon and Schuster. ABC News. (1989) The Great Debate: John F. Kennedy vs. Richard M. Nixon. Color, 60 minutes. MPI Home Video. MPI Home Video. (1990). The Speeches of John F. Kennedy. Color and B/W. 60 minutes. MPI Home Video. Environmental History and Environmental Education Baker, Jennie & Jeannie Baker. (1992). Window. Puffin Books. Cherry, Lynne. (1992). River Ran Wild. Harcourt and Brace. Cornell, Joseph. (1994). Journey to the Heart of Nature. Nevada City, CA: Dawn Publications. Coulombe, Deborah. (1984). The Seaside Naturalist. New York: Simon and Schuster. DiSalvo Ryan, DyAnne. (1994). City Green. New York, NY: William Morrow and Company. Dunford, Fred. (1997). Secrets in the Sand: The Archeology of Cape Cod. Hyannis: Parnassus Imprints Herberman, Ethan. (1996). The City Kids Field Guide. Parssippay, NJ: Silver-Burdett & Ginn. Hiss, Tony. (1990). The Experience of Place. New York, NY: Alfred A Knopf. Nabhan, Gary and Stephen Trimble. (1994). The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. National Park Service. "National Park Service-Cape Cod Sands of Time" (video) Silver, Donald. (1993). One Small Square Backyard. New York, NY: Freeman and Company. Kesselheim, Alan S. et al. (1995) WOW! The Wonders of Wetlands: An Educator's Guide. Bozeman, MT: The Watercourse, Montana State University.Lawlor, Elizabeth. (1992). Discover Nature at the Seashore. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books. Project WET. (1995) Project WET K-12 Curriculum and Activity Guide. Bozeman, MT: Project WET Montana State University. English Language Arts Poetry, Writing, and Literature Bumgardner, Joyce. (1997). Helping Students Learn to Write Poetry. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Dana, Richard Henry. (1965). Two Years Before the Mast. New York, NY: Airmont Publishing Company. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. (1998). The Scarlet Letter. Konemann. Koch, Kevin. (1992). Rose, Where Did You Get that Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children. New York, NY: Vintage Books. McKim, Elizabeth and Judith Steinbergh. (1992). Beyond Words, Writing Poems with Children: A Guide for Parents and Teachers. Brookline, MA: Talking Stone Press. Moyers, Bill, ed. (1995). The Language of Life: Eight-part Video Series. David Grubin Productions, Inc. and Public Affairs Television, Inc. Perry, Aaren Yeatts. (1997) Poetry Across the Curriculum. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Sedgwick, Fred. (1997) Read My Mind: Young Children, Poetry and Learning. New York, NY: Routledge. Lukes, Bonnie. (1998). World Writers. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America's Beloved Poet. Greensborough, NC: Morgan Reynolds, Inc. Minuteman National Historical Park. "Thoreau and Friends" Program Guide. Available through Minute Man NP bookstore. Richmond, Merle. (1992). Phillis Wheatley (American Women of Achievement). Library Binding. Sherrow, Victoria. (1993). Phillis Wheatley: Poet. New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishing Paperbacks. Blizzard, Gladys. (1992). Come Look with Me: Exploring Landscape Art with Children. Charlottesville, VA: Thomasson-Grant, Inc. Eyewitness Visual Libraries. (1991). Visual Dictionary of Ships and Sailing. New York, NY: DK Pubblishing, Inc. Rogers, Jon G. (1985). Origins of Sea Terms. American Maritime Library: volume XI. Boston, MA: Nimrod Press.
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