Beacon Hill . Somehow , in the United States , any neighbourhood with ' Hill'in its name – Nob Hill , Society Hill , Capitol Hill and the rest – acquires connotations of exclusiveness , of utter social authority in its particular town .
This full-color guide will help travelers plan the perfect trip, from leaf peeping and skiing to antiquing and fine dining. Expanded Coverage: New restaurants and hotels including top picks for romantic getaways and family vacations.
A New England Town: The First Hundred Years, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736
A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England by John Farmer, first published in 1829, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries...
Robb Sagendorph, “Beyond Armageddon” (1935), unpublished ms., Sagendorph Papers, Yankee Archives, pp. 58–59. Robb Sagendorph, “This Is Yankee” (1947), unpublished ms., Sagendorph Papers, p. 2. 65. Ibid., p. 1. Introduced in December.
For the indigenous peoples of New England--the Abenaki, Mohegan, Mohican, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Pequot, Schaghticoke, Wampanoag, and other tribal nations--the colonial period has not yet ended. In light of...
"I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl," asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who...
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 46, 1892 . New England Historic Genealogical Society. (1892) reprint, index, illus., c518 pp.
Based on thesis--Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references.
Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s.