Bibliography of Boston

Woman reading Boston Against Busing in 2008

Man reading the Boston Globe in 2009

Man reading about the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013

The following is a list of works about Boston, Massachusetts, USA.:

Nonfiction

General

• Beagle, Jonathan M.; Penn, Elan (2006). Boston: A Pictorial Celebration. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-1977-6.
• Bluestone, Barry; Stevenson, Mary Huff (2002). The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-1-61044-072-1.
• Bolino, August C. (2012). Men of Massachusetts: Bay State Contributors to American Society. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4759-3376-5.
• Brown, Robin; The Boston Globe (2009). Boston's Secret Spaces: 50 Hidden Corners In and Around the Hub (1 ed.). Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-5062-7.
• Christopher, Paul J. (2006). 50 Plus One Greatest Cities in the World You Should Visit. Encouragement Press, LLC. ISBN 978-1-933766-01-0.
• Hantover, Jeffrey; King, Gilbert (2008). City in Time: Boston. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-3300-0.
• Kennedy, Lawrence W. (1994). Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-0-87023-923-6.
• Krieger, Alex; Cobb, David; Turner, Amy, eds. (2001). Mapping Boston. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-61173-2.
• O'Connell, James C. (2013). The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262018753.
• O'Connor, Thomas H. (2000). Boston: A to Z. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00310-1.
• Price, Michael; Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (2000). Boston's immigrants, 1840–1925. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-0921-4.
• Seasholes, Nancy S. (2003). Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19494-5.
• Shand-Tucci, Douglass (1999). Built in Boston: City & Suburb, 1800–2000 (2 ed.). University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-201-1.
• Vrabel, Jim; Bostonian Society (2004). When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-1-55553-620-6.
• Whitehill, Walter Muir; Kennedy, Lawrence W. (2000). Boston: A Topographical History (3 ed.). Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00268-5.

Bibliographies

• Henry Stevens (1866). "Boston". Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum. London: C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press.
• Joseph Sabin, ed. (1869). "Boston". Bibliotheca Americana 2. New York. OCLC 13972268.
• Frederic Beecher Perkins (1876), "Boston", Check List for American Local History: Reprinted with Additions from the Bulletins of the Boston Public Library, Rockwell & Churchill, pp. 12–33
• "Index of Articles upon American Local History, in Historical Collections in the Boston Public Library: Boston", Bulletin of the Boston Public Library 5, September 1883, pp. 437–440
• Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Boston", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351

Directories

• Boston Directory

Guides

• "Boston", Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of American Cities, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876
• "Boston", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, pp. 253–274, OCLC 02338437
• "Boston". Automobile Blue Book. New York: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1917.
• Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Boston: the Hub of the Universe", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Cambridge: Riverside Press
• Donlyn Lyndon (1982), The City Observed, Boston: a Guide to the Architecture of the Hub, New York: Vintage Books, OL 23256413M
• John Harris (1989), Boston Globe Historic Walks in Old Boston, Chester: Globe Pequot Press, OL 2213403M
• Boston, New York: Fodor's, 1996, OL 24710817M
• "New England: Massachusetts: Boston", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M
• Boston (2nd ed.), Lonely Planet, 2003, OL 24751454M
• Morris, Jerry (2005). The Boston Globe Guide to Boston. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-3430-6.
• Southworth, Michael; Southworth, Susan (2008). AIA Guide to Boston, 3rd Edition: Contemporary Landmarks, Urban Design, Parks, Historic Buildings and Neighborhoods (3 ed.). Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-4337-7.
• Wechter, Eric B.; et al. (2009). Fodor's Boston 2009. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-0699-1.
• Vorhees, Mara (2009). Lonely Planet Boston City Guide (4 ed.). Lonely Planet. ISBN 978-1-74179-178-5.
• Hull, Sarah (2011). The Rough Guide to Boston (6 ed.). Penguin. ISBN 978-1-4053-8247-2.

History

List of works, arranged by author

• Beatty, Jack. The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 (1992) online edition
• Blake, John B. Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Harvard UP, 1959).
• Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness-The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742 (1938) online edition
• Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 (1955)
• Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (2010)
• Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: urban political culture in Boston, 1900-1925 (2009).
• Conzen, Michael P., and George King Lewis, eds. Boston: A geographical portrait (1976)
• Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride (Oxford UP, 1994) online edition
• Eisinger, Peter K. "Ethnic political transition in Boston, 1884-1933: Some lessons for contemporary cities." Political Science Quarterly (1978): 217-239. in JSTOR
• Formisano, Ronald P., Constance K. Burns, eds. Boston, 1700-1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics (Greenwood Press, 1984) online edition, the standard political history
• Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation (1941)
• Jones, Howard Mumford; Jones, Bessie Zaban (1975). The Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology 1630–1975. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-47282-4.
• Kane, Paula M. Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920 (2001) online edition
• McCaughey, Robert A. Josiah Quincy 1772-1864: The Last Federalist (Harvard UP, 1974)
• Miller, John C. Sam Adams, Pioneer in Propaganda (1936)
• O'Connor, Thomas H. The Boston Irish: A Political History (1995)
• O'Toole, James M. Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944 (1992)
• Russell, Francis. A City in Terror--1919--: The Boston Police Strike (1975).
• Rutman, Darrett B. Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649 (U of North Carolina Press, 1965).
• Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell; Price, Michael, Boston's immigrants, 1840-1925, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 2000
• Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (1995). Boston: A Century of Progress. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738538761.
• Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, The Great Boston Fire of 1872, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 1997
• Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, Lost Boston, Pavilion Press, May 1, 2014. ISBN 978-1909815049
• Simons, D. Brenton (2008). Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views. University Press of New England. ISBN 1-58465-740-5.
• Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, Big Dig, Little Dig, Hidden Worlds: Boston, Common-Place, American Antiquarian Society, v.3, n.4, July 2003
• Vale, Lawrence J., "From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors" (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Press, 2000).
• Vanderwarker, Peter (1982). Boston Then and Now. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-24312-5.
• Warden, Gerard B. Boston, 1689-1776 (1970), the standard history for the period
• Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (2nd ed. 1978)
• Waters, John J. The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts (1968)
• Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston: A Topographical History, (2nd ed. Harvard UP, 1968), on geography and neighborhoods

List of works, arranged chronologically

Published in the 18th century

• Names of the Streets, Lanes & Alleys within the Town of Boston, Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green, 1708, OCLC 511023684
• Thomas Pemberton (1794), Topographical and Historical Description of Boston

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• Abraham Rees (1819), "Boston", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
• Caleb H. Snow (1828). History of Boston. Boston: Abel Bowen.
• David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Boston". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
• "Boston", American Advertising Directory, for Manufacturers and Dealers in American Goods, New York: Jocelyn, Darling & Co., 1831, OCLC 1018684

1850s-1890s

• Josiah Quincy (1852), Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston, Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown
• J. Willoughby Rosse (1858). "Boston". Index of Dates ... Facts in the Chronology and History of the World. London: H.G. Bohn – via Hathi Trust.
• Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1868). "Boston". North American Review 106: 1–25. JSTOR 25108129.
• Justin Winsor, ed. (1880–1881), Memorial History of Boston, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, OCLC 4953409
  • v.1: Early and Colonial Periods
  • v.2: Provincial Period
  • v.3: Revolutionary Period. The Last Hundred Years, Pt.1
  • v.4: Last Hundred Years, Pt.2. Special topics
• Edward H. Savage (1884), Boston Events, Boston: Tolman & White, printers
• Bacon, Edwin Munroe, and Edward, George, "Ellis Bacon's Dictionary of Boston", Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886.
• South End House (1898), Robert A. Woods, ed., The City Wilderness: a Settlement Study, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 849952

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

• "Boston". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
• Frederick Harold Fay (1901), Population and finances of Boston, Boston: Municipal Print. Office, OCLC 6055315
• Henry James (1906). "Boston". North American Review 182: 333–355. JSTOR 25105534.
• "Selectmen Minutes 1818–1822", Records Relating to the Early History of Boston (City of Boston), 1909
• A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc., in the City of Boston, City of Boston, 1910
• Robert A. Woods (1910). "Boston". In William Dwight Porter Bliss and Rudolph Michael Binder. New Encyclopedia of Social Reform. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 124–126.
• Edward Hungerford (1913), "Our Ancient Hub", Personality of American Cities, New York: McBride, Nast & Company
• Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin and Albert Bushnell Hart, ed. (1914). "Boston". Cyclopedia of American Government 1. D. Appleton and Company.
• Hartnell, Edward Mussey; McGlenen, Edward Webster; Skelton, Edward Oliver, Boston and its story, 1630-1915, City of Boston (Mass.), Printing Department, 1916.
• Edwin Monroe Bacon (1916). Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis. Boston: Pilgrim Press.
• Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth; Stephen Elliott Kramer (1922). "Boston". Great Cities of the United States. Syracuse, New York: Iroquois Publishing Company.
• Atlas of the City of Boston. G.W. Bromley & Co. 1928 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
• S. Foster Damon (1935). "The Genesis of Boston". The Atlantic 156.
• Atlas of the City of Boston. G.W. Bromley & Co. 1938 – via State Library of Massachusetts.

1950s-1970s

• Kevin Lynch (1960), "Boston", Image of the City, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, p. 16+, OL 5795447M
• Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce (1964), Report on the existing industrial crisis in the city of Boston
• Walter Muir Whitehill (1964), Boston: Portrait of a City, Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, OL 5912910M
• Henretta, J.A. (1965) "Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston", The William and Mary Quarterly 22(1): 75-92.
• Martin Green (1966). Problem of Boston. W.W. Norton & Company. OCLC 1016725.
• Ward, D. (1966) "The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Boston's Central Business District", Economic Geography 42 (2): 152-171.
• George F. Weston (1967), Boston ways: high, by, and folk, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 16413538M
• Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett, ed. (1969), Nineteenth-Century Cities, Yale Studies of the City, Yale University Press, OL 5440390M (includes essays about Boston)
• Carl Seaburg (1971), Boston Observed, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 4769638M
• Boston Redevelopment Authority (1972), City of Boston: current problems and issues
• Darrett B. Rutman (1973), "Boston: 'A Citty upon a Hill'", in Alexander B. Callow, American Urban History (2nd ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, OL 5307653M
• Stephan Thernstrom (1973), The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970, Harvard Studies in Urban History, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674644956
• Howard Mumford Jones; Bessie Zaban Jones (1975). Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology 1630–1975. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-47282-4.
• Douglass Shand-Tucci (1978), Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800–1950, New York Graphic Society, OL 24751516M

1980s-1990s

• Jane Holtz Kay (1980), Lost Boston, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0395276098
• Allan Pred (1980), "Boston's City-System Interdependencies", Urban Growth and City Systems in the United States, 1840–1860, Harvard Studies in Urban History, Harvard University Press, pp. 65–83
• Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Boston", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
• Peter Vanderwarker (1982), Boston Then and Now: 59 Boston sites photographed in the past and present, New York: Dover Publications, OL 4271212M
• "City with a Ticking Time Bomb", Financial Times (London), March 6, 1984
• Lawrence W. Kennedy (1992), Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, OL 1562221M
• Robert Campbell; Peter Vanderwarker (1992), Cityscapes of Boston: an American City Through Time, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., OL 1562103M
• George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Boston", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
• Susan Wilson (1994), Boston Sites & Insights, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 1421334M
• Anthony Mitchell Sammarco (1995), Boston, Dover, N.H.: Arcadia, OL 1028399M
• Lawrence W. Kennedy (1998). "Boston, Massachusetts". Encyclopedia of Urban America. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780874368468 – via Credo Reference. (subscription required)

Published in the 21st century

• Thomas O'Connor, Boston, A to Z (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000)
• Walter Muir Whitehill (2000), Boston: a Topographical History (3rd ed.), Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, OL 58903M
• Paul S. Boyer, ed. (2001). "Boston". Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
• Charles C. Euchner, ed. (2003), Governing Greater Boston, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, ISBN 0-9718427-1-X
• Edward Glaeser (2003), Reinventing Boston: 1640–2003, Harvard Institute of Economic Research
• Nancy S. Seasholes (2003). Gaining Ground: a History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0262194945.
• David Levinson, ed. (2004). "Boston". Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-2751-8.
• Jim Vrabel (2004), When in Boston: a Time Line & Almanac, Boston: Northeastern University Press, ISBN 1555536212
• David Marley (2005), "Boston", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1576070271
• John Hanson Mitchell (2009). Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7149-6.
• American Cities Project (2013). "Boston". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, D.C.: Pew Charitable Trusts.
• "Boston’s income divide largest in US", Boston Globe, January 15, 2016

Fiction

See also

• Media in Boston
• Boston Book Festival
• List of booksellers in Boston

External links

• Boston Redevelopment Authority. "Research Publications". City of Boston.

Catalogs

• Boston Public Library. Online catalog: subject:(boston)
• Bostonian Society. Online Catalog
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Boston, various dates
• Europeana. Items related to Boston, Massachusetts, various dates.
• Massachusetts Historical Society. Online library catalog
• Worldcat. su:Boston (Mass.)