Bibliography of Boston

Last updated October 06, 2023

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

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. Vol. 2. New York. OCLC 13972268.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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, hdl:2027/uc1.b4524371
"Index of Articles upon American Local History, in Historical Collections in the Boston Public Library: Boston", Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, vol. 5, September 1883, pp. 437–440, hdl:2027/njp.32101065267914
Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Boston", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, vol. 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)
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)
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)
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), the standard political history
Gamm, Gerald H. The making of the New Deal Democrats: Voting behavior and realignment in Boston, 1920-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1989).

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 978-0-316-47282-1.
Kane, Paula M. Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920 (2001)
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 978-1-58465-740-8.
Trout, Charles H. Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal (1977) online

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 978-0-486-24312-2.
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, OL 7063863M
J. Willoughby Rosse (1858). "Boston". Index of Dates ... Facts in the Chronology and History of the World. London: H.G. Bohn. hdl:2027/uva.x030807786 – via Hathi Trust.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1868). "Boston". North American Review. 106 (218): 1–25. hdl:2027/chi.25854397. 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, OL 7112253M
Bacon, Edwin M., 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Frederick Harold Fay (1901), Population and finances of Boston, Boston: Municipal Print. Office, OCLC 6055315, OL 6912929M
Henry James (1906). "Boston". North American Review. 182 (592): 333–355. hdl:2027/chi.16251213. 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, OL 14037282M
Robert A. Woods (1910). "Boston". In William Dwight Porter Bliss and Rudolph Michael Binder (ed.). 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. Vol. 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 M. Bacon (1916). Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis. Boston: Pilgrim Press. ISBN 9780788428951.
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, OL 24149173M
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, OL 24621988M
Darrett B. Rutman (1973), "Boston: 'A Citty upon a Hill'", in Alexander B. Callow (ed.), 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 978-0674644953
Howard Mumford Jones; Bessie Zaban Jones (1975). Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology 1630–1975. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-47282-1.
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 978-0395276099
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, ISBN 9780674930919
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, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (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 H. 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

Tager, Jack. (2001) Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Upne, 2001).
Matos Rodrííguez, Féélix V. (2001) "'The Browncoats are Coming': Latino Public History in Boston." Public Historian 23.4 (2001): 15-28.
Bjarkman, Peter C. (2002) Boston Celtics Encyclopedia (Sports Publishing LLC, 2002).

Charles C. Euchner, ed. (2003), Governing Greater Boston, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, ISBN 978-0-9718427-1-7
Edward Glaeser (2003), Reinventing Boston: 1640–2003, Harvard Institute of Economic Research, archived from the original on 2007-09-11
Nancy S. Seasholes (2003). Gaining Ground: a History of Landmaking in Boston . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262194945.

Rawson, Michael. (2004) "The nature of water: reform and the antebellum crusade for municipal water in Boston." Environmental history 9.3 (2004): 411-435.
Dolin, Eric Jay. (2004) Political waters: the long, dirty, contentious, incredibly expensive but eventually triumphant history of Boston Harbor, a unique environmental success story (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
Minardi, Margot. (2004) "The Boston inoculation controversy of 1721-1722: an incident in the history of race." William and Mary Quarterly 61.1 (2004): 47-76. online
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 978-1555536213
Carr, Jacqueline Barbara. (2005) After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775-1800. Upne, 2005.
David Marley (2005), "Boston", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 978-1576070277

Kaufman, Polly Welts, et al. (2006) Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Seven Self-guided Walking Tours Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's History (Applewood Books, 2006).
Nathan, Gavin. (2006) Historic Taverns of Boston: 370 Years of Tavern History in One Definitive Guide (iUniverse, 2006).
Kay, Jane Holtz. (2006) Lost Boston (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2006), destroed buildings.
Puleo, Stephen. (2007) The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day (Beacon Press, 2007).

Gelber, Scott. (2008) "'The crux and the magic': The Political History of Boston Magnet Schools, 1968–1989." Equity & Excellence in Education 41.4 (2008): 453-466.
Wolff, Katherine. (2009) Culture club: The curious history of the Boston Athenaeum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).
John Hanson Mitchell (2009). Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7149-6.
York, Neil L. (2010) The Boston Massacre: A History with Documents (Routledge, 2010).

Johnson, Arthur M., and Barry E. Supple. (2013) Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Whitehill, Walter Muir. (2013) Boston Public Library (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Holmes, Pauline. (2013) A Tercentenary History of the Boston Public Latin School, 1635–1935 (Harvard University Press, 2013).
American Cities Project (2013). "Boston". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, D.C.: Pew Charitable Trusts.

Bagley, Joseph M. (2016) A history of Boston in 50 artifacts (University Press of New England, 2016).
"Boston's income divide largest in US", Boston Globe, January 15, 2016
"Better use of data could make cities more efficient—and more democratic", The Economist, March 26, 2016

Levesque, George A. (2018) Black Boston: African American life and culture in urban America, 1750–1860 (Routledge, 2018).

Fiction

External links

Boston Redevelopment Authority. "Research Publications". City of Boston. Archived from the original on 2015-05-04. Retrieved 2015-05-27.

Catalogs

Boston Public Library. Online catalog: subject:(boston)
Bostonian Society. Online Catalog Archived 2010-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
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.)

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