You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town
Absentee owners. Single-minded concern for the bottom line. Friction between workers and management. Hostile takeovers at the hands of avaricious and unaccountable…
A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks
Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination…
“A Good Poor Man’s Wife”: Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in Nineteenth-Century New England
A shrewd observer of 19th-century America, Harriet Hanson Robinson’s participation in important events and her salty comments, preserved and recorded…
Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings
The quintessential New England barn–photogenic, full of character, and framed by flaming autumn foliage–is an endangered species. Of some 30,000 barns…
After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England
The 1676 killing of Metacomet, the tribal leader dubbed “King Philip” by colonists, is commonly seen as a watershed event, marking the end of a bloody…
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City
First published in 1978, this classic book, through vivid oral histories and historic photographs, documents the social and cultural impact of the industry…
North Country Captives: Selected Narratives of Indian Captivity from Vermont and New Hampshire
Revealing firsthand narratives of Indian captivity from eighteenth-century New Hampshire and Vermont. Narratives of Europeans who experienced Indian captivity…
Stark Decency: German Prisoners of War in a New England Village
Stark Decency is a window into the events of two vastly different worlds: German combat veterans captured in North Africa and Normandy, and the…
