The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America
In 1976, Boston was bitterly divided over a court order to desegregate its public schools. Plans to bus students between predominantly white and Black…
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…
Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide
Salem, Massachusetts is home to one of the largest extant collections of historical architecture in the entire nation. In this long-awaited new edition,…
The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid
For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their…
Where the Rivers Flow North
The stories of Where the Rivers Flow North are “superior work, rich in texture and character,” says the Wall Street Journal; “the novella…
No Place But Here: A Teacher’s Vocation in a Rural Community
Weaving anecdotal narrative with trenchant reflections on his profession, Garret Keizer offers one teacher’s answer to the hue and cry over the crisis…
Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the *Nottingham Galley*
This classic tale of shipwreck and survival is reprinted in a new edition, with essays that provide a historical perspective and trace the sources from…
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…
Amateur Sugar Maker
Noel Perrin’s delightful account of building a sugarhouse and making maple sugar in Vermont first appeared twenty years ago. Like a sturdy New England…
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…
The Lobster Gangs of Maine
James Acheson’s detailed account of lobstering in Maine quickly dispels notions that the lobstermen is the eastern version of the cowboy, struggling…
The Captain’s Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856–1860
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