HJM\u2019s \u201cArticle Archive\u201d contains 375+ articles on Massachusetts history freely available to the general public as downloadable PDFs<\/strong>. They can be reproduced, distributed, and used in any educational or community setting without special permission, as long as HJM is clearly attributed.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The full-text versions of all HJM articles published since 1998 are also available on\u00a0ProQuest Central<\/em>. In addition, full-text versions of all articles published after 2006 are available through EBSCO\u2019s History Reference Center<\/em> database. Articles are typically posted to this archive 1 year after publication. Most back issues are available for $6.00.\u00a0 Please consider supporting our effort to preserve and promote local history by subscribing – only $15.00 annually. The Peace Memorial in Orange (MA): A Somber Reflection on World War I by Robert E. Weir<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cTo Those Who Served\u201d: World War I Statues and Memorials in Massachusetts by L. Mara Dodge<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAdopting the Yankee Past as Their Own\u201d: Boston\u2019s Irish and Jewish Communities Celebrate New England\u2019s Revolutionary Heritage, 1875-1917 by Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan<\/a><\/p>\n Red Massachusetts: The Bay State at the Forefront of American Socialism, 1896\u20131919 by David A. Damiano<\/a><\/p>\n EDITOR\u2019S CHOICE: William Monroe Trotter: Boston\u2019s Radical Black Editor by Kerri K. Greenidge<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe Have the Opportunity to Help Shape a Democracy\u201d: Maud Wood Park and the League of Women Voter\u2019s Post-Suffrage Campus Campaigns by Kelly L. Marino<\/a><\/p>\n Never a \u201cGod in China\u201d: Frederick Townsend Ward and China\u2019s Taiping Rebellion by <\/span>Zhenman<\/span> Ye<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThere Can Be But One Mayor\u201d: Worcester\u2019s Mayoral Standoff of 1938 by Tyler L. Wolanin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n King Philip’s War and the Ambush at Bloody Brook (Deerfield, 1675): Sorting Out the Details of History by Peter A. Thomas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYoung Vulcans\u201d in the Classroom: The Triumph of Manual Training in Waltham, Massachusetts, 1881-1906 by John W. Cox<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Loss Which Science Has Sustained . . . Cannot Be Estimated\u201d: Canal Financiers, Irish Workers, a Lost Fossil, and an 1848 Tragedy in American Vertebrate Paleontology by Jordan D. March\u00e9 II<\/a><\/p>\n The First to Fall at the Battle of Bunker Hill: The Asa Pollard \u2013 Simeon Pike \u201cMemory War\u201d by Damon Di Mauro<\/a><\/p>\n Voices of Nineteenth-Century Westfield Women: Aurelia Taylor’s Diary and Lucy Gillett’s Memoir by Elizabeth M. Sharpe<\/a><\/p>\n Deference & Dependence: Forms of Slave Resistance in 18th-Century Boston by Jared Ross Hardesty<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhat A Blessing You Are to Me\u201d: Catharine Dean Flint & the Roles of Sister and Aunt in 19th-Century Massachusetts by Carolyn J. Lawes\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n The 1913 Hopedale Strike: Ex-Governor Draper Confronts Labor Radicals in the Town His Family Built by Anita C. Danker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n A Plurality of Practices: The Classification of Disease in Holyoke & Northampton (MA) 1830-1910 by Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, Alan C. Swedlund, and Alanna E. F. Rudzick<\/a><\/p>\n Editor\u2019s Choice: Black Workers in Antebellum Boston by Jacqueline Jones<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: Utopia Began in Chicopee Falls: Edward Bellamy\u2019s Looking Backward by Robert E. Weir<\/a><\/p>\n John Singleton Copley\u2019s Portrait of Reverend Joseph Sewall: New England and Transatlantic Contexts by Joseph Manca<\/a><\/p>\n Phineas Stevens: Massachusetts\u2019 Frontier Soldier-Diplomat by Duncan C. Wood<\/a><\/p>\n Constructing the Praying Town: How Natick\u2019s Indigenous Inhabitants Sought to Maintain Their Traditional Relationships with the Land by Charlie Spragg<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: Boston’s Freedom Trail and Urban Renewal: An Introduction to Public History Debates by Seth C. Bruggeman<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: History of Ballooning in Springfield and Western Massachusetts, 1852-2000 by Joseph Carvalho III<\/a><\/p>\n Tar and Turpentine: The Rise and Fall of the Naval Stores Industry in the Connecticut River Valley, 1643-1715 by Peter A. Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n “To Promote Civility and Benevolence”: Rev. Ebenezer Parkman and an Acadian Refugee Family (1750s) by Ross W. Beales, Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n Westfield’s “Grande Dame”: Alice Burke, New England’s First Female Mayor (1939) by Phil Slater<\/a><\/p>\n Books Reviews (3)<\/a><\/p>\n Marked Territory: Rethinking Massachusetts’ Roadside Histories by Emma Boast<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: Restoring Massachusetts’ 1930 Tercentenary Signs by Alessandra Frank<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: Catherine Beecher, Horace Mann, and the Feminization of Public School Teaching by Dana Goldstein<\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: Boston’s Labor History in National and Historical Context, 1970-2020 by Aviva Chomsky and Steve Striffler<\/a><\/p>\n Massachusetts Exceptionalism as Identity and Debate by Jerold Duquette and Erin O’Brien<\/a><\/p>\n Racial Borders of Belonging: Community Care, African Americans, and Citizenship in Charlestown, 1780-1810 by Angela Miller Keysor<\/a><\/p>\n The Rise, Fall, and (Possible) Resurrection of Lowell by Robert Forrant<\/a><\/p>\n Who Were the Members of Springfield’s League of Gileadites? by Cliff McCarthy<\/a><\/p>\n “My Father Died Twice”: Family History, Memory, and the Life of a WWII Veteran by Robert Weir<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (11)<\/a><\/p>\n Editor\u2019s Choice: “The Modern Berkshires: Deindustrialization, Mass MoCA, and the Demise of North Adams Regional Hospital” by Maynard Seider<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: \u201cVikings on the Charles: Leif Eriksson, Eben Horsford, and the Quest for Norumbega” by Gloria Polizzotti Greis<\/a><\/p>\n “The 1918-19 Influenza Epidemic in Boston, Lowell, and Fall River” by J. Alexander Navarro<\/a><\/p>\n “‘No Formal Cooperation Needed’: Federal New Deal Policy at Elite Massachusetts’ Women’s Colleges, 1933-1942” by Jon Gorgosz<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Viking Saga Continued: Leif Eriksson, Anne Whitney, Boston, and the Nation” by L. Mara Dodge<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (13)<\/a><\/p>\n Editor\u2019s Choice: \u201cThe Color-Blind Commonwealth? Edward Brooke\u2019s Senate Campaign in 1966\u201d by Jason Sokol<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: \u201cAfrican American Gravestones in Western Massachusetts\u201d by Bob Drinkwater<\/a><\/p>\n \u201c\u2019In a Good Cause\u2019: Framingham and the Fight for Women\u2019s Suffrage\u201d by Anita Danker<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWestfield’s Hawaiian Missionaries in the 19th Century\u201d by Robert Brown and L. Mara Dodge<\/a><\/p>\n \u201c\u2019The Dread Influenza\u2019: Milford in the Grip of the 1918 Pandemic\u201d by Linda Hixon<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMassacre at Portudal?: Reexamining the\u00a0Rainbow,\u00a0<\/i>Boston\u2019s First Transatlantic Slaving Voyage, 1644\u201345\u201d by Sean M. Kelley<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (9)<\/a><\/p>\n “From Redmen to Minutemen: The University of Massachusetts and Its Mascot” by Robert E. Weir<\/a><\/p>\n “Cornelia Horsford and the Adventures of Leif Erikson: Viking Settlements in the Bay State” by Brian Regal<\/a><\/p>\n “Fitchburg’s Abolitionist Legacy: Anti-Slavery Pageants at the Fitchburg Normal School, 1911-1932” by Darren Barry<\/a><\/p>\n \u201c’Lord, Is It I?’: The Sermons of Edward Hitchcock” by Robert T. McMaster<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (12)<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: “On A Roll: The Story of Paper Making in Turners Falls” by Sheila Damkoehler<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: \u201c’White and Peaceful Wings’: Debating U.S. Imperialism in 1898″ by Stephen Kinzer<\/a><\/p>\n “John Brown’s Transformation: The Springfield Years, 1846-1849” by Joseph Carvalho III<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Payton Family of Westfield: An African American Success Story, 1845-1954″ by Robert T. Brown<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cA Stone’s Throw to Belchertown: Milestone Markers Along a Massachusetts Bay Path” by Nolan Cool<\/a><\/p>\n “Thomas Graves, Phillip Wells, and Colonial Mapping in Massachusetts, 1629-1688” by Nathan Braccio<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (3)<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: “Conservation Treatment of William Bradford’s\u00a0Of\u00a0Plymouth Plantation<\/i>” by Jessica Henze<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice:\u00a0 \u201cThe Campaign for Women’s Suffrage in Massachusetts, 1869-95″ by Barbara F. Berenson<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: “Surprising Allies: The Struggle Over Birth Control and Abortion in 1960s Massachusetts” by David P. Cline<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSlavery in Westfield: The Documentary Record, 1713-1790″ by Joseph Carvalho III<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Revolutionary War Pension Act of 1818″ by Ann Becker<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (10)<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice:\u00a0 \u201cThe Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Massachusetts\u201d by Mark Paul Richard<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAt Sword\u2019s Point: The United Electrical Workers Union and the Greenfield Tap & Die Company\u201d by Tom Goldscheider<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cCreating a Class Around the Lives of the Civil War Dead: The Worcester Soldiers\u2019 Monument Biography Project\u201d by Linda Hixon<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSurvival of the Pilgrims: A Reevaluation of the Lethal Epidemic Among the Wampanoag\u201d by John Booss<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHarry Clark Bentley: A Pioneering Accountant and the Founder of Bentley University (1877-1967)\u201d by Clifford Putney<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (9)<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: “Boston’s New Immigrants and New Economy, 1965-2015” by Marilynn S. Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n “Romancing the Stone: Invented Irish and Native American Memories in Northampton” by Robert E. Weir<\/a><\/p>\n “When the Chinese Came to Massachusetts: Representations of Race, labor, religion, and Citizenship in the 1870 Press” by Mary M. Cronin<\/a><\/p>\n “Hatfield’s Forgotten Past: The Porter-McLeod Machine Tool Company and the Connecticut Valley Industrial Economy, 1870-1970” by Robert Forrant<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (7)<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: “The Rise and Demise of the Connecticut River Valley’s Industrial Economy” by Robert Forrant<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: “Dissenting Puritans: Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer” by Francis J. Bremer<\/a><\/p>\n \u201c\u2018This Would Be a Ghost Town\u2019: Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, 1945-2000\u201d by Llana Barber<\/a><\/p>\n “New Bedford\u2019s Infamous 1983 Rape Case: Defending the Portuguese-American Community” by Mia Michael<\/a><\/p>\n John Adams, Political Moderation, and the 1820 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention: A Reappraisal” by Arthur Scherr<\/a><\/p>\n Teaching Resource: “New England Beginnings: Commemorating the Cultures that Shaped New England” by Francis J. Bremer<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (10)<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: “Lexington, Worcester, and the American Revolution: Debunking the Myth of the Shot Heard ‘Round the World” by Ray Raphael<\/a><\/p>\n “‘The Unity of the Republic and the Freedom of an Oppressed Race’: Fitchburg’s Civil War\u00a0Soldiers’ Monument<\/em>, 1874″ by Darren Barry<\/a><\/p>\n “Mabel Loomis Todd: The Civic Impulses and Civic Engagement of an Accidental Activist” by Julie Dobrow<\/a><\/p>\n “The Great Depression in the Northern Berkshires: The New Deal, Textile Union Organizing, and a Pro-Labor Mayor” by Maynard Seider<\/a><\/p>\n “William Pynchon, the Agawam Indians, and the 1636 Deed for Springfield” by David M. Powers<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (6)<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: \u201cConquering Winter: Snow Removal from Boston\u2019s Streets from the Colonial Period to the Present\u201d by Sara Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: \u201cLouisa May Alcott: A Literary Biography\u201d by Harriet Reisen<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSmallpox at the Siege of Boston: \u2018Vigilance against this most dangerous enemy\u2019\u201d by Ann M. Becker<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cA Massachusetts Entrepreneur in Gold Rush California: Jonas Clark and the Economic Foundations of Clark University\u201d by William A. Koelsch<\/a><\/p>\n \u201c\u2019I Want to Go to Jail\u2019: The Woman\u2019s Party Reception for President Woodrow Wilson in Boston, 1919\u201d by James J. Kenneally<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cA Generation of Hope, Pain, and Heartbreak: The Worcester Molders\u2019 Union 1904\u20131921\u201d by Bruce Cohen<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (10)<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: “The Migration of Former Slaves to Worcester: Hopes and Dreams Deferred, 1862-1800” by Janette Thomas Greenwood<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: “Yankee Brutalism: Concrete Architecture in new England, 1957-1977” by Brian M. Sirman<\/a><\/p>\n “The Making of an Irish and a Jewish Boston, 1820-1900” by Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan<\/a><\/p>\n “Hannah Packard James, Newton Librarian: Economic Motives of Nineteenth-Century Professional\u00a0Women\u201d by Bernadette A. Lear<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Pathos of Distance: Memory and Revision in S. N. Behrman\u2019s The Worcester Account<\/em>\u201d by Kent p. Ljungquist<\/a><\/p>\n “Captives on the Move: Tracing the Transatlantic Movements of Africans from the Caribbean to Colonial\u00a0New England\u201d by\u00a0Kerima M. Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (4)<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: “The New Boston: A People’s History” by Jim Vrabel<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: “Sculptor Theodora Alice Ruggles Kitson: ‘A Woman Genius'” by Christine C. Neal<\/a><\/p>\n “‘Hospitality Is the Best Form of Propaganda’: German Prisoners of War in Western Massachusetts, 1944-1946” by John C. Bonafilia<\/a><\/p>\n “Stricken: The Impact of Disease on Two Massachusetts Families, 1911-50” by Anita C. Danker<\/a><\/p>\n “The Women of Hopedale Sewing Circle, 1848-63” by Linda H. Hixon<\/a><\/p>\n “The Dilemma of Interracial Marriage: The Boston NAACP and the National Equal Rights League, 1912-1927” by Zebulon Miletsky<\/a><\/p>\n Book Reviews (7)<\/a><\/p>\n Editor’s Choice: “Protest Politics: Liberal Activism in Massachusetts, 1974-1990” by Robert Surbrug Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Essay: “The People’s Schools for Teachers of the People” by Mary-Lou Breitborde and Kelly Kolodny<\/a><\/p>\n “The Puerto Rican Community of Western Massachusetts, 1898-1960” by Joseph Carvalho III<\/a><\/p>\n “Phillis Wheatley: Researching a Life” by Vincent Carretta<\/a><\/p>\n “Splitting the Vote in Massachusetts: Father Charles E. Coughlin, the Union Party, and Political Divisions in the 1936 Presidential and Senate Elections” by Michael C. Connolly<\/a><\/p>\n
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