Bibliography
Theme One - Rediscovering the Native Landscape including Native Americans
Historical Context Freedom’s Way Heritage Area. Freedom’s Way Landscape Inventory. MA Heritage Landscape Inventory Program. MA DCR, 2006.
Freedom's Way Heritage Area Context Report
Freedom's Way Heritage Area Final Report
Mid State Trail Trail offers many clues to the region's icy past.
Mount Wachusett A unique landmark within the New England landscape.
Mount Watatic The hideout of notorious Sachem "King Philip" who massacred many settlers in the region.
Redemption Rock Site where King Philip's war hostage was released from Indian captivity.
Tophet’s Chasm The outlet carved out of rock for an extensive glacial lake 15,000 years ago.
Alden, Peter. Field Guide to New England. Knopf, 1998.
Anderson, Larry. Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. Johns Hopkins University, 2002.
Appalachian Mountain Club. AMC River Guide: Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. AMC, 2006.
Cherry, Lynne. A River Ran Wild. Harcourt Brace, 1992. (Gr. K to 5)
Foster, David R. and John F. O’Keefe. New England Forests Through Time; Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas. Harvard University, 2000.
Foster, David R. Thoreau’s Country; a Journey Through a Transformed Landscape. Harvard University, 1999.
Foster, David R. Wildlands and Woodlands; a Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts. Harvard University, 2005.
Gerwein, Joel. Old Growth Forests in Southern New England. Freedom’s Way Heritage Association, 2001.
Johnstone, Stuart. Bike Paths of Massachusetts. Active, 2006.
Jorgensen, Neil. A Guide to New England’s Landscape. Globe Pequot, 1977.
Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity.
Knopf, 1998.
Lewis, George. The SudburyValley Trustees, The Trustees, 2004.
McAdow, Ron. The Concord, Sudbury, and AssabetRivers. Bliss, 1990.
Mitchell, John Hanson. Ceremonial Time; Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile. Warner, 1984.
Mitchell, John Hanson. Trespassing. Perseus, 1998.
Mitchell, John Hanson. Walking Towards Walden: a Pilgrimage in Search of Place. Addison Wesley, 1995.
Nashua River Canoe and Kayak Guide. 5th edition. Nashua River Watershed Association.
NashuaRiver Greenway Guide. Nashua River Watershed Association. 1994.
Rowlandson, Mary. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed. St. Martin’s, 1997.
Stilgoe, John R. Common Landscape of America 1580-1845. Yale University, 1982.
Thoreau, Henry David. Faith In a Seed. Island, 1993.
Thoreau, Henry David. Henry David’s House. Charlesbridge, 2002. (Gr. K to 3)
Thoreau, Henry David. The Natural History Essays. Gibbs Smith, 1980.
Thoreau, Henry David. Wild Fruits; Thoreau’s Rediscovered Last Manuscript. Norton, 2000.
Wessels, Tom. Reading the Forested Landscape; a Natural History of New England. Countryman, 1997.
Theme Two - Inventing the New England Landscape
Bolick, Nancy. Shaker Inventions. Walker, 1990. (Gr. 4 to 6)
Bourgeois, Paulette. Amazing Apple Book. Addison Wesley, 1990. (Gr. 4 to 8)
Bracken, Jeanne. It All Began With An Apple. Very Fine Products, 1993. (Gr. 4 to 8)
Brown, Dona. Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century. Smithsonian Institution, 1995
Brox, Jane. Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm. North Point, 2004.
Brox, Jane. Five Thousand Days Like This One: an American Family History. Beacon, 2000.
Brox, Jane. Here and Nowhere Else. North Point, 1996.
Chapin, Sarah. Entering Concord: 1850-2000. Hollis, 2005.
Darby, Marge. A Guide to Nashaway. New Guide Group, 1996.
Donahue, Brian. Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms. Yale University, 1999.
Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow: Farmers on the Land in Colonial Concord.. Yale University, 2004.
Dublin, Thomas. Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America 1776-1986. University of Illinois, 1993.
Eisler, Benita. Ed. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women 1840-1845. Lippincott, 1977.
Fitch, Marion. Hartwell Farm. Jaques, 1974. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Flanagan, Alice. The Lowell Mill Girls. Compass Point Books. 2006 (Gr. 4 to 8)
Gupta, Carol. Concord’s Great Meadows. Haymeadow, 2004. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Handlin, Oscar. Boston’s Immigrants 1790-1880. Harvard University, 1991.
Kalman, Bobby. Hooray for Orchards. Crabtree, 1998. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie. Lodestar, 1991. (Gr 4 to 6)
Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire; a Plant’s Eye View of the World. Random House, 2001.
Robinson, Harriet Hanson. Loom and Spindle: Life Among Mill Girls. Atheneum, 1976.
Selden, Bernice. The Mill Girls. Atheneum. 1983. (Gr. 4 to 6)
Smith, Jane S. The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants. Penguin, 2009.
Stilgoe, John R. Common Landscape of America 1580-1845. Yale University, 1982.
Thorson, Robert M. Exploring Stone Walls; a Guide to New England’s Stone Walls. Walker, 2005.
Wood, Joseph S. The New England Village. Johns Hopkins University, 1997.
Theme Three - Shaping the Landscape of Democracy
Alcott, Louisa May. Alternative Louisa, Rutgers University, 1988.
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women.. Grosset and Dunlap, 1975. (Gr. 4 to 8 Fiction)
Alcott, Louisa May. Transcendental Wild Oats. Harvard Common, 1975. (Gr. 4 to 6)
Andrews, Joseph L. and Contributors. Revolutionary Boston, Lexington and Concord; the Shots Heard Round the World Commonwealth, 2002. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Barton, Cynthia H. History’s Daughter; the Life of Clara Endicott Sears,, Founder of Fruitlands Museums. Fruitlands, 1988.
Barton, Cynthia H. Three Women, Three Centuries; Spirit and Spirituality in the Town of Harvard Massachusetts. Freedom’s Way Heritage Assoc. 1999. (Gr. 4 to 6)
Barton, Cynthia H. Transcendental Wife. University Press of America, 1996.
Barton, Cynthia H. Utopian Communities in Nashaway, a Landscape of Visionaries and Experimenters. Freedom’s Way Heritage Assoc. 2001. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Bedell, Madelon. The Alcotts: the Biography of a Family. Clarkson Potter, 1980.
Benchley, Nathaniel. Sam the Minuteman. Harper Row, 1987. (Gr. K to 3 Fiction)
Brooks, Paul. The Old Manse and the People Who Lived There. Trustees of Reservations, 1983.
Buell, Lawrence. American Transcendentalists; Essential Writings. Modern Library, 2006.
Coakley, Robert W. and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution; Narrative, Chronology and Bibliography. US Army Center for Military History, 1974. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Collison, Gary. Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Harvard University. 1997. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Davis, Burke. Black Heroes of the American Revolution. Harcourt, 2007.
Dawes, Claiborne M. Daniel on the Run. Discovery, 2001. (Gr. 4 to 6 Fiction)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature and Other Writings. Shambhala, 2003.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Poems. Everyman, 2004.
Emilio, Luis F. A Brave Black Regiment: the History of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1863-1865. DaCapo, 1995.
Faber, Doris. The Perfect Life. Farrar Straus, 1974. (Shakers Gr. 6 to 8)
Faran, Paul, Heroine of the Battle Road: Mary Flint Hartwell; a Drama of One Woman’s Courage on the Night of Paul Revere’s Ride in April of 1775. Cottage, 1995.
(Gr. 6 to 8)
Felton, R. Todd. Journey in Transcendentalists’ New England. Roaring Forties, 2006. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere’s Ride. Oxford Univ, 1994.
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. Random House, 1987. (Gr. 4 to 8 Fiction)
Fowke, Janet Streeter. The Harvard Shakers Book of Days; Echoes from Shaker Diaries, Notebooks and Journals 1791-1918. Hill Country, 1995. (Gr. 4 to 6)
French, Allen. Hawthorne at the Old Manse. Trustees of Reservations, 1986.
French, Allen. Historic Concord; a Handbook of its Story and its Memorials with an Account of the Lexington Fight. Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, 1992. (Gr. 4 to 6)
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. 1845. Edited by Larry J. Reynolds. (Norton critical edition.) Norton, 1998.
Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter; the Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. Morrow, 1984.
Gooding, Corp. James Henry. On the Altar of Freedom; a Black Soldier’s Letters from the Front. University. of Massachusetts, 1991.
Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and Their World. Hill and Wang. 2001, 1976.
Gura, Philip R. American Transcendentalism, a History. Hill and Wang, 2007.
Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns; Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave. Laurel Leaf, 1993. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Mosses from an Old Manse. Introduction by Mary Oliver. Modern Library, 2003.
Hersey, Frank Wilson Cheney. Heroes of the Battle Road; a Narrative of Events in Lincoln on the 18th and 19th of April 1775. Walton, 1930.
Horgan, Edward R. Shaker Holy Land; a Community Portrait. Harvard Common, 1987.
Johnson, D.B. Henry Hikes to Fitchburg. Houghton Mifflin, 2000 (Gr. K to 2 Fiction)
Kenschaft, Lori J. Lydia Maria Child: the Quest for Racial Justice. Oxford University, 2002.
Kerr, Andrea Moore. Lucy Stone: Speaking out for Equality. Rutgers University, 1992.
Levine, Miriam. A. A Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England. Applewood, 1984. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere; the Landlord’s Tale. Illustrated by Charles Santore. Harper Collins, 2003.(Gr. K-3)
Malcolm, Joyce Lee. The Scene of the Battle of 1775. U.S. National Park Service, 1985. (Gr. 6 to 8)
Mangold, C.S. Ten Hills Farm; The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North. Princeton University, 2010.
Marshall, Megan. Peabody Sisters; Three Women Who Introduced American Romanticism. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Matteson, John. Eden’s Outcasts: the Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. Norton, 2007.
McCullough, David. 1776. Illustrated edition. Simon & Schuster, 2005. (Gr. 6 to 8)
McCullough, David. John Adams. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
McDonough, Yona Zeldis. Louisa: the Life of Louisa May Alcott. Henry Holt, 2009. (Gr. K to 3)
Pierson, William D. Black Yankees; the Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. University of Massachusetts, 1988
Sawyer, Mary. Mary and Her Little Lamb. Wayside Inn, 1928. (Gr. K to 3)
Shepard, Odell. Pedlar’s Progress; The Life of Bronson Alcott. Little Brown, 1938.
Sullivan, Robert. The Thoreau You Don’t Know. Collins, 2009.
Tennessee, Elizabeth. The Story of Nahum; Tracing the History of Black Life in America. . Freedom’s Way Heritage Assoc. 2001. (Gr. 4 to 6)
Thoreau, Henry David. Edited by Lewis Hyde. The Essays of Henry David Thoreau. Farrar Strauss & Giroux. 2002.
Thoreau, Henry David. Edited by Carl Bode. The Portable Thoreau, Penguin, 1982.
Thoreau, Henry David. Edited by Richard I. Schneider. Thoreau’s Sense of Place. University of Iowa, 2000.
Thorne-Thomson, Kathleen. Shaker Children. Chicago Review, 1996. (Gr. 4 to 6)
Tocqueville, de, Alexis. Translated and edited by Mansfield Winthrop. Democracy in America. University of Chicago, 2000.
U.S. Army Center for Military History. The War of the American Revolution. U.S. Army, 1974
U.S. Department of the Interior. Underground Railroad. National Park Service, 1998. (Gr 4 to 6)
Williams, Jean. The Shakers. Watts, 1997.
Wilson, Harriet E. Our Nig; Sketches From the Life of a Free Black. 3rd ed. Vintage, 2002.
Wilson, Susan. Literary Trail of Greater Boston. For the Boston History Collaborative. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Young, Alfred F. Masquerade: Life of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier. Knopf, 2004.