Massachusetts History 

Combined catalog of most North American and many world libraries.

Extensive collections in the fields of local and regional history, genealogy, and Amherst authors. Facilities include a research room and exhibit area.

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Contains hundreds of images, from reproductions of seventeeth-century maps to contemporary cartograms. Provides graphical depictions of settlement patterns, population dynamics, economic development, and political trends.

Full-color street maps of communities, with a street index on each page. Includes points of interest, community statistics, and public transportation maps.

Full-color street maps of communities, with a street index on each page. Includes points of interest and community statistics.

Full-color street maps of communities, with a street index on each page. Includes points of interest, community statistics, and public transportation maps.

Collection of brief town histories. Includes some small engravings and a large, fold-out color map.

Combination of primary and secondary sources which were "written consciously as history or contain a dimension of time." Includes detailed index. Also consult the ongoing supplements at REF F4.N45 and subsequent call numbers.

Covers facts, history, institutions, literature, names, places, topics and words that characterize the political, economic, social, and cultural life of New England.

Covers prehistory, archeology, history, state politicians, historical sites and scenes, the Gazetteer of Massachusetts, and the Constitution. Includes population charts and maps.

Includes information on treaties.

Range of unusual topics including Aerosmith, agricultural fairs, blizzards, blueberries, and clambakes to Moby Dick, the Newport Jazz festival, Summer Stock Theater, and vaudeville.

Compendium of information about people, places, and events—past and present—in Massachusetts.

Directory of Massachusetts government's executive officers and legislators with complete contact information, committee memberships, key votes, campaign finance information, personal information, and priorities.

Listing of historic buildings throughout Massachusetts, including 500 photographs from the historic American Building Survey.

Provides cemetery names, year of consecration, the oldest known gravestone or burial, location of cemetery, printed and manuscript sources for the cemetery, and contact information for the administrative office of each cemetery.