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Jones Library, Amherst
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The Boston Public Library (BPL) and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) offer all Massachusetts residents remote access to proprietary databases. This includes historical newspapers, government information, and geneaology sources.

Historical Atlas of Massachusetts (REF G1230.H5 1991 OVERSIZE)
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.

Official Arrow Street Atlas: Middlesex County, Massachusetts (MAP COLL REF G1233.M5A66 1995b+)
Full-color street maps of communities, with a street index on each page. Includes points of interest, community statistics, and public transportation maps.
Official Arrow Street Atlas: Western Massachusetts: Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire Counties (REF G1231.P2A7 1995)
Full-color street maps of communities, with a street index on each page. Includes points of interest and community statistics.
Universal Atlas of Metropolitan Boston & Eastern Massachusetts (MAP COLL REF G1234.B6U58 1995+)
Full-color street maps of communities, with a street index on each page. Includes points of interest, community statistics, and public transportation maps.

Gazetteer of Massachusetts (F62.H42)
Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts (F62.N26 1876)
Collection of brief town histories. Includes some small engravings and a large, fold-out color map.

Massachusetts, A Bibliography of Its History (REF F64.M37 1976)
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.

Historical Dictionary of New England (F2.H65 2003)
Covers facts, history, institutions, literature, names, places, topics and words that characterize the political, economic, social, and cultural life of New England.

Encyclopedia of Massachusetts (REF F62.E55)
Covers prehistory, archeology, history, state politicians, historical sites and scenes, the Gazetteer of Massachusetts, and the Constitution. Includes population charts and maps.
Encyclopedia of Massachusetts Indians (E78.M4E63 1999)
Includes information on treaties.
Encyclopedia of New England (REF F4.E53 2005)
Range of unusual topics including Aerosmith, agricultural fairs, blizzards, blueberries, and clambakes to Moby Dick, the Newport Jazz festival, Summer Stock Theater, and vaudeville.

Massachusetts at a Glance (F64.T34 2004)
Compendium of information about people, places, and events—past and present—in Massachusetts.

Henry Knox and the Revolutionary War Trail in Western Massachusetts by Bernard A. Drew
Call Number: E207.K74 D74 2012
Making Slavery History: abolitionism and the politics of memory in Massachusetts by Margot Minardi
Call Number: E445.M4 M56 2010
Making Haste from Babylon: the Mayflower Pilgrims and their world by Nick Bunker
Call Number: F68.B936 2010
Death of an Empire: the rise and murderous fall of Salem, America's richest city by Robert Booth
Call Number: F74.S1 B66 2011
The King's Best Highway: the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America by Eric Jaffe
Call Number: HE356.B6 J34 2010

Massachusetts Political Almanac
A comprehensive directory of the Mass legislature, judicial and executive branches.
Massachusetts Political Almanac
Supplement to the print version of the Almanac.

Historic Buildings of Massachusetts (REF F65.H64 1976)
Listing of historic buildings throughout Massachusetts, including 500 photographs from the historic American Building Survey.

Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries (REF F63.L42 2002)
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.
Guide to Massachusetts Genealogical Material in the State Library of Massachusetts (REF Z1295 .F67)

Revised by Jeannie Patch (2012)

Revised by Alexa Murphy and Kenny Ramos (Fall 2015)