Historical Urban Atlases of Boston @ the Boston Public Library
- Historical Urban Atlases of Boston & the Atlascope ToolThis guide from the Boston Public Library describes the use of the 'Atlascope' to view detailed, building-level historical information about the city. "Atlascope allows you to overlay historical atlases over modern day maps, and compare changes across time."
- Atlascope Boston - from the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library"Atlascope is a tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time."
Boston Planning & Development Agency
- BPDA Research Division publicationsFeatured publications from the Boston Planning & Development Agency covering economic and demographic data for Boston.
Boston (and New England) History
The Fenway Effect: A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox by Call Number: Sawyer New Books GV875.B62 K74 2024ISBN: 9781496232335Publication Date: 2024-04-01
Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present by Call Number: Sawyer New Books HC107.M4 N5 2024ISBN: 9780197665329Publication Date: 2024-01-12
Boston's Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City by Call Number: Sawyer New Books F73.65 .C37 2023ISBN: 1952620384Publication Date: 2023-10-01
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino: Lessons for Governing Post-Industrial Cities by Call Number: Sawyer New Books F73.54.M46 R534 2023ISBN: 1625347650Publication Date: 2023-10-27
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Call Number: Sawyer New Books E302.6.A2 S35 2023ISBN: 0316441090Publication Date: 2023-10-24
Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands by Call Number: Sawyer New Books GF504.M4 S56 2021ISBN: 9781625345967Publication Date: 2021-10-29
Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle by Call Number: Access online via JSTORISBN: 1469662787Publication Date: 2022-11-29
Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub by Call Number: Sawyer New Books HC108.C19 B83 2022ISBN: 9780262046510Publication Date: 2022-05-10
Riders in the Storm:The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil by Call Number: Sawyer New Books E513.6 5th .W37 2022ISBN: 9780811770859Publication Date: 2022-05-15
Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast by Call Number: Access online via JSTORISBN: 0300231121Publication Date: 2018-01-09
New England's Hidden Past : 360 Overlooked, Underappreciated and Misunderstood Landmarks by Call Number: Access online via EBSCOhostISBN: 9781608939879Publication Date: 2020
Mattapan Through Time by Call Number: Sawyer New Books F65 .S29 2023ISBN: 1634994515Publication Date: 2023-03-27
Beacon Hill Through Time by Call Number: Sawyer New Books F73.68.B4 S25 2021ISBN: 1684730120Publication Date: 2021-03-29
Massachusetts Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival by Call Number: Access online via EBSCOhostISBN: 9781493028771Publication Date: 2017
Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 an Account by Participants by Call Number: SAWYER NEW BOOKS HQ1421 .R683 2022ISBN: 9781642597042Publication Date: 2022-08-30
North to Boston: Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England by Call Number: SAWYER NEW BOOKS F73.9.B53 .G867 2022ISBN: 9780197614440Publication Date: 2023-04-21
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War by Call Number: SAWYER NEW BOOKS F73.44 .J66 2023ISBN: 9781541619791Publication Date: 2023-01-10
The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight by Call Number: Access online via EBSCOhostISBN: 9780226824406Publication Date: 2023-05-03See chapters on Boston.
Francis Tukey and the Invention of Modern Crimefighting, 1846-1852. by Call Number: SAWYER NEW BOOKS HV7911.T85 R46 2022ISBN: 9781476689418Publication Date: 2022-06-24
Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them by Call Number: Access online via EBSCOhostISBN: 9781684580392Publication Date: 2021-04-24
Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front by Call Number: SAWYER LIBRARY 3RD FLOOR BX1397 .G345 2021ISBN: 0674983718Publication Date: 2021-09-28
Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World by Call Number: Access online via Proquest Ebook CentralISBN: 1501751050Publication Date: 2020-10-15
Native Americans of New England by Call Number: Access online EBSCOhostISBN: 9781440866104Publication Date: 2020-03-26
The World of Plymouth Plantation by Call Number: SAWYER NEW BOOKS F68 .P395 2020ISBN: 0674238516Publication Date: 2020-10-06
New England Earthquakes: The Surprising History of Seismic Activity in the Northeast by Call Number: Access online via EBSCOhostISBN: 9781493035779Publication Date: 2019-03-01
Urban Archaeology: Discovering the History Hidden in Plain Sight by Call Number: SAWYER LIBRARY 4TH FLOOR F73.18 .T63 2018ISBN: 9781608939916Publication Date: 2018-08-15
A Researcher's Guide to BostonISBN: 088082154XREF F73.3 .L35 2003
Provides details concerning the location of records for the city of Boston.
Digital Collections @Suffolk
- Boston Chronicle Newspaper"The Boston Chronicle was a daily newspaper founded in 1915 by a group of West Indian immigrants that included Thaddeus A. Kitchener, Suffolk’s first Black graduate. [...] The Moakley Archive, along with Sawyer Library staff members Angjelina Koci and Carmen Chen, digitized microfilm versions of the paper from 1932-1960. Please note: some issues are faded and do not allow comprehensive keyword searching."
