The following is a list of works about Boston, Massachusetts.
Nonfiction
General
Bibliographies
Directories Boston Directory
Guides
History by date of publication
1700s
1800s-1840s
1850s-1890s
v.1: Early and Colonial Periods v.2: Provincial Period v.3: Revolutionary Period. The Last Hundred Years, Pt.1 v.4: Last Hundred Years, Pt.2. Special topics
Bacon, Edwin M., and Edward, George, "Ellis Bacon's Dictionary of Boston", Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886.
1900s-1940s
Statistical analysis of census data.
1950s-1960s
Henretta, J.A. (1965) "Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston", The William and Mary Quarterly 22(1): 75-92.
Ward, D. (1966) "The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Boston's Central Business District", Economic Geography 42 (2): 152-171.
On geography and neighborhoods. (includes essays about Boston)
1970s The standard history for the period.
VOGEL, MORRIS J. "BOSTON'S HOSPITALS, 1870-1930: A SOCIAL HISTORY." (PhD dissertation, The University of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1974. T-25317).
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1980s
Short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. See index at pp. 406–411 for list.
Tager, Jack, and John W. Ifkovic, eds. Massachusetts in the Gilded Age: Selected Essays (1983), extensive coverage of Boston.
Vogel, Morris J. The Invention of the Modern Hospital: Boston 1870-1930 (U of Chicago Press,1985)
1990s
(fulltext via Open Library)
2000s
Thomas H. O'Connor, Boston, A to Z (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000)
Tager, Jack. Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Northeastern University Press, 2001)
Tager, Jack. (2001) Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Upne, 2001). Matos Rodrííguez, Féélix V. (2001) "'The Browncoats are Coming': Latino Public History in Boston." Public Historian 23.4 (2001): 15-28. Bjarkman, Peter C. (2002) Boston Celtics Encyclopedia (Sports Publishing LLC, 2002).
Rawson, Michael. (2004) "The nature of water: reform and the antebellum crusade for municipal water in Boston." Environmental history 9.3 (2004): 411-435. Dolin, Eric Jay. (2004) Political waters: the long, dirty, contentious, incredibly expensive but eventually triumphant history of Boston Harbor, a unique environmental success story (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004). Minardi, Margot. (2004) "The Boston inoculation controversy of 1721-1722: an incident in the history of race." William and Mary Quarterly 61.1 (2004): 47-76. online
Carr, Jacqueline Barbara. (2005) After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775-1800. Upne, 2005.
Kaufman, Polly Welts, et al. (2006) Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Seven Self-guided Walking Tours Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's History (Applewood Books, 2006). Nathan, Gavin. (2006) Historic Taverns of Boston: 370 Years of Tavern History in One Definitive Guide (iUniverse, 2006). Kay, Jane Holtz. (2006) Lost Boston (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2006), destroyed buildings. Puleo, Stephen. (2007) The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day (Beacon Press, 2007). Gelber, Scott. (2008) "'The crux and the magic': The Political History of Boston Magnet Schools, 1968–1989." Equity & Excellence in Education 41.4 (2008): 453-466.
Wolff, Katherine. (2009) Culture club: The curious history of the Boston Athenaeum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).
2010-present
York, Neil L. (2010) The Boston Massacre: A History with Documents (Routledge, 2010). Johnson, Arthur M., and Barry E. Supple. (2013) Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads (Harvard University Press, 2013). Whitehill, Walter Muir. (2013) Boston Public Library (Harvard University Press, 2013). Holmes, Pauline. (2013) A Tercentenary History of the Boston Public Latin School, 1635–1935 (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Bagley, Joseph M. (2016) A history of Boston in 50 artifacts (University Press of New England, 2016).
Levesque, George A. (2018) Black Boston: African American life and culture in urban America, 1750–1860 (Routledge, 2018).
Fiction
See also Media in Boston Boston Book Festival List of booksellers in Boston
External links
Catalogs Boston Public Library. Online catalog: subject:(boston) Bostonian Society. Online Catalog Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Boston, various dates Europeana. Items related to Boston, Massachusetts, various dates. Massachusetts Historical Society. Online library catalog WorldCat. su:Boston (Mass.)