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Book Synopsis Revolutionary Sites of Greater Boston by : Robert J. Allison
Download or read book Revolutionary Sites of Greater Boston written by Robert J. Allison and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color photographs of all major Revolutionary War sites in greater Boston with a short history of the events that made them famous.
Book Synopsis Colonial and Revolutionary Landmarks of Boston by : Henry Greenwood Peabody
Download or read book Colonial and Revolutionary Landmarks of Boston written by Henry Greenwood Peabody and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Colonial and Revolutionary Landmarks of Boston: An Illustrated Lecture Here is one city which strongly appeals to the affections and patriotism of every American, namely Boston. Other cities may exceed her in population, in wealth, in manufacturing, or in commerce; but we can never forget that Puritan Boston was the birthplace of American Independence. Her streets are narrow and crooked, but they wind among scenes of historic interest, which recall vividly the great drama here enacted by the heroes of the Revolution. Within the area known as Greater Boston the combined forces of the thirteen colonies first acted in unison as one nation. Here the minute-men of Lexington, of Concord, and of Bunker Hill met the confident grenadiers of Old England with blows so sudden and power ful as to disconcert even the veterans of King George's army. Although Boston has become modernized to a great extent, many relics of the old, historic town still remain intact. Shall we not, then, walk through her winding streets and look upon some of these an'cient landmarks. For a starting point let us rendezvous at old North Square. This was to Historic Boston what Copley Square is to the city of the present day. In the early years the centre of the fashionable quarter, it has gradually become cosmopolitan in its character, until today its population is faithfully represented by the characteristic group before us. Sandwiched in between the lofty walls of the modern buildings on either side, we see one of the very few examples remaining in the city of houses built with the projecting second story. During the stir ring times preceding the Revolution, this house was the home of Paul Revere, and, on the first anniversary of the Boston Massacre, in its windows were displayed illuminated pictures of that dreadful scene, drawn by Revere's own hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Revolutionary Boston, Lexington and Concord by : Joseph Lyon Andrews
Download or read book Revolutionary Boston, Lexington and Concord written by Joseph Lyon Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only complete visitors' guide to the Revolutionary history and sites of Boston, Bunker Hill, the Freedom Trail, and the Battle Road, including Cambridge, Arlington, Lexington, Bedford, Concord, Lincoln, Acton, and Sudbury.
Book Synopsis Boston Sites & Insights by : Susan Wilson
Download or read book Boston Sites & Insights written by Susan Wilson and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-05-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're looking for a history of one of the city's world-class museums or for a fascinating story about Boston's popular North End, Susan Wilson covers it all in Boston Sites and Insights. Divided into six sections that reflect the diversity of people, activities, and landmarks within the city, this fascinating book leaves no stone unturned. With practical, up-to-date information in an "Essentials" section at the end of each chapter as well as fresh retellings of popular legends and lore, Wilson provides everything the modern visitor or current resident needs to know to enjoy the multicultural city of Boston, Massachusetts."
Book Synopsis Sketches of Some Historic Churches of Greater Boston by : Anonymous
Download or read book Sketches of Some Historic Churches of Greater Boston written by Anonymous and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Be There Then by : Elizabeth S. Levy Merrick
Download or read book Be There Then written by Elizabeth S. Levy Merrick and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the pleasures of visiting or living in Boston, with its wealth of historical resources, is to be able to experience the past through the historic houses left to us by earlier inhabitants. This guide, including colorful profiles of more than forty historic houses open to the public in and around Boston, is an indispensable handbook to help you discover hidden historical gems as well as some better-known portals to the past. From colonial to Victorian, from modest to upper-crust, there are houses for every interest. Be There Then aims to convey not only the basics of each house but also the overall visitor experience, going beyond a listing of facts and allowing you to plan your visits carefully. Houses of the distant (and not-so-distant) past serve to bring history alive, helping us know what it was like to live then and there. In these historic house museums, you can step over the threshold and start your journey back in time.
Book Synopsis Revolutionary Boston, Lexington, and Concord by : Joseph Andrews
Download or read book Revolutionary Boston, Lexington, and Concord written by Joseph Andrews and published by Commonwealth Editions. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only complete visitors' guide to the Revolutionary history and sites of Boston, Bunker Hill, the Freedom Trail, and the Battle Road, including Cambridge, Arlington, Lexington, Bedford, Concord, Lincoln, Acton, and Sudbury.
Book Synopsis A People's Guide to Greater Boston by : Joseph Nevins
Download or read book A People's Guide to Greater Boston written by Joseph Nevins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. The sites to which we do 'travel' include homes given that people's struggles, activism, and organizing sometimes unfold, or are even birthed in many cases in living rooms and kitchens. Trying to capture a place as diverse and dynamic as Boston is highly challenging. (One could say that about any 'big' place.) We thus want to make clear that our goal is not to be comprehensive, or to 'do justice' to the region. Given the constraints of space and time as well as the limitations of knowledge--both our own and what is available in published form--there are many important sites, cities, and towns that we have not included. Thus, in exploring scores of sites across Boston and numerous municipalities, our modest goal is to paint a suggestive portrait of the greater urban area that highlights its long-contested nature. In many ways, we merely scratch the region's surface--or many surfaces--given the multiple layers that any one place embodies. In writing about Greater Boston as a place, we run the risk of suggesting that the city writ-large has some sort of essence. Indeed, the very notion of a particular place assumes intrinsic characteristics and an associated delimited space. After all, how can one distinguish one place from another if it has no uniqueness and is not geographically differentiated? Nonetheless, geographer Doreen Massey insists that we conceive of places as progressive, as flowing over the boundaries of any particular space, time, or society; in other words, we should see places as processual or ever-changing, as unbounded in that they shape and are shaped by other places and forces from without, and as having multiple identities. In exploring Greater Boston from many venues over 400 years, we embrace this approach. That said, we have to reconcile this with the need to delimit Greater Boston--for among other reasons, simply to be in a position to name it and thus distinguish it from elsewhere"--
Book Synopsis Boston's Historic Hub by : David Lyon
Download or read book Boston's Historic Hub written by David Lyon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the oldest black church in the country, an Arts-and-Crafts-style artists' studio building, a concrete football stadium, and an acoustically perfect performance space have in common? They are all National Historic Landmarks located in Boston. In fact, the city boasts more National Historic Landmarks per square mile than any other major city in the country. Given Boston's long history and record of accomplishments, it's really not surprising that 57 properties—from the nation's oldest subway tunnel to a floating lighthouse—have received this designation. Add in the adjoining cities of Cambridge and Brookline and the number swells. Historic Boston includes the most rewarding and easily visited landmarks. That's a lot of history in 103 square miles. The Secretary of the Interior designates the status of National Historic Landmark to places considered “exceptional because of their abilities to illustrate U.S. heritage.” More simply put, they are the places that resonate broadly with us, that we cherish, and want to pass on to future generations. The list is surprisingly diverse. In metro Boston, it includes an historic church with a stunning collection of Tiffany windows, a Transcendentalist community, a Grand Banks schooner, and the home and studio of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Book Synopsis Historic Greater Boston, Massachusetts by :
Download or read book Historic Greater Boston, Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Colonials written by Allen French and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Profile on Massachusetts by : Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Download or read book Profile on Massachusetts written by Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boston in the American Revolution by : Brooke Barbier
Download or read book Boston in the American Revolution written by Brooke Barbier and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1764, a small town in the British colony of Massachusetts ignited a bold rebellion. When Great Britain levied the Sugar Act on its American colonies, Parliament was not prepared for Boston s backlash. For the next decade, Loyalists and rebels harried one another as both sides revolted and betrayed, punished and murdered. But the rebel leaders were not quite the heroes we consider them today. Samuel Adams and John Hancock were reluctant allies. Paul Revere couldn t recognize a traitor in his own inner circle. And George Washington dismissed the efforts of the Massachusetts rebels as unimportant. With a helpful guide to the very sites where the events unfolded, historian Brooke Barbier seeks the truth behind the myths. Barbier tells the story of how a city radicalized itself against the world s most powerful empire and helped found the United States of America."
Book Synopsis Sketches of Some Historic Churches of Greater Boston by : Katharine Gibbs Allen
Download or read book Sketches of Some Historic Churches of Greater Boston written by Katharine Gibbs Allen and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings by :
Download or read book The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sketches of Some Historic Churches of Greater Boston (Classic Reprint) by : Katharine Gibbs Allen
Download or read book Sketches of Some Historic Churches of Greater Boston (Classic Reprint) written by Katharine Gibbs Allen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches of Some Historic Churches of Greater Boston These papers make no pretense to being complete; most are compilations, but all are readable and interest ing. Practically all were read at the church about which they were written, and some at many others. It is in response to a quite large demand that the papers be printed together that the present volume appears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Road to Concord by : John Leonard Bell
Download or read book The Road to Concord written by John Leonard Bell and published by Journal of the American Revolu. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early spring of 1775, on a farm in Concord, Massachusetts, British army spies located four brass cannon belonging to Boston's colonial militia that had gone missing months before. British general Thomas Gage had been searching for them, both to stymie New England's growing rebellion and to erase the embarrassment of having let cannon disappear from armories under redcoat guard. Anxious to regain those weapons, he drew up plans for his troops to march nineteen miles into unfriendly territory. The Massachusetts Patriots, meanwhile, prepared to thwart the general's mission. There was one goal Gage and his enemies shared: for different reasons, they all wanted to keep the stolen cannon as secret as possible. Both sides succeeded well enough that the full story has never appeared until now. The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War by historian J. L. Bell reveals a new dimension to the start of America's War for Independence by tracing the spark of its first battle back to little-known events beginning in September 1774. Drawing on archives in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, the book creates a lively, original, and deeply documented picture of a society perched on the brink of war.
