Rebecca Dickinson’s powerful voice, captured through excerpts from the pages of her journal, allows life in colonial and revolutionary-era New England to come alive. Dickinson’s life illustrates the d
In 1659, a group of Puritan dissenters made their way north from Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, to a crook in the Connecticut River that cut through some of the most fertile land in New Engla
A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era PhiladelphiaBetsy Ross and the Making of America is the first compreh
In a project reflected in a Colonial Barbie doll, Miller (history, U. of Massachusetts Amherst) fills gaps in the history of colonial women's role in the skilled clothing trades. She examines how New
Beyond the legend of the creation of the American flag, we know very little about the facts of Betsy Ross’ life. Perhaps with one snip of her scissors she convinced the nation’s future first president
The newest title in our Campus Guide series takes readers on an architectural tour of University of Massachusetts Amherst. As one of the nation's oldest public universities, and the largest in the Nor
"The year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the cornerstone of historic preservation policy and practice in the United States. The act established the Nati
