HISTORY
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution, by Alan Taylor; Vintage Books, 2007.
1776, by David McCullough; Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick; Viking, 2006.
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, by Geoffrey R. Stone; Norton, 2004.
The Counterfeit Man: The True Story of the Boorn-Colvin Murder Case, by Gerald W. McFarland; UMass Press, Amherst, 1990. A history professor probes the famous Manchester non-murder mystery.
Quatercentenary Celebration of the Promulgation of the Edict of Nantes, April 13, 1598, by the Huguenot Society of America.
Harmon’s Journal 1800-1819. A new edition of original 1820 journal of Canadian explorer Daniel Williams Harmon, who was born in Bennington; contains forewords of three eras and map of Harmon’s journeys. Donated by James Brierley of Dunham, Quebec.
Vermont Indians, by Thomas E. Daniels. 63-page booklet, self-published, 1963. Donated by Joanne Dearcopp.
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission, by Hampton Sides; Anchor Books, 2001. Contains an account of the death of Dr. James Fisher, son of John and Dorothy Canfield Fisher of Arlington. Donated by Russell Collection of Arlington.
The Western Regions of New Hampshire: a Visual History, by Linda Morley, published by the Donning Company, 1989.
The Barnes & Noble Illustrated Guide to Sites of the American Revolution, 272 pp., published 2004. Because this museum contributed images and research, the publisher donated a copy.
Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney; University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.
The Great Warpath: British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point, by David R. Starbuck; University Press of New England, 1999.
Chaining the Hudson: The Fight for the River in the American Revolution, by Lincoln Diamant; Carol Publishing Co., 1989.
Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the Pilgrims, by David Lindsay; Thomas Dunne Books, 2002.
Idealogical Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
Slaves in the Family, by Edward Ball, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Part sociology, part genealogy of the Ball family.
The Putney School: A Progressive Experiment, by Susan M. Lloyd, Yale University Press, 1987.
Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs and Consumer Culture in Victorian America, by Dennis G. Waring; Wesleyan University Press, 2002. A history of Estey Organ Company of Brattleboro.
Early New Meetinghouse & Church in England by Edmund W. Sinnott, Bonanza Books, 1963; donated by Joseph Parks.
The Norton Civil War Letters, edited by Nancy Jane Calenberg, Publish America, Baltimore, Md., 2004; donated by the editor. Writer of these letters was born in Cabot, Vermont, served in Civil War from Wisconsin, was related to Bennington’s Norton pottery family.
Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, by Charles Francis Adams; Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903, volume II; from the Thelma Vandale Collection.
The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove, by William Moran, St. Martin Press, 2002.
New Hampshire vs. Vermont: Sibling Rivalry Between the Twin States, Williams Hill Publishing, 1997 (includes an essay by Tyler Resch); donated by Marian Wagner of Ryegate.
The Age of Gold, by H. W. Brands, Doubleday, 2002, and The California Gold Rush, by Donald Barr Chidsey, Crown, 1968. (Three prominent local 19th-century figures, Henry W. Putnam, Hiland Hall and Trenor W. Park, were influenced by Gold Rush.)
Ticonderoga 1785: Montcalm’s Victory Against All Odds, by Rene Chartrand, illustrated by Patrice Courcelle, Osprey (United Kingdom), 2000.
The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence, edited by John C. Dann. Includes accounts of second phase of Bennington battle by David Holbrook, who later moved to East Hoosac, Mass., after the war; and Thomas Wood, whose pension deposition describes his role both at Bennington and Saratoga; donated by Ruth Burt Ekstrom.
America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800, by Bernard A. Weisberger, William Morrow Books, 2000. Relevant to censorship ordeals of Bennington publisher Anthony Haswell and Vermont Congressman Matthew Lyon; donated by Tyler Resch.
Burke’s Speech on Reconciliation with America, published in 1897, a text first published in London in 1775; donated by Irene Pagel.
From the Rivers: The Origins and Growth of the New England Electric System, by John Landry and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, 1996. A company-sponsored history of utility that created hydroelectric systems that included Somerset and Harriman reservoirs along Deerfield River.
“Industrial Survey of Vermont, Summary Report, 1930.” Demographics of Depression era in a report on activities of several electrical utilities and their hydroelectric projects.
“Vermont’s System of Education,” December 1934, report of a special commission named by Gov. Stanley C. Wilson.
“Laws of Vermont Relating to the Illegal Sale and Use of Intoxicating Liquor,” published by the secretary of state in 1885.
The Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Paul S. Boyer, Oxford University Press, 2001; donated by Tyler Resch.
The Continental Army, by Robert K. Wright Jr., published 1982 by Center of Military History, United States Army, to complete a Bicentennial project to enhance research on American Revolution.
Idealogical Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860, by Samuel Eliot Morison, Houghton Mifflin, 1961; found in book recycling box at Shaftsbury landfill.