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Suggested Reading

  • Irish Studies:
    • Clans:
      • Fr. David OFM Cap. The MacSweeneys. Ard Mhuire, Creeslough, Donegal: Capuchin Friary, 1993.
    • Genealogical Research:
      • Day, Angelique and Patrick McWilliams, eds. Ordnance Survey Memoirs. Belfast, Ireland: Institute of Irish Studies in association with the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1990. [NEHGS Call Number: DA990.U46 O85 1990 – 1st Floor International Collection]
      • Grenham, John. Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: The Complete Guide. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan, 2012. [NEHGS Call Number: CS483.G73 2012 – 7th Floor Reference]
      • Maxwell, Ian. Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors – A Guide For Family Historians. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England : Pen & Sword Family History, 2010. [NEHGS Call Number: CS442 .M39 2011 – 7th Floor Reference]
      • Meehan, Helen and Godfrey Duffy. A Guide to Tracing Your Donegal Ancestors. Glenageary, Co., Dublin, Ireland : Flyleaf Press, 2008. [NEHGS Call Number: CS497.D59 M44 2008 – 1st Floor International Collection]
      • O'Neill, Robert K. Irish Libraries: Archives, Museums & Genealogical Centres: A Visitor’s Guide. Belfast, Ireland : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002. [NEHGS Call Number: Z792.5.A1 O64 2002 – 1st Floor International Collection]
      • Roulston, William. Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800. Belfast, Ireland : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2005. [NEHGS Call Number: CS448.U45 R68 2005 – 1st Floor International Collection]
    • Great Famine:
      • Kelly, John. The Graves are Walking:The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People. New York: Picador, 2013.
    • Historical Fiction:
      • De Fougerolles, Paula. The Chronicles of Iona: Exile. Brookline, Mass.: Careswell Press, 2012.
      • De Fougerolles, Paula. The Chronicles of Iona: Prophet. Brookline, Mass.: Careswell Press, 2012.
      • Gremmert, Eva Doherty.A Cottage in Donegal, Mary Doherty’s Story. New York: HBG Services, Inc., 2011.
    • Historical Research:
      • Dorian, Hugh and Breandan Mac Suibhne and David Dickson, eds. The Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
      • Ellis, Peter Berresford. Erin's Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland. New York: Palgrave, 2002. [NEHGS Call Number: DA916.1 .E45 2002 – Research Library]
      • McCaffrey, Carmel and Leo Eaton. In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English. Chicago: New Amsterdam Books, 2002.
    • Immigration Studies:
      • O’Connor, Thomas. The Boston Irish: A Political History. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1997.
  • Italian Studies:
    • Genealogical Research:
      • Cole, Trafford. Italian Genealogical Records: How to Use Italian Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Other Records in Family History Research. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1995. [NEHGS Call Number: E184.I8 C63 1995 – 7th Floor Reference]
      • Colletta, John. Finding Italian Roots: The Complete Guide for Americans. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003. [NEHGS Call Number: E184.I8 C64 2003 – 7th Floor Reference]
      • Nelson, Lynn. A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your Italian Ancestors: How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 1997.[NEHGS Call Number: CS753.N45 1997 – 7th Floor Reference]
    • Immigration Studies:
      • Boyer, Sarah and Sarah Maycock. All in the Same Boat: Twentieth-Century Stories of East Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Historical Commission, 2005. [NEHGS Call Number: F74.C1 A55 2005 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Gesualdi, Louis J. The Italian Immigrants of Connecticut, 1880 to 1940. New Haven, Conn. : Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997. [NEHGS Call Number: F105.I8 G47 1997 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Puleo, Stephen. The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. [NEHGS Call Number: F73.9.I8 P855 2007 – 5th Floor Stacks]
  • New England:
    • American Revolution:
      • Coburn, Frank Warren. The Battle of April 19, 1775: In Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Historical Society, 1922.
      • Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere’s Ride. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
      • Fischer, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
      • McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.
      • Philbrick, Nathaniel. Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution. New York: Viking Press, 2013.
      • Philbrick, Nathaniel. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution. New York: Viking Press, 2016.
      • Rose, Alexander. Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring. New York: Bantam Books, 2014.
    • King Philip's War:
      • Schultz, Eric and Michael Tougias. King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict. New York: Countryman Press, 2000.
    • Local Histories:
      • Cutter, Benjamin and William Richard Cutter. History of the Town of Arlington, Massachusetts: Formerly the Second Precinct in Cambridge Or District of Menotomy, Afterward the Town of West Cambridge, 1635-1879. With a Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants of the Precinct. Arlington, Mass.: D. Clapp and Sons, 1880.
      • Hanson, John Wesley. History of the Town of Danvers, From Its Early Settlement to the Year 1848. Danvers, Mass.: Published by the author, 1848.
      • Trask, Richard B. Danvers. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
    • Mayflower and Plymouth Colony Studies:
      • Berry, Lloyd Eason and William Whittingham. The Geneva Bible: A Facsimile of the 1560 Edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.
      • Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation 1620 – 1647. New York: Random House, 1981.
      • Bunker, Nick. Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
      • Deetz, James and Patricia Scott Deetz. The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony. New York: Random House, 2001.
      • Hatcher, Patricia Law. Researching Your Colonial New England Ancestors. Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2006.
      • Heath, Dwight B., compiler. Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Bedford, Massachusetts: Applewood Books, 1986.
      • James, Sydney V. Three Visitors to Early Plymouth: Letters about the Pilgrim Settlement in New England During its First Seven Years. Plymouth, Mass.: Plimoth Plantation, 1963.
      • Morgan, Edmund S. Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea. New York: New York University Press, 1963.
      • Morison, Samuel Eliot. Story of the "Old Colony" of New Plymouth, 1620-1692. New York: Knopf, 1956.
      • Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. New York: Viking, 2006.
      • Stratton, Eugene Aubrey. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620 – 1691. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 1986.
      • Van Zandt, Cynthia J. Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
      • Winslow, Edward. Good News from New England: with an exact relation of the first planting that countrey, a description of the profits accruing by the worke : together with a briefe, but true discovery of their order both in church and common-wealth, and maintenance allowed the painfull labourers in that vineyard of the Lord : with the names of the severall towns, and who be preachers to them. London: Printed by Matthew Simmons, 1648.
    • Puritan Studies:
      • Gordon, Charlotte.Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet. New York: Harper Collins, 2005.
      • LaPlante, Eve.American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman who Defied the Puritans. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005.
      • Manegold, Catherine S. Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
    • Salem Witchcraft Hysteria:
      • Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum.Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
      • Roach, Marilynne K.The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. Lanham, Maryland: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004.
      • Trask, Richard B. The Devil Hath Been Raised : A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692 : Together with a Collection of Newly Located and Gathered Witchcraft Documents. Danvers, Mass.: Yeoman Press, 1997.
  • Nova Scotia Studies:
    • Genealogical Research:
      • Genealogy Source: Where to Find Genealogical Information in Nova Scotia. Halifax, N.S.: Council of Nova Scotia Archives, 2002. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.N64 G46 2002 – 7th Floor Reference]
      • Long, Heather. Marriages in Nova Scotia 1752-1841. 4 volumes. Halifax, N.S.: Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, 2009. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.N64 L665 2009 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Marble, Allan Everett. Deaths, Burials, and Probate of Nova Scotians, 1749-1799, from Primary Sources. 2 volumes. Halifax, N.S.:Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, 1990. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.N64 M37 1990 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Marble, Allan Everett. Deaths, Burials, and Probate of Nova Scotians, 1800-1850, from Primary Sources. 3 volumes. Halifax, N.S.:Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, 1999. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.N64 M372 1999 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Punch, Terrence. Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada. 4 volumes. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus, 1998. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.A88 P86 2008 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Punch, Terrence. Genealogist's Handbook for Atlantic Canada Research. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.A88 G46 1997 – 7th Floor Reference and 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Punch, Terrence. Genealogical Research in Nova Scotia. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus, 1998. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.N64 P86 1998 – 7th Floor Reference]
      • Punch, Terrence. Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers 1769 – 1812 . Halifax, N.S.: Genealogical Committee of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1981. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.N64 V59 v.1 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Punch, Terrence. Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers 1813 – 1822 . Halifax, N.S.: Genealogical Committee of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1978. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.N64 V59 v.2 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Sigogne, Jean-Mande and Leonard H. Smith, transcriber. St. Mary's Bay, 1818-1829 : Catalogue Of Families, St, Mary's Bay Roman Catholic Parish, Clare, Digby. Clearwater, Florida: Smith, 1975. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.D5 S49 1975 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Sigogne, Jean-Mande and Leonard H. Smith, transcriber. St. Mary's Bay, 1840-1844 : Catalogue Of Families, St. Mary's Bay Roman Catholic Parish, Clare, Digby . Clearwater, Florida: Smith, 1975. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.D5 S5 1975 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Smith, Leonard H. Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867. 2 volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.N64 S651 1992 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Smith, Leonard H. St. Mary's Bay, 1774-1801 : Early Parish Registers . Clearwater, Florida: Owl Books, 1983. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.D5 S64 1983 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Wright, Esther Clark. Planters and Pioneers. Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press, 1978. [NEHGS Call Number: CS88.N64 W74 1978 – 7th Floor Reference]
    • Immigration Studies:
      • Conrad, Margaret. Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia 1759-1800. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press, 1991. [NEHGS Call Number: F1038 M34 1991 – 5th Floor Stacks]
      • Houston, Cecil. Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement . Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press ; Belfast : Ulster Historical Foundation, 1990. [NEHGS Call Number: F1035.I6 H68 1990 – 5th Floor Stacks]
    • Local Histories:
      • Walker, Irma, with Gerald Handspiker. A Culloden Chronicle: The History of a West Nova Scotia Farming and Fishing Village. Baltimore, Md.: Irma Walker, 2007.

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