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Beacon Hill : The Life and Times of a Neighborhood / by Li-Marcus, Moying, 1954-

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Another city upon a hill a New England memoir / by Conforti, Joseph A.

Table of Contents: “…Spindle City -- Family migrations -- Street and tenement -- "Up the Flint" -- Faith -- Aspirations -- Native ground, again -- Leaving.…”
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Boston Riots : Three Centuries of Social Violence / by Tager, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Eighteenth-Century setting -- A variety of Riots: Food, Customs, Antielite, and Pope Day Riots -- The Impressment Riot of 1747 -- Antebellum Boston: Norm Enforcement, Race, and Abolition Riots -- Anti-Catholic Rioting in Antebellum Boston: The Ursuline Convent and the Broad Street Riots -- Anti-Catholic Tensions, 1850-1900, and the Draft Riot of 1863 -- The 1919 Police Strike Riots -- Ghetto Riots, 1967-1968 -- Antibusing Riots, Fall 1974 -- Antibusing Riots, 1975-1976 -- Conclusion -- Index.…”
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Broken glass Caleb Cushing & the shattering of the Union / by Belohlavek, John M.

Table of Contents: “…The view from High Street, 1800-1826 -- Foreign adventures and congressional ventures, 1827-1834 -- Whig star rising : the politics of antislavery, 1835-1837 -- Battling the British Lion and the American Fox, 1837-1840 -- Tyler and the Corporal's Guard, 1841-1843 -- The road to China, 1843-1844 -- The warrior of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1848 -- The doughface Democrat, 1848-1853 -- The powerbroker : attorney general, 1853-1857 -- The most unpopular man in New England, 1857-1861 -- From Massachusetts exile to Washington insider, 1861-1869 -- The diplomat reemerges, 1869-1879.…”
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