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Literary sisters Dorothy West and her circle : a biography of the Harlem Renaissance / by Mitchell, Verner D., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- "Nothing so broadening as travel": Porgy, 1929 -- The Benson Family comes to Boston -- Pauline Hopkins and African American literature in New England -- Boston girlhoods, 1910-1925 -- The youngest members of the Harlem Renaissance, 1926-1931 -- Russian interlude, literary salons, and challenge -- Epilogue.…”
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A young Dutchman views post-Civil War America diary of Claude August Crommelin / by Crommelin, Claude August, 1840-1874

Table of Contents: “…From Amsterdam through Belgium and Great Britain to New York, April-May 1866 -- In New York City and westward to Chicago, May 1866 -- From Chicago through Illinois and northward to Minnesota, May-June 1866 -- In Chicago and by way of Cincinnati and Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia, June-July 1866 -- New York City, Albany, Niagara Falls, Pennsylvania oil, and Canada, July-August 1866 -- In Boston and New England, August-September 1866 -- In New York City, New Jersey, and Troy, New York, September-October 1866 -- In Boston, Providence, Albany, and back to New York City, October-December 1866 -- In the South : Charleston and Savannah, December 1866 -- In Georgia and Virginia, December 1866 -- To Baltimore and Washington, D.C., December 1866-January 1867 -- In New York City, January 1867 -- In New York City and Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, January-February 1867.…”
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The good rich and what they cost us by Dalzell, Robert F.

Table of Contents: “…Paradox -- Robert Keayne's contract with Boston -- George Washington, revolutionary -- The brothers Lawrence -- Rich as Rockefeller legacies -- Heirs -- Successors -- Wealth and American democracy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes and sources -- Index.…”
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House by house, block by block the rebirth of America's urban neighborhoods / by Von Hoffman, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…The quest to save the inner city : a historical perspective -- Miracle on 174th Street -- Boston and the power of collaboration -- In the rust belt : can the ghetto be rebuilt? …”
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From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act a history of the fight for free speech in America / by Finan, Christopher M., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Ground zero -- Mob rule, 1921-1930 -- Banned in Boston -- The court takes a hand -- The second Red scare -- The fight for artistic freedom, 1945-1966 -- Let the sunshine in -- The counterattack, 1970-2002 -- 9/11.…”
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Daniel Webster and the oratory of civil religion by Smith, Craig R.

Table of Contents: “…The foundation of Webster's civil religion -- A Boston lawyer -- The lion returns -- Civic duty in the romantic age -- Liberty and union -- Legal and partisan wrangling -- Abolition confounds the two-party system -- Secretary Webster -- War with Mexico -- National crisis, Capitol gridlock -- Consummating compromise -- Twilight time.…”
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Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren the revolutionary Atlantic and the politics of gender / by Davies, Kate, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Hollis, and the London opposition -- Out Cornelia-izing Cornelia : portraits, profession, and the gendered character of learning -- Belle sauvage : Catharine Macaulay and the American war in Britain -- Mercy Otis Warren's revolutionary letters -- Free and easy : Boston's fashionable dilemma -- Mercy Otis Warren's independence.…”
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Guastavino vaulting the art of structural tile / by Ochsendorf, John Allen

Table of Contents: “…Mediterranean origins -- Toward the Boston Public Library, 1881-92 -- The success of the Guastavino Company, 1893-1908 -- Rafael Guastavino Jr. and the mature company, 1909-29 -- Reasons for success -- The decline of Guastavino vaulting, 1930-62 -- The legacy of the Guastavino Company -- Appendices: list of extant buildings with Guastavino tile vaulting.…”
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Community health centers a movement and the people who made it happen / by Lefkowitz, Bonnie

Table of Contents: “…Heroes of community health -- Mississippi: where it all began -- Boston: the way democracy ought to work -- The South Carolina low country: a homegrown black power structure -- New York: health care is a right -- The Rio Grande valley of Texas: steps from the third world -- The health center legacy.…”
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Robert H. Gardiner and the reunification of worldwide Christianity in the Progressive Era by Woolverton, John Frederick, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of education : Fort Tejon, California, 1855-1916 -- The social gospel's "ham and pickle eaters" : Boston, 1893-1909 -- Parliaments and brotherhoods : Chicago, 1893 -- Faith and Order's troubled beginnings : Edinburgh, 1910 -- War and theology : Lake Constance, 1914 -- Improbable center of a worldwide movement : Gardiner, Maine, 1914-1924 -- Conclusion -- Appendix : chronology of Robert Gardiner's life.…”
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We are the revolutionists German-speaking immigrants and American abolitionists after 1848 / by Honeck, Mischa, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…: a transnational abolitionist sisterhood -- Let us break every yoke : Boston's radical democracies -- A revolution half accomplished : building nations, forgetting emancipation.…”
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John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the politics of ethnic incorporation and avoidance by Smith, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding ethnicity and ethnic incorporation in the United States -- The subordination of Irish Catholics and African Americans -- Identity, solidarity and culture : Irish Catholics and African Americans -- Boston and Chicago and the rise of Kennedy and Obama -- Ethnic men : the Al Smith and Jesse Jackson campaigns -- The incorporation of the Catholic Irish, and the semi-incorporation of African Americans -- Kennedy and Obama : charisma, character and ethnic identity -- Religion and the election of 1960 -- Race and the election of 2008 -- The politics of ethnic avoidance in the Kennedy and Obama administrations.…”
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How women saved the city by Spain, Daphne

Table of Contents: “…Voluntary vernacular -- Why cities needed saving -- Sacred and secular organizational ideologies -- Voluntary associations with an urban presence -- New york City headquarters, smaller city branches -- Boston, the cradle of redemptive places -- Men build Chicago's skyline, women redeem the city -- How women saved the city -- Appendix A : literature review -- Appendix B : organizational charters -- Appendix C : addresses of redemptive places for Bboston, Chicago, and New York City.…”
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Fallout shelter designing for civil defense in the Cold War / by Monteyne, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hypothetical Hiroshimas : city, suburb, and shelter in 1950s civil defense -- Surveying the Cold War landscape : the national fallout shelter program fallout protection -- Sheltering communities : city and social planning for civil defense -- Design intellectuals : professional architects and civil defense -- Performing architectural expertise : designs for fallout shelter fallout shelter design -- Cold War constructions : fallout shelter in new buildings -- Bunker architecture for the Cold War : Boston City Hall -- Epilogue.…”
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Animal the bloody rise and fall of the mob's most feared assassin / by Sherman, Casey, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Casualties of the Boston mob war, 1961/1967 -- Author's note.…”
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Raising more hell and fewer dahlias the public life of Charlotte Smith, 1840-1917 / by Stanley, Autumn, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Louis revisited: the Inland monthly years, 1872-1878 -- The capital years, part I: Washington, DC, 1879-1885 -- The capital years, part II: baby brother and the bête noire: Robert Odlum, Paul Boyton, and the Brooklyn Bridge, 1885 -- The capital years, part III: Washington, DC, 1886-1892 -- The Boston traveler: final years, 1892-1917.…”
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More God, less crime why faith matters and how it could matter more / by Johnson, Byron R.

Table of Contents: “…The last acceptable prejudice -- Preachers partner with police to reduce gang violence : the Boston miracle -- Children of prisoners : people of faith mentoring children of promise -- The Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and the violence-free zone -- A systematic review of the literature : 1944 to 2010 -- Can a faith-based prison reduce recidivism? …”
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Observations on the real rights of women and other writings by Crocker, Hannah Mather, 1752-1829

Table of Contents: “…Finding a voice, 1812-1814 -- Fast sermon -- Thanksgiving sermon -- An humble address to the reason and wisdom of the American nation -- Antiquarian researches, pleasant and easy -- Becoming an advocate, 1815-1819 -- A series of letters on free masonry -- The school of reform, or Seaman's safe pilot to the Cape of Good Hope -- Observations on the real rights of women, with their appropriate duties, agreeable to scripture, reason and common sense -- The midnight beau -- Taking stock, 1820-1829 -- Selections from "reminiscences and traditions of Boston, being an account of the original proprietors of that town, the manners and customs of its people".…”
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Poe by Hutchisson, James M.

Table of Contents: “…Childhood : Boston, Richmond, England (1809-1825) -- The byronic youth : university, the army, and West Point (1826-1830) -- Baltimore : early tales and satires (1831-1834) -- Return to Richmond : marriage, the Southern Literary Messenger, and The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1835-1837) -- Philadelphia : Burton's Gentleman's magazine and the great tales (1838-1840) -- Graham's magazine, "The Penn," and The red death (1841-1843) -- New York : triumphs and troubles, "The raven" and the Longfellow war (1844-1845) -- Quarrels, loves, and losses (1846-1848) -- The journey and the lighthouse (1849).…”
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My friend Tom the poet-playwright Tennessee Williams / by Smith, William Jay, 1918-

Table of Contents: “…Louis, 1935 1940 -- Battle of angels: Boston, 1940 -- The glass menagerie: New York, 1946 -- The poet, lyric and dramatic -- A streetcar named desire: New York, 1947 -- Williams and Frank Merlo: Florence, 1949 -- With Williams at a performance of America hurrah by Jean- Claude van Itallie: New York, 1966 -- Reading of Williams at Lynchburg College: Virginia, 1979 -- Clothes for a summer hotel: New York, March 26, 1980 -- Award of Medal of Freedom to Williams by President Carter: The White House, June 9, 1980 -- Death of Tennessee Williams: New York, February 24, 1983.…”
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