Bibliography & Further Reading
Works Cited (by project page)
About the Project
- Saikia, Arupjyoti. The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra. London: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Mapping Space
- Roberts, Strother E.
Hydrology and the History of Malaria in Seventeenth-Through-Nineteenth-Century New England.
(Unpublished manuscript, 2013), typescript. - Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.
Spatial History Project.
Accessed May 6, 2022. https://cesta.stanford.edu/research/spatial-history-project. - Zax, David.
Visualizing Historical Data, And the Rise of
Fast Company, June 9, 2011. https://www.fastcompany.com/1758538/visualizing-historical-data-and-rise-digital-humanities.Digital Humanities
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Telling Stories: Bibliography for StoryMap Narrative
Primary Sources
- Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts, in the years 1846, 1847, 1848; Together with the Rolls and Messages, page 155. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers to the Commonwealth, 1848. https://archive.org/details/actsresolvespass184648mass/page/154/mode/2up?q=dorchester+milton.
- Eliot, John. Mamusee wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament. Cambridge: Printeuoop nashpe Samuel Green, 1685. https://archive.org/details/mamussewunneetup02elio/page/n3/mode/2up.
- Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Agencies Minutes, 1892-2003. https://archive.org/details/massdptconservationrecreationlegacyagenciesminutes?&sort=-week&page=2.
- Russell, John Lewis. Report of the Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for the year 1837-8, with Preliminary Observations. Boston: Tuttle, Dennett, & Chisholm, Printers, 1839. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/71526#page/9/mode/1up.
- Tileston and Hollingsworth, Papers, 1755-1963. American Antiquarian Society Manuscript Collections. Boston, MA. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/Findingaids/tileston_and_hollingsworth.pdf.
Secondary Sources
- Adams, Charles Francis. Three Episodes of Massachusetts History: The Settlement of Boston Bay, The Antinomian Controversy, A Study of Church and Town Government, Volume II, Revised. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1894.
- Bagley, Joseph. A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2016.
- Chanatry, Hannah.
Baker Requesting Superfund Designation for Lower Neponset River.
WBUR Local Coverage, July 13, 2021. https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/07/13/baker-epa-superfund-lower-neponset-river. - Cooke, Ian.
Historic Resources.
Neponset River Watershed Association. Accessed May 7, 2022. https://www.neponset.org/archived-pages/historic-resources/. - Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
- Ebel, John E. New England Earthquakes: The Surprising History of Seismic Activity in the Northeast. Lanham: Globe Pequot for the Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2019.
Episode 59: Corn, Cotton, and Condos: 378 Years on the Mother Brook.
Hub History. Accessed May 7, 2022. http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/episode-59-corn-cotton-condos-378-years-mother-brook/.Historical Walking Tour of Lower Mills, Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Dorchester Athenaeum. Accessed May 7, 2022. http://www.dorchesteratheneum.org/pdf/WebLowerMillstour.pdf.- Huntoon, Daniel T.V. History of the Town of Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Cambridge: John Wilson and Son University Press, 1893.
- Nally, Megan.
Power, Paper, and PCBs. An Environmental History of the Lower Neponset River.
Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center. Accessed May 7, 2022. https://www.leventhalmap.org/articles/neponset/. - O'Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Our History.
Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center. Updated 2022. Accessed May 9, 2022. https://thompsonisland.org/about/our-history.- Macaulay, David. Mill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Clarion Books, 1989.
- Palmer, Thomas. Landscape with Reptile: Rattlesnakes in an Urban World. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
- Perry, Simona Lee.
More than One River: Local, Place-Based Knowledge and the Political Ecology of Restoration and Remediation along the Lower Neponset River, Massachusetts.
PhD diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. Open Access Dissertations: https://doi.org/10.7275/zm36-a676 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/117. - Simkova, Pavla.
The Hub's Archipelago: The Connected Histories of Boston and Its Harbor Islands.
Arcadia Coastal History, no.7(Spring 2020). https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/hubs-archipelago-connected-histories-boston-and-its-harbor-islands. - Skekan, James W. Roadside Geology of Massachusetts. Roadside Geology Series. Missoula: Mountain Press, 2001.
- Stevens, Peter F.
Lower Mills was Once Center of Chocolate Universe.
Dorchester Reporter. May 1, 2014. https://www.dotnews.com/2014/lower-mills-was-once-center-chocolate-universe#:~:text=Then%2C%20the%20Neponset's%20flow%20set,bricks%E2%80%9D%20in%20weight%20and%20consistency. Synopsis.
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North. Accessed May 7, 2022. http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/synopsis/.- Taylor, Earl.
Settled before Boston, Dorchester home of many firsts.
Dorchester Reporter, May 31, 2012. https://www.dotnews.com/2012/settled-boston-dorchester-home-many-firsts. The Artwork.
Edward Everett Square. Accessed May 7, 2022. https://edwardeverettsquare.org/artwork.html.The History of the Neponset Band of the Indigenous Massachusett Tribe.
The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag. Copyright 2019. Accessed May 9, 2022. https://massachusetttribe.org/the-history-of-the-neponset.The Indigenous and English Roots of Natick.
Natick History Museum. Accessed May 9, 2022. https://www.natickhistoricalsociety.org/algonquian-and-english-roots-of-natick.The Neponset River: A History.
Neponset River Greenway Council. Accessed May 7, 2022. https://www.neponsetgreenway.org/neptime.htm.- Valencius, Conevery Bolton.
Earthquakes and Disease: John Winthrop's Lecture on Earthquakes (1755) and
In the history of Contagion in Harvard's Library Collections.The Harvard Library Bulletin (Summer 2021), https://harvardlibrarybulletin.org/john-winthrop-lecture-earthquakes-pestilential-distempers-environmental-disruption.Pestilential Distempers
Caused by Environmental Disruption. - Valencius, Conevery Bolton.
Neponset River Milton Lower Mills Workshop Plan: Watershed Moments in Environmental History, Conservation and Civic Engagement.
(UnpublishedPrimary Source
workshop notes, 2021), typescript.
Further Reading
Indigenous Histories in the Northeast
- Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
- Delucia, Christine. Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
Colonial Histories in the Northeast
- Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
United States Environmental Histories
- Fiege, Mark. The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.
- Seasholes, Nancy S., Ed. The Atlas of Boston History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Steinberg, Theodore. Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Steinberg, Theodore. Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
- Valencius, Conevery Bolton. The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
- Valencius, Conevery Bolton. The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
The EPA and Superfund Legislative History
- Newman, Richard S. Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Rivers, Oceans, & Waters in Time
- Amrith, Sunil. Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History. London: Penguin Books, 2018.
- Demuth, Bathsheba. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. New York: W.W. Norton, 2019.
- Derr, Jennifer. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2019.
- Lipman, Andrew. The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
- Nash, Linda.
The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River.
The Journal of American History 86, no.4 (March 2000): 1600-1629. - Saikia, Arupjyoti. The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra. London: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.
- Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
- Zhang, Ling. The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128. London: Cambridge University Press, 2016.