Books
Bookshelf
Bibliography of Books and Links
America’s Freedom Trail (Alper)
Boston Freedom Trail (Wikipedia)
(It is interesting that this was established in 1951 according to Wiki. That would coincide with the building of the Central Artery (that was ripped down in the Big Dig) or the potentially new influx of tourists to the Boston area as a result of this highway at the time. Very curious….)
Boston Ways, Weston
Boston – Its Byways and Highways, Being Twenty Five
Americans on the Road: From Auto Camp to Motel
A History of Travel in America, Dunbar
Boston, A Topographical History
Boston, A Short History
(The author of this book seems like a good person to get to know. Professor of History at Suffolk Univ which is right down next to the State house in the thick of history. I believe he may also be involved in this company bostonbyfoot.org
Eden on the Charles
Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
Boston’s Back Bay
Mapping Boston
A Book For Boston
From an ebay listing ($399 although it is available for much cheaper)
- A Book For Boston, In Which Are Gathered Essays, Stories, and Poems
- Published by Godine, Boston, 1980,
- Llewellyn Howland, Editor
- Hardcover with DJ, Limited Edition
- Very Scarce Signed!!
- One of 50 copies presented by the City of Boston to Channel 2
- Signed by all the contributors on a tipped on sheet on the front endpaper.
- Condition VG/VG the DJ is protected in mylar.
- Signed by Anne Bernays, James Carroll, Julia Child, John Kenneth Galbraith, Joseph E. Garland, Nancy Hale, Justin Kaplan, Jane Holtz Kay, Alan Lupo, David McCord, Archibald MacLeish, James Alan McPherson, Robert B. Parker, Caryl Rivers, Elizabeth Savage, John D. Spooner, Isabelle Storey, David Godine and the Editor Llewellyn Howland.
- Neatly applied scotch tape covers some of the signatures, including Julia Child
- Parker signs in full, not initials as is usually seen.
- B&W photos and plates throughout.
- Published as part of Boston's 350th Anniversary of incorporation.
Antique Views of Boston
Sketches of Boston, past and present, and of some few places in its vicinity
Stranger's Illustrated Guide to Boston and Its Suburbs ...: With Maps of Boston and the Harbor
(tons of antique advertisements here in the back!)
Boston illustrated; containing full descriptions of the city and its immediate suburbs…
Then and Now, Antique Boston guide book
Culture Heritage and Tourism, Dallen J. Timothy
The Silent Traveller in Boston, Chiang Yee
National Geographic, Vol 122, No. 2, Aug 1962, Articles: “The Old Boston Post Roads” “Along the Post Roads Today” (good articles coincide with the completion of 128/95 and the Mass Pike)
Turnpikes of New England, Frederick J. Wood
(Also available as a new edition reprint on Amazon)
Boston Central Artery (History Press)
Building the Mass Pike (History Press)
Building 128 (History Press)
Big Roads, Earl Swift
Boston, Then and Now
Lost Boston
A good source of info that could be mined for a long time would be the archives of the Boston Globe. Lots of stuff in there. Also Wikipedia has a lot of stuff that can be mined for its info and bibliographies. As well, the authors of a lot of these books above seem to be Boston historians who are worth compiling a list of names on and maybe contacting if appropriate.