Library Research Guides: WRIT 117Y: You Are (Not) Here: Suggested Resources

Books of Interest

Boston: a topographical history by Walter Muir Whitehill (Illustrator); Lawrence W. Kennedy
Call Number: Art Reserve F73.3 .W57 2000
300 years of Boston's architectural history, from the 18th century to the new millennium.
Boston, Statues by Walter Muir Whitehill; Katharine Knowles (Illustrator)
Call Number: Art Library F73.64.A1 W45
A descriptive history of all the statues of the Boston and the municipal state of mind which caused them to be erected.

Primary Sources: Text, Images, and Video

If you are researching reactions to a monument from a city other than Boston (or you'd like to try newspaper resources outside the Boston Globe), try databases on the News Research guide listed below.

Boston Globe, 1872-1989 This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text replica of this newspaper, including graphics and ads.

Boston TV News Digital Library
Local news stories produced in and about Boston from the early 1960’s to 2000.

News
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Digital Commonwealth
photographs, manuscripts, books, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest that have been digitized and made available by libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies from across Massachusetts

Commentary from Scholars

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history and culture articles, prehistory to present, written from 1955 to present.