Bibliography

General

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1984. Excellent ecological history depicting the effects of changing land-use patterns on the New England landscape.

Dalzell, Robert. Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. Excellent introduction to the origins and early years of Lowell. It gives a good perspective on how Lowell fit into the larger picture of American history.

Dublin, Thomas. Farm to Factory: WomenÕs Letters 1830-1860. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. A series of letters written by and to several Lowell mill girls. Great primary source for life in early Lowell.

Dublin,Thomas. The Story of an Industrial City. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1993. Lowell National Historical Park handbook. This is the best single source on Lowell history. Excellent color illustrations.

Larkin, Jack. The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Highly readable portrayal of the daily lives of Americans in the first fifty years of the new republic.

Macauley, David. Mill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Excellent discussion of how water power works; extensively illustrated.

Macauley, David. The Way Things Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Excellent pictures and discussion of technology. Also available in cd-rom version.

Steinberg, Theodore. Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. A "must-read" work on environmental history and political ecology.

Weible, Robert, ed. The Continuing Revolution. Lowell, MA: Lowell Historical Society, 1991. A volume of essays on Lowell including engineering and industry, immigration, labor and management issues and more.

Historical Fiction

Avi. The Escape From Home and Beyond the Western Sea. 2 volumes. New York: Orchard Books, 1996. Fictional account of trials and hardships first in Ireland during the famine, then during voyage to America and last in the mills of Lowell. Grades 5-9 and up.

Cherry, Lynne. A River Ran Wild. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. A picture book, great for Grades 1-4, describing the land and the river before industrialization.

Denenberg, Barry. So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1997. Fictional diary account of a fourteen-year- old girl's journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts. Grades 5-8.

Mayerson, Evelyn Wilder. The Cat Who Escaped From Steerage. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Fictional account of hardships encountered crossing the Atlantic in steerage. Grades 3-6.

McCully, Emily. The Bobbin Girl. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1996. Picture book story of a young mill girl in Lowell. Grades 2-5.

Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie. New York: Lodestar, 1990. Entertaining and accurate historical novel for Grades 6-8. In our experience, the most widely read novel about Lowell's mills.

Ross, Pat. Hannah's Fancy Notions. New York: Puffin Books, 1992. Introduces young readers to the concept that history is made up of the lives of real people like themselves. Grades 2-6.