Rivendell Trails History Background Readings and Websites

General Overviews

Albers, Jan, Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape (2002).

Jager, Ronald and Grace. New Hampshire: An Illustrated History of the Granite State (1983).

Ober, Richard, ed. At What Cost? Shaping the Land We Call New Hampshire: A Land Use History (1992).

Wessels, Tom Reading the Forested Landscape (1997).

Landscape History of Central New England: The Harvard Forest Dioramas

Orford History Timeline  

Beginnings to 1607

Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983).

Children’s Books:

Bruchac, Joseph, The Faithful Hunter (1981). Abenaki stories, grades 3-7

Web Sites:

Native Americans of New Hampshire

1607-1763

Historical Context:

Daniell, Jere, “English Settlement in the Connecticut River Valley, 1691-1791,”

Children’s Books:

Applebaum, Diana, Giants in the Land (2000). The King’s pine trees, grades 3-7.

Bruchac, Marge, Malian’s Song (2005). The story of Rogers’ Raid (1759) from the Abenaki oral tradition, grades 2-7.

1763-1815

Historical Context:

Daniell, Jere, Experiment in Republicanism: New Hampshire Politics and the American Revolution, 1741-1794 (1970).

Chase, Frederick, A History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover, New Hampshire (1891-1913).

Children’s Books

Buckey, Sarah Masters, Enemy in the Fort (2002).

Dalgliesh, Alice, The Courage of Sarah Noble (1954).

Websites:

Slide Shows from New Hampshire Historical Society

The French, The Indians, and the English: Trouble in Colonial New Hampshire
New Hampshire and the Revolutionary War
Settling New Hampshire Towns

1801-1860

Historical Context:

Connolly, Michael J., Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England (2003).

Garvin, Donna-Belle and James, On the Road North of Boston: New Hampshire Taverns and Turnpikes, 1700-1900 (1998).

Wilson, Harold Fisher, The Hill Country of Northern New England: It’s Social and Economic History, 1790-1930 (1936; reprint 1967).

Children’s Books:

Blos, Joan. A GATHERING OF DAYS: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832.  (1982). 

Websites:

From Trails to Rails: Transportation in New Hampshire

1865-1920

Brown, Dona, “That Dream of Home: Northern New England and the Farm Vacation Industry, 1890-1900,” in Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century (1995).

Hareven, Tamara, Amoskeag, Family and Work in an American Factory-City (1978). Social history of the mills in Manchester.

Renda, Lex. Running on the Record: Civil War Era Politics in New Hampshire (1997).

Wright, James. The Progressive Yankees: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire, 1906–1916 (1987).

Children’s Books:

Hall, Donald, Lucy’s Christmas (1994).

Winthrop, Elizabeth, Counting on Grace (1997).

1914-1945

Historical Context:

Clifford, Nicholas and Deborah, The Troubled Roar of the Waters: Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927-1931 (2008).

Geiger, Lawrence, New Hampshire Agriculture in the Depression (1966).

1945-present

Ober, Richard, ed., At What Cost? Shaping the Land We Call New Hampshire: A Land Use History (1992).

Children’s Books:

Hall, Donald, Old Home Day (1996).

Yolen, Jane, Letting Swift River Go (1995).