Boston's Histories : Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor / / edited by James M. O'Toole and David Quigley ; [new foreword by Julie de Chantal].
In a distinguished teaching and writing career that spans half a century, Thomas H. O'Connor has explored in-depth the richly layered history of his native Boston, bringing the city's diverse and fascinating heritage to a wide audience of historians and general readers alike. Now his signi...
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 284 pages) |
| Notes: | Reprint of 2004 edition with new foreword. |
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Table of Contents:
- O'Connor's Boston / Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
- "A long train of hideous consequences" : Boston, capital punishment, and the transformation of Republicanism, 1780-1805 / Alan Rogers
- Power and social responsibility : entrepreneurs and the Black community in Antebellum Boston / Lois E. Horton and James Oliver Horton
- The secret world of radical publishers : the case of Thayer and Eldridge of Boston / Albert J. von Frank
- "Lawless and unprincipled" : women in Boston's Civil War draft riot / Judith Ann Giesberg
- Portrait of a parish : race, ethnicity, and class in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1865-1880 / James M. O'Toole
- Charles Sumner and the political cultures of reconstruction in Massachusetts / David Quigley
- The Irish question and Boston politics / Lawrence W. Kennedy
- Contested bodies and souls : immigrant converts in Boston, 1890-1940 / Kristen A. Petersen
- "A strong argument for juries" : the saga of Willett v. Herrick / Mark I. Gelfand
- The politics of sex and race in Boston's NAACP, 1920-1940 / Sarah Deutsch
- The last hurrah and the pluralist vision of American politics / James J. Connolly
- The failure of Catholic interracialism in Boston before busing / William Leonard
- The Catholic Church and the desegregation of Boston's public schools / James E. Glinski.