Charlestown

Bibliography for Charlestown Film

 

Books and Articles

Robert J. Allison, A Short History of Boston (Carlisle, MA: Commonwealth Editions, 2004).

Matthew F. Delmont, Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016).

Christine M. DeLucia, Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2018).

Joseph Nevins, Seren Moodliar, and Eleni Mackrakis, A People’s Guide to Greater Boston (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020).

Mark Peterson, The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019).

Sarah J. Purcell, “Commemoration, Public Art, and the Changing Meaning of the Bunker Hill Monument.” The Public Historian vol. 25, no. 2 (2003): 55-71.

Michael Rawson, Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).

Nancy S. Seasholes, Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018).

Nancy S. Seasholes, Walking Tours of Boston’s Made Land (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006).

 

Websites, Newspapers, and Media

Navy Yard

U.S. National Park Service, “Discrimination and African American Women at Charlestown Navy Yard.”

U.S. National Park Service, “From the Great Migration to Boston’s Charlestown Navy Yard.”

Let the Monument Speak

Krzysztof Wodiczko, Bunker Hill.

Hilarie M. Sheets, “A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell,” New York Times, January 23, 2020.

Darryl Williams

Brian McGrory, “Overflowing Compassion,” Boston Globe, March 30, 2012.

Dudley Clendinen, “Boston Housing Project is Peacefully Integrated,” New York Times, March 18, 1984, Section 1, p. 22.

Howard Husock, “From His Cell, White Boston Sniper Spins Complex Tale of Gang Life,” Washington Post, December 7, 1980.

Richard Lapchick, “Darryl Williams Lived a True Hero’s Life,” Espn.com, April 2, 2010.

Dan Shaughnessy, “To the End, a Man Felled by Hatred Rose Above It,” Boston Globe, March 29, 2010.