* Jr. High reading level
** Senior High reading level
*** Popular treatment
+ Scholarly, but readable
** Scholarly and difficult
*** Beals, Carleton.
Our Yankee Heritage
. New Haven:
Bradley and Scoville, Inc., 1951.
An enjoyable account of New Haven’s history from
its earliest days through the 1950s.
** Child, Irvin L.
Italian or American
?
The Second Generation in Conflict
. New York: Russell and Russell, 1943.
Shows the evolution of the Italian to the Italian American, a study of changing values.
** Clark, Francis E.
Our Italian Fellow Citizens
. Boston: Small Maynard and Company: 1919.
A sensitive treatment of the Italian and his culture.
+ Connecticut Development Commission.
Population
: A
Demographic Analysis of Connecticut
,
1790=2000
. Hartford, 1962.
Valuable statistical data for many types of research.
++ Dahl, Robert A.
Who Governs
?
Democracy and Power in an American City
. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1965.
Presents excellent background data for a serious study of political and social New Haven.
+ Glazer, Nathan, and Daniel Moynihan.
Beyond the Melting Pot
. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970. Essential for gaining sociological insight
of the Italians and other ethnic groups.
+ Groff, William H.
The Population of Connecticut
:
A Decade of Change
,
1960-1970
. Storrs: Agricultural Experiment Station, 1973.
Useful statistical data of a specific nature.
+ Hadden, Kenneth.
The Population of Connecticut
,
1970
:
Nativity and Racial Composition.
Storrs, Connecticut: University of Connecticut, 1974. Delineates changing nature of state’s population.
+ Koenig, Samuel.
Immigrant Settlements in Connecticut Their Growth and Characteristics
. Hartford, Connecticut: State Department of Education: 1938.
+ Miller, Meredith Sawer. “Residential Planning Areas of New Haven,” Diss. Yale, 1961.
Gives information about all neighborhoods in the city, past and present.
+ Miller, Morty.
New Haven
:
The Italian Community
.
History 90 Essay. Yale University, 1969.
An extremely valuable historical study of the New Haven Italians.
+ Moquin, Wayne, and Charles Van Doren. (eds.)
A Documentary History of the Italian Americans
. New York: Praeger Press, 1974.
A very interesting compilation of many aspects of the Italian experience from early immigration to the present.
+ Osterweis, Rollin.
Three Generations of New Haven
,
1638-1938
. New Haven: Yale University Press,1953.
A thorough reference book for any study of New Haven.
+ Pisani, Lawrence Frank.
The Italians in America: A Social Study and History
. New York: Exposition Press, 1957.
A sociologist relates pertinent information about his ethnic heritage.
+ Rolle, Andrew F.
The Immigrant Upraised
:
Italian Adventures in an Expanding America
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.
Good survey information for any study of the Italian immigrant.
* Smith, Allen R.
Connecticut
:
A Thematic Atlas
. + Berlin, Ct.: Atlas Publishing Company, 1974.
An essential for every social studies classroom; it is filled with useful maps and information.
+ Steahr, Thomas.
1980 Projections of Population by Age and Town for Connecticut
. Storrs: Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, 1975.
. . . .
The Population of Connecticut
. Storrs: Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, 1974.
. . . .
The Population of Connecticut Town and County Fact Book 1974
. Storrs: Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, 1974.
Very useful statistics for comparison and contrast in population change in time and space. Traverso, Edmund.
A Study in American Values
. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1964.
Valuable information about the Americanization process and “old World” values.
Weiburst, Patricia Snyder, Gennaro Capobianco, and Sally Innis Gould.
The Italians
. World Education Project. Storrs: University of Connecticut, Locally done research which provides excellent classroom curriculum material.