Beals, Carleton.
Our Yankee Heritage
. New Haven: Bradley Scoville, 1951.
A very readable history of New Haven from its beginnings to the 1950s, told in story form through the eyes of the Parmalee family.
Chandler, Alfred.
The Railroads
. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1965. pp.36-40.
Fogel, Robert.
Railroads and Economic Growth
. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1964. pp.207-208.
Goodrich, Carter. Great
Promotion
of
American Canals
and
Railroads
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. pp 126-127.
Hegel, Richard.
Carriages from New Haven
. Hamden: Archon Books, 1974.
A readable account of the carriage industry of New Haven. The most authoritative book on the subject—a must for reference.
Locklin, Phillip.
Economics of Transportation
. Chicago: Business Publications, 1935. pp 1-38.
Lynd, Robert S., Merrill, Helen.
Middletown
. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1929. pp 251-263.
A study of a typical mid-western town undergoing changes during the 1920s and the townspeople’s reactions to those changes.
Osterweis, Rollin G.
Three Centuries of New Haven
. 1638-1938. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953.
An ideal reference book to be used while studying the history of New Haven.
Rae, John B..
The Road and Car in American Life
. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971. pp 28-33.
Straight, Stephen. “We had Mass Transit Years Ago.”
The Connecticut Antiquarian
, Vol. 26, No. 2. 1974. p.l5-20.
An excellent magazine to have in the classroom or library.
Warner, Sam Bass.
Streetcar Suburbs
. Cambridge: Harvard and MIT Press, 1962. pp 1-34.
An excellent account of urban history and change.
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Connecticut
. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1938. p. 35-56.