Bartlett, Ellen Strong,
Historical Sketches of New Haven.
New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. 1897. This venerable book, available in the Mitchell Library, has excellent pictures and gives specially good background on Center Church Crypt and Grove Street Cemetery.
Demos, John.
Past
,
Present and Personal:
The Family and the Lif
e
Course in American Histor
y. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. From cradle to grave, from Founders to present day, this book describes the changes in attitude and social policy toward family members. Helpful!
Friswell, Richard.
Faces in Stone: the Early American Gravestone as Primitive Art
. Belmont, Mass. Richard J. Friswell, pub. 1973. Written by a psychologist, this pamphlet deals with the history, development and symbology of gravestones. Lists and explains many symbols
Gillon, Edmund Vincent Jr.
Early New England Gravestone Rubbings.
New York: Dover Publications, 1966. Large collection of early gravestone rubbings with sharp detail and information on how to do the same.
Humphreville, Frances T. and Van Dusen, Albert E.
This is Connecticut
. Syracuse, N.Y., The L. W Singer Co., 1963. This middle grade history its scattered throughout the school system and can be useful for reports. Puts New Haven in place among sister colonies.
Knight, Sarah Kemble,
The Journal of Madam Knight
. Boston, MA., David R. Godine, 1972. This journal chronicles a trip made in 1704 by Mrs. Knight from Boston to New Haven. She gives us a clear idea of the difficulties of travel in Colonial times and in the process is quite funny. She has the knack of humorous characterization of the inn keepers and lesser bumpkins she meets along the way. Could be read to students.
New Haven Colony Historical Society.
The New Haven Scene
. New Haven: published by the Society, 1970. A handsome collection of paintings, maps, watercolors and drawings from pre-industrial New Haven. Reveals the beauty of this small pastoral town long ago, when there was haying in Westville, at the foot of West Rock.
Shepherd, Jane Bushnell.
My Old New Haven, and Other Memories, Briefly told
. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co., 1932. Somewhat rambling but charming reminiscences of New Haven life, from the Civil War up to the ‘20s. Makes you wish for those days back again.
Shumway, Floyd, and Hegel, Richard (Editors).
New Haven
,
An Illustrated History
. Woodland Hills, California: 1981. This book has many color pictures. In a rather disorganized way this collection samples the political, religious, artistic and social history of New Haven. The pictures are abundant and could make good slides, or be used with the opaque projector.
Wilbur, C. Keith.
The New England Indians
. Chester, Ct.: The Globe Pequot Press, 1978. A bright, breezy book with line drawings and illustrations on every page. Nearly everything the Native Americans of our area made or used is here, with a short history of New England tribes from 10,500 years ago up to King Philip’s War in 1678. Marvelous for background information, or for student reports on tools, or figuring out how those artifacts were made.
Woodward, Sarah Day.
Early New Haven
. New Haven, Ct. (publishing information missing from library copy): 1929. For teachers’ background information on New Haven Colony from the early theocracy to Revolutionary times.
