Atwater, Edward E., ed.,
History of the City of New Haven to the Present Time
, New York: W.W. Munsell & Co., 1887.
Detailed history of the city of New Haven includes biographies of members of the community who have made significant contributions.
Black, Mary and Jean Lipman,
American Folk Paintinq
, Bramhall House, New York, 1987.
Illustrated survey of American folk painting and painters.
Bolton, Ethel Stanwood and Eva Johnston Coe,
American Samplers
, Boston;, MA, Soc. of the Colonial Dames, 1921; reprint edition by Dover, 1973.
A comprehensive catalog of samplers with many illustrations.
Brant, Sandra, and Elissa Cullman,
Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America
. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980.
An essential text for this unit with many illustrations and reproductions.
Calvert, Karin, “Children in American Family Portraiture, 1670-1810”, William and Mary Quarterly.
An article that surveys important changes in the family as they are reflected in portraiture.
Casas, Fray Bartolome de las, abstracted
The Diario of Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage to America 1492-1493
, transcribed and translated into English by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman and London, 1989.
Chambers, W.E.R., and John Murray,
Shape and Size
, Great Britian, Newgate Press Ltd., 1967.
Ideas for projects in mathematics that help students understand visual relationships.
Demos, John,
Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History
, New York, Oxford University Press, 1986.
Recommended reading before beginning to teach this unit.
Earle, Alice Morse,
Child Life in Colonial Days
, New York: the Macmillan Co., 1899.
A background text for understanding specifics of a child’s life in colonial times. It is available in the New Haven Public Library.
Garrett, Elizabeth Donaghy,
At Home: The American Family 1750-1870
, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1990.
Gottlieb, Gerald and J.H. Plumb,
Early Children’s Books and Their Illustration
, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York and David R. Godine, Boston, 1975.
Development of children’s books both in an introductory essay and pictorially.
Greenleaf, Barbara Kaye,
Children Through the Aqes, A History of Childhood
, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978.
A brief survey of childhood, with an emphasis in the last part on childhood in America.
Huish, Marcus Bourne,
Samplers & Tapestry Embroideries
, 2nd ed. New York, Dover Publication 1970.
Illustrations of the range of samplers.
Krueger, Glee,
New England Samplers to 1840
, Sturbridge, Ma, Old Sturbridge Village, 1978.
A good introduction to samplers, with many clear illustrations.
Larcom, Lucy,
A New England Girlhood: Outline from Memory
, Gloucester, Mass. Peter Smith, 1973.
Personal reminiscences about being a child at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Lipman, Jean, and Tom Armstrong, editors,
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
, Arch Cape Press, New York in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980.
Organized biographically, with many illustrations.
Lovell, Margaretta M., “Reading Eighteenth-Century American Family Portraits, Social Images and Self-Images”, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1987.
Miller, Perry, ed.,
The American Puritans, Their Prose and Poetry
, Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co., Inc. New York, 1956.
Collection of writing of the more well-known Puritan writers.
T
he New England Primer: A B C
, New York, The Triptych, 1930. The pictured and rhymed alphabet is reprinted from
The Father’s Gift, or The Way to be Wise and Happy
, issued in 1793 by J. & M. Robertson in Galsgow.
A reproduction of an early popular primer, it has engaging woodcuts with rhyming couplets.
Osterweis, Rollin G.,
Three Centuries of New Haven, 1638-1938
, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953.
A good reference text for this unit.
Prown, Jules David, “Mind in Matter, an Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method”,
The Winterthur Portfolio
, Vol 17, # 1 (Spring 1982), 1-19.
An elegantly written article that is an essential introduction to formal object analysis.
Prown, Jules David, “Style as Evidence”,
The Winterthur Portfolio
, Vol. 15, # 3, (Autumn 1980), 197-210.
Russell, Bertrand,
A History of Western Philosophy, Simon and Schuster,
New York, 1963.
For non-philosophers, more explanation of the ideas of Locke and Rousseau in context.
Shumway, Floyd, and Richard Hegel, edited by,
New Haven An Illustrated History
, Windsor Publications, 1981.
Abundant and interesting illustrations accompany separate chapters on different aspects of New Haven’s history. One chapter includes details of the architectural transformation of Center Church. Available in the New Haven Public Library.
Swan, Susan Burrows,
Plain and Fancy: American Women and their Needlework, 1700-1850
, Rutledge Books, 1977.
Informative background for understanding the role of sewing in the lives of American women.
Winslow, Anna
Green,
Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston schoolgirl of 1771
, ed. by Alice Morse Earle, third edition, Cambridge, 1895.
Excerpts from this diary are in the resource packet, and can be used for class discussion or written assignments.
Student Bibliography
Blos, Joan W.,
A Gathering of Days, A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32.
an Aladdin Book, Atheneum, 1982.
A well-written, fictional account of a fourteen-year old.
Cobblestone
, the history magazine for young people, Peterborough, NH, “Old-time schools in America”, Nov. 1981, “Old Sturbridge Village: A Living History”, February, 1982.
Articles, stories, poetry and games appropriate for fourth graders.
Glubok, Shirley,
The Art of Colonial America
, New York, The Macmillan Company Press, 1970.
Glubok, Shirley,
The Art of the New American Nation
, New York, Macmillan Company, 1972.
Possible resource books for student reports. They are available at the New Haven Public Library.