Selected Bibliography of
Northampton History
General Histories
- Holland, Josiah Gilbert. History of Western Massachusetts 2 vols. (Springfield, 1855)
- Trumbull, James R. History of Northampton, Massachusetts, From its Settlement in 1654 2 vols. (Northampton, 1898, 1902)
- Aaron, Daniel; Faulkner, Harold U., et al. The Northampton Book: Chapters from 300 Years in the Life of a New England Town, 1654-1954 (Northampton, 1954)
Photographic Histories
- Van Voris, Jacqueline. The Look of Paradise: A Pictorial History of Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654-1984 (Northampton, 1984)
- Parsons, James M. Images of America: Northampton (Dover, N.H., forthcoming, fall, 1996)
Native American Peoples
- Salisbury, Neal . Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (New York, 1982)
- Simmons, William S. Spirit of New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984 (Hanover, N.H., 1986)
- Wilbur, Keith C. Land of the Nonotucks (Northampton, 1987)
- Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive (1994)
Early Colonial Period
- Benes, Peter, ed. The Bay and the River, 1600-1900 (Boston, 1982)
- Innes, Stephan C., et al. Early Settlement in the Connecticut Valley (Historic Deerfield, 1984)
- Demos, John P. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (New York, 1982)
- Coffman, Ralph J. Solomon Stoddard (Boston, 1978)
- Miller, Perry. Jonathan Edwards (New York, 1949)
- Tracy, Patricia J. Jonathan Edwards, Pastor: Religion and Society in Eighteenth-Century Northampton (New York, 1980)
- Conforti, Joseph. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition and American Culture (Chapel Hill, NC, 1995)
- The Great River: Art & Society of the Connecticut River Valley, 1635-1820 (Hartford, 1985)
Late Colonial and Early National Period
- Brown, E. Francis. Joseph Hawley, Colonial Radical (New York, 1931)
- Nobles, Gregory H. Divisions Throughout the Whole: Politics and Society in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1740-1775 (New York, 1983)
- Clark, Christopher. The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (Ithaca, 1990)
- Szatmary, David. Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection (Amherst, 1980)
- Gross, Robert A. ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Insurrection (Charlottesville, VA, 1991)
Nineteenth Century
- Silverman, Kenneth. Timothy Dwight (New York, 1969)
- Hathaway, Richard D. Sylvester Judd's New England (University Park, PA, 1981)
- Handlin, Lilian. George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat (New York, 1984)
- Nye, Russel B. George Bancroft, Brahmin Rebel (New York, 1944)
- Nissenbaum, Stephen. Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform (Chicago, 1988)
- Doherty, Robert. Society and Power: Five New England Towns, 1800-1860 (Amherst, MA, 1977)
- Clark, Christopher. The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association (Ithaca, NY, 1995)
- Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol (new York, 1996)
- Stetson, Erlene and David, Linda. Glorying in Tribulation: The Lifework of Sojourner Truth (East Lansing, MI, 1994)
- Mabee, Carlton. Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend (New York, 1993)
- Blight, David W., ed. When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (Amherst, MA, 1992)
- Story, Ronald, ed. Five Colleges, Five Histories (Amherst, 1992)
- Horowitz, Helen L. Alma Mater (Amherst, 1993)
- Lincoln, Eleanor T. and Pinto, John A. This is the House We Lived in: The Smith College Campus from 1871 to 1982 (Northampton, 1983)
- Numbers, Mary E. My Words Fell on Deaf Ears: An Account of the First Hundred Years of the Clarke School for the Deaf (Washington, 1974)
- Butcher, Philip. George Washington Cable: The Northampton Years (New York, 1959)
Twentieth Century
- Horowitz, Helen L. and Peiss, Kathy, eds. Love Across the Color Line: the Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis (Amherst, 1996)
- Bush, Gregory W. Lord of Attention: Gerald Stanley Lee and the Crowd Metaphor in Industrializing America (Amherst, 1991)
- Fuess, Claude M. Calvin Coolidge, the Man from Vermont (New York, 1939)
- Lockwood, Allison. A President in a Two-Family House (Northampton, 1983)
- White, William A. A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge (New York, 1938)
- McCoy, Donald R. Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President (New York, 1967)
- Ross, Ishbul. Grace Coolidge and Her Era (New York, 1962)
- Lockwood, Allison. Touched with Fire: An American Community in World War II (Northampton, 1993)
- Delevinge, Lionel. Northampton: Reflections on Paradise (Northampton, 1988)
Architecture
- MacDonald, William L. Northampton, Massachusetts: Architecture & Buildings (Northampton, 1975)
Anthologies
- O'Connell, James C., ed. The Pioneer Valley Reader: Prose and Poetry from New England's Heartland (Stockbridge, 1995)
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