"Boston common" / written by David Kohan & Max Mutchnik.

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Boston Common pilot.

As I was crossing Boston Common / by Norma Farber ; pictures by Arnold Lobel. by Farber, Norma

Bobby Seale speaking at Black Panthers rally on Boston Common / produced by WGBH Boston.

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An exploration in sound / by Barron Krenzel Wernick. by Wernick, Barron Krenzel

“…Boston Common (Boston, Mass.) sh 91001901…”

Invented cities : the creation of landscape in nineteenth-century New York & Boston / Mona Domosh. by Domosh, Mona, 1957-

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American places : encounters with history : a celebration of Sheldon Meyer / edited by William E. Leuchtenburg.

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Eden on the Charles : the making of Boston / Michael Rawson. by Rawson, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: To build a city -- Enclosing the Common -- Constructing water -- Inventing the suburbs -- Making the harbor -- Recreating the wilderness -- Epilogue: The city complete -- Note on Boston Common petitions.…”

Eden on the Charles : the making of Boston / Michael Rawson. by Rawson, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: To build a city -- Enclosing the Common -- Constructing water -- Inventing the suburbs -- Making the harbor -- Recreating the wilderness -- Epilogue: The city complete -- Note on Boston Common petitions.…”
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American civil religion : what Americans hold sacred / Peter Gardella. by Gardella, Peter, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- America: the name, the concept, and the word -- Jamestown and its anniversaries -- The Mayflower Compact -- Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrims, and the Indians -- City on a hill: from Jesus to Winthrop, Kennedy, and Reagan -- The Freedom Trail and Boston Common -- The Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and the slave quarters -- The flag -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Great Seal and the dollar bill -- The Constitution -- Washington, D.C.: the city, the Capitol, and the White House -- The Star-Spangled Banner -- The Washington Monument -- The Battle Hymn of the Republic -- Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address -- Lincoln's second inaugural address -- Arlington National Cemetery -- The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island -- America the Beautiful -- The Lincoln Memorial -- Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills -- God Bless America -- This Land is Your Land -- The four freedoms -- Iwo Jima: the picture, the monuments, and the battle -- Disney parks -- The Kennedy inaugural --Kings' speeches: the Mall (1963) and Memphis (1968) -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Transforming the National Mall -- Ground zero, martyrdom, and empire -- Conflict, consensus, and the future.…”
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Boston firsts : 40 feats of innovation and invention that happened first in Boston and helped make America great / Lynda Morgenroth. by Morgenroth, Lynda

Table of Contents: “…Baker's Chocolate, 1765 -- Ready made suit, 1826 -- Banana shipment, 1871 -- Gillette Safety Razor, 1903 -- Filene's Automatic Bargain Basement, 1909 -- Molasses flood, 1919 -- Newspaper, 1690 -- Novel, 1789 -- Thomas Alva Edison and the legislative voting machine, 1868 -- Telephone, 1876 -- TV for the deaf, 1972, and the blind, 1990 -- Science and engineering -- Smallpox inoculation, 1712 -- Ether, 1846 -- Subway, 1897 -- Kidney transplant, 1954 -- Lighthouse, 1716 -- Tontine Crescent, 1794 -- USS Constitution, 1797 -- Boston Public Library, 1854, 1858, 1895 -- Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, 1903 -- Madam Alice, 1672 -- Hotel, 1829 -- YMCA, 1851 -- World Series, 1903 -- First night, 1976 -- Ice, 1806 -- Boston cream pie, 1856 -- Boston terrier, 1860s1870s -- Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School cookbook, 1896 -- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, 1988 -- Christmas ban, 1659 -- Massachusetts State Constitution, 1780 -- Gerrymander, 1812 -- School integration : Roberts v. the City of Boston, 1849 -- Massachusetts 54th Regiment, 1863 -- Same-sex marriage, 2003 -- Boston Common, 1634 -- The Public Garden, 1856 -- Metasequoia glyptostroboides, dawn redwood, 1948 -- Boston harbor cleanup : the longest, largest effluent outfall tunnel in the world, 1990-2000.…”
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Floaters / by Joseph A. Conforti. by Conforti, Joseph A.

New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry / by Samuel Adams Drake. by Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905

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The paradise of all these parts : a natural history of Boston / John Hanson Mitchell. by Mitchell, John Hanson

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The American Revolution : a historical guidebook / Frances H. Kennedy, editor.

Table of Contents: “…The coming of the American Revolution -- Places of the American Revolution -- 1. Boston Common, Massachusetts -- 2. Faneuil Hall, Massachusetts -- 3. …”
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