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Bridgewater, Massachusetts 1910-1920 (Including Historical Background) Volume I, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2019

Bridgewater, Massachusetts 1910-1920 (Including Historical Background) Volume I, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.


An Analysis Of American Propaganda In World War Ii And The Vietnam War, Connor Foley May 2015

An Analysis Of American Propaganda In World War Ii And The Vietnam War, Connor Foley

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Law And Order In Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1774-1821, With Emphasis On The South Parish/Precinct, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2014

Law And Order In Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1774-1821, With Emphasis On The South Parish/Precinct, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.


Plimoth Plantation: Producing Historical Knowledge Through Performance, Ashley Rose Jan 2013

Plimoth Plantation: Producing Historical Knowledge Through Performance, Ashley Rose

Undergraduate Review

As one of the earliest living history museums, Plimoth Plantation has recently been criticized by museum and performance theorists for maintaining its reliance on first-person role playing. It has been suggested that these practices help codify the history that Plimoth represents to visitors. The Mayflower II, Hobbomock’s Homesite, and the Seventeenth Century English Village are the three distinct museum sites that Plimoth Plantation uses to help present an important period of European colonization in American history to their visitors. Each of these three sites uses interpretive methods differently to reflect their individual goals. First-person interpretation works to bring history alive …


Law And Order In Colonial Bridgewater, Massachusetts With Special Emphasis On Its South Parish/Precinct, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2012

Law And Order In Colonial Bridgewater, Massachusetts With Special Emphasis On Its South Parish/Precinct, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.


How To Catch A Fish: The Weir Fishermen’S Control Of The Sardine Herring, 1876-1903, Brian Payne Dec 2011

How To Catch A Fish: The Weir Fishermen’S Control Of The Sardine Herring, 1876-1903, Brian Payne

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


Timothy Dwight Encounters The Indians: Greenfield Hill And Travels Through New York And New England, Ann Brunjes Jun 2010

Timothy Dwight Encounters The Indians: Greenfield Hill And Travels Through New York And New England, Ann Brunjes

Bridgewater Review

Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Americans, much like twenty-first-century Americans, had a hard time imagining how a heterogeneous, mobile and growing population could be brought under one ideological and governmental roof. And for many prominent Americans in the early days of the nation, the lingering issue of the “Indian problem” posed its own peculiar challenges. Timothy Dwight (1752–1817), author, President of Yale College, and minister of the town of Greenfield, Connecticut. Dwight voiced his concerns through a variety of genres, including the pastoral-epic poem, Greenfield Hill (1794), and Travels in New England and New York (1822).


Fire Service In Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1844-1910, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2010

Fire Service In Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1844-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.


A History Of The Parker-Gates House And Its First Four Residents To 1925, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2010

A History Of The Parker-Gates House And Its First Four Residents To 1925, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.


Transportation In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2009

Transportation In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.


Manufacturing In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2008

Manufacturing In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.


Churches In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2008

Churches In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.


Stores And Services In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2008

Stores And Services In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.


Education In Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence Jan 2008

Education In Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.