Van Gorden-Williams Library & Archives: Some recent book acquisitions

Listed below are some recent acquisitions - many newly published - on the subject of Freemasonry, fraternalism, and American history acquired since May 2010 by the National Heritage Museum's Van Gorden-Williams Library and Archives. You can find all of these titles (and more) by searching the library's online catalog.

The list below is not comprehensive, but seeks to highlight some interesting, recent library acquisitions which were acquired and cataloged during the second half of 2010.

If you enjoy the list below, you may want to take a look at an earlier, related post - Some Recent Library Acquisitions on Freemasonry and Fraternalism.

 

Some Recently Cataloged Library Acquisitions: June-December, 2010

Baldwin, Christopher Columbus, Jack Larkin, Caroline Sloat, and Christopher Columbus Baldwin. A Place in My Chronicle: A New Edition of the Diary of Christopher Columbus Baldwin, 1829-1835. Worcester, Mass: American Antiquarian Society, 2010.

Bristol, Douglas Walter. Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Brown, Dan. The Lost Symbol [special illustrated edition]. New York: Doubleday, 2010.

Burke, Janet, and Margaret Jacob. Les premières franc-maçonnes au siècle des lumières. Pessac: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2010.

Carr, J. Revell. Seeds of Discontent: The Deep Roots of the American Revolution, 1650-1750. New York: Walker & Co, 2008.

Cross, Máire Fedelma. Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300-2000. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Curran, Brian A. Obelisk: A History. Cambridge, Mass: Burndy Library, 2009.

Détis, Elisabeth, and William Hogarth. "Guess at the Rest": Cracking the Hogarth Code. Cambridge, [Eng.]: Lutterworth Press, 2010.

Druesedow, Jean L. Men's Fashion Illustrations from the Turn of the Century. Dover pictorial archive series. New York: Dover, 1990.

Einhorn, Robin L. American Taxation, American Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Falino, Jeannine J., and Gerald W. R. Ward. New England Silver & Silversmithing: 1620-1815. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. 70. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2001.

Gravell, Thomas L., George Miller, Elizabeth A. Walsh, Keith Arbour, and Thomas L. Gravell. American Watermarks 1690-1835. New Castle, Del: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.

Gross, Robert A., and Mary Kelley. An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840. Chapel Hill: Published in Association with the American Antiquarian Society by The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Groth, Gary, Charles Schneider, David Copperfield, and William D. Moore. Catalog No. 439: Burlesque Paraphernalia and Side Degree Specialties and Costumes. Seattle, Wash: Fantagraphics, 2010.

Hamilton, John D., Joseph Marino, and James Kaplan. The American Fraternal Sword: A Reference Guide Illustrated by the Joseph Marino & James Kaplan Fraternal Sword Collections. Woonsocket, R.I.: Andrew Mowbray Pub, 2008.

Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen. The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Huber, Louis J. "Easy Initiations": A Collection of Practical Initiation Stunts for the Club, Lodge, and Fraternity. Minneapolis, Minn: The Northwestern Press, 1937.

Hunt, Lynn, Margaret C. Jacob, and W. W. Mijnhardt. The Book That Changed Europe: Picart & Bernard's Religious Ceremonies of the World. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

Jones, John Bush. The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945. Waltham, Mass: Brandeis University Press, 2006.

Kidd, Karen. Haunted Chambers: The Lives of Early Women Freemasons. New Orleans, LA: Cornerstone Book Publishers, 2009.

Lause, Mark A. Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.

Lomas, Robert. The Secret Science of Masonic Initiation. San Francisco: Weiser Books, 2010.

Lord, Evelyn. The Hell-Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2008.

Lovell, Margaretta M. Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America. Early American studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Mack, Stanley, and Susan Champlin. Road to Revolution! New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.

McRainey, D. Lynn, and John Russick. Connecting Kids to History with Museum Exhibitions. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2010.

Miller, Marla R. Betsy Ross and the Making of America. New York: Henry Holt, 2010.

Riley, Mara, and Cathy Johnson. Whatever Shall I Wear?: A Guide to Assembling a Woman's Basic 18th Century Wardrobe. Excelsior Springs, MO: Graphics/Fine Arts Press, 2002.

Schimmelman, Janice Gayle. Books on Art in Early America: Books on Art, Aesthetics and Instruction Available in American Libraries and Bookstores Through 1815. New Castle, Del: Oak Knoll Press, 2007.

Stitt, J. Michael, and Robert K. Dodge. A Tale Type and Motif Index of Early U.S. Almanacs. Bibliographies and indexes in American literature, no. 14. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Taylor, Maureen Alice. The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press], 2010.

Teitelman, S. Robert, P. A. Halfpenny, Ronald W. Fuchs, Wendell D. Garrett, and Robin Emmerson. Success to America: Creamware for the American Market : Featuring the S. Robert Teitelman Collection at Winterthur. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club, 2010.

Volo, James M. Blue Water Patriots: The American Revolution Afloat. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

Witt, John Fabian. The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Wood, Denis, John Fels, and John Krygier. Rethinking the Power of Maps. New York: Guilford Press, 2010.

Wright, Merideth, and Merideth Wright. Everyday Dress of Rural America, 1783-1800: With Instructions and Patterns. Dover books on costume. New York: Dover Publications, 1992.