Worcester Historical Museum Library and Archives

King Philip’s War

• Brooks, Tanya (2018). Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• DeLucia, Christine M. (2018). Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Sears, Clara Endicott (1935). The Great Powwow: The Story of the Nashaway Valley in King Philip’s War: With Illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Shays’s Rebellion

Finding Aids

• John Chandler Papers (1786)

Books

• Farnsworth, Albert (1927). Shays’s Rebellion in Worcester County, Massachusetts. PhD dissertation, Clark University.

Antislavery Movement

• Mooney, James E. (1971). Antislavery in Worcester County, Massachusetts: A Case Study. Dissertation, Clark University.

Women’s Rights Movement

• — (2002). Worcester Women’s History Heritage Trail: Worcester in the Struggle for Equality in the Mid-19th Century. Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Women’s History Project.
• Lawes, Carolyn J. (2015). Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.
• McClymer, John F. (1999). This High and Holy Monument: The First National Woman’s Rights Convention, Worcester, 1850. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace College.
• Moran, Karen Board (2000). Window on the Past: Revisiting the First National Women’s Rights Convention. Sutton, Mass.: Burbank Educators.

Civil Rights Movement

• Abbie Hoffman/Civil Rights/”The Movement” Collection

LGBT Movement

Finding Aids

• Gay and Lesbian Collection
• Koelsch Collection (professor/Gay Liberation Movement)

1953 Tornado

Finding Aids

• Central Massachusetts Disaster Relief Committee Record Books Collection (1953-1956)
• Tornado Disaster Relief Fund
• Worcester Tornado Photograph Collection

Books

• Bisol, John L. (2015). The Worcester Tornado: A New Perspective. Books by Bisol.
• Chittick, William F. (2003). The Worcester Tornado: June 9, 1953. Rhode Island: W. F. Chittick.
• O’Toole, John M. (1993). Tornado!: 84 Minutes, 94 Lives. Worcester, Mass.: Databooks.
• Raker, John W. (1955). Lessons Gained from the Worcester County Tornado. Washington, DC: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
• Wardwell, E. Emory (1953). Worcester’s Greatest Disaster: A Condensed Narrative. Worcester, Mass.: W. E. Wardwell & Co.

Sports & Athletics

• Worcester Wrestling Photograph Collection

Miscellaneous

Finding Aids

• Broadside Collection #1
• Ku Klux Klan in Worcester Collection
• Lynde Brook Flood Article (1876)
• Goddard Commemorative Stamp Collection
• Worcester 150th Anniversary Celebration Record Group (1998)
• Worcester Cold Storage Fire Collection (December 3, 1999)

Books

• Rice, Franklin P. (1884). The Worcester Book: A Diary of Noteworthy Events in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1657 to 1883. Worcester: Putnam, Davis, and Co.