Further Research

General Childhood Experiences in Colonial America:

Axtell, James. The School upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England. New York: Norton, 1976.

Beales, Ross W. “In Search of the Historical Child: Miniature Adulthood and Youth in Colonial New England.” American Quarterly 27, no. 4 (1975): 379–98. Link. 

Earle, Alice Morse. Child Life in Colonial Days. New York; London: The Macmillan Company; Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1899.

Foley, Daniel J. Toys through the Ages: Dan Foley’s Story of Playthings Filled with History, Folklore, Romance & Nostalgia, 1962.

Illick, Joseph E. “Childhood in Three Cultures in Early America.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 64 (1997): 308–23. Link. 

Loeper, John J. Going to School in 1776, 1984.

Monaghan, E. Jennifer. “Family Literacy in Early 18th-Century Boston: Cotton Mather and His Children.” Reading Research Quarterly 26, no. 4 (1991): 342–70. Link. 

Religion in Newport:

Brekus, Catherine A. Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America. Yale University Press, 2017.

Hattendorf, John B. Semper Eadem. Newport: Trinity Church, 2018.

Jeter, Henry N. Historical Sketch of the Shiloh Baptist Church at Newport, R.I., and the Pastors Who Have Served. Newport: B. W. Pearce, 1891.

Mason, George Champlin. Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island: 1698-1821. Philadelphia: Evans Printing House, 1890.

Newport Schools:

Carroll, Charles. Public Education in Rhode Island. Providence: E. L. Freeman Company Printers, 1918.

Channing, George Gibbs. Early Recollections of Newport, R.I., 1868.

Field, Edward. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the End of the Century, 1902.

Stockwell, Thomas B. A History of Public Education in Rhode Island, from 1636 to 1876, 1876.

Taverner, Gilbert Y. (1988) "A Portfolio of Newport Education: 1640-1840," Newport History: Journal of the Newport Historical Society: Vol. 61: Iss. 211, Article 3. Link. 

Tolman, William Howe. History of Higher Education in Rhode Island. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894.

Black History in Newport and Rhode Island:

Benard, Akeia A.F, "The Free African American Cultural Landscape: Newport, RI, 1774--1826" (2008). Doctoral Dissertations. AAI3308227. Link.

Brennan, Linda Crotta. The Black Regiment of the American Revolution. Bedford, N.H.: Apprentice Book Shops, 2004. 

Cranston, G. Timothy, and Neil Dunay. We Were Here Too: Selected Stories of Black History in North Kingstown. Rhode Island: G. Timothy Cranston & Neil Dunay, 2014. 

Hardesty, Jared. Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England. Amherst: Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. 

Harris, Robert L. “Early Black Benevolent Societies, 1780-1830.” The Massachusetts Review 20, no. 3 (1979): 603–25. 

Robinson, William Henry. The Proceedings of the Free African Union Society and the African Benevolent Society, Newport, Rhode Island, 1780-1824. Providence: The Urban League of Rhode Island, 1976.

Youngken, Richard C., Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, and Newport Historical Society. African Americans in Newport : An Introduction to the Heritage of African Americans in Newport, Rhode Island, 1700-1945. Providence, R.I.: Newport Historical Society, 1995. 

Indigenous History in New England:

Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 

Den Ouden, Amy E. Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 

Howe, Jessica. "A War From Within: An Analysis Of The Factors That Caused The Collapse Of The Iroquois Confederacy," History in the Making: Vol. 13, Article 7 (2020). Link.

Hrynick, M. Gabriel, and Matthew W. Betts. “Late Maritime Woodland Period Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Complexity in the Far Northeast: Toward an Historical and Contingent Approach.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 71 (August 3, 2023). Link. 

Reardon, Erik. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England’s Rural Economy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. 

Silverman, David J. “The Impact of Indentured Servitude on the Society and Culture of Southern New England Indians, 1680-1810.” The New England Quarterly 74, no. 4 (2001): 622–66. Link. 

Silverman, David J. This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. 

Note: This is a working list. We encourage you to engage in your own research, both primary and secondary, to find articles, books, or library resources that better suit your individual research.