Get help with LibGuides
General orientation to creating Libguides, excellent guides on specfic topics.
Peer tutor LibGuides expert Erin Brozek is available to help LSS240 students on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1 to 3 in Young Library, Room 204.
"The Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) allows you to search the Massachusetts Historical Commission database for information on historic properties and areas in the Commonwealth.
Users of the database should keep in mind that it does not include information on all historic properties and areas in Massachusetts, nor does it reflect all the information on file on historic properties and areas at the Massachusetts Historical Commission."
Browse through the listings for books and media on local and regional history and current conditions using the city or town name as the subject begins with term
and subject subheadings such as:
Buildings, structures, etc.
Church history
Climate
Commerce | Economic conditions
Description and travel | Guidebooks
Directories
Emmigration and immigration | Ethnic relations
History -- Chronology | Sources
History -- Photographs | Pictorial works
Maps | Aerial views
Politics and government
Population | Census | Biography
Rural conditions
Social conditions | Social life and customs
Statistics