Week 5 Readings

For Tuesday, 8/7
Muller, Nancy Ladd
2001 W.E.B. Du Bois and the House of the Black Burghardts: Land, Family and African Americans in New England. Amherst, Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts.
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For Thursday 8/9
Thornton, Tamara
2007 A Great Machine’’ or a Beast of Prey’’: A Boston Corporation and Its Rural Debtors in an Age of Capitalist Transformation. Journal of the Early Republic 27(4). December 4:567–567–597.
Thornton 2007

Site Visits for 8/3/2012

The field crew will be working on campus at UMass today due to an air quality advisory for the Great Barrington area. There is a fire burning at a transformer recycling plant approximately 20 miles from the site. The town is recommending that people remain indoors, with their air conditioning turned off.
If you were planning to come visit us today, we apologize. We will hopefully be back at the site tomorrow, and barring any further weather (or other) incidents, all of next week.

Homesite Permit 2012

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Here is the reading for discussion during lunch on Monday, July 23.