San Antonio College Library

"DK Eyewitness Top 10 Boston Travel Guide" will lead you straight to the best attractions this fascinating city has to offer. Whether you're looking for the best restaurants and bars, a hotel to suit your budget, or want to find the best nightspots in Boston; this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 features of the Freedom Trail to the Top 10 restaurants and Top 10 places for children; there's...

Tells the stories of six women and how needlework shaped their lives in the colonies' most important port city.

"Although the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is well known for its superb and extensive holdings of Chinese ceramics, many of the outstanding pieces in the collection have received little or no attention in print. This book remedies that omission. Designed for the general reader, it offers a selection of 79 ceramic objects beautifully photographed in full color, with individual entries focusing on the aesthetic experience they evoke and the cultural...

"Impassioned antislavery activists, writers, and orators made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. For its Black workers, however, Boston was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an Honest Living, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones offers a searing portrait of Black labor and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston. The city, she reveals, was the United States writ small: A place where...

"A girl from the wrong side of the tracks tries to enter Beacon Hill society." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation