Deerfield Books

This walking tour discusses places and events surrounding the permanent settlers of the English village of Deerfield between 1690 and 1730.  During the tour you can:  learn to “read” the historic landscape by examining sites from early Deerfield; learn about the daily lives of the English settlers in Deerfield during the years 1690-1730; and develop a sense of what the village looked like in the years around the 1704 raid.  Includes a map with 7 stops.

A new look at the raid on Deerfield considering its successes, its cultural significance, and its relationship to place and time.  62 pp.  illus.

This volume draws together an unusually rich body of original sources that tell the story of the 1704 French and Indian attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, from different vantage points. Texts range from one of the most famous early American captivity narratives, John Williams’s The Redeemed Captive, to the records of French soldiers and clerics, to little-known Abenaki and Mohawk stories of the raid that emerged out of their communities’ oral traditions. Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney provide a general introduction, extensive annotations, and headnotes to each text.

Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, an illustrated and annotated checklist of 220 doorways.

This collection catalogue introduces a wide range of topics pertaining to tin-glazed ceramics or delftware. Chapters organized by function rather than chronology or decoration, review the variety of delftware forms in the museum’s collection, that range from posset pots to punch bowls. The book’s introductory chapters explore the background of collecting delftware at Historic Deerfield, the history of delftware manufacturing, and its sale and consumption in the Connecticut River Valley.

An up to date history of Deerfield homelots integrating new interpretations of architectural evidence and insights into family history.

Describes the idealism, philosophy and leadership of this famous American educator.

This issue of Historic Deerfield celebrates our 27-year relationship with the UMass Summer Field School in Archaeology.  It features a sampling of what has been learned and underscores the role of documentation in securing authenticity.  Includes articles by Robert Paynter, Elizabeth Harlow, Quentin Lewis, Elizabeth S. Chilton, Siobhan M. Hart, Angela M. Labrador, Kimberly Kasper, David Bosse, and Claire C. Carlson.  32 pages.

A brief biography of a Deerfield native and America’s first African American poet.