Bibliographies, timelines and chronologies, as well as other
lists pertinent to various museum and outreach lessons are located here.
Documents are in PDF format unless otherwise specified. They require Adobe®
Acrobat® or the free utility Adobe® Reader®.
New Hampshire History: A Quick
Reference Chart to Topics of Study (slides)
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about viewing slide shows.]
Are you trying to find a research topic for the study of New Hampshire history? This interactive slide show lets
you browse through eight suggested general areas of study and ten eras in New Hampshire history. Matching a selected
focus with a particular era brings up pertinent study topics. The show also lists (by era) people who have been
important in the state's history.
While the chart is available on paper in each of the books of the curriculum, an advantage of this version is that
wherever possible, study topics link to pertinent documents and lesson plans available on-line at the Historical
Society's Web site. A single-page
version of the Quick Reference Chart is also available
from this site. [<1 MB]
Industry in New Hampshire:
A Timeline
This chronology will serve well in any study of the history of industry in the state. It is designed to accompany
the museum programs New Hampshire Hands at Work and Industry in New Hampshire.
Overview of New Hampshire History
Taken from the New Hampshire History Curriculum, this document divides the state's history into ten eras
and provides a brief highlight of the events of each era followed by one-page elaborations on those highlights.
Timeline of New Hampshire Education
This document chronicles the history of education in New Hampshire from the first provincial laws in 1642 through
attempts in 1999 to define "adequate education" and find the means to fund such an education equitably
throughout the state. R. Stuart Wallace of the N.H. Technical Institute and Douglas Hall, co-director of the N.H.
Center for Public Policy Studies, compiled the chronology.
New Hampshire's Population, 1767-2002
(Excel®)
How did the population of a town rise and fall over the past 200 years? How do growth patterns differ from one
town to another? This file contains a table of town populations and a graph that allows a user to compare growth
patterns of up to three towns at a time.
A companion document, New
Hampshire Census Exercise, will help students discover
the power of the population tables as they chart historical changes in the rankings of the state's most populous
towns.
Note: the file requires the Microsoft®
Excel® application. It is preferable to save the file to your hard drive and open it from your Excel®
application.
In this way, you can adjust screen size, if necessary, so that the entire graph is visible at once.
New Hampshire Land Areas (Excel®)
What is the largest town in the state—not in population, but in area? How much of a community's area is water?
This file contains a table of the areas of towns and places in the state and a graph that allows a user to compare
land and water areas of up to three towns at a time.
Note: the file requires the Microsoft®
Excel® application. It is preferable to save the file to your hard drive and open it from your Excel® application.
In this way, you can adjust screen size, if necessary, so that the entire graph is visible at once.
The Life of Franklin Pierce
and the Struggle to Define Democracy in America: Suggested Readings
The listed readings will be of interest to those studying issues that faced America in the first half of the 19th
century as well as to those wishing to learn more about Pierce himself. The bibliography was compiled to complement
the Society’s exhibition, Franklin Pierce:
Defining Democracy in America, which marked the bicentennial of Franklin Pierce’s birth.
Transportation in New
Hampshire: Reading List
This list of suggested readings for a guided museum program focusing on transportation includes separate sections
for students and teachers.
Growing Up in New
Hampshire: Reading List
This list of suggested readings for this museum outreach program includes separate sections for teachers and for
students.
Industry in New Hampshire:
Reading List
The list supports the outreach program New Hampshire Hands at Work as well as the guided museum program
Industry in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Women and
the Arts & Crafts Movement: Reading List
This list of readings is for teachers wishing to read about
the arts and crafts movement in New Hampshire and about the women prominent in the revival.
On the Abenaki Trail:
Reading List
This list of books about New Hampshire's Woodland Indians is annotated.
New Hampshire History:
Reading List
This bibliography was compiled in 2009 for the New Hampshire Historical Society by Dr. R. Stuart Wallace of the
N.H. Technical Institute. While not meant to be comprehensive, the document lists publications on a broad range
of subjects and categorizes the list by subject heading. Among the fifteen categories are "Revolution,"
"Shipping and Commerce," "Manufacturing, Industry and Urban Development," "New Hampshire
People," and "Agriculture."
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