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• OSV Documents - "An Extended Link in the Great Chain of Benevolence" the Shrewsbury
  
• OSV Documents - "My Father's History and Family" from Annals of the Merriam Family
  
• OSV Documents - "Remembering the Sabbath": Worship in New England Meetinghouses
  
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• OSV Documents - "The Violin Haunted Me": Learning to Dance in a Small New England V
  
• OSV Documents - "To Burning a Kiln of Ware" The Way Hervey Brooks Did It
  
• OSV Documents - "To Leave My Parents Mourning Here": The Life and Death of Minerva
  
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• OSV Documents - "Write When You Can Have an Opertunity": The Freeman Family Letters
  
• OSV Documents - 'A Maying' We Will Go
  
• OSV Documents - 'Took a slide on the ice:' Ice skating in New England
  
• OSV Documents - A 19th-Century Prenuptial Agreement, Public Record
  
• OSV Documents - A Brief Essay on Religious Music of New England in the Early 19th C
  
• OSV Documents - A Brief History and Description of Mashpee, Massachusetts
  
• OSV Documents - A Brief Note on Birthdays in 1830s New England
  
• OSV Documents - A Brief Note on Inheritance
  
• OSV Documents - A Brother’s Thoughts on Death and Marriage, Letters
  
• OSV Documents - A Conservative Cluster: the architecture of the Emerson Bixby House
  
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• OSV Documents - A Declaration…of the People of Hartford, Regarding the Measures of
  
• OSV Documents - A Farmer’s Dictionary
  
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• OSV Documents - A Father's Diary: Zadoc Long and His Son John, 1838-1854
  
• OSV Documents - A Glimpse at Family Government, Story
  
• OSV Documents - A Growing Collection
  
• OSV Documents - A History of the John Partridge Allen Farm in Sturbridge, Massachus
  
• OSV Documents - A Minister’s Home, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - A National Army, Replacing the System of Local Militia?: A Nineteen
  
• OSV Documents - A Note on the History of Pencils
  
• OSV Documents - A Private Debate about Abolition and Women’s Rights, Letters
  
• OSV Documents - A Revival of Religion (revised)
  
• OSV Documents - A Short History of the Right to Vote in New England
  
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• OSV Documents - A Story about Punishing
  
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• OSV Documents - A Synopsis of Religious Denominations in New England Before 1860
  
• OSV Documents - A Temperance Song
  
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• OSV Documents - A Trip to Saratoga in Search of Health, Reminiscence
  
• OSV Documents - A Very Brief History of the Greek Revival Style
  
• OSV Documents - A Women’s Temperance Society, History
  
• OSV Documents - Aaron Lummus’s Religious Conversion, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Abigail Clapp Writes to Her Grandson, Letter
  
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• OSV Documents - Accounting for Change: Exchange in the Rural Economy of Central New
  
• OSV Documents - Acrostic on Lydia Macumber, Poem
  
• OSV Documents - Addressing 1830s Illness at the Freeman Farm
  
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• OSV Documents - Agricultural Interpretation at Old Sturbridge Village, 2002, A Summ
  
• OSV Documents - Agriculture in New England, 1790-1840
  
• OSV Documents - All Work and a Little Play: Children in Rural New England
  
• OSV Documents - Amasa Walker’s Coat, Reminiscence
  
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• OSV Documents - An Interpretive Note on Pencils
  
• OSV Documents - An Introduction to the Asa Knight Store at Old Sturbridge Village
  
• OSV Documents - Angelina Grimké Defends Abolitionism, Essay
  
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• OSV Documents - April Fooling and Fasting
  
• OSV Documents - Archaeology of the Pliny Freeman Farm Site, Sturbridge, Massachuset
  
• OSV Documents - Asa Sheldon’s Boyhood, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Aspects of the Changing Status of New England Women, 1790-1840
  
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• OSV Documents - Aunt Keziah’s Story, Reminiscence
  
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• OSV Documents - Awareness of the Past: Living History Stimulates Historical Thinkin
  
• OSV Documents - Barnum Bolton’s Plans, Letter
  
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• OSV Documents - Baths, Brush Heads, Beards, and Two-Pronged Forks: An Unconventiona
  
• OSV Documents - Bessie Remembers Learning to Dance and Sing, Reminiscence
  
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• OSV Documents - Brooms and Broom Making in Massachusetts 1790 - 1840
  
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• OSV Documents - Catharine Beecher on the Duty of American Women, Essay
  
• OSV Documents - Catharine Beecher Opposes Abolitionism, Essay
  
• OSV Documents - Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Her “Mother-Sister,” Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Celebrating 50 Years of History Part 1: How the Village Came to Be
  
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• OSV Documents - Celebrations in the 1830s
  
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• OSV Documents - Charles Quill on Apprenticeship
  
• OSV Documents - Charles T. Woodman, A Washingtonian, Autobiography
  
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• OSV Documents - Choosing a Husband, Advice
  
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• OSV Documents - Christmas in New England before 1860
  
• OSV Documents - Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Diary Entries about Leisure
  
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• OSV Documents - Colonization: the “respectable” way to be anti-slavery in early New
  
• OSV Documents - Commonly Used Medical Terms in America, 1828
  
• OSV Documents - Concepts of Historical Interpretation at Old Sturbridge Village
  
• OSV Documents - Congregationalism and the Congregational Church: A Brief Note
  
• OSV Documents - Constitution of the Maternal Association of Sherburn, on the 8 of J
  
• OSV Documents - Contracts for Relief of the Poor, Town Records
  
• OSV Documents - Cordelia: How a Painting Helps Us Understand Historical Clothing
  
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• OSV Documents - Dentistry in Early 19th Century New England: A Short Note
  
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• OSV Documents - Did a lot of people smoke in the olden days?
  
• OSV Documents - Did kids ever have any fun back then?
  
• OSV Documents - Did kids from the 1830s learn to play instruments in school?
  
• OSV Documents - Did kids get sick a lot back in Village times?
  
• OSV Documents - Did kids in the 1830s have to go to school?
  
• OSV Documents - Did kids in the 1830s make snowmen like we do?
  
• OSV Documents - Did more people wear beards in the 1830s or today?
  
• OSV Documents - Difference of Color, Poem
  
• OSV Documents - Difficulties Organizing Women, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Dining Out in the 1830's
  
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• OSV Documents - Dishwashing and the Domestic Landscape: Reform Begins at Home Carol
  
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• OSV Documents - Documenting and Interpreting Early 19th-Century Rural Gardens at Ol
  
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• OSV Documents - Early New England Farm Crops: Broom Corn
  
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• OSV Documents - Edward Everett, Massachusetts Governor
  
• OSV Documents - Edward Jenner Carpenter, Apprentice’s Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Edward Jenner Carpenter’s Diary Entries About Dancing
  
• OSV Documents - Edward Parry’s Journal of His Stay in Sturbridge, 1775
  
• OSV Documents - Edward W. Wells at Thirteen, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Elizabeth Fuller at Fourteen, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Elizabeth Fuller at Sixteen, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Elizabeth Fuller, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - English Textile Workers in New England, Letters
  
• OSV Documents - Ephraim Coleman, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Even a Small House is a Big Job
  
• OSV Documents - Experiences with Lucifer Matches, Newspaper Article
  
• OSV Documents - Factory Girls in a 'Rhode Island System' Mill: the Pomfret[CT} Manu
  
• OSV Documents - Failure of a Marriage, Letters
  
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• OSV Documents - Farmers' Adaptation to Markets in Early 19th Century Massachusetts
  
• OSV Documents - Finding a Wife, Letters
  
• OSV Documents - For the Purpose of Mutual Improvement: Lyceums, Debating Societies
  
• OSV Documents - Form for a Town Meeting Warrant, Manual
  
• OSV Documents - Fourth of July Scenes, Reminiscence
  
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• OSV Documents - Freeman Family Correspondence 1829-1855
  
• OSV Documents - Freeman Family History
  
• OSV Documents - Fresh Pressing: The Cider Mill at Old Sturbridge Village
  
• OSV Documents - From Farm to Factory: New England’s Industrial Revolution in Textil
  
• OSV Documents - From Massachusetts to Ohio in 1844, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Furniture from Ezekiel Adams' Store: Two matching invoices suggest
  
• OSV Documents - Gaining Culinary Wisdom 'by a few mistakes'
  
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• OSV Documents - Gathering Up the Fragments: News About Old Quilts
  
• OSV Documents - George Cutler, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Getting to Know Father Fitton: A New England Missionary Priest
  
• OSV Documents - Girls’ Antislavery Society, Constitution and Records
  
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• OSV Documents - Hannah Lewis on Work, Letters
  
• OSV Documents - Harriet Beecher Stowe Remembers Her Mother, Reminiscence
  
• OSV Documents - Harriet Bradley, Diary of 1819
  
• OSV Documents - Harriet Merancy Beadle Remembers Her Mother, Reminiscence
  
• OSV Documents - Harvest Labors Produce Seasonal Bounty
  
• OSV Documents - Heirloom Biennials: Some Flowers Are Just Worth Waiting For!
  
• OSV Documents - Henry Harlow to His Brother, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Hidden Treasures:How tavern hunting became a passionate pastime for
  
• OSV Documents - Hiram Munger Remembers Factory Work, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on Antislavery
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on Antislavery and Women’s Rights 1830-1845
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on Childhood in the Early 19th Century
  
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• OSV Documents - Historical Background on Death and Dying in Early 19th-Century New
  
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• OSV Documents - Historical Background on Leisure in Early 19th-Century New England
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on Mourning Rituals in Early 19th-Century New
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on People of Color in Rural New England in th
  
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• OSV Documents - Historical Background on Schooling in Early 19th-Century New Englan
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on the 19th-Century New England Farm Family
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on the Poor and Poor Relief in Early 19th-Cen
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on the Role of Religion in Early 19th-Century
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on Town Government in Early 19th-Century New
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Background on Traveling in the Early 19th Century
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Note on Temperance Reform in the Early 19th Century
  
• OSV Documents - Historical Sketch of Sturbridge and Southbridge, Town History
  
• OSV Documents - Home as Hospital: The Sick Chamber in Early America
  
• OSV Documents - Home Sweet Wigwam: Or What It Takes to Make a Wetu a Home
  
• OSV Documents - Homer Merriam's Journeys in Search of Health 1833-35.
  
• OSV Documents - Hooked on Teasels: An unusual commercial crop from the early 19th c
  
• OSV Documents - Horace Clark, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Horace Clark, Farmer’s Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Horace Greeley Recalls Growing Up Poor, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Horace Greeley Recalls His Apprenticeship, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Horace Greeley’s Boyhood, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Housekeeping Advice
  
• OSV Documents - Housing a New Perspective on New England History
  
• OSV Documents - How Do You Test History in a Lab? Experimental Archaeology and Hist
  
• OSV Documents - How Fences Kept 'Good Neighbors'
  
• OSV Documents - How long would it have taken a letter to get from Sturbridge to Bos
  
• OSV Documents - How Many Stories?: Each Building at the Village Has Tales to Tell U
  
• OSV Documents - How New England's Rural Landscape Changed
  
• OSV Documents - How often did people take baths in the 1830s?
  
• OSV Documents - How Old Is the Earth? What 19th-Century Americans believed about a
  
• OSV Documents - How Sweet It Is! Maple Sugaring at the Village
  
• OSV Documents - How to Agitate the Public Mind, Almanac
  
• OSV Documents - How to Behave Politely at a Dance, Advice
  
• OSV Documents - How Young People Should Behave
  
• OSV Documents - I asked my father for a bigger allowance and he said I must think mo
  
• OSV Documents - I know they used quill pens for writing in Village times, but did t
  
• OSV Documents - I like to listen to CDs and the radio. Most of the music I like my
  
• OSV Documents - I visited the school at Old Sturbridge Village and saw how everyone
  
• OSV Documents - I was at the Village once when the church bells rang about a hundre
  
• OSV Documents - In all Its Crowd and Tumult: Tavern Life and Entertainments in New
  
• OSV Documents - In Harmony:New England Musical Traditions in Everyday Life
  
• OSV Documents - In Old Sturbridge Village times, what were the laws, and what was th
  
• OSV Documents - In Search of the Indian Doctress
  
• OSV Documents - In the 1830s what would children do for chores? Would they have diff
  
• OSV Documents - In Village days, how did someone train to become a shoemaker or bla
  
• OSV Documents - Indian Populations, 1830
  
• OSV Documents - Instructions to the Moderator, Manual
  
• OSV Documents - Interpreting and Explaining Christmas Traditions
  
• OSV Documents - Interpreting Rites of Passage in the 1830s
  
• OSV Documents - James Clark, Cabinetmaker
  
• OSV Documents - James Graffon, Blacksmith’s Daybook
  
• OSV Documents - Joseph Holmes at Sixteen, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Joseph Holmes Describes Antislavery Lectures, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Joseph T. Buckingham Recalls Growing Up, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Joseph T. Buckingham Remembers His Father’s Death
  
• OSV Documents - Julia Clapp Remembers Family, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Just Before Christmas
  
• OSV Documents - Labor Is the Great Thing in Farming': The Farm Laborers of the Ward
  
• OSV Documents - Laughing Matters!
  
• OSV Documents - Laws on Poverty and Poor Relief, Manual
  
• OSV Documents - Letters To Cousin Sabrina about Young Women's Work, 1839-40
  
• OSV Documents - Life In the Countryside: A Drama in Three Acts
  
• OSV Documents - List of Paupers in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 1835, Town Records
  
• OSV Documents - Looking Back at the Bolton Friends Meetinghouse
  
• OSV Documents - Looking Back at the David Wight Farm
  
• OSV Documents - Looking Back at the Moses Wilder Blacksmith Shop
  
• OSV Documents - Looking Down in the Mouth: A Look at New England Dentistry
  
• OSV Documents - Louisa Trumbull at Twelve, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Louisa Trumbull, Diary Entries about Johnny’s Death
  
• OSV Documents - Low’s Almanack, 1825
  
• OSV Documents - Lucy Buffum Lovell, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Lucy Larcom, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Lyndon Freeman's Reminiscences: "A Kind of Family Record"
  
• OSV Documents - Making Asa Knight's Store Look 'as good as old'!
  
• OSV Documents - Making the Widow's New Carpet
  
• OSV Documents - Managing the Flock: Historical Sheep Raising at Old Sturbridge Vill
  
• OSV Documents - Mary Ann Waterman Writes about “This thing of slavery,” Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Mary Cogswell’s First Dance, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Mary Livermore Learns to Keep House, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Mary Livermore Remembers Her Sister’s Death, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Mary Livermore Seeks an Education, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Mary Livermore’s Childhood Kitchen, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Mary Livermore’s Temperance Work with Children, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Mary White, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Mary White, Diary Entries on Antislavery Activities
  
• OSV Documents - Massachusetts Ministers on the Public Role of Women, Pastoral Lette
  
• OSV Documents - Meet the Authors! Nathaniel Hawthorne and Emily Dickinson
  
• OSV Documents - Memorial Day and Flag Day: Brief Histories of Post-1830s Holidays
  
• OSV Documents - Memorial of the Cherokee Nation, Dec. 1829
  
• OSV Documents - Memories of Martial Music, Reminiscences
  
• OSV Documents - Metamora, Last of the Wampanoags
  
• OSV Documents - Militia Day in Brimfield, Reminiscence
  
• OSV Documents - Mincing Words
  
• OSV Documents - Missionary Hymn
  
• OSV Documents - Moral Police of the Corporation, Local History
  
• OSV Documents - Moses Porter, Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Mother’s Day: a brief history
  
• OSV Documents - Mr. Gander’s April First, Children’s Story
  
• OSV Documents - Mrs. Child Condemns “the rage for travelling,” Advice
  
• OSV Documents - Mrs. Child Explains How to Endure Poverty, Advice
  
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• OSV Documents - My grandmother says kids have it easy today and that some kids used
  
• OSV Documents - N. B. Gordon, Mill Agent’s Diary
  
• OSV Documents - Nathaniel Bolton Writes to His Daughter, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Neat and Tasty: Getting Dressed in Rural New England
  
• OSV Documents - New England Textile Mill Villages in the Early 19th Century
  
• OSV Documents - New Year's Day Observance in 1830s New England
  
• OSV Documents - Notes on Congregationalism and Calvinism in Early 19th Century New
  
• OSV Documents - Notes on Early 19th Century Clothing
  
• OSV Documents - Notes on Interpreting the Images in the The American Anti-Slavery Al
  
• OSV Documents - Notes on Paint and Paint Colors in the 1830s
  
• OSV Documents - Notes on Probate Inventories
  
• OSV Documents - Of Burls, Knot Bowls, and Split Brooms: Native American Woodworking
  
• OSV Documents - Of The Boy That Stole Apples, Story
  
• OSV Documents - Oliver Bolton Describes His Father’s Death, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - On Old Age by Nathaniel Bolton, Poem
  
• OSV Documents - On the Way to a New Millennium
  
• OSV Documents - Opinions about Marriage, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Opportunities for Females in Mill Towns, Letters
  
• OSV Documents - Out from Under a Deep Terrace: Archaeologists Study the Life and Wo
  
• OSV Documents - Overworked and Underappreciated: The Secret Life of a Ladderback Ch
  
• OSV Documents - Pamela Brown at Twenty: Diary
  
• OSV Documents - People of the Past: Lyndon Freeman's Reminscences
  
• OSV Documents - Petitions for Poor Relief in the Town of Sturbridge, Town Records
  
• OSV Documents - Pictures of Slavery, Almanac
  
• OSV Documents - Playing Ball: A Very Early Version of Baseball
  
• OSV Documents - Pliny Freeman to Pliny Jr. in Ohio: Life and Death in Sturbridge, 1
  
• OSV Documents - Pliny Freeman Writes to His Son Pliny, Jr.: A Case of Pokeweed Pois
  
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• OSV Documents - Probate Inventories for Massachusetts Shoemakers 1830-39
  
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• OSV Documents - Records of the Marlboro Maternal Association 1836-37
  
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• OSV Documents - Religious Revivals and Revivalism in 1830s New England
  
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• OSV Documents - Rural Dwellings in Central Massachusetts, 1790-1840: The Town of Su
  
• OSV Documents - Sally Brown, Diary
  
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• OSV Documents - Sara Lovina Plimpton's Letters to Her Sisters, 1848
  
• OSV Documents - Sarah Clapp Writes to her Brother, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Sarah Emery’s Wedding, Reminiscence
  
• OSV Documents - Sarah Grimké Argues for Women’s Rights, Essay
  
• OSV Documents - Scars upon the Earth: Physical Evidences of Dramatic Social Change
  
• OSV Documents - Sealing Wafers and Sealing Wax: Research Notes
  
• OSV Documents - Setting Up Housekeeping, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Shoe Making in Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts,an Introducti
  
• OSV Documents - Shrewsbury Female Charitable Society, Records
  
• OSV Documents - Silas Felton on the Brink of Adulthood, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Silas Felton’s Courtship, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - Sir Richard Rum, A Comic Play about Drinking
  
• OSV Documents - Sketches of Two Drinkers, Fiction
  
• OSV Documents - Slates and slate pencils: a research note
  
• OSV Documents - Song for a Cold Water Army
  
• OSV Documents - Song of the Abolitionist
  
• OSV Documents - Sophia’s Christmas in New York, Children’s Story
  
• OSV Documents - Sowing Seeds of Success: Get a head start on spring gardening by pl
  
• OSV Documents - Squantum Festivals: Playing Indian in 19th Century New England
  
• OSV Documents - Statistics of Intemperance, Almanac
  
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• OSV Documents - Sturbridge Town Meeting Warrant, Public Record
  
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• OSV Documents - The Color of Change: The Bixby House and the Social and Economic Tr
  
• OSV Documents - The Courtship Correspondence of Sarah Lovina Plimpton and Lucius Be
  
• OSV Documents - The Debit Economy of 1830s New England
  
• OSV Documents - The Diaries of Warren and Olive Gay, 1840-1850
  
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• OSV Documents - The Difference Between "State" and "Commonwealth" in the United Sta
  
• OSV Documents - The Drinking Habit, Reminiscence
  
• OSV Documents - The Duty and Safety of Emancipation, A Play
  
• OSV Documents - The Envious Lobster, Poem
  
• OSV Documents - The Evolution of Female Fashion
  
• OSV Documents - The Family of Zadoc and Julia Long, Buckland Maine: Diary Entries a
  
• OSV Documents - The First Woman to Address the Massachusetts Senate, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - The Fugitives from Injustice, in Boston, Poem
  
• OSV Documents - The Great Festival of New England
  
• OSV Documents - The Harbinger, Poem
  
• OSV Documents - The Healthfulness of the Grape, Advice
  
• OSV Documents - The Holy War, Poem
  
• OSV Documents - The Hubbard Homestead Brimfield, Massachusetts
  
• OSV Documents - The Impact of Changing Plow Technology in Rural New England in the
  
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• OSV Documents - The Ladies Benevolent Society Fair, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - The Liberty Party in the Election of 1840: New England Sources
  
• OSV Documents - The Lives of Pliny & Delia Freeman's children
  
• OSV Documents - The Lone Indian, Short Story
  
• OSV Documents - The Long Journey West in 1825, Reminiscence
  
• OSV Documents - The Manufacture of Cheese, Advice
  
• OSV Documents - The Moses Wilder Blacksmith Shop at OSV and Blacksmithing in Rural
  
• OSV Documents - The Old School-house, Reminiscence
  
• OSV Documents - The Quakers in Early 19th Century Rural New England: An Interpretat
  
• OSV Documents - The Quincy Report on Poor Relief, Public Record
  
• OSV Documents - The Rat and the Oyster, Poem
  
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• OSV Documents - The Stage, Poem
  
• OSV Documents - The Striped Pig, A Comic History
  
• OSV Documents - The Tariff as a Political Issue in the 1830s
  
• OSV Documents - The Teamster’s Trouble, Children’s Story
  
• OSV Documents - The textile work of Mary Avery White of Boylston, Massachusetts, 18
  
• OSV Documents - The Village Do-Nothing, Story
  
• OSV Documents - The Wagoner, Children’s Story
  
• OSV Documents - The Work of the Potter's Hands
  
• OSV Documents - These Were the Potters that Dwelt among Plants and Hedges
  
• OSV Documents - Thinking of the Future, Letter
  
• OSV Documents - Thomas Harlow’s School Composition, Essay
  
• OSV Documents - Timeline—Enduring People
  
• OSV Documents - Times of Trouble: Searle Family Letters about Sickness and Death
  
• OSV Documents - To paint you 'as you are:' William Willard Paints the David Wight I
  
• OSV Documents - To The Service of My Barn: Labor, Economy and Community in the Rais
  
• OSV Documents - Town Meeting in Quabbin, Reminiscence
  
• OSV Documents - Town Returns to the Quincy Committee, Public Record
  
• OSV Documents - Toys and Childhood in the Early 19th Century
  
• OSV Documents - Traces of the Indian in Westborough, Mass., 1717-1817
  
• OSV Documents - Two Patterns of Farming in Central New England Before 1860: The War
  
• OSV Documents - Wedding Days, Reminiscences
  
• OSV Documents - Welfare and Workfare in 1830s New England: Jails, Prisons, Work Hou
  
• OSV Documents - Were people of the 1830s shorter than the people of today?
  
• OSV Documents - Were shoes comfortable in the 1830s, or were they wooden and stiff?
  
• OSV Documents - What a Dollar Would Buy in 1838: A Research Note
  
• OSV Documents - What did people do with their trash and garbage in the 1830s?
  
• OSV Documents - What kind of books and stories did kids read in Village times? Were
  
• OSV Documents - What kind of pets did kids have in Village times?
  
• OSV Documents - What sorts of candy and sweets did people eat in the 1830s?
  
• OSV Documents - Where did people go for vacation in Village times?
  
• OSV Documents - Where Did Women Work on New England Farms? Gender Roles in Farm Wor
  
• OSV Documents - Who Built Salem Towne's House? A new answer to a long-standing ques
  
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• OSV Documents - William J. Brown’s Courtship, Autobiography
  
• OSV Documents - William J. Brown’s Search for Work, Autobiography
  
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• OSV Documents - William Lloyd Garrison Describes an Antislavery Convention, Editori
  
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