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Huntington, Frederic Dan. Home-Keeping: A Fine Art. Syracuse: Walcott and West, 1892.
Huntington, Frederic Dan. Forty Days With the Master. E.P. Dutton, 1891.
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Sessions, Ruth Huntington. Sixty Odd: A Personal History. Brattleboro: Steven Daye Press, 1936.
Sessions, Ruth Huntington. The Sawtoothers: For Kids Whose Parents Know They Can Read or Color and Are Fed Up With Farm or Jungle Animals. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1975.
Sessions, Ruth Huntington. The Ups and Downs of Emily. Illustrated by Peter Larkin. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1940.
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Papers, Articles, and Journals:
Abramson, Doris E. The Beloved House.
An Appreciation of Roger Sessions 1896-1985. Kent Quarterly, Vol. 5, no. 2, 1986.
Andrews, John A. Y. Table Conversations at Forty Acres: Reflection for a Family Reunion. 2024.
Bassett, Lynne Zacek. The Sober People of Hadley: A History of Clothing in the Probate Inventories of Hadley, Massachusetts, 1663-1731. MA Thesis, Univ. of Conn, 1991.
Baratta, Catherine R. Arria Sargent Huntington's curriculum vitae (created by Dr. Baratta as a class handout). 1999.
Baratta, Catherine R. Social Welfare Policy Timeline. 1997.
Barry, John. The Starrs, Huntingtons, and Alsops of Middletown, Connecticut: A Study in Family and Community, 1650 to 1830. History thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University, April, 1981.
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Brown, Dona and Stephen Nissenbaum. Changing New England: 1865-1945. Yale University Press, 1999.
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Carlisle, Elizabeth. Forty Acres: The Porter/Phelps/Huntington House. Hadley, Massachusetts: The Three Elizabeths. March 30, 1994.
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Cottage Burned on the Huntington Homestead. Jan. 17th, 1929.
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Miller, Marla. My Daily Bread Depends Upon My Labor: Craftswomen, Community and the Marketplace in Rural New England, 1740-1820. PhD Dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1997.
Miller, Marla. "My Part Alone": The World of Rebecca Dickinson, 1787-1802. New England Quarterly. Sept. 1998.
Miller, Marla. The Accounts of Tryphena Newton Cooke: Work, Family, and Community in Hadley, Massachusetts, 1780-1805. Peter Benes, ed., Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. 1999.
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PPH 1992 Reinterpretation Initiative
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Gilbert, Kevin L. A Quota of Patriotism: The Decline of Volunteerism in Northampton, Massachusetts, During the Civil War. University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of History, 1992.
Horowitz, Daniel. Creation and Recreation: Dr. James Lincoln Huntington’s Forty Acres: The Story of the Bishop Huntington House (1949). September 1992.
Sweeney, Kevin M. Report on Utilizing the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House and Its Furnishings as Resources for Research and Interpretation. 1992.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Report: Porter-Phelps-Huntington Project. 1992.
Wilson, Louis E. 40 Acres: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum. 1992.
Objects and Exhibits:
Callahan, Addison. Grounds Tour of Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum. 2008.
Carson, Jenny and Sandy Christofordis. Guide Handbook. October, 1992.
Fellows, Carrie A. Revised First Person Tour - In Her Own Words: Bringing Elizabeth to Life.
Generations of the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Genealogy
Henchey, J. Oil Paintings and Crayon Drawings in the Porter-Phelps-Huntington. House Collection, Aug. 1977.
Huntington, Catharine S. “North Garden Plan.”
Huntington, James Lincoln. Dr. James Lincoln Huntington’s Tour Through the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum. June 1971.
Kaynor, Faye. “Forty Acres North Garden Plan.” C. 1970.
Lolomari, Ine. Sessions Complex.
Porter, Moses. Estate Inventory 1755. Page 1 and Page 2 Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers, Box 172, folders 13-14 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Annual Reports, 1949-1969.
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Annual Reports, 1970-1979.
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Annual Report, 1980.
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum Color Photos.
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum color slides of clothing exhibit.
Porter-Phelps-Huntington National Register Criteria Statement. 1999.
The Extraordinary Joined Oak and Pine Polychrome "Hadley" Chest-With-Drawers. Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver. New York: Christie's, 2016. Print.
Weir, Robert E., ed. Benjamin Lincoln at 40 Acres: An Exhibit to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the Shay’s Rebellion.
The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House recommends the following external resources for further reading:
Native American and Indigenous Peoples
Baron, Donna K, J. Edward Hood, and Holly V. Izard. “They Were Here All Along: The Native American Presence in Lower-Central New England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Indians and Others in Early America, 53, no. 3. 1996.
Bruchac, Margaret M. “Revisiting Pocumtuck History in Deerfield: George Sheldon's Vanishing Indian Act.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 39(1/2):30-77, www.academia.edu/3513265/Revisiting_Pocumtuck_History_in_Deerfield_George_Sheldons_Vanishing_Indian_Act.
Bruchac, Margaret. “Native Presence in Nonotuck and Northampton.” ScholarlyCommons, repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/162/.
Nash, Alice. “Quanquan’s Mortgage of 1663.” In Cultivating the Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
Nash, Alice. “Selection of information on Hadley Indigenous history by Alice Nash.” (including Indian Deeds of Hampden County(1905); Native Peoples and Museums in the Connecticut River Valley; Ninth Edition of the Handy Book for Genealogists; Historical Records Survey).
Thomas, Peter A. “Contrastive Subsistence Strategies and Land Use as Factors for Understanding Indian-White Relations in New England.” Ethnohistory, Vol. 23, no. 1. 1976.
American Revolution
African American & Black People