Research Library Wish List

Every year, the Center helps hundreds of researchers from across the United States
to answer their questions about South County history.
While archival materials and photographs are often consulted,
we have found that materials within our research library are often the most helpful.

The Center has been working to develop and improve its research library in recent years, and we are hoping that members of our community might be able to help the effort. Are you able to donate your gently-used copy (or a new copy) of any of these print materials? *Last updated 9/10/2024

• ‘38: The Great Hurricane in Quonochontaug Rhode Island by John Livsey (2004)

• Block Island Geology by Les Sirkin (1996)

• Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy by Katherine Ellinghaus (2017)

• Book of the Hulls: Being a Genealogy of the Hulls of England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island by Oliver Hull (1863 original or reprint)

• Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery by Margaret Ellen Newell (2015)

• Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion by Russell J. Desimone and Daniel C. Schofield (1992)

• Buildings on Paper: Rhode Island Architectural Drawings, 1825-1945 by William H. Jordy (1982)

• Changes In the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronin (2003)

• Coded Letters, Concealed Love: The Larger Lives of Harriet Freeman and Edward Everett Hale by Sara Day (2014)

• Cultures in Contact: The European Impact on Native Cultural Institutions in Eastern North America, A.D. 1000-1800 by William W. Fitzhugh (1985)

• Down by the Old Mill Stream: Quilts in Rhode Island edited by Linda Welters and Margaret T. Ordonez (2000)

• Early Letters: 1865-1867 by Rowland Gibson Hazard, published by Caroline Hazard (1937)

• The Eden of America: Rhode Island Landscapes, 1820-1920 by Robert G. Workman (1986)

• Facts for the Laboring Man: By a Laboring Man by Thomas R. Hazard (pamphlet, 1840)

• Finance and Hours of Labor by R.G. Hazard (1868)

• Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England by Jean M. O’Brien (2010)

• “Fortune Magazine” April 1931 with cover art by Ernest Hamlin Baker 

• “Fortune Magazine” January 1934 with cover art by Ernest Hamlin Baker

• Forty Illustrators and How They Work by Ernest William Watson (1947)

• Freedom of Mind in Willing by Rowland Hazard (pamphlet, 1864)

• The Genesee Country and especially the story of Castile by Katherine Barnes (n.d.)

• Ghosts Along the Rhode by Rona Mann (2004)

• Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them, 1653-1800 by Harriette Forbes (1927)

• The Great Hurricane: 1938 by Cherie Burns (2006)

• Great Stories from Westerly’s Past by Zachary Garceau (2021)

• An Historical View of the First Planters of New England by Thomas Robbins (1815)

• History/Memoir of Jemima Wilkinson, A Preacheress of the Eighteenth Century by David Hudson (1822, 1844, or reprint)

• History of the Town of Hopkinton Rhode Island 1757-1976 by Hopkinton Bicentennial Commission (1976)

• “Home Culture Series 4” published by The Auxiliary Educational League, with article by Caroline Hazard (1906)

• How to Predict Snow in South County, Rhode Island by Donald Gentile (2011)

• How Robin Hood Once was a Wait: A Miracle Play or Christmas Masque by Rowland Gibson Hazard (1910)

• Hoxsie Sells His Acres: An America Novel in Verse by Christopher La Farge (1934)

• Language: Its Connection with the Present Condition and Future by Rowland G. Hazard (1836)

• Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England by Catherine Adams and Elizabeth H. Peck (2010)

• Lovers’ Lyrics, and Other Songs by Edwin B. Champlin (1888)

• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)

• Man, A Creative First Cause: Two Discourses by Rowland G. Hazard (1883)

• Matunuck Beach Series (3 Books): Matunuck, Erosion, and Moonstone by Greg McLaughlin

• Moses Barber of South Kingstown, Rhode Island and Many Descendants 1652-1984 by Lois Jeannette Schroeder (1984)

• Not a Catholic Nation: The Ku Klux Klan Confronts New England in the 1920s by Mark Paul Richard (2015)

• Ol’ Swamper’s Rhode Island Shellfish & Clambake Cookbook by Earl LeClaire and Timothy Gilchrist (2016)

• “Old Tobe”: Some Lines of Descent of Tobias Saunders of Westerly, Rhode Island by Earl P. Crandall (1995)

• A Penny for Your Thoughts: Postcards and Souvenirs from Watch Hill, Rhode Island by Marian Burke, Roberta Burkhardt and Ardith Schneider (2009)

• A Pictorial History of Weekapaug Rhode Island by Susan E. Lyman (1992)

• Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend by Herbert A. Wisbey (2009)

• Poems by Gertrude Minturn Hazard and Anna Peace Hazard (1873)

• The Problem of Lobster Culture by Albert Davis Mead (pamphlet, 1905)

• The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America by Paul B. Moyer (2015)

• Retracing Baptists in Rhode Island : Identity, Formation, and History by J. Stanley Lemons (2019)

• Roadside Geology of Connecticut and Rhode Island by James W. Skehan (2008)

• Rural Household Inventories: Establishing the Names, Uses and Furnishings of Rooms in the Colonial New England Home 1675-1775 edited by Abbott Lowell Cummings (1964)

• Secrets of the Water Rats: A Rhode Island Girlhood, 1930s-1940s by Jean C. McCrosky

• A Sense of Place: Painters of Matunuck, Rhode Island 1873-1941 by Lindsay Leard-Coolidge (2010) *archival-quality copy requested

• Shipwrecks and Marine Disasters on the Shores of the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island and Adjacent Waters by Margaret Woodbury Carter (1973)

• A Short History of the United States Coinage… Presented to the Members of the Washington County Agricultural Society by Roland Hazard (pamphlet, 1896)

• Slave Ships and Slaving by George Francis Dow (1927)

• Slavery in the States: Selected Essays published by Negro Universities Press (1969)

• Stage Coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle (1935)

• Taken by Storm, 1938: A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane by Lourdes B. Avilés (2013 or 2018 edition)

• The Homes of Our Forefathers Volume 3: Rhode Island & Connecticut by Edwin Whitefield (1882)

• That Others Might Live: The U.S. Life-Saving Service, 1878-1915 by Dennis L. Noble (1994)

• They "... fought bravely, but were unfortunate: " The True Story of Rhode Island's "Black Regiment"… by Daniel M. Popek (2015)

• To Bring Law Home: The Federal Judiciary in Early National Rhode Island by D. Kurt Graham (2009)

• A Transplanted Puritan by Caroline Hazard (1927)

• Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 by Daniel R. Mandela (2008)

• Two Letters on Causation and Freedom in Willing, Addressed to John Stuart Mill by Rowland G. Hazard (1869)

• Under the Spell of Matunuck with photographs by David Sherman (2021)

• The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard by Ralph Shanks, Wick York, et. al. (1996)

• Vampire Legends of Rhode Island by Christopher Rondina (1997)

• The View from the Blanket: Weekapaug by Tom Zalaski (2016)

• “The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography” published by Virginia Historical Society Vol. 66 No. 1. (January 1958)

• The Wampanoag of Massachusetts and Rhode Island by Janey Levy (2004)

• Watch Hill Through Time: The Evolution of a New England Shore Community by Chaplin Branford Barnes (2005)

• The Weekapaug Inn: The Best of All Possible Worlds by Robert C. Buffum (1999)

• William Tanner of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and His Descendants by George C. Tanner (1905 original edition or reprint)

• The YOSEMITE and Other Verse by Caroline Hazard (1917)

If you would like to mail a new or used publication to the Center, please send it to South County History Center, 2636 Kingstown Road, Kingston, RI 02881.

Of course, there are countless other materials that would be welcome additions,
and we encourage you to reach out to the Center’s team at erica@southcountyhistorycenter.org about other suggestions or donations.