ESSAYS THAT ARE GOING PLACES

The Boston Globe | December 26, 2000| | Copyright

The instinctive action when picking up a book like "American Places," a collection of essays on that subject by some two dozen historians, is to go for the familiar, the more local the better.

The reader who goes no further than that will not be disappointed to find John Demos writing on Fenway Park as metaphor for the political and economic eclipse of Boston, David Hackett Fischer on Boston Common and the writing of history, and T. H. Breen recounting a frustrated search for local history in the Western Massachusetts town of Barre.

Regrettably, that does it for New England, but the ...

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