Len Travers
Current:
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Education:
Ph.D. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1992. American and New England Studies.
M.A. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989. American and New England Studies.
B.A. Magna cum laude. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 1980.
Book:
Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
CD-ROM:
Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1800. Co-publication of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001.
Published Articles:
"The Paradox of ‘Nationalist’ Festivals: The Case of Palmetto Day in Antebellum Charleston." In William Pencak, et al, eds., Riot and Revelry in Early America. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2002.
Entries for New Dictionary of National Biography (2002): "Myles Standish," "John Underhill," and "Edward Winslow."
"The Thwing Index: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1800." New England Ancestors (Fall 2001).
"`You see I am addicted to facts:’ Annie Haven Thwing and the Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston." Massachusetts Historical Review 1 (1999).
"‘In the Greatest Solemn Dignity:’ The Capitol Cornerstone and Ceremony in the Early Republic." In Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert. A Republic for the Ages. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
"The Missionary Journal of John Cotton, Jr., 1666-1678." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings (1999).
"Science, Medicine, & Technology" chapter for American Eras: Revolutionary America, 1754-1783. Columbia, South Carolina: Manly, Inc., 1998.
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"Hurrah for the Fourth: Patriotism, Politics, and Independence Day in Federalist Boston, 1777-1818." Essex Institute Historical Collections vol. 125 no. 2 (1989): 129-161.
"Sinews of Trade, Sinews of War: The Paper Money of Massachusetts." Massachusetts Paper Money 1690-1780: The Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Portland, Maine: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1988.
"‘Our Fathers were Englishmen:’ Reconstructing an Early Seventeenth-Century ‘American’ Dialect." American Speech: 1600 to the Present; Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1983. Boston University, 1985.
Published Review Articles:
Kerry W. Buckley, ed., A Place Called Paradise: Culture and Community in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654- 2004 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004) for The New England Quarterly.
Matthew Dennis, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar (Cornell University Press, 2002) for Reviews in American History.
Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630-1680 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001) for the Journal of American History.
Richard W. Cogley, John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War (Cambridge, Mass., 1999), for The William and Mary Quarterly.
Elizabeth C. O’Leary, To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism (Princeton, 1999),for The American Historical Review.
John Seelye, Memory’s Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock, (Chapel Hill, 1999), for The Public Historian.
David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: (Chapel Hill, 1997), for The American Historical Review.
Works in Progress:
Co-editor, The Correspondence of Rev. John Cotton, Jr. (1640-1699). A volume in the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications series.
Editor, American Holidays and National Days: A Historical Guide. The Greenwood Publishing Group.
"The Journal of Abner Barrows, 1756-1758," Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum.
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Current Research:
The Family Correspondence of Jean-Paul Mascarene, 1724-1743, manuscript collections at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Ottawa, Ontario.
Related Professional Experience:
Historical Consultant and guest for PBS program "Taste of Freedom" with Burt Wolfe, 2003.
Member, Board of Directors, Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1998-2001.
Assistant Director, Center for the Study of New England History, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1994-1999.
Historical Consultant, television production of Laura Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale, 1994-1996.
Historical Consultant, A&E Network series on history of American Holidays, 1996.
Director of Colonial Interpretation, Plimoth Plantation, 1982-1987.
Last Updated On: 10/19/07
