A Crisis of Community: The Trials and Transformation of a New England Town, 1815-1848

(University of North Carolina Press) Blending family records — including the diary kept by Mary White, a shopkeeper’s wife from rural Boylston, Mass. — and a rich trove of community archives, Fuhrer examines the Jacksonian “age of revolutions” through the lens of a rural community that was swept into the networks of an expanding and urbanizing New England region. Fuhrer is a public historian who specializes in the social history of New England.