Publications of the Fall River Historical Society

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Fall River Historical Society Press is the book publishing arm of the FRHS. Our titles include:

The Jennings Journals 1892:
The unpublished notes and documents from the files of
Lizzie Borden’s Defense Attorney, Andrew Jackson Jennings
edited by Michael Martins, Dennis A. Binette, and Stefani Koorey (2021)

The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence, 1923-1930:
Unpublished letters between Frank Warren Knowlton and Edmund Lester Pearson
edited by Michael Martins, Dennis A. Binette, and Stefani Koorey (2021)

American Textile Colossus:
The Story of Fall River, Massachusetts,
its Cotton Manufacturing Industry, and its People
by Jay J. Lambert (2020)

Main Street in the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties &
A Businessman’s Reminiscences of Fifty Years
by Thomas Richmond Burrell
(Discourses in History Series, Number 2) (2019)

Granite, Grit, and Grace: An Exploration of the
Fascinating Side Streets of Fall River’s History
by William A. Moniz (2017)

Anti-Slavery Days in Fall River and the Underground Railroad
by Edward Stowe Adams
(Discourses in History Series, Number 1) (2017)

Women at Work: an Oral History of Working Class Women
in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1920-1970 (2017)

Parallel Lives:
A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River
by Michael Martins and Dennis A. Binette (2011)

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Lizzie A. Borden:
The Knowlton Papers, 1892-1893 (1994, 2020)