Non-Fiction
“Boston Police Vote to Unionize, Precipitating Riots,” Mass Moments website. http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=237.
Capozzola, Christopher. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Green, James R. and Hugh Carter Donahue. Boston’s Workers: A Labor History. (Boston: Boston Public Library, 1979).
Koss, Frederick Manual. “The Boston Police Strike of 1919.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University, 1960.
Murray, Robert K. “When Policemen Strike.” In Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955): 122-134.
Police Commissioner for the City of Boston, Citizens’ Committee to Consider the Police Situation. The Boston Police Strike: Two reports, 1919. (New York: Arno Press, 1971).
Russell, Francis. A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike. (New York: Viking Press, 1975).
Slater, Joseph E. “The Boston Police Strike of 1919.” Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004), pp. 13-38.
Wells, Donna M. Boston Police Department. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003).
Fiction
Lehane, Dennis. The Given Day. (New York: William Morrow, 2008).
Redfearn, James G. The Rising at Roxbury Crossing. (Wrentham, MA: Olde Stoney Brook Publishing, 2012).
For a more comprehensive list of resources,
see the research guide:
Selected Resources Documenting the 1919 Boston Police Strike