1. Ralph Vicero,” The Immigration of French Canadians to New England, 1849–1900: A Geographical Analysis,” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1968; Pierre Anctil, “Aspects of Class Ideology in a New England Ethnic Minority: The Franco-Americans of Woonsocket, Rhode Island (1865–1929),” Ph.D. diss., New School for Social Research, 1980; Richard S. Sorrell, “The Sentinelle Affair (1924–1929) and Militant Survivance: The Franco-American Experience in Woonsocket, Rhode Island,” Ph.D. diss., SUNY Buffalo, 1975; Gary Gerstle,(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989); Tamara K. Hareven,(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982); John T. Cumbler,(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979; Philip T. Silvia, “The Spindle City: Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870–1905,” Ph.D. diss., Fordham University, 1973; Frances Early, “French-Canadian Beginnings in an American Community: Lowell, Massachusetts, 1868–1886,” Ph.D. diss., Concordia University, 1979 and “The French-Canadian Family Economy and the Standard of Living in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1870,”(Summer 1982);
2. Mary H. Blewitt,(Lowell: Lowell Museum, 1982)(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988); Brigitte Lane, “Franco-American Traditions and Popular Culture in a Former Milltown: Aspects of Ethnic Urban Folklore and the Dynamics of Folklore Change in Lowell, Massachusetts,” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1982; Daniel J. Walkowitz, Worker(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978); Michael Guignard,(N.p.: n.p., 1982); Peter Habler, “Habitants of Holyoke: The Development of the French-Canadian Community in a Massachusetts City” (Ph.D. diss., university of New Hampshire, 1976); and Yves Frenette, “La genèse d'une communauté canadienne-française en Nouvelle-Angleterre: Lewiston, Maine, 1800–1880,” Ph.D. diss., Université Laval, 1988; “Understanding the Franco-Americans of Lewiston,”25 (Spring 1986): 198–229; and “Macroscopie et microscopie d'un mouvement migratoire: les Canadiens français à Lewiston au XIXsiècle,” in Yves Ladry, John A. Dickinson, Suzy Pasleau, and Claude Desama, eds., (Beauport, QC: Publications MNH, 1995), 221–232. The Landry et al. book also contains a fine piece by Bruno Ramirez, “L'émigration des Canadiens français aux États-Unis dans les années 1920.”
3. Mark P. Richard, “Out of ‘Little Canada’: The Assimilation of Sainte-Famille Parish, Lewiston, Maine (1923–1994),” M.A. thesis, University of Maine, 1994; Mark P. Richard, “Coping before l'État-providence: Collective Welfare Strategies of New England's Franco-Americans,”Quebec Studies25 (Spring 1998): 59–67; and Mark P. Richard, “From Canadien to Franco-American: Ethnic Identity in Lewiston, Maine, 1860–1900,” a paper delivered at the Charleston meetings of the American Council for Quebec Studies, 1998. Notable recent Canadian theses include Sylvie Marilyn Beaudreau, “Quebec and the Problem of French-Canadian Emigration to the United States, 1840–1896” (Ph.D. diss., York University, 1992); Steve Harbour, “Le Travailleur, les Franco-Américains de Worcester, Massachusetts, et la Deuxième Guerre mondiale” (M.A. thesis, Université Laval, 1992); Bernard Lemelin, “Les Franco-Américains de Woonsocket, Rhode Island, et la Première Guerre mondiale” (M.A. thesis, Université Laval, 1988); Martin Paquet, “Perception de la presse franco-américaine au Rhode-Island face à la politique américaine: Aram-Jules Pothier, gouverneur du Rhode Island (1908–1915)” (M.A. thesis, Université Laval, 1987); and Brigitte Violette, “Les Franco-Américains de l'État du Maine et le mouvement nativiste d'après la première guerre mondiale: un pas vers l'assimilation” (M.A. thesis, Université Laval, 1989).
4. Anders Larson, “Franco-Americans and the International Paper Company Strike of 1910,”Maine Historical Quarterly(Summer 1993): 42–60 and Matthew R. LaFlamme, “From Colony to Class: The Changing Consciousness of Franco-American Textile Workers in Waterville, Maine, 1934–1954” (M.A. thesis, University of Maine, 1995). See also Bruno Ramirez,On the Move: French Canadians and Italian Migrants m the North Atlantic Economy, 1871–1929(Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1991) and Jacques Rouillard,Ah les États: Les travailleurs canadiens-français dans l'industrie textile de la Nouvelle-Angleterre d'après le témoignage des derniers migrants(Montreal: Les éditions du Boréal Express, 1985).
5. C. Stewart Doty,Acadian Hard Times(Orono: University of Maine Press, 1991). See also C. Stewart Doty, “How Many Frenchmen Does It Take To…,”Thought and Action11 (Fall 1995): 85–104, a study of discrimination against Franco-Americans.