| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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The Man Who Found Thoreau: Roland W. Robbins and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America. By Donald W. Linebaugh. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, xiv, 294 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-58465-425-2.)
In 1945, Roland W. Robbins (1908–1987) began a controversial career in historical archaeology. A self-trained archaeologist who would forever be associated with the excavation and restoration of Henry David Thoreau's house at Walden Pond and with numerous industrial sites throughout the Northeast, Robbins would also be regarded as an outsider by academic archaeologists. In this reconstruction of Robbins's lifework, Donald W. Linebaugh admirably juxtaposes the threads of Robbins's career with the formal development of American historical archaeology.	1
Robbins's interest in historical archaeology first developed before the field became a university subject. Many of its earliest practitioners came from such related fields as architectural history or, like Robbins, from far outside academia. Robbins operated a window-washing and odd-jobs business, and he had a profound interest in local history. A native New Englander, Robbins prided himself on his Yankee background and the ingenuity he believed it inculcated in him.	. . .

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