Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Bean, Christopher B., “Death of a Carpetbagger: The George Washington Smith Murder and Stockade Trial in Jefferson, Texas, 1868–1869,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (Jan. 2009), 263–92.
Bell, Richard, “The Double Guilt of Dueling: The Stain of Suicide in Anti-dueling Rhetoric in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 383–410.
Carey, Elaine, “‘Selling Is More of a Habit Than Using’: Narcotraficante Lola la Chata and Her Threat to Civilization, 1930–1960,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Summer 2009), 62–89.
Carlson, Paul H., and Tom Crum, “The ‘Battle’ at Pease River and the Question of Reliable Sources in the Recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 113 (July 2009), 32–52.
Compton, Todd M., “Becoming a ‘Messenger of Peace’: Jacob Hamblin in Tooele,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 42 (Spring 2009), 1–29.
Cragg, Thomas, “Habitués of the Police Court: Criminal Justice for the Poor in Antebellum Detroit,” Michigan Historical Review, 35 (Spring 2009), 1–28.
Etcheson, Nicole, “John Brown, Terrorist?,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (March 2009), 29–48.
Fujinaga, Yasumasa, “‘Nagaku atsuinatsu’ saiko: 60 nendai kokujin radikaruzu no sozoryoku to toshi bodo nikansuru ichikosatsu” (Reconsidering the ‘long hot summer’: A historiographical sketch of the race riots of the 1960s and imaginations of black radicals), Yamaguchi Daigaku Bungakubukaishi (Yamaguchi), 58 (2008), 63–89. In Japanese.
Garland, Libby, “Not-Quite-Closed Gates: Jewish Aliens Smuggling in the Post-quota Years,” American Jewish History, 94 (Sept. 2008), 197–224.
Igler, David, “Captive-Taking and Conventions of Encounters on the Northwest Coast, 1789–1810,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2009), 3–25.
Kohn, Edward P., “‘A Most Revolting State of Affairs’: Theodore Roosevelt’s Aldermanic Bill and the New York Assembly City Investigating Committee of 1884,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (March 2009), 71–92.
McLaughlin, Vance, and Wade C. Mackey, “Demographics of the Upward-Trending Murder Rate in Buffalo, New York: A Harbinger of Societal Stress,” Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, 33 (Winter 2008), 458–71.
McNair, Glenn, “Slave Women, Capital Crime, and Criminal Justice in Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Summer 2009), 135–58.
Miller, Vivien, “The Life and Crimes of Harry Sitamore, New York ‘Prince of Thieves’ and the ‘Raffles’ of Miami,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2009), 378–403.
Minchin, Timothy J., “One America? Church Burnings and Perceptions of Race Relations in the Clinton Years,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 1–28.
Mitrani, Sam, “Reforming Repression: Labor, Anarchy, and Reform in the Shaping of the Chicago Police Department, 1879–1888,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Summer 2009), 73–96.
Morgan, M. J., “Indians on Trial: Crime and Punishment in French Louisiana on the Eve of the Seven Years’ War,” Louisiana History, 50 (Summer 2009), 293–319.
Paquette, Robert L., “‘A Horde of Brigands?’: The Great Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811 Reconsidered,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 35 (Spring 2009), 72–96.
Ribak, Gil, “‘They Are Slitting the Throats of Jewish Children’: The 1906 New York School Riots and Contending Images of Gentiles,” American Jewish History, 94 (Sept. 2008), 175–96.
Richard, Mark Paul, “This Is Not a Catholic Nation: The Ku Klux Klan Confronts Franco-Americans in Maine,” New England Quarterly, 82 (June 2009), 285–303.
Richardson, John G., “Mill Owners and Wobblies: The Event Structure of the Everett Massacre of 1916,” Social Science History, 33 (Summer 2009), 183–215.
Stowell, Daniel W., “Murder at a Methodist Camp Meeting: The Origins of Abraham Lincoln’s Most Famous Trial,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 219–34.
Turley, Richard E., Jr., “Problems with Mountain Meadows Massacre Sources,” byu Studies, 47 (no. 3, 2008), 142–57.
Urban, Andrew, “Irish Domestic Servants, ‘Biddy,’ and Rebellion in the American Home, 1850–1900,” Gender & History (Oxford), 21 (Aug. 2009), 263–86.
Waiser, Bill, “A Prairie Parable: The 1933 Bates Tragedy,” Great Plains Quarterly, 29 (Summer 2009), 203–18.
Byron, Matthew A., “Crime and Punishment: The Impotency of Dueling Laws in the United States” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3329153.
Cloyd, Benjamin Gregory, “Civil War Prisons in American Memory” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2005).
Cohen, Victor B., “Heroes for Sale: Radical Politics and Genre Formation in Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2005). Order No. DA3326625.
Dzurec, David J., III, “‘An Entertaining Narrative of . . . Cruel and Barbarous Treatment’: Captivity, Narrative, and Debate in the Early American Republic, 1775–1816” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3324009.
Hollowell, Deonte Jamar, “Control and Resistance: An Afrocentric Analysis of the Historical and Current Relationship between African Americans and the Police” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326340.
Peaslee, Liliokanaio, “Agents of Social Change: Police–Social Policy Engagement in Four New England Cities” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3319786.
Sims, Angela D., “Just Act: Ida B. Wells and Ethical Complications of Lynching” (Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education, 2008). Order No. DA3326576.
Conway, J. North, King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America. (New York: Lyons, 2009. xvi, 224 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-59921-538-9.)
Dash, Mike, The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia. (New York: Random House, 2009. xxx, 375 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-4000-6722-0.)
Fowler, Giles, Deaths on Pleasant Street: The Ghastly Enigma of Colonel Swope and Doctor Hyde. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xii, 251 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-931112-91-8.)
Gorn, Elliott J., Dillinger’s Wild Ride: The Year That Made America’s Public Enemy Number One. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xx, 268 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-530483-1.)
Guzik, Keith, Arresting Abuse: Mandatory Legal Interventions, Power, and Intimate Abusers. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. x, 238 pp. $34.00, isbn 978-0-87580-403-3.)
Michael, George, Theology of Hate: A History of the World Church of the Creator. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. x, 285 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3350-1.)
Neal, Bill, Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2009. xvi, 280 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-662-8.)
Pickenpaugh, Roger, Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. xiv, 287 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1652-5.)
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