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Afinogenov, Gregory, “Otium cum Dignitate: Economy, Politics, and Pastoral in Eighteenth-Century New York,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 42 (Summer 2009), 581–602.

Allen, Chadwick, “Tonto on Vacation, or How to Be an Indian Lawyer,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 2, 2009), 136–61.

Anderson, Michael, “Lorraine Hansberry’s Freedom Family,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 259–69.

Anshen, David, “Faulkner’s ‘Curious Folk’: Estrangement as Critique of Capitalism,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Summer 2008), 477–95.

Barrenechea, Antonio, “Conquistadors, Monsters, and Maps: Moby Dick in a New World Context,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (March 2009), 18–33.

Bedore, Pamela, “Queer Investigations: Foxy Ladies and Dandy Detectives in American Dime Novels,” Studies in Popular Culture, 31 (Fall 2008), 19–38.

Binnington, Ian, “Standing upon a Volcano: Cincinnati’s Newspapers Debate Emancipation, 1860–1862,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (June 2009), 163–86.

Bowman, Matthew, and Samuel Brown, “Reverend Buck’s Theological Dictionary and the Struggle to Define American Evangelicalism, 1802–1851,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 441–73.

Brady, Patricia, “Eliza Jane Nicholson: New Orleans Publisher,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 94–113. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)

Brimhall, Sandra Dawn, “Friends at All Times: The Correspondence of Isaiah Moses Coombs and Dryden Rogers,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Spring 2009), 151–65.

Broussard, Jinx Coleman, and Skye Chance Cooley, “Ebony’s Era Bell Thompson Travels the World to Tell the Story,” American Journalism, 26 (Winter 2009), 7–30.

Childs, Dennis, “‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’: Beloved, the American Chain Gang, and the Middle Passage Remix,” American Quarterly, 61 (June 2009), 271–97.

Christensen, Philip H., “McGuffey’s Oxford (Ohio) Shakespeare,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (April 2009), 101–15.

Davis, Jack E., “Sharp Prose for Green: John D. MacDonald and the First Ecological Novel,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Spring 2009), 484–508.

Endres, Kathleen, “In Their Own Voices: Women Redefine and Frame Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964,” American Journalism, 26 (Winter 2009), 55–80.

Freeman, James A., “America’s Blind Naturalist: Clarence Hawkes and the World He Lived In,” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 284–316. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

Frink, Sandra, “Women, the Family, and the Fate of the Nation in American Anti-Catholic Narratives, 1830–1860,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (May 2009), 237–64.

García, David A., “A Master of the Rosary: Apology and Confession in Selected Writings of Jesús Colón’s A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches,Afro-Hispanic Review, 27 (Fall 2008), 45–70.

Garland, Sarah, “‘A Cook Book to Be Read. What about It?’: Alice Toklas, Gertrude Stein, and the Language of the Kitchen,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (March 2009), 34–56.

Graham, Wendy, “Notes on a Native Son: Henry James’s New York,” American Literary History, 21 (Summer 2009), 239–67.

Gray, Elizabeth Kelly, “The World by Gaslight: Urban-Gothic Literature and Moral Reform in New York City, 1845–1860,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (June 2009), 137–62.

Hagood, Taylor, “Labor, Place, and Faulkner’s Rincon,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Summer 2008), 359–77.

Hohenhaus, Ron, “The ‘Petrified Man’ Returns: An Early Mark Twain Hoax Makes an Unexpected Appearance in Australasia,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 83–103.

Hubbs, Jolene, “William Faulkner’s Rural Modernism,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Summer 2008), 461–75.

Hudson, Berkley, and Karen Boyajy, “The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Advocate and American Huckster: Louis N. Hammerling and the Immigrant Press,” Media History (Abingdon), 15 (Aug. 2009), 287–302.

Hughes, James, “Those Who Passed Through: Alexander Woollcott,” New York History, 89 (Summer 2008), 277–82.

Junqueira, Mary Ann, “Charles Wilkes, a U.S. Exploring Expedition e a dos Estados Unidos por um lugar no mundo (1838–1842)” (Charles Wilkes’s U.S. Exploring Expedition and the United States’s search for a place in the world (1838–1842)), Tempo (Rio de Janeiro), 13 (no. 25, 2008), 109–49. In Portugese.

Kreyling, Michael, “Robert Penn Warren: The Real Southerner and the ‘Hypothetical Negro,’” American Literary History, 21 (Summer 2009), 268–95.

Lank, Tom, “Poetic Sideshadowings of Fundamentalism in Southern Methodism, 1865–1866,” Methodist History, 47 (July 2009), 210–25.

Lomas, Laura, “José Martí’s ‘Evening of Emerson’ and the United Statesian Literary Tradition,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (April 2009), 1–17.

Lowe, John W., “The Transnational Vision of Richard Wright’s Pagan Spain,Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 69–99.

Lowrance, Mason, and Jan Pilditch, “Writing the Law: Literature and Slavery in Nineteenth Century America,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 66–82.

Martin, Gretchen, “Vanquished by a Different Set of Rules: Labor vs. Leisure in William Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom!,Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Summer 2008), 397–416.

Matthewson, Joe, “The Long and Strong Tradition of State Protection of Freedom of the Press,” American Journalism, 26 (Winter 2009), 81–112.

Mieszkowski, Jan, “Great War, Cold War, Total War,” Modernism/Modernity, 16 (April 2009), 211–28.

Miles, Caroline, “William Faulkner’s Critique of Capitalism: Reading ‘Wash’ and ‘Centaur in Brass’ as Stories about Class Struggle,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Summer 2008), 325–41.

Mizuno, Takeya, “Zaibei Nihongo shimbun to nashonarizumu no sokoku: Nichibei Kaisen Chokugo niokeru Rosanzerusu no Nihongoshi ‘Rafu Shimpo’ o jirei toshite” (The Japanese-language press in the United States and conflictive nationalism: An analysis of the Los Angeles Rafu Shimpo after Pearl Harbor), Media-shi Kenkyo (Tokyo), 24 (2008), 61–92. In Japanese.

Nash, Michael, and Daniel J. Leab, “Freedomways,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 227–37.

Neilson, Jim, and Gregory Meyerson, “Hookwormridden Heirs or Good Stock? Confronting Social Crisis in Light in August,Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Summer 2008), 435–59.

Neuhaus, Jessamyn, “‘Is It Ridiculous for Me to Say I Want to Write?’: Domestic Humor and Redefining the 1950s Housewife Writer in Fan Mail to Shirley Jackson,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Summer 2009), 115–37.

Norman, Will, “Nabokov’s Dystopia: Bend Sinister, America, and Mass Culture,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (April 2009), 49–69.

O’Brien, Colleen C., “‘Blacks in All Quarters of the Globe’: Anti-imperialism, Insurgent Cosmopolitanism, and International Labor in Pauline Hopkins’s Literary Journalism,” American Quarterly, 61 (June 2009), 245–70.

Page, Amanda M., “The Ever-Expanding South: James Weldon Johnson and the Rhetoric of the Global Color Line,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 26–46.

Palmer, Daryl W., “Coronado and Aesop: Fable and Violence on the Sixteenth-Century Plains,” Great Plains Quarterly, 29 (Spring 2009), 129–40.

Parikh, Crystal, “Writing the Borderline Subject of War in Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student,Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 47–68.

Pearl, Monica B., “‘Sweet Home’: Audre Lorde’s Zami and the Legacies of American Writing,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Aug. 2009), 297–319.

Peck, Graham A., “New Records of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the 1854 Illinois State Fair: The Missouri Republican and the Missouri Democrat Report from Springfield,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30 (Summer 2009), 25–80.

Portier, William L., “‘Good Friday in December’: World War II in the Editorials of Preservation of the Faith Magazine, 1939–1945,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Spring 2009), 25–44.

Richardson, Peter, “The Perilous Fight: The Rise of Ramparts Magazine, 1965–1966,” California History, 86 (no. 3, 2009), 22–43. Heavily illustrated.

Schweiger, Beth Barton, “Alexander Campbell’s Passion for Print: Protestant Sectarians and the Press in the Early United States,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 118 (part 1, 2008), 143–76.

Seltzer, Catherine, “Exploding the Canon/Cannon: Elizabeth Spencer’s The Light in the Piazza,Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 100–127.

Sen, Krishna, “The Bengal Connection: Transnationalising America in The Namesake and The Tree Bride,Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (March 2009), 57–70.

Stanley, Alison, “‘To Speak with Other Tongues’: Linguistics, Colonialism, and Identity in 17th Century New England,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (March 2009), 1–17.

Stevens, Errol Wayne, “Two Radicals and Their Los Angeles: Harrison Gray Otis and Job Harriman,” California History, 86 (no. 3, 2009), 44–64. Heavily illustrated.

Sweeney, Michael S., “Julius F. Taylor and the Broad Ax of Salt Lake City,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Summer 2009), 204–21.

Toth, Emily, “Kate Chopin: Knowing What It Means to Miss New Orleans,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 114–36. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)

Unger, Mary, “‘Dens of Iniquity and Holes of Wickedness’: George Lippard and the Queer City,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Aug. 2009), 319–39.

Voss, Kimberly Wilmot, “Forgotten Feminist: Women’s Page Editor Maggie Savoy and the Growth of Women’s Liberation Awareness in Los Angeles,” California History, 86 (no. 2, 2009), 48–64. Heavily illustrated.

West, Sharon Crook, and Joseph P. McKerns, “Death and Communists: The Funeral Industry’s Attack on Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death,American Journalism, 26 (Winter 2009), 31–53.

Williams, Megan E., “‘Meet the Real Lena Horne’: Representations of Lena Horne in Ebony Magazine, 1945–1949,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (April 2009), 117–30.

Yoshida, Akiyo, “Kindai shakai niokeru dotoku no suitai to sogai: W. D. Haueruzu no A Modern Instance to The Rise of Silas Lapham” (Moral degeneration and alienated modern individuals: W. D. Howells’s A Modern Instance and The Rise of Silas Lapham), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 113–26. In Japanese.

 

Aizenstein, Jill Havi, “Engaging America: Immigrant Jews in American Hebrew Literature” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3320763.

Balter, Barrie, “American ‘I-deologies’: The Personal and the Political in the Post-Vietnam Novel” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3325438.

Benatov, Joseph, “Looking in the Iron Mirror: Eastern Europe in the American Imaginary, 1958–2001” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328526.

Bilwakesh, Nikhil, “Emerson and American Cosmopolitanism” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3330374.

Chirstensen, Susan, “Selected Correspondence from the Horton Foote Collection, 1912–1991” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3320134.

Cohen, Victor B., “Heroes for Sale: Radical Politics and Genre Formation in Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2005). Order No. DA3326625.

Conway, J. P., “Dog Gone Money: The Passing of Strange Currencies and Strange People in American Democratic Culture” (Washington University in St. Louis, 2008). Order No. DA3332079.

Coronado, Teresa Marie Freeman, “Locating the Butt of Ridicule: Humor and Social Class in Early American Literature” (University of Oregon, 2008). Order No. DA3325656.

Davies, Vernon Tad, “The Character of Government: Governing Institutions in U.S. Political Narratives, 1959–1972” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3328076.

Dixon, Claudia A., “Bringing Her Home: The Woman in Herman Melville” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3330494.

de Fee, Nicole Reneé, “From Colony to Empire: The Decolonization of National Literary Identity in Antebellum American Literature” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3326859.

Feldman, Rochelle Ellen, “Herman Melville’s Work Trilogy: Navigating the New Economic Waters of Antebellum America” (University of New York, Stonybrook, 2007). Order No. DA3329399.

Forster, Sophia Ella, “The Virtues of Our Defects: Social Critique in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3320386.

Galluzzo, Anthony Michael, “Revolutionary Repubilc of Letters: Anglo-American Radical Literature in the 1790s” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3332571.

Gehlawat, Monika, “Boom: The New York City Flâneur in Postwar American Literature and Art” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3331627.

Gill, Diana Clark, “The Confessed American: War as Catalyst of a Changing Identity” (University of Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3329540.

Glaser, Jennifer, “Exceptional Differences: Race and the Postwar Jewish American Literary Imagination” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328563.

Glocke, Aimee, “Is the Black Aesthetic Dead? Positing the Black Aesthetic as the Foundation for the Black Novel” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326332.

Goldsmith, Julie Ann, “The People’s Art: The Chicago Tribune’s Transformation of Visual Journalism in the Early 20th Century” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3331917.

Gordon, Michelle Yvonne, “Black Literature of Revolutionary Protest from Chicago’s South Side: A Local Literary History, 1931–1959” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3327962.

Harmon, Geraldine Mart, “William Faulkner, His Eye for Archetypes, and America’s Divided Legacy of Medicine” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3326932.

Hoeynck, Joshua S., “Poetic Cosmologies: Black Mountain Poetry and Process Philosophy” (Washington University in St. Louis, 2008). Order No. DA3332098.

Hooper, Michael Clay, “Serviceable Selves: Antislavery, Autobiography, and the Postidealist Critique of Moral Reform, 1841–1901” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3320523.

Hruschka, John, “Ordering Books: The Development of a Modern American Book Trade” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3325924.

Jackson, Holly, “American Blood: The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850–1900” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3316485.

Kaplan, Robert, “Manning America: Francis Hutcheson, Homoaffective Relations, and National Identity in the Early Republic” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3330128.

Lessy, Rose Ellen, “‘This Mysterious Miasma’: Environmental Risk, Edith Wharton, and the Literature of Bad Air” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3330023.

Lo, Yuk-Kwong Edmund, “Photo Illustration in U.S. Newsmagazines during the Past Three Decades” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3327144.

Lock, Sarah Jo, “The People in the Neighborhood: Samaritans and Saviors in Middle-Class Women’s Social Settlement Writings, 1895–1914” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3324871.

Luck, Chad Martin, “The Body of Property: Space, Embodiment, and the Phenomenology of Possession in Antebellum American Literature” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3330777.

Lyes, Madeleine, “Writing Urbanity: Urban Literature and Culture during the Golden Era of the New Yorker Magazine” (University Collge Dublin, Ireland, 2009).

Mackay, Daniel, “Advertising the Soul: Walt Whitman’s Luciferic Voice in Twentieth-Century American Poetry” (University of Oregon, 2008). Order No. DA3325675.

Maurantonio, Nicole J., “Crisis, Race, and Journalistic Authority in Postwar Philadelphia” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328620.

McTaggart, Ursula, “Radicalism in America’s ‘Industrial Jungle’: Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3324531.

Meletio, Donna M., “Leona Queyrouze (1861–1938), Louisiana French Creole Poet, Essayist, and Composer” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2005). Order No. DA3329080.

Miller, Kara, “Tell Me a War: Presidential Narratives on the Eve of Conflict, 1916–2003” (Tufts University, 2008). Order No. DA3330354.

Miller, Wendy Pearce, “History, Gender, and Environment in ‘The Beulah Quintet’” (University of Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3329539.

Moran, Omar A., “Literature of Moral Conflict: Examining the Work of Nathaniel West from Ethical Perspectives” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3327298.

Noel, Tomás Urayoán, “nypr Blues: Experimentalism, Performance, and the Articulation of Diaspora in Nuyorican Poetry” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330155.

Pas, Justine M., “Finding Home in Babel: Transnationalism, Translation, and Languages of Identity” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3328926.

Pascoe-Chavez, Diana F., “Pragmatism and the Frontier Narrative in It Is: A Magazine for Abstract Art” (Saint Louis University, 2007). Order No. DA3324201.

Pederson, Joshua, “American Gnosis: The Literary Afterlife of a Heresy” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3323144.

Popp, Richard K., “Magazines, Marketing, and the Construction of Travel in the Post-war United States” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326370.

Powell, Jason A., “A Humble Protest: A Literary Generation’s Quest for the Heroic Self, 1917–1930” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3325782.

Raymond, Virginia Marie, “Mexican Americans Write toward Justice in Texas, 1973–1982” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3320169.

Riofrio, John, “Beyond Borders: Immigration and Construction of Latin@ Identity and Culture in the Americas” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3328045.

Rodriguez, Rick, “Rethinking Manifest Destiny and the Cultures of Early U.S. Empire” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3332368.

Rowan, Jamin Creed, “Urban Sympathy: Reconstructing an American Literary Tradition” (Boston College, 2008). Order No. DA3327284.

Russo, Sarah L., “Women’s Self-Writing and Medical Science: Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Jacobs, and Elizabeth Stoddard” (Syracuse University, 2008). Order No. DA3323081.

Scala, Jodi Gabriel, “Willa Cather and Performative Testimony: A Response to Sexual Trauma” (University of Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3329533.

Shaman, Cory, “Contemplating the Great Waste: Representations of Environmental Disaster and Recovery in the American Southwest” (University of Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3329541.

Shoaib, Mahwash, “Arts of the Impossible: The Transnational Poetics of Etel Adnan, Agha Shahid Ali, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Kishwar Naheed” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3325397.

Sliter-Hays, Sara Maria, “Narratives and Rhetoric: Persuasion in Doctors’ Writings about the Summer Complaint, 1883–1939” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3329869.

Stratton, Billy J., “(Re)inscribing King Philip’s War: Mary Rowlandson and the Advent of the Indian Captivity Narrative” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3320246.

Thompson, Todd Nathan, “Modest Proposals: American Satire and Political Change from Franklin to Lincoln” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3327450.

Vigil, Ariana Elizabeth, “Art in a Time of War: U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production and the Central American Revolutions” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3330092.

Vlagopoulos, Penny, “Voices from Below: Locating the Underground in Post–World War II American Literature” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333455.

Wallace, Robert Neil Andrew, “Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3330456.

Wilkinson, Elizabeth Leigh, “Story as a Weapon in Colonized America: Native American Women’s Transrhetorical Fight for Land Rights” (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2008). Order No. DA3316407.

Winkel, Suzanne Macdonald, “Childless Women in the Plays of William Inge, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee” (University of North Dakota, 2008). Order No. DA3324280.

Yap, Alia Christine, “Remembering Bodies: Subject Formation in the Neo-plantation Narrative” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3331847.

Yoshikawa, Mako E., “Riddles and Revelations: Forms of Incest Telling in 20th-Century America” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3329006.

Zeiss, Laura McKenzie, “Cold War Fictions of Behaviorism: Theories of Psychological Influence in American Cold War Literature” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3333290.

 

Bentley, Nancy, Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870–1920. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 364 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4174-7.)

Dolan, Neal, Emerson’s Liberalism. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. xii, 341 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-299-22804-0.)

Hutner, Gordon, What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 450 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3227-1.)

Sachsman, David B., S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris Jr., eds., Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press. (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009. xiv, 347 pp. Cloth, $64.95, isbn 978-1-55753-505-4. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-1-55753-508-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

 

Dreisbach, Daniel L., and Mark David Hall, eds., The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2009. xxxiv, 672 pp. Cloth, $30.00, isbn 978-0-86597-714-3. Paper, $14.50, isbn 978-0-86597-715-0.)

Gorrell, Henry T., Soldier of the Press: Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa, 1936–1943, ed. Kenneth Gorrell. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xiv, 314 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1851-3.)

Hogan, Margaret A., et al., eds., Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 9: January 1790–December 1793. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2009. xlx, 569 pp. $100.00, isbn 978-0-674-03275-0.)

McClure, James P., Peg A. Lamphier, and Erika M. Kreger, eds., ‘Spur Up Your Pegasus’: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844–1873. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. xvi, 508 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-87338-988-4.)

Wink, Amy L., ed., Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856–1884. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 420 pp. $56.00, isbn 978-1-57233-504-2.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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