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Revolutionary and Early National

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.

Buchanan, Chester C., “Jesse Copher: One of Daniel Boone’s Salt Makers,” Kentucky Ancestors, 44 (Spring 2009), 119–35.

Butterfield, Kevin, “A Common Law of Membership: Expulsion, Regulation, and Civil Society in the Early Republic,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (July 2009), 255–75.

Castronovo, Russ, “Propaganda, Prenational Critique, and Early American Literature,” American Literary History, 21 (Summer 2009), 183–210.

Gilman, Carolyn, “L’Anneé du Coup: The Battle of St. Louis, 1780, Part 1,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (April 2009), 133–47.

Gilman, Carolyn, “L’Anneé du Coup: The Battle of St. Louis, 1780, Part 2,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (July 2009), 195–211.

Haw, James, “‘Every Thing Here Depends upon Opinion’: Nathanael Greene and Public Support in the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 109 (July 2008), 212–31.

Lennon, Rachal Mills, “Jonathan Turner—More Than a Name: A Carolina Case Study in Dissecting Records,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (March 2009), 17–28.

Marcus, Maeva, “John Marshall Was Not the First Chief Justice,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 153 (March 2009), 48–55.

McMahon, Lucia, “‘Of the Utmost Importance to Our Country’: Women, Education, and Society, 1780–1820,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 475–506.

O’Melinn, Liam Seamus, “What If James Madison Were to Assess the Intellectual Property Revolution?,” Michigan State Law Review (Spring 2008), 401–12.

Opal, J. M., “Common Sense and Imperial Atrocity: How Thomas Paine Saw South Asia in North America,” Common-Place, 9 (July 2009), http://www.common-place.org.

Shalev, Eran, “‘A Perfect Republic’: The Mosaic Constitution in Revolutionary New England, 1775–1788,” New England Quarterly, 82 (June 2009), 235–63.

Stone, Geoffrey R., “The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?,” ucla Law Review, 56 (Oct. 2008), 1–26.

 

Apap, Christopher C., “America Unbound: The Early American Geographical Imagination and the Shaping of the Nation” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3320765.

Baer, Robert V., “Power and Freedom: Political Thought and Constitutional Politics in the United States and Argentina” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3320764.

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.

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

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

 

Brown, Gordon S., Incidental Architect: William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washington, D.C., 1794–1828. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xiv, 141 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1862-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1863-5.)

Davis, Kenneth C., America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation. (New York: Collins, 2008. xiv, 270 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-0-06-111818-0. Paper, $15.99, isbn 978-0-06-111819-7.)

Mayers, Robert A., The War Man: The True Story of a Citizen-Soldier Who Fought from Quebec to Yorktown. (Yardley: Westholme, 2009. xii, 284 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-59416-082-0.)

Morgan, Edmund S., American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America. (New York: Norton, 2009. xvi, 278 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-393-07010-1.)

Newell, Quincy D., Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776–1821. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. x, 267 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4706-0.)

 

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.)

Sypher, Francis J., Jr., New York State Society of the Cincinnati: Histories of New York Regiments of the Continental Army. (Fishkill: New York State Society of the Cincinnati, 2008. xiv, 359 pp. $200.00.)

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