Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Charles, Patrick J., “‘Arms for Their Defence’? An Historical, Legal, and Textual Analysis of the English Right to Have Arms and Whether the Second Amendment Should Be Incorporated in McDonald v. City of Chicago,” Cleveland State Law Review, 57 (no. 3, 2009), 351–460.
Davis, Robert Scott, “Joe Ritchey of Tennessee: An American Desperado in Legends, the Newspapers, and a Federal Pension File,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 69 (Summer 2009), 152–73.
Gauthreaux, Alan G., “An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891–1924,” Louisiana History, 51 (Winter 2010), 41–68.
Gordon, Michael A., “‘To Make a Clean Sweep’: Milwaukee Confronts an Anarchist Scare in 1917,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Winter 2009–2010), 16–27. Heavily illustrated.
Kirk, Andrew Taylor, “Dens of Hell in the Cities of Zion: Newspaper Coverage of Opium Abuse in Territoiral Utah, 1869–96,” Journalism History, 35 (Winter 2010), 229–37.
McLaughlin, Vance, and Paul H. Blackman, “‘Why Take Four Lives for One?’: Ohio’s Only Mass Legal Execution,” Ohio Valley History, 9 (Fall 2009), 43–58.
Moehling, Carolyn, and Anne Morrison Piehl, “Immigration, Crime, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century America,” Demography, 46 (Nov. 2009), 739–63.
Peak, Kenneth J., and William N. Ouseley, “The fbi’s ‘Strawman’: Breaking the Kansas City Mob’s Connection to Las Vegas,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Jan. 2010), 95–114. Heavily illustrated.
Tress, Will, “Unintended Collateral Consequences: Defining Felony in the Early American Republic,” Cleveland State Law Review, 57 (no. 3, 2009), 461–91.
Young, Kevin W., “The Murder of Gladys Kincaid: The Story behind the Ballads,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 56 (Spring-Summer 2009), 21–32.
Chandler, Abby, “At the Magistrate’s Discretion: Sexual Crime and New England Law, 1636–1718” (University of Maine, 2008). Order No. DA3346244.
Flood, Sarah M., “Gendered Careers in Changing Social and Institutional Contexts: Criminology in the Post-WWII Era” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3349771.
Keller, Matthew Raymond, “Re-drawing the Color Line: How National Commissions Explained Collective Violence in the 20th Century” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3350740.
Kotch, Seth, “Unduly Harsh and Unworkably Rigid: The Death Penalty in North Carolina, 1910–1961” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3352719.
Manion, Jennifer, “Women’s Crime and Prison Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1786–1829” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3350762.
Royer, Jennifer Baugh, “A Dark Side of Dixie: Illegal Gambling in Northern Kentucky, 1790–2000” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3352332.
Schiessl, Christoph, “The Search for Nazi Collaborators in the United States” (Wayne State University, 2009). Order No. DA3352327.
Stampnitzky, Lisa Rachel, “Disciplining an Unruly Field: Terrorism Studies and the State, 1972–2001” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3353231.
Temoney, Tamara LaSho, “Agenda–Setting and the Media: A Look at Child Welfare Legislation in Virginia, 1995–2005” (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2008). Order No. DA3349298.
Gardner, Mark Lee, To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West. (New York: William Morrow, 2010. 325 pp. $26.99, isbn 978-0-06-136827-1.)
Jennings, Matthew H., “Violence in a Shattered World,” in Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South, ed. Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, 272–94. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. x, 526 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1759-1.)
Lombardo, Robert M., The Black Hand: Terror by Letter in Chicago. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xiv, 239 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03488-6. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07675-6.)
Harris, Charles H., III, France E. Harris, and Louis R. Sadler, comps., Texas Ranger Biographies: Those Who Served, 1910–1920. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xx, 433 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8263-4748-0.)
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