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Ravenholt, Betty Butler, “From Carolina to Kentucky: Andrew Colley—Farmer, Fighter, Pioneer, Part Two,” Kentucky Ancestors, 40 (Summer 2005), 181–90.

Ridner, Judith, “‘What an Addition to My Happiness Has My Wife and Children Been to Me’? Three Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Husbands ‘Talk’ to and about Their Wives,” Pennsylvania History, 70 (Autumn 2003), 305–30.

 

Fitch, Catherine Andrea, “Transition to Marriage in the United States, 1850–2000” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3179986.

Hirst, Ynez Wilson, “The Effects of Race, Gender, and Family Background on Children’s Educational Attainment: Contemporary Patterns and Historical Change” (University of Southern California, 2005). Order No. DA3180333.

Ringel, Paul, “Conceiving Childhood: Juvenile Magazines and the Acculturation of American Children, 1823–1918” (Brandeis University, 2005). Order No. DA3180566.

Thomas, Kathleen Marie Way, “‘Their habits were startling’: The Perceptions, Strategies, and Erasing of a Mixed-Heritage Family in the Old Northwest” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3184976.

Yamin, Priscilla, “Nuptial Nation: Marriage and the Politics of Civil Membership in the United States” (New School University, 2005). Order No. DA3184400.

 

Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer, ed., “‘Almost Like a Storybook’: A Childhood in Frankfort, Kentucky, 1901–1911,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 103 (Spring 2005), 465–91. Heavily illustrated.

Harrison, Kimberly, ed., A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xviii, 384 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8071-3143-1.)

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