Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Arinaga, Esther K., and Caroline A. Garrett, “A Murder, a Trial, a Hanging: The Kapea Case of 1897–1898,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 201–30.
Blaine, Marcia Schmidt, “The Johnsons’ Plight: The Role of Captivity on Anglo-American Identity,” History (London), 94 (Jan. 2009), 53–73.
Campney, Brent M. S., “W. B. Townsend and the Struggle against Racist Violence in Leavenworth,” Kansas History, 31 (Winter 2008–2009), 260–73.
Caton, Lou, “Fiery Rhetoric and Burning Cars: An Irrational Tolerance for Susan Sontag after 9/11,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 1030–44.
Davis, Robert Scott, “Hysteria and Literature: Atlanta’s First Execution and Its Legendary Ties to Organized Crime,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Fall 2008), 321–39.
Gürsel, Bahar, “Yargiç Lynch’in mirasi: Amerikan tarihinde kolektif siddet” (Judge Lynch’s legacy: Collective violence in U.S. history), Dogu Bati: Düsünce Dergisi (Istanbul), 44 (April 2008), 237–48. In Turkish.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy, “From Counter-insurgency to Narco-insurgency: Vietnam and the International War on Drugs,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 344–78.
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.
Nemeth, Neil, “From Reporting Sleuth to Pioneer in Media Accountability: The Career of the New York World’s Isaac D. White,” American Journalism, 25 (Summer 2008), 7–29.
Ricketts, Jeremy R., “Tennessee’s 1884 ‘Mormon Massacre’ and the Cane Creek Vigilante Movement,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Fall 2008), 208–35.
Allen, Ardith M., “The Deradicalization of Columbus, Ohio’s Antirape Movement, 1972–2002” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3313013.
Cassino, Peter P., “A National and a Local Response to a Local Problem: How the Public, Media, Government, and Local Organizations Reacted to the Crime Wave of the Late 1980s and Early 1990s” (Northeastern University, 2008). Order No. DA3304116.
Shabazz Sanders, G. Rashad, “‘They Imprison the Whole Population’: U.S. and South African Prison Literature and the Emergence of Symbiotic Carcerality, 1900–Present” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317409.
Turcotte, Heather M., “Petro-Sexual Politics: Global Oil, Legitimate Violence, and Transnational Justice” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317419.
Wessels-Cruz, Kathleen L., “A History of Drug Regulation in the United States, 1902–2008: Effects on Women’s Health” (Dowling College, 2008). Order No. DA3313053.
Guinn, Jeff, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. x, 467 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-4165-5706-7.)
Higdon, Hal, The Union vs. Dr. Mudd. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xvi, 241 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3267-2.) Originally published in 1964.
Kan, Paul Rexton, Drugs and Contemporary Warfare. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-59797-256-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-59797-257-4.)
Loury, Glenn C., Race, Incarceration, and American Values. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2008. 86 pp. $14.95, isbn 978-0-262-12311-2.)
Parsons, Chuck, The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2009. xii, 388 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-57441-257-4.)
Pitch, Anthony S., “They Have Killed Papa Dead!”: The Road to Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance. (Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth, 2008. xviii, 493 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58642-158-8.)
Wojtczak, Jaroslaw, Sand Creek, 1864 (Sand Creek, 1864). (Warsaw: Bellona, 2007. 296 pp. zl. 22.00, isbn 978-8-311-10676-5.) In Polish.
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