Recent Scholarship
Family
Cracroft, Richard H., “‘The Assault of Laughter’: The Comic Attack on Mormon Polygamy in Popular Literature,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 233–62.
Hacker, J. David, “Economic, Demographic, and Anthropometric Correlates of First Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 307–45.
Marquardt, H. Michael, “Emily Dow Partridge Smith Young on the Witness Stand: Recollections of a Plural Wife,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 110–41.
Taranto, Stacie, “The Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act and Its Reception in Rhode Island,” Rhode Island History, 66 (Winter–Spring 2008), 3–21.
Coontz, Stephanie, Maya Parson, and Gabrielle Raley, eds., American Families: A Multicultural Reader. (New York: Routledge, 2008. viii, 475 pp. Cloth, $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-95820-2. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-415-95821-9.) Second edition; revised and expanded.
May, Elaine Tyler, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. (New York: Basic, 2008. xiv, 302 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-465-01020-2.) Twentieth anniversary edition with a new epilogue.
Tyler, Daniel, ed., Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxxiv, 210 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4534-9.)
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