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Antebellum

 

Matsuda, Hiroyuki, “Amerika niokeru denshin-shi no shakaishi” (A social history of telegraph operators in America), Joho-Tsushin Gakkai-shi (Tokyo), 85 (Jan. 2008), 59–68. In Japanese.

Pandora, Katherine, “Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context,” Isis, 100 (June 2009), 346–58.

Schweninger, Loren, “‘To the Honorable’: Divorce, Alimony, Slavery, and the Law in Antebellum North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (April 2009), 127–79.

 

Luck, Chad Martin, “The Body of Property: Space, Embodiment, and the Phenomenology of Possession in Antebellum American Literature” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3330777.

Luse, Christopher, “‘The Offspring of Infidelity’: Polygenesis and the Defense of Slavery” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3332327.

Ward, Michael K., “Massachusetts, Mississippi, and Southern Identity: The Winchesters, New Men, and Imagining Southernism” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3327308.

 

Humphrey, David C., Peg Leg: The Improbable Life of a Texas Hero, Thomas William Ward, 1807–1872. (Denton: Texas State Historical Association, 2009. xii, 340 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-87611-237-3.)

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