Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Altheide, David L., “The Columbine Shootings and the Discourse of Fear,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (June 2009), 1354–70.
Bell, Jeannine, “The Fair Housing Act and Extralegal Terror,” Indiana Law Review, 41 (no. 3, 2008), 537–54.
Davis, Robert Scott, “‘Near Andersonville’: An Historical Note on Civil War Legend and Reality,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 96–105.
Engels, Jeremy, and Greg Goodale, “‘Our Battle Cry Will Be, Remember Jenny McCrea!’: A Précis on the Rhetoric of Revenge,” American Quarterly, 61 (March 2009), 93–112.
Johnson, Sara E., “‘You Should Give Them Blacks to Eat’: Waging Inter-American Wars of Torture and Terror,” American Quarterly, 61 (March 2009), 65–92.
King, Wilma, “‘Mad’ Enough to Kill: Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 37–56.
Kleck, Gary, “Mass Shootings in Schools: The Worst Possible Case for Gun Control,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (June 2009), 1447–64.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy, “Modernizing Repression: Police Training, Political Violence, and Nation-Building in the American Century,” Diplomatic History, 33 (April 2009), 191–221.
McPherson, Robert S., “‘Too Much Noise in That Bunch across the River’: Ba’áílílee and the 1907 Aneth Brawl,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Winter 2009), 26–51.
Mihesuah, Devon Abbott, “Unfinished Choctaw Justice: The Murder of Charles Wilson and the Execution of Jackson Crow,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Fall 2008), 290–315.
Niewinski, Lukasz, “Prawo do zycia jenców wojennych a realia obozu Andersonville” (Prisoners of war’s rights to life and the realities of the Andersonville camp), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 6, 2008), 77–94. In Polish.
Parafianowicz, Halina, “Internowanie Japonczyków w usa w czasie II wojny swiatowej: Próba nowego spojrzenia” (Internment of Japanese in the United States during World War II: An attempt at a new approach), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 6, 2008), 177–96. In Polish.
Pfeifer, Michael J., “The Origins of Postbellum Lynching: Collective Violence in Reconstruction Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 50 (Spring 2009), 189–201.
Pulido Esteva, Diego, “El canto de los condenados: Ecos de la plantación en la penitenciaría de Angola, Luisiana (1934–1959)” (The song of the prisoners: Echoes of the plantation in the penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana (1934–1959)), Cuadernos de Trabajo de Posgrado (Mexico City), 3 (2008), 63–82. In Spanish.
Schwenkel, Christina, “From John McCain to Abu Ghraib: Tortured Bodies and Historical Unaccountability of U.S. Empire,” American Anthropologist, 111 (March 2009), 30–42.
Spencer, J. William, “The Contested Meaning of the Crosses at Columbine,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (June 2009), 1371–86.
Barrett, Ross, “Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Visual Culture” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3323100.
Crail-Rugotzke, Donna, “The Treatment of Minorities and Women by Southwestern Courts and Prisons” (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2008). Order No. DA3319138.
Girgen, Jen, “Constructing Animal Rights Activism as a Social Threat: Claims-Making in the New York Times and in Congressional Hearings” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3321484.
Priest, Win, “The Saga of the One Room School: A Socio-historical Analysis of the Influence of Volunteerism, Crime, Education, and Humanism in the United States” (George Fox University, 2008). Order No. DA3318522.
Cairns, Kathleen A., Hard Time at Tehachapi: California’s First Women’s Prison. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. x, 205 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4572-1.)
Ernst, Donna B., The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xxiv, 233 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3982-1.)
von Lingen, Kerstin, Kesselring’s Last Battle: War Crimes Trials and Cold War Politics, 1945–1960, trans. Alexandra Klemm. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. x, 451 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1641-1.)
Platt, Anthony M., The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. lvi, 292 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4536-3.) Expanded 40th anniversary edition.
Schultz, John, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 401 pp. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-226-74114-7.) Originally published in 1970.
Stukalin, Iu. V., Po zakonu revol’vera: Dikii Zapad i ego geroi (Revolver’s law: The wild west and its heroes). (Moscow: ENAS, 2007. 312 pp. isbn 978-5-93196-828-5.) In Russian.
Ward, David, with Gene Kassebaum, Alcatraz: The Gangster Years. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xxviii, 548 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-520-25607-1.)
Wise, Steven M., An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 2009. x, 291 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-306-81475-4.)
Schultz, John, No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii, 307 pp. Paper, $17.00, isbn 978-0-226-74078-2.) Originally published in 1969.
Steers, Edward, Jr., and Harold Holzer, eds., The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xiv, 179 pp. $24.95.)
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