Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Creel, Von Russell, “On the Gallows’ Edge: Capital Punishment, Appeals, and Presidential Clemency in Indian Territory, 1896–1907,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Summer 2006), 162–87.
Hershkowitz, Leo, “An Anatomy of a Riot: Astor Place Opera House, 1849,” New York History, 87 (Summer 2006), 277–311.
Moreno, E. Mark, “Mexican American Street Gangs, Migration, and Violence in the Yakima Valley,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Summer 2006), 131–38.
Szasz, Ferenc Morton, “A New Mexican ‘Davy Crockett’: Walt Disney’s Version of the Life and Legend of Elfego Baca,” Journal of the Southwest, 48 (Autumn 2006), 261–74.
Warren, Andrew L., “Earning Their Spurs in the Oil Patch: The Cinematic fbi, the Osage Murders, and the Test of the American West,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Summer 2006), 188–209.
Wilkinson, William Clayton, Jr., “Memories of the Ku Klux Klan in One Indiana Town,” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (Dec. 2006), 339–54.
Holt, Anne Haw, “Men, Women, and Children in the Stockade: How the People, the Press, and the Elected Officials of Florida Built a Prison System” (Florida State University, 2005). Order No. DA3216605.
Mason, Patrick Q., “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Mob: Violence against Religious Outsiders in the U.S. South, 1865–1910” (University of Notre Dame, 2005). Order No. DA3214124.
Wise, Paul, “Cotton Mather’s ‘Wonders of the Invisible World’: An Authoritative Edition” (Georgia State University, 2005). Order No. DA3215427.
Barbier, Marie-Calude, Benedict Deschamps, and Michel Prum, eds., Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence: Killing in the Name of Otherness. (Abingdon: Routledge Cavendish, 2007. 184 pp. £70.00, isbn 978-904385-15-8.)
DeArment, Robert K., Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xiv, 266 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8061-3784-3.)
Kraushaar, Wolfgang, ed., Die raf und der linke Terrorismus (The raf and leftist terrorism). (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006. 1,344 pp. €78.00, isbn 978-3936096651.) In German. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Lesy, Michael, Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties. (New York: Norton, 2007. 344 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-393-06030-0.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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