Recent Scholarship
Revolutionary and Early National
Block, Sharon, “Doing More with Digitization: An Introduction to Topic Modeling of Early American Sources,” Common-Place, 6 (Jan. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Collins, Michael G., “The Federal Courts, the First Congress, and the Non-Settlement of 1789,” Virginia Law Review, 91 (Nov. 2005), 1515–78.
Engels, Jeremy, “Reading the Riot Act: Rhetoric, Psychology, and Counter-Revolutionary Discourse in Shays’s Rebellion, 1786–1787,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91 (Feb. 2005), 63–88.
Falk, Cynthia G., “Celebrating Years Together: Personal Commemorations and the Colonial Revival,” Winterthur Portfolio, 40 (Spring 2005), 1–16. Heavily illustrated.
Ginsberg, Judah B., “Priestley, Jefferson, and Adams: The Émigre and American Politics,” Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 30 (no. 2, 2005), 91–102.
Jenkins, Tricia, “Country Music Tradition and Thomas Jefferson’s Agricultural Ideal,” Popular Music and Society, 29 (Feb. 2006), 37–50.
Kupper, Adrienne, “Using 1776: Teaching the Declaration of Independence through the Musical Comedy,” Common-Place, 6 (Jan. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Livingstone, David N., “‘Risen into Empire’: Moral Geographies of the American Republic,” in Geography and Revolution, ed. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers, 304–35. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. viii, 433 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-226-48733-4.)
Mercieca, Jennifer R., and James Arnt Aune, “A Vernacular Republican Rhetoric: William Manning’s Key of Libberty,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91 (May 2005), 119–43.
Mills, Randy K., “‘Throwed by as useless’: Indiana Governor Jonathan Jennings,” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 17 (Fall 2005), 34–43. Heavily illustrated.
Moorhead, James H., “‘The Last Will and Testament of Springfield Presbytery’ from the Perspective of Presbyterian History,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Spring–Summer 2005), 71–83. Heavily illustrated.
Morgan, Philip D., “‘To Get Quit of Negroes’: George Washington and Slavery,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 39 (Dec. 2005), 403–29.
Neeley, Kathleen L., and M. Andrea Bashore, “Esteem, Regard, and Respect for Rationality: Joseph Priestley’s Female Connections,” Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 30 (no. 2, 2005), 77–90.
Pasley, Jeffrey L., “The Kingness of Mad George: The Roots of the Current Debate over Presidential Power,” Common-Place, 6 (Jan. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Treanor, William Michael, “Judicial Review before Marbury,” Stanford Law Review, 58 (Nov. 2005), 455–562.
White, J. Edmund, “Pantisocracy and Pennsylvania: Plans of Coleridge and Southey and of Cooper and Priestley,” Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 30 (no. 2, 2005), 70–76.
Yasutake, Hidetake, “Shoki beikokushi tenbo” (A new perspective on the early American republic), Hokkai Gakuen Daigaku Jinbun Ronsyu (Sapporo), 26–27 (2004), 133–72. In Japanese.
Andrews, Michael Lee, “Thomas Jefferson and the Endless Republic: Liberty, Nature, and the Flight from Authority” (Tulane University, 2005). Order No. DA3170353.
Burleigh, Erica, “Intimacy and the Individual in Early National Writing” (Johns Hopkins University, 2005). Order No. DA3172560.
Gardiner, Richard, “The Presbyterian Rebellion: An Analysis of the Perception that the American Revolution Was a Presbyterian War” (Marquette University, 2005). Order No. DA3172505.
Kopper, Kevin Patrick, “Arthur St. Clair and the Struggle for Power in the Old Northwest, 1763–1803” (Kent State University, 2005). Order No. DA3171093.
Mullins, John Patrick, “Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution” (University of Kentucky, 2005). Order No. DA3167881.
Parkinson, Robert Glenn, “Enemies of the People: The Revolutionary War and Race in the New American Nation” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3177521.
Rawles, Susan J., “Facing Independence: American Revolutionary Portraits within the Context of British Identity” (College of William and Mary, 2005). Order No. DA3172895.
Staudt, John Gerard, “‘A state of wretchedness’: A Social History of Suffolk County, New York, in the American Revolution” (George Washington University, 2005). Order No. DA3167039.
Arrieta Elizalde, Idoia, Ilustración y utopía: Los frailes vascos y la rsbap en California, 1769–1834 (Enlightenment and utopia: Basque friars and the Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country of California, 1769–1834). (San Sebastián: Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País, 2004. 380 pp. isbn 84-921414-92.) In Spanish.
Burns, Eric, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. (New York: Public Affairs, 2006. x, 467 pp. $27.50, isbn 1-58648-334-X.)
Charles, Patrick, Washington’s Decision: The Story of George Washington’s Decision to Reaccept Black Enlistments in the Continental Army, December 31, 1775. (Bloomington, Ind.: BookSurge, 2005. xvi, 201 pp. Paper, $14.99, isbn 1-4196-2137-8.)
Desjardin, Thomas A., Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec, 1775. (New York: St. Martin’s, 2006. xiv, 240 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-312-33904-6.)
Dippel, Horst, ed., Constitutional Documents of the United States of America, 1776–1860, vol. 1: Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century. (Munich: Saur, 2006. 369 pp. €149.00, isbn 3-598-35751-0.)
Morton, Joseph C., Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Biographical Dictionary. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xvi, 368 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-313-33021-2.)
Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne, and Lucia Bergamasco, eds., L’Amerique: Des Colonies aux Républiques (America: From colonies to republics). (Paris: Publications de l’Université Paris 7–Denis Diderot, 2005. 342 pp. Paper, €12.00, isbn 2-9029-3739-3.) In French and English.
Looney, J. Jefferson, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 2: 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xliv, 728 pp. $99.50, isbn 0-691-12490-6.)
Preston, Daniel, ed., The Papers of James Monroe, vol. 2: Selected Correspondence and Papers, 1776–1794. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xl, 747 pp. $125.00, isbn 0-313-31979-0.)
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