Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Block, Sharon, “Violence or Sex? Constructions of Rape and Race in Early America,” in New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas, ed. John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, 111–27. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. vi, 362 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8122-3895-8.)
D’Cruze, Shani, Louise Jackson, and Judith Rowbotham, “Gender, Crime, and Culture in the Twentieth Century: Conversations between Academics and Professionals,” History Workshop Journal (Oxford), 60 (Autumn 2005), 139–51.
Garland, David, “Penal Excess and Surplus Meaning: Public Torture Lynchings in Twentieth-Century America,” Law & Society Review, 39 (no. 4, 2005), 793–830.
Greiner, Bernd, “Das alltägliche Verbrechen—Sexuelle Gewalt im Vietnamkrieg” (The all too normal crime: Sexual violence in the Vietnam war), in Massenhaftes Töten. Kriege und Genozide im 20. Jahrhundert (Mass killings. Wars and genocides in the twentieth century), ed. Peter Gleichmann and Thomas Kühne, 224–44. (Essen: Klartext, 2004. Paper, €22.90, isbn 3-898-61218-X.) In German.
Gribben, Mark, “Mickey Cohen, 1914–1976: Los Angeles’ Jewish Crime Boss,” Western States Jewish History, 38 (Fall 2005), 44–61.
Jones, James B., Jr., “The ‘Battle’ of Franklin: A Reconstruction Narrative,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Summer 2005), 110–19.
Klein, James E., “A Daunting Task: Enforcement Issues Involving Prohibition of Liquor in Oklahoma Prior to 1920,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 38 (Spring–Summer 2005), 15–38.
Knight, Larry, “The Cart War: Defining American in San Antonio in the 1850s,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Jan. 2006), 319–35.
Oney, Steve, “And the Dead Shall Rise: An Overview,” Southern Cultures, 11 (Winter 2005), 28–46.
Ramold, Steven J., “‘Altogether a Horrible Spectacle’: Public Executions in Nebraska, 1891,” Nebraska History, 86 (Summer–Fall 2005), 62–77. Heavily illustrated.
Szymanski, Ann-Marie, “Stop, Thief! Private Protective Societies in Nineteenth-Century New England,” New England Quarterly, 78 (Sept. 2005), 407–39.
Turner, Lillian, “The Legendary Earl Durand: Wyoming’s ‘Tarzan of the Tetons,’” Montana, 55 (Autumn 2005), 48–57.
Williams, Kidada E., “Resolving the Paradox of Our Lynching Fixation: Reconsidering Racialized Violence in the American South after Slavery,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 6 (Sept. 2005), 323–50.
Adkinson, Cary Dale, “Power and Responsibility: Media, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Ideology in The Amazing Spider-Man” (Sam Houston State University, 2005). Order No. DA3171974.
Fronc, Jennifer, “‘I led him on’: Undercover Investigation and the Politics of Social Reform in New York City, 1900–1919” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3174790.
Gilmore, Kimberly E., “States of Incarceration: Prisoners’ Rights and U.S. Prison Expansion after World War II” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170832.
Grefe, Christiana Morgan, “Museums of Order: ‘Truth,’ Politics, and the Interpretation of America’s Historic Prisons” (Brown University, 2005). Order No. DA3174613.
MacArthur, Kathleen Laura, “The Things We Carry: Trauma and the Aesthetic in the Contemporary U.S. Novel” (George Washington University, 2005). Order No. DA3167030.
Rice, Anne P., “Dangerous Memories: Lynching and the U.S. Literary Imagination” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3169973.
Brian, Denis, Sing Sing: The Inside Story of a Notorious Prison. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2005. 263 pp. $25.00, isbn 1-59102-357-2.)
Géczi, Zoltán, A Ku Klux Klan története/Torrente del Bosque (A history of the kkk). (Kecskemét: Vagabund, 2003. 215 pp. Paper, isbn 963-9409-15-4.) In Hungarian.
Steward, Dick, Beyond the Sabbath: Missouri and Her Violent Heritage. (Marceline: Vintage, 2005. 308 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 0-615-13035-6.)
Waldrep, Christopher, and Michael Bellesiles, eds., Documenting American Violence: A Sourcebook. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 399 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-19-515004-X.)
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