Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Carson, Scott Alan, “Health during Industrialization: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania State Prison System,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 347–72.
Cramer, Clayton E., and Joseph Edward Olson, “Pistols, Crime, and Public Safety in Early America,” Willamette Law Review, 44 (Summer 2008), 699–722.
Dodge, Tim, “Good Intentions, Disappointing Results: A History of the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women,” Alabama Review, 61 (Oct. 2008), 243–303.
Gaster, Patricia C., “A Fallen Victim to ‘the Liquor Curse’: The Life and Tragic Death of Samuel D. Cox,” Nebraska History, 89 (Summer 2008), 84–93.
Goff, Colin, and Gilbert Geis, “The Michael-Adler Report (1933): Criminology under the Microscope,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 44 (Oct. 2008), 350–63.
Gómez, Alan Eladio, “Resisting Living Death at Marion Federal Penitentiary, 1972,” Radical History Review (no. 96, Fall 2006), 58–86.
Hughes, Rowland, “‘Wonderfully Cruel Proceedings’: The Murderous Case of James Yates,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 38 (no. 1, 2008), 43–62.
Jones, Paul Christian, “‘I Put My Fingers around My Throat and Squeezed It, to Know How It Feels’: Antigallows Sentimentalism and E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand,” Legacy, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 41–61.
Laska, Lewis, “The Tennessee Death Penalty, 1870–1890,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Spring 2008), 22–35.
Pretelli, Matteo, “Fascismo, violenza, e malavita all’estero: Il caso degli Stati Uniti d’America” (Fascism, violence, and the underworld abroad: The case of the United States), Iperstoria (Sept. 2008), http://www.iperstoria.it. In Italian.
Santoro, Wayne A., “The Civil Rights Movement and the Right to Vote: Black Protest, Segregationist Violence, and the Audience,” Social Forces, 86 (June 2008), 1391–1414.
Shadid, Kerri A., “‘An American Tragedy’: Oklahomans React to Martin Luther King’s Assassination,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Summer 2008), 212–32.
Coleman, Ellen, “Amicus Curiae Briefs and Their Effect on United States Supreme Court Decisions Involving Rape Convictions from 1950–1999” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296075.
Stemen, Donald, “Policies of Imprisonment: Sentencing and Corrections Policy Innovation in the United States, 1970–2002” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296898.
Baumler, Ellen, Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. x, 117 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4547-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Beal, Clifford, Quelch’s Gold: Piracy, Greed, and Betrayal in Colonial New England. (Dulles: Potomac, 2008. xvi, 242 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-59797-233-8.)
Carr, Matthew, The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism from the Assassination of Tsar Alexander II to Al-Qaeda. (New York: New Press, 2008. 410 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-1-59558-179-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-59558-408-3.)
Jamieson, Perry D., Khobar Towers: Tragedy and Response. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2008. xxii, 276 pp. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-16-080701-5.)
Johnson, Troy R., The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self-Determination. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 283 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1779-9.) Paperback edition with new afterword.
Kirkpatrick, Jennet, Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xii, 139 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-0-691-13709-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-691-13877-0.)
Magarrell, Lisa, and Joya Wesley, Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xviii, 278 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4110-5.)
Neal, Bill, From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. xx, 364 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-637-6.)
Newkirk, Vann R., Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865–1941. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. vi, 206 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3928-7.)
Presser, Lois, Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 183 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03358-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07558-2.)
Rottenberg, Dan, Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, the West’s Most Elusive Legend. (Yardley: Westholme, 2008. xiv, 520 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59416-070-7.)
Sloan, Kay, ed., Not Without Honor: The Nazi pow Journal of Steve Carano. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xxii, 159 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-55728-884-4.)
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