Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Blue, Ethan, “Gordian Knots and Recent Work on the American Prison Complex,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 25 (Dec. 2006), 92–102.
Brownrigg, Coya Paz, “Linchocracia: Performing ‘America’ in El Clamor Público,” California History, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 40–53. Heavily illustrated.
Burchfield, Christopher, “Death at Caborca: The Massacre of the Crabb Expedition,” California Territorial Quarterly (Winter 2006), 12–25. Heavily illustrated.
Hinton, Paula K., “‘Just Like One of the Family’: An Immigrant Murderess in Turn-of-the-Century America,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Winter 2006), 27–47. Heavily illustrated.
Hunter, Mark C., “Changing the Flag: The Cloak of Newfoundland Registry for American Rum-Running, 1924–1934,” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies (St. John), 21 (2006), 41–70.
McFerrin, Randy, and Douglas Wills, “High Noon on the Western Range: A Property Rights Analysis of the Johnson County War,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (March 2007), 69–92.
McKnight, Roger, “Night Buckets and Trick-or-Treaters: Notes on Swedish-American Inmates at Minnesota State Prison, 1858–1914,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 58 (Jan. 2007), 3–60.
van Onselen, Charles, “Jewish Police Informers in the Atlantic World, 1880–1914,” Historical Journal (Cambridge), 50 (March 2007), 119–44.
Stewart, Bruce E., “‘This Country Improves in Cultivation, Wickedness, Mills, and Still’: Distilling and Drinking in Antebellum Western North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 83 (Oct. 2006), 447–78. Heavily illustrated.
Berrey, Stephen Andrew, “Against the Law: Violence, Crime, State Repression, and Black Resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3221349.
Hanna, Mark Gillies, “The Pirate Nest: The Impact of Piracy on Newport, Rhode Island and Charles Town, South Carolina, 1670–1730” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3217752.
Keaton, Angela Frye, “Unholstered and Unquestioned: The Rise of Post–World War II American Gun Cultures” (University of Tennessee, 2006). Order No. DA3220757.
Legault, Richard Laurent, “An Analysis of Trends and Measurements of Household Gun Ownership in the General Social Surveys, 1976–2000: A Logistic Time Series Approach” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221093.
Myers, Jami L., “‘The war on terror begins at home’: The Impact of Domestic Violence Policy on Homicide Rates in the United States” (West Virginia University, 2006). Order No. DA3225381.
Ostermeier, Eric Jon, “Crime Views without the Ballyhoo: Public Opinion on Crime in a New Era of Influential Media Elites and Unresponsive Policymakers” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220020.
Pearson-Nelson, Benjamin J., “Inter-City Variation in Homicide Trends: The Diffusion of the Homicide Epidemic of the Late 1980s and the Early 1990s” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221108.
Ren, Ling, “Rethinking the Crime Drop in the United States during the 1990s: An Examination of Competing Theoretical Perspectives” (University of Nebraska, Omaha, 2006). Order No. DA3220667.
Ayton, Mel, The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. xii, 335 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59797-079-2.)
Batvinis, Raymond J., The Origins of fbi Counterintelligence. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 332 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1495-0.)
Buckley, Jay H., “A Postmortem Trial Concerning Meriwether Lewis’s Controversial Death,” in By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, ed. John D. W. Guice, 106–39. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxii, 178 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3851-0.)
Cairns, Kathleen A., The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xii, 295 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1141-4.)
Cliff, Nigel, The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America. (New York: Random House, 2007. xxii, 312 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-345-48694-3.)
Davis, Mike, Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb. (New York: Verso, 2007. xii, 228 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-1-84467-132-8.)
Guice, John D.W., “‘It Seems to Be More Probable…’: Why Not Homicide?” in By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, ed. John D. W. Guice, 73–105. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxii, 178 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3851-0.)
Holmberg, James J., “‘I Fear the Waight of His Mind has Over Come Him’: The Case for Suicide,” in By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, ed. John D. W. Guice, 17–72. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxii, 178 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3851-0.)
Jenkinson, Clay S., “Meriwether Lewis’s Mysterious Death on the Natchez Trace,” in By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, ed. John D. W. Guice, 3–16. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxii, 178 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3851-0.)
Zimring, Franklin E., The Great American Crime Decline. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv, 258 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-19-518115-9.)
Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, ed., Writing for Their Lives: Death Row U.S.A.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xxii, 309 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-252-02793-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-252-07099-0.)
Sides, Hampton, “The Trial of General Homma,” American Heritage, 58 (Feb.–March 2007), 34–47. Heavily illustrated.
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