Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Adler, Jeffrey S., “Murder, North and South: Violence in Early-Twentieth-Century Chicago and New Orleans,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (May 2008), 297–324.
Baker, Ronald L., “Creativity and Tradition in Pearl Bryan Legends,” Midwestern Folklore, 33 (Spring 2007), 3–11.
Montagna, Douglas, “‘Choked Him Til His Tongue Protruded’: Violence, the Code of Honor, and Methodist Clergy in the Antebellum Ohio Valley,” Ohio Valley History, 7 (Winter 2007), 15–31.
Burch, Traci Renee, “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3264917.
Galley, Janet McShane, “Infanticide in the American Imagination, 1860–1920” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3268147.
Graber, Jennifer, “Christianity Imprisoned: Religion and the Making of the Penitentiary, 1797–1860” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3264021.
Griffiths, Elizabeth Anne, “The Diffusion of Homicide across Neighbourhoods: A Social Ecological Case Study of Buffalo, New York, 1950–1999” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR28100.
McGuire, Danielle L., “At the Dark End of the Street: Sexualized Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3277307.
Ratliff, John Howard, “‘In hot blood’: White-on-White Lynching and the Privileges of Race in the American South, 1889–1910” (University of Alabama, 2007). Order No. DA3270500.
Richards, Nicole, “Detailing Changes in State Prisons, 1974–2000, and Explaining Social Unrest as a Function of Social Structure, Institutional Characteristics, and Political Context” (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Order No. DA3266192.
Novak, Shannon A., House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2008. xx, 226 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-87480-919-0.)
Postma, Johannes, Slave Revolts. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xx, 200 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-313-33854-0.)
Segrave, Kerry, Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840–1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. vi, 212 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3823-5.)
Shmelter, Richard J., Chicago Assassin: The Life and Legend of “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn and the Chicago Beer Wars of the Roaring Twenties. (Nashville: Cumberland House, 2008. 282 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-58182-618-0.)
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