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Family

Dorow, Sara, and Amy Swiffen, “Blood and Desire: The Secret of Heteronormativity in Adoption Narratives of Culture,” American Ethnologist, 36 (Aug. 2009), 563–73.

Lewis, Jeremiah James, “The Challenging Years,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 45 (Spring–Fall 2008), 56–67.

Ray, Karen, “Sugar Candy, Sage Dressing, and Seed Wheat: The Immediacy of Food in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Houses on the Praires, a Cautionary Tale for Modern America,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 41 (Winter 2009), 5–17.

Scharff, Virginia, and Carolyn Brucken, “The House of the Three Wise Women: A Family Legacy in the American Southwest,” California History, 86 (no. 4, 2009), 44–59. Heavily illustrated.

 

Benavides, Michelle G., “Smokeless Factories: The Decentering of U.S. Legal and Moral Boundaries by Mexico’s Transnational Divorce Industry, 1923–1970” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3339522.

McMahon, Stephanie, Hunter, “Money, Sex, and Tax Politics: Developments in Tax Avoidance and Marital Tax Returns, 1913–1948” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3338628.

Simmons, Elizabeth L., “Tahosa Territory—A Colorado Front Range Family: Contextual Essay to Accompany ‘Tahosa Territory a Colorado Historical Film Documentary’” (Union Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3345033.

Vaughan, Thomas Jay, “The Tendency of Affections: Natural Families in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana” (Northern Illinois University, 2008). Order No. DA3339365.

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