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Antebellum

 

Graber, Mark A., “James Buchanan as Savior? Judicial Power, Political Fragmentation, and Failed 1831 Repeal of Section 25,” Oregon Law Review, 88 (no. 1, 2009), 95–155.

Johnson, Tyler V., “Punishing the Lies on the Rio Grande: Catholic and Immigrant Volunteers in Zachary Taylor’s Army and the Fight against Nativism,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Spring 2010), 63–84.

Quinn, John F., “Expecting the Impossible? Abolitionist Appeals to the Irish in Antebellum America,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Dec. 2009), 667–710.

 

Joy, Natalie Irene, “Hydra’s Head: Fighting Slavery and Indian Removal in Antebellum America” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3351604.

MacAllister, Craig M., “New England’s Calhounities: The Henshaw Faction of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, 1828–1850” (University of Michigan, 2009). Order No. DA3354320.

 

Elliott, Sam Davis, Confederate Governor and United States Senator: Isham G. Harris of Tennessee. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. xxii, 336 pp. $48.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3490-0.)

Greiman, Jennifer, Democracy’s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. xii, 276 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8232-3099-0.)

Lause, Mark A., The Antebellum Crisis and America’s First Bohemians. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. x, 181 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-60635-033-1.)

 

Cutrer, Thomas W., The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. viii, 195 pp. $37.50, isbn 978-0-8071-3451-1.)

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