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Family

Moran, Rachel F., “Loving and the Legacy of Unintended Consequences,” Wisconsin Law Review (no. 2, 2007), 239–81.

 

Clark, Elizabeth Blair, “The Inward Fire: A History of Marital Cruelty in the Northeastern United States, 1800–1860” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3251261.

Connolly, Brian Joseph, “Domestic Intercourse: Incest, Family, and Sexuality in the United States, 1780–1870” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3252968.

Creagh, Cynthia Dianne, “Benevolent Leverage: Substitute Mothers and Autonomy at the New York Foundling Hospital, 1869–1939” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2006). Order No. DA3258938.

Hemenway, Robin Lee Elizabeth, “‘The efforts of their true friends’: African Americans and Child Welfare in New York, 1836–1930” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3252493.

Rosas, Ana Elizabeth, “Flexible Families: Bracero Families’ Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, 1942–1964” (University of Southern California, 2006). Order No. DA3257752.

 

Amato, Joseph A., Jacob’s Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2008. xvi, 279 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-87351-613-6.)

Craven, Robert H., From the Top of the Stairs. (Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2007. 96 pp. Cloth, $19.99, isbn 978-1-4257-7397-7. Paper, $12.99, isbn 978-1-4257-7389-2.)

Gutman, Marta, and Ning de Coninck-Smith, eds., Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xviii, 346 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4195-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4196-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Sanders, Ralph, Generations: A Thousand-Year Family History. (Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2007. 432 pp. Cloth, $34.99, isbn 978-1-4257-9583-2. Paper, $23.99, isbn 978-1-4257-9572-6.)

 

Hurley, Suzanne Cameron Linder, ed., Dearest Hugh: The Courtship Letters of Gabrielle Drake and Hugh McColl, 1900–1901. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xl, 164 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57003-714-6.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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