Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Bigler, David L., “The Aiken Party Executions and the Utah War, 1857–1858,” Western Historical Quarterly, 38 (Winter 2007), 457–76.
Denham, James M., and Randolph Roth, “Why Was Antebellum Florida Murderous? A Quantitative Analysis of Homicide in Florida, 1821–1861,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Fall 2007), 216–39.
Irving, Toni, “Borders of the Body: Black Women, Sexual Assault, and Citizenship,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 35 (Spring-Summer 2007), 67–92.
Jones, David, “‘An Unusual Case’: Dan Shay, Clarence Euell, Gertrude Anderson, and the Limits of Hoosier Progressivism,” Indiana Magazine of History, 103 (Dec. 2007), 349–78.
Luckett, Matthew, “The ‘Wide Awake Citizens’: Anti Horse-Thief Associations in South Central Wisconsin, 1865–1890,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Winter 2007-2008), 16–27.
Mack, John N., “United We Stand: Law and Order on the Southeastern Kansas Frontier, 1866–1870,” Kansas History, 30 (Winter 2007–2008), 234–51. Heavily illustrated.
McCormack, Brian T., “Conjugal Violence, Sex, Sin, and Murder in the Mission Communities of Alta California,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 16 (Sept. 2007), 391–415.
Roseman, Jean, “The Unusual and Bizarre, Barney and Clyde: A Tale of Murder and Madness,” Southern Jewish History, 10 (2007), 205–28.
Sullivan, Joseph W., “Reconstructing the Olney’s Lane Riot: Another Look at Race and Class in Jacksonian Rhode Island,” Rhode Island History, 65 (Summer 2007), 49–60. Heavily illustrated.
Ambroise, Jason Randolph, “On the Origins of Criminology: The Offender and Socio-Human Existence in U.S. Criminology Discourse” (University of California, Berkeley, 2006). Order No. DA3253750.
Culbert, Jennifer L., Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xii, 235 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8047-5745-4. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8047-5746-1.)
Hardin, Stephen L., Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston. (Abilene: State House, 2007. xix, 325 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-933337-20-3.)
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