Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Adler, Jeffrey S., “‘It is His First Offense. We Might as Well Let Him Go’: Homicide and Criminal Justice in Chicago, 1875–1920,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Fall 2006), 5–24.
Bewley-Taylor, David, “Watch This Space: Civil Liberties, Concept Wars, and the Future of the Urban Fortress,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 40 (Aug. 2006), 233–55.
Carson, Homer S., III, “Penal Reform and Construction of the Western Northern Carolina Railroad 1875–1892,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 11 (Spring–Fall 2005), 205–25.
Crist, Thomas A., “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Bioarchaeology and the Modern Gun Culture Debate,” Historical Archaeology, 40 (no. 3, 2006), 109–30.
Floyd, Janet, “Dislocations of the Self: Eliza Farnham at Sing Sing Prison,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 40 (Aug. 2006), 311–25.
Keenan, Laura T., “Reconstructing Rachel: A Case of Infanticide in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic and the Vagaries of Historical Research,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130 (Oct. 2006), 361–85.
Musgrave, Paul, “‘A Primitive Method of Enforcing the Law’: Vigilantism as a Response to Bank Crimes in Indiana, 1925–1933,” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (Sept. 2006), 187–219.
Owsley, Douglas W., Brooks B. Ellwood, and Terry Melton, “Search for the Grave of William Preston Longley, Hanged Texas Gunfighter,” Historical Archaeology, 40 (no. 3, 2006), 50–63.
Pfeifer, Michael J., “Law, Society, and Violence in the Antebellum Midwest: The 1857 Eastern Iowa Vigilante Movement,” Annals of Iowa, 64 (Spring 2005), 139–66.
Robinson, John W., “Alexis Godey: Indian Friend or Indian Killer?,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 66, Summer 2006), 4–17.
Sampson, Robert D., “Incident at Grape Creek: The Illinois National Guard and the Use of Deadly Force in the 1894 Pullman Strike,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Spring 2006), 2–22.
Stewart, Halina M., “The Nevada State Detectives,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 49 (Spring 2006), 23–41.
Watson, R. L., “Abolition, Violence, and Rape: Thoughts on the Post-Emancipation Experiences of the United States and the Cape Colony,” Safundi (no. 22, April 2006) http://www.safundi.com.
Gottlieb, Gabriele, “Theater of Death: Capital Punishment in Early America, 1750–1800” (University of Pittsburgh, 2005). Order No. DA3206780.
Ozbun, Shannon Mandle, “Resilience Revisited: A Portrait of Resilience as Expressed through the Experiences of Pioneer Territorial Settlers of Kansas, 1854–1864” (University of Kansas, 2004). Order No. DA3196057.
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