Recent Scholarship
Antebellum
Allen, Austin, “Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Obscurity of Justice John Carton,” Vanderbilt Law Review, 62 (March 2009), 491–517.
Augst, Thomas, “A Drunkard’s Story: The Market for Suffering in Antebellum America,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/augst/.
Brophy, Alfred L., “‘The Law of the Descent of Thought’: Law, History, and Civilization in Antebellum Literary Addresses,” Law & Literature, 20 (Fall 2008), 343–402.
Mashaw, Jerry L., “Administration and ‘The Democracy’: Administrative Law from Jackson to Lincoln, 1829–1861,” Yale Law Journal, 117 (June 2008), 1568–693.
Miller, Mark J., “‘Mouth for God’: Temperate Labor, Race, and Methodist Reform in William Apess’s A Son of the Forest,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Summer 2010), 225–51.
Prude, Jonathan, “Images of Want: How Poverty Was, and Was Not, Pictured before the Civil War,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/prude/. Heavily illiustrated.
Clingerman, Mary, “‘On Intimate and Friendly Terms’: A Regional Comparison of Gender, Space, and Community in Antebellum Higher Education” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3363816.
McMurry, Philip M., “Civilian Education and the Preparation for Service and Leadership in Antebellum America, 1845–1860” (Kent State University, 2009). Order No. DA3367673.
Cooper, Jean L., Index to Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations: Locations, Plantations, Surnames, and Collections. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 191 pp. Paper, $75.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3990-4.)
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