The New England Quarterly: June 2001

June 2001

	Essays
	Memoranda and Documents

Essays


"Your Country Wants You": New Haven’s Italian Machine Gun Company Enters World War I
Christopher M. Sterba	179

"Every Body Sees the Theft": Fanny Fern and Literary Proprietorship in Antebellum America
Melissa J. Homestead	210

"Shoot That Rogue, for He Hath an Englishman’s Coat On!": Cultural Cross-Dressing on the New England Frontier, 1620-1760
Ann M. Little	238

Gelded Age Boston
Clay McShane	274

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Memoranda and Documents


The Gendering of Order and Disorder: Mother Ann Lee and Shaker Architecture
Julie Nicoletta	303

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Book Reviews


American Picturesque, by John Conron
Carrie Tirado Bramen	320

George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, by David Lowenthal
John Gatta	323

The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, edited by Christopher Looby

The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1823-1911, edited by Howard N. Meyer
Donald Yacovone	326

American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War, by David Kaiser
Geoffrey Perret	331

Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal, by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill
Neil J. Savage	333

The Circus Fire: A True Story, by Stewart O’Nan
Harvey Green	335

Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution, by John Ferling

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis
Richard Samuelson	337

Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall, by Judith S. Graham
Helena M. Wall	343

Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature of Reading, by T. S. McMillin
Joel Myerson	345

George Santayana, Literary Philosopher, by Irving Singer
H. T. Kirby-Smith	348

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