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March 2004
Essays
Reconsiderations
Memoranda and Documents
Essay Reviews
Book Reviews

Essays
 
Editorial  
Linda Smith Rhoads 3
 
A Poet's Quarrel: Jamesian Pragmatism and Frost's "The Road Not Taken"  
John Savoie 5
 
"To Forward Well-Flavored Productions": The Kitchen Garden in Early New England  
James E. McWilliams 25
 
A Passion for Distinction: Lydia Huntley Sigourney and the Creation of a Literary Reputation  
Melissa Ladd Teed 51
 
From Petitions to Partyism: Antislavery and the Domestication of Maine Politics in the 1840s and 1850s  
Alice Taylor 70
 
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Reconsiderations
 
The Missing Clause: Myth and the Massachusetts Bay Charter of 1629  
Ronald Dale Karr 89
 
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Memoranda and Documents
 
War and Peace: Robert Frost and the United Nations Meditation Room  
Lisa Seale 108
 
Chiasmus in Walden  
Richard Kopley 115
 
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Essay Reviews
 
The Rust of Time, the Patina of Place: Recent Studies in New England Regionalism  
Karen Halttunen 122
 
Marsden Hartley: The Return of the Native?  
Christopher Capozzola 135
 
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Book Reviews
 
Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth, by Laura Dassow Walls  
Barbara Packer 143
 
Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science, by Robert Bernard Hass

Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost, by Robert Pack
 
George Monteiro 146
 
A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, by Carol Berkin

Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time, by David J. Siemers
 
Robert Middlekauff 152
 
A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic, by Bruce Dain  
Jonathan Hagel 155
 
New Year in Cuba: Mary Gardner Lowell's Travel Diary, 1831-1832, edited by Karen Robert  
Louis P. Masur 158
 
New England Weather, New England Climate, by Gregory A. Zielinski and Barry D. Keim  
William B. Meyer 159
 
The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America, by Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown  
Laura Henigman 162
 
Mortal Remains: Death in Early America, edited by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein  
James J. Allegro 165
 
The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England, by Rebecca S. Tannenbaum  
Walter W. Woodward 168
 
Sexual Revolution in Early America, by Richard Godbeer  
Elizabeth Reis 170
 
Her Past Around Us: Interpreting Sites for Women's History, edited by Polly Welts Kaufman and Katharine T. Corbett  
Marla R. Miller 173
 
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