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March 2005
Essays
Memoranda and Documents
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Essays
 
Contradiction in Louisa May Alcott's Little Men  
Gregory Eiselein 3
 
Commercialized Intercollegiate Athletics and the 1903 Harvard Stadium  
Ronald A. Smith 26
 
A Victim of Reform: Why Basketball Failed at Harvard, 1900-1909  
Marc Horger 49
 
An Incident in the Life of a Slaveholder: The Search for Nancy Gindrat  
Susan Hardy Aiken 77
 
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Memoranda and Documents
 
Emerson Father and Son: A Precedent for "The American Scholar"  
Edited by Phyllis Cole 101
 
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Book Reviews
 
Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830, by John Wood Sweet  
Rebecca Blevins Faery 125
 
The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter, edited by Michael P. Clark  
Sarah Rivett 127
 
Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America, by Kristina Bross  
Joshua David Bellin 130
 
Walden Pond: A History, by W. Barksdale Maynard
Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, by Henry D. Thoreau, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer
 
Robert D. Habich 133
 
Yankee Singing Schools and the Golden Age of Choral Music in New England, 1760-1800, by Alan Clark Buechner
The Norumbega Harmony: Historic and Contemporary Hymn Tunes and Anthems from the New England Singing School Tradition, edited by Stephen A. Marini
 
Peter S. Leavenworth 136
 
At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America, by Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancall  
Kathleen DuVal 140
 
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age, by Marcus Rediker  
Paul A. Gilje 142
 
Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor, by William B. Gould IV
Charles Benson: Mariner of Color in the Age of Sail, by Michael Sokolow
 
Steven J. Ramold 144
 
The Frozen Water Trade: A True Story, by Gavin Weightman
The Ice King: Frederic Tudor and His Circle, by Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson, edited by Alan Seaburg
 
Tamara Plakins Thornton 146
 
Abolition's Public Sphere, by Robert Fanuzzi
The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves, by Stanley Harrold
 
Jeannine DeLombard 149
 
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, volume 1, 1809-1847, by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti
Hawthorne in Concord, by Philip McFarland
 
Joel Myerson 153
 
Ballots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence, by Evelyn Savidge Sterne
The Italian-American Vote in Providence, Rhode Island, 1916-1948, by Stefano Luconi
Providence, the Renaissance City, by Francis J. Leazes Jr. and Mark T. Motte
 
Jon C. Teaford 157
 
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