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March 2006
Essays
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Taking the Indian Cure: Thoreau, Indian Medicine, and the Performance of American Culture |
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| Joshua David Bellin |
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The Lure of New England and the Search for the Capital of the World |
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| Charlene Mires |
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Upstairs, Downstairs, and In Between: Louisa May Alcott on Domestic Service |
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| Carolyn R. Maibor |
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"Here are no Newters": Witchcraft and Religious Discord in Salem Village and Andover |
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| Richard Latner |
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Essay Review
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The Atlantic History Paradigm
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| S. D. Smith |
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Book Reviews
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Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail, by Daniel Vickers, with Vince Walsh
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| Tamara Plakins Thornton |
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The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter
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| Daniel C. Littlefield |
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Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763, by William M. Fowler Jr. |
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| Stephen Conway |
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A Nation of Statesmen: The Political Culture of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, 1815-1972, by James W. Oberly |
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| John C. Savagian |
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Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900, by Jennifer Mason |
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| Nina Baym |
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Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Cindy Weinstein |
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| Marianne Noble |
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Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race, by Jennie A. Kassanoff
Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism, by William M. Morgan |
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| Elizabeth Ammons |
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Music in Rural New England: Family and Community Life, 1870-1940, by Jennifer C. Post |
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| Burt Feintuch |
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Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America, by Margaretta M. Lovell |
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| Gerald W. R. Ward |
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From Tavern to Courthouse: Architecture and Ritual in American Law, 1658-1860, by Martha J. McNamara
Temples of Grace: The Material Transformation of Connecticut's Churches, 1790-1840, by Gretchen Townsend Buggeln |
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| Claire W. Dempsey |
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The Man Who Found Thoreau: Roland W. Robbins and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America, by Donald W. Linebaugh |
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| Emerson W. Baker |
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Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life, by Charles C. Calhoun |
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| William Pore |
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, by David S. Reynolds |
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| Richard Newman |
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March: A Novel, by Geraldine Brooks |
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| Daniel Shealy |
163 |
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Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War, by Nina Silber |
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| Richard F. Miller |
166 |
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The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64, by Carol Bundy |
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| Gerald R. Griffin |
168 |
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John F. Kennedy: A Biography, by Michael O'Brien |
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| Gil Troy |
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Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience, by Richard Francis |
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| Walter Woodward |
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