Recently added articles from Journal of the Early Republic:
The voices of publius and the strategies of persuasion in The Federalist.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Few writings in American politics have been as celebrated or as scrutinized as The Federalist, the eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay published serially between October 1787 and May 1788. Scholars have dissected the papers from a variety of ...
Wartime prisoners and the rule of law: Andrew Jackson's Military Tribunals during the First Seminole War.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... In April 1818, during the First Seminole War, General Andrew Jackson captured and executed two British allies of the Seminoles in Spanish Florida. During the months following the executions, Americans vigorously debated the validity of Jackson's conduct, contesting and defending the ...
Ophthalmology, popular physiology, and the market revolution in vision, 1800-1850.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... It cannot have escaped the notice of every medical observer that an unusual prevalence of diseases of the eye marks the period in which we live. Indeed, they are so prevalent, that they may be considered one of its common and peculiar trials. Edward Reynolds, Hints to Students ...
Congressional (partisan) constitutionalism: the Apportionment Act debates of 1842 and 1844.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The 27th Congress passed the Apportionment Act of 1842 and President John Tyler signed it with an accompanying statement, but its enforcement fell on the 28th House two years later. The passage, signing, and enforcement issues stimulated Congressional debates based on Article I of the ...
In memoriam: R. Don Higginbotham.(Editor's Page)(In memoriam)
Dec 22, 2008 ... R. Don Higginbotham was Dowd Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the author or editor of ten books and numerous articles, and a renowned authority on George Washington and the military history of the American Revolution. He served as ...
Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union.('Henry Wilson and the Coming of the Civil War', 'William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War')(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union. By John M. Belohlavek. (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2005. Pp. 482. Cloth, $65.00.) Henry Wilson and the Coming of the Civil War. By John L. Myers. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. Pp. 565 ....
Equiano, The African: Biography of a Self-Made Man.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Equiano, The African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. By Vincent Carretta. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2005. Pp. 436. Cloth, $29.95. New York: Penguin, 2007. Pp. 464. Paper, $16.00.) In Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man, Vincent Carretta has ...
Rhetorical Drag: Gender, Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History.(books on women and writing)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Rhetorical Drag: Gender, Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History. By Lorrayne Carroll. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 251. Illustrations. Cloth, $28.95.) Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Edited ...
Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia.(Mr. Jefferson's Women)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia. By Susan Dunn. (New York: Basic Books, 2007. Pp. 310. Cloth, $27.50.) Mr. Jefferson's Women. By Jon Kukla. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Pp. 304. Cloth, $26.95.) During the summer of 1816, ...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America. By John Fea. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Pp. 280. Cloth, $39.95.) The subject of John Fea's new biography, Philip Vickers Fithian, is a man already ...
Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. Edited by Thomas A. Foster. (New York: New York University, 2007. Pp. 448. Cloth, $75.00; Paper, $25.00.) Long Before Stonewall is a provocative new collection of original essays and previously published ...
The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867. By Andrei V. Grinev. Translated by Richard L. Bland and Katerina G. Solovjova. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. 386. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Cloth, $24.95.) For more than two centuries the ...
Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South. By Timothy James Lockley. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. Pp. xvi, 277. Cloth, $59.95.) Although scholars have produced scores of studies of antebellum reform movements, almost every study has focused on the northern ...
Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America. By John R. McKivigan. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. 291. Cloth, $45.00.) James Redpath was a remarkable man, playing a role in a disconcerting number of the social reform ...
Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura. By Leonora Sansay. Edited by Michael Drexler. (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2007. Pp. 319. Paper, $19.95.) In this splendid edition, Michael Drexler republishes two strange and important narratives by the Philadelphia-based ...
Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820. By Joshua M. Smith. (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. 160. Cloth, $55.00.) In this slender and often elegant monograph, Joshua M. Smith recounts the remarkable ...
Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery. By Jason R. Young. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. 272. Cloth, $40.00.) In Rituals of Resistance, Jason R. Young examines the relationship between ...
"Suspected on both sides": Little Abraham, Iroquois neutrality, and the American Revolution.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... "This, then, is the determination of the Six Nations," the Mohawk chief Little Abraham told an assembly of New York Whigs in 1775. "Not to take any part, but, as it is a family affair, to sit still and see you fight it out ... for we bear as much affection for the King of England's ...
"A lawless rabble": Henry Clay and the cultural politics of squatters' rights, 1832-1841.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Historians have long understood that the settlement of western lands influenced the character of American society. Many scholars once assumed that the Jacksonian Democratic Party, by advocating policies such as the gradual reduction of federal land prices and preemption rights, cared more ...
"Whisper to him the word 'India'": trans-atlantic critics and American slavery, 1830-1860.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... En route from Cleveland to Cincinnati in the 1850s, Mr. Darby, an Englishman, irritated his traveling companion--the Kentuckian 'Squire Henry Gray--by noting his hatred of "abominable African Slavery." Gray responded that, while Darby claimed to oppose inequality, his government featured ...