Erik J. Chaput and Russell J. DeSimone
Strange Bedfellows
The Politics of Race in Antebellum Rhode Island

William Huntting Howell
Starving Memory
Joseph Plumb Martin Un-tells the Story of the American Revolution

Jason Shaffer
Unveiling the American Actor
The Evolution of Celebrity in the Early American Theater

Leslie Eckel
Reading with Wonder
Encounters with Moby-Dick

Review by Elizabeth Kelly Gray
Think Globally, Reform Locally
Timothy Mason Roberts, Distant Revolutions

Review by Barton A. Myers
Civil War Guerrillas: The Main Event
Daniel E. Sutherland, A Savage Conflict

Review by Anne G. Myles
The Manly World of Love and Ritual
Richard Godbeer, The Overflowing of Friendship

Review by Robert E. Wright
A Droll Take on the Troll
Jeffrey H. Matsuura, Jefferson vs. the Patent Trolls

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Nicole Eustace
A Feeling for History
Exploring Eighteenth-Century Emotion

Endrina Tay and Jeremy Dibbell
Reconstructing a Lost Library
George Wythe’s "legacie" to President Thomas Jefferson

Jim Cullen
Opening the Academy
Theodore R. Sizer, 1932-2009

Allison Stagg
"All in my eye!"
James Akin and his Newburyport social caricatures

D. Michael Bottoms
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