Here’s our seasonal roundup of new and forthcoming titles. Share your finds below!
Thomas Ahnert, The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment,1690–1805
Luisa Elena Alcalá, Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence
Terry Alford, Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
Chris Beneke and Christopher J. Grenda, eds., The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson, eds., Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Prose
Thomas Brown and Leah Sims, eds., Fugitive Slave Advertisements in the City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
Mark Z. Christensen and Jonathan Truitt, eds., Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
Sammy R. Danna, Lydia Pinkham: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ads
Adams Wesley Dean, An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era
Gregory P. Downs, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
Carl J. Ekberg and Sharon K. Person, St. Louis Rising: The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive
James Fairhead, The Captain and “the Cannibal”: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage
Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly, What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City
Thomas Fleming, The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Andrew Shankman, and David J. Silverman, eds., Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic
Tom Glynn, Reading Publics: New York City’s Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Cassandra A. Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic
Kathryn N. Gray, John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay: Communities and Connections in Puritan New England
Patrice Gueniffey, Bonaparte: 1769-1802
David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Washington’s Circle: The Creation of the President
David C. R. Heisser and Stephen J. White, Sr., Patrick N. Lynch, 1817–1882: Third Catholic Bishop of Charleston
Andrew Hemingway and Alan Wallach, eds., Transatlantic Romanticism: British and American Art and Literature, 1790-1860
James Robert Hester, ed., A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen’s Civil War Journals
Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas
Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln
Michel Hogue, Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People
R. Douglas Hurt, Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South
Pernille Ipsen, Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast
Maurice Jackson and Susan Kozel, eds., Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808
Christian J. Koot, Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713
Benjamin Lawrance, Amistad’s Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, Gettysburg Replies: The World Responds to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
James M. McPherson, The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
Ted Maris-Wolf, Family Bonds: Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia
Sara Martin et al., eds., Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 12, March 1797–April 1798
William Marvel, Lincoln’s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton
Matthew Mason, Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright, eds., Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion
Louis P. Masur, Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion
James Van Horn Melton, Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier
Lisa Minardi, Drawn with Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection
Roy Morris, Jr., American Vandal: Mark Twain Abroad
Brian Phillips Murphy, Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic
David Narrett, Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803
Margaret Ellen Newell, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
James F. O’Gorman, Isaiah Rogers: Architectural Practice in Antebellum America
Julia Osman, Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille
Rosemarie Ostler, Founding Grammars: How Early America’s War Over Words Shaped Today’s Language
Jessica Parr, Inventing George Whitfield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
Janet Polasky, Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World
Amy Polland and Daniel Soyer, Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920
Wolfgang Reinhard, ed., Empires and Encounters: 1350–1750
Amy G. Richter, At Home in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History
Peter Ripley, ed., The Black Abolitionist Papers: Vol. I: The British Isles, 1830-1865
Jeffrey J. Rogers, A Southern Writer and the Civil War: The Confederate Imagination of William Gilmore Simms
Adam Rothman, Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
Andrew Schocket, Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Manning Stevens, eds., Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians
Timothy Tackett, The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
Catherine Thompson, Patient Expectations: How Economics, Religion, and Malpractice Shaped Therapeutics in Early America
Sara L. Van Beck, Daffodils in American Gardens, 1733–1940
Lea VanderVelde, Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott
Timothy J. Williams, Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South
Robert Zaretsky, Boswell’s Enlightenment
I think my head just imploded! Look at all these amazing books! <–book junkie
What a great experience working on the Adams family correspondence.
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