Paul Finkelman. Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 304 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-05121-8.
Reviewed by Scott Gerber (Brown University & Ohio Northern University) Published on H-Early-America (June, 2019) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (California State University-Dominguez Hills)
Eberhard L. Faber. Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. xii + 441 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-16689-6.
Reviewed by Michael K. Beauchamp (Rogers State University) Published on H-Early-America (October, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (California State University-Dominguez Hills)
John M. Murrin. Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xi + 432 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-503871-2.
Reviewed by John L. Larson (Purdue University) Published on H-Early-America (August, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (California State University-Dominguez Hills)
Maura Jane Farrelly. Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620-1860. Cambridge Essential Histories Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 222 pp. $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-61636-9.
Reviewed by Ryan Tobler (Harvard University) Published on H-Early-America (August, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (California State University-Dominguez Hills)
Rosalie Metro. Teaching U.S. History Thematically: Document-Based Lessons for the Secondary Classroom. New York: Teachers College Press, 2017. 224 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8077-5868-7.
Reviewed by Marie McDaniel (Southern Connecticut State University) Published on H-Early-America (July, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (California State University-Dominguez Hills)
Michael D. Thompson. Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port. Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. 312 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61117-474-8.
Reviewed by Kristin C. Lee (Washington University in St. Louis) Published on H-Early-America (July, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (California State University-Dominguez Hills)
Rebecca Brannon. From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. Illustrations. 232 pp. $49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61117-668-1.
Reviewed by Jason Stroud (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) Published on H-Early-America (May, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)
Melvin Yazawa. Contested Conventions: The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787-1789. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 312 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-2026-4.
Reviewed by Kevin Butterfield (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-Early-America (April, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)
Brian Yothers. Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass. Studies in American Literature and Culture: Literary Criticism in Perspective Series. Rochester: Camden House, 2016. 200 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57113-577-3.
Reviewed by Faith Barter (Vanderbilt University) Published on H-Early-America (April, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)
Alejandra Dubcovsky. Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 287 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-66018-2.
Reviewed by Sean P. Harvey (Seton Hall University) Published on H-Early-America (March, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)
Michele Currie Navakas. Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 248 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4956-9.
Reviewed by John Nelson (University of Notre Dame) Published on H-Early-America (January, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers
Patrick Griffin, ed. Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017. 280 pp. $39.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-3989-6; $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3988-9.
Reviewed by Shira Lurie (University of Virginia) Published on H-Early-America (December, 2017) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers
John Wareing. Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718. Oxford: Oxford University Press, February 2017. 352 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-878890-4.
Reviewed by G. Patrick O'Brien (University of South Carolina) Published on H-Early-America (November, 2017) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers
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Robert G. Parkinson. The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xi + 742 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2663-5.
Reviewed by Anna Leigh Todd (University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Early-America (November, 2017) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers
Rebecca Anne Goetz. The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-1981-7.
Reviewed by Jeffrey T. Perry (Florida Gulf Coast University) Published on H-Early-America (October, 2017) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers
