Wendy Jean Katz.
Humbug!: The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press.
New York: Empire State Editions, 2020. 304 pp.
$140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-8537-2; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-8538-9. 
Lorri Glover. The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 204 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-2002-8.
Reviewed by Jessica Lowe (University of Virginia School of Law) Published on H-SHEAR (June, 2017) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
When Virginia Created America
John P. Bowes. Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal. New Directions in Native American Studies Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Illustrations. 234 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-5212-7.
Reviewed by Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Riverside) Published on H-SHEAR (February, 2017) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
Robin C. Sager. Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America. Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 2016. 203 pp. $48.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-6310-8.
Reviewed by Leslie J. Harris (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Published on H-SHEAR (September, 2016) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
Thomas A. Apel. Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 208 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9740-5.
Reviewed by Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire) Published on H-SHEAR (September, 2016) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
Fever on the Mind
Brian P. Luskey, Wendy A. Woloson, eds. Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 328 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4689-6.
Reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams (Dept. of History, University of Florida) Published on H-SHEAR (July, 2016) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
Ted Maris-Wolf. Family Bonds: Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 336 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-2007-7.
Reviewed by Ellen Pearson (University of North Carolina-Asheville) Published on H-SHEAR (June, 2016) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
David T. Gleeson, Simon Lewis, eds. The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014. viii + 308 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61117-325-3.
Reviewed by Samuel Watson (United States Military Academy) Published on H-SHEAR (June, 2016) Commissioned by Monique Bourque
Philip F. Gura. The Life of William Apess, Pequot. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 216 pp. $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-1998-9.
Reviewed by David Silverman (George Washington University) Published on H-SHEAR (June, 2016) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
Faye M. Kert. Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812. Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812 Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 224 pp. $55.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4214-1748-6; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-1747-9.
Reviewed by David Head (Spring Hill College) Published on H-SHEAR (June, 2016) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
Sean Condon. Shays's Rebellion: Authority and Distress in Post-revolutionary America. Witness to History Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 176 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-1743-1; $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-1742-4.
Reviewed by Paul D. Newman (University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown) Published on H-SHEAR (December, 2015) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
One Historian's Rebel Is Another's Regulator
Ricardo A. Herrera. For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 272 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-1994-2.
Reviewed by Lorien Foote (Texas A & M) Published on H-SHEAR (October, 2015) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
Lisa Tetrault. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898. Gender and American Culture Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xiv + 279 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-1427-4.
Reviewed by Allison K. Lange (Brandeis University) Published on H-SHEAR (August, 2015) Commissioned by Monique Bourque
The Mythology of the Suffrage Movement
Brian C. Black, Michael J. Chiarappa, eds. Nature's Entrepôt: Philadelphia's Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. vi + 367 pp. $38.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4417-1.
Reviewed by John Hepp Published on H-SHEAR (May, 2015) Commissioned by Monique Bourque
John R. Van Atta. Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785-1850. Reconfiguring American Political History Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. xiii + 294 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-1275-7.
Reviewed by Stephen J. Rockwell (St. Joseph's College) Published on H-SHEAR (March, 2015) Commissioned by Robert P. Murray
