Volume 98.1: March 2025

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 98.1: March 2025.

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Editorial

by Holly Jackson

Essays

Precarity, Prosperity, and Boston’s Death Economy in the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic 
Erik R. Seeman

Thoreau and Lincoln at the Crossroads of the Civil War
Susan E. Gallagher

The Burden of Proof: Sex, Power, and Patriarchy in the Eighteenth-Century Connecticut River Valley 
Sam Dinnie

Reviews

Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling. By Jamie L. Jones 
Michael Rossi

Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic. By Glenda Goodman 
Ann Ostendorf

Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson. By James Marcus 
Christopher Hanlon

Maria W. Stewart: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist. By Douglas A. Jones 
Shirley J. Yee

The Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society. By Patrick Spero 
John Ragosta

Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776. By James R. Fichter 
Carla Cevasco

Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism. By Joel Richard Paul 
Timothy A. Milford

The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948. By José F. Aranda 
Aaron E. Sánchez