Volume 98.1: March 2025
The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 98.1: March 2025. Image: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives 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 WarSusan E. Gallagher The Burden of Proof: Sex, Power, and Patriarchy in…
Volume 97.4: December 2024
The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.4: December 2024. Image: https://historicipswich.net/2021/02/28/shipwreck_ada-k-damon/ Editorial Representing Oceanic New England Ross Barrett, Sari Edelstein Essays Pacific New England: Reuben Tam’s Archipelagic Landscapes Kimia Shahi Monuments to the “Memorable Gale”: Art and Hurricane Memory in Nineteenth-Century New England Ross Barrett Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Coastal Culture: Marine Vegetation as Inspiration and Material Naomi Slipp Printing Whaling…
Volume 97.3: September 2024
The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.3: September 2024. Image: https://historicipswich.net/2021/03/07/john-dunton/ Editorial by Holly Jackson Winner of the Whitehill Prize in Early American History Sent “Without Ordre”: John Dunton, the London Book Trade, and the Provincialized Reader of Late Seventeenth-Century New England John J. Garcia Essays More Than Roger’s Wife: Mary Williams and the…
Volume 97.2: June 2024
The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.2: June 2024. Image: “Their spear,” MS Volume VII (MA 1302:13) (courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library) Editorial by Holly Jackson Essay Why Did Thoreau Draw in His Journal? Kathleen Coyne Kelly Six Characters in Search of a Prophet: Emerson’s Representative Men Robert Milder Memoranda and Documents “A Credo”: Margaret Fuller…
The Margaret Fuller Prize
The New England Quarterly is pleased to announce the Margaret Fuller Prize, to be awarded annually to an outstanding essay in literary studies on a New England subject in any period. The winning essay will be published in the journal and the author will receive $2500. Previously unpublished works of 7-12k words in length must…
Volume 97.1: March 2024
The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.1: March 2024. Image: https://www.eagletribune.com/news/merrimack_valley/the-walls-trembled-then-fell-lessons-from-the-pemberton-disaster/article_849b31e1-3a10-53cb-a03e-80a3c39e9b56.html Editorial by Holly Jackson Essay Fortune in Exile: William Rotch, 1775–1805 Sarah Crabtree “No Avenging Gibbet”: The 1860 Pemberton Mill Collapse Robert Forrant American Political Cultures Forum III Making a Post-Industrial New England Lizabeth Cohen Silicon Politics, from Puritan Soil to California Dreaming Margaret O’Mara…
Volume 96.4: December 2023
The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.4: December 2023. Image: Charlotte Forten Grimké, circa 1870, New York Public Library. Editorial by Holly Jackson Essay A Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Salem: Charlotte Forten’s Struggles against Slavery, Racism, and Female Dependence by Myra C. Glenn American Political Cultures Forum II Charles Sumner’s Political…
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