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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

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.4: December 2024.

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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 Masculinity in A Shoal of Sperm Whale 
Marina Wells

“A Man for Strength and a Woman for Good Looks”: Fishy Feminism and the Schooners of Gloucester 
Alison Glassie

Reviews Feature: A Roundtable on No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era. By Jacqueline Jones

No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones 
Paula C. Austin

Black Lives Do Matter in Nineteenth-Century Boston 
David A. Zonderman

The Politics of Labor and the Labor of Politics 
Milton Bergeson-Lockwood

The Multidimensional History of Black Labor during the Civil War Era 
Jacqueline Jones

In Memoriam

Kenneth A. Lockridge, 1940–2024: Remembered 
Richard D. Brown

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.3: September 2024.

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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 Founding of Providence 
Charlotte Carrington-Farmer

Hearing “New Englandly”: Emily Dickinson’s Rhymes 
Vladislav Areshka

“By Turff and Twigg”: Seeing, Reading, and Hearing in the Performance of Legal Ritual in Seventeenth Century Maine 
Daniel Bottino

Reviews

Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently by Lawrence Buell 
Cristin Ellis

Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic by Michael A. Blaakman 
Emilie Connolly

Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade by Christian McBurney 
Edward E. Andrews

Dartmouth and the World: Religion and Political Economy circa 1769 by Henry C. Clark 
Mark Boonshoft

Seized with the Temper of the Times: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America by Abby Chandler 
Catherine DeCesare

The Religion-Supported State: Piety and Politics in Early National New England by Nathan S. Rives 
Steven K. Green

The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800 by Wayne E. Lee 
Timothy J. Shannon

The Legacy Book in America, 1664–1792 by Roxanne Harde and Lindsay Yakimyshyn 
Holly N.S. White

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 and the Transcendentalists 
Phyllis Cole

New England Now

What Makes History: New Stories from the Concord Museum Collection 
Reed Gochberg

Reviews

Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism by Wendy Raphael Roberts 
Abram Van Engen

Gender, Print Culture, and the Evangelical Poem 
Theresa Strouth Gaul

Evangelical Verse and the Poet-Minister Phillis Wheatley 
Cassander Smith

Revival Poetry and Race-Making in the Early Black Atlantic 
Hannah Wakefield

The Rhetoric of Early Evangelical Poetry 
Christopher N. Phillips

Yes, And: A Response 
Wendy Raphael Roberts

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.1: March 2024.

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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

Review

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff 
Serena Zabin

Adin Ballou’s Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England: Practical Christianity by Bryce Hal Taylor 
David Mislin

An Anti-Federalist Constitution: The Development of Dissent in the Ratification Debate by Michael J. Faber 
Todd Estes

Madison’s Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment by Carl T. Bogus 
Andrew C. McKevitt

The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Brian C. Wilson 
Randall Fuller

The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910–1960 by John Taylor Williams 
David Glassberg

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

American Political Cultures Forum II

Charles Sumner’s Political Culture and the Foundation of Civil Rights; Or, The Education of Charles Sumner
by John Stauffer
“Hereafter there will be no intimacy”: Charles Francis Adams, Charles Sumner, and the Emerging Divisions within the Republican Party 
by Douglas R. Egerton

Book Reviews

Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Early America. By Ana Schwartz.
by Jonathan Beecher Field
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776. By Kristin A. Olbertson 
by Jeannine DeLombard
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments. By Erin L. Thompson 
by Brian Whetstone
Atlascope Boston (v2 released Jan. 13, 2023), Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library 
by Scot French

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.3: September 2023.

Image: Shipping Becalmed in the Solent [fragment] by Charles Brooking, c. 1755. © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

Editorial 

by Holly Jackson

Essays

Charlotte at Sea: An Atlantic Odyssey on the Eve of Revolution 
by Thomas M. Truxes

American Political Cultures Forum

Introduction 
by Richard D. Brown
Property in the American Revolution 
by Gordon S. Wood
Economic Equality in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions 
by Wim Klooster

New England Now

Revisiting the Ruins: The Great Boston Fire of 1872 
by Christina Michelon

Book Reviews

Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Justine S. Murison
by Dawn Coleman
An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States. By Lauren F. Klein
by Rachel B. Herrmann
Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability. By Abby L. Goode
by Matthew Sivils
Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature and Early American Literature. Edited by Latoya Jefferson-James
by Cassander L. Smith
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas. By Kirsten Silva Gruesz
by Alejandra Dubcovsky