Patriot's Day Podcast

In honor of Patriot's Day, be sure to listen to our newest podcast, in which Bill Fowler, Mary Babson Fuhrer, and Robert A. Gross illuminate the key similarities and differences between the towns of Lexington and Concord and discuss how such factors contributed to the famous 19 April 1775 battle between the British and the colonists.

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In the March 2012 Issue

American Scholars: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, John Brown, and the Springs of Intellectual Schism                 
Evan Carton

The Liberty Women of Boston: Evangelicalism and Antislavery Politics                                                              
Julie Roy Jeffrey      

The Revolutionary Worlds of Lexington and Concord Compared                                                                            
Mary Babson Fuhrer

Memoranda and Documents:

Two Documents Detailing the Oneida Community's Practice of Complex Marriage                                                 
Edited by Williams T. La Moy

"Times Change": Frank J. Webb Addresses Robert Morris on the Promise of Reconstruction                                    
Edited by Amber D. Moulton

Longfellow's Serenity and Poe's Prediction: An Antebellum Turning Point                                                                 
Paul Lewis

In Memoriam:

Oscar Handlin, 1915-2011                                            
William M. Fowler Jr. and Linda Smith Rhoads

Essay Review:

Portrait of the Artist as an American?                              
Diana Korzenik

New Submission Guidelines

We now require both a Word document and PDF of  electronic submissions, in addition to the hard copy.  Click here for more information.

In the December 2011 Issue

"Pen and Ink Communion": Evangelical Reading and Writing in Antebellum America 
Mary Kelley

Dear Alma Mater: Women's Epistolary Education in the Society to Encourage Studies at Home, 1873-1897
Anne Bruder 

Laws That Refuse To Be Stated: The Post-Sectarian Spiritualities of Emerson, Thoreau, and D. T. Suzuki
Palmer Rampell   

John Winthrop in the Maximus Poems 
Gary Grieve-Carlson

Memoranda and Documents:                               

James Bowdoin: Philosopher and Politician
Rob Hardy

Now Accepting Submissions for Prize!

Essays are now being accepted for consideration for the Walter Muir Whitehall Prize in Early American History.  The winning essay will receive $2,500.00 and publication in The New England Quarterly. 

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