2016. "Summoning the State: Northern Farmers and the Transformation of American Politics in the Mid-nineteenth Century." Journal of American History 103 (2): 347–74. Rosenberg, Morton M., and Dennis V ...

Freedom of the press and access to reliable information are pillars of democracy—freedoms which aspiring despots can ...

During a period of the 19th century, Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts was a hub for whaling around the world. Peggi Godwin of the Nantucket Historical Association talked about the history of ...

Joseph Smith is one of the most fulsome characters in 19th-century American history: a visionary, an organizer, a schemer, a mover of people, an inventor of a religion that brought polygamy to ...

This is a study of the central role of history in late nineteenth-century American legal thought. In the decades following the Civil War, the founding generation of professional legal scholars in the ...

Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University "Wells's study will be useful to historians and literary scholars as they further their understanding of the nineteenth century." Kathryn B. McKee, The ...

Professor Richardson teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War ...