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Recent Scholarship:
Publications and Other Works Based on Research at the American Antiquarian Society

What follows is a list of the various "products" of research undertaken in the collections of the Society that have come to our attention from September through December 2009. These works include books, articles, films, television programs, public exhibitions (including shows to which we loaned items), awards, recordings, dissertations, theses, and various forms of digital publication researched, written, or produced by our visiting fellows and other readers. There is also a classification in which awards and prizes won by AAS-researched works are noted.

A list of works compiled for previous updates on the AAS website may be accessed by clicking here. It is our intention to publish new lists of AAS research products quarterly.

We strongly urge that persons who have done research at AAS in recent years let us know about any products of their labors under the generous dome published or produced (and prizes won) since 2000 that are not listed in the current and retrospective compilations, and we will happily add them. We also welcome the donation of published items to the AAS library.

Please contact Elizabeth Pope (epope[at]mwa.org), Head of Readers' Services, to suggest a title for inclusion.

John B. Hench
Vice President for Collections and Programs

Note:
* Based on work done while an AAS fellow or research associate
** Denotes AAS staff member

The complete list of the publications and other works based on research at AAS since 2000

Books

• Anthony, David. Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009.
• Bragdon, Kathleen Joan. Native People of Southern New England, 1650-1775. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
• Brooks, Lisa T. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
• Burns, Sarah. American Art to 1900: A Documentary History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009.
• Clark, Carol. Charles Deas and 1840s America. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
• Eastman, Carolyn.* A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public After the Revolution. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• Godbeer, Richard. The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
• Grigg, John A. The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Holton, Woody.* Abigail Adams: A Life. Free Press, 2009.
• Levy, Barry. Town Born: The Political Economy of New England From its Founding to the Revolution. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
• Moss, Hilary J.* Schooling Citizens: The Struggle For African American Education in Antebellum America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• Piacentino, Ed, ed. C.M. Hail's "Pardon Jones" Letters: Old Southwest Humor From Antebellum Louisiana. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
• Rumley, James. The Southern Mind Under Union Rule: The Diary of James Rumley, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1862-1865. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009.
• Sikoryak, R.* (Creative Artists and Writers Fellowship) Masterpiece Comics. Montréal, Canada: Drawn and Quarterly, 2009.
• Wolfe, S.J.** with Robert Singerman. Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2009.

Articles

• Bell, Richard.* "The Double Guilt of Dueling: The Stain of Suicide in Anti-Dueling Rhetoric in the Early Republic," Journal of the Early Republic 29.3 (Fall 2009): 383-410.
• Goddu, Teresa A. "The Anti-Slavery Almanac and the Discourse of Numeracy," Book History 12 (2009): 129-155.
• Mayo-Bobee, Dinah. "Servile Discontents: Slavery and Resistance in Colonial New Hampshire, 1645-1785," Slavery & Abolition 30.3 (Sep. 2009): 339-360.
• Patterson, Cynthia.* "'Illustration of a Picture': Nineteenth-Century Writers and the Philadelphia Pictorials," American Periodicals, vol. 19.2 (2009): 136-164.
• Todd, Emily B. "Establishing Routes for Fiction in the United States," Book History 12 (2009): 100-128.

Awards

• George Washington Book Prize (2009) awarded to AAS member Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company, 2008).
• Modern Language Association Distinguished Scholar Award for American Literature (2009) awarded to AAS member David Shields.
• Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize (2008) awarded to AAS member Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company, 2008).

Note:
* Based on work done while an AAS fellow or research associate
** Denotes AAS staff member