Reviews of Books cited in Historiographic Discussion

In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820
David Waldstreicher
Review author[s]: Jeffrey L. Pasley
The William and Mary Quarterly , 3rd Ser., Vol. 57, No. 4. (Oct., 2000), pp. 896-900.

The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Saul Cornell
Review author[s]: Michael Lienesch
The William and Mary Quarterl , 3rd Ser., Vol. 57, No. 3. (Jul., 2000), pp. 711-715.

A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
Christopher Grasso
Review author[s]: Philip F. Gura
The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 57, No. 1. (Jan., 2000), pp. 211-215.

Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic
Joanne B. Freeman
Review author[s]: Lance Banning
Reviews in American History, Vol. 30, No. 3. (Sep., 2002), pp. 389-392.

"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic
Jeffrey L. Pasley
Review author[s]: Rosalind Remer
Reviews in American History, Vol. 30, No. 2. (Jun., 2002), pp. 220-226.

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American Memory, The Capitol and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925, Washington DC.

Maryland Historical Society

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---. “An exact and authentic narrative, of the events which took place in Baltimore, on the 27th and 28th of July last. Carefully collected from some of the sufferers and eyewitnesses. To which is added a narrative of Mr. John Thomson, one of the unfortunate sufferers, ...,”American Memory: The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925, Washington D.C.

—.A portrait of the evils of democracy submitted to the consideration of the people of Maryland., American Memory: The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925, Washington DC.

Hanson, Alexander. The Federal Republican, (1808-1818) in Early American Newspapers, American Antiquarian Society, Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington DC.

Townsend, Geo. Alfred. “Washington, outside and inside. A picture and a narrative of the origin, growth, excellencies, abuses, beauties, and personages of our governing city,” CHAPTER X. JOURNALISM AT WASHINGTON. American Memory: The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925, Washington DC.

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Secondary Sources

Bailyn, Bernard and John B. Hench ed., The Press and the American Revolution. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1980.

Brooke, John L. “Reason and Passion in the Public Sphere: Habermas and the Cultural Historian,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXIX:I (Summer, 1998), 43-67.

Cassell, Frank A. “The Great Baltimore Riot of 1812.” Maryland Historical Magazine 70.3 (1975): 241-259.

Cornell, Saul. The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism & Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina , 1999.

Crain, Patricia. The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to the Scarlet Letter. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Ellis, Richard E. The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic. New York: Oxford University, 1971.

—. The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, State's Rights and the Nullification Crises. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Feldberg, Michael. Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America.

Fischer, David Hackett. The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy (1965).

Foletta, Marshall. Coming to Terms with Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of an American Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.

Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Gilje, Paul A. “The Baltimore Riots of 1812 and the Breakdown of the Anglo-American Mob Tradition.” Maryland Historical Magazine 13.4 (1980): 547-564.

—. Rioting in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Grasso, Christopher. A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth Century Connecticut. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Grimstead, David. American Mobbing: 1828-1861, Toward Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Hoffman, Ronald. A Spirit of Dissent: Economics, Politics and the Revolution in Maryland. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.

Hofstadter, Richard. The Idea of a Party System. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Kerber, Linda. Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.

Land, Aubrey C. Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, eds. Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

Levy, Leonard W. Emergence of a Free Press. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

—. Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American history. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960.

Miller, John C. Crisis in Freedom: The Aliens and Seditions Act. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1952.

Nelson, Harold, ed. Freedom of the Press from Hamilton to the Warren Court. New York: The Bobbs Merrill Co., 1976.

Nerone, John C. Violence against the Press: Policing the Public Sphere in U.S. History. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Pasley, Jeffrey L. The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.

Remer, Rosalind. Printers and men of capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1996.

Rosenberg, N. “Alexander Addison and the Pennsylvania Origins of Federalist First-Amendment Thought,” in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 108, (1984): 399-417.

Ridgway, Whitman H., “COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: BALTIMORE DURING THE FIRST AND SECOND PARTY SYSTEMS.” Maryland Historical Magazine 1976 71(3): 334-348.

—. Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

Schauinger, Joseph. “Alexander Contee Hanson, Federalist Partisan” Maryland Historical Magazine 35 (1940): 354-364.

Smith, James Morton. Freedom’s Fetters: The Aliens and Seditions Laws and American Civil Liberties. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1956.

Stagg, J.C.A. Mr. Madison’s War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early Republic, 1783-1830. Princeton: University Press of Princeton, 1983.

Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

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