Over the Threshold
Over the Threshold

Author: Christine Daniels

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1135250162

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Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the topic of intimate violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The essays examine domestic violence in both urban and frontier environments, between husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves. This compelling collection puts commonly held notions about intimate violence under strict historical scrutiny, often producing surprising results.

Fall River Outrage
Fall River Outrage

Author: David Richard Kasserman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0812200888

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Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fall River and the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church engaged in energetic campaigns to obtain a favorable verdict. It was also one of the earliest attempts by American lawyers to prove their client innocent by assassinating the moral character of the female victim. Fall River Outrage provides insight in American social, legal, and labor history as well as women's studies.

Murder Most Foul
Murder Most Foul

Author: Karen HALTTUNEN

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0674038177

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Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports.

Legal Executions in New Jersey
Legal Executions in New Jersey

Author: Daniel Allen Hearn

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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"This book chronicles use of the death penalty by civil and military authorities in what is now the state of New Jersey. All documented executions conducted in or by the state from 1691 through 1963 are covered here in chronological order"--Provided by publisher.

Haunted Histories in America
Haunted Histories in America

Author: Nancy Hendricks

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1440868719

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If you believe in ghosts, you're in good company. Haunted Histories brings America's most ghostly locales to life, illuminating their role in shaping U.S. history and detailing how they became the nation's most feared places. Haunted Histories takes readers on a state-by-state journey across the United States, exploring the nation's most feared places. Along the way, the text introduces readers to new ghostly tales and takes a fresh look at familiar stories and locations, with an eye to history. From well-known spooky spots like Salem, Massachusetts, to such lesser-known ones as the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland, Oregon, where spirits are supposedly trapped, readers will discover not only where America's most haunted places are but also why they are said to be haunted. The ghosts of the doomed Donner Party allow readers to experience the arduous and often deadly journey of America's westward wagon trains, while different kinds of "spirits" haunting old distilleries allow readers to discover how whiskey almost derailed the new American nation before it was born. This book can be studied for academic purposes as a historical reference, used as a source for classroom assignments, or simply read for the pleasure of a great story.