In this Issue

Table of Contents

The Need of Their Genius": Women's Reading and Writing Practices in Early America

Mary Kelley
pp. 1-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0011
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Women and Civil Society: A Symposium

Women and Civil Society: Introduction

Caroline Winterer
pp. 23-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0001
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Civil Society and the Public Woman

Philip Gould
pp. 29-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0006
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Civilizing Selves: Public Structures and Private Lives in Mary Kelley's Learning to Stand and Speak

Jeanne Boydston
pp. 47-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0012
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Politics and Civil Society: A Discussion of Mary Kelley's Learning to Stand and Speak

Rosemarie Zagarri
pp. 61-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0004
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Spheres, Sites, Subjectivity, History: Reframing Antebellum American Society

John L. Brooke
pp. 75-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0015
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Article

Voyeuristic Abolitionism: Sex, Gender, and the Transformation of Antislavery Rhetoric

Carol Lasser
pp. 83-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0014
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Editor's Page

Editor's Page

Roderick A. McDonald
pp. 115-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0005
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Reviews

The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave Law, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War (review)

Stephen Middleton
pp. 119-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0007
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The Missouri Controversy and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America (review)

John Craig Hammond
pp. 122-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0008
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States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States (review)

Thomas Augst
pp. 126-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0009
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Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America, and: Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity (review)

Ellen Eslinger
pp. 129-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0003
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Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (review)

James E. Lewis
pp. 132-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0002
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Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852 (review)

Jessica Lepler
pp. 134-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0017
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The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (review)

Seanegan Sculley
pp. 137-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0010
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Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution (review)

Lesley Doig
pp. 140-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0000
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The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo–American Liberty, and: Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders' Constitution, and: M'Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation (review)

George Van Cleve
pp. 143-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0016
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The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 (review)

Eran Shalev
pp. 154-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2008.0013
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