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New! Special Subscription Offer! Subscribe to the NEQ by September 30th to receive a 20% discount plus a free MIT book and the chance to win a free 16GB iPod Nano in the color of your choice. New Podcast! Our unmissable new podcast, based on our June issue's lead essay (now available for free download) is now up on the MIT Press Journals website! Click below to hear Distinguished Professor Richard Brown and Governor Michael Dukakis discuss ethnic prejudice in capital cases from the eighteenth century to the present. Bill Fowler facilitates this thought-provoking conversation. NEQ...now on Facebook! "Like" us to get immediate updates, announcements, and more! Click the Facebook button at the top of this page or click through to www.facebook.com/newenglandquarterly to subscribe. 2010 Whitehill Prize Winner Announced In collaboration with the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, The New England Quarterly is pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History, Lindsay Schakenbach's "From Discontented Bostonians to Patriotic Industrialists: The Boston Associates and the Transcontinental Treaty, 1790-1825," which will be published in the September 2011 issue of NEQ. In this essay, Schakenbach, a second-year PhD student at Brown University, explores the relationship between state and capital in the early republic by examining how the Boston Associates profited from the Transcontinental Treaty with Spain. To learn more about the Whitehill Prize and to see a list of past winners, click below. Whitehill Prize Information and Winners>> NEQ in the Boston Globe! In the Globe's "Ideas" section, Paul Freedman, author of our March issue's lead essay, puts Boston's current "foodie" revolution in context by discussing the city's ninteenth-century restaurant cuisine. This article is an adaptation of Freedman's "American Restaurants and Cuisine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," now available for free download. Click here to read the Globe article, or follow the link below to read the original essay and listen to our most recent podcast, in which Freedman and Rebecca Federman, Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library, dish on the nineteenth century's most popular meals. Special Subscription Offer! Subscribe now and receive a 20% discount on print and electronic access to the New England Quarterly, plus a free book from MIT Press. Click here for further details on this limited-time offer>> Podcast: Paul Freedman Dishes on 19th-Century Cuisine Click below to hear our latest podcast, in which Rebecca Federman, Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library, interviews Yale History Department Chair Paul Freedman about his article "American Restaurants and Cuisine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," now available for free download. Freedman reveals the nineteenth century's must popular meals, regional differences in menus, and which dishes could make a modern-day comeback. New Podcast: Louis Menand and Stephen Whitfield Discuss Catcher in the Rye Click below to listen to Pulitzer Prize winner (and NEQ editorial board member) Louis Menand interviewing author Stephen J. Whitfield on his December 1997 NEQ essay "Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of The Catcher in the Rye," now available for free download. The conversation was recorded on February 24, 2010. Free Article: A Social History of The Catcher in the Rye January 27, 2010, marked the passing of J. D. Salinger. To honor his extraordinary talent, we are offering readers a free download of Stephen Whitfield's perenially popular "Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of The Catcher in the Rye," NEQ, December 1997. Click here to access the article. New Podcast! Andrew Wehrman, author of our September 2009 issue's lead essay, "The Siege of 'Castle Pox': A Medical Revolution in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1764-1777," was recently featured in The Boston Globe's Ideas section and on NPR's "Voice of the Nation." Click here to read his Globe article, "A Pox on You"; go to npr.org to listen to a podcast of the interview. Whitehill Winner Announced December 2007 NEQ Essay Receives Prestigious Award in Forest and Conservation History David C. Hsuing's "Food, Fuel, and the New England Environment in the War of Independence, 1775-1776," published in the December 2007 NEQ, has won the 2008 Theodore C. Blegen Award for the best work on forest and conservation history written in 2007, the Forest History Society has announced. Examining the Continental Army's struggle to secure provisions from the hard-pressed Massachusetts countryside during the siege of Boston, Hsuing illuminates how natural resources (and the lack thereof) influenced strategic policy and military/civilian relations at the onset of the American Revolution. Non-subscribers can read Hsuing's award-winning article by purchasing a copy of our December 2007 issue from the MIT Press Journals website. June 2008 NEQ Piece Gains National Exposure
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