New England Quarterly - Northeastern University
The New England Quarterly

In the March 2010 Issue

Breathing the "Free Aire of the New World": The Influence of the New England Way on the Gathering of Congregational Churches in Old England, 1640-1660
Ralph F. Young

French Women, Italian Art, and Other "Advocates of the Body" in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing
Dorothy Z. Baker 

Pines, Profits, and Popular Politics: Responses to the White Pine Acts in the Colonial Connecticut River Valley
Strother E. Roberts

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. 

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New Podcast! 

Mary Kelley, member of the NEQ editorial board, interviews Deirdre Clemente about her article "'Prettier Than They Used to Be': Femininity, Fashion, and the Recasting of Radcliffe's Reputation, 1900-1950," which appears in the December 2009 issue of The New England Quarterly. The conversation was recorded on December 21, 2009.

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