In the September 2009 Issue:

The Siege of "Castle Pox": A Medical Revolution in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1764-1777
Andrew M. Wehrman 

"Neither Justice nor Mercy": Public and Private Executions in Rhode Island, 1832-1833
Stephen Chambers 

Catharine Beecher and the American Woman's Puritan Home
Diana Strazdes

The Rise and Fall of the Province of Lygonia: 1643-1658
Hannah Farber

Images courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society