New England Quarterly

04/08/2025

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 98.1: March 2025. Image: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives Editorial by Holly Jackson Essays Precarity, Prosperity, and Boston's Death Economy in the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic Erik R. Seeman Thoreau and Lincoln at the Crossroads of the Civil WarSusan E. Gallagher The Burden of Proof: S*x, Power, and Patriarchy in the Eighteenth-Century Connecticut River Valley…...

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 98.1: March 2025. Image: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives Editorial by Holly Jackson Essays Precarity, Prosperity, and Bos…

07/13/2024

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.2: June 2024. Image: “Their spear,” MS Volume VII (MA 1302:13) (courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library) Editorial by Holly Jackson Essay Why Did Thoreau Draw in His Journal? Kathleen Coyne Kelly Six Characters in Search of a Prophet: Emerson's Representative Men Robert Milder Memoranda and Documents “A Credo”: Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists…...

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.2: June 2024. Image: “Their spear,” MS Volume VII (MA 1302:13) (courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library) Editorial by Holly Jackson…

05/01/2024

The New England Quarterly is pleased to announce the Margaret Fuller Prize, to be awarded annually to an outstanding essay in literary studies on a New England subject in any period. The winning essay will be published in the journal and the author will receive $2500. Previously unpublished works of 7-12k words in length must be submitted to [email protected] by June 15, 2024. All submissions will be considered for publication.

The New England Quarterly is pleased to announce the Margaret Fuller Prize, to be awarded annually to an outstanding essay in literary studies on a New England subject in any period. The winning es…

03/28/2024

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.1: March 2024. Image: Editorial by Holly Jackson Essay Fortune in Exile: William Rotch, 1775–1805 Sarah Crabtree “No Avenging Gibbet”: The 1860 Pemberton Mill Collapse Robert Forrant American Political Cultures Forum III Making a Post-Industrial New England Lizabeth Cohen Silicon Politics, from Puritan Soil to California Dreaming Margaret O'Mara…...

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 97.1: March 2024. Image: Editorial by Holly Jackson Essay Fortune in Exile: William Rotch, 1775–1805 Sarah Crabtree “No Avenging Gibbet…

12/19/2023

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.4: December 2023. Image: Charlotte Forten Grimké, circa 1870, New York Public Library. Editorial by Holly Jackson Essay A Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Salem: Charlotte Forten's Struggles against Slavery, Racism, and Female Dependence by Myra C. Glenn American Political Cultures Forum II Charles Sumner's Political Culture and the Foundation of Civil Rights; Or, The Education of Charles Sumner…...

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.4: December 2023. Image: Charlotte Forten Grimké, circa 1870, New York Public Library. Editorial by Holly Jackson Essay A Free Woma…

10/06/2023

In her compelling and astute reconsideration of the development of early American agricultural thought, Abby L. Goode pays special attention to the ways that racist, nativist, eugenic, and expansionist rhetoric influenced the evolution of the concept of sustainability across America's long nineteent...

10/03/2023

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.3: September 2023. Image: Shipping Becalmed in the Solent by Charles Brooking, c. 1755. © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Editorial by Holly Jackson Essays Charlotte at Sea: An Atlantic Odyssey on the Eve of Revolution by Thomas M. Truxes American Political Cultures Forum Introduction by Richard D. BrownProperty in the American Revolution…...

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.3: September 2023. Image: Shipping Becalmed in the Solent [fragment] by Charles Brooking, c. 1755. © National Maritime Museum, Green…

06/14/2023

Saturday June 17, 9:00am—9:45am Methodist Church Stacy Schiff with Nat Philbrick Join Pulitzer Prize winner, Stacy Schiff, in conversation with Nantucket’s own Nathaniel Philbrick as they discuss colonial New England and one of most influential and incendiary figures to shape the American coloni...

06/14/2023

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.2: June 2023. Link to image source. Editorial by Holly Jackson Essays Duty and Love: Flora Lee's Resistance to Slavery in Revolutionary Marblehead by G. Patrick O'brien“A sweete cup hath rendered many of us wanton and too active”: The Perils and Promises of Liberty in the Providence Plantations, 1636–1656…...

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.2: June 2023. Link to image source. Editorial  by Holly Jackson Essays Duty and Love: Flora Lee’s Resistance to Slavery i…

03/27/2023

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.1: March 2023. We want to give a special thanks to our departing editor, Jonathan Chu, for his extraordinary contribution to our publication. Congratulations on your retirement! Editorial by Jonathan M. Chu American Political Cultures Forum: Keynote Address The Radicalism of Northern Abolition by Sean Wilentz Essay "We're all in this fight together”: African American and Latinx Parent-Activists in Boston Schools…...

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 96.1: March 2023. We want to give a special thanks to our departing editor, Jonathan Chu, for his extraordinary contribution to our pub…

03/22/2023

The MIT Press is pleased to announce that Holly Jackson has been appointed as the Bernard Bailyn Editor of The New England Quarterly (NEQ). Jackson will build upon the success of the previous editor Jonathan Chu, who has retired after seven years of exceptional service. “I’m honored to take on the editorship of The New England Quarterly,” said Holly Jackson, who is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston....

The MIT Press is pleased to announce that Holly Jackson has been appointed as the Bernard Bailyn Editor of The New England Quarterly (NEQ). Jackson will build upon the success of the…

02/23/2023

Step inside. Come see "Fellow Wanderer: Isabella's Travel Albums" on view through May 21. This exhibition features pages from nine albums Isabella created upon her return from travel around the world between 1867 and 1895.