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Dr. Joshua D. Rothman
Dr. Joshua D. Rothman

Recent Publications: Flush Times & Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012). "The Contours of Cotton Capitalism: Slavery, Speculation, and Economic Panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841," in Seth Rockman and Sven Beckert, eds., Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming, 2012). Reforming America, 1815-1860: a Norton Documents Reader (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). "'The Hazards of the Flush Times: Gambling, Mob Violence, and the Anxieties of America's Market Revolution," Journal of American History 95 (December 2008): 651-77. Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861(Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003). "Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn't," in Juliet A. Williams and Paul Apostolidis, eds., Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004): 101-33. "'Notorious in the Neighborhood': An Interracial Family in Early National and Antebellum Virginia," Journal of Southern History 67 (February 2001): 73-114. "James Callender and Social Knowledge of Interracial Sex in Antebellum Virginia," in Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture, eds. Jan Lewis and Peter S. Onuf (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1999): 87-113. “‘To Be Freed from Thate Curs and Let at Liberty’: Interracial Adultery and Divorce in Antebellum Virginia,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 106 (Autumn 1998): 443-81.

  • Flush Times & Fever Dreams

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