Essays in History

Volume Thirty Eight, 1996.

Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia.
Editor: Meg Jacobs.

Editorial Board: David D'Andrea, Joanne B. Freeman, Hailey Froysland, Mary Hampson, Peter Kastor, Edward Lengel, Erin Mahan, Paul Milazzo, Andrew Morris, Kevin Sheets, Jay Stanley.

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All material copyrighted by the Rector and Visitors
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Table of Contents

Articles:

• Louis Hamilton. A Liturgy of Reform: Bruno Segri's De Sacramentis Ecclesial and the Gregorian Reform
  
  
• Ed Lengel. A "Perverse and Ill-Fated People": English Perceptions of the Irish, 1845-52
  
  
• Dan Miller. "Harvard, We Have a Problem": Santayana and the New University
  
  
• Peter Norton. Fighting Traffic: U.S. Transportation Policy and Urban Congestion, 1955-1970
  
  
• Kirsten E. Williams. From Gentility to Republicanism: Creating an American Form of Portraiture in the Early Republic

Book Reviews:

• J.C.D. Clark, Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism. By William Anthony Hay
  
  
• Patricia Seed, Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World 1492-1640. By Brian Hudgins
  
  
• Adam Fairlcough, Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972. By Juliette Landphair