James A. Henretta (NHC Fellow, 2002–03)
Project Title
The Liberal State in America: New York, 1820-1950
University of Maryland
Return to All FellowsFellowship Work Summary, 2002–03
James A. Henretta completed eight of twelve chapters and drafted two additional chapters of his book The Liberal State in America: New York, 1820-1970. He also wrote an article on "Isaac Sherman and the Trials of Gilded Age Liberalism" for American Nineteenth Century History, vol. 4 (May/June 2003); an article on "Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America" for the Cambridge History of American Law, ed. Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg (forthcoming); an entry on "Liberalism" (in New York) for The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse University Press, forthcoming); a review of Martin Bruegel, Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860 for the American Historical Review, vol. 108, no. 3 (2003); and a review of Mark Hulliung, Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France, for the Pennsylvania Magazine of History (forthcoming, 2003).