Joseph A Conforti: 2 books
Lizzie Borden on Trial
Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks," but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why. In Joseph A. Conforti's engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also...
Imagining New England
Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory...