Laura Rigal

The American Manufactory

In the Shadow of His Office

Cambridge University Press eBooks, May 20, 2021

Imperial Attractions

Duke University Press eBooks, 2004

Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2011

By salt and hemp!" cried Stubb, "but this swift motion of the deck creeps up one's legs and tingl... more By salt and hemp!" cried Stubb, "but this swift motion of the deck creeps up one's legs and tingles at the heart. This ship and I are two brave fellows!-Ha! ha! Some one take me up, and launch me, spine-wise, on the sea,-for by live-oaks! my spine's a keel. Ha, ha! we go the gait that leaves no dust behind!" -Moby-Dick S. Otter et al. (eds.), Melville and Aesthetics

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Beyond “The Trouble with Wilderness”

American Quarterly

The American Manufactory

Black Work at the Polling Place : the Color Line in 'The County Election

When Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) was at work on his most popular and complex... more When Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) was at work on his most popular and complex paintings he was also deeply engaged in Whig politics. Bingham was already well known for his genre scenes of riverboat men and frontier life-Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845); The Jolly Flatboatmen (1846); Boatmen on the Missouri (1846); among others-when he decided to run for state office in 1846. He had been involved in Whig electoral politics since the early 1840s, when he painted banners and delivered speeches on behalf of William Henry Harrison and Henry Clay. Bingham especially admired Clay of Kentucky, whose fiery orations compared Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren to Caesar, Cromwell, and Napoleon as usurpers of executive privilege and destroyers of the people's independence. In 1846, fearing Missouri's enslavement to a Democratic majority, Bingham himself ran for the state legislature as a Whig candidate from Saline County. He lost the race in a bitter post-election appeal. But the razor-thin election became the subject of his best-known political painting The County Election (1851-1852).

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Electric Books of 1747: Franklin's Luminous Gilt

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A Bad Day on the Prairie: The Chickasaw County Massacre

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photo... more The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use", that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copy order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.

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In the Shadow of His Office

A History of the Literature of the U.S. South, 2021

Imperial Attractions

Memory Bytes, 2004

Imperial Attractions

History, Technology, and Digital Culture, 2003

Pulled by the Line

Melville and Aesthetics

Benjamin Franklin, the Science of Flow, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment

Waldstreicher/A Companion to Benjamin Franklin, 2012

Raising the Roof": Authors, Spectators and Artisans in the Grand Federal Procession of 1788

Theatre Journal, 1996

[A]ll European processions... yield, in the effect of pleasure, to our hasty exhibition ... The w... more [A]ll European processions... yield, in the effect of pleasure, to our hasty exhibition ... The whole of this vast body was formed, and the entertainment of the day conducted with a regularity and decorum far beyond all reasonable expectation. The footways, the windows, and roofs of the houses were crowded with spectators, exhibiting a spectacle truly magnificent and irresistibly animating. But what was more pleasing,... universal love and harmony prevailed and every countenance appeared to be the index of a heart glowing with urbanity and rational joy ... Such is the difference between the effects of a republican and monarchical government on the minds of men.' -Benjamin Rush, The American Museum, or Repository, July 1788

Whose Affirmative Culture? Response to Pfister

American Literary History, 2000

... But the angel of history is more than an angel of complicity. And the cultural study of work ... more

Framing the Fabric: A Luddite Reading of Penn's Treaty with the Indians

American Literary History, 2000

... Treaty with the Indians Laura Rigal The great object I had was... ... But they also raise the... more

Out of the Wilderness: The Emergence of an American Identity in Colonial New England

The American Historical Review, 1991

Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick

Melville and Aesthetics, 2011

By salt and hemp!" cried Stubb, "but this swift motion of the deck creeps up one's legs and tingl... more By salt and hemp!" cried Stubb, "but this swift motion of the deck creeps up one's legs and tingles at the heart. This ship and I are two brave fellows!-Ha! ha! Some one take me up, and launch me, spine-wise, on the sea,-for by live-oaks! my spine's a keel. Ha, ha! we go the gait that leaves no dust behind!" -Moby-Dick S. Otter et al. (eds.), Melville and Aesthetics

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The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic

The American Historical Review, 2000

... Malmud and Victoria Wilson-Schwartz at Princeton University Press, while, over the years, res... more

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