James Simeone

Biographic Data

ID1528623
NAMEJames Simeone
GIVEN NAMESJames
FAMILY NAMESimeone
SIGNATURESIMEONE J
AFFILIATIONSIllinois Wesleyan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • No Place for Saints

    Open AccessJames SimeoneARTICLEJournal of Church and State2023

    Journal Article No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America. By Adam Jortner Get access No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America. By Adam Jortner. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 150pp. $22.95 paper. James Simeone James Simeone Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of C…

  • The Reed Smoot Hearings

    Open AccessJames SimeoneARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    A book on Mormon and American relations during the Progressive Era has the feeling of coming into the middle of a movie. The federal government outlawed polygamy in Utah in 1862, and in 1887 confiscated the property of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Lds) as punishment for persisting in the institution called plural marriage. After the death of Lds president John Taylor and an 1890 referendum in Utah Territory renouncing the prac…

  • The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War

    Open AccessJames SimeoneARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    In The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War Michael F. Conlin makes a powerful argument that “the provisions of the Constitution aggravated, shaped, and fueled the sectional conflict over slavery” (p. 122). A particular strength of the book is its evidentiary basis. Conlin demonstrates that many ordinary Americans knew the Constitution in great detail. He succeeds in defending the claim that “popular constitutionalism” was real (p. xx…

  • The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

    James SimeoneREVIEWJournal of American History2018

    In The Price for Their Pound of Flesh, Daina Ramey Berry has produced a rich compendium of hidden transcripts documenting how American slaves viewed their lives. The book “is organized around the life cycle of an enslaved person's body” and examines each stage of a slave's life from “preconception” (i.e., the unborn children of expectant mothers) to “postmortem” (i.e., the cadaver trade) (p. 3). Her method is more qualitative than quantitative. B…

  • Frontier Democracy

    James SimeoneARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    James Bryce observed that state constitutions in the United States were a “mine of instruction for the natural history of democratic communities” (The American Commonwealth, vol. 1, 1888, p. 434). With Frontier Democracy Silvana R. Siddali joins G. Alan Tarr (Understanding State Constitutions, 1998) and Laura J. Scalia (America's Jeffersonian Experiment, 1999) in the project of deciphering this natural history. Her goal is to provide a master sur…

  • Confronting Slavery

    James SimeoneARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2015

    Suzanne Cooper Guasco has produced the first comprehensive biography of Edward Coles, the anti-slavery advocate born into the Virginia gentry who spent a lifetime confronting slavery and slaveholde

  • Reassessing Jacksonian Political Culture

    James SimeoneARTICLEAmerican Political Thought2015References: 17

    Scholars have long debated the character of Jacksonian political culture. Many have argued that the Democrats were individualist in political culture, and those who recognize an egalitarian aspect still describe the Jacksonian view of society as “atomistic.” The article focuses on the political thought of William Leggett, “Spokesman” of Jacksonian Democracy. It distinguishes between universalist and particularist varieties of egalitarianism and a…

  • True Faith and Allegiance

    Open AccessJames SimeoneARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2007Cited by: 3

    True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism. By Noah Pickus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 272p. $35.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Is civic nationalism an oxymoron? Noah Pickus does not think so, at least not in America. Here, the best leaders have been able to combine a “rational commitment to a common creed based on abstract ideals” with a moderate nationalism valuing “tradition, inherited opinion, and a set o…

  • Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois

    Stanley Harrold, James SimeoneARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    During the late eighteenth century, southern immigrants introduced black bondage—un-der the pseudonym of indentured servitude— into Illinois Territory. They did this despite the Northwest Ordinance's exclusion of slavery from it and other territories in the region. In 1824, after Illinois had become a state, voters rejected, by a margin of 6,822 to 4,950, a call for a constitutional convention that in all likelihood would have allowed slavery to …

  • Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois

    Daniel S Dupre, James SimeoneARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2001Cited by: 1

    tive, Frederick Jackson Tumer, in 1893, wrote the valediction for the American frontier in his famous essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."Growing up in Portage, Turner witnessed firsthand the panoply of nineteenth-century Wisconsin history.In saying his eloquent farewell to the frontier he also provided tools for historians to analyze and understand it.In The Wisconsin Prontier, Mark Wyman uses Tumer's tools wisely and w…