The January/April issue explores the importance of clocks to William Penn's political philosophy; the experiences of ordinary mariners in the early 19th-century transatlantic; and journalist George Lippard's use of a revolutionary-era traitor to discourage opposition to the Mexican American War.

Contents

“Governments, like Clocks”: A Contextualization of William Penn’s Horological Simile

Kerr Houston

The Trials of the American Snow George in the British Atlantic, 1805–6

Phillip Reid

“Arnold the Traitor”: George Lippard, the Mexican-American War, and the Search for an Antebellum George Washington, 1846–1852

Benjamin J. Swenson