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The Best American History Essays 2007

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  1. Jacqueline Jones

    1. Organization of American Historians, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Jacqueline Jones
    Pages 1-11

  3. From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands

    • Juliana Barr
    Pages 13-46

  4. “Meddling with Emancipation”: Baptists, Authority, and the Rift over Slavery in the Upper South

    • Monica Najar
    Pages 47-70

  5. The Afterlives of Lewis and Clark

    • Stephen Aron
    Pages 71-88

  6. Revisiting Nashoba: Slavery, Utopia, and Frances Wright in America, 1818–1826

    • Gail Bederman
    Pages 89-109

  7. Outlawing “Coolies”: Race, Nation, and Empire in the Age of Emancipation

    • Moon-Ho Jung
    Pages 111-133

  8. “The Dread Void of Uncertainty”: Naming the Dead in the American Civil War

    • Drew Gilpin Faust
    Pages 135-154

  9. Diplomatic Wives: The Politics of Domesticity and the “Social Game” in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1905–1941

    • Molly M. Wood
    Pages 155-174

  10. The Flying Machine in the Garden: Parks and Airports, 1918–1938

    • Janet R. Daly Bednarek
    Pages 175-197

  11. Miscegenation and Competing Definitions of Race in Twentieth-Century Louisiana

    • Michelle Brattain
    Pages 199-234

  12. The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past

    • Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
    Pages 235-271

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 273-284
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About this book

This second annual volume from the Organization of American Historians, containing the best American history articles published between the summers of 2005 and 2006, provides a quick and comprehensiveoverview ofthe topwork and the current intellectual trendsin the field of American history. With contributions froma diverse group of historians, thiscollection appealsboth to scholars and to lovers of history alike.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Organization of American Historians, USA

    Jacqueline Jones

About the editor

Jacqueline Jones isHarry S. Truman Professor of American History, Brandeis University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Best American History Essays 2007

  • Editors: Jacqueline Jones

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06439-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7659-8Published: 15 February 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7660-4Published: 15 February 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-06439-4Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 284

  • Topics: Memory Studies, History of the Americas

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