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Volume 49 - Issue 1 - 2016

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Northern California: Persistence and Property Rights in a Changing Economy, 1840-1880

Daniel Curry
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-27
"We Were Surrendered”: Civil War Prisoners and the Trauma of Capture

James Neal
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-38

Historiographical Essay

Memory Struggles in the Past and Present: A Review of Recent Contributions to the Study of Civil War Memory

Lucas Kelley
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-7

Book Review

Race Becomes Tomorrow: North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights. By Gerald M. Sider (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015). Pp. 226. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $24.95.

Brian Suttell
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-3
A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. By Daniel J. Sargent. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). Pp. 456. Hardcover, $33.00.

Danielle Balderas
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-3
Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early Republic. Emily Conroy-Krutz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015, 5 b&w illus., xvii + 244 pp., $45.00 cloth.

Rebecca Brenner
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-2
Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians. Edited by Susan SleeperSmith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Manning Stevens (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Pp. 335. [Price]

Joshua Catalano
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-2
We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program. By Richard Paul and Steven Moss (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015) Pp 312. Hardcover $30. Kindle $16.50.

Erich Fenrich
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-2
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast. By Andrew Lipman (New York: Yale University Press, 2015). Pp. 339. Hardcover, $38.00.

Jay Goldin
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-3
Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany. By Sarah L. Leonard (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Pp. 272. Cloth, $55.00.

Christopher Goodwin
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-3
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation. By Colin G. Calloway (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) Pp. 621. Hardcover, $22.20.

Seth Harden
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-3
The Making of Asian America: A History. By Erika Lee (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015). Pp. 519. Hardcover, $29.95.

Samuel King
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-2
Liberated Treads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. By Tanisha C. Ford. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Pp. 272. Cloth, $29.95.

Alyssa Lopez
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-2
Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South. By Damian Alan Pargas (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Pp. 281. Cloth, $80.00. Paper, $29.99.

Keith McCall
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-2
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars. By Andrew Hartman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015). Pp. 342. Cloth, $30.00.

Elizabeth Neuman
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-3
Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West. Edited by Virginia Scharff (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015). Pp. 264. Cloth, $34.95.

Adam Stauffer
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31 Dec 2016

49 (1):1-3

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Volume 49 - Issue 1 - 2016

Article

Northern California: Persistence and Property Rights in a Changing Economy, 1840-1880

"We Were Surrendered”: Civil War Prisoners and the Trauma of Capture

Historiographical Essay

Memory Struggles in the Past and Present: A Review of Recent Contributions to the Study of Civil War Memory

Book Review

Race Becomes Tomorrow: North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights. By Gerald M. Sider (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015). Pp. 226. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $24.95.

A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. By Daniel J. Sargent. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). Pp. 456. Hardcover, $33.00.

Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early Republic. Emily Conroy-Krutz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015, 5 b&w illus., xvii + 244 pp., $45.00 cloth.

Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians. Edited by Susan SleeperSmith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Manning Stevens (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Pp. 335. [Price]

We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program. By Richard Paul and Steven Moss (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015) Pp 312. Hardcover $30. Kindle $16.50.

The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast. By Andrew Lipman (New York: Yale University Press, 2015). Pp. 339. Hardcover, $38.00.

Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany. By Sarah L. Leonard (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Pp. 272. Cloth, $55.00.

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation. By Colin G. Calloway (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) Pp. 621. Hardcover, $22.20.

The Making of Asian America: A History. By Erika Lee (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015). Pp. 519. Hardcover, $29.95.

Liberated Treads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. By Tanisha C. Ford. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Pp. 272. Cloth, $29.95.

Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South. By Damian Alan Pargas (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Pp. 281. Cloth, $80.00. Paper, $29.99.

A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars. By Andrew Hartman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015). Pp. 342. Cloth, $30.00.

Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West. Edited by Virginia Scharff (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015). Pp. 264. Cloth, $34.95.

Call for Papers 2021

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Working for the Clampdown: The Clash, The Dawn of Neoliberalism, and the Political Promise of Punk. Edited by Colin Coulter (Manchester University Press, 2019). Pp. 248. Paper, $29.00

Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle. By Lukas Rieppel (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2019). Pp. 325. Cloth, $29.95.

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power. By Pekka Hämäläinen (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2019). Pp. 544. Hardcover, $35.00.

Polygamy: An Early American History. By Sarah M.S. Pearsall (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2020). Pp. 416. Cloth, $38.00.

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