The Best American History Essays 2007

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 comprehensive overview of the top work and the current intellectual trends in the field of American history. With contributions from a diverse group of historians, this collection appeals both to scholars and to lovers of history alike.

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

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands	p. 13
"Meddling with Emancipation:" Baptists, Authority, and the Rift over Slavery in the Upper South	p. 47
The Afterlives of Lewis and Clark	p. 71
Revisiting Nashoba: Slavery, Utopia, and Frances Wright in America, 1818-1826	p. 89
Outlawing "Coolies": Race, Nation, and Empire in the Age of Emancipation	p. 111
"The Dread Void of Uncertainty": Naming the Dead in the American Civil War	p. 135
Diplomatic Wives: The Politics of Domesticity and the "Social Game" in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1905-1941	p. 155
The Flying Machine in the Garden: Parks and Airports, 1918-1938	p. 175
Miscegenation and Competing Definitions of Race in Twentieth-Century Louisiana	p. 199
The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past	p. 235
Other Articles Nominated for the 2007 Competition	p. 273
Index	p. 275
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