The Best American History Essays 2008

This third annual volume from the Organization of American Historians, containing the best American history articles published between the summers of 2006 and 2007, 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.

The Organization of American Historians is the largest learned society devoted to the study of American history. Since its founding in 1907, the OAH has promoted the study and teaching of the American past through its many activities. David Roediger (Editor) is the Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous books, including Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S. Foner), The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness.

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Rebranding History? The Best History Essays and the Popular Appeals of the Past	p. 1
Chinese Exclusion, Photography, and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy	p. 11
From Crop Lien to Contract Farming: The Roots of Agribusiness in the American South, 1929-1939	p. 35
Rocking the Cradle: Downsizing the New England Family	p. 55
Exceptionalism and Globalism: Travel Writers and the Nineteenth-Century American West	p. 75
Class War? Class Struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia	p. 101
"I Have...a Lot of Work To Do": Cotton Mill Work and Women's Culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888-95	p. 139
"It is His First Offense. We Might As Well Let Him Go": Homicide and Criminal Justice in Chicago, 1875-1920	p. 157
Educating the Eye: Body Mechanics and Streamlining in the United States, 1925-1950	p. 177
The Grape Vine Telegraph: Rumors and Confederate Persistence	p. 203
"They are Ancestral Homelands": Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945-1961	p. 235
Other Articles Nominated for the 2008 Competition	p. 265
Index	p. 267
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