Forum Essay: Responses
Borders and Borderlands

These Forum Essay responses continue the discussion of "Borders and Borderlands" begun in the June issue of this journal. In that issue, Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron launched the discussion with their provocative essay "From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States, and the Peoples in Between in North American History." We invited readers to send in commentaries on the essay. As we had hoped, it provoked a number of responses. Three of the most compelling and instructive are published in the second and concluding part of the Forum. The comments by Evan Haefeli, Christopher Ebert Schmidt-Nowara, and John R. Wunder and Pekka Hämäläinen extend the discussion by raising a number of substantive and methodological questions about the essay. Adelman and Aron conclude the discussion with a thoughtful reply that engages each commentator and some of the larger issues generated in the exchange. The two parts of this Forum clearly demonstrate both the need to place borders and borderlands in historical context and the challenges of doing so.

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