Amy S. Greenberg
Americans in the Tropics
The imperialist imagination from filibustering to reality TV

Susan Juster
What’s "Sacred" about Violence in Early America?
Killing, and dying, in the name of God in the New World

Thomas Augst
Finding Barnum on the Internet
An antebellum museum in cyberspace

Peter Baldwin
Mapping Time
Night and day in the nineteenth-century city

Review by Kathleen Curtin
Beyond Baked Beans
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald, America’s Founding Food

Review by Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor
Enduring Independence
Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers

Review by Gregory Nobles
Bovine Invaders, Porcine Imperialists
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Creatures of Empire

Review by Akela Reason
"They Had Faces Then"
Margaretta M. Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution

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