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On the centennial of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), Ian Tyrrell re-evaluates its formative years as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (MVHA). That association, he argues, held strong attachments to an imagined place, nurtured by its members through collective practices of memory and expressed in now-forgotten forays into public history. These endeavors raise questions about professional history's supposed detachment from the public and, more generally, about the genealogies of American historiography. Through its practices, the association promoted a distinctive research culture focused on the Mississippi Valley. Tyrrell seeks to recover a lost historical world that bequeathed important traditions to contemporary scholarship.

In 1973 the United States abandoned the draft in favor of an all-volunteer military, despite the warnings of the House Armed Services Committee that such a force could be achieved only through a draft. The primary mover behind the shift to a volunteer force was neither public discontent nor youthful protesters, but a group of free-market economists surrounding Richard M. Nixon. . . .

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