Editorial Staff
Rural Capitalism in Iron Country: Staffing a Forest Factory, 1808–1815
Thomas M. Doerflinger	3
The Declaration of Independence and International Law
David Armitage	39
From Fellow-Nationals to Foreigners: British Perceptions of the Americans, circa 1739–1783
Stephen Conway	65

Notes and Documents

Sympathizing with Sedition? George Washington, the British Press, and British Attitudes during the American War of Independence
Troy O. Bickham	101
Colonial Patronage: Two Letters from William Franklin to the Earl of Bute, 1762
R. C. Simmons	123

 

Forum: The Making of a Slave Conspiracy, part 2

135

Trials and Errors: Denmark Vesey and His Historians
by Edward A. Pearson	137
Forgetting Denmark Vesey; Or, Oliver Stone Meets Richard Wade
by Douglas R. Egerton	143
Inconsistent Contextualism: The Hermeneutics of Michael Johnson
by David Robertson	153
Conspiracy Scares
by Philip D. Morgan	159
Conspiracy and Credibility: Look Who's Talking, about What--Law Talk and Loose Talk
by Thomas J. Davis	167
The Charleston Hurricane of 1822; Or, the Law's Rampage
by Winthrop D. Jordan	175
Plausible Stories and Varnished Truths
by James Sidbury	179
Jacobins of the Lowcountry: The Vesey Plot on Trial
by Robert L. Paquette	185
Reading Evidence
by Michael P. Johnson	193

Forum: Historians and Guns

203

Words, Deeds, and Guns: Arming America and the Second Amendment
by Jack N. Rakove	205
Many Things Forgotten: The Use of Probate Records in Arming America
by Gloria L. Main	211
Of Arms and Men: Arming America and Military History
by Ira D. Gruber	217
Guns, Gun Culture, and Homicide: The Relationship between Firearms, the Uses of Firearms, and Interpersonal Violence
by Randolph Roth	223
Exploring America's Gun Culture
by Michael A. Bellesiles	241

Reviews of Books

ULRICH, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth.
By Margaretta M. Lovell	269
A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America, ed. LINDMAN and TARTER.
By Sharon Block	273
NEMEROV, The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812–1824.
By Jochen Wierich	277
The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492–1800: A Collection of Essays, ed. GRAY and FIERING.
By Laura J. Murray	281
PLANE, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England.
By Melanie Perreault	284
HERNDON, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England.
By Sheila A. Culbert	289
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover, ed. BERLAND, GILLIAM, and LOCKRIDGE.
By Rhys Isaac	292
GLOVER, All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry.
By Darcy R. Fryer	296
LOUNSBURY, From Statehouse to Courthouse: An Architectural History of South Carolina's Colonial Capitol and Charleston County Courthouse.
By Martha J. McNamara	299
LOCKLEY, Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750–1860.
By Robert Olwell	302
"The Apotheosis of John Adams," a review-essay of THOMPSON, John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty; Ferling, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution; and MCCULLOUGH, John Adams.
By Richard D. Brown	305
John Adams and the Founding of the Republic, ed. RYERSON.
By Richard A. Samuelson	315
"James Madison's Political and Constitutional Thought Reconsidered," a review-essay of SHELDON, The Political Philosophy of James Madison; The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vols. 4–5, October 1802-October 1803, ed. STAGG et al.; and The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vols. 2–4, October 1809-July 1812, ed. STAGG et al.
By Stuart Leibiger	319
"Whose Revolution Was It, Anyway?" a review-essay of RAPHAEL, A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence, and LUSSIER, Last Refuge of Scoundrels: A Revolutionary Novel.
By Gary J. Kornblith	326

Communications

331

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