TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Jacqueline ED - Organization of American Historians. TI - The best American history essays 2007 SN - 1403976597 (alk. paper) AV - bB561 2007 U1 - 973 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - American essays KW - United States KW - History KW - Historiography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Jacqueline Jones -- From captives to slaves: commodifying Indian women in the borderlands / Juliana Barr -- "Meddling with emancipation:" baptists, authority, and the rift over slavery in the upper south / Monica Najar -- The afterlives of Lewis and Clark / Stephen Aron -- Revisiting Nashoba: slavery, Utopia, and Frances Wright in America, 1818-1826 / Gail Bederman -- Outlawing "coolies:" race, nation, and empire in the age of emancipation / Moon Ho-Jung -- "The dread void of uncertainty:" naming the dead in the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust -- Diplomatic wives: the politics of domesticity and the "social game" in the U.S. foreign service, 1905-1941 / Molly M. Wood -- The flying machine in the garden, parks and airports, 1918-1938 / Janet R. Daly Bednarek -- Miscegenation and competing definitions of race in twentieth-century Louisiana / Michelle Brattain -- The long civil rights movement and the political uses of the past / Jacquelyn Dowd Hal UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006050719-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006050719-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006050719-t.html ER -