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The Best American essays 2007

By david foster wallace and robert atwan.

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The Best American History Essays 2007

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

Front matter, 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 Hall

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• American History
• history of literature

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Book Title : The Best American History Essays 2007

Editors : Jacqueline Jones

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06439-4

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan New York

eBook Packages : Palgrave History Collection , History (R0)

Copyright Information : Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007

Hardcover ISBN : 978-1-4039-7659-8 Published: 15 February 2007

Softcover ISBN : 978-1-4039-7660-4 Published: 15 February 2007

eBook ISBN : 978-1-137-06439-4 Published: 30 April 2016

Edition Number : 1

Number of Pages : IX, 284

Topics : Memory Studies , History of the Americas

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