The Best American History Essays 2007

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-11
From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands....Pages 13-46
“Meddling with Emancipation”: Baptists, Authority, and the Rift over Slavery in the Upper South....Pages 47-70
The Afterlives of Lewis and Clark....Pages 71-88
Revisiting Nashoba: Slavery, Utopia, and Frances Wright in America, 1818–1826....Pages 89-109
Outlawing “Coolies”: Race, Nation, and Empire in the Age of Emancipation....Pages 111-133
“The Dread Void of Uncertainty”: Naming the Dead in the American Civil War....Pages 135-154
Diplomatic Wives: The Politics of Domesticity and the “Social Game” in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1905–1941....Pages 155-174
The Flying Machine in the Garden: Parks and Airports, 1918–1938....Pages 175-197
Miscegenation and Competing Definitions of Race in Twentieth-Century Louisiana....Pages 199-234
The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past....Pages 235-271
Back Matter....Pages 273-284