H. Robert Baker
The Supreme Court Confronts History
Or, habeas corpus redivivus

Trevor Burnard
A Passion for Places
The geographic turn in early American history

Jack Sexton
Monticello
The invention of an American place

James Kessenides
The Tropical Turn
Los Angeles before the movies

Caroline Winterer
The Big Picture
The ancient Mediterranean in early America

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The Industrious "Industrial Book"
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Blood and Bigotry
Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors

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Paul Kelton, Epidemics and Enslavement

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Smashing Idols
Brendan McConville, The King's Three Faces

Review by Lloyd Pratt
First the Pilgrim, then the Bee
Matthew P. Brown, The Pilgrim and the Bee

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Birth of the (Corporate) Republic
Andrew M. Schocket, Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia

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Beyond the Bubble
Authentic assessment in an age of standardized testing

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Seed Packets and Their Stories
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