George Rohrbacher
Ken Kesey Meets Lewis and Clark
The salmon fisheries of Celilo Falls

Tom Rea
Hayden's Gaze
Science and art come to the Oregon Trail

Mary Beth Norton
Salem Witchcraft in the Classroom
With bewitching results

Paul Lindholdt
Giving Voices
Four poems of seventeenth-century America

Joyce E. Chaplin
Overboard
A historian’s life at sea

Review by Wendy Bellion
Exhuming Peale
David C. Ward, Charles Willson Peale

Review by Peter Charles Hoffer
Swift but Uncertain Justice
Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown, The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler

Review by Leslie Choquette
Sometimes a Chair is Only a Chair
Neil Kamil, Fortress of the Soul

Review by Andrew Shankman
The Revolution Heard Round the World
Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf, eds. Empire and Nation

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Thinking about women in slavery

Jeffrey L. Pasley
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The roots of the current debate over presidential power

Sharon Block
Doing More with Digitization
An introduction to topic modeling of early American sources

Adrienne Kupper
Using 1776
Teaching the Declaration of Independence through the musical comedy

John E. Crowley
The Scenographia Americana (1768)
A transnational landscape for early America

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