The Best American History Essays 2007

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands

Chapter 3 “Meddling with Emancipation”: Baptists, Authority, and the Rift over Slavery in the Upper South

Chapter 4 The Afterlives of Lewis and Clark

Chapter 6 Outlawing “Coolies”: Race, Nation, and Empire in the Age of Emancipation

Chapter 7 “The Dread Void of Uncertainty”: Naming the Dead in the American Civil War

Chapter 8 Diplomatic Wives: The Politics of Domesticity and the “Social Game” in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1905–1941

Chapter 9 The Flying Machine in the Garden: Parks and Airports, 1918–1938

Chapter 10 Miscegenation and Competing Definitions of Race in Twentieth-Century Louisiana

Chapter 11 The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past