Journal of the Early Republic: Volume 37, 2018

CONTENTS

Conscience and Contradiction: The Moral Ambiguities of Antebellum Reformers Marcus and Rebecca Buffum Spring Carol Lasser	1
“Beyond All Ambitious Motives”: Missionary Memoirs and the Cultivation of Early American Evangelical Heroines Ashley E. Moreshead	37
Introduction: Taking Stock of the State in Nineteenth-Century America Ariel Ron and Gautham Rao	61
State-Building After War’s End: A Government Financier Adjusts His Portfolio for Peace Hannah Farber	67
Slavery and the Conceptual History of the Early U.S. State Ryan A. Quintana	77
State Power in the West in the Early American Republic Rachel St. John	87
Present at the Creation: The State in Early American Political History Stephen Skowronek	95
The State Is Back In: What Now? Richard R. John	105
Counterfeit Kin: Kidnappers of Color, the Reverse Underground Railroad, and the Origins of Practical Abolition Richard Bell	199
“The Most Valiant in Defense of His Country”: Andrew Jackson’s Bequest and the Politics of Courage, 1819–1857 Robert Cray	231
“Reducing Free Men to Slavery”: Black Kidnapping, the “Slave Power,” and the Politics of Abolition in Antebellum Illinois, 1830–1860 M. Scott Heerman	261
“Too Mean to Live, and Certainly in No Fit Condition to Die”: Vandalism, Public Misbehavior, and the Rural Cemetery Movement Joy M. Giguere	293
Introduction: Knowledge and Its Uses Michael Zakim	377
Perpetual War and Natural Knowledge in the United States, 1775–1860 Cameron Strang	387
Mo‘olelo and Mana: The Transmission of Hawaiian History from Hawai‘i to the United States, 1836–1843 Noelani Arista	415
The Political Geometry of Statistical Tables Michael Zakim	445
On the Uselessness of Knowledge: William F. Lynch’s “Interesting” Expedition to the Dead Sea Milette Shamir	475
Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Frauds: Distinguishing Truth from Untruth in Early America Lukas Rieppel	501
Seeing Red: Race, Citizenship, and Indigeneity in the Old Northwest Michael Witgen	581
Lucretia Mott and the Underground Railroad: The Transatlantic World of a Radical American Woman Ikuko Asaka	613
“Formed for Empire”: The Continental Congress Responds to the Carlisle Peace Commission Anthony Gregory	643
Liberty Poles and the Fight for Popular Politics in the Early Republic Shira Lurie	673
Surveying the Fields	119
Review Essays	149, 325, 531
Reviews	157, 335, 537, 699