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Table of Contents

The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History

Gordon S. Wood
pp. 2-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0008
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Time and the Romans

Denis Feeney
pp. 7-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0011
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Sage of the Small Screen: HBO's John Adams

Brendan McConville
pp. 9-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0014
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Teaching American Abolitionism and Religion

Bertram Wyatt-Brown
pp. 11-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0017
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Teaching World History: Problems and Possibilities

Theodore K. Rabb
pp. 13-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0001
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Evangelicals, the End Times, and Islam

Thomas S. Kidd
pp. 16-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0004
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The Great Whale Trial: Science and Society in the Early Republic

D. Graham Burnett
pp. 19-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0007
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"A Principle of Authority. . . Must Always Occur"

Thomas Bender
pp. 20-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0010
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Whalesong and Chants Democratic

Joyce E. Chaplin
pp. 22-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0013
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What Makes A Difference?: Science and Epistemic Authority in the Early American Republic

Benjamin Cohen
pp. 23-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0016
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Two Questions about Moby-Dick

Cyrus R.K. Patell
pp. 25-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0000
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The Whale Trial on Trial: A Reply

D. Graham Burnett
pp. 26-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0003
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Faith and the Modern Presidency: An Interview with Randall Balmer

Randall J. Stephens
pp. 29-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0006
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C. Vann Woodward, Dissenter

Sheldon Hackney
pp. 31-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0009
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Witch-hunting in the Western World: An Interview with John Demos

Donald A. Yerxa
pp. 35-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0012
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Cabeza de Vaca and the Problem of First Encounters

Andrés Reséndez
pp. 36-38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0015
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Descartes' Bones: An Interview With Russell Shorto

Donald A. Yerxa
pp. 39-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0018
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Displaced from Zion: Mormons and Indians in the 19th Century

Jared Farmer
pp. 40-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0002
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Letters

Bruce Kuklick, Gerald D. McKnight, John A. Grigg, David Pleiss
pp. 43-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsp.0.0005
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