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The Thucydidean Moment: History, Science, and the Yellow-Fever Controversy, 1793–1805

Thomas Apel
pp. 315-347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0051
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The Protracted Meeting Myth: Awakenings, Revivals, and New York State Baptists, 1789–1850

Curtis D. Johnson
pp. 349-383
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0055
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Freedom’s First Con: African Americans and Changing Notes in Antebellum New York City

Shane White
pp. 385-409
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0059
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“The Whole North Is Not Abolitionized”: Slavery’s Slow Death in New Jersey, 1830–1860

James J. Gigantino II
pp. 411-437
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0040
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What Makes the History of Capitalism Newsworthy?

Seth Rockman
pp. 439-466
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0043
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Myth-Making and Myth-Breaking in the Historiography on John Dickinson

Jane E. Calvert
pp. 467-480
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0046
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Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America—with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings by James Corbett David (review)

Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler
pp. 481-483
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0049
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Embattled Farmers: Campaigns and Profiles of Revolutionary Soldiers from Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1775–1783 by Richard C. Wiggin (review)

Samuel A. Forman
pp. 484-486
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0053
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Sons of the Father: George Washington and His Protégés ed. by Robert M. S. McDonald (review)

Joe R. Bailey
pp. 486-489
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0057
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Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War ed. by Michael A. McDonnell etc. (review)

Andrew M. Schocket
pp. 489-492
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0039
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Ship of Death: A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World by Billy G. Smith (review)

Robert V. Wells
pp. 495-498
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0045
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Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg (review)

Frank Cogliano
pp. 498-501
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0048
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Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed by John Ragosta (review)

Christopher Michael Curtis
pp. 501-504
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0052
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (review)

Tracy Potter
pp. 504-507
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0056
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The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes by Conevery Bolton Valencius (review)

Sean Munger
pp. 507-509
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0038
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Andrew Jackson, Southerner by Mark Cheathem (review)

Robert Bonner
pp. 510-512
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0041
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder, and: The People’s Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion by Eric J. Chaput (review)

Christopher Malone
pp. 512-517
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0044
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The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization, and the African American Reclamation of the West by Eric Ashley Hairston (review)

Eran Shalev
pp. 517-520
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0047
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Confronting Slavery: Edward Coles and the Rise of Antislavery Politics in Nineteenth-Century America by Suzanne Cooper Guasco (review)

W. Caleb McDaniel
pp. 520-523
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0050
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The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey by E. Fuller Torrey (review)

Nikki Taylor
pp. 523-525
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0054
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James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War ed. by John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner (review)

Brie Swenson Arnold
pp. 525-528
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0058
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The Adams Papers: Series II, Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 11: July 1795-February 1797 ed. by Margaret A. Hogan et al. (review)

R. B. Bernstein
pp. 493-495
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2014.0042
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