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Articles

  1. Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age
  2. Nicholas Ruddick
  3. pp. 1-11
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  1. Race and Reading: The Burden of Huckleberry Finn
  2. Frances W. Kaye
  3. pp. 13-48
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  1. Who Are We? Africa and the Problem of Black American Identity
  2. Tunde Adeleke
  3. pp. 49-86
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  1. The Adventures of Patriot Hunters: Danger, Memory, Place, and Virtue at the Windmill
  2. Thomas P. Dunning
  3. pp. 109-121
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American Studies in Review

  1. Twentieth-Century American Culture and the Persistence of Religion
  2. Eric Crouse
  3. pp. 123-131
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  1. Beyond Identity Politics?
  2. Michael Nowlin
  3. pp. 133-142
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Book Reviews

  1. Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis by Alan M. Dershowitz (review)
  2. Alan Hunt
  3. pp. 143-145
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  1. The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945–1993 by Gaddis Smith (review)
  2. Bernard Lemelin
  3. pp. 145-148
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  1. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820 by David Waldstreicher (review)
  2. Jonathan F. Vance
  3. pp. 148-150
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  1. Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic by Len Travers (review)
  2. Marguerite S. Shaffer
  3. pp. 150-152
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  1. A Whitman Chronology by Joanne P. Krieg (review)
  2. Robert K. Martin
  3. pp. 153-154
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  1. Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865–1925 by Paul Harvey (review)
  2. Jewel L. Spangler
  3. pp. 154-156
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  1. A Measure of Perfection: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America by Charles Colbert (review)
  2. Susan McMahon
  3. pp. 156-158
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  1. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century by Mary Ryan (review)
  2. W. Fitzhugh Brundage
  3. pp. 158-161
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  1. Beyond Labor’s Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor by Robert E. Weir (review)
  2. Craig Heron
  3. pp. 161-163
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. 165-166
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  1. Announcements
  2. pp. 167-168
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  1. Awards
  2. p. 169
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