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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: A Nation's Heart
• 1. Keeper of the Keys
• 2. Freedman's Village
• 3. A National Cemetery
• 4. Bringing Home the Dead
• 5. Out of Many, One Unknown
• 6. For Us, the Living
• 7. Knowns and Unknowns
• Conclusion: Hereafter
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Illustration Credits
• Index

Arlington National Cemetery is America's most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlington's symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity. Arlington commemorates sacrifices made in the nation's wars and armed conflicts. Yet it has always been a place of struggle over the boundaries of citizenship and the meaning of honor and love of country. A plantation built by slave labor overlooking Washington, D.C., Arlington was occupied by Union forces early in the Civil War. A portion was designated a federal cemetery in 1864. A camp for the formerly enslaved, Freedman's Village, had already been established there in 1863, and remained for three decades. The cemetery was seen primarily as a memorial to the white Civil War dead until its most famous monument was erected in 1921: the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, symbolizing universal military sacrifice through the interment of a single World War I Unknown. As a century of wars abroad secured Arlington's centrality in the American imagination and more Unknowns joined the first at the tomb, inclusion within its gates became a prerequisite for broader claims to national belonging. In revealing how Arlington encompasses the most inspiring and the most shameful aspects of American history, McElya enriches the story of this landscape, demonstrating that remembering the past and reckoning with it must go hand in hand.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• 1. What Is the Promise of American Life?
• 2. The Federalists and the Republicans
• 3. The Democrats and the Whigs
• 4. Slavery and American Nationality
• 5. The Contemporary Situation and Its Problems
• 6. Reform and the Reformers
• 7. Reconstruction: Its Conditions and Purposes
• 8. Nationality and Democracy: National Origins
• 9. The American Democracy and Its National Principles
• 10. A National Foreign Policy
• 11. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 1
• 12. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 2
• 13. Conclusions: The Individual and the National Purposes
• Index

The Promise of American Life is part of the bedrock of American liberalism, a classic that had a spectacular impact on national politics when it was first published in 1909 and that has been recognized ever since as a defining text of liberal reform. The book helped inspire Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, put Herbert Croly on a path to become the founding editor of the New Republic, and prompted Walter Lippmann to call him twentieth-century America's "first important political philosopher." The book is at once a history of America and its political ideals and an analysis of contemporary ills, from rampant economic inequality to unchecked corporate power. In response, Croly advocated combining the Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian traditions and creating a strong federal government to ensure that all Americans had a fair shot at individual success. The formula still defines American liberalism, and The Promise of American Life continues to resonate today, offering a vital source of renewal for liberals and progressives. For this new edition, Franklin Foer has written a substantial foreword that puts the book in historical context and explains its continuing importance.

• 1. The Golden State in the 1850s
• 2. Thomas Starr King and the Massachusetts background for his California activism
• 3. Towards a political realignment
• 4. The first years of war
• 5. The military front
• 6. The cultural front
• 7. A new role for California gold/a see-saw federal-state relationship
• 8. 'Coppery' California
• 9. Californians of color
• 10. A tragic death and its aftermath.
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This book breaks new ground, not only in its coverage of California, but also in its treatment of the role of cultural links in enhancing national loyalty, in its attention to many groups of people of color, including Chinese and Latinos, and what happened to them during the Civil War. In addition, the book devotes attention to the ebb and flow of the two political parties and to the little-known fact that nearly 17,000 California men and women volunteered for military service on behalf of the Union. Glenna Matthews broadens understanding of the Civil War era both in terms of geography and in terms of social groupings.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Prologue: Layered Pasts
• Progenitors
• 1. Legacies of Power from Medieval North America
• 2. Legacies of Conquest from Medieval Europe
• Conquistadores
• 3. Crusades of the Christ-Bearers to the Americas
• 4. Crusades of the Protestants to New Worlds
• Traders
• 5. Native Americans and the Power of Trade
• 6. Epidemics, War, and the Remapping of a Continent
• Planters
• 7. Searching for Order in New and Old England
• 8. Planting Patriarchy in New England and Virginia
• 9. Dutch, French, Spanish, and English Counterpoints
• Imperialists
• 10. Monarchical Power Reborn
• 11. Planters Besieged
• 12. Revolution, War, and a New Transatlantic Order
• Atlanteans
• 13. Producing and Consuming in an Atlantic Empire
• 14. People in Motion, Enslaved and Free
• 15. Contending for a Continent
• 16. Gloomy and Dark Days
• Epilogue: Present Pasts
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Credits for Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Index

America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation's pre-revolutionary past. In this pathbreaking revision, Daniel Richter shows that the United States has a much deeper history than is apparent--that far from beginning with a clean slate, it is a nation with multiple pasts that stretch back as far as the Middle Ages, pasts whose legacies continue to shape the present. Exploring a vast range of original sources, Before the Revolution spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of peoples--Indians, Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans, English--as they struggled with one another and with their own people for control of land and resources. Their struggles occurred in a global context and built upon the remains of what came before. Gradually and unpredictably, distinctive patterns of North American culture took shape on a continent where no one yet imagined there would be nations called the United States, Canada, or Mexico. By seeing these trajectories on their own dynamic terms, rather than merely as a prelude to independence, Richter's epic vision reveals the deepest origins of American history.
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• 1. Introduction Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan
• 2. The Charlie Maier scare and the historiography of American foreign relations, 1959-80 Mark Philip Bradley
• 3. Chaps having flaps: the historiography of US foreign relations, 1980-95 Andrew J. Rotter
• 4. Still contested and colonized ground: post-Cold War interpretations of US foreign relations during World War II Mark A. Stoler
• 5. Recent literature on Truman's atomic bomb decision: the triumph of the middle ground? J. Samuel Walker
• 6. The Cold War Curt Cardwell
• 7. Cold War presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon Stephen G. Rabe
• 8. The war that never ends: historians and the Vietnam war Robert K. Brigham
• 9. Trends in the literature on US-Latin American relations Mark T. Gilderhus and Michael E. Neagle
• 10. Impatient crusaders: the making of America's informal empire in the Middle East Douglas A. Little
• 11. Explaining the rise to global power: US policy toward Asia and Africa since 1941 Mark Atwood Lawrence
• 12. Bringing the non-state back in: human rights and Terrorism since 1945 Brad Simpson
• 13. Technology and the environment in the global economy Jonathan Reed Winkler
• 14. US mass consumerism in transnational perspective Emily S. Rosenberg
• 15. A worldly tale: global influences on the historiography of US foreign relations Thomas 'Tim' Borstelmann.
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This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading historians. Some of the essays offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field of foreign/international relations history. Others survey the literature on US relations with particular regions of the world or on the foreign policies of presidential administrations. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the historical literature on US foreign policy that highlights recent developments in the field.
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• 1. The Golden State in the 1850s
• 2. Thomas Starr King and the Massachusetts background for his California activism
• 3. Towards a political realignment
• 4. The first years of war
• 5. The military front
• 6. The cultural front
• 7. A new role for California gold/a see-saw federal-state relationship
• 8. 'Coppery' California
• 9. Californians of color
• 10. A tragic death and its aftermath.
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This book breaks new ground, not only in its coverage of California, but also in its treatment of the role of cultural links in enhancing national loyalty, in its attention to many groups of people of color, including Chinese and Latinos, and what happened to them during the Civil War. In addition, the book devotes attention to the ebb and flow of the two political parties and to the little-known fact that nearly 17,000 California men and women volunteered for military service on behalf of the Union. Glenna Matthews broadens understanding of the Civil War era both in terms of geography and in terms of social groupings.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter One. The God of No Foreign War
• Chapter Two. Lousy November
• Chapter Three. Plan Dog
• Chapter Four. Cruising in December
• Chapter Five. The Arsenal of Ideas
• Chapter Six. Make the Army Roll
• Chapter Seven. Have We the Vision?
• Chapter Seven. Have We the Vision?
• Chapter Nine. The Flames of World Confl agration Lick Everywhere
• Chapter Ten. The Third Hundred Days
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Credits
• Index

In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the ruthless onslaught of the Nazi army and air force. Great Britain stood alone, a fragile bastion between Germany and American immersion in war. In the Pacific world, Japan had extended its tentacles deeper into China. Susan Dunn dramatically brings to life the most vital and transformational period of Roosevelt's presidency: the hundred days between December 1940 and March 1941, when he mobilized American industry, mustered the American people, initiated the crucial programs and approved the strategic plans for America's leadership in World War II. As the nation began its transition into the preeminent military, industrial, and moral power on the planet, FDR laid out the stunning blueprint not only for war but for the American Century

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Forgotten Americans
• 3. What Went Wrong?
• 4. Why Economic Growth Is Not Enough
• 5. The Limits of Redistribution
• 6. A GI Bill for America's Workers
• 7. Creating Jobs and Rewarding Work
• 8. A Bigger Role for the Private Sector
• 9. Updating Social Insurance
• 10. Conclusion
• NOTES
• INDEX

A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society-economic, cultural, and political-and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all.   Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One: "Intruder of Color": Freedom, Sovereignty, and Kinship in Indian Territory
• Two: Passing for Black: White Kinfolk, "Mulatto" Freedpeople, and Westward Migration
• Three: "He Dreamed of Africa": Kinship, Class, and Peoplehood
• Four: "No Such Thing as Stand Still": The Chief Sam Movement and the "African Pioneers"
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index

The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements.   When statehood, oil speculation, and Jim Crow segregation imperiled their lives and livelihoods, these formerly enslaved men and women again chose emigration. Some migrants launched a powerful back-to-Africa movement, while others moved on to Canada and Mexico. Their lives and choices deepen and widen the roots of the Great Migration. Interweaving black, white, and Indian histories, Field's beautifully wrought narrative explores how ideas about race and color powerfully shaped the pursuit of freedom

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Note on Translation and Transliteration
• Introduction
• 1. Private Knowledge
• 2. War time Expertise
• 3. A Time of National Emergency
• 4. America's Sheet Anchors
• 5. (In)Visible Government
• 6. Modernizing the Middle East
• 7. Privatizing Knowledge
• 8. Empire and Its Limitations
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index

In T. E. Lawrence's classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a "dream palace" of Arab nationalism. What he really inspired, however, was an American idea of the area now called the Middle East that has shaped U.S. interventions over the course of a century, with sometimes tragic consequences. America's Dream Palace brings into sharp focus the ways U.S. foreign policy has shaped the emergence of expertise concerning this crucial, often turbulent, and misunderstood part of the world. America's growing stature as a global power created a need for expert knowledge about different regions. When it came to the Middle East, the U.S. government was initially content to rely on Christian missionaries and Orientalist scholars. After World War II, however, as Washington's national security establishment required professional expertise in Middle Eastern affairs, it began to cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship with academic institutions. Newly created programs at Harvard, Princeton, and other universities became integral to Washington's policymaking in the region. The National Defense Education Act of 1958, which aligned America's educational goals with Cold War security concerns, proved a boon for Middle Eastern studies. But charges of anti-Americanism within the academy soon strained this cozy relationship. Federal funding for area studies declined, while independent think tanks with ties to the government flourished. By the time the Bush administration declared its Global War on Terror, Osamah Khalil writes, think tanks that actively pursued agendas aligned with neoconservative goals were the drivers of America's foreign policy.
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• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• 1. Hipsters and Apparatchiks
• 2. Naming the Hurricane
• 3. Socialists in Manhattan
• 4. The Cultural Apparatus of the Empire
• 5. Moons of the Revolution
• 6. Negroes with Guns
• 7. The League of Militant Poets
• 8. The Skin of Socialism
• Epilogue
• Notes
• References
• Index

New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War-and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York intellectuals who championed and opposed Castro's revolution.Setting his narrative against the backdrop of the ideological confrontation of the Cold War and the breakdown of relations between Washington and Havana, Rafael Rojas examines the lives and writings of such figures as Waldo Frank, Carleton Beals, C. Wright Mills, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, and Jose Yglesias. He describes how Castro's Cuba was hotly debated in publications such as the New York Times, Village Voice, Monthly Review, and Dissent, and how Cuban socialism became a rallying cry for groups such as the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the Hispanic Left.Fighting over Fidel shows how intellectuals in New York interpreted and wrote about the Cuban experience, and how the Left's enthusiastic embrace of Castro's revolution ended in bitter disappointment by the close of the explosive decade of the 1960s.

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• Preface to the New Edition
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1. The Setting
• CHAPTER 2. "A Sleeping Giant Is Awakening": Right-Wing Mobilization, 1960-1963
• CHAPTER 3. The Grassroots Goldwater Campaign
• CHAPTER 4. The Conservative Worldview at the Grass Roots
• CHAPTER 5. The Birth of Populist Conservatism
• CHAPTER 6. New Social Issues and Resurgent Evangelicalism
• EPILOGUE
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX

In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange County, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century. Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education; pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles; and new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of community in Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches. We learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political activity. Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles and bright futures. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western libertarianism. While introducing these rank-and-file activists, McGirr chronicles Orange County's rise from "nut country" to political vanguard. Through this history, she traces the evolution of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical Protestantism. Her original contribution to the social history of politics broadens-and often upsets-our understanding of the deep and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America.

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• 1. The Fires of Honorable Ambition: The Education of John Quincy Adams
• 2. Clans and Tribes at Eternal War: Eu ro pe an Diplomacy and American Politics
• 3. In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Extent and Limits of American Power
• 4. The Spirit of Improvement: Economic and Moral Development
• 5. A Stain upon the Character of the Nation: The Fight against Slavery
• 6. The Influence of Our Example: The Legacy of John Quincy Adams
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

America's rise from revolutionary colonies to a world power is often treated as inevitable. But Charles N. Edel's provocative biography of John Q. Adams argues that he served as the central architect of a grand strategy whose ideas and policies made him a critical link between the founding generation and the Civil War-era nation of Lincoln.
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• Introduction
• pt. I Arguments about exclusion before the 1960s
• I could love them, too : genealogy practices and white supremacy
• Yours, for the dead : Mormonism's linking of genealogy with worship
• Hereditary greatness : early genealogical efforts among Native Americans, African Americans, and American Jews
• pt. II Arguments about inclusion : spectacle and commerce
• There has not been such a book : precedents for Alex Haley's Roots after 1945
• Diversification and discontentment : Roots (1976-1977) and its afterlives
• Genealogy for hire and for profit
• Chosen kin versus genetic fetishism : the traffic in genealogy-driven DNA testing since 1998 -- Epilogue.

From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion or drawing on membership-by blood or other means-to claim rights to land, inheritances, and more. And since the advent of DNA kits that purportedly trace genealogical relations through genetics, millions of people have used them to learn about their medical histories, biological parentage, and ethnic background. A Nation of Descendants traces Americans' fascination with tracking family lineage through three centuries. Francesca Morgan examines how specific groups throughout history grappled with finding and recording their forebears, focusing on Anglo-American white, Mormon, African American, Jewish, and Native American people. Morgan also describes how individuals and researchers use genealogy for personal and scholarly purposes, and she explores how local businesspeople, companies like Ancestry.com, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots series powered the commercialization and commodification of genealogy.
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• American exceptionalism / by David A. Bell
• Founding myths / Akhil Reed Amar
• Vanishing Indians / by Ari Kelman
• Immigration / Erika Lee
• America first / by Sarah Churchwell
• The United States is an empire / by Daniel Immerwahr
• The border / by Geraldo Cadava
• American socialism / by Michael Kazin
• The magic of the marketplace / by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
• The New Deal / by Eric Rauchway
• Conderate monuments / by Karen L. Cox
• The Southern strategy / by Kevin Kruse
• The good protest / by Glenda Gilmore
• White backlash / by Lawrence B. Glickman
• The Great Society / by Joshua Zeitz
• Police violence / by Elizabeth Hinton
• Insurrection / by Kathleen Belew
• Family values feminism / by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
• Reagan revolution / by Julian E. Zelizer
• Voter fraud / by Carol Anderson.

"The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis that explains what we get wrong about the past. Drawing on their immense knowledge of scholarship and their own primary research, these contributors provide correctives to the ways conservatives distort history to serve the needs of their anti-democratic agenda. For instance: Erika Lee shows how, far from posing a relentless threat to America, immigrants have long been recruited and even coerced to come to the United States. Joshua Zeitz traces how the welfare programs of the Great Society, criticized by the right as wasteful failures, have provided millions of Americans with food security, health care, and education. Carol Anderson uncovers how racism and anxiety over the nation's changing demographics, not voter fraud, are motivating Republicans' assault on voting rights. Elizabeth Hinton reveals that, rather than curbing crime, patrolling low-income communities with outside police forces has historically intensified violence and made everyone less safe. Taken together, the essays unveil how corporate interests and right-wing politicians use bad history to fan the flames of white resentment and unravel America's social safety net. Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential reading amid today's heated debates about our nation's past"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Daniel S. Margolies Part I Considering Truman in Historical Perspective 7 1 Truman in Historical, Popular, and Political Memory 9 Sean J. Savage 2 Rhetoric and Style of Truman s Leadership 26 Steven Casey Part II Enduring Questions 47 3 Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration 49 Jeremi Suri 4 Harry S. Truman and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb 67 Sean L. Malloy 5 The Origins of the Cold War in International Perspective 87 Amanda Kay McVety Part III Truman, the State, and the World System 109 6 Exporting the American Experience: Global Economic Governance and the Foreign Economic Policy of the Truman Administration 111 Francine McKenzie
• 7 NSC-68 and the National Security State 131 Curt Cardwell 8 Strategists and Rhetoricians: Truman s Foreign Policy Advisers 159 Benjamin A. Coates Part IV The Truman Presidency and the Shaping of Postwar American Society 189 9 Truman, Reconversion, and the Emergence of the Post-World War II Consumer Society 191 Susannah Walker 10 The Fair Deal 210 Jason Scott Smith 11 The Election of 1948 222 Dean J. Kotlowski 12 The Truman Administration and the Public Policy of Civilian Defense: Making the Best of a Nightmare 246 Andrew D. Grossman 13 The Environmental History of the Truman Years, 1945 53 260 Mark Harvey 14 Truman and Civil Rights 287 Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford Part V Truman s Foreign Policy 303 15 Great Britain and American Hegemony 305 Kathleen Britt Rasmussen 16 The Truman Doctrine 327 Elizabeth Edwards Spalding 17 Harry S. Truman and the Marshall Plan 347 Robert H. Landrum 18 Truman and the Middle East 362 Kelly J. Shannon
• 19 Harry S. Truman s Latin American Policy 389 Michael Donoghue 20 Truman and NATO 410 Stephanie Trombley Averill 21 Truman, the United Nations, and the Origins of the Postwar World Order 428 Robert McGreevey 22 The Truman Administration and Cold War Neutrals 436 T. Michael Ruddy 23 The Legacies of Nuremberg in International Law and American Policy 453 Jinee Lokaneeta Part VI America and the Postwar Pacific Rim 463 24 The Occupation of Japan: A History of Its Histories 465 Hiroshi Kitamura 25 The Birth of a Rivalry: Sino-American Relations During the Truman Administration 484 Gregg Brazinsky 26 Conflicts in Korea 498 James I. Matray 27 Setting the Pattern: The Truman Administration and Southeast Asia 532 Mark Atwood Lawrence References 553 Further Reading 598 Index 605.
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With contributions from the most accomplished scholars in the field, this fascinating companion to one of America's pivotal presidents assesses Harry S. Truman as a historical figure, politician, president and strategist. * Assembles many of the top historians in their fields who assess critical aspects of the Truman presidency * Provides new approaches to the historiography of Truman and his policies * Features a variety of historiographic methodologies.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part one. Colonial Clashes
• 1. "Una Casa, Dos Mujeres"
• 2. "Poligamie/Nintiouiouesaïn"
• 3. "Christians Have Kept 3 Wives"
• 4. "Negroe Mens Wifes"
• Part two. Enlightened Encounters
• 5. "The Natural Violence of Our Passions"
• 6. "Such a Revolution as This"
• 7. "The Repugnance Inherent in Having Multiple Wives"
• 8. "Defence of Polygamy by a Lady"
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index

A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities, and segments of the American nation. Polygamy-as well as the fight against it-illuminates many touchstones of American history: the Pueblo Revolt and other uprisings against the Spanish; Catholic missions in New France; New England settlements and King Philip's War; the entrenchment of African slavery in the Chesapeake; the Atlantic Enlightenment; the American Revolution; missions and settlement in the West; and the rise of Mormonism. Pearsall expertly opens up broader questions about monogamy's emergence as the only marital option, tracing the impact of colonial events on property, theology, feminism, imperialism, and the regulation of sexuality. She shows that heterosexual monogamy was never the only model of marriage in North America

• Frontmatter
• FOREWORD
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY
• 1803
• July 1803
• August 1803
• September 1803
• October 1803
• November 1803
• APPENDICES
• Appendix I: List of Appointments, [11 July-15 November]
• Appendix II: Letters Not Printed in Full
• Appendix III: Letters Not Found
• Appendix IV: Financial Documents
• INDEX

The Louisiana Purchase dominates the months covered in this volume. Jefferson departs for Monticello to enjoy a needed respite after the busy three and a half months he has just spent in the nation's capital. Shortly before leaving Washington, he has a last meeting with his cabinet, after which he issues a proclamation to reconvene Congress on 17 October, three weeks early. It is the "great and weighty" business of the French government's stunning offer to transfer all of the Louisiana Territory to the United States that necessitates this important gathering. The event brings Jefferson enthusiastic congratulations from his friends and fellow Republicans. With Jefferson's great success, however, comes the reality of getting the agreement with France approved and implemented. The boundaries of the territory ceded are not even clear. In private letters to his trusted advisers, Jefferson discusses the proper course of action. Should both houses of Congress be called to consider the French offer? Is it prudent to make the substance of a treaty public? And perhaps most vexing, does this executive action require an amendment to the Constitution? Some Federalists criticize the plan, but an expansion of the nation's territory, proponents argue, will raise America's stature in the eyes of the world. With the widening of the country's borders, Jefferson's project to send an exploratory party westward seems even timelier. William Clark accepts Meriwether Lewis's invitation to join the expedition, and on the last day of August Lewis begins his journey down the Ohio River, the building of his boat finally complete