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White-to-Black Passing in American Culture
- Copyright year: 2008
The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture
- Copyright year: 2008
The Birth of American Tourism
New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1835
- Copyright year: 2008
Literary Journalism on Trial
Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment
- Copyright year: 2008
Popular Print and Popular Medicine
Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America
- Copyright year: 2008
Ballykilcline Rising
From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America
- Copyright year: 2008
Jump for Joy
Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America
- Copyright year: 2008
James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence
- Copyright year: 2008
Early Native Literacies in New England
A Documentary and Critical Anthology
- Copyright year: 2008