The Best American History Essays 2007 Book

List of Illustrations     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction   Jacqueline Jones     1
From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands   Juliana Barr     13
"Meddling with Emancipation:" Baptists, Authority, and the Rift over Slavery in the Upper South   Monica Najar     47
The Afterlives of Lewis and Clark   Stephen Aron     71
Revisiting Nashoba: Slavery, Utopia, and Frances Wright in America, 1818-1826   Gail Bederman     89
Outlawing "Coolies": Race, Nation, and Empire in the Age of Emancipation   Moon-Ho Jung     111
"The Dread Void of Uncertainty": Naming the Dead in the American Civil War   Drew Gilpin Faust     135
Diplomatic Wives: The Politics of Domesticity and the "Social Game" in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1905-1941   Molly M. Wood     155
The Flying Machine in the Garden: Parks and Airports, 1918-1938   Janet R. Daly Bednarek     175
Miscegenation and Competing Definitions of Race in Twentieth-Century Louisiana   Michelle Brattain     199
The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past   Jacquelyn Dowd Hall     235
Other Articles Nominated for the 2007 Competition     273
Index     275