Introduction: Rebranding History? The Best History Essays and the Popular Appeals of the Past
1. Chinese Exclusion, Photography, and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy
2. From Crop Lien to Contract Farming: The Roots of Agribusiness in the American South, 1929-1939
3. Rocking the Cradle: Downsizing the New England Family
4. Exceptionalism and Globalism: Travel Writers and the Nineteenth-Century American West
5. Class War? Class Struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia
6. "I Have...a Lot of Work To Do": Cotton Mill Work and Women's Culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888-95
7. "It is His First Offense. We Might As Well Let Him Go": Homicide and Criminal Justice in Chicago, 1875-1920
8. Educating the Eye: Body Mechanics and Streamlining in the United States, 1925-1950
9. The Grape Vine Telegraph: Rumors and Confederate Persistence
10. "They are Ancestral Homelands": Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945-1961
Other Articles Nominated for the 2008 Competition
