ABSTRACT An intensive examination of Hamilton’s record on slavery reveals little basis for his current reputation as an antislavery icon, fostered by Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical. During the American Revolution, Hamilton, in an idealistic, antislavery phase, joined John Laurens in proposing to raise slaves for military campaigns, offering them “freedom with

ABSTRACT In April 1793, after war erupted between France and England, President George Washington issued his so-called Neutrality proclamation declaring America’s intent to avoid involvement in the conflict. Writing as Pacificus, Alexander Hamilton produced a series of essays defending the proclamation and arguing that the Constitution gave the president broad discretion in foreign affairs. Responding

ABSTRACT In May 1955, the United States conducted its first and only deep-water nuclear test. Codenamed Operation Wigwam, the test was officially conducted to determine the effectiveness of a nuclear device as an anti-submarine weapon. Operation Wigwam first came to public attention through a news article in New West magazine that detailed the events of the explosion and the effects it had on the health

ABSTRACT From the 1850s through 1914 – in Northern Hemisphere states from the USA and Canada to Western Europe and the Russian Empire – a long and occasionally acrimonious debate raged among agriculturalists, entomologists and conservationists about the relationship of wild birds to agriculture. Conceived initially as a relatively simple question – weighing the damage done by birds that ate crops against

ABSTRACT In 1963, the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations received evidence alleging that US aid funds to Iran had been misappropriated and used to bribe prominent American and Iranian figures. Members of the Iranian royal family and high-profile American businessmen and diplomats were implicated in the emerging corruption scandal. The allegations were made by the Iranian

(2020). In This Issue. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 419-419.

(2020). Santayana and the lessons of history. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 420-423.

ABSTRACT On the surface, the association between Lyndon Johnson, an erstwhile New Dealer, and Herbert Hoover, FDR’s bête noire, would seem unlikely. Its existence underscores the complex interplay between presidents, challenging sentimental talk of a “Presidents Club” among Oval Office occupants. No rules of behavior among presidents prevail, as Donald J. Trump’s attacks on his immediate predecessors

(2020). The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 492-494.

(2020). Starstruck in the promised land: how the arts shaped American passions about Israel. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 494-495.

(2020). Bitter reckoning: Israel tries Holocaust survivors as Nazi collaborators. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 495-498.

(2020). Caribbean New Orleans: empire, race, and the making of a slave society. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 498-499.

(2020). World of trouble: a Philadelphia Quaker family’s journey through the American Revolution. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 499-500.

(2020). Historians on Hamilton: how a blockbuster musical is restaging America’s past. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 500-503.

(2020). Criminal dissent: prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 503-504.

(2020). A curse upon the nation: race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic World. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 504-505.

(2020). Rebel Richmond: life and death in the Confederate capital. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 505-507.

(2020). Hostile heartland: racism, repression, and resistance in the Midwest. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 507-508.

(2020). Assembling the dinosaur: fossil hunters, tycoons, and the making of a spectacle. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 509-510.

(2020). Raced to death in 1920s Hawai'i: injustice and revenge in the Fukunaga case. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 510-511.

(2020). Black Huntington: an Appalachian story. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 511-512.

(2020). Democracy’s capital: Black political power in Washington, D.C., 1960s-1970s. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 512-514.

(2020). The nuclear spies: America’s atomic intelligence operation against Hitler and Stalin. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 514-516.

(2020). Talk radio’s America: how an industry took over a political party that took over the United States. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 516-517.

(2020). The Mariel boatlift: a Cuban-American journey. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 517-519.

(2020). Down and out in Saigon: stories of the poor in a colonial city. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 519-520.

(2020). Over Here, Over There: transatlantic conversations on the music of World War I. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 520-522.

(2020). Alfonso X, the Justinian of his age: law and justice in thirteenth-century Castile. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 522-523.

(2020). Stalin: passage to revolution. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 523-527.

(2020). Eric Hobsbawm: a life in history. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 527-529.

(2020). Scholarship & freedom. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 530-533.

(2020). Phi Alpha Theta Initiates. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 534-571.

ABSTRACT John de Bauquell, a London businessman and royal servant, is representative of the urban elite of medieval England. An examination of his career and accomplishments illuminates the growing influence of individuals of similar backgrounds in European government.

(2020). In this issue. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 307-307.

(2020). Modernism on the Nile: art in Egypt between the Islamic and the contemporary. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 363-364.

(2020). Urban dreams, rural commonwealth: the rise of plantation society in the Chesapeake. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 364-365.

(2020). Masters of the middle waters: Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 366-366.

(2020). American states of nature: the origins of independence, 1761-1775. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 367-368.

(2020). Preserving the white man’s republic: Jacksonian democracy, race, and the transformation of American conservatism. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 368-369.

(2020). Treason on trial: the United States v. Jefferson Davis. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 369-370.

(2020). Literary Indians: aesthetics and encounters in American literature to 1920. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 370-371.

(2020). How the New Deal built Florida tourism: the Civilian Conservation corps and state parks. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 371-372.

(2020). A nation of immigrants reconsidered: U.S. society in an age of restriction, 1924-1965. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 372-373.

(2020). The sexual economy of war: discipline and desire in the U.S. Army. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 374-375.

(2020). Learning on the left: political profiles of Brandeis University. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 375-376.

(2020). Portraying the Aztec past: the Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 376-377.

(2020). The Brazil reader: history, culture, politics. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 377-378.

(2020). The murder of William of Norwich: the origins of the blood libel in Medieval Europe. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 379-379.

(2020). England’s other countrymen: Black Tudor society. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 379-380.

(2020). The afterlives of the terror: facing the legacies of mass violence in postrevolutionary France. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 380-381.

(2020). Emperor: a new life of Charles V. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 382-382.

(2020). Scots and Catalans: union and disunion. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 383-385.

(2020). Phi Alpha Theta Initiates. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 386-418.

ABSTRACT In the initial stage of Russian colonization of Alaska, very few Natives were involved in carrying out maritime service on Russian ships, as they lacked some of the required qualifications and skills. Only after the Russians had established the first permanent settlement on Kodiak Island in 1784 were some Natives drawn into maritime service, though in a limited number. From the beginning of

ABSTRACT This article details how the current epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in North America – as well as Native-led movements like Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) – is connected to and rooted in the historical past. Using the case of the Muscogee (Creek) peoples and their interactions with the Spanish, French, English, and Americans in the eighteenth-century,

ABSTRACT Carter Glass played an important role in every financial question that the U.S. Congress addressed from the Federal Reserve Act through the New Deal. Although Glass is often remembered today as a reformer, he was fundamentally a reactionary whose foremost impulse was ensuring that the banking system remained the instrument of financial elites. He promoted legislation that upheld elite banking

ABSTRACT In 1938, the FBI’s Leon Turrou investigated a Nazi spy ring that was operating in the United States. He proved that the ring had stolen American military secrets, planned to kidnap a senior officer in the US Army, and plotted to establish a honey-trap brothel in Washington, DC. Turrou then conducted a propaganda campaign against the Nazis, culminating in a Warner Brothers movie, Confessions

ABSTRACT This article centers around the failed attempt of US engineer James Eads to link the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico by constructing a ship railway across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec during the 1880s. The article examines the numerous factors that contributed to the project’s failure while arguing that it was a legitimate contender among transisthmian routes of the era, represents

ABSTRACT This article considers postwar Peru (1952–1963) using categories of race, ethnicity, and a unique case-study: Japanese Peruvians running for political office. Japanese Peruvians, who comprise multiple generations, have been subjects of scholarship, but their entry into politics before Alberto Fujimori’s campaign (in 1990) is scarcely studied. Here, the author uses print media from mainstream

Few figures embody the triumphs and tragedies of postwar American liberalism more than Hubert Humphrey. In his biography of the Minnesota senator and failed presidential candidate, Arnold Offner ca...