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October 2014
A Political Ecology in the Early Spanish Caribbean
Molly A. Warsh

April 2003
ÜYe Sons of Harmony”: Politics, Masculinity, and the Music of
William Billings in Revolutionary Boston
Elizabeth B. Crist
Historiographical Notes

July 2013
Massacre, Mardi Gras, and Torture
in Early New Orleans
Sophie White

April 2013
ÜHe is the master of his house”: Families and Political Authority
in Counterrevolutionary Montreal
Nancy Christie

April 2010
ÜBaptism doth not bestow Freedom”:
Missionary Anglicanism, Slavery, and
the Yorke-Talbot Opinion, 170130
Travis Glasson
Interactive

July 2014
Annapolis Aflame: Richard Clarke's Conspiracy and the Imperial Urban Vision in Maryland, 7048
Paul Musselwhite

October 2012
The Material and Social Practices of Intellectual Work:
Jonathan Edwards's Study
Wilson H. Kimnach and Kenneth P. Minkema

January 2012
The Plantation Hoe:
The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Commodity, 6501850
Chris Evans
Geopolitics and Intrigue:
James Wilkinson, the Spanish Borderlands,
and Mexican Independence
David E. Narrett

July 2011
Spain and the Founding of Jamestown
William S. Goldman

April 2011
Atlantic Slavery, Atlantic Freedom:
George Washington, Slavery, and
Transatlantic Abolitionist Networks
François Furstenberg

January 2011
Geographies of Power:
Mapping Indian Borders in the
ÜBorderlands” of the Early Southwest
Juliana Barr

October 2010
The Merchant, the Map, and Empire:
Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake and
Interimperial Trade, 64473
Christian J. Koot

July 2010
Ambiguous Concession:
What Diplomatic Archives Reveal about Article 5 of the
Treaty of Utrecht and France's North American Policy
Dale Miquelon

April 2010
The Politics of Grass:
European Expansion, Ecological Change, and
Indigenous Power in the Southwest Borderlands
Pekka Hämäläinen

January 2010
Reassessing the ÜSankofa Symbol”
in New York's African Burial Ground
Erik R. Seeman

October 2009
Editors' Preface
Christopher Grasso and Scott E. Casper
An Üabominable” New Trade:
The Closing of the African Slave Trade and
the Changing Patterns of U.S. Political Power, 180860
Steven Deyle
The Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Transformation of the
SouthCentral African Interior during the Nineteenth Century
David M. Gordon

July 2009
The Account Book of Richard Poor,
Quaker Merchant of Barbados
S. D. Smith

April 2009
Benjamin Franklin and the ÜWagon Affair” of 1755
Alan Houston
Elizabeth Whitman' s Disappearance and Her ÜDisappointment”
Bryan Waterman

July 2008
The Geography of Witchcraft Accusations in 692 Salem Village
Benjamin C. Ray

January 2007
After the ÜMourning Wars”: The Iroquois as Allies in Colonial
American Campaigns, 16751760
Jon Parmenter
Tables, Charts, & Methodology

January 2014
Freedom Suits, African American Women,
and the Genealogy of Slavery
Loren Schweninger

January 2013
Toussaint before Louverture:
New Archival Findings on the Early Life of Toussaint Louverture
Philippe R. Girard and Jean-Louis Donnadieu

July 2011
The Visible Fist: The Chesapeake Tobacco Trade in War and the Purpose of Empire, 6901715
Douglas Bradburn

January 2011
New World Tempests:
Environment, Scarcity, and the
Coming of the Pequot War
Katherine A. Grandjean

October 2008
Go West:
Mapping Early American Historiography
Claudio Saunt

July 2008
Salem Possessed in Retrospect
Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum

July 2007
Adaptation and Innovation: Archaeological and Architectural
Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
Willie Graham, Carter L. Hudgins, Carl R. Lounsbury, Fraser D. Neiman, and James P. Whittenburg

January 2001
The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade:
A Reassessment
David Eltis
African Conceptions of Gender and the Slave Traffic
G. Ugo Nwokeji
Transoceanic Mortality:
The Slave Trade in Comparative Perspective
Herbert S. Klein, Stanley L. Engerman, Robin Haines, and Ralph Shlomowitz
The Chesapeake Slave Trade: Regional Patterns, African Origins,
and Some Implications
Lorena S. Walsh

January 1999
Wealth and Welfare in Early Maryland: Evidence
from St. Marys County
Lois Green Carr and Russell R. Menard
Growth and the Standard of Living in a Pioneer Economy:
Upper Canada, 1826 To 1851
Frank D. Lewis and M. C. Urquhart
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July 2013
The Testimony of Thomás de la Torre, a Spanish Slave
Alejandra Dubcovsky

January 2013
The Üframing of a new world”:
Sir Balthazar Gerbier's “Project for Establishing a New State in America,”
ca. 1649
Vera Keller

October 2008
The French Intrigue of James Cole Mountflorence
Wesley J. Campbell

April 2007
A Letter from Carolina, 688: French Huguenots in the New World
Molly McClain and Alessa Ellefson

January 2007
Forum: Black Founders
Belinda's Petition: Reparations for Slavery in Revolutionary Massachusetts.
Roy E. Finkenbine
John Marrant and the Meaning of Early Black Freemasonry.
Peter P. Hinks
ÜWe Participate in Common”: Richard Allen's Eulogy of Washington and the Challege of Inter-Racial Appeals.
Richard S. Newman
The Making and Meaning of James Forten's ÜLetters from a Man of Colour”.
Julie Winch
ÜA Search for Truth”: Jacob Oson and the Beginnings of African American Historiography.
Stephen Hall
To ÜCast Just Obliquy” on Oppressors: Black Radicalism in the Age of Revolution.
Manisha Sinha

October 2006
ÜI desire all that I have said . . . may be taken down aright”:
Revisiting Teedyuscung's 1756 Treaty Council Speeches
James H. Merrell

January 2004
William Bullock's ÜStrange Adventure”:
A Plan to Transform Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Peter Thompson

April 2002
The Madison Administration and Mexico:
Reinterpreting the Gutiérrez-Magee
Raid of 8121813
J.C.A. Stagg

April 1999
“Justise Must Take Plase”: Three African Americans Speak of Religion
in Eighteenth-Century New England
Erik R. Seeman