Carolyn Eastman
Shivering Timbers
Sexing up the pirates in early modern print culture

Michael F. Robinson
Why We Need a New History of Exploration
Lewis and Clark, Alexander von Humboldt, and the explorer in American culture

Joseph Yannielli
Cinqué the Slave Trader
Some new evidence on an old controversy

Mark Peterson
The Founding Fathers and their Dysfunctional Families
The American Revolution on the silver screen

Review by Corey Brooks
War of Words
Elizabeth R. Varon, Disunion!

Review by Michael A. LaCombe
Connecting the Dots: Mapping, Mediating Figures, and Intercultural Relationships in Early America
Cynthia Van Zandt, Brothers among Nations

Review by Gregory Nobles
The Ornithological Indian
Shepard Krech III, Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi + 245 pp., $44.95.

Review by Samuel J. Redman
Death's Multiple Meanings
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering

Review by Tim Roberts
The French Origins of American Perceptions of Violence
Rachel Hope Cleves, Reign of Terror in America

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Stephen Mihm
Con Games
Past and present

Anne Farrow
The Haunted Castle
A Connecticut journalist's journey into the African slave trade

Jim Cullen
Blogging, with Pickles
Adventures (and misadventures) in the quest to capture the flavor of everyday school life

Yvette Piggush
Fancy History: John Fanning Watson's Relic Box
The games relics play

Sean Smith
The Common-place Web Library is an annotated selection of Web resources in American History. This month's links: Food History on the Web

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