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The American Who Spied for the British

Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy

by Thomas J. Schaeper

June 23, 2011 issue

How Black & White America Took Shape

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

by Ira Berlin

The History of White People

by Nell Irvin Painter

April 8, 2010 issue

Jefferson’s Concubine

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed

October 9, 2008 issue

A Very Satisfied Survivor

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

by Linda Colley

September 27, 2007 issue

Our Shaky Beginnings

Captain John Smith: Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America

by Captain John Smith

The Jamestown Project

by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Jamestown: The Buried Truth

by William M. Kelso

Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

by Benjamin Woolley

A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and theBirth of America

by James Horn

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown

by Helen C. Rountree

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April 26, 2007 issue

Bill of Wrongs

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism

by Geoffrey R. Stone

The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

by Larry D. Kramer

March 10, 2005 issue

A Very Popular Penalty

The Death Penalty: An American History

by Stuart Banner

April 10, 2003 issue

Who’s Really Who

American National Biography Societies

published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned and John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes

March 9, 2000 issue