| Federal History 2018Cover: How do we understand President Woodrow Wilson’s evolving war aims during World War I, particularly for a new international framework based on a “partnership of democratic nations”? |
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CONTENTS
— Benjamin Guterman
Roger R. Trask Lecture
Why We Write: Another Look at the Value of Federal History
— J. Samuel Walker
Articles
Woodrow Wilson and “Peace without Victory”: Interpreting the Reversal of 1917
— John A. Thompson
— Kate Elizabeth Brown
Henry Knox and the Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy
— Stephen J. Rockwell
Freedpeople and the Federal Government’s First Public Housing in Washington, DC
— Kevin McQueeney
Spinning Custer: A Pennsylvania Editor’s Assessment of Little Bighorn
— John M. Lawlor, Jr.
“An Uneasy Alliance”: Farm Women and the United States Department of Agriculture, 1913–1965
— Cherisse Jones-Branch
Research and Resources
— Maria Christina C. Mairena and Dennis P. Mroczkowski
The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
by Michael Klarman
— Reviewed by Lawrence Peskin
Officially Indian: Symbols that Define the United States
by Cécile Ganteaume
— Reviewed by Amanda Charland
First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory
by Mitch Kachun
— Reviewed by Netisha Currie
Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
by Darren Speece
— Reviewed by Casey Huegel
Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West
by Peter Gough
— Reviewed by Sandra L. Johnson-Pomeraning
By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783
by Michael Green
— Reviewed by Eric Setzekorn
Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene
by Diana L. Linden
— Reviewed by Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro
Federal History features scholarship on all aspects of the history and operations of the federal government, and of critical historical interactions between American society and the government, including the U.S. military, 1776 to the present. It also publishes articles examining contemporary issues and challenges in federal history work. The journal highlights the research of historians working in or for federal agencies, academic historians, and independent scholars.
For submissions or inquiries, e-mail the Federal History editors at federalhistory@gmail.com
ISSN 2163-8144 (print)
ISSN 1943–8036 (online)