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Cover: Heads of state in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, June 28, 1919, signing the treaty formally ending World War I between the Allied Powers and Germany. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is seated third from the left. From a painting by William Orpen (section) (Imperial War Museum, London, England). See the story on Wilson’s role on page 47. |
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGEEDITOR’S NOTE
– Benjamin Guterman“Girl From the North Country”: Pursuing History and Finding Community in the Nation’s Capital
– Kristin L. Ahlberg
ARTICLES
Bind Together Whom? The Internal Improvements Debate and Native Dispossession in the Early Republic
– James R. Stocker1870s House Investigations of Bureau Commissioner Oliver O. Howard and the Retreat from Reconstruction
– Peter A. PorscheWoodrow Wilson, American Power, and International Order at the Paris Peace Conference, 1918–1919
– Peter JacksonA Troublesome Reckoning: The Rediscovery of the U.S. Postwar Cover-up of Unit 731 and the Ethical Threat to Democracy
– Emily MatsonPatients-in-Chief: The Public History of the President’s Physical Exam
– Jacob M. AppelINTERVIEW
An Interview with Sheyda F.A. Jahanbani
– Sean T. Byrnes
Law & Constitution
The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms
by Alison L. LaCroix– Introduction by Gerald Leonard, Boston University
– Review by Austin Allen, University of Houston–Downtown
– Review by James A. Gardner, University at Buffalo School of Law
– Review by Grace Mallon, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
– Review by Gautham Rao, American University
– Author’s Response by Alison L. LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School
– Terri Diane Halperin
- Richard Primus, “Sins and Omissions: Slavery and the Bill of Rights”
– Stephen J. Rockwell
- Roger A. Bailey, “‘Intercourse . . . of the Most Friendly Nature’: The U.S. Navy, State Power, and William Walker’s Invasion of Mexico, 1853–1854”
– Kelly Marino
- Anna O. Law, “The Civil War and Reconstruction Amendments’ Effects on Citizenship and Migration”
– Benjamin Guterman
- Andrea Scoseria Katz, “A Regime of Statutes: Building the Modern President in Gilded Age America (1873–1921)”
– Evan C. Rothera
- Benjamin Wetzel, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Unionist Memory of the Civil War: Experience, History, and Politics, 1861–1918”
– Amelia Flood
- Hardeep Dhillon. “The Making of Modern US Citizenship and Alienage: The History of Asian Immigration, Racial Capital, and US Law”
– Lisa K. Parshall
- Kathryn E. Kovacs. “From Presidential Administration to Bureaucratic Dictatorship”
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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.
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ISSN 2163-8144 (print)
ISSN 1943–8036 (online)