Issue Title Column Author

24.1

How Eli Whitney Single-handedly Started the Civil War . . . and Why That’s Not True

Features

Ariel Ron

24.1

Where’s the Pirate? Or, why I wrote a history of rum with only a few pirates in it

Features

Jordan Smith

24.1

Hot Tennessee Sun

Poetic Research

Lisa Roney

24.1

The Record Scratch: Uncovering Documents Relating to William Ansah Sessarakoo

Features

Jayne Ptolemy

24.1

The Spoilsman’s Progress

Features

Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer

24.1

A Subject of Unique Interest: Mary Freeman Heuston Lewis and William Dean Howells

Features

Leslie Brunetta

24.1

The Power of the Dead: BaKongo Inspiration and the Chesapeake Rebellion

Features

Ryne Beddard

24.1

The Making of the American Culture of Work

Reviews

Max Chapnick

24.1

Puff, Puff? Pass!: The Anti-Tobacco Writings of Margaret Woods Lawrence

Features

Brian Fehler

24.1

The Black Christian Womanhood of Virginia W. Broughton

Features

Ranmi Bae