Benjamin Popp-Madsen (Copenhagen): Anti-Federalism and the Question of Constituent Power in the American Constitutional Debate. Nadine Naber (UIC): Imperial Whiteness and the Diasporas of Empire. Alyosha Goldstein (New Mexico): Toward a Genealogy of the U.S. Colonial Present. From Common-place, Thomas A. Foster (DePaul): Sex and Public Memory of Founder Aaron Burr; and turning sexual vice into virtue; and Kelly A. Ryan reviews Foster’s Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past; and the state of the Americanist Field: A roundtable on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Sacvan Bercovitch's influential 1978 study, The American Jeremiad. Peter Manseau on how the Puritans were America's first anti-vaxxers. Two centuries on, various jurisdictions in these United States have found in the undistinguished chronicle of the War of 1812 much to commemorate — go figure. Many people think of the Civil War and America’s Indian wars as distinct subjects, one following the other — but those who study the Sand Creek Massacre know different. Americans’ real reactions to Lincoln’s assassination: Ruth Graham interviews Martha Hodes, author of Mourning Lincoln. “Rights can be won, and rights can be taken away. Achievements are always vulnerable”: Mike Konczal interviews Eric Foner on how radical change occurs. Conservatives are furious over the new A.P. History curriculum: They want less bashing of America, more hailing of American ideals (and more).
