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Banner-Haley, Charles ”Pete”, “Myths and Truths: The Civil Rights Movement and African Americans on the Southern Tier of Upstate New York,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 17–26.

Brandon, Jamie C., “Van Winkle’s Mill: Recovering Lost Industrial and African-American Heritages in the Ozarks,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 429–45.

Brennan, Mary Z., “Reconstructing the Genealogical Landscape: Kinship and Settlement along Moccasin and Indian Creeks, Pope County,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 386–97.

Ford, Ben, “The Presentation of Self in Rural Life: The Use of Space at a Connected Farmstead,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 4, 2008), 59–75.

Grant, John, “Neil Tillotson: Return to North Country Origins,” Historical New Hampshire, 62 (Fall 2008), 139–51.

Green, Maureen Helm, “Emile,” Kentucky Ancestors, 44 (Autumn 2008), 4–18.

Mack, John N., “A Second Revolution: The Struggle to Define the Meaning of the Civil War in Southeast Kansas, 1867–1876,” Kansas History, 32 (Spring 2009), 2–17.

Mink, Nicolaas, “Cooking in the Countryside: The Rural Reform of Taste and the Wisconsin Farmers’ Institute’s Cooking Schools,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Winter 2008–2009), 2–13. Heavily illustrated.

Stek, Pam, “Muchakinock: African Americans and the Making of an Iowa Coal Town,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (Winter 2009), 37–63.

Stewart, James I., “Economic Opportunity or Hardship? The Causes of Geographic Mobility on the Agricultural Frontier, 1860–1880,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (March 2009), 238–68.

 

Johnson, Jodien M., “Federal Employment Concentration and Regional Process in Nonmetropolitan America” (Baylor University, 2008). Order No. DA3316043.

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