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Dalton, Kathleen, “Finding Theodore Roosevelt: A Personal and Political Story,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (Oct. 2007), 363–84.

Harper, Rob, “Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence,” William and Mary Quarterly, 64 (July 2007), 621–44.

Hurst, Steven, “‘Who started it?’ Cold War Historiography,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 12–30.

Kort, Michael, “The Historiography of Hiroshima: The Rise and Fall of Revisionism,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 31–48.

Rabe, Stephen G., “The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War: A Historiographic and Interpretive Essay,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 67–89.

Rippy, Linda Lou, Charlotte Sellers, and Joseph L. Skvarenina, “Doing Local History in Indiana: A Conversation with Linda Lou Rippy, Charlotte Sellers, and Joseph L. Skvarenina,” Indiana Magazine of History, 103 (Dec. 2007), 411–28.

Thompson, Peter, “Inventive Localism in the Seventeenth Century,” William and Mary Quarterly, 64 (July 2007), 525–48.

 

Baron, Robert, and Nick Spitzer, eds., Public Folklore. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. xxviii, 370 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-1-934110-40-9.) Originally published in 1992.

Jenkins, Keith, Sue Morgan, and Alun Munslow, eds., Manifestos for History. (New York: Routledge, 2007. xii, 238 pp. Cloth, $110.00, isbn 978-0-415-37776-8. Paper, $30.95, isbn 978-0-415-37777-5.)

Segars, J. H., In Search of Your Confederate Ancestors. (Gretna: Pelican, 2008. 125 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-58980-528-6.) Second edition.

 

Tilden, Freeman, Interpreting Our Heritage. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xii, 212 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3180-9. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5867-7.) Fourth edition.

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