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“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nin

"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a c

As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the natio

Native of Clarksville, TN.