Introduction / David Roediger
Chinese exclusion, photography. and the development of U.S. immigration policy / Anna Pelger-Gordon
From crop lien to contract farming : the roots of agribusiness in the American South, 1929-1939 / Monica Richmond Gisolfi
Rocking the cradle : downsizing the New England family / Gloria L. Main
Exceptionalism and globalism : travel writers and the nineteenth-century American West / David M. Wrobel
Class war? class struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia / Michael McDonnell
"I have . . . a lot of work to do" : cotton mill work and women's culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888-95 / Beth English
"It is his first offense. we might as well let him go" : homicide and criminal justice in Chicago, 1875-1920 / Jeffrey S. Adler
Educating the eye : body mechanics and streamlining in the United States, 1925-1950 / Carma Gordon
The grape vine telegraph : rumors and Confederate persistence / Jason Phillips
"They are ancestral homelands" : race, place, and politics in cold war native America, 1945-1961 / Paul C. Rosier.
The best American history essays, 2008. ISBN 9780230605916. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.