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The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists

(1980)

The Letters of the Republic Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America

(1990)

Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier

(1993)

Conflicting Paths Growing Up in America

(1994)

News Over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897

(1994)

Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination

(1998)

Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse

(1998)

Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans

(2000)

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

(2000)

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

(2001)

Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

(2001)

The Education of Laura Bridgman, First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

(2001)

Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

(2003)

Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture

(2003)

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

(2005)

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States

(2007)

The Jamestown Project

(2007)

Network Nation : Inventing American Telecommunications

(2010)

Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America

(2012)

We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States

(2012)

Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World

(2013)

Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England

(2014)

Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation

(2015)

Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture

(2016)

Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

(2016)

American Niceness: A Cultural History

(2017)

Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion

(2017)

Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War

(2017)

The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America

(2017)

Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management

(2018)

Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship

(2018)

Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America

(2019)

The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution

(2025)
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