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The article reviews the book "'Those Who Labor for My Happiness': Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello," by Lucia Stanton.

The article reviews several books about American founding father Thomas Jefferson including "Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation," by Natalie S. Bober, "The Founding Fathers Reconsidered," by R. B. Bernstein, and "Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings," by Clarence E. Walker.

The article reviews several books about historical warfare including "The Battle of the Golden Spurs: Courtrai 11 July 1302," by J. F. Verbruggen, "War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy Under Edward III 1327-1360," by Clifford J. Rogers, "Oliver Cromwell, Soldier: The Military Life of a Revolutionary at War," by Alan Marshall, "Marlborough: John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Hero of Blenheim," by John Hussey, and "The Victorian Soldier in Africa," by Edward M. Spiers.

The article reviews the book "Swein Forkbeard’s Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017," by Ian Howard.

Books reviewed: Robert D. Schulzinger, A Companion to American Foreign Relations. Rebecca Starr (ed), Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America: Essays in Honour of J. R. Pole. John Grenier, The First Way of War. American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814. Kristina Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America. Anthony S. Parent, Jr (ed), Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660– 1740. Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. Matthew C. Ward, Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years’ War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754–1765. Philip Gould, Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the 18th Century Atlantic World. Robert A. Ferguson, Reading the Early Republic. Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown, The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America. W. Barksdale Maynard, Walden Pond: A History. William L. Richter, Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Theresa McDevitt, Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography. Duncan Andrew Campbell, English Public Opinion and the American Civil War. William C. Harris, Lincoln's Last Months. Thomas Kessner, Capital City: New York City and the Men behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900. Carol J. Williams, Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest. Raymond Lamont-Brown, Carnegie: ‘The Richest Man in the World’. Joseph P. McCallus (ed), Gentleman Soldier: John Clifford Brown and the Philippine–American War. Edward M. Coffman (ed), The Regulars: The American Army 1898–1941. Stephen J. Whitfield (ed), A Companion to 20th-Century America. Michael J. Heale, Twentieth Century America: Politics and Power in the United States 1900–2000. R. Laurence MooreMaurizio Vaudagna (ed), The American Century in Europe. Neil A. Wynn, Historical Dictionary from the Great War to the Great Depression. Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking & Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. Ibrahim Sundiata, Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940. Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. Patrick Renshaw, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Resa Willis, FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends. Renee C. Romano, Race Mixing. Black-White Marriage in Postwar America. Carol Anderson, Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955. Peter L. Hahn, Caught in the Middle East: U. S. Policy toward the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1945–1961. Peter N. Stearns, Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America. Laura A. Lewis, Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico. Paul Sullivan, Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan. Pedro L. V. Welch, Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados 1680–1834. Howard A Fergus, A History of Education in the British Leeward Islands, 1838–1945. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare," by Mark McNeilly.

David T. Courtwright. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Richard Davenport-Hines. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. Ch. Didier Gondola. The History of the Congo. Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon, eds. The House & Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development. Anne M. Boylan. The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797–1840. Sherri Broder. Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Thomas E. Chávez. Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift. Christopher H. Evans and William R. Herzog II. The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture. Hugh E. Evans. The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election. Max Evans. Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan. Paul Foos. A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War. Michael J. Gonzales. The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1940. Barry Gough. Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath. Wilbert L. Jenkins. Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African-Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction. Clayton E. Jewett. Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building. Marjoleine Kars. Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Sarah A. Leavitt. From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. Mitchell B. Lerner. The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy. Tim Maga. America Attacks Japan: The Invasion That Never Was. James M. McPherson. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. Rusty L. Monhollon. “This Is America?”: The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas. Edmund S. Morgan. Benjamin Franklin. Iwan Morgan. Nixon. Alexander Nemerov. The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812–1824. Thomas C. Parramore. First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation. Donald J. Pisani. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935. Sarah J. Purcell. Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America. David Rock. State Building and Political Movement in Argentina, 1860–1916. Hal Rothman. Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. Jeffrey Sklansky. The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920. Gene Smiley. Rethinking the Great Depression. John Stauffer. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Julia E. Sweig. Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground. Conevery Bolton Valencius. The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. Thomas L. Whigham. Causes and Early Conflict. Volume I of The Paraguayan War. Kenneth Hammond, ed. The Human Tradition in Premodern China. Donald Keene. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912. Andrei Lankov. From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945–1960. Hajime Nakamura. History of Japanese Thought. B. R. Nanda. In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections. Maurizio Peleggi. Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image. Jan Assman, Andrew Jenkins trans. The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs. Roman Brackman. The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life. Victor Brombert. Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth. Robert Bartlett, ed. Life and Miracles of St. Modwenna. Arne Sø Christensen. Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth. Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey. Russian Masculinities in History and Culture. Jamie H. Cockfield. White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859–1919. Steve Craig. Sports and Games of the Ancients. J. A. Everard. Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158–1203. David Garrioch. The Making of Revolutionary Paris. Lawrence Goldman. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857–1886. Erich S. Gruen. Diaspora: Jews amongst Greeks and Romans. Catherine Hall. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867. Jill Harsin. Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830–1848. Ronald Hayman. A Life of Jung. Feiwel Kupferberg. The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic. A. E. MacRobert. Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters. Peter Marshall. Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. Raymond Mentzer and Andrew Spicer, eds. Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559–1685. Fergus Millar. Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers, eds. The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution. D. Alan Orr. Treason and the State: Law, Politics, and Ideology in the English Civil War. Constantine Pleshakov. The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima. Paul Robinson. The White Russian Army in Exile, 1920–1941. Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Jessica Warner. Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason. Diana Webb. Medieval European Pilgrimage. Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani. The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations. Eric M. Freedman. Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty. Azar Gat. A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War. Peter Karsten. Between Law and Custom: “High” and “Low” Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora: The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600–1900. Henryk Kierzkowski. Europe and Globalization. Alan Krell. The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire. John A. Lynn. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture From Ancient Greece to Modern America. Patrick Wright. Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "George Washington's War on Native America," by Barbara Alice Mann.

A review of the book "The Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts After the American Revolution," by Emma Christopher is presented.

A review of the book "Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution 1787-1788," by Pauline Maier is presented.

A review of the book "America's Captives: Treatment of POWs From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror," by Paul J. Springer is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Long Farewell: Americans Mourn the Death of George Washington," by Gerald E. Kahler.

The article reviews the book "William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest" by Arthur H. DeRosier, Jr.

The article reviews the book "The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson," by Kevin J. Hayes.

The article reviews the book "Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876," by Nicholas Guyatt.

The article reviews the book "The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism," by Gerald R. Gems.

The article reviews the book "The Declaration of Independence: A Global History," by David Armitage.

The article reviews the book "Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty," by Jerry W. Knudson.

The article reviews the book "Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas," by David Hackett Fischer.

The article reviews the book "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 1, March 1809 to November 1809," edited by J. Jefferson Looney.

The article reviews the book "Citizens or Papists? The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821," by Jason K. Duncan.

The article reviews the book "The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America," by Peter J. Kastor.

Reviews the book "Tracts of the American Revolution: 1763-1776," by Merrill Jensen.

Reviews the book "In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730," by James Pritchard.

Reviews the book "'Pedlar in Divinity': George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770," by Frank Lambert.

Reviews the book "A Good and Wise Measure: The Struggle for the Canadian-American Border, 1783-1842," by Francis M. Carroll.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'The American Revolution: A People's History,' by Ray Raphael.

Reviews the book 'The Construction and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period,' edited by Udo J. Hebel.

This article reviews the book "The Mind of Thomas Jefferson," by Peter S. Onuf.

The article reviews the book "Aristotle and Hamilton: On Commerce and Statesmanship," by Michael D. Chan.