The Best American History Essays 2006

Ten of the best articles in American history published in 2006 selected from over 300 learned and popular journals. Topics range from the general to the specific and cover all aspects of American history, from the early days of the republic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These are the questions that today’s historians are asking.

THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS was founded in 1907 and publishes the Journal of American History. The largest international learned society devoted to American history, it has 9,000 members in the USA and around the world.

JOYCE APPLEBY is Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and President of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association.