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Current Issue:

“Clouds Involved the Land”: Melville, “Donelson,” and the Transatlantic Aspects of National War News

Samuel Graber

Sensationalizing the Urban West: City-Mysteries and Urban Boosterism

Tyler Roeger

William H. Prescott’s Imperial Aesthetic

Kevin M. Modestino

Inventing Late Whitman

Anton Vander Zee