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The end of miracles: Scientific naturalism in America, 1830--1934
Closing the gold window: Gold, dollars, and the making of Nixonian foreign economic policy
The last shall be first and the first shall be last: Discourse and Mormon history
"The ethical aspect of economic doctrine": The social thought of John A. Ryan and the making of American Catholic liberalism, 1900--1940
From charity to an able body: The care and treatment of disabled children in Virginia, 1910--1935
Broken deal: Devolution, development, and civil society in Newark, New Jersey, 1960--1990
'The social scientists' war': Expertise in a Cold War nation
Minority education in the urban Midwest: Culture, identity, and Mexican Americans in Chicago, 1910--1977
The constructed world of postwar Philadelphia area schools: Site selection, architecture, and the landscape of inequality
The question of prejudice: Social science, education, and the struggle to define "the race problem" in mid-century America, 1935--1965
"The manifest destiny of Philadelphia:" Imperialism, republicanism, and the remaking of a city and its people, 1837--1877
Re-tracing lines of devotion: Religious identities and political ideologies in fifteenth-sixteenth-century western Himalayan wall painting
The good consumer: Credit reporting and the invention of financial identity in the United States, 1840--1940
Pharmaceutical networks: The political economy of drug development in the United States, 1945--1980
The visible land: Agricultural economics, US export agriculture, and international development, 1918--1965
No place for the dying: A tale of urban health work in Philadelphia's black belt, 1900--1930
John Nolen and his political ordering of landscapes
Between respectability and modernity: Black newspapers and sexuality, 1925--1940
The tutelary empire: State- and nation-building in the 19th century United States
"The balance-sheet of nature": Calculating the New York farm, 1820--1860
Administering American modernity: The instrumental university in the postwar United States
Creating Pennsylvania: The politics of the frontier and the state, 1682--1800
Spreading the empire of free education, 1865-1905
Energy landscapes: Coal canals, oil pipelines, and electricity transmission wires in the mid-Atlantic, 1820--1930
Have cap, will travel; U.S. nurses abroad 1898--1917
Productivity machines: Transatlantic transfers of computing technology and culture in the Cold War
Spacework: Labor and culture in America's astronaut corps, 1959--1979
The post-heroic generation: American independent inventors, 1900--1950
"Stout, bold, cunning and the greatest travellers in America": The colonial Shawnee diaspora
With sails whitening every sea: Commercial expansion, maritime empire, and the American seafaring community abroad, 1780--1870
The dualities of endurance: A collaborative historical archaeology of ethnogenesis at Brothertown, 1780--1910
Philadelphia foodways ca. 1750-1850: An historical archaeology of cuisine
Cosmopolitan republics and itinerant patriots: The Gulf of Mexico in the Age of Revolutions (1780s--1830s)
The Great Equalizer? A Five State Study of Compulsory School Attendance Age Policy and Administration
Behind the line: outside supply, mass production, and the question of managerial expertise in the Model T era
Capitalizing labor: What work is worth and why, from the New Deal to the new economy
Feeding babies, making mothers: The science, practice and meaning of breastfeeding in the second half of the 20th century
Barbary pirates, British slaves, and the early modern Atlantic world, 1570--1800
The military establishment and democratic politics in the United States, 1783--1848
Fateful alliance: Lyndon Johnson and American policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1963--1969
A history of antiquities ownership in the United States, 1870--1934