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Diving into the murky waters of recent history, Phillips-Fein takes an intriguing look at scholarship in American history of the past 40-plus years, and discovers an era starting to develop a distinction of its own beyond the previous post-World War IIclassification.

Looking at the scholarship in American cultural, social, and political history of the past 20 years, Meg Jacobs challenges the typical liberal New Deal dominationof the post-World War II era.

John T. McGreevy looks at recent scholarship in the oft-neglected and misunderstood role of religion in American history, and discovers a vibrant and fast-developing new sub-field.

Robert D. Johnston takes an in-depth look at recent scholarship in the late 19th-century American historiography, and shows how the social, political, and corporate developments in this period gave rise to and created modern America.

Most historians of the American Civil War have reached a vague agreement on slavery -- that it somehowcaused the American Civil War. In this essay, Adam Rothman takes a look at recent historiography that attempts to clarify not only how exactly this came about, but also why the Confederacy lost and slavery ended.

In this fascinating examination of recent scholarship in early American Republic historiography, Woody Holton shifts the focus away from the typical Founding Fathersmodel towards the contributions of distinct social groups, such as Native Americans, African Americans, and women, who made significant contributions to the American Revolution and the creation of the early republic.

In an attempt to paint a more socially diverse picture of the Jacksonian era, Seth Rockman takes readers into a concise examination of recent scholarship in this continually evolving sub-field.

Stephen Aron looks at recent scholarship in the new western history, which places a greater emphasis on ethnic diversity in the study of American expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries

In the essay The Possibilities of Politics: Democracy in America, 1877-1917, Robert D. Johnston shows how the period the late-19th century planted the social, political, insitutional seeds that grew into modern America. Lisa McGirr takes this a step further, looking at scholarship of the period between the world wars, and finds modern America to be a fully formed relity during this time.

Kevin Gaines presents an incisive overview of recent developments in the field of African American history, focusing on significant contributions such as slavery and the slave trade, segregation in both the South and North, and the longcivil rights movement.

Historian Lawrence B. Glickman examines the cultural turn, which focuses on new sub-fields, such as disability history, visual studies, and identity, to show how cultural history has become the dominant historiographical method of the past 20 years

Mae M. Ngai takes an in-depth look at the recent changes in immigration history, another field that has benefited from the transnational turn, which has pushed scholarship beyond the traditional study of white Europeans and placed new emphasis on ethnicity, worldwide patterns of migration, diaspora, and hybridity

In this essay, Edwards surveys recent scholarship in these burgeoning fields, and illustrates effectively how many previous assumptions, especially pertaining to women's history, have been overturned.

For better or for worse, capitalism is the philosophy that has come to define the United States. In this intriguing essay, Beckert takes a look at the historigraphy of American capitalism, which has been, according to Beckert, ironically neglected by historians until recently.

The scholarship of enviromental history has grown into a major historiographical field of study within the past 20 years, and Sarah T. Phillips looks at how this emerging field has been applied within the broader context of American history.

This essay traces the changing field of the history of the United States in the world, moving through the "cultural turn" and the "transnational turn" of historiography up to the present.

Prominent historian Alan Taylpr updates and summarizes scholarly advancements in the historiography of American colonialism in this short essay.