Table of Contents

"Chinese Exclusion, Photography, and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy" by Anna Pelger-Gordon * "From Crop Lien to Contract Farming: The Roots of Agribusiness in the American South, 1929-1939" by Monica Richmond Gisolfi * "Rocking the Cradle: Downsizing the New England Family" by Gloria L. Main * "Exceptionalism and Globalism: Travel Writers and the Nineteenth-Century American West" by David M. Wrobel * "Class War? Class Struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia" by Michael McDonnell * "'I have . . . a lot of work to do': Cotton Mill Work and Women's Culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888-95" by Beth English * "'It is His First Offense. We Might As Well Let Him Go': Homicide and Criminal Justice in Chicago, 1875-1920" by Jeffrey S. Adler * "Educating the Eye: Body Mechanics and Streamlining in the United States, 1925-1950" by Carma Gordon * "The Grape Vine Telegraph: Rumors and Confederate Persistence" by Jason Phillips * "'They Are Ancestral Homelands': Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945-1961" by Paul C. Rosier