Seeking Wisdom: Reviews in History

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Religious Dissenters as Drivers of Religious Freedom
Review of Stephen J. Stein's "Communities of Dissent." (2003)
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Robert Swanson
"Must Have had Access": Latter-day Saints and the Movement West of Eastern American Culture.
A review of Robert Winter's "Architecture on the Frontier: The Mormon Experiment." (1974)
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Robert Swanson
US History NOT in a Vacuum
A Review of Jay Sexton's "A Nation Forged by Crisis" (2018)
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Bridget
The Father of Atlantic World Antislavery
Maurice Jackson's "Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism." (2010)
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Robert Swanson
Between the State and the Church in Spain
A Review of William Callahan's "Church, Politics, and Society in Spain, 1750-1874." (1984)
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Robert Swanson
A Toast and a Parade! Finding American Nationalism's Origins
A Review of David Waldstreicher's "In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes," (1997)
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Robert Swanson
Citizenship - An American Story
Review of James H. Kettner's "The Development of American Citizenship" (1978)
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Robert Swanson
A Saga of the Sister Republics
A Review of Caitlin Fitz's "Our Sister Republics"
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Robert Swanson
A World of Republics: Spanish American Republics in the Atlantean Context
A Review of Sabato’s Republics of the New World (2018)
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Robert Swanson
Latin American Republican Modernity, a Potential World Now Lost
A Review of Sander’s "The Vanguard of the Atlantic World" (2014)
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Robert Swanson
“No whites or blacks, but only Cubans.”
A Review of Ada Ferrar’s Insurgent Cuba
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Robert Swanson
In Search of Instability’s Roots in Mexico
A Review of Donald Steven’s Origins of Instability in Early Republican Mexico.” (1991)
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Robert Swanson
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