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ISSUE TWENTY, JUNE 2009
ISSUE TWENTY, JUNE 2009
A QUARTERLY JOURNAL
From the Editor
Lesson Plans for high school, middle school and elementary school classrooms
In the News: Filibusters in Nicaragua
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The Years of Magical Thinking: Explaining the Salem Witchcraft Crisis
by Mary Beth Norton
Avast! How the US Built a Navy, Sent in the Marines, and Faced Down the Barbary Pirates
by Christopher L. Miller
The Filibuster King: The Strange Career of William Walker, the Most Dangerous International Criminal of the Nineteenth Century
by T.J. Stiles
Graft and Oil: How Teapot Dome Became the Greatest Political Scandal of its Time
by Robert W. Cherny
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