Federal History 18

Federal History 18 (2026) has been published. Here is the TOC:

Editor's Note

Benjamin Guterman

Roger R. Trask Lecture

“Girl From the North Country”: Pursuing History and Finding Community in the Nation’s Capital Kristin L. Ahlberg

Articles

Bind Together Whom? The Internal Improvements Debate and Native Dispossession in the Early Republic James R. Stocker

1870s House Investigations of Bureau Commissioner Oliver O. Howard and the Retreat from Reconstruction Peter A. Porsche

Woodrow Wilson, American Power, and International Order at the Paris Peace Conference, 1918–1919 Peter Jackson

A Troublesome Reckoning: The Rediscovery of the U.S. Postwar Cover-up of Unit 731 and the Ethical Threat to Democracy Emily Matson

Patients-in-Chief: The Public History of the President’s Physical Exam Jacob M. Appel

Interview

An Interview with Sheyda F.A. Jahanbani Sean T. Byrnes

** Law & Constitution Roundtable**

The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms , by Alison L. LaCroix Introduction: Gerald Leonard, Boston University Review: Austin Allen, University of Houston–Downtown Review: James A. Gardner, University at Buffalo School of Law Review: Grace Mallon, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford Review: Gautham Rao, American University Author’s Response: Alison L. LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School

Reviews in Legal History

Richard Primus, “Sins and Omissions: Slavery and the Bill of Rights” Terri Diane Halperin

Roger A. Bailey, “‘Intercourse . . . of the Most Friendly Nature’: The U.S. Navy, State Power, and William Walker’s Invasion of Mexico, 1853–1854” Stephen J. Rockwell

Anna O. Law, “The Civil War and Reconstruction Amendments’ Effects on Citizenship and Migration” Kelly Marino

Andrea Scoseria Katz, “A Regime of Statutes: Building the Modern President in Gilded Age America (1873–1921)” Benjamin Guterman

Benjamin Wetzel, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Unionist Memory of the Civil War: Experience, History, and Politics, 1861–1918” Evan C. Rothera

Hardeep Dhillon. “The Making of Modern US Citizenship and Alienage: The History of Asian Immigration, Racial Capital, and US Law” Amelia Flood

Kathryn E. Kovacs. “From Presidential Administration to Bureaucratic Dictatorship” Lisa K. Parshall

--Dan Ernst