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  "textContent": "_Federal History_ 18 (2026) has been published. Here is the TOC:\n\n\n_**Editor's Note**_\n\nBenjamin Guterman\n\n _**Roger R. Trask Lecture**_\n\n“Girl From the North Country”: Pursuing History and Finding Community in the Nation’s Capital\nKristin L. Ahlberg\n\n _**Articles**_\n\nBind Together Whom? The Internal Improvements Debate and Native Dispossession in the Early Republic\nJames R. Stocker\n\n1870s House Investigations of Bureau Commissioner Oliver O. Howard and the Retreat from Reconstruction\nPeter A. Porsche\n\nWoodrow Wilson, American Power, and International Order at the Paris Peace Conference, 1918–1919\nPeter Jackson\n\nA Troublesome Reckoning: The Rediscovery of the U.S. Postwar Cover-up of Unit 731 and the Ethical Threat to Democracy\nEmily Matson\n\nPatients-in-Chief: The Public History of the President’s Physical Exam\nJacob M. Appel\n\n _**Interview**_\n\nAn Interview with Sheyda F.A. Jahanbani\nSean T. Byrnes\n\n** _Law & Constitution Roundtable_**\n\n _The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms_ , by Alison L. LaCroix\nIntroduction: Gerald Leonard, Boston University\nReview: Austin Allen, University of Houston–Downtown\nReview: James A. Gardner, University at Buffalo School of Law\nReview: Grace Mallon, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford\nReview: Gautham Rao, American University\nAuthor’s Response: Alison L. LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School\n\n _**Reviews in Legal History**_\n\n\nRichard Primus, “Sins and Omissions: Slavery and the Bill of Rights”\nTerri Diane Halperin\n\nRoger A. Bailey, “‘Intercourse . . . of the Most Friendly Nature’: The U.S. Navy, State Power, and William Walker’s Invasion of Mexico, 1853–1854”\nStephen J. Rockwell\n\n\nAnna O. Law, “The Civil War and Reconstruction Amendments’ Effects on Citizenship and Migration”\nKelly Marino\n\nAndrea Scoseria Katz, “A Regime of Statutes: Building the Modern President in Gilded Age America (1873–1921)”\nBenjamin Guterman\n\nBenjamin Wetzel, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Unionist Memory of the Civil War: Experience, History, and Politics, 1861–1918”\nEvan C. Rothera\n\nHardeep Dhillon. “The Making of Modern US Citizenship and Alienage: The History of Asian Immigration, Racial Capital, and US Law”\nAmelia Flood\n\nKathryn E. Kovacs. “From Presidential Administration to Bureaucratic Dictatorship”\nLisa K. Parshall\n\n--Dan Ernst",
  "title": "Federal History 18",
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