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American history roundup

From H-Net, a review of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America by Harvey J. Kaye; and a review of A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America by Saul Cornell. Margaret Fuller hasn't gotten her due as a primary figure among American Transcendentalists — some recent books are correcting that, writes Carlin Romano. A review of Lincoln's Constitution by Daniel A. Farber. A review of The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered In the Twentieth Century by Harold Schechter. A review of Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 by Ann Hagedorn. A review of From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson. After Captain America: A review of Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography by Andrew Helfer; Laika by Nick Abadzis; J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography by Rick Geary; Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History, ed. Paul Buhle; Macedonia by Heather Roberson and Harvey Pekar; and Notes for a War Story by Gipi First.