A review of How They See Us: Meditations on America (and more). A Ponzi scheme that works: The greatest strength of America is that people want to live there. A review of Dying to Live: A Story of US Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid by Joseph Nevins. Mark Arax reviews Imperial by William T. Vollmann. The Latino Crescent: An article on the changing face of Muslim America. Burn or turn: America's Navajo Indians are facing their own environmental fork in the road. From HistoryNet, a look at why cotton got to be King. From Southern Spaces, through the case of Jackson Hill, LeAnn Lands describes the turn toward residential segregation in early twentieth-century Atlanta. A Man and His Plan: You have probably never heard of Francis Everett Townsend, but his enormous and controversial legacy is with us today. Hard times revisited: A review of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon and Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein (and more and more; and more at Bookforum). A review of King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-about-Washington in the Gilded Age by Kathryn Allamong Jacob. Myths of the American Revolution: Historian John Ferling debunks the conventional wisdom about America's War of Independence. More and more on Gordon Wood's Empire of Liberty. A review of America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story by Bruce Feiler. Orville Schell on the melting of America: The story of a can’t-do nation. From The Atlantic, is the nation in terminal decline? James Fallows on how America can rise again (and more).
