Latest Issue of Federal History

Issue 16 of the journal Federal History is now out. Some highlights from the contents:

Reciprocal Sovereignty: The Franco-American Consular Convention, 1778–1788, and the Meaning of American Independence
– Simeon A. Simeonov

Out of Sight and Out of Mind: The Early Consular Service and the Facilitative State, 1776–1856
– Lawrence A. Peskin

Manifest Destiny’s Fortunes in the Western Pacific: The First and Last United States Consul to Guam, Samuel J. Masters, 1854–1856
– Chris Rasmussen

A Rationale for Aid: Moral Language in the Debates over the Mutual Security Act, 1951–1961
– Lauren F. Turek

Two "Reviews in Legal History": David E. Wilkins on Maggie Blackhawk, “Legislative Constitutionalism and Federal Indian Law”; Lisa K. Parshall on Gerald S. Dickinson, “The Fourth Amendment’s Constitutional Home.”

 

A roundtable on The Partisan Republic: Democracy. Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s–1830s by Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell: Introduction by Matthew Crow; reviews by Katlyn Marie Carter, Graham G. Dodds, Jessica K. Lowe, Stephen J. Rockwell; author responses by Saul Cornell and Gerald Leonard. 

 

Full contents are available here.

-- Karen Tani