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"I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" by Alaina E. Roberts explores the experiences of enslaved African Americans and freedpeople in modern-day Oklahoma. The author challenges the traditional narrative of settler colonialism, highlighting the role of Native American enslavers in the forced relocation of enslaved laborers from the southeastern United States. The book examines the complexities of race, citizenship, and belonging for Indian freedpeople in both tribal communities and the United States. Roberts also explores the impact of the Civil War, the Confederacy's alliance with the Five Nations, and the geopolitical tensions on the emancipation and rights of Indian freedpeople. The personal stories and family history woven into the narrative provide a unique perspective on finding belonging, freedom, and land in Indian Territory. The book contributes to the growing field of Civil War and Reconstruction Studies, emphasizing the importance of African American family history and collective remembrance in understanding marginalized histories. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Intimate Archive: Journeys Through Private Papers," by Maryanne Dever, Sally Newman and Ann Vickery.

The article reviews the book "Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art," by Martha Langford.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Henry Bouquet, vol. 6,' edited by Louis M. Waddell.

Reviews two volumes of the book `The Papers of General Nathanael Greene,' edited by Richard K. Showman, Dennis M. Conrad, Roger N. Parks, and Elizabeth C. Stevens.

Natasha Trethewey's poem "Native Guard" begins and ends with the phrase "Truth be told," but the poem demonstrates just how difficult it can be to tell the truth — or even a truth — about history. "Native Guard" excavates historical events that many readers will find unfamiliar: the experience of Black Union troops guarding Confederate prisoners on Ship Island in the Mississippi Gulf Coast during the Civil War. This complex history is expressed in a crosshatched poetic form: contemporaneous journal entries arranged in a series of interlinked sonnets that juxtapose the history written in ink on paper with the pain written in blood on people's bodies and the bones buried beneath every historical account. While teaching the poem requires careful attention to historical context, poetic form, and repetition of words, the experience provides an answer to the question students keep asking: Why do we have to keep reading about slavery? This essay describes some pedagogical choices that may help students grasp their responsibility for seeking truths that can't easily be told because they lie buried beneath unexamined historical narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Inside the Pentagon Papers," edited by John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Will Rogers: Volume One, November 1879-April 1904,' by Arthur Frank Wertheim and Barbara Bair.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956,' volume three, by Martin Luther King Jr., and edited by Clayborne Carson.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.'

This is a review essay of printed editions of the correspondence of John Flamsteed, Jan Jonston and John Wallis, and of the CD—ROM edition of the Hartlib Papers. It raises various issues concerning the relationship between editions of correspondence and their archival base, and about the criteria used to decide what is appropriate to include as ‘correspondence’. It also addresses the rationale of the electronic edition of the Hartlib Papers, particularly the second edition, which extends its remit from the main archive at Sheffield to include a selection of ancillary material from other collections, questioning whether the effort involved would have been better employed in improving the basic resource. It then considers the use of electronic media in editing more generally, using the edition of Galileo’s notes on motion to illustrate the potential for intensive editorial intervention in a text, in contrast to the more extensive method used in the Hartlib edition, and thereby drawing attention to some of the attitudes that electronic editing is prone to induce. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Reviews the book `The Papers of Henry Laurens. Volume Thirteen: March 16, 1778-July 6, 1778,' edited by David R. Chestnutt, C. James Taylor, Peggy J. Clark and David Fischer.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784. Volume 6: July 22-October 31, 1782,' edited by John Catanzariti and E. James Ferguson.

Reviews Volume IV through Volume VI of `The Papers of General Nathanael Greene,' edited by Richard K. Showman, Robert E. McCarthy, Dennis M. Conrad, Elizabeth C. Stevens, E. Wayne Carp, Susan M. Bowler, Nathaniel N. Shipton, Mary MacKechnie Showman, Laurie L. Weinstein, and Roger N. Parks.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Volume 2: Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951-November 1955,' Clayborne Carson as Senior editor, Ralph E. Luker, Penny A. Russell, Peter Halloran as volume editors and Louis R. Harlan as advisory editor.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Robert Morris. Volume 7, November 1, 1782-May 4, 1783: Volume 8, May 5, 1783-December 31, 1783,' by Elizabeth Nuxoll and Mary Gallagher.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Nathaniel Greene, vol. 8, 30 March-10 July 1781,' edited by Dennis M. Conrad, Roger N. Parks, Martha J. King and Richard K. Showman.

Reviews the book `The Paper of George Catlett Marshall, Volume 4, `Aggressive and Determined Leadership,' June 1, 1943-December 31, 1944,' by Larry I. Bland and Sharon Ritenour Stevens.

Reviews the books `The Papers of Jefferson Davis,' Volume 6: 1856-1860, and `The Papers of Jefferson Davis,' Volume 7: 1861, edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist and Mary Seaton Dix.

A review of the book "The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series: 8 April-31 May 1779," volume 20, edited by Edward G. Lengel, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Inside the Pentagon Papers," edited by John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter.

Reviews the book `The Papers of General Nathanael Greene: Volume IX, 11 July 1781-2 December 1781,' edited by Dennis M. Conrad.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Series II: The Agricultural and Engineering Drawings, Vol. 2: The Architectural Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Parts 1 and 2.' by Jeffrey A. Cohen and Charles E. Brownell.

Reviews the book, `The Papers of Henry Laurens, Volume Fourteen: July 7, 1778-December 9, 1778,' edited by David R. Chestnut, C. James Taylor and Peggy J. Clark.

Reviews the books `The Papers of Thomas A. Edison,' Volume 3 and `Menlo Park: The Early Years,' edited by Robert A. Rosenberg et al.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.' Series II: `The Architectural and Engineering Drawings.' Volume 2: `The Architectural Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.' Parts 1 and 2., edited by Jeffrey A. Cohen and Charles E. Brownell.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, vol. 2: From Workshop to Laboratory, June 1873-March 1876,' edited by Robert A. Rosenberg, Keith A. Nier and Melodie Andrews. Second of twenty-volume series aimed at challenging traditional interpretations of his position in world history hampered by scarcity of resources.

Reviews the book `Papers of John Adams. Volume 9: March 1780-July 1780; Volume 10: July 1780-December 1780,' edited by Gregg L. Lint and others.

Reviews the book `The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXIII, 1846,' edited by Clyde N. Wilson and Shirley Bright Cook.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Thomas Jefferson,' edited by John Catanzarati and others.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Thomas Jefferson,' edited by John Cantanzaiti, Eugene R. Sheridan, J. Jefferson Looney, George H. Hoemann, Ruth W. Lester and Elizabeth Peters Blazejewski.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Volume 3: Menlo Park: The Early Years, April 1876-December 1877,' edited by Robert A. Rosenberg, Paul B. Israel, et al.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume I: Called to Serve: January 1929-June 1951,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, Penny A. Russell and Louis R. Harlan.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Vol. 1: Called To Serve, January 1929-June 1951,` by Martin Luther King Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson and others.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Will Rogers. Vol. 1: November 1879-April 1904,' by Will Rogers and edited by Arthur F. Wertheim and Barbara Bair.

Reviews the book `The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray,' by William Makepeace Thackeray, edited by Edgar F. Harden.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume I, Called to Serve: January 1929-June 1951,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, and Penny A. Russell.

Reviews the book `Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Called to Serve January 1929-June 1951, vol. 1,' edited by Clayborn Carson. Review of literature; Contents of the book; Genealogy of Martin Luther King Jr.; Unacknowledged use of sources.

Reviews the book, `The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Vol. 3: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Stewart Burns, Susan Carson, Peter Holloran and Dana L.H. Powell.

Reviews the book "A Researcher's Guide to the Donald J. Pease Papers in the Oberlin College Archives," edited by Ronald M. Baumann.

Reviews the book `The Tiananmen Papers,' by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link.