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Slavery Counted, Slavery Defined and Slavery Online / Justin Roberts

Review Date:

1 Sep 2010

The proliferation of computer databases and the digitization of sources online are transforming the profession. Scholars can now do substantial original research without needing to travel to distant archives. Massive collections of documents are at our fingertips. Online databases are encouraging the democratization of historical research.

This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy / Matthew Karp

Review Date:

11 May 2017

Matthew Karp’s This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy seeks to explain the worldview of elite Southern slave-owners in the antebellum era.