Perspectives in History: Volume 14

Contents


Perspectives in History
Vol. XIV, 1998-1999

DEDICATION to James A. Ramage
5Frank Steely

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
6Rick Trump

FOREWORD
9Bonnie Wheeler May

ARTICLES
11A Most Reluctant Crusade: The United States and the Creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rowland Brucken

26A Note on the Military Engagement at Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775
Michael C. C. Adams

40The Siege of the Khe Sanh, 1968
Rick Trump

49Lynching: Popular Justice or Southern Horror?
Bonnie Wheeler May

60Perspectives on a Riot: Newspaper Versions of Chicago's "Red Summer"
Andrea Reckers

BOOK REVIEWS
66The Tradition Continues: The Story of Old Latonia, Latonia and Turfway Racecourses
by James C. Claypool
review by Thomas J. May

68 Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
by Howard Jones
review by Dalton Danford

FILM REVIEW
71 Petit Guerre in Connecticut: A woman's Personal Experience in the American Revolution: review of Mary Silliman's War
Michael C. C. Adams

75OFFICERS

76MEMBERS

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