3D SER., 83, NO. 3
July 2026
Forum
“The narrow Path between British & American Passions”:
The Dickinson-Barclay Documents and the Last Attempts to Prevent American Independence
Jane E. Calvert and Jonathan Gienapp, “The Narrow Path Between British & American Passions”: The Dickinson-Barclay Documents and the Last Attempts to Prevent American Independence: Introduction
393
Jack N. Rakove, John Dickinson and the Politics of Conscience
439
David Como, The Olive Branch and the Rod: John Dickinson’s Project in British Context
451
William B. Ewald, John Dickinson’s Apotropaic Comma
467
Jane E. Calvert, John Dickinson versus John Adams in the Second Continental Congress: Debunking the Myth of Adams’s “Piddling Genius” Letter
481
Jonathan Gienapp, Drawing Lines: John Dickinson’s Gambit and the Ambiguities of Federal Union
499
“The Proper Data”: Numerical Information and Mathematical Governance from the Revolution to the Constitution
Edward J. Blum
513
Sources and Interpretations
Contesting the Declaration of Independence: John Lind’s “Outlines of a Counter-Declaration” (1776)
David Armitage
561
Reviews of Books
Andersson Burnett and Buchan, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820.
By Christopher D. E. Willoughby
599
Bernier, Freedom’s Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States.
By Marcus P. Nevius
604
Bouchard, Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World.
By Rachel B. Herrmann
610
Hicks, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery.
By Tamara J. Walker
615
Lepler, Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions.
By Kyle Jackson
619
O’Leary, Archival Communities: Constructing the Past in the Early United States.
By Reed Gochberg
624
O’Rourke, Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780–1850.
By Katherine Manthorne
629
Schenck, Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740.
By Katrina M. Phillips
634
Stear, Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico.
By Heather Allen
638
Whiting, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England.
By Wendy Warren
643