The Journal of American History

A social historian came along in 1989.

He wrote a relatively short little essay in the Journal of American History that became the title essay of a book of essays that came out a year later.

It was by Maris Vanofskis, a numbers-crunching, hard-boiled social historian who used to argue, if you can't count it, He wrote a little essay, he said, have social historians lost the Civil War? His answer, of course, was

yes.

Her earlier works include 2009's Invisible Hands, The Businessman's Crusade Against the New Deal.

Her articles have appeared in many scholarly and popular publications, including the Journal of American History, Labor, the Working Class History of the Americas, the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Nation.

She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Coleman Center for Scholars and Writers.

She is currently serving on the Executive Board of the Labor and Working Class History Association.

The Congressional Library at Washington, the late Mrs. Elroy M. Avery, editor, American Monthly Magazine, Mrs. Amos G. Draper, genealogist of Washington, DC, Dr.

Grace Raymond Hebard, librarian, Wyoming University, Miss Jenny Loomis, Windsor, Connecticut, Mrs. Francis Roberts, honorary state regent, DAR of New York, Mrs. Joseph Wood, state regent, DAR, New York, Mary Florence Taney, Kentucky, Mrs. Alice Crary Sutcliffe, New York, Mary Trumbull Morse, New York, Honorable Albert Mathewson, Connecticut, John Calvert, Philadelphia, Mrs. Ellis Logan, national corresponding secretary, Children of the American Revolution, Mrs. Catherine Thorpe, state regent, DAR, Florida, Mrs. Sarah T. Kinney, state regent, DAR, Connecticut, Mrs. Murray E. Forrestell, state registrar, DAR of Missouri, Florence M. Espey, library department, Notre Dame University, Indiana, Francis Lynn Sullivan, Esquire, Boston, Frank Alaben, editor, Journal of American History, Mrs. R.J. Herndon, South Carolina, Mrs. Benjamin B. Smith, Pennsylvania, Mrs. M.H. Bennett, Minnesota, Mrs. Louise Barnum Robbins, Michigan, Mrs. A.L. Simpson, Maine, Mrs. A.S. Merrill, Massachusetts, Mrs. C.A.J. Queck Berner, corresponding secretary, New York State DAR, Mrs. Dell P. Glazier, Iowa, Colonel Thomas Sumter, South Carolina, Mrs. Mary Van Austrian Vandegrift, Washington, D.C., Mrs. W.C. Robinson, vice state regent, DAR, Maine, Mrs. Helen A. Engel, Washington, D.C., Grace M.

Pierce, ex-registrar general, DAR, vice president, CAR, Mrs. Mary C. Wysong, Washington, D.C., Mrs. Charlotte Pendleton, Maine, Mrs. Jason McElwain, Michigan, Mrs. C.R. Backus, Washington, D.C., Mrs. George A. Lawrence, Illinois, Carrie Choi Sims, Tennessee, Mrs.

A. Worthley, Kansas, Mrs. Helen C. Sargent, Massachusetts, Mrs. Mary H.S. Johnson, Iowa, Mrs. Myra C. Morehouse, Massachusetts, Mrs. Z.S. Whittemore, Massachusetts, Augusta Lamb, Massachusetts, Helen Wheelock Taft, Massachusetts, Mary Pettis Thomas, Baylor College, Texas, Gertrude Blauvelt, Washington, D.C., Mrs. Gertrude H. Lippitt, Connecticut, Mrs. Edward O. Lukens, New Jersey, Lily W. McCandless, Pennsylvania, Mrs. E.G.A. White, Massachusetts, Mrs. Charles S. Proctor, Massachusetts, Mrs. Susanna G. Webster, Illinois, Mrs. Hattie P. Allen, Maine, Mrs. Winona Sherwood, Michigan, Mrs. Florence Small, Maine, Mrs. Sarah P. Webster, New Hampshire, Mrs. Helen E.M. Heald, Massachusetts, Mrs. Mattie Lee Staten, Georgia, Mrs. Margaret H.

And there were a few scholars who argued that this form matched what was present on the runestone.

Among the most ardent supporters of that hypothesis was the historian Hjalmar Holland, who in 1910 submitted an article to the Journal of American History entitled, First Authoritative Investigation of the Oldest Native Document in America.

which is a title I still haven't wrapped my head around.

Whether or not it's authentic, the Norse would not have been considered natives.