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The American Historical Review appears in February, April, June, October, and December of each year. It is the official publication of the American Historical Association (AHA), 400 A Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 (202-544-2422). It is published by The University of Chicago Press and is printed and mailed by Cadmus Professional Communications, 2901 Byrdhill Road, Richmond, Virginia, 23228. The editorial offices are located at 914 E Atwater, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.

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Volume 115, Number 3. The June issue includes two articles on food in early modern colonial contexts, a piece on official efforts to create a "national language" in Meiji Japan, an analysis of an all but forgotten U.S. congressional act that freed the wives and children of slaves who enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, and an AHR Exchange on an article we published in 2008 titled "The 'Myth' of the 'Weak' American State." There are also five featured reviews, followed by our normal extensive book review section. "In Back Issues" calls attention to articles and features in the AHR from one hundred, seventy-five, and fifty years ago.

 
 
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Cover Illustration: During the Meiji era in Japan (1868-1912), scholars and officials launched an effort to eliminate regional dialects in favor of a unified national language. What suddenly made one form of speech "correct" and another "wrong"? In "Tongues-Tied: The Making of a 'National Language' and the Discovery of Dialects in Meiji Japan," Hiraku Shimoda argues that the answer to this question reveals the intimate historical ties between language and the nation-state, not only in Meiji Japan but just about everywhere a society struggled to nationalize. This decoration from an Aizu-style noodle shop provides a playful little guide to the Aizu dialect. Across the middle of the image are the words in the Aizu dialect, and across the bottom are their "translations" into standard Japanese. Photograph by Sawano Kazuya. Reproduced by permission of the photographer.
 
 

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