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Conevery Bolton Valencius
Conevery Bolton Valencius received her Ph.D. from Harvard. In 2000 she won the prestigious Allan Nevins Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians for best-written dissertation in American history. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she is an assistant professor at Washington University.
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The Health of the Country
Many have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has explored these settlers' self-consciousness about what they were…