Issue 2

Spring 2024

Contents

Table of Contents

Chicago Journal of History

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Jack Sanders

Instrumentalizing Pseudoscience: How European Scientific Racism Shaped Confederate Political Thought and Policy

Guillem Colom, Tufts University

The Quest for Status: China’s Engagement with International Institutions in the Republican Era, 1919-1928

Ruyi Liu, London School of Economics

Early Insecurities of John Adams: The Role of his Quest to Become a ‘Great Man’ in Contemporary Perceptions of his Life and Presidency

Simon Rosenbaum, Vanderbilt

Corsairs and Captivity: Slavery and Race During the Early Modern Period

Ollie Rourke, Middlebury College