This is a remarkable collection of essays. Citizenship clearly forms the backbone for these investigations but the range of the contributors backgrounds (in terms of disciplinary training) and the approaches they take to the question makes this collection both broad and deep. As it turns out, there is no other way to tackle a concept as central but also as slippery as citizenship. A shorter or more focused collection would miss the nuances and insights that this one offers. Aaron Sheehan-Dean, author of Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia President Obama s...