editorship After Woodward's death in 1999, David Kennedy assumed the editorship of the series. Since the start of his tenure, in addition to the revised and expanded edition of Middlekauff's book, four more volumes have appeared: Volume 11, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore by James T. Patterson, which was published in 2005 (), Volume 5, Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (), which was released in 2007, Volume 12, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 () by George C. Herring, published in October 2008, and Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 () by Gordon S. Wood, published in September 2009. Volume 9 was also published in 2003 as two smaller volumes: The American People in the Great Depression: Freedom from Fear, Part One () and The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear, Part Two (). Also in 2003, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom was published, a new edition of James M. McPherson's book with the footnotes and a fifth of the original text removed, instead adding numerous maps and photographs with McPherson's commentary (). Herring's 2008 book From Colony to Superpower was republished in 2017 in a two-volume paperback edition: Years of Peril and Ambition: US Foreign Relations, 1776–1921 (), featuring a new introduction covering this period, and The American Century and Beyond: US Foreign Relations, 1893-2014 (), also with a new introduction on the period, as well as a new chapter bringing the original book's timeline up to 2014. A volume written by H. W. Brands covering Gilded Age America — Leviathan: America Comes of Age, 1865–1900 — was also to be published as part of the series, but was withdrawn in 2006 and published outside the Oxford History series in October 2010 as American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900. Richard White wrote volume 7, The Republic for Which It Stands, which covers Reconstruction and the Gilded Age and was published in September 2017. Volume 2 was being written by Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton under the title Imperial America, 1672-1764, however, the volume is currently on hold after the death of Andrew Cayton in 2015. Reception For the most part, the publication of each volume has been greeted with laudatory reviews. Three of the volumes (McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, Kennedy's Freedom from Fear,