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Vol. 91, No. 2

September 2004



Editorial Staff

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Articles

Exciting Emulation: Academies and the Transformation of the Rural North, 1780s–1820s
J. M. Opal 445

Judicial Conservatism and Protestant Faith: The Case of Justice David J. Brewer
Linda Przybyszewski 471

Leonard Covello, the Covello Papers, and the History of Eating Habits among Italian Immigrants in New York
Simone Cinotto 497

Flaunting the Freak Flag:Karr v. Schmidt and the Great Hair Debate in American High Schools, 1965–1975
Gael Graham 522

Environmental Justice, Native Rights, Tourism, and Opposition to Military Control: The Case of Kaho'olawe
Mansel G. Blackford 544

Interchange

Genres of History

Participants: Robert Begiebing, Joshua Brown, Barbara Franco, David Grubin, Ruth Rosen, Natasha Trethewey 572

Book Reviews

Calloway, One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark, by Roger L. Nichols 594

Noll, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, by John Corrigan 595

Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History, by R. Scott Appleby 597

Fogel, The Slavery Debates, 1952–1990: A Retrospective; and Davis, Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery, by Peter Kolchin 598

Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863, by Brooks D. Simpson 600

Testi, La formazione degli Stati Uniti (The formation of the United States), by Martha Saxton 602

Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation, by Helen C. Rountree 602

Garate, Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, by Dedra McDonald Birzer 603

Lombard, Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England, by Gloria L. Main 604

Ward, Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754–1765, by Richard Middleton 605

Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Barbara B. Oberg 606

Juster, Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution, by Dee E. Andrews 607

Holifield, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War, by Robert E. Brown 607

Wright, Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic, by Jonathan M. Chu 608

Hutson, Forgotten Features of the Founding: The Recovery of Religious Themes in the Early American Republic, by Frank Lambert 609

Browne, Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural Address, by Garrett Ward Sheldon 610

Beran, Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind, by Andrew Burstein 611

Hamilton, The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752–1830, by A. Glenn Crothers 612

Hood, The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania, by Michael V. Kennedy 613

Newman, Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia, by Richard G. Miller 613

Skeen, 1816: America Rising, by James E. Lewis Jr. 614

McAllister, White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African & American Theater, by Craig Steven Wilder 615

Johnson, Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper; and Carlyon, Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of, by Steven C. Bullock 616

Miller, Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga, by Jane F. Lancaster 617

Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, by Ronald L. Lewis 618

Fought, Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810–1879, by Jane H. Pease 619

Gitelman and Pingree, eds., New Media, 1740–1915, by Peter J. Wosh 620

Sampson, John L. O'Sullivan and His Times, by Tom Chaffin 621

Nye, America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings, by Joseph W. Slade 622

Taketani, U.S. Women Writers and the Discourses of Colonialism, 1825–1861, by Jeanne Boydston 623

Lhamon, Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture, by Rosemarie K. Bank 624

Frick, Theatre, Culture, and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, by Scott C. Martin 625

Ryan, The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence, by Lori D. Ginzberg 625

Fuller, Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America, by Leonard Sweet 626

Pierson, Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics, by Jacqueline Bacon 627

Cutter, Domestic Devils, Battlefield Angels: The Radicalism of American Womanhood, 1830–1865, by Laura McCall 628

Sentilles, Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity, by Charles L. Ponce de Leon 629

Lott, From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland, by Michael Broyles 630

Chambers, Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at Nineteenth-Century Mineral Springs, by Theodore Corbett 631

Grossman, Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation, by Mary Kupiec Cayton 631

Denton, American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857, by Jan Shipps 632

Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln, by Stephen Hansen 633

Fornieri, Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith, by Ronald C. White Jr. 634

Farber, Lincoln's Constitution, by Stewart Winger 635

Goss, The War within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship during the Civil War, by Mark E. Neely Jr. 636

Gallagher, ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, by Richard E. Beringer 636

Campbell, English Public Opinion and the American Civil War, by Eugene H. Berwanger 637

Ellis, The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run, by Dwight L. Teeter Jr. 638

Curran, Soldiers of Peace: Civil War Pacifism and the Postwar Radical Peace Movement, by Valarie H. Ziegler 639

Bercaw, Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861–1875, by Susan E. O'Donovan 640

Sharpe, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives, by Hilary McD. Beckles 641

Dunaway, The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation, by Dylan C. Penningroth 642

Shiozaki, Amerika "Chinichiha" no Kigen (Origins of a "pro-Japanese group" in the United States), by Yoneyuki Sugita 643

Homberger, Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age, by Mary W. Blanchard 644

Smythe, The Gilded Age Press, 1865–1900, by W. Joseph Campbell 644

Pfitzer, Picturing the Past: Illustrated Histories and the American Imagination, 1840–1900, by Scott E. Casper 645

Ashton, Collaborators in Literary America, 1870–1920, by Michael Anesko 646

Clymer, America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word, by Robert Justin Goldstein 647

Klotter, Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid, by Craig Thompson Friend 648

Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930, by Todd DePastino 649

Lamarre, The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840–1914, by François Weil 650

Machado, Of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888–1945, by R. Douglas Brackenridge 651

Mellis, Riding Buffaloes and Broncos: Rodeo and Native Traditions in the Northern Great Plains, by Loretta Fowler 651

Hagan, Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889–1893, by Brad Agnew 652

Bernardin, Graulich, MacFarlane, and Tonkovich, Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880–1940, by Melissa A. McEuen 653

Miraldi, The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell, by Robert C. Kochersberger 654

Schorman, Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century; and Cunningham, Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850–1920: Politics, Health, and Art, by Nancy Page Fernandez 655

Lowe, Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875–1930, by Lynn D. Gordon 656

Rauchway, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America, by John Milton Cooper Jr. 657

Tobin, To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight, by William F. Trimble 658

Johnston, The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, by John D. Buenker 659

Willrich, City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago, by Wayne K. Hobson 659

Fisher, Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America, by Allen Steinberg 660

Sterett, Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850–1937, by Anthony R. Travis 661

Kraut, Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader, by Susan E. Lederer 662

Paton, Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop, by Elizabeth Johns 663

Van Hook, The Virgin & the Dynamo: Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893–1917, by Barbara Melosh 664

Zieger, America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience, by Nancy Gentile Ford 664

Minohara, Hainichi iminho to nichibei kankei: "Hanihara shokan" no shinso to sono "Judainaru kekka" (The Japanese exclusion act and U.S.-Japanese relations: The truth behind the "Hanihara note" and its "grave consequences"), by Yasuhide Kawashima 665

Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943, by Renqiu Yu 666

Cinotto, Una famiglia che mangia insieme: Cibo ed etnicità nella comunità italoamericana di New York, 1920–1940 (A family that eats together: Food and ethnicity in the Italian American community of New York, 1920–1940), by Betty Boyd Caroli 667

Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890–1945, by Gary R. Mormino 668

Ueda and Wright, eds., Faces of Community: Immigrant Massachusetts, 1860–2000, by Frederick M. Binder 668

Boosahda, Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community, by Anouar Majid 670

Black, War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, by Barry Mehler 671

Woodruff, American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta, by John A. Kirk 671

Hurt, ed., African American Life in the Rural South, 1900–1950, by Greta de Jong 672

Blackwelder, Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation, by Sherrie Tucker 673

McPherson, Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South, by Jacqueline Glass Campbell 674

Shackel, Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape, by Thomas Andrew Denenberg 674

Finnegan, Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs, by F. Jack Hurley 675

Teaford, The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government, by Gerald Gamm 676

Bodnar, Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film, by Robert Brent Toplin 677

Witwer, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union, by Kevin Boyle 678

Smith, From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States, by Stephen H. Norwood 679

Houck and Kiewe, FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability, by Hugh E. Evans 680

Friedman, Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II, by John F. Bratzel 680

Perras, Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867–1945, by Jeffrey G. Barlow 681

Lotchin, The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego, by Charles Wollenberg 682

Mauch, trans. by Riemer, The Shadow War against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service, by Jay Lockenour 683

Carpenter, On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II, by Rebecca Sharpless 684

Moore, Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II, by Thomas Y. Fujita-Rony 685

Hune and Nomura, eds., Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, by Laura Hyun Yi Kang 686

Oinas-Kukkonen, Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility: Changing U.S. Attitudes toward the Japanese Communist Movement, 1944–1947, by Robert D. Eldridge 687

Tanigawa, Amerika eiga to senryo seisaku (The formulation and implementation of U.S. film policy toward occupied Japan), by Sayuri Shimizu 688

Higurashi, Tokyo saiban no kokusai kankei: Kokusai seiji ni okeru kenryoku to kihan (International relations surrounding the Tokyo trials: Power and code in international politics), by Frederick R. Dickinson 688

En, Amerika to Nikka Kowa (America and the Japan-Taiwan peace treaty), by Noriko Kawamura 689

Shimakawa, Amerika no Senso to Nichibei Ampo Taisei (America's wars and the U.S.-Japan security system), by Richard H. Minear 690

Garner, Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution, by Jane H. Hunter 691

Engerman, Gilman, Haefele, and Latham, eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War, by Hemant Shah 692

Bu, Making the World like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century, by Inderjeet Parmar 693

Geelhoed and Edmonds, Eisenhower, Macmillan, and Allied Unity, 1957–1961, by Ritchie Ovendale 694

Mahan, Kennedy, de Gaulle, and Western Europe, by William I. Hitchcock 695

Bass, Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance, by Douglas Little 695

Stern, Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings, by Meena Bose 696

George, Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Stephen J. Whitfield 697

Kilgore, Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space, by Howard P. Segal 698

Bednarek, with Bednarek, Dreams of Flight: General Aviation in the United States, by George E. Hopkins 699

Squier, ed., Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture, by Derek Vaillant 700

Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture, by Brenda Murphy 701

Yee, Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California, by David K. Yoo 701

Murray, The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945–1965, by Amy Swerdlow 702

Kaplan and Kaplan, Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York, by Eugenie L. Birch 703

Ortner, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58, by Paul H. Mattingly 704

Anderson, Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955, by Robert L. Harris Jr. 705

Fosl, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South, by Elna C. Green 706

D'Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, by V. P. Franklin 707

Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, by Kathryn L. Nasstrom 708

Berg, The Ticket to Freedom: DieNAACP und das Wahlrecht der Afro-Amerikaner (The ticket to freedom: The NAACP and the Afro-American's right to vote), by Herbert Shapiro 709

Ramsey, Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop, by Nichole T. Rustin 709

Theoharis and Woodard, eds., Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles outside the South, 1940–1980, by James R. Ralph Jr. 710

Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente, by Mary Elise Sarotte 711

Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam, by Frank Costigliola 712

Graham, The Brothers' Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military Experience, by Michael S. Foley 713

Williamson, Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965–75, by Yohuru R. Williams 714

Brown, Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism, by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 715

Treat, Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era, by Ward Churchill 715

Grounds, Tinker, and Wilkins, eds., Native Voices: American Indian Identity and Resistance, by Robert L. Bee 716

Lyons, The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia, by Jennifer Frost 717

Oppenheimer, Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture, by Robert Booth Fowler 718

Hutchison, Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal, by Mark Hulsether 719

Hart, That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century, by James P. Byrd 720

Eisinger, The Evolution of Presidential Polling; and Ritter and Medhurst, eds., Presidential Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond, by George H. Skau 721

Olson, Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America; and Liebovich, Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective, by Dean J. Kotlowski 723

Carrese, The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism, by Stephen B. Presser 724

Ippolito, Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics, by Iwan Morgan 725

Dobson, US Economic Statecraft for Survival, 1933–1991: Of Sanctions, Embargoes, and Economic Warfare, by Kenneth A. Rodman 726

High, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969–1984, by Howard Gillette Jr. 727

Gordon, Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America, by Thomas R. Oliver 728

Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement, by Amy Kesselman 729

Metzl, Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs, by Eugene Taylor 730

Wittner, The Struggle against the Bomb, vol. 3: Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present, by Milton S. Katz 731


Web Site Reviews

National Archives and Records Administration Digital Classroom, by David Kobrin 732

Race: The Power of an Illusion, by Howard Winant 733

The James Fenimore Cooper Society, by Matt Cohen 734

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture, by Steven Stoll 735

Jewish Women's Archive, by Marjorie N. Feld 736

Agents of Social Change Online Exhibit: New Resources on 20th-Century Women's Activism, by Melissa Doak 737

Editor's Annual Report, 2003–2004
Joanne Meyerowitz 738

Letters to the Editor 743

Announcements 748

Recent Scholarship 750
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