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Vol. 92, No. 3

December 2005



Editorial Staff

Previews

Presidential Address

Patriot Acts: Public History in Public Service
James Oliver Horton 801

Articles

Midnight Rangers: Costume and Performance in the Reconstruction—Era Ku Klux Klan
Elaine Frantz Parsons 811

"Made by Toile"? Tourism, Labor, and the Construction of the Colorado Landscape, 1858–1917
Thomas G. Andrews 837

"The Most Wonderful Thing Has Happened to Me in the Army": Psychology, Citizenship, and American Higher Education in World War II
Christopher P. Loss 864

Sound and Fury; or, Much Ado about Nothing? Cochlear Implants in Historical Perspective
R. A. R. Edwards 892


Exhibition Reviews

"Brooklyn Works: Four Hundred Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn," by Kathleen Hulser 921

"Rio Grande: The Storied River," by Don B. Graham 924

"Old Montréal in a New Light," by Ronald Rudin 925

National Hansen's Disease Museum, by Roy Lechtreck 927

"Freedom and Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories," by Mark Case 929

"A. K. A. Houdini," by John Baumann 931

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, by John R. Decker 934

Mill City Museum, by Andrew Urban 938

"Beyond the Cleavers: Life in the 1950s," by Steven T. Sheehan 942


Book Reviews

Mintz, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood, by Judith Sealander 945

Rubin and Rubin, Hating America: A History, by Paul Hollander 946

Spickard and Daniel, eds., Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence, by Alex Lubin 947

Finzsch and Lehmkuhl, eds., Atlantic Communications: The Media in American and German History from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, by James Schwoch 948

Townsend, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, by Michael Leroy Oberg 949

Billings, Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia, by Elizabeth Mancke 949

Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire, by Herbert A. Johnson 950

Pestana, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661, by Francis J. Bremer 951

Hornsby, British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America, by Alison Games 952

Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, by Brian Donahue 593

Coleman, Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, by Karen R. Jones 954

Lightfoot, Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers, by Lisbeth Haas 955

McConnell, Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758–1775, by Daniel P. Barr 956

Flavell and Conway, eds., Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America, 1754–1815, by Paul David Nelson 956

Carr, After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 1775–1800, by John W. Tyler 957

Borch, Conciliation—Compulsion—Conversion: British Attitudes towards Indigenous Peoples, 1763–1814, by Troy O. Bickham 958

Muldoon, ed., The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas, by Charles L. Cohen 959

Stabile, Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America, by Gayle R. Davis 960

McNamara, From Tavern to Courthouse: Architecture & Ritual in American Law, 1658–1860, by Elizabeth Brand Monroe 961

Lanier, The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity, by David Steven Cohen 962

Newman, Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution, by Terry Bouton 963

Miller, Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris & the French Revolution, by Jack Fruchtman Jr. 963

Kastor, The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America, by Kathleen DuVal 964

Slaughter, Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness, by John Logan Allen 965

McGarvie, One Nation under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State, by Charles E. Clark 966

Pasley, Robertson, and Waldstreicher, eds., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic, by Daniel Feller 967

Buel, America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic, by Donald R. Hickey 968

Martin, ed., Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789–1860, by A. Kristen Foster 969

Rice, Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America, by David E. Nye 970

Gervais, Les origines de la révolution industrielle aux États-Unis: Entre économie marchande et capitalisme industriel, 1800–1850 (The origins of the industrial revolution in the United States: Between merchant economy and industrial capitalism, 1800–1850), by Douglas McCalla 971

Adams, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America, by Edward J. Davies II 972

Schweiger and Mathews, eds., Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture, by Scott M. Stephan 972

Sommerville, Rape & Race in the Nineteenth-Century South, by Edward E. Baptist 974

Gaspar and Hine, eds., Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas, by Victoria E. Bynum 974

Stowe, Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by Anthony Cavender 976

Wood, Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War, by Sally G. McMillen 976

Buchanan, Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World, by Mark M. Smith 977

Ely, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War, by Christopher Phillips 978

Higgins, A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas; and Billingsley, Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier, by Ellen Eslinger 980

Reséndez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa 981

Justus, Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain, by Johanna Nicol Shields 982

Lupold and French, Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King, by Lawrence C. Allin 983

Forsberg, Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture, by Grant Underwood 983

McClymond, ed., Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American Revivalism, by Bruce J. Evensen 984

Carey, Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane, by James Emmett Ryan 985

Buell, Emerson, by Robert E. Burkholder 986

Shaw, City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City, by John D. Fairfield 987

Robinson, Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism, by Stephen Germic 988

Raimon, The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction, by Susan M. Ryan 988

Wellman, The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention, by Sherry H. Penney 989

Piepmeier, Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America, by Angela M. Howard 990

Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778–1928, by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy 991

Dunkelman, Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment, by Kevin Conley Ruffner 992

Carmichael, ed., Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee, by Richard B. McCaslin 993

Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck, by Paul D. Casdorph 994

Furgurson, Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War, by William C. Harris 994

Mackey, The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865, by Ethan S. Rafuse 995

McDonough, Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble, by William B. Feis 996

Robinson, Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865, by Richard E. Beringer 997

Tsesis, The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History, by Roberta Sue Alexander 998

Best, The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession, by Steven Wilf 999

Brown and Rivers, For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864–1905, by Dennis C. Dickerson 1000

Thompson, The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy after the Civil War, by John C. Rodrigue 1001

Blair, Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865–1914, by Alan K. Lamm 1002

Tutorow, The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, a California Colossus, by William Deverell 1002

Boyd, Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America, by Martha Saxton 1003

Guth, Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan, by F. G. Notehelfer 1004

Leja, Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp, by Bryan J. Wolf 1005

Cisco, Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman, by William J. Cooper Jr. 1006

Gould, Alexander Watkins Terrell: Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat, by Walter L. Buenger 1007

Trachtenberg, Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930, by Frank Van Nuys 1008

Reyhner and Eder, American Indian Education: A History, by Brenda J. Child 1008

Denson, Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900, by Walter H. Conser Jr. 1009

Love, Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865–1900, by Michael J. Devine 1010

Morgan, Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism, by Carrie Tirado Bramen 1011

Mohr, Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown, by Susan Craddock 1012

Kinney, The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America, by Ed Duggan 1013

Nolan, Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America, by JoEllen McNergney Vinyard 1014

Ling, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community, by Marie Rose Wong 1015

Page and Mason, eds., Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States, by Richard Striner 1015

Brøndal, Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890–1914, by John E. Miller 1016

Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature, by Barbara L. Allen 1017

Rosenberg, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think about Sex and Politics, by Rebecca Aanerud 1018

Hoffman, Race, Class, and Power in the Building of Richmond, 1870–1920, by Michael B. Chesson 1019

Johnson, Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890–1930, by Jane Turner Censer 1020

Apel, Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob, by Dominic J. Capeci Jr. 1021

Edgerton, Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, & the Penitentiary, by Marilyn D. McShane 1021

Carrigan, The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916, by Michael J. Pfeifer 1022

Harris and Sadler, The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920, by Charles M. Robinson III 1023

Truett and Young, eds., Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, by Martha Menchaca 1024

Bremer, Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio, by Char Miller 1025

Keith, Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War, by G. Kurt Piehler 1026

Luconi, The Italian-American Vote in Providence, Rhode Island, 1916–1948, by Evelyn Savidge Sterne 1027

Matthews, Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era, by David F. Schmitz 1027

Heinrich and Batchelor, Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business, by Vincent Vinikas 1028

Shank, A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture, by Cele C. Otnes 1029

Courtwright, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire, by Tom D. Crouch 1030

Saab, For the Millions: American Art and Culture between the Wars, by Helen Langa 1031

Augspurger, An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America, by Donald W. Whisenhunt 1032

Lye, America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893–1945, by Mari Yoshihara 1032

Theoharis and Woodard, eds., Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America, by Martha Biondi 1033

Nadell, Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture, by Cheryl Greenberg 1034

Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South, by Matthew D. Lassiter 1035

Kashima, Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II, by Brian Masaru Hayashi 1036

Parmar, Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939–1945, by Anna K. Nelson 1037

Ellerbrock, "Healing Democracy"—Demokratie als Heilmittel: Gesundheit, Krankheit, und Politik in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone, 1945–1949 ("Healing Democracy"—democracy as remedy: Health, illness, and politics in the American occupation zone, 1945–1949), by Andreas W. Daum 1038

Bogle, The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind: The Early Cold War, by Michael E. Latham 1039

Ybarra, Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt; and Kille, Academic Freedom Imperiled: The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada, by Charles H. McCormick 1040

Sibley, Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 1041

Hunner, Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community; and Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by Michael J. Yavenditti 1042

O'Mara, Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley, by Daniel Lee Kleinman 1043

Baratta, The Politics of World Federation, by Gary B. Ostrower 1044

Amadae, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism, by Frank Annunziata 1045

Mattson, When America Was Great: The Fighting Faith of Postwar Liberalism, by Larry G. Gerber 1046

Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, by Nichole T. Rustin 1047

Levenstein, We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930, by Jacques Portes 1048

Knapp, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, by Andrea Most 1049

Weitekamp, Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program, by Deborah G. Douglas 1050

Whitehead, Completing the Union: Alaska, Hawai'i, and the Battle for Statehood, by Roger Bell 1050

Cotter, ed., Sidney Hook Reconsidered, by George Cotkin 1051

King, Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940–1970, by R. Fred Wacker 1052

Tentler, Catholics and Contraception: An American History, by Stephen Lassonde 1053

Schmiesing, Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II, by Craig R. Prentiss 1054

Hart, The Lost Soul of American Protestantism, by Louis B. Weeks 1055

Smith and Cohen, eds., Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies, by Michael O'Brien 1056

Willis, All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945–1970, by Paul Harvey 1057

Brooks, Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition, by Steven F. Lawson 1058

Jonas, Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle against Racism in America, 1909–1969, by Merline Pitre 1058

Moye, Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945–1986, by Mark Newman 1059

Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, by John Salmond 1060

Carty, A Catholic in the White House?: Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign, by Godfrey Hodgson 1061

Preble, John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap, by Philip Nash 1062

Wilensky, Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War, by Graham A. Cosmas 1063

Martin, The Theater Is in the Street: Politics and Performance in Sixties America, by Wini Breines 1064

Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity, by Judson L. Jeffries 1065

Anderson, The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action, by Howard Ball 1066

Nadasen, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States, by Jeanne Theoharis 1066

Feeney, Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief, by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes 1067

Mason, Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority, by David Greenberg 1068

Wooten, The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974: A Political History, by Edward D. Berkowitz 1069

Coleman, Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies, by Thomas J. Noel 1070

Van Deburg, Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life, by Gerald R. Butters Jr. 1071

Keizer, Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery, by Keith E. Byerman 1071

Quinn, Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar 1072

Hapke, Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea, by Carmen Teresa Whalen 1073

Vargas, Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America, by Rodolfo F. Acuña 1074

Hosmer and O'Neill, eds., Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Bee 1075

Hoffer, Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud—American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin, by Ellen Fitzpatrick 1076

Robbins, Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000, by Thomas R. Cox 1077

Buell, From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century, by J. Brooks Flippen 1078

Movie Reviews

Reel Report 2004–2005
Robert Brent Toplin 1080

Transforming America: U.S. History since 1877, by Laura Witten-Keller 1082

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, by Douglas R. Egerton 1084

Young Lincoln: The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1816–1830, by Dan Monroe 1085

The Alamo, by Stanley Corkin 1086

The Great Transatlantic Cable, by David Hochfelder 1088

Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge, by Lesley J. Gordon 1089

Phantom of the Operator (Le fantôme de l'opératrice), by Sharon Hartman Strom 1090

Emma Goldman, by Judith Smith 1091

The Aviator, by David T. Courtwright 1092

The Massie Affair, by Franklin Ng 1094

Cinderella Man, by Thomas Doherty 1095

The Fight, by Jack E. Davis 1097

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, by Robert H. Abzug 1099

Building the Alaska Highway, by William R. Morrison 1100

Victory in the Pacific, by Hal Friedman 1101

The Great Raid, by Alan R. Millett 1101

Kinsey (dir. and prod. by Barak Goodman and John Maggio); and Kinsey (dir. by Bill Condon), by Leisa D. Meyer 1103

Broadway: The American Musical, by David Sanjek 1106

Tupperware!, by Lynn Y. Weiner 1107

Fidel Castro, by Thomas M. Leonard 1108

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four, by Robert A. Pratt 1110

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, by Ron Briley 1111

RFK, by Gregory Bush 1112

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, by Walter L. Hixson 1113

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, by Benjamin T. Harrison 1115

With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America, by D. G. Hart 1116

Web Site Reviews

Oneida Indian Nation: Culture and History, by Gerald F. Reid 1118

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection, 1818–1907, by Randall K. Burkett 1119

The Chinese in California, 1850–1925, by Robert G. Lee 1120

Picturing Modern America, by John P. Spencer 1121

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Digital Archive, by Allida M. Black 1121

HistoryLink.org: The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, by James N. Gregory 1122

Letters to the Editor 1124

Announcements 1128

Recent Scholarship 1130
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