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Vol. 93, No. 3

December 2006



Editorial Staff

Previews

Presidential Address

Nuestra América: Latino History as United States History
Vicki L. Ruiz 655

Articles

Telling Stories: The Political Uses of Myth and History in the Cherokee and Creek
Nations Claudio Saunt 673

Dorothea Lange: The Photographer as Agricultural Sociologist
Linda Gordon 698

Conventional Iconoclasm: The Cultural Work of the Nietzsche Image in Twentieth-Century America
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen 728

Round Table

The State of Cultural History: A Conference in Honor of Lawrence W. Levine
Roy Rosenzweig 755

Introduction
Leon F. Litwack 757

"Who We Are": Lawrence Levine as William Jamesian Pragmatist and as Gustave de Beaumont
Nell Irvin Painter 761

Capitalism, Culture, and Catastrophe: Lawrence Levine and the Opening of Cultural History
Jean-Christophe Agnew 772

An Interview with Lawrence W. Levine by Ann Lage 792

Exhibition Reviews

"Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War," by Randall M. Miller 805

"The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity 1915–1935," by W. J. Rorabaugh 808

"A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry 1860–1960," by Ann Meyerson 810

African American Vernacular Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection," by Tanya Sheehan 815

"Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest," by Purnima Dhavan 819

Arab American National Museum, by Raymond Silverman 821

"America: Through Immigrant Eyes," by Kathy M. Newman 825

Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame, by Trevor Jones 827

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, by Nico Slate 830

Book Reviews

Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, by Gaines M. Foster 834

Leuchtenburg, The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, by Dan T. Carter 835

Guenther, "Rememb'ring our Time and Work is the Lords": The Experiences of Quakers on the Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Frontier, by Jack D. Marietta 837

Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, vol. I: Journalist, 1706–1730; and Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Frankin, vol. II: Printer and Publisher, 1730–1747, by Kerry S. Walters 838

Frasca, Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America, by Charles E. Clark 839

Carretta, Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man, by G. Ugo Nwokeji 840

Milford, The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career, by Mary Lou Lustig 841

Faragher, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland, by Gordon T. Stewart 842

Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, by Daniel P. Barr 843

Ward, George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army, by Gregory T. Knouff 844

Messer, Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America, by Jonathan M. Beagle 844

Estes, The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture, by Robert W. Smith 845

Hulsebosch, Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830, by Roger H. Brown 846

McDonald, ed., Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point, by James L. Morrison Jr. 847

Luria, Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C., by Donald R. Kennon 848

Mancini, Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours, by Bruce P. Frohnen 849

Baker, Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America, by Jonathan M. Chu 850

Lyons, Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730–1830, by Lee V. Chambers 851

Wergland, One Shaker Life: Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793–1865, by Elizabeth A. De Wolfe 851

Blaufarb, Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815–1835, by Thomas N. Ingersoll 852

Sayre, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh, by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick 853

McCrady, Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands, by Richmond L. Clow 854

Barr, ed., The Boundaries between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750–1850, by Larry L. Nelson 855

Hackel, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850, by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela 855

Tate, Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails, by Robert Carriker 856

Aron, American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State, by Michael Cassity 857

Gerber, Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century, by William E. Van Vugt 858

Van Vugt, British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700–1900, by R. Douglas Hurt 859

Rucker, The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America, by Douglas R. Egerton 860

Carter, Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800–1865, by Angela Boswell 860

Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South, by Lorri Glover 861

Kennedy, Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society, by Stephanie M. H. Camp 862

Monaco, Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer, by Mark I. Greenberg 863

Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786–1859, by Daniel J. Gelo 864

Liebersohn, The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific, by Barry Gough 865

Farrow, Lang, and Frank, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery, by Joanne Pope Melish 866

Townsend, Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges 866

Colaiaco, Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July, by William B. Rogers 867

Berman, Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery, by Eve Allegra Raimon 868

Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire, by Tom Chaffin 869

Neely, The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era, by Charles W. Calhoun 870

Horton and Horton, eds., Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, by Alfred L. Brophy 871

Pfau, The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln, by Stephen E. Maizlish 872

Taylor, The Divided Family in Civil War America, by Lesley J. Gordon 873

Silber, Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War, by Jeanie Attie 873

Gordon and Inscoe, eds., Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas, by Robert E. Bonner 874

Morgan, Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia, by William Warren Rogers Jr. 876

Carmichael, The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion, by Christopher J. Olsen 876

Taaffe, Commanding the Army of the Potomac, by Ethan S. Rafuse 877

Bigham, On Jordan's Banks: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley, by Cheryll Ann Cody 878

Clark, Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863–1913, by Scot French 879

West, The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage 880

Venet, A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary A. Livermore, by Sylvia D. Hoffert 881

Mason, Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850–1900, by Glenn Hendler 882

Grier, Pets in America: A History, by Susan D. Jones 883

Moore, Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880–1920, by Christopher Waldrep 883

Adler, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875–1920, by Michael Willrich 884

Kerstetter, God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West, by Randi J. Walker 885

Greene, Fort Randall on the Missouri, 1856–1892, by Jeffrey Ostler 886

Wooster, Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West, by William A. Dobak 886

Tone, War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895–1898, by David Healy 887

McCartney, Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the Rise of American Imperialism, by Louis A. Pérez Jr. 888

Gobat, Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule, by Paul J. Dosal 889

Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & the Philippines, by Sharon Delmendo 890

Kazin, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, by LeRoy Ashby 891

Sotiropoulos, Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America, by Scott A. Newman 892

Krainz, Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West, by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg 892

Lee, The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900–1950, by Mark T. Banker 893

Lambert, "If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development, by Timothy J. Minchin 894

Dublin and Licht, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century, by Richard P. Mulcahy 895

Soyer, ed., A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in New York City's Garment Industry, by Daniel Katz 896

Vecchio, Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America, by Caroline Waldron Merithew 897

Bender, Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor, by Bruce Cohen 898

McKibben, Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915–1999, by Nancy C. Carnevale 898

Horowitz, Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation, by Harvey Levenstein 899

Gidlow, The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s–1920s, by Gayle Gullett 900

Good, A Search for Unity in Diversity: The "Permanent Hegelian Deposit" in the Philosophy of John Dewey, by Thomas C. Dalton 901

Westbrook, Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth, by George Cotkin 902

Stromquist, Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism, by Dominic A. Pacyga 903

Reese, America's Public Schools: From the Common School to "No Child Left Behind," by Don T. Martin 904

Baldwin, Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America, by Thomas H. Appleton Jr. 904

Feldman, ed., Politics and Religion in the White South, by Douglas Carl Abrams 905

Lippy, Do Real Men Pray? Images of the Christian Man and Male Spirituality in White Protestant America, by Dane Claussen 906

Jackson, Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation, by Judith Richardson 907

Donovan, White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887–1917, by Leslie Fishbein 908

Tilchin and Neu, eds., Artists of Power: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Their Enduring Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy, by Frank Ninkovich 909

Robertson, The Dream of Civilized Warfare: World War I Flying Aces and the American Imagination, by W. David Lewis 910

Fried, The Man Everybody Knew: Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America, by Walter A. Friedman 911

Moskowitz, Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America, by Eileen Boris 912

Goldstein, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity, by Clive Webb 912

Schwartz, The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life, by Melissa R. Klapper 913

Kleinberg, Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880–1939, by Beverly Stadum 914

McClure, Earnest Endeavors: The Life and Public Work of George Rublee, by David M. Esposito 915

Smith, Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880–1950, by Catherine Ceniza Choy 916

Chan, ed., Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era, by Mae M. Ngai 917

Saul, Friends or Foes? The United States and Soviet Russia, 1921–1941, by David C. Engerman 918

Duncombe and Mattson, The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York, by Samantha Barbas 919

Lindenmeyer, The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s, by Julia Grant 919

Allmendinger, Imagining the African American West, by Gerald R. Butters Jr. 920

Raeburn, A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography, by F. Jack Hurley 921

Daniels, One O'Clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils, by Burton W. Peretti 922

Giffin, African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915–1930, by Joe William Trotter Jr. 923

Knupfer, The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism, by Davarian L. Baldwin 924

Douglas, Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865–1954, by Barry M. Franklin 924

Anthony, Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior, by Gerald Horne 925

Jung, Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement, by Jonathan Y. Okamura 926

Mickenberg, Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States, by Robert C. Cottrell 927

McFarland and Roll, Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years, by Andrew D. Grossman 927

Kimble, Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda, by Allan M. Winkler 928

Stoler, Allies in War: Britain and America against the Axis Powers, 1940–1945, by James Jay Carafano 929

Fermaglich, American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–1965, by Henry L. Feingold 930

Westad, The Global Cold War, by H. W. Brands 930

Johnson, Congress and the Cold War, by Jeffery C. Livingston 931

Kuklick, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, by Robert A. Strong 932

Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad, by Jeff Broadwater 933

Priest, Global Gambits: Big Steel and the U.S. Quest for Manganese, by Paul A. Tiffany 934

Nashel, Edward Lansdale's Cold War, by Walter L. Hixson 935

Carroll, The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796–1996, by John Dumbrell 936

Edwards, Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express, by Melani McAlister 937

White, Holding the Line: Race, Racism, and American Foreign Policy toward Africa, 1953–1961, by James H. Meriwether 938

Gaines, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era, by Brenda Gayle Plummer 938

Engel, Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1945, by David T. Beito 939

Ballenger, Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History, by Gerald N. Grob 940

Crowther-Heyck, Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, by James H. Capshew 941

Lécuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970, by Margaret Pugh O'Mara 942

Eisenmann, Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965, by Nancy Woloch 943

Ashby, With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830, by Richard Butsch 944

Karabel, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, by William J. Reese 944

Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, by Stephen J. Whitfield 945

Graham, Young Activists: American High School Students in the Age of Protest, by Alexander Bloom 946

Stockley, Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas, by Greta de Jong 947

Murray, ed., Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege: White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era, by Rebecca S. Montgomery 948

Connerly, "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980, by Arnold R. Hirsch 949

Bolton, The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870–1980, by J. Todd Moye 949

Jackson, Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education, by Kevin M. Kruse 950

Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South, by Raymond A. Mohl 951

Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered, by Ada Ferrer 952

Druks, John F. Kennedy and Israel, by Peter L. Hahn 953

Mart, Eye on Israel: How America Came to View the Jewish State as an Ally, by John Snetsinger 954

Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68, by James R. Ralph 955

Busto, King Tiger: The Religious Vision of Reies López Tijerina, by Carl Allsup 956

Countryman, Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia, by Peniel E. Joseph 956

McKnight, Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why, by Anna K. Nelson 957

Rymph, Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right, by Francesca Morgan 958

Berkowitz, Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies, by Yanek Mieczkowski 959

Jacobson, Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America, by John D. Buenker 960

Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform, by C. Elizabeth Raymond 961

Kirsch, Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving, by J. Samuel Walker 962

Hufbauer, Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory, by Barbara Franco 963

Sherman and Nardin, Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11, by Kevin Mattson 963

Movie Reviews

Reel Report, 2005–2006
Robert Brent Toplin 965

Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Massacre at Mystic, by Tracy Neal Leavelle 967

The War That Made America: The Story of the French and Indian War, by Daniel P. Barr 968

John and Abigail Adams, by C. Bradley Thompson 969

Ten Days That Unexepectedly Changed America: Shays' Rebellion—America's First Civil War, by Donald L. Robinson 970

The Supreme Court, Part I: The Least Dangerous Branch, by Scott D. Gerber 971

John Marshall: Citizen, Stateman, Jurist, by Scott King-Owen 972

Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Gold Rush, by Mark A. Eifler 973

Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Antietam, by John Cimprich 974

Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: The Homestead Strike, by Edward Slavishak 975

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, by Tilden Edelstein 976

Mary Pickford, by Kathleen Feeley 977

Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Scopes—The Battle over America's Soul, by Constance Clark 979

Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film, by Peter Conn 980

Langston Hughes: Working toward Salvation, by Kate A. Baldwin 981

The March of the Bonus Army, by Paul Bonnifield 982

Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Einstein's Letter, by Wyn Wachhorst 983

The Nuremberg Trials, by Manfred Jonas 984

Good Night, and Good Luck, by Ron Briley 985

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History, by Hal K. Rothman 986

Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: When America was Rocked, by Michael T. Bertrand 987

Brokeback Mountain, by Susan Lee Johnson 988

Capote, by Charles L. Ponce de Leon 990

Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Freedom Summer, by Mark Newman 991

Two Days in October, by Jeremi Suri 992

Race to the Moon: The Daring Adventure of Apollo 8, by Roger D. Launius 994

Broken Brotherhood: Vietnam and the Boys from Colgate, by Scott Laderman 995

A Reunion of Soldiers (A Vietnam Reflection: A Documentary), by Pierre Asselin 996

One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern, by Edward P. Morgan 997

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, by Thomas Doherty 997

Web Site Reviews

The New Georgia Encyclopedia, by J. William Harris 1000

Investing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, by Elena Razlogova 1002

Separate Is Not Equal Brown v. Board of Education; The University of Michigan Digital Archive Brown v. Board of Education, and Brown@50: Fulfilling the Promise, by Mary L. Dudziak 1002

Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution, by Lila Corwin Berman 1004

Letters to the Editor 1006

Announcements 1010

Recent Scholarship 1011


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