| Contents | The Journal of American History, 95.1

Vol. 95, No. 1

June 2008


Editorial Staff

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Articles


Thomas Jefferson's Gender Frontier
Brian Steele	17

Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution
Christopher Grasso	43

Warming the Poor and Growing Consumers: Fuel Philanthropy in the Early Republic's Urban North
Sean Patrick Adams	69

Reconfiguring the Old South: "Solving" the Problem of Slavery, 1787–1838
Lacy Ford	95

"A Wagner Act for Public Employees": Labor's Deferred Dream and the Rise of Conservatism, 1970–1976
Joseph A. McCartin	123

Exhibition Reviews


Museo Alameda, by Kathleen Franz	149

"The Art of the American Shapshot, 1888–1978," by Shirley Teresa Wajda	155

"Diba Jimooyung: Telling Our Story," by Amy Lonetree	158

"RACE: Are We So Different?," by Jay M. Price	163

"Body Worlds 3," by Walton O. Schalick III	165

"David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture," by Sarah Seidman	171

Book Reviews


Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey	175

McCloud, Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies, by Paul Harvey	176

Rozario, The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America, by Ted Steinberg	176

Guyatt, Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876, by Mark D. McGarvie	177

Olmanson, The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior, by C. Elizabeth Raymond	178

Foster, ed., Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America, by John Ruston Pagan	179

Ekberg, Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country, by James Taylor Carson	180

Frank, Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier, by William L. Ramsey	181

Clark, Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834, by William Henry Foster	181

Augst and Carpenter, eds., Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States, by Donald G. Davis Jr.	182

Loughran, The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870, by Carl Ostrowski	183

Mercantini, Who Shall Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748–1776, by Peter N. Moore	184

Hulliung, The Social Contract in America: From the Revolution to the Present Age, by Philip Abbott	185

Riordan, Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic, by Matthew Rainbow Hale	186

Kluger, Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea, by J. Dane Hartgrove	187

Griffin, American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier, by Matthew C. Ward	187

Bouton, Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution, by David Waldstreicher	188

Fleming, The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival after Yorktown, by Lawrence S. Kaplan	189

Bowers, Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America, by Margaret C. Jacob	190

Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, by Jeffry H. Morrison	191

Brady and McCubbins, eds., Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, vol. 2: Further New Perspectives on the History of Congress, by Charles A. Kromkowski	192

Remini, The House: The History of the House of Representatives, by James T. Currie	193

Larson, A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign, by Todd Estes	193

Owens, Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy, by Clyde R. Ferguson	194

Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States, by Howard Bodenhorn	195

Eyal, The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828–1861, by Anthony Gronowicz	196

Chudacoff, Children at Play: An American History, by Joseph M. Hawes	197

Sheumaker, Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America, by C. Dallett Hemphill	197

Lundin, From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority, by Maurice S. Lee	198

McArthur, The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre, by Rosemarie K. Bank	199

Cook, Doña Tules: Sante Fe's Courtesan and Gambler, by Alison M. Parker	200

Thompson, Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas, by Carolina Castillo Crimm	201

Sidbury, Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic, by David N. Gellman	201

Sinha and Von Eschen, eds., Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History, by Alexander Tsesis	202

Altink, Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838, by Sarah N. Roth	203

Jones, All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830–1900, by Christie Anne Farnham	204

Hepburn, Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada, by Judith Wellman	205

Berry, "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia, by Cara Anzilotti	205

Meyer, Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America, by David A. Hounshell	206

Salstrom, From Pioneering to Persevering: Family Farming in Indiana to 1880, by James R. Shortridge	207

Cheathem, Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson, by John M. Sacher	208

Huston, Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality, by David Zarefsky	209

Kidwell, The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970, by Jack M. Schultz	209

Hoffer, To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891, by Charles W. Calhoun	210

Towers, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War, by Thomas N. Ingersoll	211

Klein, Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life, by Jonathan Daniel Wells	212

Niedermeier, Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist, by Susan Albertine	213

James, A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II, by Susanna Ashton	214

Cimbala and Shaw, eds., Making a New South: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War, by Andrew S. Moore	214

Davidson, "They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race, by Dayo F. Gore	215

Snay, Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction, by Thomas Adams Upchurch	216

Foglesong, The American Mission and the "Evil Empire": The Crusade for a "Free Russia" since 1881, by Edward M. Bennett	217

Palmer, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890–1928, by Jeffrey W. Coker	218

Jeffreys-Jones, The FBI: A History, by John Noakes	219

Hohenstein, Coining Corruption: The Making of the American Campaign Finance System, by Michael J. Malbin	219

Ziegler, Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global System, by Kristin Hoganson	220

Vileisis, Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back, by Jessamyn Neuhaus	221

Bonner, William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows, by Lawrence R. Borne	222

Smith, Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular, by Raymond Knapp	223

Barkan, From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s–1952, by Allison Varzally	223

Nemanic, One Day for Democracy: Independence Day and the Americanization of Iron Range Immigrants, by Adam Walaszek	224

Skok, More than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago, 1893–1930, by James J. Divita	225

Saito, From Chinese Exclusion to Guantánamo Bay: Plenary Power and the Prerogative State, by Annette Gordon-Reed	226

Fowler, Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919–1933, by Allan W. Austin	227

Joiner, Sin in the City: Chicago and Revivalism, 1880–1920, by Margaret Bendroth	228

Setran, The College "Y": Student Religion in the Era of Secularization, by W. Bruce Leslie	229

Westhoff, A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform, by Thomas J. Jablonsky	230

Pettegrew, Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890–1920, by Martin A. Berger	230

Parezo and Fowler, Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, by John E. Findling	231

Borg, Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America, by Andrew E. Kersten	232

Alder, The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession, by Susanna Blumenthal	233

Dagbovie, The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene, by Stephanie Y. Evans	234

Blum, W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet, by J. M. Floyd-Thomas	235

Freund, Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America, by Andrew Wiese	236

Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography, by Kate A. Baldwin	237

Goeser, Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity, by John Louis Lucaites	237

Blair, Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century, by Katharine Capshaw Smith	238

Butler, Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World, by Cynthia Taylor	239

Sartain, Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915–1945, by Christina R. Greene	240

Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism, by Lloyd E. Ambrosius	241

Wüstenbecker, Deutsch-Amerikaner im Ersten Weltkrieg: US-Politik und nationale Identitäten im Mittleren Westen (German Americans in World War I: U.S. politics and national identities in the Midwest), by Dorothee Schneider	242

Cole, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia, by Richard A. Greenwald	243

Mann, Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West, by Daniel Cornford	244

Geiger, Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination, by Anne L. Foster	244

Ketchell, Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri, by Tona J. Hangen	245

Smulyan, Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-century, by Ian Gordon	246

Rodgers, Mencken: The American Iconoclast, by George H. Douglas	247

Cordery, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker, by Louise Wilby Knight	248

Murray, Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds, by Edmund F. Wehrle	249

Lorence, A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West, by Brian Birdnow	250

Mitchell, Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism, by Edward A. Purcell Jr.	250

Smith, FDR, by Glen Jeansonne	251

Kiewe, FDR's First Fireside Chat: Public Confidence and the Banking Crisis, by Russell D. Buhite	252

Maher, Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement, by Chad Montrie	253

Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal, by Lynne Heasley	254

Clifford and Clifford, "The Troubled Roar of the Waters": Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927–1931, by Uwe Luebken	255

Tierney, FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle That Divided America, by Howard Jablon	255

Muller, American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II, by Brian Masaru Hayashi	256

Lees, Yugoslav-Americans and National Security during World War II, by June Granatir Alexander	257

Lorenz-Meyer, Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad, by Norman J. W. Goda	258

Spector, In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia, by Rudolf V. A. Janssens	259

Matsuda, Soft Power and Its Perils: U.S. Cultural Policy in Early Postwar Japan and Permanent Dependency, by Steven I. Levine	260

Gallicchio, ed., The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.–East Asian Relations, by Andrew J. Huebner	260

Kaplan, NATO 1948: The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance, by Meena Bose	261

Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, by Joseph M. Siracusa	262

Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, by David C. Engerman	263

Rhodes, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, by David F. Krugler	264

Pursell, Technology in Postwar America: A History, by Margaret Pugh O'Mara	265

Alwood, Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press, by Thomas Doherty	265

Nichols, A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution, by Jack M. Bloom	266

Minchin, From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South, by Karen Miller	267

Brazinsky, Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy, by Mitchell Lerner	268

Taffet, Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America, by W. Michael Weis	269

Lipsitz, Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music, by Michael T. Bertrand	269

Kalinak, How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford; and Self, Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West, by Gerald R. Butters Jr.	270

Kells, Héctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights, by Mario T. García	272

Donaldson, The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960, by Thomas J. Carty	272

Frederick, Stand Up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace, by Randy Sanders	273

Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History, by Godfrey Hodgson	274

Lazerow and Williams, eds., In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement, by Gregg L. Michel	275

Mumford, Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America, by Gregory Mixon	276

Poyo, Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960–1980: Exile and Integration, by Michelle A. Gonzalez	277

Miroff, The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party, by Jonathan Schoenwald	278

Talbott, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation, by Peter N. Stearns	279

Levander and Levine, eds., Hemispheric American Studies, by Eric Hershberg	279

Movie Reviews


The War, by Richard B. Frank	281

Redacted, by Susan Carruthers	284

I'm Not There, by Benedict Giamo	285

Charlie Wilson's War, by Alan Nadel	286

September Dawn, by Tona J. Hangen	288

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, by Fred Turner	288

In the Shadow of the Moon, by James I. Deutsch	290

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, by Robert Ernest Miller	291

Oswald's Ghost, by Alexander Bloom	291

Sister Aimee: Saint or Sinner?, by Betty A. DeBerg	293

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place, by Daniel C. Morris	294

Web Site Reviews


The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition; and George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741–1799, by Susan Holbrook Perdue	296

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I: 1760–1900, by Ellen Holmes Pearson	298

U.S. Historical Census Browser, by Clara E. Rodriguez	298

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904, by Julie Kimmel	299

Prelinger Archives, by Ilana Nash	300


Announcements	302

Recent Scholarship	304

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