| Previews | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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In the essay that won the 2008 Louis Pelzer Award, Sarah Keyes brings a fresh perspective to the story of the Overland Trail by analyzing how sound shaped Native Americans' and Euro-Americans' trail experiences and understandings of the trail's significance. In diaries and memoirs, Euro-Americans portrayed the sounds they made as having the power to subdue the savage wilds and to help transform the West into American territory. Whereas the established narrative of the Overland Trail has downplayed violence between natives and Euro-Americans, overlanders' depiction of sonic assaults encourages us to reconsider the violence perpetrated by the wagon trains. The sonic component of the trail experience also qualifies historians' argument that in recent centuries hearing has lost influence to seeing by demonstrating the continued importance of sound in post-Enlightenment Euro-American culture.

As the stock market roils and the recession deepens, Americans agonize over their financial futures and policy makers struggle to shore up teetering financial institutions. How did stock market investment—once perceived as disreputable and dangerous—become a mass practice? How did financial markets and institutions—broadly understood as marginal at the beginning of the twentieth century—come to be seen as the foundation of American capitalism? . . .

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