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Title Page and Notice i
Journal Staff ii
Previews 12



Articles


Mobilizing Women, Anticipating Abolition: The Struggle against Indian Removal
in the 1830s
Mary Hershberger 15

Immigrants, Labor Markets, and the State, a Comparative Approach:
France and the United States, 1880-1930
Catherine Collomp 41

The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law:
A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924
Mae M. Ngai 67



Round Table: Alternatives to the Party System in the "Party Period," 1830-1890


The "Party Period" Revisited
Ronald P. Formisano 93

The "Third Party Tradition" Reconsidered: Third Parties and American Public Life, 1830-1900
Mark Voss-Hubbard 121

The Primacy of Party Reasserted
Michael F. Holt 151

The Midlife Crisis of the New Political History
Paula Baker 158



Exhibition Reviews


"1811—Year of Wonders in Mississippi Territory," by John D. W. Guice 167

"Amistad: A True Story of Freedom," by Susan D. Pennybacker 170

"Thomas Moran" and "New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian & American Landscapes," by Kenneth Myers 173

"America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War," by David A. Zonderman 179

Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum, by Curtis Miner 182

"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present," by Richard Stott 186

"Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn," by DeAnna Beachley 191



Book Reviews


Keegan, Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order; and Marx, Making Race and Nation, by Bill Nasson 195

Traxel, 1898, by Alan Trachtenberg 197

Dallek, Flawed Giant, by Gil Troy 198

Harlan, The Degradation of American History, by Casey N. Blake 200

McCullagh, The Truth of History, by Wilfred M. McClay 201

Prince, Wetlands of the American Midwest, by Michael C. Steiner 202

McCay, Oyster Wars and the Public Trust, by John R. Wennersten 203

Mergen, Snow in America, by Frieda Knobloch 203

Magnaghi, Indian Slavery, Labor, Evangelization, and Captivity in the Americas, by Michael C. Coleman 204

Johansen, ed., The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition, by Vine Deloria Jr. 205

Swift, Religion and the American Experience; Stout and Hart, eds., New Directions in American Religious History; and Conser and Twiss, eds., Religious Diversity and American Religious History, by Alexis McCrossen 206

Critchlow and Parker, eds., With Us Always, by Susan Grigg 208

Danky and Wiegand, eds., Print Culture in a Diverse America, by Leon Jackson 209

Catanese, Women's History, by Nancy Page Fernandez 210

Coryell et al., eds., Beyond Image and Convention, by Victoria E. Bynum 211

Strong, The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island from Earliest Times to 1700, by Daniel R. Mandell 212

Morris, El Llano Estacado, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa 213

Landsman, From Colonials to Provincials, by Jack P. Greene 214

Perkins, Border Life, by Brendan McConville 215

Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks; and Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, by Winthrop D. Jordan 215

Olwell, Masters, Slaves, & Subjects, by Christopher Morris 217

Murray, ed., To Do Good to My Indian Brethren, by J. R. Miller 218

Fenton, The Great Law and the Longhouse, by Olive Patricia Dickason 219

Griffin and Grinde, Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy, by Laurence M. Hauptman 220

Ackerman, We the People, vol. 2: Transformations, by Kermit L. Hall 221

Kann, A Republic of Men, by Mary Beth Norton 221

McNamara, Political Economy and Statesmanship; and Gordon, Hamilton's Blessing,
by Cathy Matson
222

Huston, Securing the Fruits of Labor, by Lawrence B. Glickman 224

Melton, The First Impeachment, by R. B. Bernstein 225

Abbot, ed., The Papers of George Washington: Retirement Series, vol. I: March-December 1797, by Gene A. Smith 225

Wilson, United Irishmen, United States, by Martin J. Burke 226

Wigger, Taking Heaven by Storm, by E. Brooks Holifield 227

Porterfield, Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries, by Susan M. Yohn 228

Lundin, Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief, by Martha Ackmann 229

Welch, The Book of Nature, by Wayne Franklin 230

Haller, Kindly Medicine, by Michael G. Kenny 231

Warner, Against the Spirit of System, by Howard I. Kushner 231

Crisman and Cohn, When Horses Walked on Water, by Susan D. Jones 232

Francaviglia, From Sail to Steam, by Kevin J. Crisman 233

Ratner, Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants; and Heidler and Heidler, Old Hickory's War, by Lawrence Frederick Kohl 234

Rowland, Moore, and Rogers, The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, vol. 1: 1514-1861; and Kibler, Our Fathers' Fields, by Laylon Wayne Jordan 235

Bleser, ed., Tokens of Affection; Carter, ed., The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848-1879; and Baer, ed., Shadows on My Heart, by Marli F. Weiner 237

Ambrose, Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South, by Susan-Mary Grant 239

Trotter, River Jordan, by Kenneth L. Kusmer 240

McCormick and McCormick, New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier, by Tamara G. Miller 241

Melish, Disowning Slavery, by Walter Johnson 242

Lampe, Frederick Douglass, by John Louis Lucaites 242

Von Frank, The Trials of Anthony Burns, by Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven 243

Grimsted, American Mobbing, 1828-1861, by Leonard L. Richards 244

Ohrt, Defiant Peacemaker, by Ana R. Suárez 245

Parrish, Frank Blair, by Hans L. Trefousse 246

Wilson, Honor's Voice, by Allen C. Guelzo 247

Belz, Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era, by Roberta Sue Alexander 247

Harsh, Confederate Tide Rising; and Tap, Over Lincoln's Shoulder, by Daniel E. Sutherland 248

Kenzer, Enterprising Southerners, by Juliet E. K. Walker 250

Walker, The History of Black Business in America, by John N. Ingham 251

Barnes, Who Killed John Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893, by George B. Tindall 252

Simon, A Fabric of Defeat, by Robert H. Zieger 252

Haydu, Making American Industry Safe for Democracy, by Christopher Tomlins 253

Stid, The President as Statesman, by Michal R. Belknap 254

Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment, by Joyce S. Goldberg 255

Reti, Silver and Gold, by Alfred E. Eckes 256

Mehrling, The Money Interest and the Public Interest, by Elmus Wicker 257

Pugach, Same Bed, Different Dreams, by David K. Linnan 258

West, The Contested Plains, by William H. Goetzmann 259

Osburn, Southern Ute Women, by Clara Sue Kidwell 259

Bracken, The Potlatch Papers, by Leland Donald 260

Bogue, Frederick Jackson Turner, by Judith A. Allen 261

Morrissey, Mental Territories, by Steven Hoelscher 262

Rajala, Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest, by Char Miller 263

Sellars, Preserving Nature in the National Parks, by Robin W. Winks 264

Boessenecker, Lawman, by Kenneth N. Owens 264

Tanner, Doc Holliday, by Richard Hogan 265

Kenny, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires, by David Montgomery 266

Juliani, Building Little Italy, by Salvatore J. LaGumina 267

Janssen, Vom Zarenreich in den amerikanischen Westen: Deutsche in Rubland und Rublanddeutsche in den USA (1871-1928) (From the tsar's empire to the American West: Germans in Russia and Russian Germans in the usa [1871-1928]), by Frederik Ohles 268

García, Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932, by Abraham Hoffman 269

Wong and Chan, eds., Claiming America, by Xiaolan Bao 269

Bredbenner, A Nationality of Her Own, by Norma Basch 270

Laas, Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century, by Megan McClintock 271

Goldsmith, Other Powers, by Ann Braude 272

Terborg-Penn, African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920,
by Jane Rhodes
273

DuBois, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage, by Maurine W. Greenwald 273

Waugh, Unsentimental Reformer, by Julia Grant 274

Brown and McKeown, The Poor Belong to Us; and Hasci, Second Home, by Susan L. Porter 275

Reese, ed., Hoosier Schools, by Carol K. Coburn 277

Bronner, Following Tradition; and Gorn, ed., The McGuffey Readers, by Karal Ann Marling 278

Grant, Raising Baby by the Book, by Molly Ladd-Taylor 279

Wallach, Exhibiting Contradiction, by Victoria Alexander 280

Alexander, The Museum in America, by Christine Kleinegger 281

Wickberg, The Senses of Humor, by Peter N. Stearns 282

Cooper, The American Marathon, by Murray Sperber 283

Gabaccia, We Are What We Eat, by Susan Levine 284

Peiss, Hope in a Jar, by Angel Kwolek-Folland 284

Bogart, Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art; and Johnston, Real Fantasies, by Pamela Walker Laird 285

Bukowski, Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image, by Jon C. Teaford 287

Miner, Harvesting the High Plains, by Charles Coate 288

Browder, Rousing the Nation, by Colette A. Hyman 288

Kaufman, Cardozo, by Robert Jerome Glennon 289

Mettler, Dividing Citizens, by Cynthia Harrison 290

Steedman, Angels of the Workplace, by Eileen Boris 291

Parr, A Will of Her Own, by Elizabeth York Enstam 292

Ueyama and Sakata, eds., Tariritsu to dakyo (Conflicts and compromises), by Fred Dickinson 292

Eiler, Mobilizing America, by Benjamin L. Alpers 293

Spinney, World War II in Nashville, by James A. Burran 294

Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers; and Linderman, The World within War, by Eric T. Dean Jr. 295

Taaffe, MacArthur's Jungle War, by Richard Meixsel 296

Dingman, Ghost of War, by Timothy Maga 297

Serber and Crease, Peace & War; and Udall, The Myths of August, by Lawrence S. Wittner 298

Hunter, ed., Rethinking the Cold War; and Trubowitz, Defining the National Interest, by Walter L. Hixson 299

Perlmutter, Making the World Safe for Democracy, by David Steigerwald 301

Pommerin and Frölich, eds., Quellen zu den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, 1917-1963 (Documents on German-American relations, 1917-1963), by Manfred Jonas 302

Goode, The United States and Iran, by Fiona Venn 302

Theoharis, ed., A Culture of Secrecy, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 303

Boone, Libidinal Currents, by David Van Leer 304

Gurstein, The Repeal of Reticence, by Jessica Weiss 305

Belgrad, The Culture of Spontaneity, by Michael Leja 306

West, William Styron, a Life, by Richard Gray 306

Gilmore, Harry Partch, by John Dizikes 307

DjeDje and Meadows, eds., California Soul, by Waldo E. Martin Jr. 308

Franklin and Franklin, eds., My Life and an Era, by Gregory Mixon 309

Halberstam, The Children, by Stewart Burns 310

Stolberg, Bridging the River of Hatred; and Dickerson, Militant Mediator, by Richard J. Meister 310

Bauman and Kalin, eds., The Quiet Voices; and Salzman and West, eds., Struggles in the Promised Land, by Frederick M. Binder 312

McKnight, The Last Crusade, by Adam Fairclough 314

Gardner and Gittinger, eds., Vietnam; and Olson and Roberts, My Lai, by Dennis Mills 315

Sorley, Honorable Warrior, by William Head 316

Castañeda, Compañero, trans. by Castañeda; and Ryan, The Fall of Che Guevara, by Rafael Hernandez and Juan Marinello 317

Doyle, A Prisoner's Duty, by Frank L. Byrne 319

Garton, The Cost of War, by Robert J. McMahon 319

Hillstrom and Hillstrom, The Vietnam Experience, by Sumiko Higashi 320

Beattie, The Scar That Binds, by Anne L. Foster 321

Bundy, A Tangled Web, by Melvin Small 322

Nelson, Who Speaks for the President?; and Walch, ed., At the President's Side, by Robert Maranto 323

Clarke, The Lineaments of Wrath, by Claire Potter 324

Donaldson, Abundance and Anxiety; and Dowd, Blues for America, by Michael L. Kurtz 325

Hays, Explorations in Environmental History, by John T. Cumbler 327

Whitnah, U.S. Department of Transportation, by Bruce E. Seely 328

Fulton, The Reluctant Metropolis, by Greg Hise 329

Baldassare, When Government Fails, by Sidney Plotkin 330

Fink, Cutting into the Meatpacking Line, by Susan Porter Benson 331

Eisenberg, We'll Call You If We Need You, by Ileen A. DeVault 331

Farrell, Yours in Sisterhood, by Carol Polsgrove 332

Rollins and O'Connor, eds., Hollywood's Indian, by R. David Edmunds 333

García, The Making of a Mexican American Mayor, by Rodolfo F. Acuña 334

Suro, Strangers among Us, by Neil Foley 335

Erdmans, Opposite Poles, by Dominic Pacyga 335

Wolfe, One Nation, after All, by Allen Hunter 336

Mink, Welfare's End, by Suzanne Mettler 337

Shiell, Campus Hate Speech on Trial, by David M. Rabban 338




Letters to the Editor 340
Announcements 346
Recent Scholarship 347

On the cover:The spirit of independent nonpartisanship rises from the mire of major party corruption and dead campaign issues (c. 1883). ©Collection of the New-York Historical Society. See Mark Voss-Hubbard, "The 'Third Party Tradition' Reconsidered: Third Parties and American Public Life, 1830-1900," p. 121.


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