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The Nation and Beyond




A Special Issue


The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History
David Thelen 965



Envisioning Transnational History


The Nationalization of Nature
Richard White 976

Clio in Words and in Motion: Practices of Narrating the Past
Bruno Ramirez 987



Ways of Writing Transnational History


Making Nations/Making States: American Historians in the Context of Empire
Ian Tyrrell 1015

"But a Local Phase of a World Problem": Black History's Global Vision
Robin D. G. Kelley 1045

Transnationalizing American Labor History
Marcel van der Linden 1078

Writing Atlantic History; or, Reconfiguring the History of Colonial British America
Nicholas Canny 1093

Is Everywhere Nowhere? Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm of United States History
Donna R. Gabaccia 1115



Transformations across Borders


America and the European Sense of History
Rob Kroes 1135

Stereophonic Scientific Modernisms: Social Science between Mexico and the United States, 1880s-1940s
Mauricio Tenorio Trillo 1156

Le Melting-Pot: Made in America, Produced in France
Nancy L. Green 1188

Frontier Myths and Their Applications in America and Israel: A Transnational Perspective
S. Ilan Troen 1209

The Emergence of Human Rights Politics in the United States
Kenneth Cmiel 1231



Revisiting the United States as a Nation-State


In the Nation's Image: The Gendered Limits of Social Citizenship in the Depression Era
Alice Kessler-Harris 1251

Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism
Gary Gerstle 1280



Book Reviews


Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies, by Candice Bredbenner 1308

Rothman, Devil's Bargains, by Susan G. Davis 1309

Marwick, The Sixties, by Van Gosse 1311

Grafton, The Footnote, by Pamela H. Smith 1312

Elphick and Davenport, eds., Christianity in South Africa, by Barbara Bair 1313

Miller, An Environmental History of Northeast Florida, by Joseph Siry 1314

Carlson, The Plains Indians, by Loretta Fowler 1315

Kierner, Beyond the Household; and Gillespie and Clinton, eds., Taking Off the White Gloves, by Christie Anne Farnham 1316

Zuckerman, A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995, by Leigh Ann Wheeler 1317

Conway, When Memory Speaks, by Joyce Antler 1318

Heffer, Les Etats-Unis et le Pacifique (The United States and the Pacific), by David A. Chappell 1319

Seelye, Memory's Nation, by Jim Cullen 1320

Krakau, ed., The American Nation, National Identity, Nationalism, by Robert Bonner 1321

Schudson, The Good Citizen, by Thomas C. Leonard 1322

Kloppenberg, The Virtues of Liberalism, by Joyce Appleby 1323

Miller, Invested with Meaning, by William H. Sherman 1324

Reis, Damned Women, by Ruth Bloch 1325

Allen, The Invention of the White Race, vol. 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America, by Marvin L. Michael Kay 1326

Faber, Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade; and Friedman, Jews and the American Slave Trade, by Joseph C. Miller 1327

Nichols, Indians in the United States and Canada, by Thomas S. Abler 1328

Usner, American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley, by Joel W. Martin 1329

Clark, The Meetinghouse Tragedy, by Randolph Roth 1329

Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims, by Susan Juster 1330

Marshall, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century, by T. H. Breen 1331

Randall, George Washington, by John Ferling 1332

Elazar, Covenant & Constitutionalism, by John Brigham 1333

Lewis, The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood, by Frank Lawrence Owsley Jr. 1334

Davis, Frontier Illinois, by Andrew R. L. Cayton 1335

Fitzmier, New England's Moral Legislator, by Bradley J. Longfield 1336

Field, The Crisis of the Standing Order, by Jonathan D. Sassi 1336

Sutton, Journeymen for Jesus, by David A. Zonderman 1337

Long, The Revival of 1857-58, by Anne M. Boylan 1338

Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America, by Nancy F. Cott 1339

Walsh, Midnight Dreary, by Ed Hatton 1340

Goodman, Of One Blood, by Bruce Levine 1341

Weisenburger, Modern Medea, by Peter W. Bardaglio 1341

Rhodehamel and Taper, eds., "Right or Wrong, God Judge Me"; and Goodrich, War to the Knife, by Robert E. McGlone 1342

Jenkins, Seizing the New Day; and Cecelski and Tyson, eds., Democracy Betrayed, by Gail Williams O'Brien 1344

Kantor, Politics and Property Rights, by Jonathan M. Bryant 1345

Collins, Warpath and Cattle Trail, ed. Savage and Lazalier; and Haywood, The Merchant Prince of Dodge City, by Peter Iverson 1346

Anderson, All-American Anarchist, by Stanley Shapiro 1348

Tucker, Mugwumps, by Brooks D. Simpson 1348

Shepherd and Shepherd, Mormon Passage; and Walker, Wayward Saints, by Mario S. De Pillis 1349

Parker, The Kingdom of Character, by Jacob H. Dorn 1350

Davidann, A World of Crisis and Progress, by Roberta Wollons 1351

Nutt, The Whole Gospel for the Whole World, by Jill K. Gill 1352

Numbers, Darwinism Comes to America, by David J. Depew 1353

Silverberg, ed., Gender and American Social Science, by Margo Anderson 1354

Mizruchi, The Science of Sacrifice, by John Pettegrew 1355

Carby, Race Men, by Julia E. Liss 1356

Posnock, Color & Culture, by Kevin Mumford 1357

Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color; and Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, by David W. Stowe 1358

Hendricks, Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest, by Joan Marie Johnson 1359

Adickes, To Be Young Was Very Heaven, by Suzanne Wasserman 1360

Rockaway, Words of the Uprooted; and Green, ed., Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora, by Gerald Sorin 1361

Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, by Jeanette M. Toohey 1363

Conn, Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926, by Christopher Clarke-Hazlett 1364

Laird, Advertising Progress, by Daniel Horowitz 1364

Gordon, Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945, by Mary W. Blanchard 1365

McClellan, The Sunday Game; and Riess, ed., Sports and the American Jew, by Lawrence E. Ziewacz 1366

Stebbins, All the News Is Fit to Print, by Sally F. Griffith 1368

Sitton and Conrad, Nameless Towns, by Steven A. Reich 1368

Davies, Main Street Blues, by John E. Hallwas 1369

Brigham, Empowering the West, by David E. Nye 1370

Hammack, ed., Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States; and Durden, Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas, by Judith Sealander 1371

O'Brien, Workers' Paradox, by Howell John Harris 1372

Woeste, The Farmer's Benevolent Trust, by Catherine McNicol Stock 1373

Fried, The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire, by Warren J. Samuels 1374

Burton, Taft, Holmes, and the 1920s Court; and Semonche, Keeping the Faith, by Melvin I. Urofsky 1375

Hyman, Craftsmanship and Character, by Wayne K. Hobson 1376

Davis, Dark Side of Fortune, by Richard Harris 1377

Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, by David E. Hamilton 1378

Campbell, Short of the Glory, by Lewis L. Gould 1379

Butler, Cautious Visionary, by Thomas W. Zeiler 1379

Naremore, More Than Night, by Nancy West 1380

Hahn, Umerziehung durch Dokumentarfilm? (Reeducation through documentary film?), by Klaus Larres 1381

Kochavi, Prelude to Nuremberg, by Henry L. Feingold 1382

Murphy, Kondrashev, and Bailey, Battleground Berlin, by Manfred Berg 1383

Christman, Target Hiroshima, by J. Samuel Walker 1383

Hogan, A Cross of Iron, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 1384

Moynihan, Secrecy; and Johnson, Secret Agencies, by Jonathan Marshall 1385

Persson, Great Britain, the United States, and the Security of the Middle East, by Nur Bilge Criss 1386

Hart, Forged Consensus; and Wang, American Science in an Age of Anxiety, by Daniel Lee Kleinman 1387

Lakoff, Max Lerner, by Paul V. Murphy 1389

Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique, by Nancy Gabin 1389

Lynch, Selling Catholicism, by Eileen McMahon 1390

Wuthnow, After Heaven, by Peter W. Williams 1391

Williams, Thurgood Marshall; and Roche, Restructured Resistance, by Leland Ware 1392

Anderson, Bayard Rustin, by Gerald C. Horne 1393

Kohn, We Had a Dream, by Martha Hodes 1394

Friedland, Lift Up Your Voice like a Trumpet, by Mark Hulsether 1395

Tomes, Apocalypse Then, by Juan José Cruz 1396

Frank, The Conquest of Cool, by Ian Gordon 1396

Bernardi, Star Trek and History, by Daniel J. Leab 1397

Sanders, The Private Death of Public Discourse, by Christopher Phelps 1398

Escoffier, American Homo; and McGarry and Wasserman, Becoming Visible, by John Howard 1399

Joseph, LeGrand, and Salvatore, eds., Close Encounters of Empire, by Lorenzo Delgado 1400

White, ed., Kennedy; and Rabe, The Most Dangerous Area in the World, by Timothy Maga 1402

Bill, George Ball, by David L. Anderson 1403

Alterman, Who Speaks for America?, by Joseph M. Siracusa 1404

Speel, Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States, by Stefano Luconi 1405

Schuparra, Triumph of the Right, by Mary C. Brennan 1405

Fink and Graham, eds., The Carter Presidency; and Hargrove, The President as Leader, by John Dumbrell 1406

Palley, Plenty of Nothing; and Barker and Christensen, eds., Contingent Work, by Judith Stein 1408

Horwitz, Hog Ties, by Steven Stoll 1409



Movie Reviews


Great American Speeches, by Stephen Lucas 1411

Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, by Herbert Aptheker 1412

A Midwife's Tale, by Charlotte G. Borst 1413

Liberty! The American Revolution, by Joanne Freeman 1415

Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, by Harry W. Fritz 1417

Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, by Dennis Reinhartz 1417

The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848, by Joseph G. Dawson III 1419

The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848, by James M. McCaffrey 1420

Rebel Hearts: Sarah & Angelina Grimké and the Anti-Slavery Movement, by Wendy Hamand Venet 1421

The Irish in America: The Long Journey Home; and May the Road Rise to Meet You: The Irish-American Experience, by Janet Nolan 1422

America's Victoria: The Victoria Woodhull Story, by Ann D. Gordon 1423

Destiny of Empires: The Spanish-American War of 1898, by John M. Dobson 1424

America 1900, by Roy Rosenzweig 1425

Alone on Ice: The Story of Admiral Richard Byrd, by Morgan Sherwood 1426

Rescue at Sea, by Paul B. Israel 1427

From Danger to Dignity: The Fight for Safe Abortion, by Amy Kesselman 1428

The Thin Red Line, by Allan R. Millett 1429

George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman, by R. Alton Lee 1431

General Douglas MacArthur, by Stanley L. Falk 1432

The G.I. Bill: The Law That Changed America, by Rupert Wilkinson 1433

Race for the Superbomb, by Lawrence Badash 1434

Roy Cohn: Joseph McCarthy's Right-Hand Man, by T. Michael Ruddy 1435

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man and the Dream, by Thomas J. Davis 1437

Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1959, by Johanna Miller Lewis 1437

The Bay of Pigs, by Keith Eubank 1439

The 1960s; and A Walk on the Moon, by Bob Miller 1439

Dick, by Scott A. Sandage 1441

Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins, by Robert Freeman Smith 1443

Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire, by Alan Raucher 1445

Jimmy Carter: To the White House and Beyond, by E. Stanly Godbold Jr. 1446

Summer of Sam, by Beth Bailey and David Farber 1447



Letters to the Editor 1449

Announcements 1454

Recent Scholarship 1455





On the cover:In New York City in 1880, a coalition of radical labor groups commemorates the ninth anniversary of the Paris Commune. Courtesy Collection International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. See Marcel van der Linden, "Transnationalizing American Labor History," p. 1078.


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