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Title Page and Notice

Journal Staff

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Presidential Address


"The Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun"
William H. Chafe 1531



Articles


Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst
Elizabeth A. Fenn 1552

Bible Reading and Nonsectarian Schooling: The Failure of Religious Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Public Education
R. Laurence Moore 1581

The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River
Linda Nash 1600



On the Borderland of Ethnicity and Race
A Round Table


On the Borderland of Ethnicity and Race: An Introduction
David Paul Nord 1630

The Problem of Biculturalism: Japanese American Identity and Festival before World War II
Lon Kurashige 1632

In the Twilight Zone between Black and White: Japanese American Resettlement and Community in Chicago, 1942-1945
Charlotte Brooks 1655



Textbooks and Teaching


Introduction
Peter Filene and Peter Wood 1688

At Loose Ends: Twentieth-Century Latinos in Current United States History Textbooks
Joseph A. Rodríguez and Vicki L. Ruiz 1689

A Novel Approach: Using Fiction by African American Women to Teach Black Women's History
Beverly A. Bunch-Lyons 1700

What Happened in the Rainier Grand's Lobby? A Question of Sources
Char Miller 1709

Teaching Gender History to Secondary School Students
Kathleen M. Dalton and E. Anthony Rotundo 1715

AIDS and American History: Four Perspectives on Experiential Learning
Douglas Bailey, Gabby DeVinny, Carre Gordon, and Paul John Schadewald 1721



Book Reviews


Samuel, ed. by Light, Alexander, and Jones, Theatres of Memory, vol. 2: Island Stories, by Kenneth Lunn 1734

Berlin, Many Thousands Gone, by Steven Mintz 1735

Halttunen, Murder Most Foul, by Hendrik Hartog 1737

Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, by Michael A. Morrison 1738

McPherson and Cooper, eds., Writing the Civil War; Blair, Virginia's Private War; Davis, Lincoln's Men; and Alberts, The Battle of Glorieta, by J. Matthew Gallman 1740

Foley, The White Scourge, by Tomas Almaguer 1743

Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes, by Stephen J. Whitfield 1745

Thornton, Handwriting in America, by Anne Ruggles Gere 1746

Katkin, Landsman, and Tyree, eds., Beyond Pluralism, by Ferdinando Fasce 1747

Galloway, ed., The Hernando de Soto Expedition, by Robert L. Gold 1748

Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord, by Patricia Galloway 1749

Starkey, European and Native American Warfare, 1675-1815, by Paul A. C. Koistinen 1750

Rostkowski, La conversion inachevée (The incomplete conversion), by Luca Codignola 1751

Harmon, Indians in the Making, by Jack Campisi 1752

Diouf, Servants of Allah, by Andrew F. Clark 1752

Rabb, Jacobean Gentleman, by Richard Middleton 1753

Baker and Reid, The New England Knight, by Stephen Saunders Webb 1754

Chai, Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy, by Christopher Grasso 1755

Crass et al., eds., The Southern Colonial Backcountry, by Johanna Miller Lewis 1756

Babits, A Devil of a Whipping; and Phillips, The Cousins' Wars, by Keith Mason 1757

Breunig, Die Amerkanische Revolution als Bürgerkrieg (The American Revolution as civil war), by Marvin L. Brown Jr. 1758

Thompson, John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty, by Michael P. Zuckert 1759

Triber, A True Republican, by John W. Tyler 1760

Unger, Noah Webster, by Robert E. Shalhope 1761

Rogow, A Fatal Friendship, by Simon P. Newman 1761

Tarr, Understanding State Constitutions, by John Dinan 1762

Tise, The American Counterrevolution, by Gordon S. Wood 1763

Liebersohn, Aristocratic Encounters, by June Namias 1764

Scheckel, The Insistence of the Indian, by Vine Deloria Jr. 1765

Burnham, Captivity & Sentiment, by Shirley Samuels 1765

Stern, The Plight of Feeling, by Laura H. Korobkin 1766

Korobkin, Criminal Conversations, by Michael Grossberg 1767

Payne, The Self and the Sacred, by Stephen Marini 1768

Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810, by Beth Barton Schweiger 1769

Haynes, Divine Destiny, by Mark S. Schantz 1770

Clark, New England in U.S. Government Publications, 1789-1849, by Joanne D. Chaison 1771

Skeen, Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812, by George W. Geib 1772

Wilmeth and Bigsby, eds., The Cambridge History of American Theatre, vol. 1: Beginnings to 1870, by Kim Marra 1772

Woolverton, The Education of Phillips Brooks, by Daniel Walker Howe 1773

Ronda, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, by Anne C. Rose 1774

Kolmerten, The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, by Sylvia D. Hoffert 1775

Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism; and Rhodes, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, by Carol Lasser 1776

Broussard, African-American Odyssey, by Lynn Hudson 1777

Gribben, ed., The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America, by Matthew Frye Jacobson 1778

Roux-Westers, Sur les traces de l'éléphant (On the trail of the elephant), by Jane Weiss 1779

Suárez Argüello, coord., Pragmatismo y principios (Pragmatism and principles); and Zoraida Vázquez, coord., México al tiempo de su guerra con Estados Unidos (1846-1848) (Mexico at the time of its war with the United States [1846-1848]), by David M. Pletcher 1780

Terrazas Basante, En busca de una nueva frontera (In search of a new frontier); Gayón Córdova, comp., La ocupación yanqui de la ciudad de México, 1847-1848 (The Yankee occupation of Mexico City, 1847-1848); and Frazier, ed., The United States and Mexico at War, by Andrés Reséndez 1781

Palmer and Ochoa, eds., The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, vol. 1: January 1814-March 1865, by James K. Hogue 1783

Hollandsworth, Pretense of Glory; and Newton, Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond, by John F. Marszalek 1784

Williams, Rich Man's War, by Stephen V. Ash 1786

Marquis, In Armageddon's Shadow, by Eugene H. Berwanger 1786

Clodfelter, The Dakota War; and Wakefield and Namias, eds., Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees, by Daniele Fiorentino 1787

Rehnquist, All the Laws but One, by Mark E. Neely 1789

Harrell, When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln, by William Hanchett 1789

Finzsch and Martschukat, eds., Different Restorations, by Shearer Davis Bowman 1790

Mayers, Wars and Peace; and Brands, What America Owes the World, by Robert D. Schulzinger 1791

O'Leary, To Die For, by Karal Ann Marling 1792

Blevins, Cattle in the Cotton Fields, by Nicolas Proctor 1793

Seavoy, The American Peasantry, by Jack Temple Kirby 1793

Alston and Ferrie, Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State, by Roger Biles 1794

Hoffschwelle, Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community, by William A. Link 1795

Reese, Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920, by Catherine J. Lavender 1796

Gyory, Closing the Gate, by Jonathan M. Chu 1797

Patterson, Butch Cassidy, by Michael A. Bellesiles 1798

Avery, From Mission to Madness, by Norman H. Murdoch 1798

Trennert, White Man's Medicine, by W. David Baird 1799

Rogers, An Alternative Path, by Charlotte G. Borst 1800

Elkind, Bay Cities and Water Politics, by Ken Cruikshank 1801

Best, Controlling Vice, by Mariana Valverde 1802

Pegram, Battling Demon Rum; and Vyhnanek, Unorganized Crime, by Joel Best 1803

Macleod, The Age of the Child, by Ruth Wallis Herndon 1804

Rose, A Mother's Job; and Michel, Children's Interests/Mothers' Right, by Jane Lewis 1805

Sander, The Business of Charity, by Ruth Crocker 1806

Blackwelder, Now Hiring, by Claudia Clark 1807

Arnesen, Greene, and Laurie, eds., Labor Histories; and Winslow, ed., Waterfront Workers, by Walter Licht 1808

Magat, Unlikely Partners, by Andrea Tone 1810

Friedman, State-Making and Labor Movements, by Richard Schneirov 1811

Brenner, The Emperors of Chocolate, by Mary A. Yeager 1812

Decker, Made in America, by Pamela Walker Laird 1813

Frank, Life with Father; McCall and Yacovone, eds., A Shared Experience; and Jabour, Marriage in the Early Republic, by C. Dallett Hemphill 1814

Blanchard, Oscar Wilde's America, by Gail Bederman 1816

Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood; and Nelson, National Manhood, by E. Anthony Rotundo 1817

Orlove, ed., The Allure of the Foreign, by Daphne Berdahl 1818

González Patricio, Diplomacia contra diplomacia (Diplomacy against diplomacy), by Kenneth J. Grieb 1819

Dietl, USA und Mittelamerika (The usa and Central America), by Joaquín Fermandois 1820

Steeples and Whitten, Democracy in Desperation, by Mark Wahlgren Summers 1821

Clanton, Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s; and Kolodny, Pursuing Majorities, by Mark Voss-Hubbard 1822

Ponder, Managing the Press, by George Juergens 1823

Ellis, ed., Speaking to the People, by David Zarefsky 1824

Müller, Politische Bildstrategien im amerikanischen Präsidentschaftswahlkampf, 1828-1996 (Political image strategies in American presidential elections, 1828-1996), by Mel van Elteren 1825

Saunders, In Search of Woodrow Wilson, by John Milton Cooper Jr. 1826

Haynes, ed., Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era; and Stratton, Tempest over Teapot Dome, by Neil A. Wynn 1827

Zunz, Why the American Century?, by Lawrence B. Glickman 1828

Hallwas, The Bootlegger, by James H. Madison 1829

Lewis, Transforming the Appalachian Countryside; and Thomas, An Appalachian New Deal, by Ronald D. Eller 1830

Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage, by Hal Rothman 1831

Woods, Development Arrested, by Bryan D. Palmer 1832

Davis, A Clashing of the Soul, by Adam Fairclough 1833

Di Leonardo, Exotics at Home, by Julia E. Liss 1834

Baker, From Savage to Negro, by Vernon J. Williams Jr. 1834

Rhodes, Structures of the Jazz Age, by Linda Wagner-Martin 1835

Perlman, The Lives, Loves, and Art of Arthur B. Davies, by George H. Roeder Jr. 1836

Sebok, Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence, by Herbert Hovenkamp 1837

Melnick, The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, vol. 1: "A Touch of Wildness"; and vol. 2: "This Dark and Desperate Age," by Susanne Klingenstein 1838

Klingenstein, Enlarging America, by Emily Miller Budick 1839

Richardson, The Ordeal of Robert Frost, by Jeff Gundy 1840

Palmer, Organizing the Shipyards, by Roger Horowitz 1841

Boulard, Huey Long Invades New Orleans, by Michael L. Kurtz 1842

Roorda, The Dictator Next Door, by Stephen G. Rabe 1842

Weinstein and Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood, by James G. Ryan 1843

Bentley, Eating for Victory, by Donna R. Gabaccia 1844

Field, Harvest of Dissent, by R. Alton Lee 1845

Van der Hoeven, Hoed af voor Marshall (Hats off to Marshall), by Marc Dierikx 1846

Medick-Krakau, Amerikanische Außenhandelspolitik im Wandel (Changing American foreign trade policy), by Lloyd E. Ambrosius 1847

Snead, The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War, by H. W. Brands 1847

Ben-Zvi, Decade of Transition, by Charles D. Smith 1848

Kort, The Columbia Guide to the Cold War, by Peter L. Hahn 1849

Rose, The Cold War Comes to Main Street, by Ellen Schrecker 1850

Wittner, The Struggle against the Bomb, vol. 2: Resisting the Bomb, by Charles Chatfield 1851

Hulsether, Building a Protestant Left, by Eugene McCarraher 1852

Hurt, ed., The Rural South since World War II; and Tolnay, The Bottom Rung, by William F. Holmes 1853

Collins, When the Church Bell Rang Racist, by David L. Chappell 1854

Markowitz and Rosner, Children, Race, and Power, by Robert Coles 1855

Posner, Killing the Dream, by Ralph E. Luker 1856

Franklin et al., eds., African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century, by Leonard Dinnerstein 1856

Woodard, A Nation within a Nation, by James Smethurst 1857

Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line, by Michael K. Brown 1858

Downs, Cornell '69, by Anthony M. Orum 1859

Acuña, Sometimes There Is No Other Side, by Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. 1860

Fixico, The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century, by Brian C. Hosmer 1861

Castile, To Show Heart, by Donald L. Fixico 1861

Hartmann, The Other Feminists, by Susan Ware 1862

Carrels, Uphill against Water, by Donald J. Pisani 1863

Epp, The Rights Revolution; Dinan, Keeping the People's Liberties; and Kalman, The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism, by Michael Les Benedict 1864

Lazarus, Closed Chambers; and Atkinson, Leaving the Bench, by Randall W. Bland 1867

Schreyer, Neue Politiker und Parteiströmungen im US-Kongreß (New politicians and party trends in the U.S. Congress), by Brigitte L. Nacos 1868

Bush and Scowcroft, A World Transformed, by Joel H. Rosenthal 1869

Mayer, Interpreting NAFTA, by David Koistinen 1870

Schmidt, The Political Discourse of Anarchy; Weart, Never at War; and Ostrower, The United Nations and the United States, by David S. Patterson 1871

Miller, The Voice of Business, by Alan R. Raucher 1873

Browne, ed., Refiguring American Film Genres, by William Paul 1874

Gelfand, Trustee for a City, by James J. Connolly 1875

Watkins, On the Pill, by Janet Farrell Brodie 1876

Heidenfelder, From Duppel to Truman Plaza (From Duppel to Truman Plaza), by James F. Tent 1876

Bell and Bell, eds., Americanization and Australia, by Jeffery C. Livingston 1877

Herbst, Reading Public Opinion, by J. Michael Hogan 1878

Vollmar, Anaheim—Utopia Americana (Anaheim—Utopia Americana), by Gunther Barth 1879

West, Domesticating History; and Dubin, Displays of Power, by Michael Kammen 1880

Zenzen, Battling for Manassas; and Lowenthal, Possessed by the Past, by Barbie Zelizer 1882

Morris, Too Soon, Too Late, by Christin J. Mamiya 1883



Letters to the Editor 1885

Announcements 1886

Recent Scholarship 1887

Volume Contents 1933

Volume Index 1939





On the cover: Tourists visiting Los Angeles's Little Tokyo in 1941 are treated to a night of adventure and consumer pleasures, while being assured that Japanese Americans are law-abiding residents and citizens of the United States. Courtesy Nisei Week Japanese Festival, Inc. See Lon Kurashige, "The Problem of Biculturalism: Japanese American Identity and Festival before World War II," p. 1632.


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