Contents

Title Page and Notice

Journal Staff

Previews

Articles

The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s
Walter Johnson	13
I Am the Other: Puerto Rico in the Eyes of North Americans, 1898
Gervasio Luis García	39
"Being in the Field of Education and Also Being a Negro . . . Seems . . . Tragic": Black Teachers in the Jim Crow South
Adam Fairclough	65
"Each 'Race' Could Have Its Heroes Sung": Ethnicity and the History Wars in the 1920s
Jonathan Zimmerman	92
From Amazons to Glamazons: The Rise and Fall of North Carolina Women's Basketball, 1920–1960
Pamela Grundy	112

Perspective

An Autobiographical Note
Herbert Aptheker	147
Interview of Herbert Aptheker by Robin D. G. Kelley	151
Afterword
Robin D. G. Kelley	168

Exhibition Reviews

"William Sidney Mount: Painter of American Life," by Karl Kusserow	172
"Breaking Through: The Creative Engineer," by Richard O'Connor	177

Book Reviews

Foner, The Story of American Freedom; and Davis and Mintz, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty, by Gary B. Nash	182
Walkowitz, Working with Class, by Paul Buhle	184
Molho and Wood, eds., Imagined Histories, by Rob Kroes	186
Wells, ed., History and the Christian Historian, by R. Laurence Moore	187
Hefner, ed., Democratic Civility, by Kenneth Cmiel	188
Joyner, Shared Traditions, by Steven Stowe	189
Gonzales, Mexicanos; and Monroy, Rebirth, by John R. Chávez	190
Fohlen, Heffer, and Weil, Canada et États-Unis depuis 1770 (Canada and the United States since 1770), by H. V. Nelles	191
Clayton, Peru and the United States, by Joseph A. Gagliano	192
Frank, Buy American, by Jefferson Cowie	193
Kwolek-Folland, Incorporating Women, by Susan M. Hartmann	194
Reinhartz and Saxon, eds., The Mapping of the Entradas into the Greater Southwest, by G. Malcolm Lewis	195
Carson, Across the Northern Frontier, by Susan E. Ramírez	196
Canny, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 1: The Origins of Empire, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman	197
Newell, From Dependency to Independence, by Peter Clark	198
James, ed. by Bozeman, John Clarke and His Legacies, by Avihu Zakai	199
Vollmar, Wohnen in der Wildnis (Living in the wilderness), by Linda Schelbitzki Pickle	200
Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution, by David Conroy	201
Imbarrato, Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography, by Edward Larkin	202
Larson, Daughters of Light, by Elizabeth Reis	202
Bassard, Spiritual Interrogations, by Phillip M. Richards	203
Cooper, Tenacious of Their Liberties, by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe	204
Grasso, A Speaking Aristocracy, by Catherine A. Brekus	205
Andrews, The Rediscovery of America, by C. Bradley Thompson	206
Yarbrough, American Virtues, by Richard K. Matthews	206
Rosenfeld, American Aurora, by Charles E. Clark	207
Meinig, The Shaping of America, by David B. Quinn	208
Schneiders, Unruly River, by Linda Nash	209
Densmore, Red Jacket, by Thomas S. Abler	210
Ratcliffe, Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic, by Nicole Etcheson	211
Tregle, Louisiana in the Age of Jackson, by Paul Lachance	211
Eslinger, Citizens of Zion, by Dickson D. Bruce Jr.	212
Hirrel, Children of Wrath, by Paul K. Conkin	213
Seraile, Fire in His Heart, by Clarence E. Walker	214
Davis, Leonard Bacon, by Louis S. Gerteis	214
Martínez-Fernández, Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean; and Richardson, Economy and Environment in the Caribbean, by Félix V. Matos Rodríguez	215
Quist, Restless Visionaries, by Mark S. Schantz	217
Sitton, Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857–1997, by Peter McCandless	218
Cornelius, Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South, by Milton C. Sernett	219
Davis, Nat Turner before the Bar of Judgment, by Steve Andrews	219
Bolton and Culclasure, eds., The Confessions of Edward Isham, by Christopher Waldrep	220
Powers, Dangerous Water, by Robert E. Weir	221
Casper, Constructing American Lives, by Richard Wightman Fox	222
Broaddus, Genteel Rhetoric; and Williams, Hungry Heart, by Timothy P. Duffy	223
Henkin, City Reading, by Ronald J. Zboray	224
Widmer, Young America, by Jonathan A. Glickstein	225
Mahar, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask, by Bruce McConachie	226
Lee, Orientals, by David Roediger	227
Suárez Argüello, coord., En el nombre del Destino Manifiesto (In the name of Manifest Destiny), by John A. Britton	228
Attie, Patriotic Toil, by Alice Fahs	229
Armstrong, For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying, by Randall C. Jimerson	229
Bartholomees, Buff Facings and Gilt Buttons, by J. Tracy Power	230
Miller, The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois, by Frank R. Levstik	231
Duncan, Lee's Endangered Left, by Ralph Mann	232
Gordon, General George E. Pickett in Life & Legend, by Jim Cullen	232
Drago, Hurrah for Hampton!, by Michael W. Fitzgerald	233
Waldrep, Roots of Disorder, by Joseph P. Reidy	234
Nelson, Iron Confederacies, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage	235
Foster and Foster, Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers, by Patricia R. Hill	236
Kens, Justice Stephen Field, by Victoria Saker Woeste	237
Montgomery and van der Linden, eds., August Sartorius von Waltershausen; Greene, Pure and Simple Politics; and Boyle, ed., Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894–1994, by Gerald Friedman	238
Dabakis, Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture, by Helen Langa	240
Mohun, Steam Laundries, by Nancy Page Fernandez	241
Sharpless, Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices, by Mary Neth	242
Gleason, The Leisure Ethic, by Janet E. Schulte	242
Gelber, Hobbies, by Gary Cross	243
Maines, The Technology of Orgasm, by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins	244
Brumberg, The Body Project, by Rebecca R. Noel	245
Gilman, Making the Body Beautiful, by Peter N. Stearns	246
Aiken, Harnessing the Power of Motherhood, by Rickie Solinger	247
Tice, Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women, by Daniel J. Walkowitz	247
Mattingly, Well-Tempered Women; Murdock, Domesticating Drink; and Zimmerman, Distilling Democracy, by Ian Tyrrell	248
Tate, Cigarette Wars, by Karen S. Miller	251
Dorsey, The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy, by Robin W. Doughty	251
O'Connor, Boston Catholics, by R. Scott Appleby	252
Winston, Red-Hot and Righteous, by Lillian Taiz	253
Baldasty, E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers, by William S. Solomon	254
Mindich, Just the Facts; Farrar, A Creed for My Profession; and Agran, "Too Good a Town," by John Nerone	255
Coward, The Newspaper Indian, by Louise K. Barnett	257
Sweeney, Mangas Coloradas, by Roberto Mario Salmón	258
Burch, The Iñupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska, by Terrence Cole	258
DeMontravel, A Hero to His Fighting Men, by Thomas W. Dunlay	259
Belnap and Fernández, eds., José Martí's "Our America," by Ramón A. Gutiérrez	260
Smith and Dávila-Cox, eds., The Crisis of 1898; and Pérez, The War of 1898, by Marifeli Pérez-Stable	261
Keegan, The First World War, by Eric T. Dean Jr.	263
Howe, A People Who Would Not Kneel, by Thomas M. Leonard	263
Abel, The Red Rooster Scare, by Alison M. Parker	264
Gioia, The History of Jazz, by Kenneth J. Bindas	265
Horowitz, ed., Inside the Klavern, by William D. Jenkins	266
Gall, Pursuing Justice; and Dark, The Unions and the Democrats, by Nelson Lichtenstein	267
Solomon, The Cry Was Unity, by Peter B. Levy	268
Kearney, African American Views of the Japanese, by William Toll	269
Irr, The Suburb of Dissent, by Alexander Bloom	270
Greer, A Question of Balance, by Ralph T. Dudgeon	271
Ellis, Silent Witnesses, by Ardis Cameron	271
Miller, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Elizabeth Jameson	272
Birdwell, Celluloid Soldiers, by Sam B. Girgus	273
Gassert, Amerika im Dritten Reich (America and the Third Reich), by Robert E. Herzstein	274
Warren, Noble Abstractions, by James Gilbert	275
Steele, Free Speech in the Good War, by L. A. Scot Powe Jr.	276
Savage, Broadcasting Freedom, by Benjamin L. Alpers	277
Füredi, The Silent War, by Paola Gemme	278
Okihiro, Storied Lives, by Roger Daniels	279
Slomovitz, The Fighting Rabbis, by Irving Katz	279
Zeiler, Free Trade, Free World, by Mira Wilkins	280
Lundestad, ed., No End to Alliance, by Wayne S. Cole	281
Kaplan, The Long Entanglement, by Martin H. Folly	282
Immerman, John Foster Dulles, by Frederick W. Marks III	283
Karabell, Architects of Intervention; and Schmitz, Thank God They're on Our Side, by Richard Immerman	283
Endicott and Hagerman, The United States and Biological Warfare, by Sheldon Harris	285
Prevots, Dance for Export, by Walter L. Hixson	286
Girgus, Hollywood Renaissance, by Steven J. Ross	287
McHugh, American Domesticity, by Jane F. Gerhard	288
Coyne, The Crowded Prairie, by Robert Murray Davis	289
Allen, Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination; and Matsumoto and Allmendinger, eds., Over the Edge, by Brian W. Dippie	289
Jenkins, The Cold War at Home, by Robert Justin Goldstein	291
Hiss, The View from Alger's Window, by Athan Theoharis	292
Kramer, The Twilight of the Intellectuals, by Michael Wreszin	293
Jumonville, Henry Steele Commager, by Christopher Phelps	293
Lerner, Contagion and Confinement, by Richard A. Meckel	294
Opdycke, No One Was Turned Away, by David Barton Smith	295
Prescott, A Doctor of Their Own, by David Rosner	296
Lewis, Divided Highways, by Richard O. Davies	297
Sperber, Onward to Victory, by Ronald A. Smith	298
Adelson, Brushing Back Jim Crow, by Charles H. Martin	298
Clowse, Ralph McGill, by David Chalmers	299
Brown, Standing against Dragons, by Mary L. Dudziak	300
Lassiter and Lewis, eds., The Moderates' Dilemma, by James W. Ely Jr.	301
Kellar, Make Haste Slowly, by Raymond Wolters	302
Minchin, Hiring the Black Worker, by Eric Arnesen	302
Thurber, The Politics of Equality, by Jennifer Delton	303
Kousser, Colorblind Injustice, by David R. Colburn	304
Van Deburg, Black Camelot, by Suzanne E. Smith	305
Hammerback and Jensen, The Rhetorical Career of César Chávez, by Philip Mellinger	306
Fischer, Making Them Like Us, by Van Gosse	307
Schneider, Cadres for Conservatism, by Michael Kazin	308
Ernst, Forging a Fateful Alliance, by Chester Pach	308
Hammond, Reporting Vietnam, by Clarence R. Wyatt	309
Castle, One Day Too Long, by Robert J. McMahon	310
Bush, Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties, by Steven M. Nolt	311
Arrington, Adventures of a Church Historian, by Thomas G. Alexander	312
Robinson, Gay Lives, by Scott Bravmann	313
Strum, When the Nazis Came to Skokie, by Mark A. Graber	313
Cahn, Killing Detente, by Peter L. Hahn	314
Cumings, Parallax Visions, by Nick Cullather	315
Cowie, Capital Moves, by Federico Romero	316
Sloan, The Reagan Effect, by Jean Rivière	317
Brinkley, The Unfinished Presidency, by Gary M. Fink	318
Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers, by Marilyn Halter	318
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture, by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin	319

Letters to the Editor	321
Announcements	323
Recent Scholarship	325

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