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What Happened to Sex Scandals? Politics and Peccadilloes, Jefferson to Kennedy
John H. Summers 825

A Road Closed: Rural Insurgency in Post-Independence Pennsylvania
Terry Bouton 855

The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History
Paul K. Longmore and David Goldberger 888



Cinqué and the Historians: How a Story Takes Hold A Round Table


Cinqué of the Amistad a Slave Trader? Perpetuating a Myth
Howard Jones 923

On Cinqué and the Historians
Paul Finkelman 940

Mea Culpa
Bertram Wyatt-Brown 947

Cinqué, Tall and Strong
William S. McFeely 949



Review Essay


Pierre Nora, National Memory, and Democracy: A Review
John Bodnar 951



Exhibition Reviews


Introduction
Edward T. Linenthal and Kym S. Rice 964

"From New England to the Great Salt Lake," by Claudia L. Bushman and Richard Lyman Bushman 965

"Houdini," by Joshua Ranger 967

"Sigmund Freud," by Ellen DuBois 969

"This Land Is Your Land," by David Suisman 973

"The Star-Spangled Banner," by Char Miller 977

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, by Thomas S. Bremer 981

"Kansas in Miniature," by Jay M. Price 984

The Virtual Wall, by Ed Martini 987

"Battle Road 2000," by Cathy Stanton 992



Book Reviews


Wallace, Jefferson and the Indians, by Colin G. Calloway 996

Franklin and Schweninger, Runaway Slaves, by Douglas R. Egerton 997

Baily, Immigrants in the Lands of Promise, by Rudolph J. Vecoli 999

Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me, by Jonathan Zimmerman 1000

Loewen, Lies across America, by Edward Linenthal 1001

Rupp, A Desired Past, by John Howard 1002

Bellesiles, ed., Lethal Imagination, by Richard Maxwell Brown 1003

Anderson, The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830, by Martha McCollough 1004

Daunton and Halpern, eds., Empire and Others; and Oberg, Dominion and Civility, by Eric Hinderaker 1005

Foster and Cowan, eds., In Search of New England's Native Past, by Harald E. L. Prins 1006

Wokeck, Trade in Strangers, by David E. Narrett 1007

Pestana and Salinger, eds., Inequality in Early America, by Paul A. Gilje 1008

Smith, ed., Sex and Sexuality in Early America, by Susan E. Klepp 1009

Wyman, The Wisconsin Frontier, by Jerry Apps 1010

Cayton and Teute, eds., Contact Points; and Carmony, Indiana, 1816–1850, by Gregory T. Knouff 1011

Nelson, A Man of Distinction among Them, by Bradley J. Birzer 1013

Walmsley, Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution, by R. C. Simmons 1014

Holton, Forced Founders, by Gregory H. Nobles 1015

Starr, A School for Politics, by Robert Olwell 1015

Leibiger, Founding Friendship, by Robert Allen Rutland 1016

Cornell, The Other Founders, by R. B. Bernstein 1017

Lynch, Negotiating the Constitution, by Charles A. Lofgren 1018

Madsen, American Exceptionalism, by Seymour Martin Lipset 1019

Scott, From Yorktown to Valmy, by Lee Kennett 1019

O'Rourke and Williamson, Globalization and History, by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey 1020

Carter, ed., Surveying the Record, by G. Malcolm Lewis 1021

Rigal, The American Manufactory, by David A. Zonderman 1022

Burgett, Sentimental Bodies, by Rosemarie Zagarri 1023

Burstein, Sentimental Democracy, by Ruth H. Bloch 1024

Baker, Sentiment & Celebrity, by Scott E. Casper 1025

Chapman and Hendler, eds., Sentimental Men, by Debby Applegate 1026

Ostrander, Republic of Letters, by Peter S. Field 1026

Nickerson, The Web of Iniquity, by Mary Anne Schofield 1027

Obenzinger, American Palestine, by Peter W. Williams 1028

Gutjahr, An American Bible, by Rosalind Remer 1029

Adams and van Minnen, eds., Religious and Secular Reform in America; Strong, Perfectionist Politics; and McManus, Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840–1861, by Daniel J. McInerney 1030

Sensbach, A Separate Canaan, by Aaron S. Fogleman 1032

Young, Domesticating Slavery, by Steven Stowe 1033

Howard, Changing History, by Virginia Meacham Gould 1034

Adams and Gould, eds., Inside the Natchez Trace Collection, by Leah Rawls Atkins 1035

Tolbert, Constructing Townscapes, by Steven Hoelscher 1036

Bergeron, Ash, and Keith, Tennesseans and Their History, by Lewright B. Sikes 1037

Pease and Pease, A Family of Women, by Anya Jabour 1037

Van Vugt, Britain to America, by John M. Bumsted 1038

Peffer, If They Don't Bring Their Women Here, by Mao-xin Liang 1039

González, Refusing the Favor, by Margaret D. Jacobs 1040

Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers, by Anne M. Butler 1041

Asher, Beyond the Reservation, by George Pierre Castile 1042

McGowen, Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke, by Ralph A. Wooster 1042

Dyer, Secret Yankees, by Harriet E. Amos Doss 1043

Brandwein, Reconstructing Reconstruction, by Howard Ball 1044

Engs, Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited, by Wilbert H. Ahern 1045

Martin, For God and Race, by William E. Montgomery 1046

Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877, by Walter Licht 1047

Brown and Davis, eds., It Is Union and Liberty, by John H. M. Laslett 1047

Denton, Rocky Mountain Radical, by David Brundage 1048

Bissett, Agrarian Socialism in America, by Stanley Shapiro 1049

Przybyszewski, The Republic according to John Marshall Harlan, by Mary Frances Berry 1050

Mitchell, The Danger of Dreams, by Serge Ricard 1051

Nakano, Firipin dokuritsu mondai-shi (A history of the Philippine independence question); and Ocampo, The Centennial Countdown, by Sayuri Shimizu 1052

Taylor, William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin, by Ignas K. Skrupskelis 1053

Jones, Taming the Troublesome Child, by Ray Hiner 1054

Crenson, Building the Invisible Orphanage, by Elizabeth Rose 1055

Child, Boarding School Seasons, by Michael C. Coleman 1056

Carney, Native American Higher Education in the United States, by Robert A. Trennert 1057

English, Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain, by Howard Markel 1057

Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct Unbecoming a Woman; and McGregor, From Midwives to Medicine, by Leslie J. Reagan 1058

Bliss, William Osler, by John S. Haller Jr. 1060

Mack, Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges, by Joan Marie Johnson 1061

Armstead,"Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August"; and Williams, Strangers in the Land of Paradise, by Andrew Wiese 1062

Manring, Slave in a Box, by Chip Rhodes 1063

Rosales, ¡Pobre Raza!, by Rodolfo F. Acuña 1064

Alonzo, Tejano Legacy, by Mario T. García 1065

Etulain, Telling Western Stories, by Fred Erisman 1066

Lindemann, Willa Cather, by David Van Leer 1067

Hamburger, Two Rooms, by William Deverell 1067

Boylan, Revolutionary Lives, by Rosalyn Baxandall 1068

Freeman, A Room at a Time, by Elisabeth Israels Perry 1069

Boemeke, Chickering, and Förster, eds., Anticipating Total War, by Joyce S. Goldberg 1070

Johnson and Hillman, Soissons 1918, by David R. Woodward 1071

Schatzberg, Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal, by William F. Trimble 1072

Johnson, Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers, by Arnold Krammer 1072

Spenser, The Impossible Triangle, by Stefan Rinke 1073

Behnen, Die USA und Italien, 1921–1933 (The United States and Italy, 1921–1933), by Steven P. Remy 1074

Fermandois, Abismo y Cimiento (Abyss and foundation), by Steven S. Volk 1075

Lehman, Bolivia and the United States, by James F. Siekmeier 1076

Bates, Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, by David H. Stratton 1077

Fried, FDR and His Enemies, by Robert S. McElvaine 1078

Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. 2: 1933–1938, by Kristie Miller 1078

Heineman, A Catholic New Deal, by Dorothy M. Brown 1079

Longstreth, The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914–1941, by Dolores Hayden 1080

Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds, by Leigh Ann Wheeler 1081

Sochen, From Mae to Madonna; Kibler, Rank Ladies; and Mizejewski, Ziegfeld Girl, by Marybeth Hamilton 1082

Whitfield, In Search of American Jewish Culture, by Andrew R. Heinze 1084

Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood, by Robert E. Snyder 1085

Kammen, Robert Gwathmey, by Barbara Melosh 1085

Mellow, Walker Evans, by Michael Kammen 1086

Scott and Rutkoff, New York Modern, by Serge Guilbaut 1087

Sax, Playing Darts with a Rembrandt, by James M. Lindgren 1088

Horowitz and Mohun, eds., His and Hers, by Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1089

Fair, Muscletown USA, by Ted Ownby 1090

Fairbanks, For the City as a Whole, by Christina Sheehan Gold 1090

Pincetl, Transforming California, by Donald J. Pisani 1091

Nash, The Federal Landscape; Flores, Horizontal Yellow; and Farmer, Glen Canyon Dammed, by C. Elizabeth Raymond 1092

Simpson, Visions of Paradise; Herron and Kirk, eds., Human/Nature; and Riley, Women and Nature, by Char Miller 1094

Pearlman, Warmaking and American Democracy, by Russell F. Weigley 1097

Norling, The Intrepid Guerrillas of North Luzon, by Grant K. Goodman 1098

Haynes and Klehr, Venona, by Scott Lucas 1099

Novick, The Holocaust in American Life; and Flanzbaum, ed., The Americanization of the Holocaust, by Severin Hochberg 1099

Ball, Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide, by Robert Edwin Herzstein 1101

Capeci, The Lynching of Cleo Wright, by Howard Smead 1102

O'Brien, The Color of the Law, by Peter Wallenstein 1103

Quezada, Border Boss, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa 1104

Howard, Men like That, by Michael Sherry 1105

Silverman, Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 1939–49, by Bryan D. Palmer 1105

Lundestad,"Empire" by Integration, by Thomas Schwartz 1106

Strasser, McGovern, and Judt, eds., Getting and Spending, by Jacqueline K. Dirks 1107

Price, Flight Maps, by Ted Steinberg 1108

Brands, Masters of Enterprise, by A. Slaven 1109

Sherman, No Place for a Woman, by Melanie Gustafson 1110

Sandler, The Korean War, by Robert C. Doyle 1110

Heiss, Empire and Nationhood, by George Philip 1111

Friedman, Identity's Architect, by Rodney D. Olsen 1112

Bringhurst, Fawn McKay Brodie, by Susan Albertine 1113

Sabin, In Calmer Times, by Michal R. Belknap 1114

Popkin, Statutes in Court, by Gordon Morris Bakken 1114

Tushnet, Making Constitutional Law, by Leland Ware 1115

Bose, Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy; and Ivanov, Duayt Eyzenkhauer (Dwight Eisenhower), by Peter Konecny 1116

Brands, ed., The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson, by Lloyd Gardner 1117

Record, The Wrong War; Schwab, Defending the Free World; Logevall, Choosing War; and Kimball, Nixon's Vietnam War, by Jacques Portes 1118

Brigham, Guerrilla Diplomacy, by Ronald H. Spector 1121

Rochester and Kiley, Honor Bound, by Ronald E. Marcello 1122

Whelchel, From Pearl Harbor to Saigon, by Donald H. Estes 1123

Brady, United States Foreign Policy towards Cambodia, 1977–92, by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes 1123

Quezada, 1968 (1968), by Eric S. Zolov 1124

Klatch, A Generation Divided, by Kenneth J. Heineman 1125

Haag, Consent, by Beth Bailey 1126

Klinker with Smith, The Unsteady March, by Harvard Sitkoff 1126

Tyson, Radio Free Dixie, by Mary E. King 1127

Bush, We Are Not What We Seem, by Ibrahim Sundiata 1128

Gamm, Urban Exodus, by Suellen Hoy 1130

Rhea, Race Pride and the American Identity, by Kenneth W. Goings 1130

Sanjek, The Future of Us All, by Dominic A. Pacyga 1131

Orleck, The Soviet Jewish Americans, by Jenna Weissman Joselit 1132

Hartigan, Racial Situations, by John J. Bukowczyk 1133

Maki, Kitano, and Berthold, Achieving the Impossible Dream, by John N. Tsuchida 1134

Cohen, Rostenkowski, by Dean J. Kotlowski 1135

Merriner, Mr. Chairman, by Robert R. Tomes 1135

Verea Campos and Núñez Garcia, eds., El Conservadurismo en Estados Unidos y Canadá (Conservatism in the United States and Canada); and Verea Campos and Núñez Garcia, eds., Estados Unidos y Canadá (The United States and Canada), by Graeme S. Mount 1136

Verea and Hierro, eds., Las mujeres en América del Norte al fin del milenio (Women in North America at the end of the millennium), by Jane Slaughter 1138



Movie Reviews


Reel Report, 1999–2000
Robert Brent Toplin 1140

I'll Make Me a World, by Thomas Cripps 1144

The Patriot, by William Ross St. George Jr. 1146

The Duel, by Suzanne Geissler 1148

Not for Ourselves Alone and Six Generations of Suffragettes, by Nancy Isenberg 1149

Sally Hemings, by Catherine Clinton 1151

Found Voices, by Graham Hodges 1152

John Brown's Holy War, by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein 1153

Who Was Abraham Lincoln?, by Daniel Walker Howe 1154

Vendetta, by Clive Webb 1155

Tell about the South, by John C. Inscoe 1156

Joe Gould's Secret, by Mary Corey 1157

Hoover Dam, by Virginia Scharff 1158

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio, by Robert F. Burk 1160

Step by Step, by Kathleen C. Berkeley 1161

Ordinary Americans, by Robert Griffith 1163

Barry Goldwater, by Jeff Roche 1164

Watts, Then and Now, by Gerald Horne 1165

Nixon's China Game, by Sayuri Shimizu 1166

The Hurricane, by Randy Roberts 1167

444 Days, by John Dumbrell 1168

La Ciudad (The City), by Jefferson Cowie 1169



Letters to the Editor 1171

Announcements 1183

Recent Scholarship 1184





On the cover:This romantic rendering of Joseph Cinqué was painted during the Amistad trial by the New Haven artist Nathaniel Jocelyn. Oil on canvas, c. 1840. Courtesy New Haven Colony Historical Society. See Howard Jones, "Cinqué of the Amistad a Slave Trader? Perpetuating a Myth," p. 923.


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