Contents

Articles

Reading Indians' Deathbed Scenes: Ethnohistorical and Representational Approaches
Erik R. Seeman	17
A Brother in Arms: Benjamin Tappan and the Antislavery Democracy
Daniel Feller	48
The Federalist Trope: Power and Passion in Abolitionist Rhetoric
Marc M. Arkin	75
The Strike in the Temple of Consumption: Consumer Activism and Twentieth-Century American Political Culture
Lawrence B. Glickman	99

Special Essays

Historians Who Love Too Much: Reflections on Microhistory and Biography
Jill Lepore	129
Venturing into the Civil War, Virtually: A Review
Gary J. Kornblith	145

Exhibition Reviews

"Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World," by Howard P. Segal	152
"Paul Revere: Artisan and Patriot," by Sarah J. Purcell	155
"Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861," by Kenneth John Myers	157
"North Carolina and the Civil War"; "Duty Called Me Here: The Common Soldier's Experience in the American Civil War"; and "Turning Point: The American Civil War," by David A. Zonderman	162
Civil War Visitor Center at Tredegar Iron Works, by Edward L. Ayers	166
"Amish in Illinois," by Trevor Jones	168
"To Faithfully Preserve: History and Lore from America's National Parks," by Randall M. Miller	171

Book Reviews

Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776, by Edward Countryman	173
Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, by Alfred F. Young	174
Nasaw, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Henkin	176
Krech, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, by Dan Flores	177
Limerick, Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West, by Anne F. Hyde	178
Griffiths and Cervantes, eds., Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America, by Charles Cutter	179
Riley, The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest, by Oakah L. Jones	180
Graham, Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall, by Melvin Yazawa	181
Hoffman with Mason, Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500–1782, by Thomas Bartlett	182
Fertig, Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert (Local life, Atlantic world: The decision for emigration from the Rhine to North America in the eighteenth century), by Marianne S. Wokeck	183
Wilson, Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England, by Karin Wulf	183
Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia, by Sharon V. Salinger	184
Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630–1800, by Cynthia A. Kierner	185
Splitter, Pastors, People, Politics: German Lutherans in Pennsylvania, 1740–1790, by Aaron Fogleman	186
Amory and Hall, eds., A History of the Book in America, vol. 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, by Jane Kamensky	187
Levy, Origins of the Bill of Rights, by Whitman H. Ridgway	188
Kennedy, Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character, by Jacob E. Cooke	189
Carson, Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal, by Véronique Pépin	190
Faiman-Silva, Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region, by James Taylor Carson	190
Boyd, The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774–1874, by Daniel L. Boxberger	191
Kugel, To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825–1898, by Susan Sleeper-Smith	192
Glazer, Cincinnati in 1840: The Social and Functional Organization of an Urban Community during the Pre–Civil War Period; and Contosta, Lancaster, Ohio, 1800–2000: Frontier Town to Edge City, by Timothy R. Mahoney	193
Koeppel, Water for Gotham: A History, by Sarah S. Elkind	194
Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey; and Robertson, Denmark Vesey, by Woody Holton	195
Rehder, Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape, by Thomas N. Ingersoll	197
Vincent, Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765–1900, by Graham Russell Hodges	197
Lohmann, ed. and trans., Radical Passion: Ottilie Assing's Reports from America and Letters to Frederick Douglass, by Jennifer Fleischner	198
McKivigan and Harrold, eds., Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America, by Ronald G. Walters	199
Lawes, Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815–1860, by Lee Chambers-Schiller	200
Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History, by Steven Mintz	201
Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, by Elizabeth Jameson	202
Lehuu, Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America, by Amy Gilman Srebnick	203
Colbert, A Measure of Perfection: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America, by Shirley Teresa Wajda	204
Bush, American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History, by Christopher Castiglia	205
Capper and Wright, eds., Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts, by James Perrin Warren	206
Weitz, A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War, by Kevin Conley Ruffner	207
Piston and Hatcher, Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It, by Brian Dirck	207
Young, Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War, by Jeanie Attie	208
Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition, by J. Matthew Gallman	209
Holt, Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865–1900, by Steven Hahn	210
Kerr-Ritchie, Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860–1900, by Leslie A. Schwalm	211
Fuke, Imperfect Equality: African Americans and the Confines of White Racial Attitudes in Post-Emancipation Maryland, by Roberta Alexander	212
Beatty, Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837–1900, by Michael Shirley	213
Tsujiuchi, Amerika no doreisei to jiyushugi (Liberalism and American slavery), by Aaron Forsberg	214
DuBois, Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights, by Louise M. Newman	215
Goldberg, An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas, by Karen J. Blair	216
McConnell, Arsenic under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven, by Ellen Dwyer	217
Ivey, Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894–1930, by David Morgan	217
Oberdeck, The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884–1914, by Eugene McCarraher	218
Morgan, Protestants & Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production, by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe	219
Johnston, William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors, by Alice Goldfarb Marquis	220
Keillor, Cooperative Commonwealth: Co-ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859–1939, by Allan G. Bogue	221
Jackson, The Piikani Blackfeet: A Culture under Siege, by John Fahey	222
Pritchard, Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature, by Richard Grusin	222
Samuels, Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape, by Brian Donahue	223
Bazerman, The Languages of Edison's Light, by David Hochfelder	224
Klein, The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman, by K. Austin Kerr	225
Adams and Butler, Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric, by David E. Nye	225
Baldwin, Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850–1930, by Sharon E. Wood	226
Katz and Sugrue, eds., W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy, by David Levering Lewis	227
Hilton and Ickringill, eds., European Perceptions of the Spanish-American War of 1898, by John L. Offner	229
Lehmann and Wellenreuther, eds., German and American Nationalism: A Comparative Perspective, by Geoff Eley	230
Finzsch and Schirmer, eds., Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States, by Charles M. Barber	231
Zeiger, In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917–1919, by Amy Swerdlow	231
Kennedy, Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion during World War I, by Cynthia Farr Brown	232
Kimeldorf, Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement, by Catherine Collomp	233
Duus, trans. by Cary, The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920, by Franklin Ng	234
King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy, by Norbert Finzsch	235
Vaught, Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920, by Carlos A. Schwantes	236
Cartosio, Da New York a Santa Fe: Terra, culture native, artisti, e scrittori nel sudovest (1846–1930) (From New York to Santa Fe: Land, native culture, artists, and writers in the Southwest, 1846–1930), by John Wetenhall	237
Calderón, Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880–1930, by Philip Mellinger	237
González, Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American Southwest, by Zaragosa Vargas	238
Laslett, Colliers across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830–1924, by Mary H. Blewett	239
Dubofsky, Hard Work: The Making of Labor History, by Michael Kazin	240
Babson, The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877–Present, by Steven K. Ashby	241
Schofield, "To Do & to Be": Portraits of Four Women Activists, 1893–1986, by Annelise Orleck	242
Roberts and Turner, The Sacred and the Secular University, by Bradley Longfield	243
Reynolds, There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa, by William A. Link	244
Kliebard, Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876–1946, by William H. Mulligan Jr.	245
Cobb, Radical Education in the Rural South: Commonwealth College, 1922–1940, by John M. Glen	246
Phillips, AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915–45, by Nick Salvatore	246
Wadelington and Knapp, Charlotte Hawkins Brown & Palmer Memorial Institute: What One African American Woman Could Do, by Adam Fairclough	247
Gottschild, Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era, by Robert W. Snyder	248
Maxwell, New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars; and Smethurst, The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930–1946, by Donald B. Gibson	249
Moore, To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910–1963, by Charles Pete Banner-Haley	250
Higuchi, Amerika kokujin to hokubu sangyo: Senkanki ni okeru jinshu ishiki no keisei (Black Americans and northern industry: The shaping of racial consciousness during the interwar period), by Yasuhide Kawashima	251
Schieber and Shoven, The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security; and Moss, Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy, by Raymond Richards	251
Day, Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890–1943, by Elaine S. Abelson	253
Spencer, The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power on Parade, 1877–1995, by H. V. Nelles	254
Danese, Claude Pepper and Ed Ball: Politics, Purpose, and Power, by Tracy Campbell	255
Barney, Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880–1930, by Steven Noll	255
Curry, Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900–1930, by Lana Ruegamer	256
Moran, Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century, by Julian Carter	257
Terry, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society, by Diana E. Long	258
Raider, The Emergence of American Zionism, by Edward S. Shapiro	259
Todd, Authority Vested: A Story of Identity and Change in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, by Lois A. Boyd	260
Antler, The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century, by Sydney Stahl Weinberg	260
Shattuck, Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights, by Elizabeth Hayes Turner	261
Polenberg, The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process, by Michael E. Parrish	262
Yalof, Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees; Pratt, The Supreme Court under Edward Douglass White, 1910–1921; and Purcell, Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America, by Mark Tushnet	263
Frantz, Indian Reservations in the United States: Territory, Sovereignty, and Socioeconomic Change, by John R. Wunder	265
Philp, Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination, 1933–1953, by Raymond Wilson	266
Deloria, Playing Indian; and Vickers, Native American Identities: From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature, by Melissa L. Meyer	267
Kilpatrick, Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film, by Peter C. Rollins	269
May, The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way, by Michael Rogin	269
Yoo, Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924–49, by Eileen H. Tamura	270
Morton, Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America, by William Kenney	271
Clarke, Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, by Nancy F. Koehn	272
Zelizer, Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975, by Edwin Amenta	273
Lorence, The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America, by Nancy Gabin	274
Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered, by David Brody	275
Deslippe, "Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945–80, by Maurine W. Greenwald	275
Weiss, To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change, by Lynn Y. Weiner	276
Somerville, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture, by Scott Bravmann	277
Pérez, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History, by Edwina Barvosa-Carter	278
Almaráz, Knight without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, 1896–1958, by Charlotte M. Gradie	279
Aguayo, trans. by Brody, Myths and [Mis] Perceptions: Changing U.S. Elite Visions of Mexico, by Andrés Reséndez	280
Neiberg, Making Citizen-Soldiers: rotc and the Ideology of American Military Service, by John Pettegrew	280
Henry, Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other?; and Krenn, Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945–1969, by David H. Anthony	281
Riley, The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-keeping from 1831 to 1965, by Stephen Tuck	283
Wagnleitner and May, eds., "Here, There, and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture, by Walter Hixson	284
Fousek, To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War; and Lucas, Freedom's War: The American Crusade against the Soviet Union, by Ellen Schrecker	285
Fujita and Igarashi, eds., Amerika kenkoku no rinen to Nichi-bei kankei (The founding ideals of the United States and Japanese-American relations); Miyazato, ed., Gaiko seiji sutairu to Nichi-bei kankei (Diplomatic and political styles and the Japanese-American relationship); and Aruga, ed., Nichi-bei kankei ni okeru esunishiti no yoso (The ethnic factor in the Japanese-American relationship), by Roger Dingman	287
Edwards, Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 1945–1955, by Lorenzo Delgado	290
Oikarinen, The Middle East in the American Quest for World Order: Ideas of Power, Economics, and Social Development in United States Foreign Policy, 1953–1961, by N. Rassekh	291
Pagedas, Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960–1963: A Troubled Partnership, by Ritchie Ovendale	292
Murray, Kennedy, Macmillan, and Nuclear Weapons, by Martin H. Folly	292
Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage	293
Levine, Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement, by Steven F. Lawson	294
Lee, For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fanny Lou Hamer, by Timothy B. Tyson	295
McPherson, Morgan, and Forestell, eds., Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada, by Laura McCall	296
DeGroot, A Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War, by David L. Anderson	297
Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950–1975, by James J. Wirtz	298
Smith, Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, by Michael Bertrand	299
Walsh, Echoes among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program, by Martin J. Collins	300
Bailey, Sex in the Heartland, by Susan Cahn	300
Allyn, Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History, by Jane Gerhard	302
Youngs, The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74: Transforming an American Environment, by Robert W. Rydell	302
Myllyntaus and Saikku, eds., Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History, by Thomas R. Cox	303
Matusow, Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes, by Nigel Bowles	304
Coclanis and Bruchey, eds., Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements: The United States Experience since 1800, by James Green	305
Löfgren and Shima, eds., After Consensus: Critical Challenge and Social Change in America, by David W. Stowe	306
Keller and Melnick, eds., Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century, by Ellis W. Hawley	307
Ricard, ed., États-Unis d'hier, États-Unis d'aujourd'hui: Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean-Pierre Martin (The United States of yesterday, the United States of today: Essays in honor of Jean-Pierre Martin), by Peter N. Stearns	308
Duberman, Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion/Essays/1964–1999, by John D'Emilio	309
Langum, William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America, by Andrew Hunt	310
Boris and Chaudhuri, eds., Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, the Political, the Professional, by Bonnie G. Smith	311
LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992, by Stephen M. Streeter	312
Doss, Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, & Image, by Charles F. McGovern	313
Lainsbury, Once upon an American Dream: The Story of Euro Disneyland, by Rob Kroes	313
Powell, Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana, by Hasia R. Diner	314
Mink, ed., Whose Welfare?, by Jane Lewis	315

Web Site Reviews

Do History, by Jane Kamensky	317
Africans in America, by Tracey Weis	318
Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America, by David Phillips	319
Mark Twain in His Times, by Carl Smith	320
Panoramic Maps, 1847–1929, by Paula Petrik	321
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: March 25, 1911, by Ellen Wiley Todd	322

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