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Presidential Address

The Power of History: The Weakness of a Profession
Kenneth T. Jackson 1299


Articles

Empires, Exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons: Race and Rule between the British and United States Empires, 1880–1910
Paul A. Kramer 1315

The Only Badge Needed Is Your Patriotic Fervor: Vigilance, Coercion, and the Law in World War I America
Christopher Capozzola 1354

Ethnics against Ethnicity: European Immigrants and Foreign-Language Instruction, 1890–1940
Jonathan Zimmerman 1383

The Great Society after Johnson: The Case of Bilingual Education
Gareth Davies 1405


Textbooks and Teaching

Editors' Introduction: Teaching outside the Box
Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser 1430

Re-Visioning Women's History through Service Learning
Catherine Badura 1431

Exploring the Wide World of Sports: Taking a Class to the (Virtual) Olympics
Amy Bass 1435

"It Was As If We Were Never There": Recovering Detroit's Past for History and Theater
Charles Bright 1440

"Bringing History to Life": Oral History, Community Research, and Multiple Levels of Learning
A. Glenn Crothers 1446

Going Public with Introductory American History
John J. Grabowski 1451

La Castaña Project: A History Field Laboratory Experience
Cecilia Aros Hunter and Leslie Gene Hunter 1456

On the Road and out of the Box: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement from a Chrysler Minivan
Alyssa Picard and Joseph J. Gonzalez 1461

"Forgotten Voices and Different Memories": How Students at California State University, Monterey Bay, Became Their Own Historians
David A. Reichard 1467

Teaching Students to Become Producers of New Historical Knowledge on the Web
Kathryn Kish Sklar 1471

The Collaborative Research Seminar
John Wertheimer 1476

Using Historical Landscape to Stimulate Historical Imagination: A Memoir of Climbing outside the Box
James P. Whittenburg 1481

A Modest Proposal: Less (Authority) Is More (Learning)
Michael Zuckerman 1488


Book Reviews

Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, by George C. Rable 1494

Haines and Steckel, eds., A Population History of North America, by Margo Anderson 1495

Gerhardt, The Federal Appointments Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis, by David H. Rosenbloom 1496

Summerhill and Williams, Sinking Columbus: Contested History, Cultural Politics, and Mythmaking during the Quincentenary, by Robert R. Archibald 1497

Deetz and Deetz, The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony, by Emerson W. Baker 1498

Ellingson, The Myth of the Noble Savage, by Olive Patricia Dickason 1499

Murphy, A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737–1832, by William Newbigging 1500

Fabel, Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759–1775, by Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. 1501

Landers, Black Society in Spanish Florida, by Teresita Martínez Vergne 1501

Daniels and Kennedy, eds., Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America; and Navas, Murdered by His Wife: A History with Documentation of the Joshua Spooner Murder and Execution of His Wife, Bathsheba, Who Was Hanged in Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 July 1778, by Kirsten Fischer 1502

Cleary, Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America, by Lisa Wilson 1504

Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers, by Cathy Matson 1505

Banner, Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690–1860, by Margaret C. Levenstein 1506

Norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720–1870, by Ann M. Little 1507

Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, by John Ferling 1508

Fox, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, by Charles G. Steffen 1508

Wolf, Abraham Yates Jr.: Vergessener Gründervater der amerikanischen Republik (Abraham Yates Jr.: Forgotten founding father of the American Revolution), by Winfred E. A. Bernhard 1509

Brown, The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture, by Robert A. Ferguson 1510

Lockley, Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750–1860, by Charles C. Bolton 1511

Robarge, A Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court, by Herbert A. Johnson 1512

Larson, Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States, by Daniel Feller 1513

Szasz, Scots in the North American West, 1790–1917, by J. M. Bumsted 1514

Morris, Sword of the Border: Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775–1828, by J. C. A. Stagg 1514

Graves, Field of Glory: The Battle of Crysler's Farm, 1813; and Barbuto, Niagara 1814: America Invades Canada, by C. Edward Skeen 1515

Stroud, The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World, by Phillip Drennon Thomas 1517

Woods, From Craft to Profession: The Practice of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America, by Gail Fenske 1517

Townsend, Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America: Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland, by Susan E. Ramírez 1518

Simeone, Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic, by Stanley Harrold 1519

McNeilly, The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819–1861, by Christopher Phillips 1520

Burstein, America's Jubilee; and Masur, 1831: Year of Eclipse, by Robert E. Bonner    1521

Reschly, The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910, by Theron F. Schlabach 1522

Roberts, American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture, by Susan Lee Johnson 1523

Markus, Across an Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time, by Rosemarie K. Bank 1524

Blewett, Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England, by Howell John Harris 1524

Kimball, American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond, by Michael Shirley 1525

Gross, Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom, by Philip J. Schwarz 1526

Olsen, Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830–1860, by Daniel Dupre 1527

Paquette and Ferleger, eds., Slavery, Secession, and Southern History, by Christopher Morris 1528

Freehling, The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War, by John C. Inscoe 1529

Blackett, Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War, by Howard Temperley 1530

Gallagher, ed., The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days, by Stephen D. Engle 1531

Hearn, Ellet's Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All, by Jeffery M. Dorwart 1532

Fellman, The Making of Robert E. Lee; and Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822–1865, by Russell F. Weigley 1532

Curtis, Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History, by Michael P. Zuckert 1533

Wilkie, Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1840–1950, by Anna Agbe-Davies 1534

Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation, by Dylan Penningroth 1535

Brundage, ed., Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity, by Richard H. King 1536

Gallagher and Nolan, eds., The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, by William Garrett Piston 1537

Dailey, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia, by Michael Perman 1538

Perman, Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888–1908, by William Warren Rogers Jr. 1539

Dailey, Gilmore, and Simon, eds., Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights, by Gaines M. Foster 1539

Cooper, Holt, and Scott, Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies, by Alan L. Karras 1540

Zanetti and García, trans. by Knight and Todd, Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837–1959, by Julie Greene 1541

Frost, Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South, by William A. Link 1542

Henning, Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations, by Frank Ninkovich 1543

Hume, Obituaries in American Culture, by Robert V. Wells 1544

Prothero, Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America, by David C. Sloane 1545

Dunlay, Kit Carson & the Indians, by Roger L. Nichols 1546

La Vere, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory, by Mary Jane Warde 1546

Wickett, Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1865–1907, by Kevin Mulroy 1547

McNally, Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion, by Sherry L. Smith 1548

Schmalz, Der Richtungsstreit in der frühen amerikanischen Wirtschaftslehre und der Einfluß der Deutschen Historischen Schule (Opposing factions in early American economic theory and the influence of the German historical school), by Silvano A. Wueschner 1549

Black, Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom, by Martin V. Melosi 1550

Sharrer, A Kind of Fate: Agricultural Change in Virginia, 1861–1920, by Roy V. Scott 1550

Warren, Struggling with "Iowa's Pride": Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877, by Margaret Walsh 1551

Blanke, Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest, by Donald H. Parkerson 1552

Robertson, Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal, by William J. Breen 1553

Dunlop, Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York; and Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896, by Jeffrey S. Adler 1554

Beito, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967, by Brian Greenberg 1555

Hoffman, The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America, by Emily K. Abel 1556

Berebitsky, Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851–1950, by Ruth M. Alexander 1557

Barrows, Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper, by Mina Carson 1558

Urban, Gender, Race, and the National Education Association: Professionalism and Its Limitations, by Maxine Schwartz Seller 1559

Cashdollar, A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915, by A. Gregory Schneider 1560

Harrison, Connecting Links: The British and American Woman Suffrage Movements, 1900–1914, by Genevieve G. McBride 1560

Fiebig–von Hase and Heideking, eds., Zwei Wege in die Moderne: Aspekte der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, 1900–1918 (Two paths to modernity: Aspects of German-American relations, 1900–1918), by Nancy Mitchell 1561

Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882–1943, by Renqiu Yu 1562

Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration, by Rudolph J. Vecoli 1563

Roby, Les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre: Rêves et réalités (The Franco-Americans of New England: Dreams and realities), by C. Stewart Doty 1564

Wala, ed., Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext: Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag (Society and diplomacy in transatlantic context: A festschrift for Reinhard R. Doerries on the occasion of his 65th birthday), by Manfred Jonas 1565

Venturini, "Dopo nove giorni di cielo e acqua": Storia, storie, e luoghi in mezzo secolo di emigrazione sammarinese negli Stati Uniti ("After nine days of sky and water": History, stories, and place in a half century of San Marinese emigration to the United States), by Betty Boyd Caroli 1566

Jacoby, Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, by Joseph E. Taylor III 1567

Dann, Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America, by Elizabeth McKinsey 1568

Mulholland, William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles, by Harold L. Platt 1569

Massell, Amassing Power: J. B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897–1927, by Louis P. Cain 1569

McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, by David Massell 1570

Tucker, Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World, by Charles Coate 1571

Sheinin, ed., Beyond the Ideal: Pan Americanism in Inter-American Affairs, by Thomas Schoonover 1572

Foster, Castles in the Sand: The Life and Times of Carl Graham Fisher, by Alan Raucher 1573

Fasce, La democrazia degli affari: Comunicazione aziendale e discorso pubblico negli Stati Uniti, 1900–1940 (The democracy of business: Business communication and public discourse in the United States, 1900–1940), by Daniel Pope 1574

Slotten, Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920–1960, by Christopher H. Sterling 1575

Bowser and Spence, Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences; and Green, Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux, by David Krasner 1576

Melnick, A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song, by Andrew R. Heinze 1577

Lloyd, Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris, by John White 1578

Ludington, Fahy, and Reuning, eds., A Modern Mosaic: Art and Modernism in the United States, by Ellen Wiley Todd 1579

Waldrep, Southern Workers and the Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina, by Annette C. Wright 1580

Arnesen, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality, by Joe William Trotter 1581

Mayer, Zwischen Krise und Krieg: Frankreich in der Außenwirtschaftspolitik der usa zwischen Weltwirtschaftskrise und Zweitem Weltkrieg und das Problem der Sicherheit vor Deutschland (Between crisis and war: France and American foreign economic policy between the Great Depression and World War II and the problem of security from Germany), by Lloyd E. Ambrosius 1582

Burk, Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, & American Baseball since 1921, by Jules Tygiel 1583

Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, by Murray Sperber 1584

Holley, The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South, by Walter L. Buenger 1584

White, The Constitution and the New Deal, by Michael E. Parrish 1585

Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace, by LeRoy Ashby 1586

Arad, America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism, by Henry L. Feingold 1587

Bendersky, The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army, by Stephen J. Whitfield 1588

Davis, FDR, the War President, 1940–1943: A History, by John Prados 1589

Sweeney, Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II, by Holly C. Shulman 1590

Weingartner, A Peculiar Crusade: Willis M. Everett and the Malmedy Massacre, by James F. Tent 1590

Maga, Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials, by Michael A. Barnhart    1591

Takaki, Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II, by Daniel Kryder 1592

Gentile, How Effective Is Strategic Bombing?: Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo, by Mark Conversino 1593

Rosenzweig, Erziehung zur Demokratie? Amerikanische Besatzungs- und Schulreformpolitik in Deutschland und Japan (Education for democracy? American occupation and school reform politics in Germany and Japan), by Rudolf V. A. Janssens 1593

Ryan and Pungong, eds., The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom, by J. Garry Clifford 1594

Rotter, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947–1964, by H. W. Brands 1595

Slonim, Jerusalem in America's Foreign Policy, 1947–1997, by Peter Grose 1596

Robin, The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex, by Michael E. Latham 1597

Redmond and Smith, From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of the SAGE Air Defense Computer, by I. B. Holley Jr. 1597

Lieberman, The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anticommunism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945–1963, by David S. Patterson 1598

Ghorra-Gobin, Les États-Unis entre local et mondial (The United States between local and global), by Charles N. Glaab 1599

Pauly, Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey, by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt 1600

Appel, Shaping Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biological Research, 1945–1975, by Daniel Lee Kleinman 1601

Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health, by Susan L. Smith 1602

Freeman, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II, by François Weil 1603

Diner, Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America, by Elisabeth Israels Perry 1603

Lippy, Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century, by Mark Hulsether 1604

Sack, Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture, by Robert C. Fuller 1605

Marling, Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday, by Alexis McCrossen 1606

Bertrand, Race, Rock, and Elvis, by Brian Ward 1607

Santoro, Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus, by Douglas Henry Daniels 1607

Whalen, Kennedy versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race, by Gary W. Reichard 1608

Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932–1968, by George B. Tindall 1609

Henderson, Ernest Vandiver: Governor of Georgia, by Julian M. Pleasants 1610

Drescher, Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South, by Glen Jeansonne 1611

Bartley, Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940–1970, by Charles D. Chamberlain 1611

Crispell, Testing the Limits: George Armistead Smathers and Cold War America, by James R. Sweeney 1612

Gonzales-Berry and Maciel, eds., The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico, by Rodolfo F. Acuña 1613

García, Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot, by David G. Gutiérrez 1614

Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life, by James N. Giglio 1615

Mann, A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam, by George C. Herring 1616

Kinney, Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War, by Jacques Portes 1617

Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, by Susan M. Hartmann 1618

McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, by Mary C. Brennan 1618

Isserman, The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, by Jesus Velasco 1619

Mitman, Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film, by Michael Welsh     1620

Flippen, Nixon and the Environment, by Thomas R. Huffman 1621

Stein, City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945–1972, by Holly Baggett 1622

D'Emilio, Turner, and Vaid, eds., Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights, by John Howard 1623

O'Connor, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History, by Daniel Levine 1624

Kim, Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City, by Robert C. Lieberman 1625

Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989–2000, by Moss Roberts 1625


Web Site Reviews

New York Times Daily Lesson Plan and Daily Lesson Plan Archive, by Arnold Pulda     1627

Documenting the American South, by Crandall Shifflett 1628

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820–1940, by Allison L. Sneider 1629

The New Deal Network, by Charles Forcey 1630

Project WhistleStop: Truman Digital Archive Project, by Patrick D. Reagan 1631


Announcements 1632
Recent Scholarship 1633
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