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Previews 15

Round Table
Self and Subject

Here Is the Problem: An Introduction
Richard White 17

Self, Subject, and the "Barefoot Historian"
Karen Halttunen 20

Thinking about Self in a Family Way
Philip J. Deloria 25

Last Words
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 30

Using Self, Using History . . .
John Demos 37

A Pail of Cream
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 43

Of Cats, Historians, and Gardeners
Michael O'Brien 48


Articles

Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S. Borders with Canada and Mexico, 1882–1924
Erika Lee 54

How the Working Class Saved Capitalism: The New Labor History and The Devil and Miss Jones
Michael Rogin 87

Afterword
Kathleen Moran 115

Is the Supreme Court Sometimes Irrelevant? Race and the Southern Criminal Justice System in the 1940s
Michael J. Klarman 119

Whiteness Studies: The New History of Race in America
Peter Kolchin 154


Exhibition Reviews

"1699: When Virginia Was the Wild West!," by Kirk Davis Swinehart 174

"Within These Walls . . . ," by Brian Horrigan 179

President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, by Phillip Payne 182

"The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet," by Maggie Dennis 185


Book Reviews

Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676, by Virginia DeJohn Anderson 188

Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963, by V. P. Franklin 189

Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century, by Eric Arnesen 191

Claviez and Moss, eds., Mirror Writing: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity, by Charles L. P. Silet 193

Keita, Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx, by David Turley 194

Longmore and Umansky, eds., The New Disability History: American Perspectives, by James W. Trent 194

Archer, Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century, by Ann M. Little 195

Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas, by S. Max Edelson 196

Hall, ed., Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699–1860: Information from Original Manuscript Sources (CD-ROM); and Eltis, Behrendt, Richardson, and Klein, eds., The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM, by Daniel C. Littlefield 197

Herndon, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England, by John K. Alexander 199

Tager, Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence, by Paul A. Gilje 200

Wilder, A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn, by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua 201

Nester, "Haughty Conquerors": Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763, by Michael N. McConnell 201

Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, by Jon Sensbach 202

Nicolson, The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the Origins of the American Revolution, by David W. Conroy 203

Hall, Land & Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia, by Carole Watterson Troxler 204

Meyer, Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C., by Isabelle Gournay 205

Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790–1850, by Edward K. Spann 206

Woodson, A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson, by Jan Lewis 206

Glover, All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry, by Anya Jabour 207

Atkins, We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America, by Linda W. Rosenzweig 208

McCurdy, The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839–1865, by Martin Bruegel 209

Schantz, Piety in Providence: Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode Island, by John W. Quist 209

Haller, The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790–1860, by Anita Guerrini 210

Abel, Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940, by Ellen S. More 211

Gitter, The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl; and Freeberg, The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language, by Kim Nielsen 212

Adams, General William S. Harney: Prince of Dragoons, by Joseph G. Dawson III 214

Barbour, Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade, by Robert Wooster 214

Wyatt-Brown, The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s–1890s, by A. James Fuller 215

Wayne, Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South, by Daniel W. Crofts 216

Ericson, The Debate over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America, by Dan R. Frost 217

Francaviglia and Richmond, eds., Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846–1848, by James M. McCaffrey 218

Rebert, La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States–Mexico Boundary, 1849–1857, by Dennis Reinhartz 219

Foucrier, Le rêve californien: Migrants français sur la côte Pacifique, XVIIIe–XXe siècles (Californian dreams: French migrants on the Pacific Coast, 18th–20th centuries), by Rob Kroes 219

Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War, by Martin Crawford 221

Hettle, The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War, by Susan-Mary Grant 221

Clinton, ed., Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South, by Marie Jenkins Schwartz 222

Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, by Brooks D. Simpson 223

Davis, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs & Alexander H. Stephens, by Christopher J. Olsen 224

Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War, by David F. Ericson 225

Smith, Grant, by Hans L. Trefousse 226

Waldrep and Nieman, eds., Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South, by Dickson D. Bruce Jr. 227

Click, Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862–1867, by Janette Thomas Greenwood 228

Hollandsworth, An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866, by Jonathan M. Bryant 229

Curtin, Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865–1900, by Karin A. Shapiro 229

Miller, Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency: Florida's Pardon Board and Penal System in the Progressive Era, by Wilbur R. Miller 230

Moran, Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race & Romance, by Lisa Lindquist Dorr 231

Cumbler, Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England, 1790–1930, by Brian Donahue 232

Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900, by James Livingston 233

Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell; and Fernlund, William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West, by Karl Jacoby 234

Monnett, Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes, by Donald J. Berthrong 235

McFeely, Zuni and the American Imagination, by Larry J. Zimmerman 236

Harper, Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik the New York Eskimo, by Curtis M. Hinsley 237

Strauss, Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin, by Ronald Story 238

Justesen, George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life, by Robert Cassanello 239

Meagher, Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880–1928, by James J. Connolly 239

Smith, The Search for Social Salvation: Social Christianity and America, 1880–1925, by William R. Glass 240

Hamilton-Paterson, America's Boy: A Century of Colonialism in the Philippines; and Linn, The Philippine War, 1899–1902, by Joseph A. Fry 241

Ye, Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927, by Eileen Scully 243

Duggan, Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity, by John Rockwell Snowden 243

Kern, Mrs. Stanton's Bible, by Nancy Isenberg 244

Miller, Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New York's Literary Women, by Lisa Cohen 245

Spurlock and Magistro, New and Improved: The Transformation of American Women's Emotional Culture, by David Peterson del Mar 246

Carnes, ed., Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other), by Dorothy C. Broaddus 247

Fickle, Mississippi Forests and Forestry, by Mikko Saikku 248

Pyne, Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910, by Peter Boag 248

Derrick, Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York, by Clifton Hood 249

Walsh, Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA, by William R. Childs 250

Warren, Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry, by Duane A. Smith 251

Mullin, Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest, by Mick Gidley 252

Mele, Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City, by Ross Miller 252

Thornbrough, ed. by Ruegamer, Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century, by Darrel E. Bigham 253

Nelson, Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality, by Judith Stein 254

Bernstein, Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal, by Michael S. Mayer 255

Klotman and Cutler, eds., Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video, by L. S. Kim 256

Everett, Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909–1949, by Thomas Cripps 257

Melnick, Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South, by Clive Webb 258

Beary, Black Bishop: Edward T. Demby and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Episcopal Church, by Alfred Moss 259

Craddock, City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco, by Richard A. Meckel 259

Tyrrell, Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and Its Opponents in Australia, by James Kirby Martin 260

Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World, by Jim Baumohl 261

Shephard, A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century, by Eric T. Dean Jr. 262

Strozier, Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst, by Peter Loewenberg 263

Hepler, Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890–1980, by Lynne Curry 264

Millikan, A Union against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight against Organized Labor, 1903–1947, by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf 265

Wacker, Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture, by R. Marie Griffith 266

Moss, Golf and the American Country Club, by John Dizikes 267

Hirobe, Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act, by John N. Tsuchida 267

Pedersen, The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919–57, by Edward P. Johanningsmeier 268

Cottrell, Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union, by Michal R. Belknap 269

Nelson, The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920–1980, by Randolph Bergstrom 270

Lee, Comrades and Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester, by Kate Weigand 271

Craig, Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940, by Brett Gary 272

McCann, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism; and Szalay, New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State, by Lawrence J. Oliver 273

Fishman, ed., The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy, by Gwendolyn Wright 274

Richards, Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader, by Ruth A. Needleman 275

Davis, Race against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930, by J. William Harris 276

Rusco, A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act, by Raymond Wilson 277

Moy, War Machines: Transforming Technologies in the U.S. Military, 1920–1940; and McBride, Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945, by Gary E. Weir 278

Doenecke, Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939–1941, by Manfred Jonas 279

Moriyama, Nichibei Kaisen no Seiji Katei (The political process of Japan's decision for war against the United States), by Roger Dingman 280

Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, by Justus D. Doenecke 281

Sarantakes, Keystone: The American Occupation of Okinawa and U.S.-Japanese Relations, by Russell D. Buhite 282

Waddell, The War against the New Deal: World War II and American Democracy, by John W. Jeffries 282

Slane, A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy, by Laura A. Belmonte 283

Schlesinger, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950, by William L. O'Neill 284

Hampf, Freies Radio in den USA: Die Pacifica-Foundation, 1946–1965 (Free radio in the USA: The Pacifica Foundation, 1946–1965), by Brigitte L. Nacos 285

Leab, I Was a Communist for the FBI: The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic, by Robert Griffith 286

Gundle, Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991, by Mario Del Pero 287

Mathé, ed., L'Antiaméricanisme: Anti-Americanism at Home and Abroad, by Peter Gibian 288

Sharp, Condensing the Cold War: Reader's Digest and American Identity, by Susan Schulten 289

Medhurst and Brands, eds., Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History, by Melvin Small 290

Walker, Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century, by Sheldon Ungar 291

Streeter, Managing the Counterrevolution: The United States and Guatemala, 1954–1961, by Michael L. Krenn 291

Druks, The Uncertain Friendship: The U.S. and Israel from Roosevelt to Kennedy; and Rosenthal, Irreconcilable Differences?: The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel, by John Snetsinger 292

Crane, Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing; and Joselit, A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America, by Mary W. Blanchard 294

Wright, Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America, by Bernard Mergen 295

Tygiel, Past Time: Baseball as History, by George B. Kirsch 296

Giglio, Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man, by Richard C. Crepeau 297

Grundy, Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina, by Benjamin G. Rader 298

Weyeneth, Historic Preservation for a Living City: Historic Charleston Foundation, 1947–1997, by David R. Contosta 299

Monkkonen, Murder in New York City, by David Wolcott 300

Polsgrove, Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement, by Nancy J. Weiss 300

Webb, Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights; and Schultz, Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement, by Nancy MacLean 301

Cortner, Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases; and Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, by Raymond Wolters 303

Cochran, Democracy Heading South: National Politics in the Shadow of Dixie, by Bruce J. Schulman 304

Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by M. J. Heale 305

Langguth, Our Vietnam: The War, 1954–1975, by Robert R. Tomes 306

Frey, Geschichte des Vietnamkriegs: Die Tragödie in Asien und das Ende des amerikanischen Traums (History of the Vietnam War: The tragedy in Asia and the end of the American dream), by Dennis E. Showalter 307

Zolov, Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture, by T. M. Scruggs 308

Flores, From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, by Zaragosa Vargas 309

Miguel, Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston, by Gilbert G. Gonzalez 310

Hirsh, Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Utility System, by Robert W. Righter 310

Blackford, Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959–2000, by David Farber 311

Beeman and Pritchard, A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century, by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg 312

Strom, Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform, by Dennis A. Deslippe 313

Brilliant, Private Charity and Public Inquiry: A History of the Filer and Peterson Commissions, by Judith Sealander 314

Katz, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State, by Joanne Goodwin 315

Mendelberg, The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality, by Matthew Streb 316

Stevens, Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics, by Raymond DeVries 316

Lerner, The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America; and Goodman and Walsh, The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug, by Rima D. Apple 318

Niethammer, I'll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist, by Helen M. Bannan 319

Fixico, The Urban Indian Experience in America, by Kenneth R. Philp 320

Gulliford, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions, by Christopher Vecsey 321

Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America, by J. Brooks Flippen 322

Cohen and Eisen, The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America, by Marc Dollinger 323

Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons, by Timothy Miller 323

Szasz, Religion in the Modern American West, by Carol K. Coburn 324

Morgan and Promey, eds., The Visual Culture of American Religions, by Paul Eli Ivey 325

Mizruchi, ed., Religion and Cultural Studies, by Leigh E. Schmidt 326


Web Site Reviews

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory, by Philip J. Ethington 328

Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898–1935, by Pennee Bender 329

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, by Gregory Wilson 330

RE: Vietnam—Stories since the War, by Michael Frisch 331

Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology through American History, by Nancy Page Fernandez 332


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