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Rape without Women: Print Culture and the Politicization of Rape, 1765–1815
Sharon Block 849
"Public Sentiment Is Everything": The Union's Public Communications Strategy and the Bogus Proclamation of 1864
Menahem Blondheim 869
"The Art of Killing by Electricity": The Sublime and the Electric Chair
Jürgen Martschukat 900
Delegitimizing Democracy: "Civic Slackers," the Cultural Turn, and the Possibilities of Politics
Liette Gidlow 922
Constructing G.I. Joe Louis: Cultural Solutions to the "Negro Problem" during World War II
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff 958


Exhibition Reviews

Introduction 984

"Stony the Road They Trod: Forced Migration of African Americans in the Slave South, 1790–1865," by Bruce E. Baker 984

Battle of Olustee, annual reenactment and downtown festival, by Sean H. McMahon 986

"Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America," by Grace Elizabeth Hale 989

Museum of Mobile, by Clarence L. Mohr 994

"Enterprising Emporiums: The Jewish Department Stores of Downtown Baltimore," by Jessica Elfenbein 999

"Joseph McCarthy: A Modern Tragedy," by Stephen E. Kercher 1002

Oklahoma City National Memorial Center Museum, by Carolyn Garrett Pool 1005

"New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers"; "Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs"; and "The September 11 Photo Project," by Jeffrey Shandler 1008

Museums and Communities after September 11, by Margo Bloom 1014


Book Reviews

Menand, The Metaphysical Club, by Jackson Lears 1017

Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by Eric Hinderaker 1018

Taylor, American Colonies, by James A. Henretta 1019

Weddle, The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle, by James Pritchard 1020

Nelson, A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690–1776, by E. Brooks Holifield 1021

Wood, Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820, by Aaron Fogleman 1022

Brumwell, Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755–1763, by Don Higginbotham 1023

Lee, Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War, by Sally E. Hadden 1024

Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82, by Joyce E. Chaplin 1024

Dougherty, Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation, by Jonathan M. Chu 1025

Ryerson, ed., John Adams and the Founding of the Republic, by Van Beck Hall 1026

Krawczynski, William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot, by Robert Olwell 1027

Gillespie, The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1759–1811, by Johanna Miller Lewis 1028

Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia, by Rosemarie Zagarri 1029

Siskind, Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795–1850, by Mark S. Schantz 1030

Newmyer, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court, by Michael Zuckert 1031

McBride, Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony, by Diane Batts Morrow 1032

Glaude, Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America, by Lamin Sanneh 1033

Grover, The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts, by John R. McKivigan 1033

Wolin, Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life, by Matthew Mancini 1034

Cook, The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum; and Reiss, The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America, by Gary Cross 1035

Johansen, Family Men: Middle-Class Fatherhood in Early Industrializing America, by Brian Roberts 1037

Rose, Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth-Century America, by Emily S. Bingham 1038

Corrigan, Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century, by Amanda Porterfield 1038

Gordon, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America, by Nancy A. Hewitt 1039

Daynes, More Wives than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840–1910, by Norman H. Murdoch 1040

Nelson, Say Little, Do Much: Nurses, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century, by Kathleen M. Joyce 1041

Ball, Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848–1861, by Robert Carriker 1042

Evans, The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization, by John Majewski 1043

Smith, Listening to Nineteenth-Century America, by Edward Baptist 1043

Plummer, Lincoln's Rail-Splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby, by Stephen Hansen 1044

Bleser and Gordon, eds., Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives, by Janet L. Coryell 1045

McCaslin, Lee in the Shadow of Washington, by Kenneth W. Noe 1046

Woodworth, ed., Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg, by James A. Ramage 1047

Woodworth, While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers, by Carl J. Guarneri 1048

Crawford, Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South, by Robert Tracy McKenzie 1049

Inscoe and Kenzer, eds., Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South; and Bynum, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, by Wayne K. Durrill 1050

Gray, The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison, by James O. Breeden 1051

Noe, Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, by Benjamin Franklin Cooling 1052

Gerteis, Civil War St. Louis, by Randall M. Miller 1053

Vorenberg, Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment, by Louis S. Gerteis 1054

York, Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory, by James E. Davis 1055

McMillen, To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865–1915, by Beth Barton Schweiger 1055

Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post–Civil War North, 1865–1901, by Stephen Kantrowitz 1056

Gustafson, Women and the Republican Party, 1854–1924, by Elizabeth R. Varon 1057

Newman, White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States, by Melanie Gustafson 1058

Scully, Bargaining with the State from Afar: American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844–1942, by Michael Schaller 1059

Clifford, "A Truthful Impression of the Country": British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880–1949, by Madeline Y. Hsu 1060

Sandweiss, St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape, by Michael Holleran 1061

Miller, Visions of Place: The City, Neighborhoods, Suburbs, and Cincinnati's Clifton, 1850–2000, by Thomas M. Spencer 1062

Cocks, Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850–1915, by Philip J. Ethington 1063

Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880–1940, by Anne Hyde 1063

Fogelson, Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950, by William Issel 1064

Igler, Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920, by Gunther Peck 1065

Mercier, Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City, by David Igler 1066

Schäfer, American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875–1920: Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context, by Jeffrey Sklansky 1067

Frezza, Il leader, la folla, la democrazia nel discorso pubblico americano, 1880–1941 (The leader, the crowd, and democracy in American public discourse, 1880–1941), by José Luis Orozco 1068

Young, Henry Adams: The Historian as Political Theorist, by Gillis J. Harp 1069

Putney, Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920, by Ted Ownby 1069

Taiz, Hallelujah Lads & Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880–1930, by Lynne Marks 1070

Katerberg, Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880–1950, by J. Robert Wright 1071

Kauffman, Patriotism and Fraternalism in the Knights of Columbus: A History of the Fourth Degree, by Robert Emmett Curran 1072

Dale, The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis, by Richard F. Hamm 1073

Schulten, The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950, by Jonathan M. Smith 1074

Meyerson, Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite, by Marguerite S. Shaffer 1075

Perlmann and Margo, Women's Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920, by Kathleen C. Berkeley 1076

Cohen-Solal, trans. by Hurwitz-Attias, Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867–New York 1948, by Sarah Burns 1077

Swinth, Painting Professionals: Women Artists & the Development of Modern American Art, 1870–1930, by Melissa Dabakis 1077

Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism, by Shirley Teresa Wajda 1078

Kitch, The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media, by Susan J. Douglas 1079

Halper, Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting, by Sandra Haarsager 1080

Lewis, Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, by William Paul 1081

Zanjani, Sarah Winnemucca, by David W. Adams 1082

Holt, Indian Orphanages, by Lisa E. Emmerich 1083

Schmitz, White Robe's Dilemma: Tribal History in American Literature, by Raymond J. DeMallie 1084

Puskás, trans. by Ludwig, Ties That Bind, Ties That Divide: 100 Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States, by N. F. Dreisziger 1085

McFarland, Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898–1918, by Barbara M. Kelly 1085

Rauchway, The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900–1920, by K. Walter Hickel 1086

Shepherd, Avenues of Faith: Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929, by James Duane Bolin 1087

Kuhn, Contesting the New South Order: The 1914–1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills, by Alex Lichtenstein 1088

McKeown, Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900–1936, by Yong Chen 1089

Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown, by Erika Lee 1090

Guterl, The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940, by David W. Stowe 1091

Butler, An Undergrowth of Folly: Public Order, Race Anxiety, and the 1903 Evansville, Indiana, Riot, by William Cohen 1092

Bauerlein, Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906, by Gregory Mixon 1092

Ford, Americans All!: Foreign-Born Soldiers in World War I, by Frederick C. Luebke 1093

Melton, Between War and Peace: Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1921, by Betty Miller Unterberger 1094

Johnson, Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I, by John Carver Edwards 1095

Bednarek, America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918–1947, by Marc Dierikx 1096

Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, by G. Kurt Piehler 1097

Ellis, Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I, by Christopher Capozzola 1097

Taylor and Hill, eds., Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900–1950, by Karen J. Ferguson 1098

Madison, A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America, by Glenn Feldman 1099

Anderson, Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought, by Burton W. Peretti 1100

Boyle and Bunie, Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement, by Kenneth R. Janken 1101

Alexander, Jazz Age Jews, by David J. Goldberg 1102

Watts, Mae West: An Icon in Black and White, by Leslie Fishbein 1103

Peeler, The Illuminating Mind in American Photography: Stieglitz, Strand, Weston, Adams, by Melissa A. McEuen 1104

Gemelli, ed., The "Unacceptables": American Foundations and Refugee Scholars between the Two Wars and After, by Sylvia W. McGrath 1105

Lipset and Marks, It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States, by Nelson Lichtenstein 1106

Bernstein, A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America, by Thomas K. McCraw 1107

Kadlec, Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture, by John Pettegrew 1107

Weir, An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment, by Joel Davidson 1108

Biolsi, "Deadliest Enemies": Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation, by Brian W. Dippie 1109

Townsend, World War II and the American Indian, by Richard N. Ellis 1110

Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans, by Charlotte Brooks 1111

Fujitani, White, and Yoneyama, eds., Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s), by Jeffrey C. Livingston 1112

Willoughby, Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-War American Occupation of Germany, by Ronald J. Granieri 1112

Bude and Greiner, eds., Westbindungen: Amerika in der Bundesrepublik (West-relationships: America in the Federal Republic of Germany), by Klaus Larres 1113

Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945–1966, by William O. Walker III 1114

Richelson, The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, by Walter L. Hixson 1115

Tuunainen, The Role of Presidential Advisory Systems in US Foreign Policy-Making: The Case of the National Security Council and Vietnam, 1953–1961, by David L. Snead 1116

Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976, by James H. Meriwether 1117

Palmer, Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians, by Neil Jumonville 1118

Cox, Ikenberry, and Inoguchi, eds., American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts, by David Clinton 1119

Shoch, Trading Blows: Party Competition and U.S. Trade Policy in a Globalizing Era, by Alfred E. Eckes 1120

Geschwind, California Earthquakes: Science, Risk, & the Politics of Hazard Mitigation, by Ted Steinberg 1120

Huggard and Gómez, eds., Forests under Fire: A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest, by Thomas R. Cox 1121

Miller, ed., On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio, by Anthony N. Penna 1122

Kirk, Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library, by Char Miller 1123

Jeffrey, Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care, by Hamilton Cravens 1124

Baer, Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, by Roger Cooter 1125

Gray, Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism; and Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930–1990, by Barbara Ladd 1126

Scranton, ed., The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s, by Kenneth Lipartito 1127

Minchin, The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980, by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff 1128

Graham, Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle, by John A. Silk 1129

Hein, Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century, by David E. Sumner 1130

Bean, Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration, by Theodore P. Kovaleff 1131

Frost, "An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s, by Robert Fisher 1131

Satterthwaite, Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences, by Stephanie Dyer 1132

Spigel, Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs, by James W. Carey 1133

Bloom, Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream, by Paul H. Mattingly 1134

Haynes, Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb, by Andrew Wiese 1135

Moen, Race, Color, and Partial Blindness: Affirmative Action under the Law, by Raymond Wolters 1136

Arthur, Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States, by Andrew F. Clark 1136

Rasmussen, Klinenberg, Nexica, and Wray, eds., The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, by Julian Carter 1137

Zelinsky, The Enigma of Ethnicity: Another American Dilemma, by Philip Gleason 1138

Gracia and De Greiff, eds., Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights, by José M. Alamillo 1139

Menjívar, Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America, by David P. Lindstrom 1140

Reynolds, ed. by Bronner, Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren, by Kimberly Schmidt 1141

Moore and Troen, eds., Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America, by Steven Rosenthal 1142

Linenthal, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, by Marita Sturken 1143

Okihiro, Common Ground: Reimagining American History, by Louise M. Newman 1144

Conforti, Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century, by Tamara Plakins Thornton 1145

Leventhal and Quinault, eds., Anglo-American Attitudes: From Revolution to Partnership, by Jamie Bronstein 1145

Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World, by Jerald A. Combs 1146

Deconde, Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control, by Joel Best 1147

Rubio, A History of Affirmative Action, 1619–2000, by Thomas J. Davis 1148

Bledstein and Johnston, eds., The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class, by Daniel J. Walkowitz 1149

Fogarty, Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia, by Mary J. Oates 1150

Sparks, Religion in Mississippi, by Frederick A. Bode 1151


Movie Reviews

Reel Report, 2001–2002
Robert Brent Toplin 1153

War Letters, by Joe P. Dunn 1157

Secrets of the Dead II: Death at Jamestown, by Joan R. Gundersen 1157

Secrets of the Dead II: Witches Curse, by Jane Kamensky 1158

Battle of the Alamo, by Joseph G. Dawson III 1159

Black Indians: An American Story, by Kevin Mulroy 1160

Mark Twain, by Ron Briley 1161

The Jungle, by Mark Pittenger 1162

Woodrow Wilson, by David M. Esposito 1163

Mount Rushmore, by Bill Corbett 1165

Public Enemy #1: The Legendary Outlaw John Dillinger, by David E. Ruth 1166

The Grapes of Wrath, by William H. Mullins 1167

Zoot Suit Riots, by Rodolfo F. Acuña 1168

The Rosenberg File: Case Closed, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 1169

Miss America, by M. Alison Kibler 1170

The Majestic, by Paul Buhle 1171

Ghosts of Attica, by Scott Christianson 1172

We Were Soldiers, by Michael Schaller 1173

Investigation of a Flame: A Documentary Portrait of the Catonsville Nine, by Melvin Small 1174

Commander in Chief, by John Dumbrell 1175

Black Hawk Down, by James I. Matray 1176

Electric Money, by Timothy J. Brennan 1177


Web Site Reviews

Introduction 1179

History Wired: A Few of Our Favorite Things, by Ellen K. Rothman 1179

David Rumsey Map Collection, by Joseph S. Wood 1180

The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz before 1930, by Burton W. Peretti 1181

River of Song, by Karl Hagstrom Miller 1181

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive, by Steven F. Lawson 1182

Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley, by Daniel J. Cohen 1183

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