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Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age
Richard White 19
"Something Cloudy in Their Looks": The Origins of the Yamasee War Reconsidered
William L. Ramsey 44
Rethinking the Coming of the Civil War: A Counterfactual Exercise
Gary J. Kornblith 76
American Indians and Land Monopolies in the Gilded Age
Alexandra Harmon 106


Special Essay

Diaspora and Comparison: The Global Irish as a Case Study
Kevin Kenny 134


Exhibition Reviews

"The Rankins of Cherry Hill: Struggling with the Loss of Their World," by Susan P. Schoelwer 163

"An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum," by Dennis K. McDaniel 173

"To Sustain the Union: Central Illinois in the Civil War," by Trevor Jones 176

"Just over the Line: Chester County and the Underground Railroad," by T. Stephen Whitman 179

"Facing Southwest: The Houses of John Gaw Meem," by Jeff Sanders 182

"On Track: Transit and the American City," by Janet Davidson 186

Virtual Vietnam Archive, by Patrick Hagopian 189

"Loss and Renewal: Transforming Tragic Sites," by Rebecca E. Deen 191

"Treasures Untold: Unique Collections from Devoted Fans," by Diane Pecknold 193

"Sunrise in His Pocket: The Life, Legend, and Legacy of Davy Crockett," by Joseph G. Dawson III 196


Book Reviews

Fitzpatrick, History's Memory: Writing America's Past, 1880–1980, by James T. Kloppenberg 199

Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography, by Martha Hodes 201

Deagan and Cruxent, Columbus's Outpost among the Taínos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493–1498; and Deagan and Cruxent, Archaeology at La Isabela: America's First European Town, by Patricia Galloway 202

Sleeper-Smith, Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes, by John Mack Faragher 204

Brooks, Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Border-lands, by Peter Iverson 205

Burnard, Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776, by Emory G. Evans 205

Wada, Shien to teikoku: Amerika nanbu tabako shokuminchi no shakai to keizai (Tobacco smoke and empire: Society and economy in tobacco colonies in the American South), by Yasuhide Kawashima 206

Breen, Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630–1692, by Bruce C. Daniels 207

Wright, Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750–1800, by George Rappaport 208

Chávez, Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift, by James A. Lewis 209

Buker, The Penobscot Expedition: Commodore Saltonstall and the Massachusetts Conspiracy of 1779, by Philip Ranlet 210

McCullough, John Adams, by John Howe 210

Bowling and Kennon, eds., The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development, by Seth Cotlar 211

Bogus, ed., The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms, by Saul Cornell 212

Kyvig, ed., Unintended Consequences of Constitutional Amendment, by Neil Kinkopf 213

Shafer and Badger, eds., Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775–2000, by Mark Wahlgren Summers 214

Fabre, Heideking, and Dreisbach, eds., Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century, by Keith Fitzgerald 215

Grabbe, Vor der großen Flut: Die europäische Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 1783–1820 (Before the great flood: European migration into the United States of America, 1783–1820), by James M. Bergquist 216

Kass, Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786–1876, by Judith A. Houck 217

Bruegel, Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860, by Thomas Summerhill 218

Noll, ed., God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790–1860, by Leigh E. Schmidt 219

Hartford, Money, Morals, and Politics: Massachusetts in the Age of the Boston Associates, by Robert F. Dalzell Jr. 220

Robertson, Rotting Face: Smallpox and the American Indian, by John Fahey 221

Binnema, Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains, by Phil Roberts 222

Sappol, A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, by Thomas R. Cole 223

Humphreys, Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, by Susan Craddock 223

Alexander, Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines, by Vivien Miller 224

Boswell, Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837–1873, by Harriet E. Amos Doss 225

Reichstein, German Pioneers on the American Frontier: The Wagners in Texas and Illinois, by LaVern J. Rippley 226

Gleeson, The Irish in the South, 1815–1877, by Timothy J. Meagher 227

Abanes, One Nation under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church, by Kathryn M. Daynes 228

Le Beau, Currier & Ives: America Imagined, by Karal Ann Marling 229

Katz, Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality, by John Ibson 230

Rael, Black Identity & Black Protest in the Antebellum North, by Sterling Stuckey 231

Robinson, Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought, by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar 231

Walker, We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism, by John K. Thornton 232

Stauffer, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race, by Douglas R. Egerton 233

Neely, The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North, by William W. Freehling 234

Cimbala and Miller, eds., Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments, by Gerald J. Prokopowicz 235

Anderson, Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind; and Wills, The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia, by Richard B. McCaslin 236

Engle, Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth, by John Cimprich 237

Budd, Serving Two Masters: The Development of American Military Chaplaincy, 1860–1920, by Michael Neiberg 238

Eudell, The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South, by W. Jeffrey Bolster 239

Robinson, General Crook and the Western Frontier, by Gary Clayton Anderson 240

Meyer and Royer, eds., Selling the Indian: Commercializing & Appropriating American Indian Cultures, by Helen M. Bannan 240

Barringer, Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature, by Karen R. Merrill 241

Downey, A Season of Renewal: The Columbian Exposition and Victorian America, by Ellen M. Litwicki 242

Fisher, Lacrosse: A History of the Game, by Benjamin G. Rader 243

Smith, Play-by-Play: Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport, by Randy Roberts 244

Foster, Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865–1920, by Heather Cox Richardson 245

Cohen, The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865–1914, by Mary O. Furner 246

Steeples, Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865–1910, by William Friedricks 246

Stasz, Jack London's Women, by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin 247

Prieto, At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America, by April F. Masten 248

Broder, Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, by Ruth Crocker 249

Wolf, Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Lynne Curry 250

Pivar, Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900–1930, by Anita Clair Fellman 251

Tobin, The American Religious Debate over Birth Control, 1907–1937, by Donald T. Critchlow 252

Wingerd, Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul, by Thomas J. Jablonsky 253

Bendroth, Growing up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches, by Betty A. DeBerg 254

Moloney, American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era, by Rudolph J. Vecoli 254

Tuennerman-Kaplan, Helping Others, Helping Ourselves: Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880–1930, by Judith Ann Trolander 255

Elfenbein, The Making of a Modern City: Philanthropy, Civic Culture, and the Baltimore YMCA, by Roderick N. Ryon 256

Kusmer, Down & Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History, by Todd DePastino 257

Elshtain, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life, by Daniel Levine 258

Baritono, La democrazia vissuta: Individualismo e pluralismo nel pensiero di Mary Parker Follett (The lived democracy: Individualism and pluralism in the thought of Mary Parker Follett), by Maureen A. Flanagan 259

Phillips, The Controversialist: An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith, by James Turner 260

Conard, Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History, by Joseph Brent 261

Nau, At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy, by Robert J. McMahon 262

Hart, Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War, by Susie S. Porter 262

Fry, Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789–1973, by Charles M. Hubbard 263

Woodiwiss, Organized Crime and American Power: A History, by William Howard Moore 264

Olien and Olien, Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945, by Kenneth E. Hendrickson Jr. 265

Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, by Ronald H. Bayor 266

Levine, Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York, by Royden Loewen 267

Zhao, Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940–1965, by Huping Ling 268

Gerstle and Mollenkopf, eds., E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation, by Elliott R. Barkan 268

Øverland, ed., Not English Only: Redefining "American" in American Studies, by Walter D. Kamphoefner 269

Butler, ed., Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies, by Larry J. Griffin 270

Keil, Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907–1913, by Raymond J. Haberski Jr. 271

Hilmes and Loviglio, eds., Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio, by Judith Yaross Lee 272

Holloway, Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919–1941, by Vernon J. Williams Jr. 273

Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars, by Eric Porter 274

Eyerman, Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity, by Mitch Kachun 275

Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement, by Joseph E. Taylor III 276

Wolensky, Wolensky, and Wolensky, Fighting for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania, by Richard Greenwald 277

Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, by Lawrence B. Glickman 278

Wells, Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World, by William M. McClenahan Jr. 279

Wala, Weimar und Amerika: Botschafter Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron und die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen von 1927 bis 1933 (Weimar and America: Ambassador Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron and German-American relations from 1927 to 1933), by Janet M. Manson 280

van der Linden, Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry, by Larry Schweikart 280

Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945, by Russell F. Weigley 281

Holli, The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling, by Paul R. Brace 282

Casey, Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany, by Astrid M. Eckert 283

Benowitz, Days of Discontent: American Women and Right-Wing Politics, 1933–1945, by Kate Weigand 284

Newton, Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939–1946, by Neil McMillen 285

Rush, Hell in Hürtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment, by Gregory J. W. Urwin 286

Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953, by Meena Bose 286

Casey, Saving International Capitalism during the Early Truman Presidency: The National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems, by Francis J. Gavin 287

Ma, Maboroshi no Shinchitsujo to Ajia Taiheiyo: Dainijisekaitaisenki no Beichuu-Domei no Atsureki, 1941–1945 (Illusionary new orders and the Asian Pacific: The Chinese-American alliance in the war against Japan, 1941–1945), by Daqing Yang 288

von Holleuffer, Zwischen Fremde und Fremde: Displaced Persons in Australien, den USA, und Kanada, 1946–1952 (Between strangers and strangers: Displaced persons in Australia, the USA, and Canada, 1946–1952), by Christiane Harzig 289

Del Pero, L'Alleato scomodo: Gli USA e la DC negli anni del centrismo (1948–1955) (The inconvenient ally: The United States and the Christian Democrats in the age of centrism [1948–1955]), by Roy Domenico 290

Gouda, with Brocades Zaalberg, American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920–1949, by Anne L. Foster 291

Shimizu, Creating People of Plenty: The United States and Japan's Economic Alternatives, 1950–1960, by Mansel G. Blackford 292

Sakamoto, Nichibei domei no kizuna: Anpo-Joyaku to sogosei no mosaku (The Japan-U.S. alliance nexus: The security treaty and the search for mutuality), by Christopher W. Hughes 293

Iino, Mou hitotsu no Nichibei-Kankeishi: Funso to kyocho no naka no Nikkei Amerikajin (Another Japan-U.S. relation: Japanese Americans in conflicts and cooperation), by Eiichiro Azuma 294

Nicolet, United States Policy towards Cyprus, 1954–1974: Removing the Greek-Turkish Bone of Contention, by Bruce Kuniholm 294

Conboy and Morrison, The CIA's Secret War in Tibet, by Steven I. Levine 295

Jones, Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965: Britain, the United States, and the Creation of Malaysia, by Kenton Clymer 296

Kochavi, A Conflict Perpetuated: China Policy during the Kennedy Years, by Evelyn Goh 297

Weisbrot, Maximum Danger: Kennedy, the Missiles, and the Crisis of American Confidence, by Shane J. Maddock 298

Vestal, The Eisenhower Court and Civil Liberties, by James C. Duram 299

Gebhardt, Going for Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology, by Nichole T. Rustin 300

Stephens, The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests, by Gerald Markowitz 300

Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena, by Marc Gallicchio 301

Katagiri, The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights, by Charles W. Eagles 302

Newton, The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida, by William D. Jenkins 303

Isserman and Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, by Allen J. Matusow 304

Uesugi, Kominken Undo he no Michi: Amerika Nanbu Noson niokeru Kokujin no Tatakai (The way to the civil rights movement: The struggle of African Americans in the American South), by Ryo Yokoyama 305

Mattson, Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945–1970, by Howard Brick 305

Ward, Ferrytale: The Career of W. H. "Ping" Ferry, by Michael Wreszin 306

Young, Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream, by Patrick Maney 307

Teel, Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience, by David L. Chappell 308

Mitchell, Mississippi Liberal: A Biography of Frank E. Smith, by Jeff Roche 309

Jackson, Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case against Segregation, by onathan Scott Holloway 310

Bernardi, ed., Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness, by Thomas Cripps 310

Blee, Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement, by Leslie Dunlap 311

Strum, Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights, by Leisa D. Meyer 312

Goldberg, Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, by Gary Alan Fine 313

Davies and Abram, Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life, by James S. Olson 314

Jacobson and Smith, Cotton's Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation, by Ronald E. Seavoy 315

Petersen, Acting for Endangered Species: The Statutory Ark, by Jared P. Orsi 315

Wilkins and Lomawaima, Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law, by Raymond Wilson 316

Fahey, Saving the Reservation: Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian, by Leland Donald 317

McPherson, Navajo Land, Navajo Culture: The Utah Experience in the Twentieth Century, by Donald L. Parman 318

Kolson, Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design, by David C. Hammack 319

Sagalyn, Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon, by Eugenie Ladner Birch 320

Fairbanks and Mooney-Melvin, eds., Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America, by Peter C. Baldwin 321

Whalen, From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies, by John H. Stinson-Fernández 322

Warner, Greater Boston: Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present, by Thomas H. O'Connor 323

Heath, The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape, by Gary Kulik 323

Cayton and Gray, eds., The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History, by Timothy R. Mahoney 324

Stock and Johnston, eds., The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America, by David E. Hamilton 325

Williams, Appalachia: A History, by Henry D. Shapiro 326

Blevins, Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers & Their Image, by Dwight B. Billings 327

Jacobson, Place and Belonging in America, by Susan Kollin 328

Belasco and Scranton, eds., Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, by Tracy N. Poe 329

Nadell and Sarna, eds., Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives, by Maxine S. Seller 330

Smith, ed., Sex without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America, by Ruth M. Alexander 331

Kuklick, A History of Philosophy in America, 1720–2000, by Daniel J. Wilson 332

Martschukat, Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Nordamerika: Von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart (History of the death penalty in North America: From the colonial period to the present), by Markus Dirk Dubber 333

Adams and Vaudagna, eds., Transatlantic Encounters: Public Uses and Misuses of History in Europe and the United States, by Jacques Portes 333


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George Washington: A National Treasure, by David Steinberg 335

Wright American Fiction 1851–1875, by Robert K. Nelson 336

Harpweek, by Matthew Schneirov 337

Voices of the Colorado Plateau, by Jon T. Coleman 337

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IPUMS, by Joel Perlmann 339

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