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Vol. 90, No. 4

March 2004



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Presidential Address

American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice
Ira Berlin 1251

Articles

"Mania Americana": Narcotic Addiction and Modernity in the United States, 1870–1920
Timothy A. Hickman 1269

Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Black Swan Records and the Political Economy of African American Music
David Suisman 1295

Round Table

History's Ethical Crisis: An Introduction
Joanne Meyerowitz 1325

The Historians' Dilemma
Elliott J. Gorn 1327

Plagiarism and Professional Ethics—A Journal Editor's View
Michael Grossberg 1333

A Heartbreaking Problem of Staggering Proportions
Richard Wightman Fox 1341

Honest History
Joyce Seltzer 1347

An Honor System for Historians?
Emma J. Lapsansky 1351

Special Essay

Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History
Jon Butler 1357

Textbooks and Teaching

"Will That Be on the Exam?" The Role of Testing in Teaching and Learning American History
Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser 1379

We Are Not Ready to Assess History Performance
Richard Rothstein 1381

Document-Based Question: What Is the Historical Significance of the Advanced Placement Test?
Timothy A. Hacsi 1392

Crazy for History
Sam Wineburg 1401

Book Reviews

Lears, Something for Nothing: Luck in America, by Karen Halttunen 1415

Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, by Jean-Christophe Agnew 1416

Grob, The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America, by Ben Mutschler 1418

Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, by Neil Jumonville 1419

Daniels and Kennedy, eds., Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500–1820, by Cynthia Van Zandt 1420

Wellenreuther, Niedergang und Aufstieg: Geschichte Nordamerikas vom Beginn der Besiedlung bis zum Ausgang des 17. Jahrhunderts (Decline and rise: History of North America from the beginning of settlement to the end of the 17th century); and Wellenreuther, Ausbildung und Neubildung: Die Geschichte Nordamerikas vom Ausgang Des 17. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ausbruch der Amerikanischen Revolution 1775 (Cultivation and new growth: The history of North America from the end of the 17th century to the outbreak of the American Revolution, 1775), by Marianne S. Wokeck 1421

Gordis, Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England, by Peter J. Thuesen 1422

Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by Avihu Zakai 1423

Kornwolf, Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America, by J. Ritchie Garrison 1424

Salinger, Taverns and Drinking in Early America, by Paul G. E. Clemens 1426

Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence, by Kim M. Gruenwald 1426

Lambert, The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, by Daniel L. Dreisbach 1427

Kromkowski, Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700–1870, by Roger H. Brown 1428

Baumgarten, What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, by Donna D. Curtin 1429

Saxton, Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America, by Lorri Glover 1430

Leonard, The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois, by Mark Voss-Hubbard 1431

Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, by Joseph C. Miller 1432

Dain, A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic, by T. Stephen Whitman 1433

Greenberg, ed., Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory, by Loren Schweninger 1434

White, Stories of Freedom in Black New York; and Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863, by George A. Lévesque 1435

Fraser, Savannah in the Old South, by John C. Inscoe 1436

Valencius, The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land, by Christopher Sellers 1437

Eifler, Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento; and Owens, ed., Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World, by Robert M. Senkewicz 1438

Chaffin, Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire, by Vernon L. Volpe 1439

Pybus and Maxwell-Stewart, American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839–1850, by Shelley Streeby 1440

Sweeney, Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards, by James D. German 1441

Grodzins, American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism, by David M. Robinson 1442

Stewart and Moorhead, eds., Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work, by Gillis J. Harp 1443

Van Broekhoven, The Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island in the Antislavery Network; and Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, & Women's Political Identity, by Anne M. Boylan 1444

Bacon, The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition, by Kris Fresonke 1446

Alonso, Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children, by Lawrence B. Goodheart 1446

Harrold, Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828–1865, by Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven 1447

Rokicky, Creating a Perfect World: Religious and Secular Utopias in Nineteenth-Century Ohio, by Louis J. Kern 1448

Katz, Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati, by Shirley Teresa Wajda 1449

Voss-Hubbard, Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War, by Stephen E. Maizlish 1450

Link, Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia, by Wallace Hettle 1451

Winger, Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics, by David B. Chesebrough 1452

Wieck, Lincoln's Quest for Equality: The Road to Gettysburg, by Kent Gramm 1453

Williams, Williams, and Carlson, Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia, by Jon L. Wakelyn 1454

Blanton and Cook, They Fought like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War, by Janet L. Coryell 1454

Wilson, Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers during the Civil War; and Smith, ed., Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era, by Rita Roberts 1455

Lawson, Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North, by Randall M. Miller 1457

Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction, by William Warren Rogers Jr. 1458

Wilson, The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate: The Politics of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870–1875, by Roberta Sue Alexander 1459

Holden, In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post–Civil War South Carolina, by Mark G. Malvasi 1460

Hales, A Southern Family in White & Black: The Cuneys of Texas, by W. Marvin Dulaney 1461

Morris, Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, by Charles W. Calhoun 1462

Kaufman, For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity, by Paul Michel Taillon 1462

Harris, The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew, by Maureen E. Montgomery 1463

Woloson, Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America, by Bryan F. Le Beau 1464

Scharff, Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West, by C. Elizabeth Raymond 1465

Nichols, Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847–1918, by Sharon E. Wood 1466

Van Nuys, Americanizing the West: Race, Immigrants, and Citizenship, 1890–1930, by Lucy E. Salyer 1467

Sandweiss, Print the Legend: Photography and the American West, by Elspeth H. Brown 1468

Foley, Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux, by John W. Bailey 1468

Keller, Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902–1922, by Robert A. Trennert 1469

Johns, Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation, by Sylvia Yount 1470

Sandweiss, ed., St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall, by Thomas M. Spencer 1471

Bender, The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea, by Kenneth T. Jackson 1472

Folpe, It Happened on Washington Square, by Leslie Fishbein 1473

Scobey, Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape; and Revell, Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898–1938, by Joel Schwartz 1474

Haglund, Inventing the Charles River, by Sarah S. Elkind 1475

Kelman, A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans, by Edward F. Haas 1476

Schoepflin, Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America, by Stuart E. Knee 1477

Tumber, American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self, 1875–1915, by Laura E. Donaldson 1478

Ashcraft, The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture, by Rod Janzen 1479

Martin, Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862–1935, by Joel A. Carpenter 1480

Flanagan, Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871–1933, by Mina Carson 1480

Sinke, Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880–1920; and Swierenga, Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City, by Randall Balmer 1481

Hickey, Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890–1940, by Joan Marie Johnson 1483

Moran, Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair, by Scott Christianson 1484

Waldrep, The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America, by Dennis B. Downey 1484

Dalton, Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist, by Hamilton Cravens 1485

Juhnke, Quacks and Crusaders: The Fabulous Careers of John Brinkley, Norman Baker, and Harry Hoxsey, by Thomas D. Isern 1486

Long, Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels, by Hilton Obenzinger 1487

Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture, by Dolores Janiewski 1488

Hannigan, The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898–1917, by David Healy 1488

Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919–1941, by Kimberly A. Alidio 1489

Patenaude, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921, by Leo J. Bacino 1490

Thomas, The Lincoln Memorial & American Life, by Thomas R. Turner 1491

Nathan, Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal, by Peter Levine 1492

Matt, Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890–1930, by Regina Lee Blaszczyk 1493

Rutherford, Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick & the Rise of Household Efficiency, by Jennifer Scanlon 1493

Satterfield, The World's Best Books: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library, by Catherine Turner 1494

McHenry, Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies, by Keith E. Byerman 1495

Krasner, A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910–1927, by Susan Curtis 1496

Jackson, A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi, by Robert J. Norrell 1497

Rogers, John Nolen & Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio, by Joseph L. Arnold 1498

Pisani, Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935, by James E. Sherow 1498

Christensen, Red Lodge and the Mythic West: Coal Miners to Cowboys, by Marguerite S. Shaffer 1499

Anderson, Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail, by Mark Harvey 1500

Goodman, Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region, by Molly H. Mullin 1501

Montgomery, The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande, by Jeffrey S. Smith 1502

Webb, Science in the American Southwest: A Topical History, by M. Susan Lindee 1503

Schneider, ed., Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War, by Hans A. Baer 1504

Hangen, Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, & Popular Culture in America, by Leo P. Ribuffo 1505

Branson and Miller, Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled: A Sociological History, by Steven Noll 1506

Burch, Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II, by Rebecca A. R. Edwards 1506

Hemingway, Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926–1956, by Robbie Lieberman 1507

Baldwin, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963, by Kathryne V. Lindberg 1508

Alpers, Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s–1950s, by Judy Kutulas 1509

Luconi, Little Italies e New Deal: La coalizione rooseveltiana e il voto italo-americano a Filadelfia e Pittsburgh (Little Italies and the New Deal: The Roosevelt coalition and the Italian American vote in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), by Fraser M. Ottanelli 1510

McKenna, Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937, by Gary Dean Best 1511

Howard and Pederson, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Formation of the Modern World, by Frederick W. Marks III 1511

Hill, Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor: Why the United States Declared War on Germany, by Gerhard L. Weinberg 1512

Chamberlain, Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II, by Judith Stein 1513

Chernus, General Eisenhower: Ideology and Discourse, by Craig Allen 1514

Medoff, Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926–1948, by Mark A. Raider 1515

Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945, by Mark H. Lytle 1516

Hopkins, Oliver Franks and the Truman Administration: Anglo-American Relations, 1948–1952, by John Dumbrell 1517

Höhn, GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany, by D'Ann Campbell 1518

Alterman, Egypt and American Foreign Assistance, 1952–1956: Hopes Dashed, by Nathan J. Citino 1519

Yoshihara, Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism; and Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961, by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 1519

Cotkin, Existential America, by J. José Cruz 1521

Johns, Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s, by Carlo Rotella 1522

Bernstein, The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America, by M. J. Heale 1523

Farber, Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors, by James A. Ward 1524

Mindell, Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, by Paul E. Ceruzzi 1524

Bjerre-Poulsen, Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement, 1945–65, by Gregory L. Schneider 1525

Coker, Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma, by Larry G. Gerber 1526

Staub, Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America, by Abraham J. Peck 1527

Biles, Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, by Linda C. Gugin 1528

Janken, White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP, by Kenneth W. Goings 1529

Irons, Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision, by John P. Jackson Jr. 1530

Green, ed., The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930, by W. Roger Biles 1530

Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy, by Ted Ownby 1531

Thornton, Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma, by Peter J. Ling 1532

Barber, Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition, by Daniel J. Tichenor 1533

Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1988, by Kate A. Baldwin 1534

Cohen, Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970, by Howard A. DeWitt 1535

Ake, Jazz Cultures, by Kathy J. Ogren 1536

Pinch and Trocco, Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, by Steve Waksman 1536

Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War, by Mary Hershberger 1537

Wynkoop, Dissent in the Heartland: The Sixties at Indiana University, by Rusty L. Monhollon 1538

Podair, The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill–Brownsville Crisis, by Steve Golin 1539

Bass, Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete, by Donald Spivey 1540

Pearson, Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club, and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon, by Robert W. Righter 1541

Kohlhoff, Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska, by Thomas Wellock 1542

Silver, Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America, by Chad Montrie 1542

Markowitz and Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, by Otis L. Graham Jr. 1543

Sanders, Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race, by Matthew J. Streb 1544

Asselin, A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement, by Benjamin T. Harrison 1545

Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution, by J. Morgan Kousser 1546

Akam, Transnational America: Cultural Pluralist Thought in the Twentieth Century, by Roland F. Wacker 1547

Choy, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History, by Kristin Hoganson 1548

Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, by Teresita Martínez-Vergne 1549

Irvine, Talk about Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States, by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz 1550

Biven, Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits, by Nelson Lichtenstein 1550

Fisher, Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards, by Shawn Francis Peters 1551

Uviller and Merkel, The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent, by Robert J. Spitzer 1552

Matthews, Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century, by Stephen Pitti 1553


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Colonial Williamsburg, by Joyce Chaplin 1555

Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson, by Jan Lewis 1556

Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service, by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian 1557

Maine Memory Network, by Laurie Mercier 1558

Forest, Fields, and the Falls: Connecting Minnesota, by Marjorie Mclellan 1559

What Exit? New Jersey and Its Turnpike, by Howard Gillette Jr. 1559

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