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Vol. 91, No. 4

March 2005



Editorial Staff

Previews

Presidential Address

The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 1233

Articles

From Royal to Republican: The Classical Image in Early America
Caroline Winterer 1264

All the World's a Stage! The Actors' Strike of 1919
Sean P. Holmes 1291

Richard Gregg, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Strategy of Nonviolence
Joseph Kip Kosek 1318

"I Don't Trust You Anymore": Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s
Ruth Feldstein 1349

Textbooks and Teaching

"The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth": Writing, Producing, and Using College-Level American History Textbooks
Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser 1380

Reflections of a Longtime Textbook Author; or, History Revised, Revised—and Revised Again
Mary Beth Norton 1383

The Challenges and Rewards of Textbook Writing: An Interview with Alan Brinkley 1391

Textbook Publishing: An Ecological View
Steve Forman 1398

By the Book: Assessing the Place of Textbooks in U.S. Survey Courses
Daniel J. Cohen 1405

Book Reviews

Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, by David Waldstreicher 1416

Jacobs, Novak, and Zelizer, eds., The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, by Ronald P. Formisano 1417

Starr, The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications, by John Nerone 1420

Sarna, American Judaism: A History, by Henry L. Feingold 1421

Sutton, Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Religious Communities, 1732–2000; and Sutton, Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Secular Communities, 1824–2000, by Carl J. Guarneri 1423

Calloway and Salisbury, eds., Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, by Jack Campisi 1424

Hatfield, Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century, by Larry Gragg 1425

Kling and Sweeney, eds., Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons, by William Breitenbach 1426

Rath, How Early America Sounded, by Alan H. Levy 1427

Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, by B. R. Burg 1427

Howe, Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America, by Peter S. Onuf 1428

Knouff, The Soldiers' Revolution: Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity, by John Resch 1429

Samet, Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898, by Holly A. Mayer 1430

McGuire, To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution, by Robert E. Wright 1431

Edling, A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State, by Michael P. Zuckert 1432

Higginbotham, George Washington: Uniting a Nation; and Burns and Dunn, George Washington, by Paul K. Longmore 1433

Trees, The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character, by Stuart Leibiger 1434

Bernstein, Thomas Jefferson, by Lance Banning 1435

Rossignol, trans. by Parrott, The Nationalist Ferment: The Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1789–1812, by J. C. A. Stagg 1436

Parker, Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History, by C. Edward Skeen 1437

Peskin, Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry, by David Jaffee 1437

Shankman, Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, by Seth Cotlar 1438

Smith, ed., Down and Out in Early America, by Robert E. Cray Jr. 1439

Reid, Controlling the Law: Legal Politics in Early National New Hampshire, by M. N. S. Sellers 1440

Ousterhout, The Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, by Susan E. Klepp 1441

Small, Beauty & Convenience: Architecture and Order in the New Republic, by Lee Baldwin Dalzell 1442

Ethridge, Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, by Mary E. Young 1443

Clegg, The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia, by Amos J. Beyan 1444

Connolly, Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England, by Christopher Clark 1445

Zakim, Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860, by Thomas Augst 1445

Peskin, Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms, by James M. McCaffrey 1446

Ward and Rogers, Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829–1865, by Anne M. Butler 1447

Jordan, ed., Slavery and the American South, by Timothy J. Lockley 1448

Martin, Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South, by Robert H. Gudmestad 1449

Dessens, Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies, by B. W. Higman 1450

West, Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina, by Cheryll Ann Cody 1450

Kuyk, African Voices in the African American Heritage, by James L. Conyers Jr. 1451

Lakwete, Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America, by Joseph P. Reidy 1452

Konkle, Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863, by Hilary E. Wyss 1453

Fish, Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations, by Etsuko Taketani 1454

Foote, Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform, by Thomas J. Brown 1455

Brown, The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880, by Richard D. Brown 1456

Mouw and Noll, eds., Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology, by Candy Gunther Brown 1457

Augst, The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America, by Timothy B. Spears 1457

Heneghan, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination, by Neil Kamil 1458

Harrold, The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves, by Hugh Davis 1459

French, The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory, by Mary Kemp Davis 1460

Griffler, Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley, by Catherine Clinton 1461

Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era, by Michael J. Birkner 1462

Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, by Richard J. Carwardine 1463

Lash, A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, by Steven E. Woodworth 1463

Carwardine, Lincoln, by Rodney O. Davis 1464

Guelzo, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Kirt H. Wilson 1465

Harris, Lincoln's Last Months; and Pinsker, Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home, by Herman Belz 1466

Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage, by Norma Basch 1468

Long, Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, by Susan Wells 1469

Sehlinger, Kentucky's Last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816–1887, by Lowell H. Harrison 1469

Johnson, Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City, by J. Matthew Gallman 1470

Sinisi, Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861–1880, by David Brian Robertson 1471

Abbott, ed. by Quist, For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South, by Carl R. Osthaus 1472

Censer, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895, by Peter W. Bardaglio 1473

Gardner, Blood & Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861–1937, by Karen L. Cox 1474

Faulkner, Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement, by Christine Bolt 1475

Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South, by J. William Harris 1476

Poole, Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry, by Charles J. Holden 1477

Richardson, Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley, by Russ Castronovo 1477

Quigley, Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy, by Ena L. Farley 1478

Kessner, Capital City: New York City and the Men behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900, by Walter A. Friedman 1479

Mendel, "A Broad and Ennobling Spirit": Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886–1898, by Brian Greenberg 1480

Wachtel, Street of Dreams—Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century, by Howard Bodenhorn 1481

Hunter, How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood, by Carol Lasser 1482

Gedge, Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture, by Debby Applegate 1483

Brown, The Education of Jane Addams, by Linda Schott 1484

White, Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889–1895, by Kathleen Dalton 1484

Stiles, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, by Michael Fellman 1485

Mathes and Lowitt, The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform, by John M. Coward 1486

Greene, Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867–1869, by John H. Monnett 1487

Ellis, A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains, by Peter Iverson 1488

Johnston, Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907, by James Taylor Carson 1488

Schneiders, Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone & Upper Missouri, by Byron E. Pearson 1489

Black, Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867, by Melody Webb 1490

Young, Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930; and Rothman, The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism, by Carl Abbott 1491

Tebeau, Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950, by Amy S. Greenberg 1493

Tarr, ed., Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region, by John T. Cumbler 1493

Nickles, Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy, by Walter LaFeber 1494

Flake, The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mor mon Apostle, by John L. Brooke 1495

Mead, How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914, by Ann D. Gordon 1496

McArthur and Smith, Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics, by Megan Seaholm 1497

Edsall, Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World, by David K. Johnson 1498

Long, The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865–1920, by Joshua D. Rothman 1499

Fouché, Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, & Shelby J. Davidson, by W. Sherman Jackson 1500

Brundage, ed., Booker T. Washington and Black Progress:Up from Slavery 100 Years Later, by Cary D. Wintz 1500

Tyack, Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society, by Barry M. Frank-lin 1501

Newfield, Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980, by John R. Thelin 1502

Mahoney, Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University, by Roger L. Geiger 1503

Sterne, Ballots & Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence, by James Connolly 1504

Zeidel, Immigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics: The Dillingham Commission, 1900–1927, by William H. Katerberg 1505

Cannistraro and Meyer, eds., The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism: Politics, Labor, and Culture, by Stefano Luconi 1505

Kraig, Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman, by Kendrick A. Clements 1506

Huelfer, The "Casualty Issue" in American Military Practice: The Impact of World War I, by Peter S. Kindsvatter 1507

Johnson, Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans, by Cynthia E. Orozco 1508

La Vere, The Texas Indians, by Andrew R. Graybill 1509

Cole and Parker, eds., Beyond Black & White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest, by Carlos Kevin Blanton 1510

Sundiata, Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940, by Claude A. Clegg III 1511

Radano, Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music, by Eric Porter 1512

Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, by Ronald D. Eller 1513

Nate, Amerikanische Träume: Die Kultur der Vereinigten Staaten in der Zeit des New Deal (American dreams: The culture of the United States in the time of the New Deal), by Silvano A. Wueschner 1513

Donohue, Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer, by Alan Lawson 1514

Sawaya, Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890–1950, by Susan Albertine 1515

Langa, Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York, by Paul Buhle 1516

Morgan, Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930–1953, by David Krasner 1517

McMahon, Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown, by Kenneth O'Reilly 1518

Rosenberg, A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory, by Naoko Shi-busawa 1519

Odo, No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II, by Eileen H. Tamura 1519

Jarvis, The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II, by Robert Dean 1520

Schwartzberg, Democracy and U.S. Policy in Latin America during the Truman Years, by Paul J. Dosal 1521

Ojserkis, Beginnings of the Cold War Arms Race: The Truman Administration and the U.S. Arms Build-Up, by Wesley T. Wooley 1522

Hahn, Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945–1961; and Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East, by Steven Z. Freiberger 1523

Olson, Stuart Symington: A Life, by John Bledsoe Bonds 1524

Gilman, Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America, by Nick Cullather 1525

Engerman, Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development, by Alan Wald 1526

Gunnell, Imagining the American Polity: Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy, by Philip Abbott 1527

Lykins, From Total War to Total Diplomacy: The Advertising Council and the Construction of the Cold War Consensus, by Shawn J. Parry-Giles 1528

Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, by Leila J. Rupp 1529

Gavin, Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958–1971, by Alfred E. Eckes 1530

Davis, Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946–61, by Pablo A. Pozzi 1531

Polishuk, Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila, by Dennis A. Deslippe 1532

Nielsen, The Radical Lives of Helen Keller, by Catherine J. Kudlick 1533

Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, by Charlotte Brooks 1533

Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882, by K. Scott Wong 1534

Barnard, American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935–1970, by Stephen Amberg 1535

Grosfoguel, Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective, by Laura Briggs 1536

Gutfreund, Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape, by Mark S. Foster 1537

Jakle and Sculle, Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place, by Karal Ann Marling 1538

Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000, by Jon C. Teaford 1539

Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, by Lewis V. Baldwin 1540

Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century, by Nicholas Dagen Bloom 1540

Mohl, with Graff and Zoloth, South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945–1960, by Debra L. Schultz 1541

Hill, The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement, by William L. Van Deburg 1542

Dorr, White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900–1960, by Matthew Pratt Guterl 1543

Clayton and Salmond, eds., "Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph": Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities, by Angela Boswell 1544

Moore, Sinisi, and White, eds., Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, by John B. Boles 1545

Boyd, Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press, by James Edward Smethurst 1546

Sandbrook, Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism, by David Steigerwald 1547

Goldstein, William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience, by Gary Dorrien 1547

Allitt, Religion in America since 1945: A History, by Eugene McCarraher 1548

Gold, Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America, by Beth S. Wenger 1549

Cobble, The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America, by Susan Eleanor Hirsch 1550

Bradley, Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963–1975, by Susan M. Hartmann 1551

Johnston, ed., The Politics of Healing: Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America, by Robert C. Fuller 1552

Carp, Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58, by Sandra Patton-Imani 1553

Testi, Stelle e strisce: Storia di una bandiera (Stars and stripes: A history of a flag), by David G. Orr 1553


Web Site Reviews

Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846–1869; and Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846–1869, by Fritz Umbach 1555

Territorial Kansas Online, 1854–1861, by Michael D. Pierson 1556

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880–1920, by Marguerite S. Shaffer 1557

The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952–2004, by Gil Troy 1558

The Vietnam Project, by Meredith H. Lair 1559

Studs Terkel: Conversations with America, by Clifford M. Kuhn 1560

Letters to the Editor 1561

Announcements 1563

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