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Vol. 92, No. 2

September 2005



Editorial Staff

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Articles

Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620–1960
Elizabeth Reis 411

Did Democracy Cause the Recession That Led to the Constitution?
Woody Holton 442

"The Bourgeoisie Will Fall and Fall Forever": The New-York Tribune, the 1848 French Revolution, and American Social Democratic Discourse
Adam-Max Tuchinsky 470

From Tuskegee to Togo: The Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton
Sven Beckert 498

Westbrook Pegler and the Anti-union Movement
David Witwer 527

Interchange

History in the Professional Schools
Participants: James L. Baughman, Catherine Brekus, Mary L. Dudziak, Nancy F. Koehn, Susan E. Lederer, and Jonathan Zimmerman 553


Book Reviews

Klein, A Population History of the United States, by Richard H. Steckel 577

Diner, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000, by Jonathan D. Sarna 578

Ketcham, The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era, by John G. Gunnell 578

Schwartz, ed., Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680, by Selwyn H. H. Carrington 579

Pope, Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century, by Geoffrey Plank 580

Siminoff, Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island, by Jessica Kross 581

Otterness, Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York, by A. G. Roeber 582

Pencak and Richter, eds., Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania, by Jon Parmenter 583

Hahn, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763, by Robbie Ethridge 584

Piker, Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America, by William L. Ramsey 585

Eltis, Lewis, and Sokoloff, eds., Slavery in the Development of the Americas, by Kenneth Morgan 585

Wood, This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775, by Donna J. Spindel 586

Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age, by James Pritchard 587

Olson, Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology, by David T. Morgan 588

Fischer, Washington's Crossing, by Timothy J. Shannon 589

Cox, A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington's Army, by William B. Skelton 590

Humphrey, Land and Liberty: Hudson Valley Riots in the Age of Revolution, by David Sloan 590

Achenbach, The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West, by Bruce A. Ragsdale 591

Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington, by Philander D. Chase 592

Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804, by Margaret C. Jacob 593

Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America, by Bruce C. Daniels 594

Matthews, Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney, by Archie Vernon Huff Jr. 595

Watkins, Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy, by Andrew S. Trees 596

Smith, Keeping the Republic: Ideology and Early American Diplomacy, by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler 597

O'Donnell, Ohio's First Peoples, by Stephen Warren 597

McMillin, The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783–1810, by Thomas N. Ingersoll 598

Cole, A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy, by John M. Belohlavek 599

Earle, Jacksonian Antislavery & the Politics of Free Soil, 1824–1854, by Vernon L. Volpe 600

Tinkler, James Hamilton of South Carolina, by Daniel W. Crofts 601

Hyde, ed., A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699–2000, by Edward F. Haas 602

Wells, The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800–1861, by Kirsten E. Wood 602

Pace, Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South, by Jennifer R. Green 603

Friend and Glover, eds., Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South, by Cara Anzilotti 604

Joyner, From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South, by Robert M. Buchanan 605

Rhodes, John James Audubon: The Making of an American, by Ron C. Tyler 606

Hoffert, Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815–1884, by Martha Solomon Watson 607

Penney and Livingston, A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights, by Sylvia D. Hoffert 608

Nord, Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America, by Meredith L. McGill 608

Bensel, The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by William G. Shade 609

Schweber, The Creation of American Common Law, 1850–1880: Technology, Politics, and the Construction of Citizenship, by William G. Thomas III 610

Mullis, Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas, by Nicole Etcheson 611

Wallner, Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son, by Larry Gara 612

Bennett, Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War, by Robert J. Schneller Jr. 612

Casdorph, Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander, by Edward G. Longacre 613

Hughes, with Moretti and Browne, Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest's Fighting Lieutenant, by James A. Ramage 614

Schultz, Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America, by LeeAnn Whites 615

Martinez, Life and Death in Civil War Prisons: The Parallel Torments of Corporal John Wesley Minnich, C.S.A., and Sergeant Warren Lee Goss, U.S.A., by Michael P. Gray 616

McKinney, Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader, by William L. Barney 616

Fahs and Waugh, eds., The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture, by Jim Cullen 617

Shaffer, After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans, by William Seraile 618

Ochiai, Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina, by Robert Tracy McKenzie 619

Vogel, ReWriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America, by Bridget T. Heneghan 620

Upchurch, Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow, by Robert M. Goldman 621

DeVault, United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism, by S. J. Kleinberg 622

Angevine, The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America, by Steven W. Usselman 622

Grant, "Follow the Flag": A History of the Wabash Railroad Company, by Maury Klein 623

Shortridge, Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas, by Timothy R. Mahoney 624

Ostler, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee, by John W. Bailey 625

Rollings, Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion (1673–1906); a Cultural Victory, by W. David Baird 625

Woodworth-Ney, Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805–1902, by Rodney Frey 626

Conn, History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century, by Scott L. Pratt 627

Anderson and Hill, The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier, by Lynne Pierson Doti 628

Lynn-Sherow, Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory, by William L. Hewitt 629

Pfeifer, Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947, by Walter T. Howard 630

Wong, Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon, by Alfred Yee 631

Young, Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, by W. Dirk Raat 631

Blanton, The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836–1981; and San Miguel, Contested Policy: The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960–2001, by Gareth Davies 632

Silva, Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism, by Mansel G. Blackford 634

Hing, Defining America through Immigration Policy, by Daniel J. Tichenor 635

Foner and Fredrickson, eds., Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, by Thomas A. Guglielmo 635

Greene, A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830–1930, by Alan M. Kraut 636

Laliotou, Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism between Greece and America, by Dan Georgakas 637

Turk, Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870–1920, by Karen J. Blair 638

Lumsden, Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland, by Elizabeth York Enstam 639

Ulrich, ed., Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History, by Linda Eisenmann 640

Thelin, A History of American Higher Education, by John M. Heffron 641

Woods, The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era, by Patrick W. Carey 642

Jansen, Individuelle Bewährung im Krieg: Amerikaner in Europa, 1914–1917 (Individual volunteers in the war: Americans in Europe, 1914–1917), by M. B. B. Biskupski 643

Slide, American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon, by Daniel Bernardi 644

Neville, Twentieth-Century Cause Célèbre: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the Press, 1920–1927, by Robert Hariman 644

Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, by Alfred L. Brophy 645

Troesken, Water, Race, and Disease, by Susan L. Smith 646

Weiner, Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste, by Mark V. Tushnet 647

Moses, Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey, by Jonathan M. Hansen 648

Dennis, Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights, by Charles Pete Banner-Haley 649

Wolters, Du Bois and His Rivals, by Sarah E. Gardner 649

Smith, Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture, by Amy Wood 650

Pfister, Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern, by Joy Porter 651

Daily, Battle for the BIA: G. E. E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier, by Kenneth R. Philp 652

Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places, by Gretchen M. Bataille 653

Glass, Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880–1980, by Ronald Weber 654

Duus, trans. by Duus, The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders, by Terry Smith 654

Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A., by David Gartman 655

McTavish, Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America, by Nancy D. Campbell 656

Wilkins, The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945, by William M. McClenahan Jr. 657

Kelley, The Foundations of Texan Philanthropy, by Elizabeth Hayes Turner 658

Simpson, Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880– 1940, by Maureen A. Flanagan 658

Isenberg, Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It, by James Borchert 659

Elvins, Sales & Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920–1940, by David Blanke 660

Pieroth, Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years: Shapers of a Livable City, by John L. Rury 661

Gershenhorn, Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge, by Jane I. Guyer 662

Kaye, The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity, by Amy Bass 663

Jackson, Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age, by Suzanne E. Smith 664

Williams, The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality, by John F. Bauman 664

Schackel, ed., Western Women's Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, by Cherisse R. Jones 665

Blackwell, No Peace without Freedom: Race and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915–1975; and Bennett, Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915–1963, by Jo Ann O. Robinson 666

Hayashi, Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment, by Arthur A. Hansen 668

Tomblin, With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945, by Jeffrey G. Barlow 669

Breitman, Goda, Naftali, and Wolfe, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, by Betty A. Dessants 670

Weissman, Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust, by Michael E. Staub 671

Zeman and Amundson, eds., Atomic Culture: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, by Jerome F. Shapiro 671

Citino, From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa'ud, and the Making of U.S. Saudi Relations, by Irvine H. Anderson 672

Price, Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists, by Nils Gilman 673

Ferren, Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge, by Michael E. Parrish 674

Cherny, Issel, and Taylor, eds., American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, by John Barnard 675

Cutler, Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism, by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt 676

Heffernan, Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968, by David Sanjek 677

Gudis, Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape, by Carol Ahlgren 678

Lewis, ed., Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe, by David R. Contosta 678

Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles, by Scott H. Tang 679

Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America, by Allison Varzally 680

Smith, Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940–1960, by Joseph M. Hawes 681

Starnes, ed., Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South, by James Kessenides 682

Lange, Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939–1954, by Kristine M. McCusker 683

Broyles, Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music, by Gavin James Campbell 684

Ward, Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South, by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff 685

Lewis, The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945–1965, by Gerald Horne 685

Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Mary Frances Berry 686

Longley, Senator Albert Gore Sr.: Tennessee Maverick, by Randy Sanders 687

Savage, JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party, by James R. Sweeney 688

Andrews, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy, by Charles W. Eagles 689

Chalmers, Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement, by David Cunningham 690

Cohen and Zelnik, eds., The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, by Terry H. Anderson 691

Binkiewicz, Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965–1980, by Alice Goldfarb Marquis 692

Ellis, Britain, America, and the Vietnam War, by Fredrik Logevall 692

Landers, The Weekly War: Newsmagazines and Vietnam, by Edward P. Morgan 693

Willbanks, Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War, by Marc Jason Gilbert 694

Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, by Alan McPherson 695

Nesbitt, Race for Sanctions: African Americans against Apartheid, 1946–1994, by Robert Vinson 696

Pike, New Age and Neopagan Religions in America, by Philip Jenkins 697

O'Toole, ed., Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America, by James P. McCartin 698

Hitchcock, The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, vol. 1: The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses; and Hitchcock, The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, vol. 2: From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples," by Shawn Francis Peters 699

Simon, Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America, by Martin Paulsson 700

Weil, trans. by Gladding, A History of New York, by Eric Homberger 701

Mason, From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831–1995, by Joseph A. Pratt 701

Zukin, Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture, by Kathleen G. Donohue 702

Baritono, Frezza, Lorini, Vaudagna, and Vezzosi, eds., Public and Private in American History: State, Family, Subjectivity in the Twentieth Century, by Fabrizio Tonello 703

Slezkine, The Jewish Century, by Marc Dollinger 704

Janssens and Kroes, eds., Post–Cold War Europe, Post–Cold War America, by Roberto Rabel 705

Starr, Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990–2003, by Andrew Rolle 706


Web Site Reviews

Digital Early American Imprints: Series I. Evans (1639–1800), by Richard Cullen Rath 707

Divining America: Religion and the National Culture, by James T. Fisher 708

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704, by Richard Rabinowitz 709

Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923–1959, by Zachary M. Schrag 710

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, by Michael O'Malley 711

Editor's Annual Report, 2004–2005
David Paul Nord
712

Announcements 716

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