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Vol. 92, No. 4

March 2006



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Round Table

A Critical Moment: World War II and Its Aftermath at Home
An Introduction
David Paul Nord 1211

Fighting for Caucasian Rights: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and the Transnational Struggle for Civil Rights in World War II Texas
Thomas A. Guglielmo 1212

"The Hitlerian Rule of Quotas": Racial Conservatism and the Politics of Fair Employment Legislation in New York State, 1941–1945
Anthony S. Chen 1238

Nightmares on Elm Street: Demobilizing in Chicago, 1945–1953
Laura McEnaney 1265

The Crucial Decade: The 1940s and Beyond
Gary Gerstle 1292

Articles

"They Are Ancestral Homelands": Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945–1961
Paul C. Rosier 1300

Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World
Kevin Dawson 1327

Textbooks and Teaching

Beyond Best Practices: Taking Seriously the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser 1356

Uncoverage: Toward a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey
Lendol Calder 1358

Ways of Seeing: Evidence and Learning in the History Classroom
Michael Coventry, Peter Felten, David Jaffee, Cecilia O'Leary, and Tracey Weis, with Susannah McGowan 1371

Book Reviews

Van Minnen and Hilton, eds., Frontiers and Boundaries in U.S. History, by Andrew R. L. Cayton 1403

Rodriguez, ed., Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship, and Community, by Keith Fitzgerald 1404

Goldschmidt and McAlister, eds., Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas, by Robert H. Craig 1405

Anderson and Cayton, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500–2000, by Serge Ricard 1406

Tucker and Russell, eds., Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of Warfare, by Sheldon Ungar 1407

Jacobs, New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America, by Donna Merwick 1408

Appelbaum and Sweet, eds., Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World, by Albert H. Tillson Jr. 1408

Sensbach, Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World, by Carol V. R. George 1409

Kamil, Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517–1751, by Carla Gardina Pestana 1410

Lambert, James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia, by Lee Ann Caldwell 1411

Sweet, Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752, by Steven C. Hahn 1412

Chambers, Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia, by Phillip Hamilton 1413

Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World, by Linda L. Sturtz 1414

Batinski, Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deerfield, Massachusetts, by Briann G. Greenfield 1414

Blumrosen and Blumrosen, Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies & Sparked the American Revolution, by Daniel C. Littlefield 1415

Gould and Onuf, eds., Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World, by Colin Bonwick 1416

Cohen, British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775–1783: The Role of the "Middling-Level" Activists, by John Sainsbury 1417

Fischer, Liberty and Freedom, by Lester C. Olson 1418

Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America, by Brandon Brame Fortune 1419

Kidd, The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism, by Robert M. Bliss 1420

Hempton, Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, by E. Brooks Holifield 1420

Brown, Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution, by Alan L. Karras 1421

Mancke, The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760–1830, by Marc Egnal 1422

Friend, Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West, by Jeffrey P. Brown 1423

Steenburg, Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635–1855: Changing Perceptions of Childhood, by Daniel Scott Smith 1424

Missall and Missall, The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict, by Claudio Saunt 1424

Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South, by Junius P. Rodriguez 1425

White and White, The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech, by Helen Bradley Foster 1426

DePalma, Dialogue on the Frontier: Catholic and Protestant Relations, 1793–1883, by Amy DeRogatis 1427

Rohrer, Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry, by Frederick A. Bode 1428

Reiß, Radikalismus und Exil: Gustav Struve und die Demokratie in Deutschland und Amerika (Radicalism and exile: Gustav Struve and democracy in Germany and America), by Walter D. Kamphoefner 1429

Tomlinson, Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought, by William W. Cutler III 1429

Wayne, Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America, by Mary Kelley 1430

Pruitt, "A Looking-Glass for Ladies": American Protestant Women and the Orient in the Nineteenth Century, by Rui Yazawa Kohiyama 1431

Ginzberg, Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York, by Ellen C. DuBois 1432

Blue, No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics, by James L. Huston 1433

Pacheco, The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac, by Keith P. Griffler 1434

Lazo, Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States, by Robert E. May 1435

Nudelman, John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War, by Jane E. Schultz 1435

Revels, Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the Civil War, by Jacqueline Glass Campbell 1436

Merli, ed. by Fahey, The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War, by Duncan Andrew Campbell 1437

Wallenstein and Wyatt-Brown, eds., Virginia's Civil War, by Michael B. Ballard 1438

Siddali, From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861–1862, by Michael W. Fitzgerald 1439

Brown, Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign, by Earl J. Hess 1440

Creighton, The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle, by Ervin L. Jordan Jr. 1441

Tripp, ed. by Gannett, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, by Matthew Pinsker 1442

Rubin, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861–1868, by Paul D. Escott 1443

Williams, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, by Ronald E. Butchart 1443

Birdwell and Dickinson, eds., Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, by Dwight B. Billings 1444

Wills, Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849–1883, by Steven J. Keillor 1445

Dawson, Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850–1920, by Cindy S. Aron 1446

Kelly, The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845–1921, by Janet Nolan 1447

Justice, The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865–1900, by James C. Carper 1448

Barnhart, Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology, by Curtis M. Hinsley 1449

Levin, Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science, by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt 1450

Grusin, Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks, by Anne F. Hyde 1450

Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880–1920, by Arnoldo De León 1451

Maroukis, Peyote and the Yankton Sioux: The Life and Times of Sam Necklace, by Joel W. Martin 1452

Mitchell, Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction, by Victoria W. Wolcott 1453

Kenney, Jazz on the River, by Kathy Ogren 1454

Mixon, The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City, by Stephen G. N. Tuck 1455

Horne, Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920, by James N. Leiker 1456

Feldman, The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama, by Kent Redding 1456

Oppenheim, Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey, by Bruce Kuklick 1457

Taylor, Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought, by Andrew Feffer 1458

Schüler, Frauenbewegung und soziale Reform: Jane Addams und Alice Salomon im transatlantischen Dialog, 1889–1933 (The women's movement and social reform: Jane Addams and Alice Salomon in transatlantic dialogue, 1889–1933), by Suzanne M. Sinke 1459

Fradkin, The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself, by Robert W. Cherny 1460

Eperjesi, The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture, by Jon Davidann 1461

Moon, Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s–1920s, by Anthony W. Lee 1461

Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, by Renqiu Yu 1462

Loving, The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser, by Kathleen Drowne 1463

Brown, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature, by Kirk Curnutt 1464

Bender, Evolution and "the Sex Problem": American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism, by David Depew 1465

O'Toole, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House, by John Milton Cooper Jr. 1466

Robins, A. J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist, by James R. Goff Jr. 1467

Powers-Beck, The American Indian Integration of Baseball, by Bruce A. Rubenstein 1468

Shogan, The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising, by John Hennen 1468

Yuhl, A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston, by Carl R. Lounsbury 1469

Mackey, Pursuing Johns: Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920–1930, by Peter C. Baldwin 1470

Robertson, Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960, by Joel Best 1471

Trost, Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City, by Anne Meis Knupfer 1471

Gomery, The Coming of Sound: A History, by George Potamianos 1472

Schwartz, Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers, by Dominick A. Pisano 1473

Smoodin, Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930–1960, by John Raeburn 1474

Jacobson, Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century, by Paula Petrik 1475

Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, by Liette Gidlow 1476

Ware, It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography, by Mary Desjardins 1476

Gardner, The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping, by Lee Bernstein 1477

Kay, Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics, by Jennifer Scanlon 1478

Messer-Kruse, Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931, by Steven Horwitz 1479

Volanto, Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal, by David E. Hamilton 1480

Sitton and Conrad, Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow, by Jeannie M. Whayne 1481

Jones, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, by Ronald L. Lewis 1482

Outland, Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South, by James E. Fickle 1482

Nelson, Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp, by Christopher F. Meindl 1483

Nordin and Scott, From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture, by Michael Johnston Grant 1484

Palladino, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History, by Steven High 1485

Slater, Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900–1962, by Steve Golin 1486

Quiroz, Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas, by Richard A. Garcia 1486

Glantz, FDR and the Soviet Union: The President's Battles over Foreign Policy, by Peter G. Boyle 1487

Berg and Gassert, eds., Deutschland und die usa in der Internationalen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Festschrift für Detlef Junker (Germany and the usa in 20th-century international history: Festschrift for Detlef Junker), by Geoff Eley 1488

Wu, Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity, by Huping Ling 1489

Austin, From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II, by Lauren Kessler 1490

Rigg, Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Joseph W. Bendersky 1491

Reinharz and Raider, eds., American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise, by Hasia R. Diner 1491

Anderson, Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, America, and Israel, 1917–2002, by Herbert Druks 1492

Moser, Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism, by Jennifer Delton 1493

Bell, The Liberal State on Trial: The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years, by Alonzo L. Hamby 1494

Jacobs, America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950–1957, by Mark Atwood Lawrence 1495

De Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe, by Christopher Endy 1496

Raphael-Hernandez, ed., Blackening Europe: The African American Presence, by Wilfried Raussert 1497

Bucheli, Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000, by Jane M. Rausch 1498

Linebaugh, The Man Who Found Thoreau: Roland W. Robbins and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America, by Charles E. Orser Jr. 1499

Wilson, Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors, by Charlotte G. Borst 1499

Derickson, Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America, by Theodore R. Marmor 1500

Peacock, Watson, and Matthews, eds., The American South in a Global World, by Jon Smith 1501

Harvey, Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era, by Anthony B. Pinn 1502

Lubin, Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945–1954, by Lisa Lindquist Dorr 1503

Salvatore, Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America, by Keith D. Miller 1504

Ridlon, A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D, by Lynn Marie Pohl 1505

Lau, ed., From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy, by Robert J. Cottrol 1506

Estes, I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement, by Herman Graham III 1506

Martin, No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics and Postwar America, by Douglas Henry Daniels 1507

Strain, Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era, by Komozi Woodard 1508

Coski, The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem, by James C. Cobb 1509

Michel, Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964–1969, by Michelle Brattain 1510

Watts, ed., Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered, by Richard H. King 1511

Wallenstein, Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia, by John Charles Boger 1512

Flamming, Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America; and Sides, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present, by Eric Avila 1512

Looker, "Point from which Creation Begins": The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis, by Julius E. Thompson 1514

Wall, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition, by Kathryne V. Lindberg 1515

Rhodes, Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture, by Steve Waksman 1516

Mittelstadt, From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965, by Felicia Ann Kornbluh 1517

Vinovskis, The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, by Harvey Kantor 1518

Mapes, A Public Charity: Religion and Social Welfare in Indianapolis, 1929–2002, by Michael Reisch 1519

Bloch and Umansky, eds., Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s, by Mary Ann Wynkoop 1520

Gardner and Gittinger, eds., The Search for Peace in Vietnam, 1964–1968, by Robert Buzzanco 1521

Hall, Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s, by Melvin Small 1522

Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, by David Farber 1522

Rarick, California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown, by Roger W. Lotchin 1523

Reimers, Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People, by Reed Ueda 1524

King, The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation, by David M. Reimers 1525

Kaplowitz, LULAC, Mexican Americans, and National Policy, by Zaragosa Vargas 1526

Schoen, Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare, by Jennifer Nelson 1526

Mieczkowski, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s, by Nigel Bowles 1527

Stuckey, Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity; and Alterman, When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences, by Louis W. Liebovich 1528

Graubard, Command of Office: How War, Secrecy, and Deception Transformed the Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush, by John Robert Greene 1529

Gottlieb, Vallianatos, Freer, and Dreier, The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City, by Philip J. Ethington 1530

Tushnet, ed., The Constitution in Wartime: Beyond Alarmism and Complacency, by Jonathan Lurie 1531

Kramer, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, by Scott D. Gerber 1532

Web Site Reviews

Connecticut History Online, by Walter W. Woodward 1534

Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read; and Children in Urban America Project, by Kelly Schrum 1535

Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH), by Jessamyn Neuhaus 1536

The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935–1939, by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff 1537

History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) by Samuel Brylawski 1538

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