| Contents | The Journal of American History, 93.1

Vol. 93, No. 1

June 2006


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Articles


The Politics of "More": The Labor Question and the Idea of Economic Liberty in Industrial America
Rosanne Currarino	17

Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931–1941
Kenneth W. Mack	37

Recreation and Race in the Postwar City: Buffalo's 1956 Crystal Beach Riot
Victoria W. Wolcott	63

"Lift Up Yr Self!": Reinterpreting Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Black Power, and the Uplift Tradition
Daniel Matlin	91

Review Essay


Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
Roy Rosenzweig	117

Exhibition Reviews


"Clash of Empires: The British, French, & Indian War, 1754–1763," by Carolyn Gilman	147

"In Service and Beyond: Domestic Work and Life in a Gilded Age Mansion"; and "From Morning to Night: Domestic Service in the Gilded Age South," by Catherine Dean	150

"The Way We Worked," by Adam J. Hodges	152

"Resistance or Terrorism? The 1970 Sterling Hall Bombing," by Timothy C. Glines	156

"Big Drum: Taiko in the United States," by Masumi Izumi	158

"Behind the Magic: Fifty Years of Disneyland," by Kristin Hass	161

"The Public Vaults," by Laura Burd Schiavo	163

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture; and "A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie," by Mary Beth Corrigan	166

StoryCorps, by Peter Lamothe and Andrew Horowitz	171

Book Reviews


Norrell, The House I Live In: Race in the American Century, by Clayborne Carson	175

Weir, Early New England: A Covenanted Society, by Avihu Zakai	176

Pulsipher, Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England, by Colin G. Calloway	177

McWilliams, A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America, by Paul G. E. Clemens	178

Carlo, Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York: Becoming American in the Hudson Valley, by Curtis D. Johnson	179

Krugler, English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century, by Michal J. Rozbicki	180

Bond, ed., French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World, by Light Townsend Cummins	180

Mancke and Shammas, eds., The Creation of the British Atlantic World, by Nicholas Canny	181

Coclanis, ed., The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel, by Franklin W. Knight	182

Dray, Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America, by Michael Brian Schiffer	183

Lepore, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, by Peter Charles Hoffer	184

Grenier, The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814, by Matthew C. Ward	185

Dull, The French Navy and the Seven Years' War, by Kevin J. Crisman	186

Vickers, with Walsh, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail, by James C. Bradford	186

Dixon, Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America, by William Newbigging	187

Weber, Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment, by F. Todd Smith	188

Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America, by Edward Countryman	189

Wright, Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and Consequences of Independence, by David W. Conroy	190

Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence, by Joan R. Gundersen	191

Staloff, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding, by John Howe	191

Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, by Stephen B. Presser	192

Morrison, John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic, by Maxine N. Lurie	193

Levy, The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves, by Philip J. Schwarz	194

Reid, The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty, by Eldon J. Eisenach	194

Kann, Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy: Liberty and Power in the Early American Republic, by G. S. Rowe	195

Dubber, The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government, by Steve Herbert	196

Sievens, Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England, by Gloria L. Main	197

Philyaw, Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier, by Kevin R. Hardwick	198

Williams, Bolton, and Whayne, eds., A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest, by Jon Kukla	199

Seefeldt, Hantman, and Onuf, eds., Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America, by William E. Foley	199

Feldman, When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes, by Alfred A. Cave	201

Lambert, The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World, by Robert J. Allison	201

Davis, The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf, by Carl J. Richard	202

Hill, Napoleon's Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804–1815, by Reginald C. Stuart	203

Cayton and Hobbs, eds., The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early American Republic, by Susan E. Gray	204

Currie, The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829–1861, by Gerald Leonard	205

Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, by Christie Ann Farnham Pope	206

Follett, The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820–1860, by Joseph P. Reidy	206

Lyons, William Dunlap and the Construction of an American Art History, by William T. Oedel	207

Ray, The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by James Jasinski	208

Hessinger, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780–1850, by Steven Mintz	209

Sánchez-Eppler, Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture, by Mark I. West	210

Zipf, Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715–1919, by Hugh D. Hindman	211

Sandage, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, by Timothy B. Spears	211

Summerhill, Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York, by Donald H. Parkerson	212

Simpson, Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America, by Cheryl J. Fish	213

Caughfield, True Women & Westward Expansion, by Paula Mitchell Marks	214

Kucich, Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Robert S. Cox	215

Zboray and Zboray, Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People's History of the Mass Market Book, by Susan S. Williams	215

Bennett, Democratic Discourses: The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature, by Hugh Davis	216

Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, by Stanley Harrold	217

Rutkow, Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine, by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein	218

Trefousse, "First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation during His Administration, by Thomas R. Turner	219

Neff, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation, by Joan Waugh	220

Streichler, Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism, by Michael Les Benedict	221

Bennett, Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans, by William E. Montgomery	221

Craven, Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities, by Mary W. Blanchard	222

O'Brien, Henry Adams & the Southern Question, by James Turner	223

Clark, The American Discovery of Tradition, 1865–1942, by Paul V. Murphy	224

Browner, Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America, by Lisa A. Long	225

Alter, William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language, by Paul Jerome Croce	226

Richter, Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity, by Glenna Matthews	227

Wood, The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City, by Rebecca Edwards	227

Bjelopera, City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920, by Francis Ryan	228

Calhoun, Benjamin Harrison, by George W. Geib	229

Jackson, Domesticating the West: The Re-creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class, by Adrienne Caughfield	230

Jaehn, Germans in the Southwest, 1850–1920, by Don Heinrich Tolzmann	231

Davis, Goodbye, Judge Lynch: The End of a Lawless Era in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin, by William D. Carrigan	232

Orsi, Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930, by Claire Strom	232

Rydell and Kroes, Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869–1922, by Stefan Rinke	233

Sargent, The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman, by Helen M. Bannan	234

Vlasich, Pueblo Indian Agriculture, by R. Douglas Hurt	235

Raibmon, Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast, by Michael E. Harkin	236

Reed, Black Chicago's First Century: Vol. 1: 1833–1900, by Elizabeth Dale	237

Ortiz, Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, by Eric Arnesen	237

Horne, Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica, by Michael Keith Honey	238

Blum, Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865–1898, by William Gravely	239

Foner, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration, by Bryan Thompson	240

Pickus, True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism, by Leonard Dinnerstein	241

Gardner, The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870–1965, by Caroline Brettell	241

Klapper, Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860–1920, by Deborah Dash Moore	242

Liu, The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration, by Sue Fawn Chung	243

Azuma, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America, by Ben Kobashigawa	244

McManus, The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands, by Frances W. Kaye	245

Kohn, This Kindred People: Canadian-American Relations and the Anglo-Saxon Idea, 1895–1903, by Graeme S. Mount	246

Schrepfer, Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism, by Philip G. Terrie	247

Platt, Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago, by Jon C. Teaford	248

Wild, Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, by Thomas J. Jablonsky	248

Spears, Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919, by Perry R. Duis	249

Evans, The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy, by Terry Alford	250

Canning, The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance, by Andrew C. Rieser	251

Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis, by Ellen Herman	252

Scull, Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine, by Ellen Dwyer	253

Tracy, Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition, by John W. Crowley	254

Crenner, Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot, by William G. Rothstein	255

Watson, Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream, by Dexter Arnold	255

Weinberg, Labor, Loyalty, & Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I, by William James Breen	256

Byerly, Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I, by Heather MacDougall	257

Segal, Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries, by James A. Ward	258

Slawson, The Department of Education Battle, 1918–1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order, by James W. Fraser	259

Bendroth, Fundamentalists in the City: Conflict and Division in Boston's Churches, 1885–1950, by D. G. Hart	259

Masuda, Amerika Eiga ni arawareta Nihon Imeiji no Henson (The transition of images of "Japan" in American films), by Kyoko Hirano	260

Leong, The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism, by Christina Klein	261

Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, by Harry A. Reed	262

Umansky, From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews, by Yaakov Ariel	263

Yates, Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century, by Colin Burke	264

Cogdell, Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s, by Regina Lee Blaszczyk	264

Reid, Viola Florence Barnes, 1885–1979: A Historian's Biography, by Eileen Ka-May Cheng	265

Howard, Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919–1950, by Michael Nash	266

Wasson, Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema, by Stephen Eskilson	267

Currell, The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression, by Richard Ian Kimball	268

Lübken, Bedrohliche Nähe: Die USA und die nationalsozialistische Herausforderung in Lateinamerika, 1937–1945 (Threatening proximity: The USA and the national socialist challenge in Latin America, 1937–1945), by Robert E. Herzstein	269

Wong, Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War, by Xiaojian Zhao	270

Kochavi, Confronting Captivity: Britain and the United States and Their pows in Nazi Germany, by Arnold Krammer	270

Grunden, Secret Weapons and World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science, by Richard H. Minear	271

Nemerov, Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures, by William Paul	272

Monod, Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, & the Americans, 1945–1953, by Steven P. Remy	273

Krenn, Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit: American Art and the Cold War, by Donna M. Binkiewicz	274

Ellis, To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance, by Stuart McConnell	275

Skogmar, The United States and the Nuclear Dimension of European Integration, by Klaus Larres	275

Cuordileone, Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War, by Robert Dean	276

Sitton, Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938–1953, by Chris Rhomberg	277

DeLyser, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, by Hal K. Rothman	278

Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden, by Garin Burbank	279

Gilbert, Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s; and Devlin, Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture, by K. A. Cuordileone	280

Sammond, Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960, by Erika Doss	281

Cantor, Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay, by Howard A. DeWitt	282

Nelson, The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950–1985, by Sol Cohen	283

Schneller, Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy's First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Robert A. Pratt	284

Pierce, Polite Protest: The Political Economy of Race in Indianapolis, 1920–1970, by Darrel E. Bigham	285

Singh, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy, by Scot Brown	285

Valelly, The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement, by Paul Ortiz	286

Greene, Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina, by Joyce A. Hanson	287

Smethurst, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, by Jerry Watts	288

Seligman, Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side, by Joseph Heathcott	289

May, The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, by Christopher B. Strain	290

O'Brien, John F. Kennedy: A Biography, by Thomas J. Carty	291

Porter, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, by Mitchell Lerner	292

LaFeber, The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election, by David M. Barrett	292

Lerner, ed., Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light, by Julian E. Zelizer	293

Flamm, Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s, by Mary C. Brennan	294

Friedman, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy, by Kevin J. Smant	295

Springer, Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980, by Stewart Burns	296

Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, by Lisa Levenstein	297

Burns, The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States, by Keith Cassidy	298

Lee, The American Intellectual Tradition and Multiculturalism, by J. David Hoeveler	299

Krahulik, Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort, by Steven Maynard	299

Lewis, The Changing Face of Public History: The Chicago Historical Society and the Transformation of an American Museum, by Nancy J. Fuller	300

Coombs, The Rise and Fall of HMOS: An American Health Care Revolution, by Joel D. Howell	301

Conway, High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999, by Andrew Baird	302

Web Site Reviews


Berkeley Digital Map Collection; Osher Map Library; and Federal Township Plats of Illinois, 1804–1891, by David J. Bodenhamer	304

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, by Tom D. Crouch	306

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial Times to 1950, by Ann Fabian	306

National Postal Museum, by David Hochfelder	307

Jews in America: Our Story, by Daniel Greene	308


Letters to the Editor	310

Announcements	315

Recent Scholarship	317

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