| Contents | The Journal of American History, 93.4

Vol. 93, No. 4

March 2007


Editorial Staff

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Articles


"The Cause of Her Grief": The Rape of a Slave in Early New England
Wendy Anne Warren	1031

"A Rare Phenomenon of Philological Vegetation": The Word "Contraband" and the Meanings of Emancipation in the United States
Kate Masur	1050

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Global History
Lisa McGirr	1085

American Military History: A Round Table


Mind and Matter—Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field
Wayne E. Lee	1116

Military History, Democracy, and the Role of the Academy
Tami Davis Biddle	1143

Mind and Matter: The Practice of Military History with Reference to Britain and Southeast Asia
Brian P. Farrell	1146

In Search of the American Way of War: The Need for a Wider National and International Context
Marc Milner	1151

American Military History: The Need for Comparative Analysis
Brian Holden Reid	1154

Teetering on the Brink of Respectability
Ronald H. Spector	1158

A Final Word
Wayne E. Lee	1161

Textbooks and Teaching


"Pivoting the Center": Diverse Surveys of American History
Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser	1163

Recasting the Narrative of America: The Rewards and Challenges of Teaching American Indian History
Ned Blackhawk	1165

Black History Is American History: Teaching African American History in the Twenty-first Century
Allison Dorsey	1171

Exposing the Price of Ignorance: Teaching Asian American History in Michigan
Scott Kurashige	1178

Playing the Pivot: Teaching Latina/o History in Good Times and Bad
Pablo Mitchell	1186

Teaching "Straight" Gay and Lesbian History
Nancy C. Unger	1192

Book Reviews


Conser, A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina, by Paul Harvey	1200

Baum, The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity, by Colin Fisher	1200

Smith, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses, by Jennifer Ritterhouse	1201

Stearns, ed., American Behavioral History: An Introduction, by E. Doyle McCarthy	1202

Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America, by Elliott R. Barkan	1203

Mulcahy, Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783, by Bradford J. Wood	1204

Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830, by Richard R. Johnson	1205

Olwell and Tully, eds., Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America, by John Wood Sweet	1206

Bremer and Botelho, eds., The World of John Winthrop: Essays on England and New England, 1588–1649, by Thomas W. Jodziewicz	1207

Matson, ed., The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions, by Kenneth Morgan	1208

Menard, Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados, by Trevor Burnard	1209

Einhorn, American Taxation, American Slavery, by Stanley L. Engerman	1209

Barr, Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America, by Thomas S. Abler	1210

Otto, The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley, by Mark Meuwese	1211

Middleton, From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City, by Cathy Matson	1212

Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution, by Peter C. Mancall	1213

Pybus, Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty, by Sean R. Busick	1214

Davies, Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender, by Rosemarie Zagarri	1214

Chaplin, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius, by Ralph Frasca	1215

Finger, Doctor Franklin's Medicine, by Rebecca J. Tannenbaum	1216

Henriques, Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington, by Todd Estes	1217

Furstenberg, In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation, by John Howe	1218

Ambrose and Martin, eds., The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father, by Andrew Shankman	1219

Kirschke, Gouverneur Morris: Author, Statesman, and Man of the World, by Andrew S. Trees	1220

Labunski, James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights, by Kevin R. C. Gutzman	1220

Knudson, Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty, by Jeffery A. Smith	1221

Levinson and Sparrow, eds., The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898, by Patrick G. Williams	1222

Hünemörder, The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America, by Kevin M. Gannon	1223

Kenslea, The Sedgwicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage in the Early Republic, by C. Dallett Hemphill	1224

Downey, Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860, by A. Glenn Crothers	1225

Fox-Genovese and Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview, by John Patrick Daly	1226

Dal Lago, Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815–1861, by Susanna Delfino	1228

Schwartz, Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South, by James O. Breeden	1228

Boswell and McArthur, eds., Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change, by Beverly G. Bond	1229

Shamir, Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature, by Debby Applegate	1230

Nation, At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810–1870, by Susan Sessions Rugh	1231

Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, by Dee E. Andrews	1232

McCarthy and Stauffer, eds., Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism, by Stanley Harrold	1233

Allen, Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837–1857, by Howard Schweber	1234

Crapol, John Tyler: The Accidental President, by John M. Belohlavek	1235

Currie, The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829–1861, by Peter B. Knupfer	1235

Soodalter, Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader, by Steven Deyle	1236

Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Randall M. Miller	1237

Samuels, Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War, by Bruce A. Ronda	1238

McKnight, Contested Borderlands: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia; and Gallagher, ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, by Kent Masterson Brown	1239

Escott, Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy, by Gordon McKinney	1240

Wilson, The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865, by Lenette S. Taylor	1241

Striner, Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery, by Michael P. Johnson	1242

Connelly, John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship, by Joseph G. Dawson III	1243

LaFantasie, Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates, by Jeffery S. Prushankin	1244

Hall, Women on the Civil War Battlefront, by Shirley Anne Leckie	1245

Phipps, Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee, by Amy Murrell Taylor	1245

Hogue, Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction, by John M. Sacher	1246

Rubin, South Carolina Scalawags, by William Scott Poole	1247

Megginson, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, by Edmund L. Drago	1248

Anderson, Conjure in African American Society, by Ina Fandrich	1249

Williams-Forson, Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power, by Rebecca Sharpless	1250

Ritterhouse, Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race, by John A. Kirk	1250

Barnes, Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s, by Andrew F. Clark	1251

Moos, Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging, by Brian W. Dippie	1252

Robins, Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas, by Gary Clayton Anderson	1253

Oberly, A Nation of Statesmen: The Political Culture of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, 1815–1972, by Stephen Warren	1254

Lookingbill, War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners, by Wilbert H. Ahern	1255

Auerbach, Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land, by Carter Jones Meyer	1255

Foster, We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community, by Mark Edwin Miller	1256

Anderson, Benson, and Flanagan, eds., Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans, by David R. M. Beck	1257

Trafzer, Keller, and Sisquoc, eds., Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences, by Michael C. Coleman	1258

Tuchman, Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D., by Stephanie P. Browner	1259

Fitzgerald, Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830–1920, by Sioban Nelson	1260

Warren, Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts, by Richard H. Chused	1261

Buszek, Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, by Leigh Ann Wheeler	1262

Frisken, Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America, by John C. Spurlock	1263

Mack and Lesesne, eds., Francis Lieber and the Culture of the Mind, by Dan R. Frost	1264

Frost, Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850–1877, by Benjamin Reiss	1265

Klimasmith, At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850–1930, by Carrie Tirado Bramen	1266

Riney-Kehrberg, Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest; and Jensen, Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850–1925, by Linda Pickle	1266

Summers, Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850–1950, by Kendrick A. Clements	1268

Khan, The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920, by Peter Temin	1269

Thiesen, Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920, by Richard M. Candee	1269

Aldrich, Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965, by James L. Hunt	1270

Franch, Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes, by Maury Klein	1271

Rauchway, Blessed among Nations: How the World Made America, by John M. Dobson	1272

Adas, Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission, by Wesley T. Wooley	1273

Stoler, ed., Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History, by Jon Smith	1273

Nordstrom, Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era, by Samuel J. Thomas	1274

Rosenthal, Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Eugene M. Tobin	1275

Montgomery, The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890–1930, by Jennifer Trost	1276

Blake, How New York Became American, 1890–1924, by Clifton Hood	1277

Burnstein, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City, by James Connolly	1278

Coble, Cleaning Up: The Transformation of Domestic Service in Twentieth Century New York, by Diane C. Vecchio	1279

Clement, Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900–1945, by Brian Donovan	1280

Greenwald, The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York, by John F. McClymer	1281

Schrag, The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro, by Sy Adler	1281

Leidenberger, Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars, by Susan Eleanor Hirsch	1282

Molina, Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939, by Alan M. Kraut	1283

Gems, The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism, by Richard C. Crepeau	1284

Warner, When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear, by Gerald R. Gems	1285

Tucker, Ott, and Buckler, eds., The Scrapbook in American Life, by Gayle R. Davis	1285

Johnston, ed., Seeing High & Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture, by Nell Irvin Painter	1286

Gillespie and Hall, eds., Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America, by Daniel Bernardi	1287

Wertheim, Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers, by M. Alison Kibler	1288

Abel, Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910–1914, by Lisa Gitelman	1289

Hodgson, Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House, by Lloyd E. Ambrosius	1290

Shenk, "Work or Fight!": Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One, by Jeanette Keith	1291

Drowne, Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920–1933, by Kirk Curnutt	1291

Godden and Crawford, eds., Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918–1939, by Elna C. Green	1293

Gerber, The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914–1939, by Janet Irons	1293

Alexander, Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism: Slovaks and Other New Immigrants in the Interwar Era, by David J. Goldberg	1294

Redinger, American Catholics and the Mexican Revolution, 1924–1936, by John A. Britton	1295

Asato, Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack of Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919–1927, by Franklin Ng	1296

Lim, A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930–1960, by Lili M. Kim	1297

Bartholomew-Feis, The oss and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan, by Mark Philip Bradley	1298

Spalding, The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism, by Arnold A. Offner	1299

Tudda, The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, by Martin Medhurst	1300

Mackowski, Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight, by Tom D. Crouch	1301

Funigiello, Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from fdr to George W. Bush, by Thomas R. Oliver	1301

Greiner, Müller, and Walter, eds., Heiβe Kriege im Kalten Krieg (Hot wars in the Cold War), by David S. Painter	1302

Rabe, U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story, by Winston James	1303

Bernardi, La riforma agraria in Italia e gli Stati Uniti: Guerra fredda, Piano Marshall, e interventi per il Mezzogiorno negli anni del centrismo degasperiano (Agrarian reform in Italy and the United States: The Cold War, the Marshall Plan, and actions for southern Italy in the years of De Gasperi centrism), by Roy Palmer Domenico	1304

Dean, An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate, by Marc Weidenmier	1305

Krugler, This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C., Prepared for Nuclear War, by Shane J. Maddock	1306

MacLean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace, by Anthony S. Chen	1307

Wehrle, Between a River and a Mountain: The afl-cio and the Vietnam War, by Kevin Boyle	1307

Smith, Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness, by J. Brooks Flippen	1308

Kruse and Sugrue, eds., The New Suburban History, by Nicholas Dagen Bloom	1309

Henthorn, From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959, by Gary S. Cross	1310

Louter, Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks, by David A. Clary	1311

Kropp, California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place, by Matthew Bokovoy	1312

Crooks, Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars, by Edward F. Haas	1313

McMillan, Ernest W. McFarland: Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Governor, and Chief Justice of the State of Arizona, by Ronald L. Feinman	1314

McAndrews, The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools, 1965–2001; and McGuinn, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965–2005, by Adam R. Nelson	1314

Meeker, Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s–1970s, by Karen Christel Krahulik	1316

Horton, Race and the Making of American Liberalism, by Kenneth R. Janken	1317

Lau, Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality since 1865, by Charles J. Holden	1318

Bryant, The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality, by Kenneth O'Reilly	1319

De Genova, ed., Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States, by Michael Omi	1319

Pulido, Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, by Raphael Sonenshein	1321

España-Maram, Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila: Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s–1950s, by Barbara M. Posadas	1322

Greenberg, Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century, by Dominic J. Capeci Jr.	1322

Hostetter, Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics, by Francis Njubi Nesbitt	1323

Hollinger, ed., The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II, by Marcia G. Synnott	1324

Hunt, David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary, by Edward P. Morgan	1325

Joseph, ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights–Black Power Era, by Simon Hall	1326

Toplin, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11: How One Film Divided a Nation, by Mary E. Stuckey	1327

Behrends, von Klimó, and Poutrus, eds., Antiamerikanismus im 20. Jahrhundert: Studien zu Ost- und Westeuropa (Anti-Americanism in the twentieth century: Studies on eastern and western Europe), by Andreas W. Daum	1328

Lichtenstein, ed., American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century, by Kenneth Fones-Wolf	1329

Sinyai, Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement, by Martin Halpern	1330

Parkin, Food Is Love: Food Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America, by Carolyn L. Kitch	1331

Gardner, Early Detection: Women, Cancer, and Awareness Campaigns in the Twentieth-Century United States, by Barbara Clow	1332

Walker and Sharpless, eds., Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, by Sue Headlee	1332

Web Site Reviews


Women Working, 1800–1930, by Janice L. Reiff	1334

The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean	1335

Illinois during the Gilded Age, by Richard S. Schneirov	1336

Unified Vision: The Architecture and Design of the Prairie School, by John F. Quinan	1337

Poetic Waves: Angel Island, by Erika Lee	1338

CongressLink, by Raymond W. Smock	1338


Letters to the Editor	1340

Announcements	1343

Recent Scholarship	1345

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