| Contents | The Journal of American History, 94.1

Vol. 94, No. 1

June 2007


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Articles


Public at the Creation: Place, Memory, and Historical Practice in the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1907–1950
Ian Tyrrell	19

The Army in the Marketplace: Recruiting an All-Volunteer Force
Beth Bailey	47

Black Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism: The naacp in the Early Cold War
Manfred Berg	75

Round Table
American Faces: Twentieth-Century Photographs


Introduction
Donna J. Drucker and Edward T. Linenthal	97

Worth a Billion Words? Library of Congress Pictures Online
Barbara Orbach Natanson	99

Religious History and Visual Culture
Colleen McDannell	112

The Times Square Kiss: Iconic Photography and Civic Renewal in U.S. Public Culture
Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites	122

"The Day in Its Color": Charles and Jean Cushman
Eric Sandweiss	132

Visual Literacy
Michael Lesy	143

An American Atrocity: The My Lai Massacre Concretized in a Victim's Face
Claude Cookman	154

Who Are Our Fathers?
Ted Engelmann	163

An Image from Oklahoma City
David Allen	172

Remembering the Oklahoma City Bombing
Anthony Fernandez III	179

The Public Face of 9/11: Memory and Portraiture in the Landscape
Jonathan Hyman	183

Image and Artifact: The Photograph as Evidence in the Digital Age
Martha A. Sandweiss	193

Exhibition Reviews


"Slavery in New York," by Laura M. Chmielewski	203

"Crossing Cultural Fences: The Intersecting Material World of American Indians and Euro-Americans," by Mary Murphy	209

"Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War," by Liz Ševenko	212

"The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish-American Dream," by Nancy E. Davis	216

"The Times They Are A-Changin'," by Jeffrey W. Pickron	218

"From Cambodia to Carolina: Tracing the Journeys of New Southerners," by Thomas F. Jackson	221

"Legends of Deadwood," by Andrew Urban	224

Book Reviews


Bender, A Nation among Nations: America's Place in World History, by Charles S. Maier	232

Katz and Stern, One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming, by Richard P. Horwitz	233

Kazin and McCartin, eds., Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, by Paul T. McCartney	234

Morley, Historic Preservation and the Imagined West: Albuquerque, Denver, and Seattle, by Glen Gendzel	235

Kirschmann, A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy, by Hans A. Baer	236

Colgrove, State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America, by Lynne Curry	237

Heinze, Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century, by Eric L. Goldstein	238

Campbell, Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005, by Tunde R. Adeleke	239

Ryan, Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States, by Carolyn Vellenga Berman	240

Trafton, Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania, by Bruce Dain	241

Barton, Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas; and Martínez, Sea la Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829–1900, by R. Douglas Brackenridge	242

Treviño, The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston, by Mary E. Odem	243

Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life, by Lynne Pierson Doti	244

Hornstein, A Nation of Realtors®: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class, by Burton J. Bledstein	245

Beers, For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States, by Susan J. Pearson	246

Noll and Blumhofer, eds., Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America, by David W. Stowe	247

Cushner, Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America, by Luca Codignola	248

Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland, by James Homer Williams	249

Van Ruymbeke, From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina, by Neil Kamil	250

Marietta and Rowe, Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800, by Peter Okun	251

Block, Rape and Sexual Power in Early America, by Clare A. Lyons	252

Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, by Harold L. Burstyn	253

Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America, by Susan Scott Parrish	253

Brückner, The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity, by Gregory Nobles	254

Watts, In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780–1860, by Jean Lamarre	255

Marr, The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism, by Iftikhar Malik	256

Stowe, How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans, by James R. Goff Jr.	257

Miller, The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution, by Adrienne D. Hood	258

Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic, by Louise W. Knight	259

Foster, Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, by Lisa Wilson	260

Cogliano, Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy, by Gene Allen Smith	260

Carso, "Whom Can We Trust Now?": The Meaning of Treason in the United States, from the Revolution through the Civil War, by Peter C. Messer	261

Smith, Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783–1820, by Douglas McCalla	262

Hickey, Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812, by C. Edward Skeen	263

Sparks, Raccoon John Smith: Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous Preacher, by Charles Hambrick-Stowe	263

Bruce, The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America, by Daniel A. Cohen	264

Doyle, Pioneer Spirit: Catherine Spalding, Sister of Charity of Nazareth, by Margaret Susan Thompson	265

Hurtado, John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier, by Michael F. Magliari	266

Waselkov, A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814, by Julie Anne Sweet	267

DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent, by Greg O'Brien	268

Cave, Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America, by Joel W. Martin	268

Hoig, White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains, by Raymond J. DeMallie Jr.	269

Zboray and Zboray, Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders, by Leon Jackson	270

Belohlavek, Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union, by Michael A. Morrison	271

Brown, Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South, by Eric H. Walther	272

Burnett, The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth of the Mobile Register, by Michael B. Chesson	273

Walther, William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War, by William A. Link	273

Wright, Slavery and American Economic Development, by Tom Downey	274

Lightner, Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War, by Robert Gudmestad	275

Forret, Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside, by Mark V. Wetherington	276

Long, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau, by Louis J. Kern	277

Onuf and Onuf, Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War, by Robert Cook	278

Smith, No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North, by Vernon L. Volpe	278

Wells, Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861–1865, by Jane E. Schultz	279

Sarris, A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South, by Brian D. McKnight	280

Thompson, Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman, by Edward G. Longacre	281

Boman, Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor, by Marshall DeRosa	282

Bradley and Dahlen, From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin, by Brian S. Wills	283

Davis, Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville: Essays on the Secret Social Histories of America's Deadliest Prison, by J. Michael Martinez	283

Waldrep, Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance, by Anne Sarah Rubin	284

Calhoun, Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869–1900, by Edward Frantz	285

Blum and Poole, eds., Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction, by William Gravely	286

Schultz, The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow, by Debra Reid	287

Goldsby, A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature, by Amy Wood	288

Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, by Cindy Hahamovitch	289

Byler, Civil-Military Relations on the Frontier and Beyond, 1865–1917, by Robert G. Angevine	290

Lovoll, Norwegians on the Prairie: Ethnicity and the Development of the Country Town, by Orm Øverland	290

Abrams, Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West, by William Toll	291

Speek, "God Has Made Us a Kingdom": James Strang and the Midwest Mormons, by W. Michael Ashcraft	292

Wilkinson, Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations, by Larry Burt	293

O'Neill, Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control, by Todd Shallat	294

Czaja, Die usa und ihr Aufstieg zur Weltmacht um die Jahrhundertwende: Die Amerikaperzeption der Parteien im Kaiserreich (The United States and its rise at the turn of the century: The perception of America by the parties in the Reich), by Nancy Mitchell	294

Schwabe, Weltmacht und Weltordnung. Amerikanische Auβenpolitik von 1898 bis zur Gegenwart. Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte (World power and world order. American foreign policy, 1898 to the present. A history of the 20th century), by Peter F. Coogan	295

Salvatore, Imágenes de un imperio: Estados Unidos y las formas de representación de América Latina (Images of an empire: The United States and the forms of representation of Latin America), by Stephen G. Rabe	296

Collado Herrera, Dwight W. Morrow: Reencuentro y revolución en las relaciones entre México y Estados Unidos, 1927–1930 (Dwight W. Morrow: Encounter and revolution in diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States, 1927–1930), by Helen Delpar	297

Zeiler, Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire, by Allen Guttmann	298

Sparrow, The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire, by Serge Ricard	299

Anderson, Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines, by Philippa Levine	300

Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Keith R. Benson	300

Robinson, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, by Kelly L. Lankford	301

Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America, by Robert Justin Goldstein	302

Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950, by Edward P. Johanningsmeier	303

Olegario, A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business, by Edward Balleisen	304

Sparks, Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850–1920, by B. Zorina Khan	305

McGovern, Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945, by Inger L. Stole	306

Gilfoyle, A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York, by Stephen Duncombe	307

Bauman and Muller, Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889–1943, by John N. Ingham	307

Gross, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910, by Shawn Leigh Alexander	308

Lee, Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880–1950, by Ena L. Farley	309

Creech, Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution, by Peter H. Argersinger	310

Buescher, The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator for the Spirit Land, by John J. Kucich	311

Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life, by Leslie Butler	312

Bellows, A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition, by Betty Brandon	312

Wadsworth, In the Company of Books: Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America, by Barbara Ryan	313

Frankel, States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States, by Ronald J. Zboray	314

Nemec, Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State, by Roger L. Geiger	315

Axtell, The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present, by J. Gregory Behle	316

Apple, Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America, by Jessica Weiss	317

Ettinger, Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession, by Deborah Kuhn McGregor	318

Amenta, When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security, by Raymond Richards	319

Cohrs, The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain, and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919–1932, by Stephen A. Schuker	319

Hampf and Lehmkuhl, eds., Radio Welten. Politische, soziale und kulturelle Aspekte atlantischer Mediengeschichte vor und während des Zweiten Weltkriegs (Radio worlds. Political, social, and cultural aspects of transatlantic media history before and during World War II), by David Culbert	320

Poole, The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State, by Deborah E. Ward	321

Holloway, Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945, by William B. Turner	322

Stanonis, Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945, by Richard D. Starnes	323

Souther, New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City, by Char Miller	323

Smyth, Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, by Raymond J. Haberski Jr.	324

Long, Helen Foster Snow: An American Woman in Revolutionary China, by Barbara Bennett Peterson	325

Kutulas, The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930–1960, by Jonathan Bell	326

Bold, Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The wpa Writers' Project in Massachusetts, by Martha H. Swain	327

Kersten, Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II, by Grace Palladino	328

Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, by Ralph B. Levering	329

Gillespie, Weapons of Choice: The Development of Precision Guided Munitions, by Conrad C. Crane	329

DeRosa, Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War, by Susan Canedy	330

Millett, The War for Korea, 1945–1950: A House Burning, by Gary R. Hess	331

Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965, by Seth Jacobs	332

Allison, Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War, by James J. Weingartner	333

Silver, First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection; Halutzim from America during the Palestine Mandate, by Irvine H. Anderson	333

Karp, Missed Opportunities: U.S. Diplomatic Failures and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–1967, by Salim Yaqub	334

Schmitz, The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965–1989, by Alan P. Dobson	335

Layne, The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present, by David F. Schmitz	336

Prados, Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the cia, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones	337

Staples, The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945–1965, by Robert C. Hilderbrand	338

Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, by Neil Jumonville	338

Stebenne, Modern Republican: Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years, by Chris Tudda	339

Yuill, Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equity in an Era of Limits, by Terry H. Anderson	340

Farber, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam, by Nur Bilge Criss	341

Teaford, The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America, by John D. Fairfield	342

Daniels, The Fourth Revolution: Transformations in American Society from the Sixties to the Present, by Andrew Hunt	343

Gelfand, Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949–2000, by Robert J. Schneller Jr.	344

Downs and Manion, eds., Taking Back the Academy! History of Activism, History as Activism, by John R. Thelin	344

Wills, Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon, by Robert W. Righter	346

Flippen, Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism, by Jack E. Davis	347

Vettel, Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry, by Daniel Lee Kleinman	347

Gottschalk, The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, by Scott Christianson	348

Raymond, From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics, by Kevin J. Smant	349

Buscombe, 'Injuns!' Native Americans in the Movies, by Charles L. P. Silet	350

Kercher, Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America, by Ethan Thompson	351

Howard, Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition, by Elizabeth H. Pleck	351

Kitch, Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines, by Matthew L. Schneirov	352

Simpson, 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration, by Jay Winter	353

Romano and Raiford, eds., The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory, by Sarah E. Gardner	354

James, The Conspiracy of the Good: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Community in Two American Cities, 1875–2000, by Raymond Wolters	355

Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Kenneth T. Andrews	356

Smith, ed., Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post–Civil Rights America, by James Findlay	357

Myers, Black, White, and Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement, by Alan M. Osur	358

Jolly, Black Liberation in the Midwest: The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964–1970, by Jeanne Theoharis	359

Mariscal, Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965–1975, by Carlos Kevin Blanton	360

Sundquist, Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post–Holocaust America, by Tony Martin	361

Curtis, Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960–1975, by Louis A. DeCaro Jr.	362

Web Site Reviews


The Encyclopedia of Chicago, by Philip J. Ethington	363

UCLA Digital Archive of Popular American Music, by Ronald G. Walters	365

Bob Hope and American Variety, by LeRoy Ashby	365

Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line; and Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories, by Stephen Robertson	366


Letters to the Editor	369

Announcements	372

Recent Scholarship	374

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