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Vol. 94, No. 2

September 2007



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Articles

Houses Divided: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Political Landscape of 1858
Allen C. Guelzo 391

Market Visions: Expenditure Surveys, Market Research, and Economic Planning in the New Deal
Thomas A. Stapleford 418

The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Race, Gender, and McCarthyism
Andrea Friedman 445

You Can't Go Home Again: Homesickness and Nostalgia in U.S. History
Susan J. Matt 469

Review Essays

Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and the New Mormon History
Jan Shipps 498

What's New In Mormon History: A Response to Jan Shipps
Richard Lyman Bushman 517

Putting Religion on the Map
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp 522

Book Reviews

Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge, by Brett Walker 530

Fessenden, Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature, by James Emmett Ryan 531

Hudnut-Beumler, In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism, by Charles D. Cashdollar 532

Albanese, A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion, by Richard Kyle 532

Cormack, ed., Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, by Terry Rey 533

Cañizares-Esguerra, Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700, by Charles L. Cohen 534

Murphree, Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513–1783, by Robert Galgano 535

Marsh, Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony, by Kent Anderson Leslie 536

Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina, by Alan Gallay 537

Hendricks, The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia, by L. Scott Philyaw 538

Christopher, Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730–1807, by Douglas B. Chambers 538

Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776, by Timothy J. Shannon 539

Podruchny, Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade, by John T. McGrath 540

Little, Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England, by Matthew C. Ward 541

McConville, The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776, by Melvin Yazawa 542

Resch and Sargent, eds., War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts, by James Kirby Martin 543

Glatthaar and Martin, Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution, by Gerald F. Reid 544

Broadwater, George Mason: Forgotten Founder, by Whitman Hawley Ridgway 545

Carson, The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940, by Patrick J. Ryan 545

Levander, Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois, by Arthur Riss 546

Schweitzer, Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature, by Timothy A. Milford 547

Casto, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail, by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler 548

Warshauer, Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship, by Paul E. Doutrich 549

Skocpol, Liazos, and Ganz, What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Robert L. Harris Jr. 550

Canney, Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842–1861, by Spencer C. Tucker 551

Dessens, From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences, by Robert L. Paquette 551

Johnson, Post-Emancipation Race Relations in the Bahamas, by Bridget Brereton 552

King, The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era, by Myra B. Young Armstead 553

Riss, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Russ Castronovo 554

Brazy, An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York, by Frank J. Byrne 555

Glover, Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation, by Anya Jabour 556

Byrne, Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820–1865, by Lacy K. Ford 557

Kilbride, An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia, by Enrico Dal Lago 558

Schocket, Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia, by Paul Douglas Newman 558

Wright, "The First of Causes to Our Sex": The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834–1848, by Myra C. Glenn 559

Petrulionis, To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord, by Anne M. Boylan 560

Gellman, Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827, by Craig D. Townsend 561

Brogan, Alexis de Tocqueville: A Biography, by Matthew Mancini 562

Williams, Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom, by Menahem Blondheim 562

Stillson, Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush, by Robert J. Chandler 563

Mazrim, The Sangamo Frontier: History and Archaeology in the Shadow of Lincoln, by Charles E. Orser Jr. 564

Baker, The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War, by Mark V. Tushnet 565

McKenzie, Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War, by Jon L. Wakelyn 566

Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, by Gary Dorrien 567

Bruce, The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861–1865, by Kevin Conley Ruffner 567

Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity, by Jason Sokol 568

Nelson, Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend, by Joel Dinerstein 569

Ranney, In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law, by R. Ben Brown 570

Margolies, Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization, by Randal L. Hall 571

Marszalek, A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray, by Jacqueline M. Moore 571

Baker, Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926–1972, by Peter F. Lau 572

McKevitt, Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919, by Jonathan Wright 573

Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West: 1850–1935, by Michael J. Pfeifer 574

Truett, Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Rodolfo F. Acuña 575

Swibold, Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics, and the Montana Press, 1889–1959, by Jerilyn Sue McIntyre 576

Cobb-Roberts, Dorn, and Shircliffe, eds., Schools as Imagined Communities: The Creation of Identity, Meaning, and Conflict in U.S. History, by Carroll Engelhardt 576

Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, by Thomas D. Hall 577

Bray, Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, by Martha McCollough 578

Simonsen, Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860–1919, by Brenda J. Child 579

Ellinghaus, Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937, by Lisa E. Emmerich 580

Marubbio, Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film, by Gretchen M. Bataille 581

Browder, Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America, by Margot A. Henriksen 582

Lutes, Front Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880–1930, by Marilyn Greenwald 583

Crocker, Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America, by Jennifer de Forest 583

Gordon, The Saturated World: bbbbsthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women's Lives, 1890–1940, by Miriam Forman-Brunell 584

Nadis, Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America, by Kathryn J. Oberdeck 585

Abd-Allah, A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb, by Timothy Marr 586

Domosh, American Commodities in an Age of Empire, by Lisa Jacobson 587

Frankel, Observing America: The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890–1950, by Robert Lawson-Peebles 588

Coates, American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land, by Stephanie S. Pincetl 588

Kohler, All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850–1950, by Sharon E. Kingsland 589

Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900, by Christopher J. Otter 590

Reynolds, The Demise of the American Convention System, 1880–1911, by R. Hal Williams 591

Hannah, Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870–1917, by Lisa Mundey 592

Fones-Wolf, Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890–1930s, by Stephen L. Fisher 593

English, A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry, by Pamela Nickless 594

Zimmerman, Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction, by Stephen Mihm 594

Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie, by Richard S. Tedlow 595

Cannadine, Mellon: An American Life, by David E. Hamilton 596

Ascoli, Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South, by Jonathan J. Bean 597

Van Slyck, A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960, by Renee M. Laegreid 598

Erisman, Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight, by Bernard Mergen 599

Hurewitz, Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics, by Martin Meeker 600

Bacchilega, Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism, by Mansel G. Blackford 601

Stoltzfus, Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment, by Karen Miller Russell 601

Sacks, Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I, by Charles Pete Banner-Haley 602

Igra, Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900–1935, by S. J. Kleinberg 603

Recchiuti, Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City, by Axel R. Schäfer 604

Rotberg, A Leadership for Peace: How Edwin Ginn Tried to Change the World, by Liping Bu 605

Zimmerman, Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century, by Fritz Fischer 605

Schuyler, The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s, by Catherine E. Rymph 606

Rolinson, Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920–1927, by William P. Jones 607

Fones-Wolf, Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio, by Elena Razlogova 608

Stole, Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s, by Jacqueline K. Dirks 609

Hastie, Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History, by Nancy J. Rosenbloom 610

Currell and Cogdell, eds., Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s, by Sharon M. Leon 611

Wald, Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade, by Robert Casillo 612

Ciepley, Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism, by Judy Kutulas 612

Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s, by Steven A. Riess 613

Freyer, Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004, by Wyatt C. Wells 614

Shawhan and Swain, Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South, by Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman 615

Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956, by Robert F. Himmelberg 616

Dewing, Regions in Transition: The Northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in the Great Depression, by Brad D. Lookingbill 617

Leff, Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper, by Haim Genizi 618

Gordin, Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War, by Gar Alperovitz 618

Neptune, Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation, by Alan McPherson 619

Mollin, Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest, by Amy Swerdlow 620

Conway-Lanz, Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II, by William Thomas Allison 621

Platt and O'Leary, Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws, from Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial, by Oren Baruch Stier 622

Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation, by Neil A. Wynn 622

Milazzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945–1972, by Thomas R. Huffman 623

Loewen, Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture, by Steven M. Nolt 624

Barry, Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants, by Jane Marcellus 625

Chung, Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance, by Jane Park 626

Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television, by Hilary Radner 627

Anderson, This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture, by Scott Saul 627

Gitelman, Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture, by John Nerone 628

Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, by Ross Knox Bassett 629

Mathews, Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South, by Mark Silk 630

Igo, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, by Margo Anderson 631

Offner, The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950, by Stephanie Dyer 632

Stearns, American Fear: The Causes and Consequences of High Anxiety, by Steven Biel 632

Miscamble, From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War, by Mary Glantz 633

Thorpe, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Richard Polenberg 634

Greene, Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test–Ban Debate, 1945–1963, by Ira Chernus 635

DeGroot, Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest, by Stephen E. Kercher 636

Belanger, Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science, by Jacob Darwin Hamblin 637

Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, by John T. McNay 637

Creswell, A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe, by William I. Hitchcock 638

Nuenlist and Locher, eds., Transatlantic Relations at Stake: Aspects of NATO, 1956–1972, by Erin Rose Mahan 639

Shibusawa, America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy, by Jon Davidann 640

Jacobs, Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963, by Edwin Moïse 641

Everitt, A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television, by Nathan Godfried 642

Jacobson and González, What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America, by Susan Carruthers 643

Green, Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955, by Margaret Garb 643

Zaki, Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron, by Hilary J. Moss 644

Jackson, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice, by John Salmond 645

Wendt, The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights, by Christopher Barry Strain 646

Sokol, There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945–1975, by Glenn Feldman 647

Lewis, Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement, by Mark Newman 648

Oropeza, ¡Raza Sí! ¡Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the Viet Nam War Era, by F. Arturo Rosales 648

Kurtz, The jfk Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy, by Thomas R. Turner 649

Fry, Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings, by Robert J. McMahon 650

Del Pero, Henry Kissinger e l'ascesa dei neoconservatori: Alle origini della politica estera americana (Henry Kissinger and the rise of the neoconservatives: On the origins of American foreign policy), by Robert V. Daniels 651

Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, by Melvin Small 652

Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, by Jon Wiener 653

Longley, Mayer, Schaller, and Sloan, Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President, by W. Elliot Brownlee 653

Schlatter, Aryan Cowboys: White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, 1970–2000, by Catherine McNicol Stock 654

Karp, Kratz, Szwaja, and Ybarra-Frausto, eds., Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations, by Barbara Franco 655

Brophy, Reparations: Pro and Con, by Mary Frances Berry 656

Web Site Reviews

The Dolley Madison Digital Edition; and The Dolley Madison Project, by Robert P. Watson 658

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850–1920, by Daniel Pope 660

Twentieth-Century Girls: Coming of Age in the Twentieth Century, Stories from Minnesota and Beyond, by Miriam Forman-Brunell 661

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933–Present, by Carl Lounsbury 661

Invincible Cities, by Robert O. Self 662

Editor's Annual Report, 2006–2007
Edward T. Linenthal 664

Letters to the Editor 668

Announcements 674

Recent Scholarship 676


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