| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870–1917. By Eleanor L. Hannah. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. x, 304 pp. Cloth, $42.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-1045-1. CD-ROM, $9.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-9125-2.)

Eleanor L. Hannah examines the Illinois National Guard as a case study for national trends during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She argues that American men of all classes and ethnicities, both urban and rural, joined volunteer militia companies to negotiate and define manhood and citizenship. Ethnic groups considered membership in a unit a sign of their Americanness and citizenship, while white nativist companies defended their conflicting definitions of manhood and citizenship. Hannah explains that the men "applied the lessons of soldiering—self-discipline, obedience, healthy habits, and personal initiative for both self and group improvement— to the most desirable qualities of citizens and masculinity" (p. 13). She asserts that women's public praise and recognition and their participation in the units' social life validated the men's manhood and citizenship.

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