Contents: Vol. 94, No. 3

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Articles

Through the Eye of Katrina: The Past as Prologue?
A Special Issue
Guest Editors: Lawrence N. Powell and Clarence L. Mohr
An Introduction
Clarence L. Mohr and Lawrence N. Powell693
Boundary Issues: Clarifying New Orleans’s Murky Edges
Ari Kelman695
An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans
Richard Campanella704
New Orleans Architecture: Building Renewal
Karen Kingsley716
The Atlantic World and the Road to Plessy v. Ferguson
Rebecca J. Scott726
The Political Construction of a Natural Disaster: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853
Henry M. McKiven Jr.734
The Politics of Poverty and History: Racial Inequality and the Long Prelude to Katrina
Kent B. Germany743
Fade to Black: Hurricane Katrina and the Disappearance of Creole New Orleans
Arnold R. Hirsch752
Water in Sacred Places: Rebuilding New Orleans Black Churches as Sites of Community Empowerment
Donald E. DeVore762
Resilient History and the Rebuilding of a Community: The Vietnamese American Community in New Orleans East
Karen J. Leong, Christopher A. Airriess, Wei Li, Angela Chia-Chen Chen, and Verna M. Keith770
The Post-Katrina, Semiseparate World of Gender Politics
Pamela Tyler780
Carnival and Katrina
Reid Mitchell789
Poverty Is the New Prostitution: Race, Poverty, and Public Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Alecia P. Long795
The Disneyfication of New Orleans: The French Quarter as Facade in a Divided City
J. Mark Souther804
“They’re Tryin’ to Wash Us Away”: New Orleans Musicians Surviving Katrina
Bruce Boyd Raeburn812
Reflections of an Authentic Jazz Life in Pre-Katrina New Orleans
Michael G. White820
The Mourning After: Languages of Loss and Grief in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Marline Otte828
“The Forgotten People of New Orleans”: Community, Vulnerability, and the Lower Ninth Ward
Juliette Landphair837
Constructing New Orleans, Constructing Race: A Population History of New Orleans
Elizabeth Fussell846
After the Storms: Tradition and Change in Bayou La Batre
Frye Gaillard856
What Does American History Tell Us about Katrina and Vice Versa?
Lawrence N. Powell863

Exhibition Reviews

“Tribal Paths: Colorado American Indians, 1500 to the Present,” by Cindy Ott877
Ford Orientation Center and Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center, by Steve Frank881
“Inhuman Traffic: The Business of the Slave Trade”; “Portraits, People, and Abolition”; and “Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design”; and “Traces of the Trade: Discovery Trails Exploring the Links between Art, Design, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” by Lynn M. Hudson886
“Recovering Their Story: African Americans on the Davis Plantation, 1850–1925,” by Heather Bailey891
“In the Cause of Liberty,” by Andrew J. Torget894
The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, by Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis896
“History Is All Around Us,” by Douglas E. Evelyn901
“Open House: If These Walls Could Talk,” by Kristin Hass904

Book Reviews

Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors, by Anthony Pagden908
MacMillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576–1640, by Herbert A. Johnson909
Mancall, Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America, by Eliga H. Gould910
Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, by Susan Sleeper-Smith911
Gronim, Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York, by Walter W. Woodward912
Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness, by Steven Noll913
Brekus, ed., The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past, by Martha Tomhave Blauvelt913
Beneke, Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism, by John D. Krugler914
Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History, by Alan R. Gibson915
Moore, World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750–1805, by S. Scott Rohrer916
Hatzenbuehler, “I Tremble for My Country”: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry, by Franklin Kalinowski917
McDonnell, The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia, by Albert H. Tillson Jr.918
Lloyd, Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, by Michael R. Stamm919
Wolf, Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner’s Rebellion, by Stephen Howard Browne919
Nelson, Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780–1880, by Randolph B. Campbell920
Ferris and Greenberg, eds., Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History, by Deborah R. Weiner921
Dye, Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy, by Michael J. Bennett922
Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years, by Andrew Burstein923
Burstein, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving, by Elizabeth Hewitt924
Blauvelt, The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830, by Leslie J. Lindenauer924
Jabour, Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South, by Christine Jacobson Carter925
Hodes, The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century, by Virginia Meacham Gould926
Sullivan, Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ann D. Gordon927
Ferguson, The Trial in American Life, by John W. Johnson928
DeLombard, Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture, by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis928
Mason, Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic, by Harold D. Tallant929
Wiethoff, Crafting the Overseer’s Image, by James David Miller930
Wilson, The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans, by Scott Hancock931
Diouf, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, by Elizabeth Regosin932
Silbey, Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War, by Michael William Pfau932
Dirck, ed., Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, by Michael T. Smith933
Sheehan-Dean, ed., The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers, by Michael Barton934
Hamilton, The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, by Michael Les Benedict935
Confer, The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, by Scott L. Stabler936
Vaught, After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley, by James J. Rawls937
Reeve, Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes, by Anne F. Hyde938
Green, Rubin, and Smethurst, eds., Radicalism in the South since Reconstruction, by Jeanne Perreault939
Cresswell, Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917, by Eric Anderson940
Fairclough, A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South, by Wayne J. Urban941
Evans, Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History, by Amy Thompson McCandless941
Ackerman, Wade Hampton III, by Daniel W. Crofts942
Dean, Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall, by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre943
Johnson, Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877–1929, by William R. Childs944
Lewis, Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880–1951, by H. Roger Grant945
Castellanos, Encuentro en 1898: Tres pueblos y cuatro hombres; España-Cuba-Estados Unidos; Cervera-Roosevelt-Calixto García-Juan Gualberto Gómez (Encounter in 1898: Three towns and four men; Spain, Cuba, United States; Cervera-Roosevelt-Calixto García-Juan Gualberto Gómez), by Francisca Lopez Civeira946
Hild, Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South, by James M. Beeby947
Juliani, Priest, Parish, and People: Saving the Faith in Philadelphia’s “Little Italy,” by Evelyn Savidge Sterne947
Snow, Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924, by Lisa Joy Pruitt948
Motomura, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, by Robert F. Zeidel949
Lovett, Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890–1938, by Susan Currell950
Vaudagna, ed., The Place of Europe in American History: Twentieth-Century Perspectives, by Fraser J. Harbutt951
Zacharasiewicz, Images of Germany in American Literature, by Ethan J. Kytle952
Rubin, Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America, by Jeffrey G. Gundy953
Rosenbaum, Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity, by Thomas J. Brown954
Warren, Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab, by Jonathan Rees954
Brandt, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, by Caroline Jean Acker955
Sabin, Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940, by Brian C. Black956
Warren, Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking, by Eric J. Morser957
Lipin, Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30, by Kathryn Morse958
Brick, Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought, by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen959
Utley, Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers, by Charles M. Robinson III959
Lerner, Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City, by Joseph F. Spillane960
Peretti, Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan, by Angela M. Blake961
Procter, William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911–1951, by Rodney Carlisle962
Wurtzler, Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media, by Jody Pennington963
Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Michael D. Gordin964
Cahn, Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age, by Gail S. Murray964
Berry, My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations, by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua965
Kirschke, Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory, by Anne Elizabeth Carroll966
Walker, Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975, by Julia Kirk Blackwelder967
Slotkin, Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality, by Marvin Fletcher968
Brown, Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal, by Anne Meis Knupfer969
Woodrum, “Everybody Was Black Down There”: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields, by Walter T. Howard969
Duck, The Nation’s Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism, by Keith E. Byerman970
Jones, James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-day Adventists, by Peter C. Murray971
Horne, The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States, by Scott Beekman972
Ruotsila, John Spargo and American Socialism, by Mark Pittenger973
Mazzari, Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War, by Thomas A. Underwood974
Badillo, Latinos and the New Immigrant Church, by Alberto López Pulido974
Burgos, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, by Rob Ruck975
Eby, Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, by Robert A. Rosenstone976
Armus, French Anti-Americanism, 1930–1948: Critical Moments in a Complex History, by Christopher Endy977
La Chapelle, Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California, by Howard A. DeWitt978
Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America, by Katherine G. Aiken979
Jarvis, Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It, by Polly Welts Kaufman979
Reinhardt, Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the ira to Wounded Knee, by David Wilkins980
McMillen, Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory, by Byron E. Pearson981
Friedman, From the Battlefront to the Bridal Suite: Media Coverage of British War Brides, 1942–1946, by Vicki Howard982
Alvah, Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946–1965, by Sylvia Ellis983
Priest, The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America, by George D. E. Philip984
Peck, Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism, by Marc Gallicchio984
Engel, Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy, by Marc Dierikx985
Statler and Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, by Cary Fraser986
Larres and Osgood, eds., The Cold War after Stalin’s Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace?, by Donald E. Davis987
Gurock, Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports, by Stephen H. Norwood988
Kraut and Kraut, Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America, by Allison L. Hepler989
Antler, You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother, by Maxine Schwartz Seller990
Peretz, Le combat pour les Juifs soviétiques. Washington-Moscou-Jérusalem, 1953–1989 (The battle over the Soviet Jews: Washington-Moscow-Jerusalem, 1953–1989), by R. Craig Nation991
Moore, The South’s Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945–1970, by James M. Woods992
Fotsch, Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America, by Peter Norton992
Wiltse, Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America, by Ed Krzemienski993
Jacoway, Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation, by Barbara J. Shircliffe994
Baker, On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America, by Tom Zaniello995
Haberski, Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture, by Gregory D. Black996
Mahar, Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood, by Kathleen Feeley996
McGee, From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western, by Michael Welsh997
McLaren, Impotence: A Cultural History, by Thomas A. Foster998
Watkins, The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America, by Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer999
Fields, An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality, by Jane Farrell-Beck1000
Janda, Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller, by Janis L. King1000
Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation, by Scott Peller1001
Jumonville and Mattson, eds., Liberalism for a New Century, by John G. Gunnell1002
Zietlow, Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights, by Michal R. Belknap1003
Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, by Michael B. Stoff1004
Smith, Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush, by Bruce J. Dierenfield1005
Shepard, Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South, by Alice O’Connor1006
Austin, Up against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party, by Robyn Ceanne Spencer1007
Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: sncc’s Dream for a New America, by Cheryl Greenberg1007
Simon, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, by William Howard Moore1008
Zaretsky, No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968–1980, by Daniel Horowitz1009
Germany, New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society, by Michael K. Brown1010
Gaffney, Teachers United: The Rise of New York State United Teachers, by Joseph E. Slater1011
Dick and Launius, eds., Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, by Rip Bulkeley1012
McGurty, Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, pcbs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice, by Amy Hay1012
Hays, Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America, by James Morton Turner1013
Byerman, Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction, by James Edward Smethurst1014
Stanton, The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City, by Joseph Heathcott1015
Cantrell and Turner, eds., Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, by James D. Ivy1016
Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice, by Ellen Fitzpatrick1017
Hunt, The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance, by Christopher Layne1018
McClay, ed., Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, by Martin Halliwell1018

Movie Reviews

Reel Report, 2006–2007
Robert Brent Toplin
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The New World, by John d’Entremont1023
The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy, by Andrew Denson1026
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad, by Loren Schweninger1027
The Gold Rush, by David A. Wolff1027
The Mormons, by Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.1028
The Great Fever, by Michael A. Flannery1030
Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I, by Peter L. Hahn1032
Flags of Our Fathers; and Letters from Iwo Jima, by Justin Hart1032
The Berlin Airlift, by Ronald J. Granieri1034
The Good Sheperd, by Richard Powers1036
Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change, by R. Bentley Anderson1037
Summer of Love, by Elana Levine1038
The Astronaut Farmer, by Margaret A. Weitekamp1039
Eugene J. McCarthy: Muses and Mementos, by Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen1040
Bobby, by Ron Briley1041
Sisters of ’77, by Robyn Muncy1042
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, by Sean McCloud1043

Web Site Reviews

Travel, Tourism, and Urban Growth in Greater Miami: A Digial Archive, by Gary R. Mormino1045
Temperance and Prohibition; and Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition, by Elaine Frantz Parsons1046
America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894–1915, by Alison Landsberg1047
Conservation and Environment, by Char Miller1048
Presidential Recordings Program, by David Greenberg1049
Letters to the Editor1051
Announcements1056
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