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Vol. 94, No. 3

December 2007



Editorial Staff

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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. Powell 693

Boundary Issues: Clarifying New Orleans's Murky Edges
Ari Kelman 695

An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans
Richard Campanella 704

New Orleans Architecture: Building Renewal
Karen Kingsley 716

The Atlantic World and the Road to Plessy v. Ferguson
Rebecca J. Scott 726

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. Germany 743

Fade to Black: Hurricane Katrina and the Disappearance of Creole New Orleans
Arnold R. Hirsch 752

Water in Sacred Places: Rebuilding New Orleans Black Churches as Sites of Community Empowerment
Donald E. DeVore 762

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. Keith 770

The Post-Katrina, Semiseparate World of Gender Politics
Pamela Tyler 780

Carnival and Katrina
Reid Mitchell 789

Poverty Is the New Prostitution: Race, Poverty, and Public Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Alecia P. Long 795

The Disneyfication of New Orleans: The French Quarter as Facade in a Divided City
J. Mark Souther 804

"They're Tryin' to Wash Us Away": New Orleans Musicians Surviving Katrina
Bruce Boyd Raeburn 812

Reflections of an Authentic Jazz Life in Pre-Katrina New Orleans
Michael G. White 820

The Mourning After: Languages of Loss and Grief in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Marline Otte 828

"The Forgotten People of New Orleans": Community, Vulnerability, and the Lower Ninth Ward
Juliette Landphair 837

Constructing New Orleans, Constructing Race: A Population History of New Orleans
Elizabeth Fussell 846

After the Storms: Tradition and Change in Bayou La Batre
Frye Gaillard 856

What Does American History Tell Us about Katrina and Vice Versa?
Lawrence N. Powell 863

Exhibition Reviews

"Tribal Paths: Colorado American Indians, 1500 to the Present," by Cindy Ott 877

Ford Orientation Center and Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center, by Steve Frank 881

"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. Hudson 886

"Recovering Their Story: African Americans on the Davis Plantation, 1850–1925," by Heather Bailey 891

"In the Cause of Liberty," by Andrew J. Torget 894

The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, by Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis 896

"History Is All Around Us," by Douglas E. Evelyn 901

"Open House: If These Walls Could Talk," by Kristin Hass 904

Book Reviews

Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors, by Anthony Pagden 908

MacMillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576–1640, by Herbert A. Johnson 909

Mancall, Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America, by Eliga H. Gould 910

Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, by Susan Sleeper-Smith 911

Gronim, Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York, by Walter W. Woodward 912

Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness, by Steven Noll 913

Brekus, ed., The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past, by Martha Tomhave Blauvelt 913

Beneke, Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism, by John D. Krugler 914

Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History, by Alan R. Gibson 915

Moore, World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750–1805, by S. Scott Rohrer 916

Hatzenbuehler, "I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry, by Franklin Kalinowski 917

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. Stamm 919

Wolf, Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion, by Stephen Howard Browne 919

Nelson, Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780–1880, by Randolph B. Campbell 920

Ferris and Greenberg, eds., Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History, by Deborah R. Weiner 921

Dye, Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy, by Michael J. Bennett 922

Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years, by Andrew Burstein 923

Burstein, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving, by Elizabeth Hewitt 924

Blauvelt, The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830, by Leslie J. Lindenauer 924

Jabour, Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South, by Christine Jacobson Carter 925

Hodes, The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century, by Virginia Meacham Gould 926

Sullivan, Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ann D. Gordon 927

Ferguson, The Trial in American Life, by John W. Johnson 928

DeLombard, Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture, by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis 928

Mason, Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic, by Harold D. Tallant 929

Wiethoff, Crafting the Overseer's Image, by James David Miller 930

Wilson, The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans, by Scott Hancock 931

Diouf, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, by Elizabeth Regosin 932

Silbey, Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War, by Michael William Pfau 932

Dirck, ed., Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, by Michael T. Smith 933

Sheehan-Dean, ed., The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers, by Michael Barton 934

Hamilton, The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, by Michael Les Benedict 935

Confer, The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, by Scott L. Stabler 936

Vaught, After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley, by James J. Rawls 937

Reeve, Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes, by Anne F. Hyde 938

Green, Rubin, and Smethurst, eds., Radicalism in the South since Reconstruction, by Jeanne Perreault 939

Cresswell, Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917, by Eric Anderson 940

Fairclough, A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South, by Wayne J. Urban 941

Evans, Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History, by Amy Thompson McCandless 941

Ackerman, Wade Hampton III, by Daniel W. Crofts 942

Dean, Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall, by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre 943

Johnson, Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877–1929, by William R. Childs 944

Lewis, Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880–1951, by H. Roger Grant 945

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 Civeira 946

Hild, Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South, by James M. Beeby 947

Juliani, Priest, Parish, and People: Saving the Faith in Philadelphia's "Little Italy," by Evelyn Savidge Sterne 947

Snow, Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924, by Lisa Joy Pruitt 948

Motomura, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, by Robert F. Zeidel 949

Lovett, Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890–1938, by Susan Currell 950

Vaudagna, ed., The Place of Europe in American History: Twentieth-Century Perspectives, by Fraser J. Harbutt 951

Zacharasiewicz, Images of Germany in American Literature, by Ethan J. Kytle 952

Rubin, Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America, by Jeffrey G. Gundy 953

Rosenbaum, Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity, by Thomas J. Brown 954

Warren, Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab, by Jonathan Rees 954

Brandt, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, by Caroline Jean Acker 955

Sabin, Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940, by Brian C. Black 956

Warren, Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking, by Eric J. Morser 957

Lipin, Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30, by Kathryn Morse 958

Brick, Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought, by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen 959

Utley, Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers, by Charles M. Robinson III 959

Lerner, Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City, by Joseph F. Spillane 960

Peretti, Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan, by Angela M. Blake 961

Procter, William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911–1951, by Rodney Carlisle 962

Wurtzler, Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media, by Jody Pennington 963

Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Michael D. Gordin 964

Cahn, Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age, by Gail S. Murray 964

Berry, My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations, by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua 965

Kirschke, Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory, by Anne Elizabeth Carroll 966

Walker, Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975, by Julia Kirk Blackwelder 967

Slotkin, Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality, by Marvin Fletcher 968

Brown, Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal, by Anne Meis Knupfer 969

Woodrum, "Everybody Was Black Down There": Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields, by Walter T. Howard 969

Duck, The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism, by Keith E. Byerman 970

Jones, James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-day Adventists, by Peter C. Murray 971

Horne, The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States, by Scott Beekman 972

Ruotsila, John Spargo and American Socialism, by Mark Pittenger 973

Mazzari, Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War, by Thomas A. Underwood 974

Badillo, Latinos and the New Immigrant Church, by Alberto López Pulido 974

Burgos, Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, by Rob Ruck 975

Eby, Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, by Robert A. Rosenstone 976

Armus, French Anti-Americanism, 1930–1948: Critical Moments in a Complex History, by Christopher Endy 977

La Chapelle, Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California, by Howard A. DeWitt 978

Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America, by Katherine G. Aiken 979

Jarvis, Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It, by Polly Welts Kaufman 979

Reinhardt, Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the ira to Wounded Knee, by David Wilkins 980

McMillen, Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory, by Byron E. Pearson 981

Friedman, From the Battlefront to the Bridal Suite: Media Coverage of British War Brides, 1942–1946, by Vicki Howard 982

Alvah, Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946–1965, by Sylvia Ellis 983

Priest, The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America, by George D. E. Philip 984

Peck, Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism, by Marc Gallicchio 984

Engel, Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy, by Marc Dierikx 985

Statler and Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, by Cary Fraser 986

Larres and Osgood, eds., The Cold War after Stalin's Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace?, by Donald E. Davis 987

Gurock, Judaism's Encounter with American Sports, by Stephen H. Norwood 988

Kraut and Kraut, Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America, by Allison L. Hepler 989

Antler, You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother, by Maxine Schwartz Seller 990

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 Nation 991

Moore, The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945–1970, by James M. Woods 992

Fotsch, Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America, by Peter Norton 992

Wiltse, Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America, by Ed Krzemienski 993

Jacoway, Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation, by Barbara J. Shircliffe 994

Baker, On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America, by Tom Zaniello 995

Haberski, Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture, by Gregory D. Black 996

Mahar, Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood, by Kathleen Feeley 996

McGee, From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western, by Michael Welsh 997

McLaren, Impotence: A Cultural History, by Thomas A. Foster 998

Watkins, The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America, by Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer 999

Fields, An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality, by Jane Farrell-Beck 1000

Janda, Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller, by Janis L. King 1000

Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation, by Scott Peller 1001

Jumonville and Mattson, eds., Liberalism for a New Century, by John G. Gunnell 1002

Zietlow, Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights, by Michal R. Belknap 1003

Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, by Michael B. Stoff 1004

Smith, Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush, by Bruce J. Dierenfield 1005

Shepard, Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South, by Alice O'Connor 1006

Austin, Up against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party, by Robyn Ceanne Spencer 1007

Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: sncc's Dream for a New America, by Cheryl Greenberg 1007

Simon, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, by William Howard Moore 1008

Zaretsky, No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968–1980, by Daniel Horowitz 1009

Germany, New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society, by Michael K. Brown 1010

Gaffney, Teachers United: The Rise of New York State United Teachers, by Joseph E. Slater 1011

Dick and Launius, eds., Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, by Rip Bulkeley 1012

McGurty, Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, pcbs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice, by Amy Hay 1012

Hays, Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America, by James Morton Turner 1013

Byerman, Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction, by James Edward Smethurst 1014

Stanton, The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City, by Joseph Heathcott 1015

Cantrell and Turner, eds., Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, by James D. Ivy 1016

Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice, by Ellen Fitzpatrick 1017

Hunt, The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance, by Christopher Layne 1018

McClay, ed., Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, by Martin Halliwell 1018

Movie Reviews

Reel Report, 2006–2007
Robert Brent Toplin
1020

The New World, by John d'Entremont 1023

The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy, by Andrew Denson 1026

Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad, by Loren Schweninger 1027

The Gold Rush, by David A. Wolff 1027

The Mormons, by Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. 1028

The Great Fever, by Michael A. Flannery 1030

Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I, by Peter L. Hahn 1032

Flags of Our Fathers; and Letters from Iwo Jima, by Justin Hart 1032

The Berlin Airlift, by Ronald J. Granieri 1034

The Good Sheperd, by Richard Powers 1036

Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change, by R. Bentley Anderson 1037

Summer of Love, by Elana Levine 1038

The Astronaut Farmer, by Margaret A. Weitekamp 1039

Eugene J. McCarthy: Muses and Mementos, by Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen 1040

Bobby, by Ron Briley 1041

Sisters of '77, by Robyn Muncy 1042

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, by Sean McCloud 1043

Web Site Reviews

Travel, Tourism, and Urban Growth in Greater Miami: A Digial Archive, by Gary R. Mormino 1045

Temperance and Prohibition; and Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition, by Elaine Frantz Parsons 1046

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894–1915, by Alison Landsberg 1047

Conservation and Environment, by Char Miller 1048

Presidential Recordings Program, by David Greenberg 1049

Letters to the Editor 1051

Announcements 1056

Recent Scholarship 1058


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