| Contents | The Journal of American History, 94.4

Vol. 94, No. 4

March 2008


Editorial Staff

Previews

Presidential Address


A Commemoration and a Historical Mediation
Richard White	1073

Articles


The Labors of Liberality: Christian Benevolence and National Prejudice in the American Founding
J. M. Opal	1082

"The Slightest Semblance of Unruliness": Steamboat Excursions, Pleasure Resorts, and the Emergence of Segregation Culture on the Potomac River
Andrew W. Kahrl	1108

"Not Marriage at All, but Simple Harlotry": The Companionate Marriage Controversy
Rebecca L. Davis	1137

Americans, Germans, and War Crimes: Converging Narratives from "the Good War"
James J. Weingartner	1164

Textbooks and Teaching


Starting Places: Studying How Students Understand History
Scott E. Casper	1184

"Famous Americans": The Changing Pantheon of American Heroes
Sam Wineburg and Chauncey Monte-Sano	1186

A Place for Regions in the Modern U.S. Survey?
David M. Wrobel	1203

The History Learning Project: A Department "Decodes" Its Students
Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, David Pace, and Leah Shopkow	1211

Book Reviews


Freehling, The Road to Disunion, vol. 2: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854–1861, by Mark E. Neely Jr.	1225

Higonnet, Attendant Cruelties: Nation and Nationalism in American History, by Eldon J. Eisenach	1226

McGowan, American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time, by H. W. Brands	1227

Smith, The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice, by Douglas A. Sweeney	1228

Kupperman, The Jamestown Project, by Warren R. Hofstra	1229

Haake, The State, Removal, and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620–2000, by George Pierre Castile	1229

Taylor, If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Junius P. Rodriguez	1230

Kidd, The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000, by Jon Sensbach	1231

Melton, A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism, by Julius H. Bailey	1232

Will de Chaparro, Death and Dying in New Mexico, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa	1233

Fogleman, Jesus Is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion in Early America, by Steve Longenecker	1233

Witt, Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law, by Lucy E. Salyer	1234

Longaker, Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America, by Jennings L. Wagoner Jr.	1235

Taslitz, Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: A History of Search and Seizure, 1789–1868, by Daniel W. Hamilton	1236

Cash, Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse: A Life in Medicine and Public Service (1754–1846), by Ben Mutschler	1237

Wood, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, by Marty D. Matthews	1238

Papas, That Ever Loyal Island: Staten Island and the American Revolution, by Thomas J. Humphrey	1238

Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, by John Edward Grenier	1239

Gray, The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler, by Edward Watts	1240

Smith, River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain, by Gregg Camfield	1241

Etulain, Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West; and Johnson, Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West, by Matthew Klingle	1242

Lewis, ed., American Wilderness: A New History, by Richard W. Judd	1243

Dunn, Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia, by Brian Steele	1244

Gamber, The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America, by Jane Weiss	1245

McShane and Tarr, The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century, by D. Scott Molloy	1246

Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians, by Paul Otto	1247

Casas, Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820–1880, by Dedra McDonald Birzer	1248

Unrau, The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825–1855, by Brad Agnew	1249

Jung, The Black Hawk War of 1832, by Michael L. Tate	1250

Larson, Gall: Lakota War Chief, by Bruce E. Johansen	1251

Zellar, African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation, by Tiya Miles	1251

Jordan, Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820–1865, by Jean R. Soderlund	1252

Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, by James T. Campbell	1253

Forbes, The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America, by Dennis K. Boman	1254

Capper, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life; The Public Years, by David M. Robinson	1255

Gac, Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform, by Michael P. Young	1256

Henkin, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America, by David Hochfelder	1256

Kelsey, Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850–1890, by Mark Rice	1257

Neely, The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line, by Kristen T. Oertel	1258

Pinheiro, Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and Civil-Military Relations during the Mexican War, by Mary Ellen Rowe	1259

Johnson, A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign, by Allan Peskin	1260

Henderson, A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States, by John C. Pinheiro	1260

Nelson and Sheriff, A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War, 1854–1877, by James Schwartz	1261

Pryor, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through His Private Letters, by Richard B. McCaslin	1262

Burton, The Age of Lincoln, by Edward J. Blum	1263

Dirck, Lincoln the Lawyer, by William D. Pederson	1264

Simon, Holzer, and Vogel, eds., Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum, by Brian R. Dirck	1264

Harris, Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency, by Stephen Hansen	1265

Duncan, Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861–1865, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean	1266

Emerson, The Madness of Mary Lincoln, by Gerald N. Grob	1267

McBride, Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer, by Bruce W. Eelman	1268

Hoganson, Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865–1920, by David Steigerwald	1268

Brown, ed., Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States, by Wayne K. Durrill	1269

O'Donovan, Becoming Free in the Cotton South, by Mark Roman Schultz	1270

Horne, The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War, by Daniel S. Margolies	1271

Rogers, A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction, by Ted Tunnell	1272

Slap, The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era, by Robert F. Engs	1273

Butler, Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform, by Murney Gerlach	1274

Sklar and Stewart, eds., Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation, by Shirley J. Yee	1275

Petty, Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870–1920, by Judith H. Raftery	1276

Thrush, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, by Cathleen D. Cahill	1276

Coleman, American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study, by Richard J. Altenbaugh	1277

Hickman, The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870–1920, by Janet Farrell Brodie	1278

Logan, Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson, by Douglas E. Kupel	1279

Kirby, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, by Mart Stewart	1280

Smith, African American Environmental Thought: Foundations, by David Turley	1280

Waters and Conaway, eds., Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, by Jacqueline Bacon	1281

Klapper, Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880–1925, by H. Mark Wild	1282

Pfaelzer, Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans, by Huping Ling	1283

Lau, Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion, by Xiaojian Zhao	1284

Postel, The Populist Vision, by Gregg Cantrell	1285

Campbell, The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms, by Richard Kaplan	1285

Carter, The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940, by Lisa Lindquist Dorr	1286

Warren, Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show, by Richard W. Etulain	1287

Clarke, Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market, by Bruce E. Seely	1288

Miller, Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America, by Melissa R. Klapper	1289

Johnson, The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900–1950, by George A. Lévesque	1290

Jelks, African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids, by Lillian Serece Williams	1291

Weiner, Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, by Victor Silverman	1292

Lee, From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health, by James Colgrove	1293

Blanke, Hell On Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America's Car Culture, 1900–1940, by Christopher W. Wells	1294

Lienesch, In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by John P. Jackson Jr.	1294

Diggins, Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire under Democracy, by Brenda Murphy	1295

Wilson, The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920–30, by Kyle E. Ciani	1296

Hariman and Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, by Bruce Bustard	1297

Weisenfeld, Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949, by Jill Watts	1298

Smith, "Something on My Own": Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929–1956, by Susan Ware	1299

Lenthall, Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture, by Clifford J. Doerksen	1299

McKenna, The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century, by Albert Churella	1300

Clifford and Wilson, eds., Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals: Essays Honoring Robert H. Ferrell, by David Clinton	1301

Godfrey, Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907–1921, by Gene A. Sessions	1302

McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, by Robert M. Collins	1303

Mitchell, The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed over Industry, by Robert E. Wright	1303

Melosi and Pratt, eds., Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, by Harold L. Platt	1304

Rothman, Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks, by Dayle C. Hardy-Short	1305

Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes, by Susan D. Jones	1306

Opler, For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934–1953, by Minna P. Ziskind	1307

Fearon, Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation, by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg	1308

Leighninger, Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration, by Diane Ghirardo	1308

Leonard, The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II, by Heather Fryer	1309

Leab, Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm, by Ron Robin	1310

Glaude, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, by Scott L. Pratt	1311

Gasman, Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund, by Jean Preer	1312

Neckerman, Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education, by Jonathan Zimmerman	1312

Landsberg, Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, by Peyton McCrary	1313

Green, Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle, by Stephen Sandford Estes Jr.	1314

Zeitz, White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics, by R. Fred Wacker	1315

Xu, Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949–1979, by Andrew L. Johns	1315

Statler, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam, by Matthew Jones	1316

Cook, Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965, by Richard Striner	1317

Feingold, "Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967–1989, by Mark K. Bauman	1318

Suri, Henry Kissinger and the American Century, by John Prados	1319

Hay and Sicherman, eds., Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance, by E. Timothy Smith	1320

Settje, Lutherans and the Longest War: Adrift on a Sea of Doubt about the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964–1975, by Perry Bush	1321

Gardner and Young, eds., Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past, by Joseph A. Fry	1321

Binkley, Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s, by Elana Levine	1322

Tone and Watkins, eds., Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History, by Gregory J. Higby	1323

Kornbluh, The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America, by Lisa D. Brush	1324

Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, by Catherine L. Albanese	1325

Estes, Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out, by David K. Johnson	1326

McCool, Olson, and Robinson, Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote, by Joy Porter	1327

Cook-Lynn, New Indians, Old Wars, by Barton H. Barbour	1328

Web Site Reviews


Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research, by Simon Appleford and Vernon Burton	1329

Military Campaign Maps, by Christopher Hamner	1331

Immigration to the United States, 1789–1930, by Tara Kathleen Kelly	1332

Adoption History Project, by Laura Briggs	1332

Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History, by Daniel J. Cohen	1333


Letters to the Editor	1335

Announcements	1337

Recent Scholarship	1338

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