| Contents | The Journal of American History, 95.2

Vol. 95, No. 2

September 2008


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Articles


Exploiting the North-South Differential: Corporate Power, Southern Politics, and the Decline of Organized Labor after World War II
Tami J. Friedman	323

The Religious Encounters of Alfred C. Kinsey
R. Marie Griffith	349

The Senses in American History: A Round Table


Still Coming to "Our" Senses: An Introduction
Mark M. Smith	378

Getting in Touch with Slavery and Freedom
Mark M. Smith	381

In Good Taste: Rethinking American History with Our Palates
Gerard J. Fitzgerald and Gabriella M. Petrick	392

The Nose Knows: The Sense of Smell in American History
Connie Y. Chiang	405

Hearing American History
Richard Cullen Rath	417

Seeing the Visual in U.S. History
James W. Cook	432

Can These Dry Bones Live? An Anthropological Approach to the History of the Senses
David Howes	442

Interchange


Interchange: The Promise of Digital History
Daniel J. Cohen, Michael Frisch, Patrick Gallagher, Steven Mintz, Kirsten Sword, Amy Murrell Taylor, William G. Thomas III, and William J. Turkel	452

Book Reviews


Keller, America's Three Regimes: A New Political History, by Richard J. Ellis	492

Campbell, Guterl, and Lee, eds., Race, Nation, & Empire in American History, by Daniel E. Bender	493

Roland, Bolster, and Keyssar, The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600–2000, by Lawrence C. Allin	494

Kelton, Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492–1715, by James H. O'Donnell III	495

Reséndez, A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, the Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked across America in the Sixteenth Century, by Paul E. Hoffman	496

Havard and Vidal, Histoire de l'Amérique francaise (History of French America), by Philip P. Boucher	497

Gray, The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693–1796, by Paola Gemme	498

Boucher, France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?, by J. R. McNeill	499

Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700, by Matthew Mason	499

Rhoden, ed., English Atlantics Revisited: Essays Honouring Professor Ian K. Steele, by David Armitage	500

Gillespie and Beachy, eds., Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World, by Aaron Spencer Fogleman	501

McWilliams, Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts, by Richard P. Gildrie	502

Kidd, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America, by J. Richard Olivas	503

Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater, by Scott C. Martin	504

Migliazzo, To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732–1865, by Archie Vernon Huff Jr.	505

Butler, Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766–1820, by Cynthia A. Kierner	506

Holland, Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America—Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln, by David Wagner	507

Brown, The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England, by Lisa M. Gordis	507

Hackel and Kelly, eds., Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800, by Teresa Toulouse	508

Winterer, The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900, by Jean V. Matthews	509

Szasz, Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, by Patrick Griffin	510

DeRosier, William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest, by Kevin J. Fernlund	511

Bruyneel, The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations, by Akim D. Reinhardt	512

Ray, Middle Tennessee, 1775–1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier, by Paul H. Bergeron	513

Cumfer, Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier, by Joshua David Bellin	513

Mulroy, The Seminole Freedmen: A History, by Andrew K. Frank	514

Miles and Holland, eds., Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, by Stephen W. Angell	515

Brown, ed., Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century, by Daniel S. Murphree	516

Burton and Smith, Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, by Light Townsend Cummins	517

Rosen, American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790–1880, by Kevin Bruyneel	518

Purcell, Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise: A Historical Inquiry, by Paul D. Moreno	519

Meyerson, Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World, by Ralph Ketcham	519

Thompson, The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America, by Jonathan M. Chu	520

Zavodnyik, The Age of Strict Construction: A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789–1861, by Michael P. Zuckert	521

Graves, In the Midst of Alarms: The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812, by Larry L. Nelson	522

Sandoval-Strausz, Hotel: An American History, by Bryant Franklin Tolles Jr.	523

Kamensky, The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse, by Lynne Pierson Doti	524

Bellin, Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824–1932, by Gordon Sayre	524

Boggis, Raimon, and White, eds., Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region, by Robert S. Levine	525

Blight, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, by Joanne Pope Melish	526

Petroski, The Toothpick: Technology and Culture, by Robert D. Friedel	527

Meldahl, Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail, by David A. Wolff	528

McGuinness, Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush, by Nancy J. Taniguchi	529

Mach, "Gentleman George" Hunt Pendleton: Party Politics and Ideological Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, by Adam I. P. Smith	529

Dowling, Charles Eliot Norton: The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, by Hugh Davis	530

DeLuzio, Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830–1930, by Ellen Herman	531

Prescott, Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine, by Joel D. Howell	532

Aronowitz, Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society, by Samantha J. King	533

Largent, Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States, by James W. Trent	533

McMillen, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement, by Sherry H. Penney	534

Carroll, American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion, by Thomas Saunders Kidd	535

Friedman, Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy, by Norma Basch	536

Clanton, A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854–1903, by James L. Hunt	537

Gallman, America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, by Sylvia D. Hoffert	538

Barney, The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War, by Martin Crawford	539

Reynolds, Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South, by Ralph A. Wooster	539

Morris, The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America; and Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, by Wayne C. Temple	540

McClintock, Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession, by Susan-Mary Grant	541

Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics, by Stanley Harrold	542

Carnahan, Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War, by Matthew Pinsker	543

Holzer and Gabbard, eds., Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment, by Kirt H. Wilson	544

Budiansky, The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox, by Nicole Etcheson	545

Neely, The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction, by J. Matthew Gallman	546

Sheehan-Dean, Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia, by David T. Gleeson	547

Phillips, Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility, by Ian Binnington	547

Pickenpaugh, Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy, by Louis S. Gerteis	548

Paludan, ed., Lincoln's Legacy: Ethics and Politics, by William C. Harris	549

Keith, The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction, by Michael Fellman	550

Frizzell, Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri, by Steven D. Reschly	551

Nevels, Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence, by Stewart E. Tolnay	552

Graybill, Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875–1910, by Richard A. Van Orman	553

Gerteis, Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement, by Jeffrey J. Crow	554

Dotson, Roanoke, Virginia, 1882–1912: Magic City of the New South, by David Goldfield	555

Ellis, Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867–1910, by Peter J. Hill	555

Chebahtah and Minor, Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann, by Joseph A. Stout Jr.	556

Meeks, Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona, by Pablo Mitchell	557

Hernández-Ehrisman, Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio, by Judith Berg Sobré	558

Abel, Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles, by Susan Craddock	559

Berglund, Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846–1906, by Elliott R. Barkan	560

Saunt, Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family, by William L. Hewitt	560

Basson, White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation, by Katherine Ellinghaus	561

Smoak, Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century, by Ronald T. McCoy	562

Román, Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1956, by Gerald E. Poyo	563

Campbell, In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire along the Inside Passage, by Barry Gough	564

Brundage and Cosgrove, The Great Tradition: Constitutional History and National Identity in Britain and the United States, 1870–1960, by Stephen M. Griffin	564

Aucoin, A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900–1910, by Kevin J. McMahon	565

Cutler, A Soul on Trial: A Marine Corps Mystery at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by H. Michael Gelfand	566

Castronovo, Beautiful Democracy: bbbbsthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era, by Jeremy Engels	567

Lacey, American Pragmatism and Democratic Faith, by George Cotkin	568

Klingle, Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle, by R. Bruce Stephenson	568

Meyer, Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age through the Great Depression, by Barbara Handy-Marchello	569

Anderson, Dan Moody: Crusader for Justice, by Cary D. Wintz	570

Taylor, A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader, by Anthony B. Pinn	571

Michels, A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York, by Daniel Katz	572

Kim, Labor Law and Labor Policy in New York State, 1920s–1930s, by Randolph E. Bergstrom	573

Goyens, Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880–1914, by John B. Jentz	574

Millman, The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice, by Louis Fisher	574

Krouse, North American Indians in the Great War, by Sherry L. Smith	575

Storch, Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928–35, by John Earl Haynes	576

Fairchild, Bayer, and Colgrove, with Wolfe, Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America, by Richard A. Meckel	577

Bjorkman, Verne Sankey: America's First Public Enemy, by David E. Ruth	578

Cook, Alfred Kazin: A Biography, by Stuart E. Knee	579

Levin, The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary, by Donald A. Ritchie	579

Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century, by E. Bruce Geelhoed	580

Clark, Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism, by Jeremy D. Mayer	581

Auerbach, Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations, by Steve J. Wurtzler	582

Doherty, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration, by Jerold L. Simmons	583

Reagan, Tomes, and Treichler, eds., Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television, by Gregg A. Mitman	584

Ghamari-Tabrizi, The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War, by Shane J. Maddock	584

Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the cia Played America, by Loch K. Johnson	585

Charles, J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: fbi Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939–1945, by Richard Gid Powers	586

Noer, Soapy: A Biography of G. Mennen Williams, by Martin Halpern	587

Lang, Karl Loewenstein: Transatlantischer Denker der Politik (Karl Loewenstein: Transatlantic political thinker), by Joseph W. Bendersky	588

Miller, Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor, by Richard J. Smethurst	589

Madison, Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II, by Leisa D. Meyer	589

Schroer, Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany, by Heike Raphael-Hernandez	590

Krutnik, Neale, Neve, and Stanfield, eds., "Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era, by James J. Lorence	591

Pecknold, The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry, by Jeffrey J. Lange	592

Hutchison, Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction, by Barbara Foley	593

White, Against the President: Dissent and Decision-Making in the White House: A Historical Perspective, by M. Elizabeth Sanders	594

Xia, Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949–1972, by Steven Goldstein	595

Pineo, Ecuador and the United States: Useful Strangers, by William L. Cumiford	596

Lahr, Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism, by H. Larry Ingle	597

Davies, See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan, by Harvey Kantor	598

Kilpatrick, There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior, by Kenneth R. Janken	598

Dallam, Daddy Grace: A Celebrity Preacher and His House of Prayer, by Judith Weisenfeld	599

Akenson, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself, by Kathryn M. Daynes	600

Farrar, Building the Body Politic: Power and Urban Space in Washington, D.C., by Carl Abbott	601

Valk, Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C., by Louise Michele Newman	602

Enke, Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism, by Benita Roth	603

Samuel, The End of the Innocence: The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair, by Matthew Bokovoy	604

Steensland, The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy, by Edward D. Berkowitz	605

Boyarsky, Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics, by Jacqueline Braitman	605

Campbell, Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers, by James R. Ralph Jr.	606

Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution, by Gregory L. Schneider	607

Durham, White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics, by John Ehrman	608

Coleman and Siracusa, Real-World Nuclear Deterrence: The Making of International Strategy, by J. Samuel Walker	609

McElya, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America, by Nikki Brown	609

Rhodes, Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon, by Yohuru R. Williams	610

Alkebulan, Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party, by Andrew Witt	611

Henry, Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations, by Thomas J. Davis	612

Ogbar, Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap, by Eithne Quinn	613

High and Lewis, Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization, by Louis P. Cain	614

Kirk, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism, by William Kahrl	614

Anderson and Ernst, eds., The War That Never Ends: New Perspectives on the Vietnam War, by William Head	615

Rosenberg, Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now, by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins	616

Lerner, When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine, by Robert S. Robins	617

Lovoll, The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today, by Steven R. Hoffbeck	618

Sturken, Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero, by Kenneth E. Foote	619

Gardella, American Angels: Useful Spirits in the Material World, by Andrew Stern	620

Web Site Reviews


Heading West: Mapping the Territory; and Touring West: 19th Century Performing Artists on the Overland Trail, by William D. Rowley	621

Sanborn^® Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884–1922; Sanborn^® Fire Insurance Maps, Utah, Sanborn^® Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina; and Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867–1970; by John M. Sherrer III and Helena Ferguson	622

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley	624

CQ Historic Documents, by Donald A. Ritchie	625


Editor's Annual Report, 2007–2008
Edward T. Linenthal	626

Letters to the Editor	630

Announcements	632

Recent Scholarship	633

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