| Contents | The Journal of American History, 95.4

Vol. 95, No. 4

March 2009


Editorial Staff

Previews

Presidential Address


Ralph Waldo Emerson's Saxons
Nell Irvin Painter	977

Articles


"The Outskirts of Our Happiness": Race and the Lure of Colonization in the Early Republic
Nicholas Guyatt	986

Relief from Relief: The Tampa Sewing-Room Strike of 1937 and the Right to Welfare
Elna C. Green	1012

World History in a Nation-State: The Transnational Disposition in Historical Writing in the United States
Marcus Gräser	1038

Diplomatic History Today: A Round Table


The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field
Thomas W. Zeiler	1053

Politics and Foreign Relations
Fredrik Logevall	1074

On the Limits of Thomas Zeiler's Historiographical Triumphalism
Mario Del Pero	1079

What Bandwagon? Diplomatic History Today
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht	1083

Hop off the Bandwagon! It's a Mass Movement, Not a Parade
Kristin Hoganson	1087

Textbooks and Teaching


More than the Sum of Its Parts: Rethinking the History Curriculum
Scott E. Casper	1092

Structuring the Past: Thinking about the History Curriculum
Stephen D. Andrews	1094

Rethinking a Curricular "Muddle in the Middle": Revising the Undergraduate History Major at Western Michigan University
Linda J. Borish, Mitch Kachun, and Cheryl Lyon-Jenness	1102

Toward a Coherent Curriculum: Teaching and Learning History at Alverno College
John C. Savagian	1114

Book Reviews


Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848, by John Lauritz Larson	1125

Barnett, The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735, by Robbie Ethridge	1126

Flint, No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada, by Dennis Reinhartz	1127

Heywood and Thornton, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585–1660, by Robert E. Desrochers Jr.	1128

Smith, Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History, by David Chidester	1129

Ryan, Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men through American History, by Susan E. Klepp	1130

Horne, The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade, by David Richardson	1130

Miller, The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade, by Alison Games	1131

Vann, In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People, 1603–1703, by Ben Marsh	1132

Calloway, White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America, by John G. Reid	1133

O'Toole, The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America, by Arnold J. Sparr	1134

Evans, The Burden of Black Religion, by Lewis V. Baldwin	1135

Irons, The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia, by John Patrick Daly	1136

Toulouse, The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England, by Lisa Logan	1136

Grenier, The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710–1760, by Robert M. Bliss	1137

Ramsey, The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South, by Christina Snyder	1138

Pauly, Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America, by Tamara Plakins Thornton	1139

Martin, Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia, by Rowena Olegario	1140

Tennenhouse, The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750–1850, by Bryan Waterman	1140

Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America, by J. Rixey Ruffin	1141

Capper and Giorcelli, eds., Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age, by Brigitte Bailey	1142

Rust, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women, by Tamara Harvey	1143

Eustace, Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution, by Liam Riordan	1144

Carp, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution, by John K. Alexander	1145

McLennan, The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941, by Scott Christianson	1146

Tsesis, We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law, by Raymond Wolters	1146

Mandell, Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880, by Thomas D. Hall	1147

Buckley, William Clark: Indian Diplomat, by Jeffrey Ostler	1148

Dichtl, Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic, by James M. Bergquist	1149

Callahan, ed., New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase, by Adrienne Caughfield	1150

Earle, The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930, by Susan E. Ramírez	1150

Durham, A Southern Moderate in Radical Times: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808–1892, by Michael W. Fitzgerald	1151

Root, All Honor to Jefferson? The Virginia Slavery Debates and the Positive Good Thesis, by Phillip Hamilton	1152

Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States, by Colin Fisher	1153

Berlant, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture, by Leslie Ellen Petty	1154

Warner-Lewis, Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, by G. Ugo Nwokeji	1155

Morgan, The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America, by Mary Beth Mathews	1156

Farmer, On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape, by Richard V. Francaviglia	1156

Hammond, Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West, by James Simeone	1157

Glasrud and Pitre, eds., Black Women in Texas History, by Elizabeth York Enstam	1158

Tórrez, Myth of the Hanging Tree: Stories of Crime and Punishment in Territorial New Mexico, by Ken Gonzales-Day	1159

Cohen, Gilfoyle, and Horowitz, The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York, by Ronald J. Zboray	1160

Masten, Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York, by Beverly Gordon	1161

Bergland, Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics, by Marilyn Ogilvie	1162

Treviño and Francaviglia, eds., Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices, by Robert Carriker	1163

Ellenberg, Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South, by Joseph P. Reidy	1163

Ishii, Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation, by William Unrau	1164

Rand, Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State, by William C. Meadows	1165

Bacon, Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper, by John Ernest	1166

Dunbar, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, by Janet L. Coryell	1167

Chaney, Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative, by Bridget T. Heneghan	1168

Sernett, Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History, by William G. Shade	1169

Mitchell, Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery, by Jennifer Ritterhouse	1170

Levine and Otter, eds., Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, by Judith Irwin-Mulcahy	1171

Dickerson, Dark Victorians, by Eve Allegra Raimon	1172

Scharnhorst, Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist, by Maurine H. Beasley	1172

Contosta, Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, by Bruce Kuklick	1173

Fredrickson, Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race, by Randall M. Miller	1174

Burkhimer, Lincoln's Christianity, by Mitchell Snay	1175

McGinty, Lincoln and the Court, by Richard F. Hamm	1176

Woodworth, Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the West, by Terrence J. Winschel	1176

Glatthaar, General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse, by Edward G. Longacre	1177

Mao, Fateful Beauty: bbbbsthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860–1960, by Kirk Curnutt	1178

Ramsey, Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville, by Cynthia Griggs Fleming	1179

Haydu, Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916, by Robert Bussel	1180

Greene, Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876, by John M. Coward	1180

Stowell, ed., The Great Strikes of 1877, by Eric Arnesen	1181

Schwain, Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age, by David Bjelajac	1182

Allen, The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation, by James Michael Lindgren	1183

Hersch, Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans, by Burton W. Peretti	1184

Yang, California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads, by Peter La Chapelle	1185

Bensel, Passion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic National Convention, by LeRoy Ashby	1186

Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, by Lawrence J. Oliver	1187

Go, American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism, by Frederick F. Travis	1188

Makdisi, Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East, by Lamin Sanneh	1189

Connolly, Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970, by Janice Brockley	1189

Grant, Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey, by Mary G. Rolinson	1190

Chan and Hsu, eds., Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture, by Sue Fawn Chung	1191

Barde, Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island, by Marie Rose Wong	1192

Espiritu, Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals, by Roland L. Guyotte	1193

Davis, The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era, by William Scott Poole	1194

Tamura, ed., The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power, by Marcia G. Synnott	1194

Robertson, Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the ywca, 1906–46, by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn	1196

Lehman, The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954, by Donald Crafton	1196

Pastorello, A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, by Maurine W. Greenwald	1197

Chomsky, Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class, by Altha Cravey	1198

Gould, Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics, by Ballard Campbell	1199

Levine, School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Lawrence J. McAndrews	1200

Weinberg, Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller, by David Nasaw	1201

Robinson, Show Us How You Do It: Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914–1968, by James Findlay	1201

Capozzola, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen, by Michael S. Neiberg	1202

Ford, The Great War and America: Civil-Military Relations during World War I, by William James Breen	1203

Tucker, Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America's Neutrality, 1914–1917, by Kendrick A. Clements	1204

Hoff, A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility, by Manfred Berg	1205

Winkler, Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I, by Christopher H. Sterling	1205

Ruotsila, The Origins of Christian Anti-Internationalism: Conservative Evangelicals and the League of Nations, by Justus D. Doenecke	1206

Stokes, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of "The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time", by Charles Musser	1207

Jacobs, The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s, by Jonathan Auerbach	1208

Watson, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind, by Michael M. Topp	1209

Varzally, Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring outside Ethnic Lines, 1925–1955, by Phoebe S. Kropp	1210

McCusker, Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio, by Susan C. Cook	1211

Rasmussen, On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine, by David T. Courtwright	1211

Shorter and Healy, Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness, by Andrew T. Scull	1212

Welky, Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression, by Erin A. Smith	1213

Megraw, Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana, by Jeffrey L. Meikle	1214

Esperdy, Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal, by Robert Leighninger	1215

Danbom, Going It Alone: Fargo Grapples with the Great Depression, by Neil M. Maher	1216

Curtis, Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton, by Jennifer Delton	1216

Hurt, The Great Plains during World War II, by Virgil W. Dean	1217

del Castillo, ed., World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights, by Steven Harmon Wilson	1218

Billinger, Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State, by Günter J. Bischof	1219

Hastings, Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45, by Richard H. Minear	1220

Hegarty, Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II, by M. Michaela Hampf	1221

Murray, Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress, by John N. Tsuchida	1221

Fay, Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany, by John Trumpbour	1222

Black, ed., The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, vol. 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945–1948, by John Thomas McGuire	1223

Filreis, Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960, by Joan Shelley Rubin	1225

Blake, ed., The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State, by Kristin Hass	1225

Street, The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement, by Michael Ezra	1226

King, The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South, by Amy Wood	1227

McNally, When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity, by Robert Saxe	1228

Kroes, Photographic Memories: Private Pictures, Public Images, and American History, by Robert Hariman	1229

Packer, Mobility without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship, by Kathleen Franz	1230

Gross, Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher, by John Pettegrew	1230

Kahlenberg, Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy, by Carlos Kevin Blanton	1231

Hoffnung-Garskof, A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950, by Marc Simon Rodriguez	1232

McCray, Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age, by Roger D. Launius	1233

Pope, Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System, by John Wills	1234

Stromquist, ed., Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context, by Terry H. Anderson	1235

Frymer, Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party, by Peter F. Lau	1236

Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, by Avital H. Bloch	1236

Pearlman, Truman and MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown, by Gary Warren Reichard	1237

Gienow-Hecht, ed., Decentering America, by Walter L. Hixson	1238

Hamblin, Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, by Martin V. Melosi	1239

Joseph and Spenser, eds., In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War, by Matthew A. Redinger	1240

Barber, A Hard Rain Fell: sds and Why It Failed, by Wesley Hogan	1241

Orosco, Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence, by Richard A. Garcia	1242

Breines, The Trouble between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, by Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway	1243

Blaszczyk, ed., Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers, by Nancy Page Fernandez	1244

Frey, Dekolonisierung in Südostasien: Die Vereinigten Staaten und die Auflösung der europäischen Kolonialreiche (Decolonization in Southeast Asia: The United States and the dissolution of the European colonial empires), by Helge Pharo	1245

Greiner, Krieg ohne fronten: Die usa in Vietnam (War without a front: The usa in Vietnam), by Klaus Larres	1245

Martini, Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975–2000, by David Milne	1246

Teuton, Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel, by Michael A. Elliott	1246

Michael, Willis Carto and the American Far Right, by Jason Sokol	1248

Boomhower, Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary, by Gregory W. Bush	1249

Barkan, Diner, and Kraut, eds., From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era, by Frederick M. Binder	1249

Habal, San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-eviction Movement, by John M. Liu	1250

Battista, The Revival of Labor Liberalism, by Stephen Amberg	1251

Brands, From Berlin to Baghdad: America's Search for Purpose in the Post–Cold War World, by J. Garry Clifford	1252

Kayikçi and Dönmez, eds., Yeni Imparatorluk Çagi (The new era of empire), by Pinar Bilgin	1253

Web Site Reviews


Indian Affairs: Law and Treaties; and Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations, by John R. Wunder and Christopher Steinke	1255

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, by Chauncey Monte-Sano	1256

Lakota Winter Counts: An Online Exhibit, by Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Buck Woodard	1258

Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, by Peter Cole	1259


Letters to the Editor	1261

Announcements	1263

Recent Scholarship	1265

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