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Vol. 96, No. 1

June 2009



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Articles

"Like a Roaring Lion": The Overland Trail as a Sonic Conquest
Sarah Keyes 19

"The Free and Open People's Market": Political Ideology and Retail Brokerage at the New York Stock Exchange, 1913–1933
Julia C. Ott 44

Coal-Fired Reforms: Social Citizenship, Dissident Miners, and the Great Society
Robyn Muncy 72

Gray Matters: Social Scientists, Military Patronage, and Democracy in the Cold War
Joy Rohde 99

"The Specter of Environmentalism": Wilderness, Environmental Politics, and the Evolution of the New Right
James Morton Turner 123

Exhibition Reviews

"Introduction," by Benjamin Filene and Brian Horrigan 149

"In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn's Vietnam Veterans," by Amy Starecheski 150

"Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era," by Michael J. Kramer 153

National Museum of the Marine Corp, Triangle, Va., by Clay Lewis 156

"What's Going On? Newark and the Legacy of the Sixties," by Mark Krasovic 162

"Black Thursday Remembered: Race, Politics, and Campus Unrest in Northeast Wisconsin during the Late 1960s," by Andrew E. Kersten and Jerald Podair 166

"Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe," by Howard P. Segal 169

Muhammad Ali Center, by Randy Roberts 173

Book Reviews

Nichols, Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to The Passion of the Christ, by Howard Miller 178

Sharlet, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, by Jason C. Bivins 179

Gaither, Homeschool: An American History, by David I. Macleod 179

McWilliams, American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT, by John H. Perkins 180

Van Zandt, Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580–1660, by Thomas S. Abler 181

Glover and Smith, The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, by James Pritchard 182

Voss, The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco, by Diane Miller Sommerville 183

Allen and Clubb, Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History, by Jürgen Martschukat 184

Rogers, Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachussetts, by Howard W. Allen 184

Dawdy, Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans, by John T. McGrath 185

Roeber, ed., Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America, by Craig D. Atwood 186

Wheeler, To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast, by Mark A. Nicholas 187

Brown, Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America, by Michael A. Lofaro 188

Johnston, Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade, by Reginald C. Stuart 189

Bric, Ireland, Philadelphia, and the Re-invention of America, 1760–1800, by Seth Cotlar 190

Fraser, Wall Street: America's Dream Palace, by Wyatt C. Wells 191

Dantas, Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges 191

Hayes, The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson, by R. B. Bernstein 192

Nash and Hodges, Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull; A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation, by François Furstenberg 193

Gutzman, Virginia's American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776–1840, by Stuart Leibiger 194

Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation, by Angelo Angelis 195

Willig, Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783–1815, by John P. Bowes 195

Kermes, Creating an American Identity: New England, 1789–1825, by Paul E. Teed 196

Waterman, Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature, by Robert D. Habich 197

Spangler, Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century, by Frederick A. Bode 198

Baer, The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism, and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790 to 1830, by Marianne S. Wokeck 199

Ellis, Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic, by Keith Whittington 200

Martin, Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-Class Ideology, 1800–1860, by Ruth M. Alexander 200

Davenport, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815–1860, by Candy Gunther Brown 201

Barnes, Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820–1865, by Richard Oestreicher 202

Renoff, The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820–1930, by Don B. Wilmeth 203

Keller, Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It, by Barton C. Hacker 204

Kammen, Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture, by Harriet Senie 205

Obadele-Starks, Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808; and Robertson, The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors, by Jay Coughtry 205

Stewart, ed., William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: History, Legacy, and Memory, by William E. Cain 207

Young, Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery; and Obi, Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Art Traditions in the Atlantic World, by Loren Schweninger 208

Mintz and Stauffer, eds., The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform, by John C. Inscoe 209

McKivigan, Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America, by Carl J. Guarneri 210

Miskolcze, Women and Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity; and Blum, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives, by Robert Lawson-Peebles 211

Davis, The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions, by Ann D. Gordon 213

Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire, by Daniel J. Gelo 214

McGarry, Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America, by Robert S. Cox 214

Tamarkin, Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America, by Peter W. Williams 215

Campbell, Unlikely Allies: Britain, America, and the Victorian Origins of the Special Relationship, by Brian Jenkins 216

Coker, Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, by Thomas H. Appleton Jr. 217

Eelman, Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845–1880, by John M. Giggie 218

West, From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915, by Ted Ownby 219

Grampp, From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America's Home Grounds, by Richard Harris 220

Blake, Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity, by Peter Gibian 220

Cohen and Boyer, eds., Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America, by Barbara E. Lacey 221

Lehrman, Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point, by Daniel W. Stowell 222

Davis and Wilson, eds., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, by Michael P. Johnson 223

Richards, Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture, by Daniel J. Opler 224

Marten and Foster, eds., More Than a Contest between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era, by Lyde Cullen Sizer 225

Myers, Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations, by Kenneth J. Blume 226

Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death, by John J. Kucich 227

Marvel, Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862, by John Cimprich 228

Dabel, A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19thCentury New York, by Ena L. Farley 228

Caudill and Ashdown, Sherman's March in Myth and Memory, by James C. Klotter 229

Andrew, Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer, by Charles J. Holden 230

Ott, Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War, by Jeffrey W. McClurken 231

Larson, The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln, by Judith Ann Giesberg 232

Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, by Jessica Millward 233

Richardson, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War, by Brooks D. Simpson 233

Goldberg, Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare, by Rhonda Y. Williams 234

Johnson, Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875–1915, by Andrea Hamilton 235

Van Cleve, ed., The Deaf History Reader, by Elisabeth Gitter 236

Wallach, "Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact": Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage 237

Evans, Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950, by David B. Danbom 238

Fein, Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880–1956, by David Blanke 239

Isserman and Weaver, Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, by Mark Harvey 240

Streible, Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema, by Stephen Vaughn 241

Beeby, Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890–1901, by Barton C. Shaw 241

Fear-Segal, White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation, by John Sheridan Milloy 242

Pearson, The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival, by Christopher L. Miller 243

Murphy, The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories, by Stephanie Fitzgerald 244

Chiang, Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast, by Lawrence Culver 245

Goldin and Katz, The Race between Education and Technology, by Colin Burke 246

Knupfer and Woyshner, eds., The Educational Work of Women's Organizations, 1890–1960, by Mary Ann Dzuback 246

Melnick, Senda Berenson: The Unlikely Founder of Women's Basketball, by Linda J. Borish 247

Dossett, Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896–1935, by Rebecca Wanzo 248

Fellman, Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture, by Ronald Weber 249

Lorini, L'Impero della libertà e l'isola strategica: Gli Stati Uniti e Cuba tra otto e Novecento (The empire of liberty and the strategic island: The United States and Cuba at the turn of the century), by Daniel Gaido 250

Maynard, Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency, by Robert C. Hilderbrand 251

Magee, What the World Should Be: Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy, by George H. Skau 252

McDermott, Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making, by Hugh E. Evans 252

Zacher, The Scripps Newspapers Go to War, 1914–18, by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus 253

Stuart, Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America, by Douglas Ross 254

Burke, From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's, by Martha A. Sandweiss 255

Voogd, Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919, by Marilynn S. Johnson 256

Murphy, Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform, by Jay Hatheway 257

Lee, Bureaus of Efficiency: Reforming Local Government in the Progressive Era, by Thomas R. Pegram 258

Luconi, La faglia dell'antisemitismo: Italiani ed ebrei negli Stati Uniti, 1920–1941 (The fault of antisemitism: Italians and Jews in the United States, 1920–1941), by Enzo Traverso 259

Cinotto, Terra soffice uva nera: Vitivinicoltori piemontesi in California prima e dopo il Proibizionismo (Soft earth black grape: Piedmontese winegrowers in California before and after Prohibition), by Andrew Rolle 259

Baatz, For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago, by Elizabeth Dale 260

Selig, Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement, by Rob Kroes 261

Topping, Lincoln's Lost Legacy: The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928–1952, by Jennifer E. Brooks 262

Conkin, A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929, by Shane Hamilton 263

Caponi-Tabery, Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America, by Douglas Henry Daniels 263

Burke, Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street, by Susan Curtis 264

Clark, God—or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age, by George E. Webb 265

Wall, Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement, by Keith W. Olson 266

Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism, by Catherine Maddison 267

Crawley, Somoza and Roosevelt: Good Neighbour Diplomacy in Nicaragua, 1933–1945, by Thomas Alan Schwartz 268

Sloan, FDR and Reagan: Transformative Presidents with Clashing Visions, by Mary E. Stuckey 268

Theoharis, The Quest for Absolute Security: The Failed Relations among U.S. Intelligence Agencies, by Betty A. Dessants 269

Norton, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, by Richard O. Davies 270

Erenberg, The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling, by Barbara Keys 271

Jackson, Child of the Sit-Downs: The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger, by Kevin Boyle 272

Coleman, Colombia and the United States: The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939–1960, by Max Paul Friedman 273

Feingold, Jewish Power in America: Myth and Reality, by Stephen J. Whitfield 274

Ryan, Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind, by Barbara Ryan 274

Gallagher, Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War, by Jesse Thomas Moore Jr. 275

Rollins and O'Connor, eds., Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History, by Blaine T. Browne 276

Alvarez, The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II, by Eduardo Obregón Pagán 277

Tucker, The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science, by Jon M. Harkness 278

Malloy, Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan, by Monroe H. Little 279

Koikari, Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, by Karen Garner 280

Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, by Stephen Robertson 281

Bloom, Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, by John F. Bauman 282

Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism, by Laura E. Ettinger 282

Gilmore, ed., Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, by Rosalyn Baxandall 283

Cull, The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945–1989, by Allan M. Winkler 285

Grow, U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War, by Stephen G. Rabe 285

Rugh, Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations, by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz 286

Taylor, A President, a Church, and Trails West: Competing Histories in Independence, Missouri, by Timothy R. Mahoney 287

Wang, In Sputnik's Shadow: The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America, by Kim McQuaid 288

Belmonte, Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War, by Kenneth A. Osgood 289

Trauschweizer, The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War, by Edgar F. Raines Jr. 290

Bradley and Young, eds., Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspective, by Patrick Hagopian 291

Frankum, Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954–1955, by Andrew Wiest 292

Carter, Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954–1968, by Robert J. McMahon 292

Sherwood, Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era, by Lori Lyn Bogle 293

Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, by Philip Nash 294

Leckie and Parezo, eds., Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-visioning the American West, by Michael J. Lansing 295

Arnold, The Fisherman's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska, by Arthur F. McEvoy 296

Kroll, America's Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration, by Phillip Drennon Thomas 297

Jones, The Bay of Pigs, by William O. Walker III 298

Graff, The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City, by Alan H. Lessoff 298

Daugherity and Bolton, eds., With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education, by Christopher W. Schmidt 299

Dudziak, Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey, by Leland Ware 300

Hyra, The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville, by Richard J. Meister 301

Ashmore, Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964–1972, by Clarence L. Mohr 302

Turner, Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America, by Charles A. Israel 303

Hankins, American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement, by Kurt W. Peterson 304

Lewis-Colman, Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit, by James Wolfinger 305

Rojas, From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline, by Richard H. King 306

Iton, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era, by Ben Keppel 306

Scherer, Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, and Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart, by Mark A. Graber 307

Kaufman, Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration, by John Dumbrell 308

Masur, The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America, by Jeanne Theoharis 309

Clymer, Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right, by Christopher A. Preble 310

Blum, Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism, by David Rosner 311

Watts, ed., White Masculinity in the Recent South, by Carol Mason 312

Strain, Burning Faith: Church Arson in the American South, by Mark Newman 313

Movie Reviews

W., by Robert Brent Toplin 315

Milk, by James Burns 318

Objects and Memory, by James I. Deutsch 320

Frost/Nixon, by Ron Briley 322

Cadillac Records, by Krin Gabbard 323

Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football, by Luke Salisbury 324

Medal of Honor, by Richard B. Frank 325

Taking Chance, by Robert Eberwein 327

Web Site Reviews

Web de Anza, by Vladimir Guerrero 330

Spy Letters of the American Revolution, by John Resch 331

Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; and The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, by Leonard J. Sadosky 332

California Labor History, by Greg Hall 333

Announcements 335

Recent Scholarship 337


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