| Contents | The Journal of American History, 96.2

Vol. 96, No. 2

September 2009


Editorial Staff

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Articles


"Young Men for War": The Wide Awakes and Lincoln's 1860 Presidential Campaign
Jon Grinspan	357

Lincoln and the Ethics of Emancipation: Universalism, Nationalism, Exceptionalism
Dorothy Ross	379

The Not-So-Grand Review: Abraham Lincoln in the Journal of American History
Allen C. Guelzo	400

Lincoln Studies at the Bicentennial: A Round Table


Lincoln Theme 2.0
Matthew Pinsker	417

Lincoln's America 2.0
Edward L. Ayers	441

Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre
Catherine Clinton	447

Lincoln Reconsidered
Michael F. Holt	451

Lincoln, Slavery, and the Nation
Mark E. Neely Jr.	456

Prospects for "Lincoln 2.5"
Douglas L. Wilson	459

Interchange: The Global Lincoln
Eugenio F. Biagini, David W. Blight, Carolyn P. Boyd, Richard Carwardine, Kevin K. Gaines, Vinay Lal, Nicola Miller, Jörg Nagler, Jay Sexton, Adam I. P. Smith, and Odd Arne Westad	462

Book Reviews


Demos, The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World, by Richard Godbeer	500

Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776, by Thomas W. Zeiler	501

Novak, House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre; Bigler and Bagley, eds., Innocent Blood: Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre; and Walker, Turley, and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Klaus J. Hansen	503

Kessell, Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico, by Robert Galgano	505

Operé, trans. by Pellón, Indian Captivity in Spanish America: Frontier Narratives, by Charles R. Cutter	506

Fischer, Champlain's Dream, by Roger Schlesinger	507

Nelson, The Common Law in Colonial America, vol 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607–1660, by John V. Orth	508

Beiler, Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650–1750, by Daniel B. Thorp	508

Sánchez, Between Two Rivers: The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque History, 1692–1968, by Jeffrey S. Smith	509

Baird and Goble, Oklahoma: A History, by James E. Klein	510

Edmunds, ed., Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest, by Susan E. Gray	511

Pointer, Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial Religion, by David J. Silverman	512

Fraser, Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore, by Megan Kate Nelson	513

Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World, by Brian Cowan	514

Brown, The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, by Dickson D. Bruce Jr.	514

Kidd, American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism, by Edward E. Curtis IV	515

de Boer, Nature, Business, and Community in North Carolina's Green Swamp, by Thomas R. Cox	516

Horrocks, Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America, by Thomas Augst	517

Houston, Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement, by Nian-Sheng Huang	518

Slaughter, The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition, by Jonathan D. Sassi	519

Newman, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, by Carol V. R. George	520

Calhoon, Political Moderation in America's First Two Centuries, by Willard Carl Klunder	521

Gamble, The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting among Complex Hunter-Gatherers, by Steven W. Hackel	522

Hele, ed., Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands, by Roger L. Nichols	522

Piecuch, Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775–1782, by Carole Watterson Troxler	523

Levecq, Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850, by Julie Roy Jeffrey	524

Bell, A War of Religion: Dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution, by Joan R. Gundersen	525

Truxes, Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York, by Jonathan R. Dull	526

Ruffin, A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic, by Darren Staloff	527

Thomas, The Madisonian Constitution, by Gary L. McDowell	528

Alderson, This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792–1794, by William Stinchcombe	528

Hoffer, The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr, by Peter C. Messer	529

Upton, Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic, by Benjamin L. Carp	530

Feldman, Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History, by L. A. Scot Powe Jr.	531

Macleod, Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800–1940, by Cynthia Patterson	532

Sumler-Edmond, The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia, by Kent Anderson Leslie	533

Branson, Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic, by Catherine Nickerson	533

Finkelman and Kennon, eds., Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson, by Joel H. Silbey	534

Tucker and Tucker, Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic, by Lawrence A. Peskin	535

Reynolds, Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson, by John Howe	536

Reiss, Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture, by Lawrence B. Goodheart	537

Wilson, Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, From Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee, by James A. Spiller	538

Jaksić, The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880, by Rodrigo Lazo	539

Mielke, Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature, by J. Gerald Kennedy	540

Nieves and Alexander, eds., "We Shall Independent Be": African American Place Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the United States, by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff	540

Stephan, Redeeming the Southern Family: Evangelical Women and Domestic Devotion in the Antebellum South, by Jewel L. Spangler	541

Rowe, God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World, by Gary Land	542

Richard, Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States, by Jean Lamarre	543

Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, by Kathleen A. Tobin	544

DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War, by George W. Geib	544

Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, vol. 2: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850–1861, by Lawrence T. McDonnell	545

Wunder and Ross, eds., The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854, by Michael William Pfau	546

Curtis, Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860–1900, by Rennie B. Schoepflin	547

Kaplan, The Strange Case of William Mumler: Spirit Photographer, by Susan S. Williams	548

White, A. Lincoln: A Biography, by Stephen L. Hansen	549

Szasz, Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends, by John F. Marszalek	550

Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860–1861, by Orville Vernon Burton	550

McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, by Kevin M. Gannon	551

Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North, by John W. Quist	552

Bulla, Lincoln's Censor: Milo Hascall and Freedom of the Press in Civil War Indiana, by Dwight L. Teeter Jr.	553

Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War, by Benjamin Franklin Cooling	554

Chaffin, The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy, by Joseph G. Dawson III	555

Cashin, First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War, by Chandra Miller Manning	555

Roper, Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War, by Jason Stacy	556

Ash, Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War, by Russell Duncan	557

Rafuse, Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863–1865, by Brian Holden Reid	558

Gillispie, Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners, by Michael P. Gray	558

Drago, Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina, by Victoria E. Ott	559

Inscoe, Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South, by Tom Lee	560

Flood, 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History, by Russell McClintock	561

Escott, ed., North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Jane Turner Censer	562

Hume and Gough, Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction, by Carol Faulkner	562

Shaffer, Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States, by Thomas Aiello	563

Teal, Hero of Hispaniola: America's First Black Diplomat, Ebenezer D. Bassett, by Steven Heath Mitton	564

Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History, by Donald L. Parman	565

Hallwas, Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers, by Larry Benson	566

Walsh, Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border, by Karl Jacoby	567

Holt, By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876, by Keith Ian Polakoff	567

Abbott, How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America, by Charles N. Glaab	568

Morelock, Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880–1917, by David E. Alsobrook	569

Beier, Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880–1980: An Oral History, by Hamilton Cravens	570

Robinson, The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper, by Garna L. Christian	571

Scott, Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South, by Diane Pecknold	572

Waggoner, Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist, by Laura L. Mielke	572

Calhoun, Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888, by Worth Robert Miller	573

Cornelius and Kay, Women of Conscience: Social Reform in Danville, Illinois, 1890–1930, by Laura M. Westhoff	574

Andrews, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, by Lawrence M. Lipin	575

Lewis, Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields, by Robert H. Woodrum	576

Slavishak, Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh, by Paul Michel Taillon	577

Buk-Swienty, trans. by Buk-Swienty, The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America, by Bonnie Yochelson	578

Page, The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction, by Eric Homberger	578

Klein, Grappling with Demon Rum: The Cultural Struggle over Liquor in Early Oklahoma, by Ann-Marie E. Szymanski	579

Hamilton, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, by Peter J. Hugill	580

Jones, Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis, by Thomas G. Andrews	581

Gelber, Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace, by Ann Norton Greene	582

McCarthy, Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment, by Stan Luger	582

Seiler, Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America, by David Gartman	583

Banner, Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On, by Herbert Hovenkamp	584

Pérez, Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos, by Harvey R. Neptune	585

Oglesby, Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South, by Keith E. Byerman	586

Kuklick, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine, by Wayne J. Urban	587

Moore and Burton, eds., Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century, by Charles W. Eagles	588

Wald, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative, by David S. Barnes	589

Paris, Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp, by Paul C. Mishler	590

Goan, Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia, by Janna Dieckmann	590

Trounstine, Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers, by Terrence J. McDonald	591

Lumpkins, American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics, by Cheryl Greenberg	592

Pimpare, A People's History of Poverty in America, by James T. Patterson	593

Thomas, Unsafe for Democracy: World War I and the U.S. Justice Department's Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent, by Robert H. Zieger	594

LaFollette, Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television, by Louise M. Benjamin	595

Shapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt	596

Elias, Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture, by Julia Grant	596

Lyons, Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929–1970, by William J. Reese	597

Kauanui, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, by Eileen H. Tamura	598

Plant, Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit, by Tiffany Ruby Patterson	599

Burns, First Ladies and the Fourth Estate: Press Framing of Presidential Wives, by Robert P. Watson	600

Ganz, The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress, by Bonnie M. Miller	600

Freeman, Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s, by Stephen Lassonde	601

Edgerton, The Columbia History of American Television, by Michael Kackman	602

Pritchett, Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer, by Edward F. Haas	603

Scott, ed., Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White, by Stephanie Gilmore	604

Palmer, Living as Equals: How Three White Communities Struggled to Make Interracial Connections during the Civil Rights Era, by W. Marvin Dulaney	605

Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence, by John C. McWilliams	606

Rotter, Hiroshima: The World's Bomb, by Gregg Herken	606

Inboden, Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945–1960: The Soul of Containment, by David E. Settje	607

Tal, The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945–1963, by David G. Coleman	608

Horne, The End of Empires: African Americans and India, by Michael L. Krenn	609

Moore, ed., American Jewish Identity Politics, by William Toll	610

Hankins, Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America, by Julie Ingersoll	611

Humphries, Hollywood's Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History, by Jon Lewis	612

Yeh, Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown, by Liping Zhu	612

Michael, Jimmy Carter as Educational Policymaker: Equal Opportunity and Efficiency, by E. Stanly Godbold Jr.	614

Baer, Resistance to Public School Desegregation: Little Rock, Arkansas, and Beyond, by Barbara J. Shircliffe	614

Dyck, Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus, by Nicolas Rasmussen	615

Tone, The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers, by Nancy D. Campbell	616

Jackson, Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven, by Joseph Heathcott	617

Smith, Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy, by Donna M. Binkiewicz	617

Witt, The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966–1977, by Curtis Jerome Austin	618

Siniver, Nixon, Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign Policy Making: The Machinery of Crisis, by Yafeng Xia	619

Frick, Reinventing Richard Nixon: A Cultural History of an American Obsession, by Gary A. Donaldson	620

Hayes, Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp, by Mary Welek Atwell	621

Graebner, Patty's Got A Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America, by Bradford Martin	621

Williams, Screening Sex, by Hilary Radner	622

Ghaziani, The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington, by Jane Gerhard	623

Maveety, Queen's Court: Judicial Power in the Rehnquist Era, by David J. Garrow	624

Laegreid, Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West, by Michael Allen	625

Camacho, Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Gabriela Gonzalez	626

Espinosa and García, eds., Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism, and Culture, by David A. Badillo	627

Valencia, Chicano Students and the Courts: The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality, by Guadalupe San Miguel Jr.	628

Maynard, Out of the Shadow: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War, by Robert J. Spitzer	629

Stanonis, ed., Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South, by Caroline E. Janney	629

Web Site Reviews


Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas, by Joan Bristol	631

The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem, by Marla R. Miller	632

American Transcendentalism Web, by Joel Myerson	633

Linking to Our Past: Documenting the African American Experience in Virginia, by David Hicks	634

Before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897–1916, by Robert W. Cherny	634

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from around the World, by Katherine Jellison	635


Editor's Annual Report, 2008–2009
Edward T. Linenthal	637


Letters to the Editor	641

Announcements	643

Recent Scholarship	645

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