| Contents | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 6.1

Vol. 6, No. 1

January 2007


Staff

Contributors

Editor's Note	5

2006 SHGAPE Presidential Address

Inventing "Little Italy"
Donna R. Gabaccia	7

Essays

"The Child Is Born a Naturalist": Nature Study, Woodcraft Indians, and the Theory of Recapitulation
Kevin C. Armitage	43

The Origin of Indiana's Dry Leader: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and Midwestern Dry Culture
Jason S. Lantzer	71

Book Reviews

First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875–1920 by Jeffrey S. Adler; Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America by James Green
reviewed by Jack S. Blocker, Jr.	99

Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880–1939 by S. J. Kleinberg; Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West by Thomas A. Krainz
reviewed by Alison M. Parker	105

New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905 by Rebecca Edwards
reviewed by Richard R. John	110

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor by Daniel E. Bender
reviewed by Wendy Gamber	113

[On the back cover: St. Mary's Day Procession in Little Italy, then at 115th Street in Manhattan. From Jacob Riis, "Feast-Days in Little Italy," The Century, August 1899.]

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