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Vol. 7, No. 4

October 2008



Staff

Contributors

Editor's Note 395

Essays

Dreams of a Democratic Culture: Revising the Origins of the Great Books Idea, 1869–1921
     Tim Lacy 397

Phocion Howard Examines the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1873
     Lewis Saum 443

"All Americans are hero-worshippers": American Observations on the First U.S. Visit by a Reigning Monarch, 1876
     Phil Roberts 453

Childhood's Imperial Imagination: Edward Stratemeyer's Fiction Factory and the Valorization of American Empire
     Brian Rouleau 479

Book Reviews

A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902 by David J. Silbey / The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire by Bartholomew H. Sparrow
     Reviewed by Joseph A. Fry 513

Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans by Jean Pfaelzer
     Reviewed by K. Scott Wong 518

Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of Literary History, 1875–1910 by Claudia Stokes
     Reviewed by Timothy B. Spears 521

Steel Drivin' Man: The Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson
     Reviewed by Ethan Blue 523

Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America by Ruth Crocker
     Reviewed by Alexandra M. Nickliss 526

[On the back cover: President Ulysses S. Grant and Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil start the famed Corliss Engine in Machinery Hall at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. From Frank Leslie's Historical Register of the United States Centennial Exposition, 1876, p. 79.]

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE), with assistance from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Illinois State University, the College of William and Mary, and Santa Clara University. It publishes original scholarly essays covering the period 1865 to 1920 and reviews scholarly books on that time period.

Subscription rates are $40 for individuals, $80 for institutions, $15 for graduate students, $50 for joint membership (one Journal subscription and two memberships to the Society), $60 for sustaining, and $100 for patron memberships. There is an additional charge of $5 for subscriptions from outside the United States, including Canada and Mexico. For subscriptions or single issues, please contact Suzanne Darr, Executive Assistant, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Spiegel Grove, Fremont, OH 43420, or <sdarr@rbhayes.org>. Subscriptions include SHGAPE membership, which also brings a semi-annual Newsletter and notices of SHGAPE sessions at annual conferences of the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in MS Word or RTF format, or sent in triplicate to the editor, Alan Lessoff, Department of History, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4420. Before submitting any manuscript, please consult the website <www.jgape.org> for details on correct format and citation style. Information may also be obtained via email <ahlesso@ilstu.edu>.


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