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VOLUME 47•NUMBER 1

June 1960


Table of Contents

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Front Matter
 
Presidential Fevers
By Frederick Merk 3
Colorado as a Pioneer of Science in the Mining West
By Rodman Wilson Paul 34
The Origin and Activities of the National Security League, 1914-1919
By Robert D. Ward 51
Swiss Immigration to West Virginia, 1864-1884: A Case Study
By Elizabeth Cometti 66
Manasseh Cutler's Writings: A Note on Editorial Practice
By Lee Nathaniel Newcomer 88
 

Book Reviews
David Levin. History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman
Reviewed by Mason Wade 102
A. L. Rowse. The Elizabethans and America
Reviewed by Caroline Robbins 103
George E. Hyde. Civilization of the American Indian Series, Number 54. Indians of the High Plains: From the Prehistoric Period to the Coming of Europeans
Reviewed by Dwight L. Smith 105
Thomas O'Brien Hanley. Their Rights and Liberties: The Beginnings of Religious and Political Freedom in Maryland
Reviewed by William H. Seiler 106
James Thomas Flexner. Mohawk Baronet: Sir William Johnson of New York
Reviewed by Edith M. Fox 108
Charles Hamilton. Braddock's Defeat: The Journal of Captain Robert Cholmley's Batman; The Journal of a British Officer; Halkett's Orderly Book
Reviewed by Donald H. Kent 109
Richard Walsh. Charleston's Sons of Liberty: A Study of the Artisans, 1763-1789
Reviewed by Frank W. Ryan 110
Samuel Eliot Morison. John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography
Reviewed by Gerald S. Graham 111
William James Morgan. Captains to the Northward: The New England Captains in the Continental Navy
Reviewed by Robert Neil Mclarty 114
Lester J. Cappon. The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
Reviewed by Stephen G. Kurtz 115
Marshall Smelser. The Congress Founds the Navy, 1787-1798
Reviewed by Malcolm Lester 116
Althea de Puech Parham. My Odyssey: Experiences of a Young Refugee from Two Revolutions
Reviewed by Richard K. Murdoch 118
Stuart Gerry Brown. The Autobiography of James Monroe
Reviewed by Alexander DeConde 119
Robert Ballard Whitebrook. Coastal Exploration of Washington
Reviewed by Raymond A. Rydell 120
William H. Goetzmann. Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863
Reviewed by Earl Pomeroy 121
Mary W. M. Hargreaves. The Papers of Henry Clay. Volume I, The Rising Statesman, 1797-1814
Reviewed by Glyndon G. Van Deusen 122
Thomas Payne Govan. Nicholas Biddle: Nationalist and Public Banker, 1786-1844
Reviewed by Stuart Bruchey 124
William Charvat. Literary Publishing in America, 1790-1850
Reviewed by Lewis Leary 126
Philip I. Mitterling. America in the Antarctic to 1840
Reviewed by Henry M. Dater 127
Seymour V. Connor. The Peters Colony of Texas: A History and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers
Reviewed by Rex W. Srickland 129
Clarence Edwin Carter. The Territorial Papers of the United States. Volume XXIV, The Territory of Florida, 1828-1834
Reviewed by Kathryn Abbey Hanna 130
John Francis McDermott. George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist
Reviewed by Mary Bartlett Cowdrey 132
Clyde Walton. Lewis Henry Morgan: The Indian Journals, 1859-62
Reviewed by John Francis McDermott 133
Louis A. Warrenv. Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-one, 1816-1830
Reviewed by Richard N. Current 134
Lenoir Chambers. Stonewall Jackson
Reviewed by James I. Robertson, Jr. 136
John K. Bettersworth. South of Appomattox
Reviewed by Charles P. Roland 137
Ray C. Colton. The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah
Reviewed by Leo P. Kibby 138
Jay Luvaas. The Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European Inheritance
Reviewed by Richard A. Preston 140
Peter F. Walker. Vicksburg: A People at War, 1860-1865
Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Massey 141
Robert P. Sharkey.. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXXVII, Number 2. Money, Class, and Party: An Economic Study of Civil War and Reconstruction
Reviewed by Julius Grodinsky 142
David Lindsey. "Sunset" Cox: Irrepressible Democrat
Reviewed by George L. Anderson 144
Wayne Gard. The Great Buffalo Hunt
Reviewed by David M. Vigness 145
Irving Wallace. The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P. T. Barnum
Reviewed by John R. Betts 146
Robert V. Bruce. 1877: Year of Violence
Reviewed by James F. Doster 148
Raymond W. Bixler. The Open Door on the Old Barbary Coast
Reviewed by James A. Field, Jr. 149
A. Hunter Dupree. Asa Gray, 1810-1888
Reviewed by Edward Lurie 150
Matthew Josephson. Edison
Reviewed by Kendall Birr 152
Arnold R. Daum. The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859-1899
Reviewed by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. 153
Robert W. McCluggage. A History of the American Dental Association: A Century of Health Service
Reviewed by Donald R. McNeil 155
Francis P. Weisenburger. Ordeal of Faith: The Crisis of Church-Going America, 1865-1900
Reviewed by Robert D. Cross 157
Henry F. May. The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time, 1912-1917
Reviewed by Stow Persons 159
Howard Zinn. La Guardia in Congress
Reviewed by Robert K. Murray 160
John Morton Blum. From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of Crisis, 1928-1938
Reviewed by Robert E. Burke 162
Paul K. Conkin. Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program
Reviewed by Richard S. Kirkendall 163
Mary C. Turpie. Studies in American Culture: Dominant Ideas and Images
Reviewed by James H. Stone 165
Theodore Ropp. War in the Modern World
Reviewed by William R. Emerson 166
Book Reviews
  167
Historical News and Comments
  181
Directory of Contributors
  201
Back Matter
  201

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