Round Table
Elections, Conflict, and Democracy
Elections, Conflict, and Democracy: An Introduction, by Joanne Meyerowitz
Responding to the contested presidential election of 2000, the Journal’s editors invited historians from different subfields of United States history to participate in our round table, “Elections, Conflict, and Democracy.” Their five strikingly different essays suggest some of the ways Americans have defined, pursued, and undermined democracy. (p. 407) Read online >
Presidents, Congress, and Courts: Partisan Passions in Motion
contrasts the contested elections of 1800 and 2000. Why was the former settled in the House of Representatives and the latter in the Supreme Court? The explanation, she suggests, lies not only in Americans’ recent tendency to resolve political issues by litigation but also in the work of those who drafted the Constitution. (pp. 408–14) Read online >
The Tribulations of an Old Democracy
Most Europeans associate American life with everything that is new, modern, and forward-looking. On the contrary, the recent electoral crisis exposed a system packed with such “antiquated” political features as low-tech voting methods, powerful party machinery, and the Electoral College. There is nothing ironic about it. The United States, writes, is an old nation and one of the oldest democracies in the world. Testi looks at American political practices as bridges that connect the present with the nation’s past, sometimes in uneasy ways. (pp. 415–23) Read online >
Party Games: The Art of Stealing Elections in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States
For those disgusted by the 2000 election, there is one consolation: Gilded Age politics could be even worse. Tempering the enthusiasm that historians of political culture have invested in “popular politics” and confirming darker recent portraits of the unmaking of the so-called party period, shows how pervasively the major parties manipulated the voters and the rules to hold onto power—and how useful a sense of being wronged was in inspiring and perpetuating the partisan spirit of late-nineteenth-century America. (pp. 424–35) Read online >
Diluting the Vote: The Irony of Bush v. Gore
puts Bush v. Gore in the context of Supreme Court decisions about race and voting rights. She finds it ironic that justices who had often rejected African American voters’ appeals to the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment there made sweeping use of arguments for equal protection. By highlighting complications and constraints, the article challenges traditional views of suffrage as becoming ever more inclusive. (pp. 436–43) Read online >
Stories, Games, and Deliberative Democracy
focuses, not on the 2000 election itself, but on the stories that the partisans immediately began to tell about it. His essay explores the ways in which the Republicans’ narrative of the rules of the game trumped the Democrats’ narrative of deliberative democracy. And it suggests the implications of this contest over metaphors and stories for the long-term history of American political argument. (pp. 444–52)
Chronology
For a chronology of the postelection contest for the presidency in 2000, see http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/882/election.html. (pp. 453–54)
Articles
Conservatism, Nativism, and Slavery: Thomas R. Whitney and the Origins of the Know-Nothing Party
Disputes concerning the Civil War era have increasingly focused on the political changes during the 1850s that made war possible. Historians have asked why the Whig party, a mainstay of sectional compromise, disappeared, making political space for a mass antislavery party, the Republicans. One influential answer traces this pivotal development, not to differences over slavery, but to the dramatic growth of antiforeign and anti-Catholic sentiment. , in contrast, argues that nativism and slavery represented two facets of a single, protracted debate that divided and then destroyed the Whig party—a debate in which matters of class, nationality, race, and gender played complementary roles. (pp. 455–88) Read online >
Culture, Power, and Mission to Moscow: Film and Soviet-American Relations during World War II
To help shore up confidence in the American-Soviet alliance during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt turned to film. In looking closely at Mission to Moscow, a 1943 movie made by Warner Bros. with the Roosevelt administration’s blessing, explores the outcomes of this union of statecraft and popular culture at home and abroad. American audiences generally dismissed the film as unentertaining propaganda, but Joseph Stalin embraced its flattering vision of Soviet history and approved its release. Bennett shows how Stalin’s move led to a reintroduction of American films to Soviet audiences, offering them a glimpse of American prosperity and unsettling Soviet authorities at the dawn of the Cold War. (pp. 489–518) Read online >
For suggestions on how to use Bennett’s article in the United States history survey course, see our “Teaching the JAH” Web site supplement.
Special Essay
Merchants of Health: Medicine and Consumer Culture in the United States, 1900–1940
The health care crisis of the 1990s forces us to rethink medicine’s place in American history. reinterprets the early-twentieth-century emergence of modern medicine as a chapter in the history of consumer culture. Examining changing conceptions of doctors as service providers, concerns about medical care’s status as a luxury good, the commercialization of self-help products, and the plight of the disenfranchised health care consumer, Tomes shows how patients’ choices helped shape a profession even as experts increasingly dominated it. By shifting our attention from professional organizations and policy elites to patients and consumers, Tomes reveals that physicians’ rise to professional sovereignty met resistance from many quarters. (pp. 519–47) Read online >
The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web
In the past five years, the increase in historical resources available on the World Wide Web has outpaced even “Moore’s law,” which predicts that computing power will double every eighteen months. asks what this astonishing growth means for American historians. What resources are now online? Who has put them there and who can use them? Although grass-roots volunteers and nonprofit organizations have helped to put historical resources on the Web, private corporations now control some of the most valuable online real estate. Such private control raises questions about the persistence of the Internet as an open, public space. If the road ahead leads to History.com rather than History.edu, what will the future of the past look like? (pp. 548–79) Read online >
Oral History
- Introduction,
Michael Gordon and Lu Ann Jones (pp. 580–81) Read online > - Speaking in the Groove: Oral History and Jazz,
Burton W. Peretti (pp. 582–95) Read online > - Potential, Potential, Potential: The Marriage of Oral History and the World Wide Web,
Mary A. Larson (pp. 596–603) Read online > - Oral History and Jewish Life,
Ava F. Kahn (pp. 604–607) Read online > - Interviewing Radical Elders,
Sandy Polishuk (pp. 608–11) Read online >
Book Reviews
Sept. 2001, Vol. 88 No. 2
Alphabetical by the last name of the book's first author or editor.
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- Ali, Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China, and South Asia in the 1950s, by Steven I. Levine
- Altschuler and Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century, by Philip J. Ethington
- Ambrose, Nothing like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869, by Walter T. Nugent
- Anastaplo, Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography, by Michael Vorenberg
- Anderson and Anderson, Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1930, by V. P. Franklin
- Angus and Mirel, The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995, by Alexander Urbiel
- Ansell, Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico, by Joseph A. Pratt
B
- Barnett, Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army’s Notorious Incest Trial, by Peter W. Bardaglio
- Bay, The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925, by Wilson Jeremiah Moses
- Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, by Roger Lane
- Benner and Davis, eds., The Law Pratice of Abraham Lincoln: The Complete Documentary Edition (DVD), by Phillip Shaw Paludan
- Bergland, The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
- Berry, Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles, by Jeanette Keith
- Billinger, Hitler’s Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German pows in Florida, by Ron Robin
- Bix, Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America’s Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981, by Gary S. Cross
- Blaszczyk, Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning, by Lawrence B. Glickman
- Brereton, Educating the U.S. Army: Arthur L. Wagner and Reform, 1875-1905, by Oliviero Bergamini
- Brown, The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Marguerite S. Shaffer
C
- Cahan and Rudd, Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace, by George E. Webb
- Carlson, The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, by Mark G. Malvasi
- Cashin, William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier, by James H. O’Donnell III
- Chambers, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Military History, by Brian Holden Reid
- Clayton, Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island, by Michael E. Harkin
- Conkin, When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals, by Cynthia Russett
- Cronlund Anderson, Pancho Villa’s Revolution by Headlines, by Richard Melzer
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- Davis, Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s, by Elizabeth Francis
- Davis, Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941, by Carole Srole
- Dewey, Don’t Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970, by Stan Luger
- Diamond, And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia, by Frederic Cople Jaher
- Dixon, African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century, by Alfred N. Hunt
- Dobak, Fort Riley and Its Neighbors: Military Money and Economic Growth, 1853-1895, by Robert Wooster
- Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos ’n’ Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern, by Lewis A. Erenberg
- Douglass, The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan, by John R. Thelin
- Dunlap, Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, by Colin A. M. Duncan
- Dunlap, Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, by Colin A. M. Duncan
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- Edwards, Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era, by Jane Dailey
- Eisner, From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order, by Neil A. Wynn
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- Feldman, Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949, by Charles C. Alexander
- Ferling, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution, by Norman K. Risjord
- Fernlund, ed., The Cold War American West, 1945–1989, by Philip Brick
- Fine, “Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights”: Michigan, 1948-1968, by Timothy Thurber
- Fischer and Kelly, Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement, by John Mack Faragher
- Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, by Michael Schaller
- Fleming, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America, by Jeffrey L. Pasley
- Ford, The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995, by Miriam Cohen
- Forsberg, America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan’s Postwar Economic Revival, 1950–1960, by Tyler Priest
- Fox and Fox, America’s Invisible Gulag: A Biography of German American Internment & Exclusion in World War II—Memory & History, by Ron Robin
- Fried, The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America, by Geoffrey S. Smith
- Friedman, Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909-1945, by Leigh Ann Wheeler
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- Gallman, Receiving Erin’s Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845–1855, by Howard P. Chudacoff
- Gilreath, ed., Thomas Jefferson and the Education of a Citizen, by Jeffrey L. Pasley
- Gitelman, Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era, by Andre Millard
- Goldman, Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism, by Gerald Sorin
- Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, by Elliott West
- Green, ed., Before the New Deal: Social Welfare in the South, 1830–1930, by Landon Storrs
- Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, by Robert J. Cook
- Gura and Bollman, America’s Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century, by W. T. Lhamon Jr.
- Gustafson, Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America, by Philip F. Gura
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- Hallock, The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck, by John Ibson
- Harris, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890–1940, by Sanford Jacoby
- Hevly and Findlay, eds., The Atomic West, by Philip Brick
- Hirama, Dai ichiji sekai taisen to Nihon kaigun— gaiko to gunji to no rensetsu (World War I and the Imperial Japanese Navy— The diplomacy in concert with the military actions), by Frederick R. Dickinson
- Holmes, The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography, by Ian Tyrrell
- Hoxie, Hoffman, and Albert, eds., Native Americans and the Early Republic, by Alfred A. Cave
I
- Inscoe and McKinney, The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War, by Richard B. McCaslin
- Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920, by Mark David Spence
J
- James, ed. by Skemp and Daniels, The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A Study of Institutions in Change, by Thomas W. Jodziewicz
- Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market, by Dylan C. Penningroth
K
- Kaminski, Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific, by Judy Barrett Litoff
- Kan, Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries, by Ken Coates
- Kan, Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries, by Ken Coates
- Keller and Turek, American Indians and National Parks, by Donald L. Fixico
- Kleinman, A World of Hope, a World of Fear: Henry A. Wallace, Reinhold Niebuhr, and American Liberalism, by Bruce Kuklick
- Kline, Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America, by Melissa Walker
- Kroes, ed., Predecessors: Intellectual Lineages in American Studies, by Manuel Luis Martinez
- Kryder, Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II, by Bruce Nelson
L
- Lagemann, An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research, by Sol Cohen
- Layton, International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941–1960, by Renee Romano
- Levering and Levering, Citizen Action for Global Change: The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea, by Kurkpatrick Dorsey
- Levine, Our Prayers Are in This Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity over the Centuries, by Peter Iverson
- Little, Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884–1916, by Mitch Kachun
- Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, by Lawrence Buell
- Luconi, La "Diplomazia Parallela": Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani ("Parallel diplomacy": The Fascist regime and the political mobilization of the Italian Americans), by Fraser M. Ottanelli
- Ludmerer, Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care, by Ronald L. Numbers
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- Magoc, Yellowstone: The Creation and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870-1903, by Paul Shriver Sutter
- Majewski, A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War, by Mary A. DeCredico
- Maltz, The Chief Justiceship of Warren Burger, 1969-1986, by Howard Ball
- Mariano, Lo Storica nel suo labirinto: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. tra ricerca storica, impegno civile, e politica (The historian in his labyrinth: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. between historical research, civil appointment and politics), by Olaf Hansen
- Marnham, Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera, by Silvia Nunez-Garcia
- Massey, John Laurens and the American Revolution, by Clyde R. Ferguson
- McCarraher, Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought, by Robert Booth Fowler
- McCrossen, Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday, by Paul C. Gutjahr
- McEnaney, Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties, by D’Ann Campbell
- McGucken, Lake Erie Rehabilitated: Controlling Cultural Eutrophication, 1960s-1990s, by Ken Cruikshank
- McJimsey, The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by Richard S. Kirkendall
- Mehlman, émigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944, by Alexander Bloom
- Merish, Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Nina Baym
- Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier, by Daniel K. Richter
- Meyer, As Long as They Don’t Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods, by John F. Bauman
- Moogk, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada— a Cultural History, by Dean Louder
- Morrow and Myers-Phinney, Shepherd of the Hills Country: Tourism Transforms the Ozarks, 1880s-1930s, by Margaret Lynn Brown
- Moten, The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession, by Oliviero Bergamini
- Murray and Millett, A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War, by Matthew Jones
N
- Nelles, The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec’s Tercentenary, by J.-André Senécal
- Nelles, The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec’s Tercentenary, by J.-André Senécal
O
- Ochs, A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans, by James M. Woods
- Ollila, ed., Historical Perspectives on Memory, by Maria Bucur
- Onuf, Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, by Emory G. Evans
P
- Pearson, ed., Designs against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822, by Lorri Glover
- Peceny, Democracy at the Point of Bayonets, by Eric Paul Roorda
- Peters, Judging Jehovah’s Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution, by Charles R. Epp
- Phillips, Missouri’s Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West, by Eugene H. Berwanger
- Pierce, The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park, by Marguerite S. Shaffer
- Pleck, Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals, by Ellen M. Litwicki
- Prince, with Simpson, Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina, by Rebecca Sharpless
- Pyron, Liberace: An American Boy, by Erika Doss
R
- Rabasa, Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest, by Dedra McDonald Birzer
- Reagan, Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890–1943, by Neil A. Wynn
- Resch, Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic, by Richard Buel Jr.
- Rodríguez, Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States, by Emilio Alberto Parrado
- Rossini, Il mito americano nell’ Italia della Grande Guerra (The American myth in World War I Italy), by Alessandro Brogi
- Royster, The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington’s Times, by Peter S. Onuf
S
- Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment, by Stephen J. Stein
- Schnoor, ed., Amerikanistik in der ddr: Geschichte—Analysen—Zeitzueugenberichte (American studies in the GDR: History—analyses—eyewitness reports), by Walter D. Kamphoefner
- Seeman, Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England, by Elizabeth Reis
- Shoemaker, American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century, by Matthew Snipp
- Shurts, Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context, 1880s-1930s, by Sidney L. Harring
- Simmons, The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, by Richard O. Clemmer
- Smith, American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture, by Joshua Brown
- Smith, Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro, by Vernon J. Williams Jr.
- Smith, The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540–1845, by Willard Hughes Rollings
- Stephens, Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895, by Margaret Humphreys
- Stoevesandt, Aktivismus und Zurückhaltung im United States Supreme Court (Activism and restraint in the United States Supreme Court), by Markus Dirk Dubber
- Strunz, American Studies oder Amerikanistik?: Die deutsche Amerikawissenschaft und die Hoffnung auf Erneuerung der Hochschulen und der politischen Kultur nach 1945 (American studies or Amerikanistik?: German American studies scholarship and the hope for renewal of secondary education and political culture after 1945), by Walter D. Kamphoefner
- Sugden, Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees, by Stephen Warren
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- Takeyh, The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The US, Britain, and Nasser’s Egypt, 1953-57, by Magnus P. S. Persson
- Tedeschini Lalli and Vaudagna, eds., Brave New Words: Strategies of Language and Communication in the United States of the 1930s, by Kenneth J. Bindas
- Temin, ed., Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England, by B. Zorina Khan
- Thomas, Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity, by Alexandra Harmon
- Thuesen, In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible, by Timothy Weber
- Tocqueville, trans. and ed. by Mansfield and Winthrop, Democracy in America, by Seymour Drescher
- Tomko, Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920, by Alison M. Parker
- Toplin, ed., Oliver Stone’s usa: Film, History, and Controversy, by Paul Buhle
- Troy, Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons, by Susan M. Hartmann
- Tucker, Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s, by June Sochen
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- Unger, Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, by Herbert F. Margulies
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- Vandal, Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post–Civil War Louisiana, 1866–1884, by Christopher Waldrep
- Vecsey, Where the Two Roads Meet, by Jack M. Schultz
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- Walker, All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919–1941, by Valerie Grim
- Walling, Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government, by Jeffrey L. Pasley
- Ward, Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America, by Celia Maria Marinho de Azevedo
- Warren, Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America, by Sandra Marie Gustafson
- Weigley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865, by Gary W. Gallagher
- Wermiel, The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City, by Ross Miller
- West, Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia, by Shelley Armitage
- West, The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism, by Helen M. Bannan
- Westerkamp, Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions, by Joan R. Gundersen
- Willoughby, Flowing through Time: A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River, by Jeffrey K. Stine
- Wilson, Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas, by Raymond A. Mohl
- Wolfe, Barger, and Benison, Walter B. Cannon: Science and Society, by James H. Cassedy
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On the cover:
This 1848 membership certificate of the Order of United Americans (oua), a major nativist fraternal organization and antecedent of the Know-Nothing party, designed and lithographed by Charles Parsons, depicts Liberty atop a pedestal and surrounded by men wearing oua sashes. The clothing beneath the sashes signals the wearers’ diverse occupations and social positions, and the image of fellowship thus celebrates the oua’s ideal of pan-class national harmony. Courtesy Library of Congress, #LC-USZ62-090659. See “Conservatism, Nativism, and Slavery: Thomas R. Whitney and the Origins of the Know-Nothing Party.”
