TABLE OF CONTENT
Presidential Address
Everyone Their Own Historian Edward L. Ayers 505
Articles
When the Slave Catchers Came to Town: Cultures of Violence along the Underground Railroad Robert H. Churchill 514
“A Tornado is Coming!”: Counterfeiting and Commercializing Weather Forecasts from the Gilded Age to the New Era Jamie L. Pietruska 538
The Fascist Game: Transnational Political Transmission and the Genesis of the U.S. Modern Right Joseph Fronczak 563
Inside the Broadcasting Blacklist: Kraft Television Theatre, 1951–1955 Cynthia B. Meyers 589
Public History Reviews
“Introduction,” by Kathleen Franz and Catherine Gudis 617
Museum of the Bible, by Kelly Gannon and Kimberly Wagner 618
Wampanoag Homesite, by Alexandra Peck 625
“Follow the North Star: A Participatory Museum Experience,” by Thomas Cauvin, Joan Cummins, David Dean, and Andreas Etges 630
Book Reviews
Israel, The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848, by Patrick Griffin 637
Rabinowitz, Curating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past, by Martin Blatt 638
Buss, Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins, by Rebecca Sharpless 639
Hoxie, ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History, by Jace Weaver 640
McNeill and Vrtis, eds., Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522, by Kathleen Anne Brosnan 641
Suri, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office, by Kendrick A. Clements 642
Singh, Race and America’s Long War, by Donald R. Shaffer 643
Krenn, The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy: 1770 to the Present Day, by LeRoy Ashby 644
Shannon, U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights, by Marwan M. Obeidat 644
Feurer and Pearson, eds., Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism, by Bruce Cohen 645
Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, by Madhavi Venkatesan 646
Asch and Musgrove, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital; and Logan, Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C., by Ronald M. Johnson 647
Goyens, ed., Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab’s Saloon to Occupy Wall Street, by Robert Justin Goldstein 648
Gleason, Dardanelle and the Bottoms: Environment, Agriculture, and Economy in an Arkansas River Community, 1819–1970, by Michael B. Dougan 649
Tise and Crow, eds., New Voyages to Carolina: Reinterpreting North Carolina History, by David Silkenat 650
Gussow, Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition, by Michael T. Bertrand 651
White, A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America; and Zilberstein, A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America, by Christopher L. Pastore 652
Griffin, ed., Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America, by Matthew Kruer 653
Greer, Property and Disposession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America, by Larry C. Skogen 654
Shannon, Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain, by Roger L. Nichols 655
Frank, Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami, by Daniel S. Murphree 656
Cruz, ed., Versiones, propaganda y repercusiones del descubrimiento de América: Colón, los Pinzón y los Niño, by Susan E. Ramírez 657
Carson, Face Value: The Consumer Revolution and the Colonizing of America, by Edward S. Cooke Jr. 657
Mullins, Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution, by Eran Shalev 658
Cooper, The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics, by J. Kent McGaughy 659
Nash, Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist, by Paul J. Polgar 660
Sayers, The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet, by John M. Kinder 661
Brown, Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law, by R. B. Bernstein 661
Sklansky, Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America, by Peter A. Coclanis 662
Stout, American Aristocrats: A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism, by Christopher Clark 663
Lahti, Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands, by David Nichols 664
Peterson, Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion, by John P. Bowes 665
Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, by Susan E. Klepp 666
O’Connor, American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832–1863, by Jessica Lepler 666
Guardino, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War, by Samuel J. Watson 667
Scalmer, On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia, by Tim Roberts 668
Smith, The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ann Denkler 669
Friefeld, Wingo and Edwards, Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History, by Walter L. Buenger 670
Rabin, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America, by Abraham Hoffman 671
Cohen, They Will Have Their Game: Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic, by Andrew Burstein 671
Warren, New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, by Joanne Pope Melish 672
Fett, Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade, by Joseph P. Reidy 673
Browne, Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, by M. Scott Heerman 674
Turner, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica, by Daina Ramey Berry 675
Bailey, The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History, by Randall M. Miller 676
Berry, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation, by James Simeone 677
Gurza Lavalle, Virginia y la reforma de la esclavitud, 1800–1865: Los límites del progreso en una sociedad esclavista, by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall 678
Ellis and Ginsburg, eds., Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America, by Lee Baldwin Dalzell 678
Genovese and Ambrose, eds., The Sweetness of Life: Southern Planters at Home, by Marc Egnal 679
Hahn, A Nation without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830–1910, by Sean Adams 680
Cook, Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865, by Aaron Astor 681
Holm, A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era, by Eldon Eisenach 682
Hager, I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters, by Ervin L. Jordan Jr. 683
Ruminski, The Limits of Loyalty: Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi, by John Cimprich 684
Cutrer, Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865, by Jeffrey V. Pearson 684
Hebert, The Long Civil War in the North Georgia Mountains: Confederate Nationalism, Sectionalism, and White Supremacy in Bartow County, Georgia, by Jonathan Sarris 685
Keating, Shades of Green: Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, and Local Communities in the Civil War Era, by Kevin Conley Ruffner 686
Fuller, Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Jason S. Lantzer 687
Blight and Downs, eds., Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation, by Carl E. Kramer 688
Nabors, From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction, by Vernon L. Volpe 689
Prior, ed., Reconstruction in a Globalizing World, by Paul Quigley 689
Asaka, Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation, by Gale Kenny 690
Green, Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865– 1890, by James D. Anderson 691
Tomes, Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers, by Mary E. Frederickson 692
Fleming, City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance, by John Henry Schlegel 694
John and Phillips-Fein, eds., Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, by Nelson Lichtenstein 694
Weems and Chambers, eds., Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago, by Mark Santow 695
Winling, Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century, by Robert Orsi 696
Hollinger, Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America, by Connie Shemo 697
Stahl, Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America, by Charles Lippy 698
Watt, Antifundamentalism in Modern America, by R. Scott Appleby 699
Griffith, Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics, by David E. Settje 700
Johnson, Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967, by Lois W. Banner 701
Twarog, Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth- Century America, by Alice O’Connor 702
Parkin, Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars, by Virginia Scharff 702
Grasso, Equal under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism, by Sharon Ann Musher 703
Pimpare, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen, by Kenneth L. Kusmer 704
Vaillant, Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio, by Douglas Craig 706
Smith, Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange, by Jussi Pakkasvirta 707
Buff, Against the Deportation Terror: Organizing for Immigrant Rights in the Twentieth Century, by Max Paul Friedman 708
Laski, Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery, by Anne Elizabeth Carroll 709
Jones, Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical, by Peter B. Levy 710
Campbell, Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850–1917, by Douglas Henry Daniels 710
Haley, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, by Stephanie M. Chalifoux 712
Mathews, At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South, by Jason Morgan Ward 713
Perkins, Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks, by Jeanette Garland Keith 714
Locke, Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion, by David Stricklin 715
Lindsey, A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Terrie Dopp Aamodt 715
Kathke, Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1845–1920, by Flannery Burke 716
Folk, The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland, by Mary Beth S. Mathews 717
Ladd-Taylor, Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century, by Ruth M. Alexander 718
Easton, Defending the Masses: A Progressive Lawyer’s Battles for Free Speech, by Robert C. Cottrell 719
Smith, Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education, by Wayne Glasker 720
Chaddock, Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College, by Jacqueline M. Moore 721
Ellis, Between Washington and DuBois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard, by Bradley Skelcher 721
Platt, Educating the Sons of Sugar: Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana, by Dan R. Frost 722
Moore, I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1800–1915, by Stephen H. Norwood 723
Kimball, The United States Tennis Association: Raising the Game, by Benjamin G. Rader 724
Skidmore, True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Andrea Friedman 725
Capó, Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940, by Laurel Clark Shire 726
Cressler, Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration, by Charles Pete Banner-Haley 726
Best, Langston’s Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem, by Stephen W. Angell 727
McCammack, Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago, by James A. Spiller 728
Morris, Carter G. Woodson: History, the Black Press, and Public Relations, by Richard Junger 729
Horne, The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox, by Linda J. Lumsden 730
Adler, Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System, by David Kieran 731
Dochuk, ed., God’s Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War, by Douglas Carl Abrams 732
Richotte, Claiming Turtle Mountain’s Constitution: The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation’s Founding Documents, by Frank Rzeczkowski 732
Moore, The Federal Theatre Project in the American South: The Carolina Playmakers and the Quest for American Drama, by Robert Jackson 733
Haas, Fighting Authoritarianism: American Youth Activism in the 1930s, by Nathan Godfried 734
Lelyveld, His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt; and Woolner, The Last 100 Days: fdr at War and at Peace, by Martin Halpern 735
Whitman, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by Jens-Uwe Guettel 737
Rosenzweig, Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 738
Chopas, Searching for Subversives: The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America, by Thomas A. Guglielmo 738
Pistol, Internment during the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the usa, by Noah Riseman 739
Hutchinson, Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s, by Bernard F. Dick 740
Kindley, Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture, by Ruth Jennison 741
Smith, Here I Stand: The Life and Legacy of John Beecher, by Rien Fertel 742
Rose and Biles, eds., The President and American Capitalism since 1945, by Kim Phillips- Fein 742
Kranson, Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America, by Susan Breitzer 743
Rosenfeld, The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era, by Matthew Avery Sutton 744
Warren, ed., Drawdown: The American Way of Postwar, by Edgar Raines Jr. 745
Wills, Tug of War: Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Security State, by Matthew Farish 746
Chaney, Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness, by Sharon Kingsland 747
Brands, The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War, by Allan M. Winkler 747
Hopkins, Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power, by David S. McCarthy 748
Nathans, Peter von Zahn’s Cold War Broadcasts to West Germany: Assessing America, by Tony Shaw 749
Ford, Cold War Monks: Buddhism and America’s Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia, by Gene Zubovich 750
Malloy, Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War; and Davies, Mainstreaming Black Power, by Joseph Keith 751
Ervin, Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis, by Fred Viehe 752
Frazier, Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era, by Amy J. Rutenberg 753
O’Brien, Justice Robert H. Jackson’s Unpublished Opinion in Brown v. Board: Conflict, Compromise, and Constitutional Interpretation, by Leland Ware 754
Tinson, Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s, by Ned Stuckey-French 755
Gaines, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible, by Craig J. Peariso 756
Hobson, The Legend of Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta, by Tim Boyd 757
Munro, The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945–1960, by Cynthia Taylor 758
Lanza, The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies, by Marc Gallicchio 758
Estes, Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement, by Ben Keppel 759
Kaufman, Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford, by Drew Maciag 760
Milloy, Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960–80, by Susan Levine 761
Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide, by Jane Berger 762
Souther, Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation,” by John N. Ingham 763
García, The Refugee Challenge in Post–Cold War America, by Terry H. Anderson 764
Nguyen, Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon, by Judy Tzu- Chun Wu 764
McKevitt, Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America, by John E. Van Sant 765
Comella, Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure; and Bronstein and Strub, eds., Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s, by David Allyn 766
Horowitz, Happier? The History of a Cultural Movement that Aspired to Transform America, by Laura Hirshbein 768
Rymsza-Pawlowska, History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s, by James M. Lindgren 768
Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: Microelectronics and American Science, by Scot M. Guenter 769
Yost, Making it Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry, by Robert E. Wright 770
Movie Reviews
The Gilded Age, by Matthew E. Stanley 772
Little Pink House, by Daniel Breen 774
The Jazz Ambassadors, by Krin Gabbard 776
The Post, by James I. Deutsch 778
Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, by Eve Allegra Raimon 780
The Rape of Recy Taylor, by Judith E. Smith 782
Into the Amazon, by Dane A. Morrison 785
Digital History Reviews
Mapping the Fourth of July: Exploring Independence Day in the Civil War Era, by Angela M. Riotto 789
Mapping Historical Dialogue, by James Welch IV 790
Documenting the Now, by Alex Galarza 792
Announcements794