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Conceiving a nation. Scotland to ad 900 by Gilbert M�rkus (review)

Reviews 103 volume is a great pleasure to read. I have a single desire for improvement: the otherwise legible, elegant font is inconsistent in rendering lower-case italic ‘a’, which in some places appears proportionately together with its partners (see p. 86), yet elsewhere manifests an unusually low, squat counter (as at p. 138). This is perhaps a niggling criticism. However, one’s eye meets with that letter-form repeatedly. References Boll, Sheila. 2002. Foster-kin in conflict. Fosterage as a character motivation in medieval Irish literature. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge. Ní Bhaoill, Róise. 2010. Ulster Gaelic voices. Bailiúchán Wilhelm Doegen 1931. Béal Feirste: Ultach. Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. 1979. Onomata. Ériu 30: 165–180. ———. 2017. Clavis litterarum Hibernensium. Medieval Irish books & texts (c. 400—c. 1600). Turnhout: Brepols. Ó hInnse, Séamus. 1943. Fosterage in early and mediaeval Ireland. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University College Dublin. O’Rahilly, Thomas F. (ed.). 1926. Dánta grádha. An anthology of Irish love poetry (a.d. 1350–1750)2 . Cork: Cork University Press. ———. 1946. Early Irish history and mythology. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Parkes, Peter. 2006. Celtic fosterage. Adoptive kinship and clientage in northwest Europe. Comparative studies in society and history 48: 359–395. Smit, Johannes Wilhelmus. 1971. Studies in the language and style of Columba the Younger (Columbanus). Amsterdam : Hakkert. Tolstoy, Nikolai. 2009. The oldest British prose literature. The compilation of the four branches of the Mabinogi. Lewiston , NY: Edwin Mellen Press. Walker, G. S. M. (ed. & trans.). 1957. Sancti Columbani opera. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Gilbert Márkus, Conceiving a nation. Scotland to ad 900. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. ISBN 978–0–7486–7898–3. xiv + 295 pages. £70 (hardback) / £19.99 (paperback /e-book). Patrick Wadden Belmont Abbey College The early medieval history of northern Britain, with its legacy of Roman borders, the presence of several different peoples (Picts, Gaels, Britons, Anglo-Saxons, and Scandinavians ), and shortage of surviving textual sources, presents unique questions and obstacles for the modern scholar. In this engaging book, Gilbert Márkus deals with these in a conPatrick Wadden [patrickwadden@​ bac​ .edu] is Associate Professor of History at Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina. His interests focus on the political and cultural links that existed between the different part of the Gaelic world and on the place of the Gaels in the broader Insular and European worlds of the Middle Ages. 104 North American journal of Celtic Studies fident and compelling way. The result is a work that manages to be both informative and sophisticated and that will be of interest to students and more advanced scholars alike. As the first volume of the New History of Scotland, this book replaces Alfred Smyth’s Warlords and holy men of 1984. Recent decades have witnessed innovative changes in our approaches to medieval sources that emphasize the dangers and difficulties of reading texts written in later periods as sources for earlier events. Simultaneously, revolutions in our understanding of such crucial concepts as frontiers and ethnicity have fundamentally altered our view of early societies. Informed by these recent historiographical trends (vii–ix), Márkus provides a thorough overview of the period, while also attempting to reframe certain debates. After a brief preface, the book consists of six chapters. The first, sub-titled ‘Trade, culture and empire in the early centuries’, deals with the earliest recorded history of what is now Scotland through to the end of the Roman period. The author demonstrates an impressive breadth of knowledge in setting events in northern Britain not only in the context of events farther south on the island, but also in relation to developments elsewhere, particularly other frontier zones. He also uses archaeological and epigraphical evidence well to augment the scant historical records of the period. Gone is the image of the ‘Celtic fringe’ of Europe and, in its stead, we are presented with the image of northern Britain as already in contact with the rest of Europe before the arrival of the Romans. The next chapter, on the development of sub-Roman kingdoms, deals with the emergence of the polities familiar to students of early medieval northern Britain, including Dál...

Authors and Apparatus: A Media History of Copyright by Monika Dommann

Reviewed by: Authors and Apparatus: A Media History of Copyright by Monika Dommann Alex Sayf Cummings (bio) Authors and Apparatus: A Media History of Copyright. By Monika Dommann. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 262. Hardcover $41.95. "We historians always come to things late," Monika Dommann writes in an epigraph for the ages. It is the curious weakness of history as a discipline to pick up on new theories and methodologies only after they are no longer new. That can also be a strength when historians resist making hasty, monocausal conclusions, though as Dommann notes, even the best scholars can get carried away when interpreting the meaning and impact of new technologies, notably the Internet. A professor at the University of Zurich, Dommann has provided a sweeping account of shifting attitudes toward property rights and associated interest groups in Western Europe and the United States, primarily between 1850 and 1980. Her book offers a synthesis of the robust—and contentious—literature on copyright that has flourished since the 1990s. Authors and Apparatus is "a legal history of media as well as a media history of legal norms" (p. 7). Legal scholars and historians, Dommann points out, often differ in how they approach the law; the former often seek to find the continuity of law's evolution over time, whereas the latter are more open to interpreting legal change "as a caesura or epistemic break" (p. 17). Dommann deftly navigates the different disciplinary approaches of legal and social history, literary studies, and history of technology. Unlike some scholars in this field, she does not overemphasize the ideal of the romantic author in shaping copyright historically, instead giving due recognition to the law's frequent grounding in pragmatic, commercial concerns. The book's brisk chapters center largely on particular technologies or media, such as facsimile and microfilm (chapter two), the early "talking machines" (chapters three and four), and photocopying (chapter nine). Its discussion of the evolution of microfilm provides a particularly compelling and succinct addition to the history of information technology. At the same time, the book's grounding in the media studies literature is thin at times; for instance, its discussion of the changing cultural, political, and technological modalities of sound recording misses relevant work by historians such as Lisa Gitelman and David Suisman or the musicologist Joanna Demers. Further, the discussion of the "information explosion" in chapter nine might have been stronger if Dommann paused to consider what the concept of information meant in the rapidly changing scientific and political context of the early postwar era (p. 149). After all, the 1940s and 1950s saw advances in computing and new academic disciplines of information theory and cognitive science that reshaped how scientists, and eventually the broader public, understood human expression and communication. Americans and Europeans increasingly thought of all kinds of art, knowledge, and technology [End Page 1123] as merely various kinds of information, in ways that likely influenced how they understood conflicts over property rights in new domains (such as software or folklore) in the 1960s and 1970s. At the same time, Authors and Apparatus makes an intriguing argument about the sometimes-tense relationship between academic culture and copyright. Scholars of many stripes grew accustomed to receiving free copies of research in the 1950s and 1960s, as freewheeling use of the Xerox machine fueled the mechanisms of academic collaboration, exchange, and (crucially) reputation-building. In the process, scholars became increasingly alienated from commercial justifications for enforcing any scarcity of information—arguably setting the stage for the academic critique of copyright that burst onto the scene in the 1990s. The greatest strength of Authors and Apparatus is the capacious territory it covers, stretching across the Atlantic and encompassing everything from microfilm to magnetic tape to Google. The book offers an elegant entrée into the law of copyright and the history of media, particularly because of its transnational approach, as well as the historical distance made possible by Dommann's choice to close with the 1980s. Sometimes coming to things late can be a good thing. Alex Sayf Cummings Alex Sayf Cummings is associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta and an editor of the blog...

Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian

December 01 2018 Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian. By RichardAldous. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Pp. 486. $29.95 cloth.) Mark Atwood Lawrence Mark Atwood Lawrence Mark Atwood Lawrence is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, published by Oxford University Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mark Atwood Lawrence Mark Atwood Lawrence is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, published by Oxford University Press. Online Issn: 1937-2213 Print Issn: 0028-4866 © 2018 by The New England Quarterly2018The New England Quarterly The New England Quarterly (2018) 91 (4): 710–713. https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00715 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Mark Atwood Lawrence; Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian. The New England Quarterly 2018; 91 (4): 710–713. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00715 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsThe New England Quarterly Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2018 by The New England Quarterly2018The New England Quarterly Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Colombian Historians and the Public

Review Article| November 01 2018 Colombian Historians and the Public Catalina Muñoz Catalina Muñoz Catalina Muñoz is associate professor of history at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, where she is currently working on strategies to use history for peace building in Colombia. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania (2009). Some of her publications include “Moving Pictures: Memory and Photography among the Arhuaco of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia” published in History and Anthropology (2017), “Indigenous State-Making in the Frontier: Arhuaco Politics in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 1900–1920” published in Ethnohistory (2016), “‘A Mission of Enormous Transcendence’: The Cultural Politics of Music during Colombia’s Liberal Republic, 1930–1946” published in the Hispanic American Historical Review (2014), and “Redefiniendo la memoria nacional: Debates en torno a la conservación arquitectónica en Bogotá, 1930–1946” published in Historia Crítica (2010). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2018) 40 (4): 28–32. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2018.40.4.28 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Catalina Muñoz; Colombian Historians and the Public. The Public Historian 1 November 2018; 40 (4): 28–32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2018.40.4.28 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2018 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press

Book Review| October 01 2018 The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press. By Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 304 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60 (cloth). John Radzilowski John Radzilowski University of Alaska Southeast John Radzilowski is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alaska Southeast. He is the author of thirteen books, including Community of Strangers: Change, Turnover, and Turbulence and the Transformation of a Midwestern Country Town (Crossings Press,1999), The Eagle and the Cross: A History of Polish Roman Catholic Union of America (Columbia University Press, 2003), and Poles in Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Press, 2005) Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2018) 38 (1): 101–104. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.1.0101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Radzilowski; The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2018; 38 (1): 101–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.1.0101 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Doing Things beside Domesday Book

Previous articleNext article No AccessDoing Things beside Domesday BookCarol SymesCarol Symes Search for more articles by this author Carol Symes is Associate Professor of History at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (e-mail: [email protected])PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Speculum Volume 93, Number 4October 2018 The journal of the Medieval Academy of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/699010 Views: 2661Total views on this site Copyright 2018 by the Medieval Academy of America.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

"Talk Doesn't Cook the Soup"

The creator, Kenja McCray, is an Associate Professor of History at Atlanta Metropolitan State College (AMSC), where she teaches United States and African American history. AMSC is an institution within the University System of Georgia offering an affordable liberal arts education and committed to serving a diverse, urban student population. McCray has a B.A. from Spelman College, an M.A. from Clark Atlanta University, and a Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Her areas of interest are the 19th and 20th century U. S., African Americans, Africa and the diaspora, transnational histories, women, class and social history.
 The creator of this essay believes education should be a life-altering process, not only in the intellectual or the economic sense, but also cognitively uplifting. She experienced personal change in college through interacting with professors. She strives to give students a similarly inspirational experience. The encounter should be empowering and should change the way they see themselves and their relationships to the world. The intent of this creative piece is to share the creator’s contemplations on a rites of passage program in which she participated during her college years. She asserts that, given current cultural trends signaling a renewed interest in African-centered ideals and black pride, many aspects of the program could interest current students looking for safe spaces in increasingly intolerant times. This essay will interest researchers, student leaders, student activities advisors, and other administrators seeking to create and develop inclusive campus programs.

Conclusion

Research Article| July 01 2018 Conclusion Martin Klimke Martin Klimke New York University Abu Dhabi Martin Klimke is an associate professor of history at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He has published and coedited numerous volumes, including The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties (2009), Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960–1980 (2011), and The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation Building (2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Civil and Human Rights (2018) 4 (1): 98–100. https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.4.1.0098 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Martin Klimke; Conclusion. Journal of Civil and Human Rights 1 January 2018; 4 (1): 98–100. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.4.1.0098 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of Civil and Human Rights Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: RESEARCH-BASED ARTICLES You do not currently have access to this content.

Midcontinent Borderlands: Illinois and the Early American Republic, 1774–1854

Research Article| July 01 2018 Midcontinent Borderlands: Illinois and the Early American Republic, 1774–1854 John Craig Hammond John Craig Hammond John Craig Hammond is Associate Professor of History at Penn State University, New Kensington. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and chapters on slavery, politics, expansion, and empire in North America between 1770 and 1850. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) (2018) 111 (1-2): 31–54. https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.1-2.0031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Craig Hammond; Midcontinent Borderlands: Illinois and the Early American Republic, 1774–1854. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 1 January 2018; 111 (1-2): 31–54. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.1-2.0031 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Le Pays des Illinois Finds its Context: The Early History of Illinois in a Continental Perspective

Research Article| July 01 2018 Le Pays des Illinois Finds its Context: The Early History of Illinois in a Continental Perspective Robert Michael Morrissey Robert Michael Morrissey Robert Michael Morrissey is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in the history of early America and the Atlantic world, American frontier and borderlands history, ethnohistory, and environmental history. In addition to several articles on early Illinois history, he is the author of Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in the Colonial Illinois Country (2015). His next book project is entitled “The Illinois and the Edge Effect: People, Environment, and Power in the Tallgrass Prairie Borderlands.” It is a study of the relationship between people and non-human nature in one of North America’s most distinctive ecological and social frontiers from 1200 to 1850. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) (2018) 111 (1-2): 9–30. https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.1-2.0009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Michael Morrissey; Le Pays des Illinois Finds its Context: The Early History of Illinois in a Continental Perspective. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 1 January 2018; 111 (1-2): 9–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.1-2.0009 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Working to Connect: Oral Histories of Illinois Public Historians at the State Bicentennial

Research Article| July 01 2018 Working to Connect: Oral Histories of Illinois Public Historians at the State Bicentennial Amy M. Tyson Amy M. Tyson Amy M. Tyson is Associate Professor of History at DePaul University in Chicago, where she teaches courses in public history, oral history, museum studies, Chicago history, and modern U.S. history. She is the author of The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History’s Front Lines (2013) and director of the Chicago-based Voices of Charity Oral History Project: http://voc.is.depaul.edu/. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) (2018) 111 (1-2): 152–175. https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.1-2.0152 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amy M. Tyson; Working to Connect: Oral Histories of Illinois Public Historians at the State Bicentennial. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 1 January 2018; 111 (1-2): 152–175. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.1-2.0152 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Bryan L. McDonald, Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System

Bryan L. McDonald, Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 251. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-19-060068-6 Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis Although Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System concerns roughly the years 1945-1975, the importance of McDonald’s book for today’s food security is tremendous. In his capacity as a Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and Associate Professor of History at Pen...

Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England

Book Review| April 01 2018 Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England. By Robert Macieski. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Libby Bischof Libby Bischof University of Southern Maine Libby Bischof is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Collaboration and Development at the University of Southern Maine. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American social and cultural history, with an emphasis on photography. She is most recently the author of Maine Photography: A History, 1840–2015 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2018) 37 (3): 130–132. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.3.0130 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Libby Bischof; Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2018; 37 (3): 130–132. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.3.0130 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Managing Editor’s Preface to Special Issue on “Protection

Review Article| February 01 2018 Managing Editor’s Preface to Special Issue on “Protection: Global Genealogies, Local Practices” Marc S. Rodriguez Marc S. Rodriguez Marc S. Rodriguez is associate professor of history at Portland State University and the managing editor of Pacific Historical Review. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2018) 87 (1): 1. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2018.87.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Marc S. Rodriguez; Managing Editor’s Preface to Special Issue on “Protection: Global Genealogies, Local Practices”. Pacific Historical Review 1 February 2018; 87 (1): 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2018.87.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2018 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Nature's Return: An Environmental History of Congaree National Park by Hilary Green

Reviewed by: Nature's Return: An Environmental History of Congaree National Park by Hilary Green Daniel B. Thorp (bio) Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890. By Hilary Green. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Pp. 258. $125.00 cloth; $35.00 paper) Hilary Green's Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 adds nicely to our understanding of the extended nature of Reconstruction in the American South. Remaking the racial patterns of political, social, and economic life in the former Confederacy did not end with the departure of the Freedmen's Bureau and federal troops during the 1870s. Nor did the [End Page 544] full weight of Jim Crow laws immediately come crashing down on African Americans with the official end of Reconstruction in 1877. Rather, former slaves and their children continued pressing to gain the full privileges of citizenship—privileges to which they felt they were entitled and that they believed they had been promised at the time of their emancipation. As the title suggests, Educational Reconstruction considers this process through the lens of public education in the urban South. Specifically, Green focuses on the cities of Richmond, Virginia, and Mobile, Alabama, and explores the emergence and development of schools for African Americans through three distinct periods. The first two chapters detail the initial establishment of schools for freed-people by northern philanthropic societies, the Freedmen's Bureau, and freedpeople themselves. The next six chapters explore the transition to state-supported education that occurred after 1870 in both Richmond and Mobile and the "quality school campaigns" waged in each to effect improved conditions in the cities' racially segregated public school systems. Finally, an extended epilogue analyzes factors behind the failure of Congress to enact the Blair Education Bill in 1890 and the subsequent ascendancy of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee model of industrial education for southern blacks. Green's research draws heavily on a variety of public records from the local, state, and federal levels; the archives of numerous religious and philanthropic organizations; and newspapers from Boston to New Orleans. From them she is often able to present the hopes and fears of African American educators, voters, and parents in their own words and demonstrate convincingly their belief that a quality education was essential to their campaign for full freedom and citizenship. That campaign, however, was never in the hands of African Americans alone. Green demonstrates convincingly that between 1865 and 1890 southern blacks found and worked with a changing array of white allies in their effort to secure a quality education for themselves and their children. These white allies did not control black efforts to improve their schools; in both Richmond and [End Page 545] Mobile African Americans knew what they wanted, articulated their demands clearly, and worked for them tirelessly. The presence and commitment of white allies was important, though. Indeed, Green maintains, it was the presence in Virginia of the Readjuster Party that explains why blacks in Richmond enjoyed greater success in their campaign for quality schools than their counterparts in Mobile did. Educational Reconstruction makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of southern society during the final third of the nineteenth century. It joins the work of scholars such as Steven Hahn and Michael Perman in demonstrating that black and white southerners continued to negotiate the boundaries of a new reality for years after federal troops left the region. In one regard, however, Green's interpretation of educational reconstruction may require a corrective. She views the triumph of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee model as one of rural black southerners over their urban brother and sisters, yet in Southwest Virginia, at least, rural blacks also objected loudly to the shift from a more classical education to an industrial model. That notwithstanding, Hilary Green's Educational Reconstruction offers a valuable study of the long and determined effort made by black southerners to achieve educational equality in the decades immediately after the abolition of slavery. Daniel B. Thorp DANIEL B. THORP is an associate professor of history and an associate dean in Virginia Tech's College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences. He is the author of...

Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War

Book Review| January 01 2018 Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War. By Laura Madokoro. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 331 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45 (cloth). Angelina Chin Angelina Chin Pomona College Angelina Chin is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College. Her research interests revolve around transformations of citizenship, as well as transregional connections in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South China. She is currently working on a project on diasporic nostalgia of Chinese refugees from the 1940s to the 1970s. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2018) 37 (2): 87–89. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.2.0087 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Angelina Chin; Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2018; 37 (2): 87–89. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.2.0087 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee

Book Review| January 01 2018 Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee. By Nancy J. Taniguchi. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. 294 pp. List of illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95 (cloth). Tamara Venit-Shelton Tamara Venit-Shelton Claremont McKenna College Tamara Venit-Shelton is Associate Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College and the author of A Squatter’s Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in California, 1850–1900 (Western History Series, University of California Press and the Huntington Library Press, 2013). Currently, she is writing a social and environmental history of Chinese medicine in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2018) 37 (2): 103–105. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.2.0103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tamara Venit-Shelton; Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2018; 37 (2): 103–105. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.2.0103 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality by Judith Giesberg

Reviewed by: Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality by Judith Giesberg Brie Swenson Arnold (bio) Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality. By Judith Giesberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 152. $29.95 cloth; $19.99 ebook) While historians have directed substantial attention to the influence of gender in nineteenth-century America, much remains to be uncovered and explained about the history of sexuality during the Civil War era. In this slim volume, Civil War women's and gender history expert Judith Giesberg offers the first scholarly examination of the erotica and pornography circulated among U.S. Army soldiers during the Civil War and connects this story to its antebellum roots and postwar implications. The volume is based on presentations given by Giesberg as part of the Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era in which leading scholars discuss topics that "chart new directions for research in the field and offer scholars and general readers fresh perspectives on the Civil War era" (frontispiece). In four chapters that span a fifty year period bridging the antebellum, Civil War, and postbellum periods, [End Page 538] Giesberg shows how the Civil War "bisected" two critically important moments in American sexual culture and "antipornography activism" (p. 100). Chapter one details the antebellum proliferation of erotic publications (made possible by such things as advances in printing and distribution and the prevalence of antislavery literature containing scenes some found titillating) as well as "transatlantic attempts to control … circulation" of erotic materials (p. 9). The sexual culture of the antebellum North contributed to "a wartime explosion of porn," which, as chapter two details, was quite evident in U.S. Army camps (pp. 13–14). Giesberg resourcefully mined the Congressional record, postal laws, court-martial proceedings, regimental order books, letters, newspapers, publishers' circulars, and private as well as public archival collections of erotica to show how yellow-covered novels, cartes de visite, stereographs, and many other items made their way into the camps. Documenting "the sexual culture of the camps" and considering U.S. military policy and congressional action with regard to erotica yields insights into the ways "pornography helped to sustain" midcentury gender roles and gendered spaces (pp. 10, 37, 57). Chapter three focuses on the "profoundly unsettling" Civil War military experiences of Anthony Comstock, the famous crusader for and namesake of postwar anti-obscenity laws (p. 62). Indeed, Comstock "provides the key link between a wartime concern about pornography and the postwar antipornography campaign" (p. 10). Chapter four follows the "postwar surge of interest in … stabilizing a gender order that the war had upset," which came to include legislative measures that sought to regulate marriage and crack down on pornography (p. 84). Though such measures originated in wartime concerns about protecting male soldiers from pornography, they ultimately also suppressed access to birth control and abortion. This volume is a significant contribution to Civil War and nineteenth-century gender and sexuality studies that many will want to consult (though, by nature of its subject matter, it is best suited to mature rather than general audiences). It sheds more light on the sexual lives of Civil War soldiers and the war's critical role in antiobscenity [End Page 539] campaigns and legislation. It speaks to broader questions about the influence of the war on reform movements, gender roles and systems, the expansion of the federal government, and the growth of state intervention in Americans' everyday lives, as well as the ways in which legacies of the war continue to reverberate in the present. In taking sexuality seriously—as a method of analysis and an area meriting study—and in assessing its substantial role in the lives of individual Americans, the Civil War, and the nation, this path-breaking study raises important questions that will assuredly inspire additional work and conversations about the still surprisingly understudied history and significance of sexuality during the Civil War era. Brie Swenson Arnold BRIE SWENSON ARNOLD is associate professor of history at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is the author of articles on gender and sexuality in the print and political culture of the...

About This Issue

About This Issue David J. Endres (bio) On January 30, Dr. Christopher J. Kauffman, long-time editor of U.S. Catholic Historian (1983–2013) passed. We dedicate this issue to his memory. For three decades, Chris was the heart and soul of the U.S. Catholic Historian. Along with assistant and associate editors, he selected themes, solicited manuscripts, and reviewed and edited contributions. His commitment allowed the journal to thrive, filling an important role in the scholarly world, one that we strive to continue. As a friend and mentor to many in our field, he will be greatly missed. May the Lord grant him light and peace! ________ In its more than three decades of publication, our journal has never published an issue devoted to athletics. We are pleased to present this assembly of essays on the role of Catholics and athletics in various contexts: as members of collegiate and professional teams, as agents of assimilation, and as a means of furthering social justice. We are grateful to our contributors: Patrick Kelly, S.J., is associate professor of theology and religious studies at Seattle University, Seattle, Washington. Gerald R. Gems is emeritus professor in the Department of Kinesiology at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He is a past president of the North American Society for Sport History. David Campmier is a doctoral candidate in U.S. history at the City University of New York, New York City. Richard Crepeau is professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. He is a past president of the North American Society for Sport History. Timothy B. Neary is associate professor of history and coordinator of American studies at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. He is author of the recent monograph, Crossing Parish Boundaries: Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914–1954. Robert Emmett Curran is professor emeritus of history at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. [End Page i] David J. Endres On January 30, Dr. Christopher J. Kauffman, long-time editor of U.S. Catholic Historian (1983–2013) passed. We dedicate this issue to his memory. For three decades, Chris was the heart and soul of the U.S. Catholic Historian. Along with assistant and associate editors, he selected themes, solicited manuscripts, and reviewed and edited contributions. His commitment allowed the journal to thrive, filling an important role in the scholarly world, one that we strive to continue. As a friend and mentor to many in our field, he will be greatly missed. May the Lord grant him light and peace! Copyright © 2018 The Catholic University of America Press