The Historian articles from June 2003

The Historian archives from June 2003

Replenishing the soil and the soul of Texas: the Civilian Conservation Corps in the lone star state as an example of state-federal work relief during the great depression.
June 22, 2003... UNQUESTIONABLY, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was one of the most successful of the New Deal agencies. Despite the fact that it was conceived and developed in a very short period of time, the CCC was nevertheless an effective work...

Fatal attraction: the white obsession with Indianness.
June 22, 2003... THE "dark, glancing, fearless eye, alike terrible and calm; the bold outline of his high, haughty features, pure in their native red": the whites of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans stand mesmerized as they gaze at the young...

"There's no such thing as an unqualified teacher": unionization and integration in the Philadelphia public schools (1).
June 22, 2003... ON 1 FEBRUARY 1965, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) won a collective bargaining election to represent nearly eleven thousand public school educators in labor negotiations with the city's Board of Public Education. The story of the...

Model city: the War on Poverty, race relations, Catholic social and activism in 1960s Pittsburgh (1).
June 22, 2003... NEARLY forty years after the passage of the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act that launched President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, postmortems continue to issue forth. Some commentators, such as political scientists J. David Greenstone and Paul...

"Whatsoever yee would that men should doe unto you, even so doe yee to them": an analysis of the effect of religious consciousness on the origins of the leveller movement.
June 22, 2003... The Levellers were in a special sense, bridge-builders; constructing a bridge that connects Christian teaching with humanism and democratic socialism. Tony Benn, M.P., speech delivered at Burford Church, Oxfordshire (1) Lieutenant...

"The battle of the standards": great pyramid metrology and British identity, 1859-1890 (1).
June 22, 2003... FOR the past few years, one of the most vigorous debates in Britain has been that surrounding membership in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Should the nation decide to join the union it would require abandoning the British pound in favor...

"Terrorism and the loss of being".(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... A History of Terrorism. By Walter Laqueur. (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2000. Pp. xiii, 277. $24.95.) In Bad Company: America's Terrorist Underground. By Mark S. Hamm. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. Pp....

Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. By Philip D. Curtin. (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2001. Pp. x, 348. $111.95.) During the five decades covered by this collection of journal articles...

Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa. By Humphrey J. Fisher. (New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 410. $21.95.) The author of this study was long a reader in African History at the School of Oriental and African...

The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany. By Stephen E. Ambrose. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Pp. 299. $25.00.) The ground war in Europe has been the main focal point of Stephen E. Ambrose's books on World War...

Recollections of Mexico: The Last Ten Months of Maximilian's Empire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Recollections of Mexico: The Last Ten Months of Maximilian's Empire. By Samuel Basch. Edited and translated by Fred D. Ullman. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 278. $60.00.) Mexico's official liberal tradition has cast...

America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe. By Volker R. Berghahn. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 373. $39.50.) Now that the Cold War has come to an end, there has been a growing interest in the...

From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency. By William C. Berman. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001. Pp. viii, 141. $16.95.) At 130 pages of text, including a bibliographic essay,...

Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now. Edited, with an Introduction, by Alexander Bloom. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 229. $19.95.) The series in which this book appears is intended to provide accessible...

These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. By Susan Branson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. 218. $17.50.) The author of this work deserves our thanks. With this...

A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Blacklist.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Blacklist. By Paul Buhle and David Wagner. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 275. $27.50.) One of the effects of post-World War II...

Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. By Judith A. Carney. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 240. $37.50. The influence of Africa in the Americas is a subject that has produced a lively,...

American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. By Caleb Crain. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 310. $35.00.) In six chapters on an elite Philadelphia social circle--Charles Brockden Brown,...

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950. By Robert M. Fogelson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 492. $35.00.) With a few exceptions, such as Boston and San Francisco, downtowns, or the central business districts of major...

Americans All!: Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Americans All!: Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I. By Nancy Gentile Ford. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 194. $32.95.) Rushing to create a mass army between the spring of 1917 and the November 1918...

Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War. By Frank R. Freemon. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Pp. 254. $24.95.) The author of this book is a physician and doctorate-holding historian; he has...

Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man. By James N. Giglio. (Columbia, MO, and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 345. $29.95.) Stan Musial ranks with Ted Williams, Joe Dimaggio, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Hank Aaron...

Pickett's Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Pickett's Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg. By Earl J. Hess. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 497. $34.95.) Historians like to contend that there are three kinds of history: what actually happens, what...

Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. By Gary R. Hess. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 262. $17.95.) In this ambitious look at presidential decision making, the author...

Sherman: A Soldier's Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Sherman: a Soldier's Life. By Lee Kennett. (New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Pp. xv, 426. $35.00.) Over the past decade, John Marszalek, Michael Fellman, and others have examined William Tecumseh Sherman as both soldier and citizen. Given...

Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century. By Henry Kissinger. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. Pp. 318. $30.00.) The well-known author of this book surveys global trends and concludes that America...

Children of the West: Family Life on the Frontier.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Children of the West: Family Life on the Frontier. By Cathy Luchetti. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. Pp. 253. $39.95.) A wise-beyond-his-years young Montanan once told a visitor that "a person learns a good many things by...

Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England. By Gloria L. Main. (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 316. $49.95.) In her investigation of "families living and working on the land...

Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba. By Louis A. Perez Jr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. x, 199. $17.95.) Cuba's 750 miles of shoreline stretch along the route...

The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion across the Pacific, 1784-1900.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion across the Pacific, 1784-1900. By David M. Pletcher. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 379. $44.95.) In the 1960s, William Appleman Williams advanced...

American Towns: An Interpretive History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... American Towns: An Interpretive History. By David J. Russo. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. Pp. ix, 350. $28.95.) For those of us who have experienced town life as evoked by Main Street at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, we know, of course,...

Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. By Edward Steers Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Pp. xv, 360. $29.95.) The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is a subject that has attracted the research interests...

The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821. By Eric Van Young. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 702. $75.00.) This monumental study provides clear insights into a...

Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. By Michael Vorenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 305. $29.95.) This study is a remarkable piece of historical research and...

The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. By Steven Watts. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 526. $19.95.) Many people have written about Walt Disney, but few have described him objectively. Many...

State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940. By Robert Whitney. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 255. $18.95.) In the 1930s, Cuba witnessed the beginning of the...

Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson. By Linda Williams. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 401. $32.50.) Broad and brilliant, a combination rare in serious...

Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst. By Barry K. Wilson. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 271. $39.95.) Those who read this book will no doubt ask themselves: Why would any publisher, let alone a...

The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto. By Suzanne Gay. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 301. $29.95.) Responding to a call made by Barbara Ruch for more scholarship addressing the role of ordinary people in medieval...

A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945. By Nicholas Tarling. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 286. $36.00.) Southeast Asia was strategically significant in the context of World War II....

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937. By Xiaoqun Xu. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 328. $74.95.) In this book, the author examines an important,...

The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. By Dingxin Zhao. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. 433. $35.00.) The experience of this reviewer parallels that of the author. We both...

Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome. By Gregory S. Aldrete. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 227. $38.99.) The history of the body currently constitutes an ideological proving ground in which...

P.A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... P.A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. By Abraham Ascher. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 468. $55.00.) For nearly a century, almost all works about Petr Arkad'evich Stolypin, imperial...

Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962.By Samuel H. Baron. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 241. $45.00.) This book recounts one of the most terrible episodes in postwar Soviet history, the armed...

Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography. By Leeds Barroll. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. 226. $35.00.) This readable study is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Jacobean era, early modern...

Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform, and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform, and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations. By Christopher M. Bellitto. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 146. $44.95.) Although Nicolas...

The Idea of France.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Idea of France. By Pierre Birnbaum. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. Pp. xii, 370. $32.00.) Periodically over the course of two hundred years, France has found itself engulfed in political, ideological, and...

Arabia Felix: From the Time of the Queen of Sheba, Eighth Century B.C. to First Century A.D.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Arabia Felix: From the Time of the Queen of Sheba, Eighth Century B.C. to First Century A.D. By Jean-Francois Breton. Translated from the French by Albert LaFarge. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 216. $24.00.) ...

Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871. By Arden Bucholz. (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 240. $21.95.) The nineteenth-century Prussian army has been maltreated, cries Arden Bucholz. Must it be forever stigmatized...

Italy.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Italy. By Nicholas Doumanis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 190. $24.95. A contribution to the series "Inventing the Nation," this account of Italian political history from the late eighteenth century to the present...

The Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526. By Pill Engel. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2001. Pp. xix, 452. $69.50.) This study is the first comprehensive history of the medieval kingdom of Hungary...

Russia and the Russians: A History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Russia and the Russians: A History. By Geoffrey Hosking. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 718. $35.00.) The author of this study, the doyen of Russian historians, has written a readable, comprehensive account of Russia from...

The Politics of Carnival: Festive Misrule in Medieval England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Politics of Carnival: Festive Misrule in Medieval England. By Chris Humphrey. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 113. $59.95.) The study of popular festivities that temporarily broke with or turned...

The British Empire as a World Power.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The British Empire as a World Power. By Edward Ingrain. (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xiv, 282. $54.50.) Two short books have here been sensibly combined into one. The second of these is a set of four essays about British...

The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages. By Katherine Ludwig Jansen. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 389. $19.95.) It may come as a surprise to many non-medievalists...

Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis. By Ian Kershaw. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. Pp. xlvi, 1115. $35.00.) With the publication of this second volume, Ian Kershaw completes the definitive biography of Adolf Hitler. Like the...

Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200. By Adam J. Kosto. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 366. $64.95.) This book studies the period between the end of the tenth century,...

Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code. By John F. Matthews. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 314. $40.00.) This is one of many significant recent books, far too many to cite here, dealing with late antique...

Satan's Conspiracy: Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Satan's Conspiracy: Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. By P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2001. Pp. 225. $26.95.) In the records of witchcraft trials, one sometimes catches alluring glimpses...

Witchcraft in Europe and the New World, 1400-1800.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Witchcraft in Europe and the New World, 1400-1800. By P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. (Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. viii, 119. $55.00.) This study offers a somewhat idiosyncratic overview of belief in witchcraft and prosecutions of witches from...

Life and Practice in the Early Church: A Documentary Reader.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Life and Practice in the Early Church: A Documentary Reader. Edited, with an introduction, by Steven A. McKinion. (New York & London: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 189. $18.50.) One day in August 1763, Dr. Johnson was invited out...

Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War. By Annika Mombauer. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 325. $54.95.) Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke chief of the...

The London Way of Death.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The London Way of Death. By Brian Parsons. (Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 2001. Pp. 128. $17.95.) The rituals surrounding death and funerals reveal much about a society. Wakes, religious services and rituals, the procession to the last...

Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe. By Derek J. Penslar. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 374. $45.00.) This is an original and illuminating work on how Jews in western and central...

The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales. By Bob Reece. (Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xx, 373. $69.95.) The author has properly given the long title of The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New...

Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein. Edited by Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson. (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. x, 251. $79.95.) This...

German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918. By Matthew Stibbe. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 267. $59.95.) This book fits nicely into the scholarship on prewar Anglo-German hatreds and is the perfect complement to...

Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England. By Marjorie Swann. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. 280. $49.95.) As an amasser of objects, this reviewer takes heart in the spate of...

Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By Ramie Targoff. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 162. $17.00.) This short and engaging study sets itself to overturn a governing...

A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War. By David Wetzel. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 244. $24.95.) Historians of nineteenth-century European diplomatic relations will...

A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War. By David Wetzel. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 236. $24.95.) Although one might wonder whether anything fresh remains to be said...

Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. By Lucy E. C. Wooding. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. 272. $70.00.) Engaging and creative, Lucy Wooding's reexamination of Catholicism and the nature of confessional identity...

The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. By Benjamin Woolley. (New York: Henry Holt, 2001. Pp. xii, 355. $25.00.) Polymaths such as Dr. John Dee present biographers the special problem of...

Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics. By Martin Bernal. Edited by Chioni Moore. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. 550. $24.95.) This is an erudite, richly scholarly book. It is essentially a riposte to...

Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. By Simon A. Cole. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 369. $57.95.) It is a pleasure to read Simon A. Cole's fascinating study of fingerprinting. The...

The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East-West Trade, 1948-63.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East-West Trade, 1948-63. By Ian Jackson. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. 239. $65.00.) Scholarly research into the nonmilitary and nonpolitical aspects of the Cold War has been steadily...

The First Fossil Hunters.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The First Fossil Hunters. By Adrienne Mayor. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 361. $17.95.) This six-chapter book is a creative work that draws upon evidence from the fields of classical studies and...

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. By Sam Wineburg. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 255. $22.95.) The author of this collection is passionate about the teaching of...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(Calendar)
June 22, 2003... Alvernia College (Alpha Eta Rho) 17 December 2002: Michael A. Heim, James A. Haluska, Jr. Andrews University (Omicron Lambda) 21 November 2002: Amy Achata, Berdine Beckles, David Beyreis, Kristy Chism, Michael Jakobsons, Naomi John,...