ABSTRACT On the surface, the association between Lyndon Johnson, an erstwhile New Dealer, and Herbert Hoover, FDR’s bête noire, would seem unlikely. Its existence underscores the complex interplay between presidents, challenging sentimental talk of a “Presidents Club” among Oval Office occupants. No rules of behavior among presidents prevail, as Donald J. Trump’s attacks on his immediate predecessors

(2021). Santayana and the lessons of history. The Historian. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT John de Bauquell, a London businessman and royal servant, is representative of the urban elite of medieval England. An examination of his career and accomplishments illuminates the growing influence of individuals of similar backgrounds in European government.

(2020). In this issue. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 307-307.

(2020). Modernism on the Nile: art in Egypt between the Islamic and the contemporary. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 363-364.

(2020). Urban dreams, rural commonwealth: the rise of plantation society in the Chesapeake. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 364-365.

(2020). Masters of the middle waters: Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 366-366.

(2020). American states of nature: the origins of independence, 1761-1775. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 367-368.

(2020). Preserving the white man’s republic: Jacksonian democracy, race, and the transformation of American conservatism. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 368-369.

(2020). Treason on trial: the United States v. Jefferson Davis. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 369-370.

(2020). Literary Indians: aesthetics and encounters in American literature to 1920. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 370-371.

(2020). How the New Deal built Florida tourism: the Civilian Conservation corps and state parks. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 371-372.

(2020). A nation of immigrants reconsidered: U.S. society in an age of restriction, 1924-1965. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 372-373.

(2020). The sexual economy of war: discipline and desire in the U.S. Army. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 374-375.

(2020). Learning on the left: political profiles of Brandeis University. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 375-376.

(2020). Portraying the Aztec past: the Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 376-377.

(2020). The Brazil reader: history, culture, politics. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 377-378.

(2020). The murder of William of Norwich: the origins of the blood libel in Medieval Europe. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 379-379.

(2020). England’s other countrymen: Black Tudor society. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 379-380.

(2020). The afterlives of the terror: facing the legacies of mass violence in postrevolutionary France. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 380-381.

(2020). Emperor: a new life of Charles V. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 382-382.

(2020). Scots and Catalans: union and disunion. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 383-385.

(2020). Phi Alpha Theta Initiates. The Historian: Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 386-418.

ABSTRACT In the initial stage of Russian colonization of Alaska, very few Natives were involved in carrying out maritime service on Russian ships, as they lacked some of the required qualifications and skills. Only after the Russians had established the first permanent settlement on Kodiak Island in 1784 were some Natives drawn into maritime service, though in a limited number. From the beginning of

ABSTRACT This article details how the current epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in North America – as well as Native-led movements like Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) – is connected to and rooted in the historical past. Using the case of the Muscogee (Creek) peoples and their interactions with the Spanish, French, English, and Americans in the eighteenth-century,

ABSTRACT Carter Glass played an important role in every financial question that the U.S. Congress addressed from the Federal Reserve Act through the New Deal. Although Glass is often remembered today as a reformer, he was fundamentally a reactionary whose foremost impulse was ensuring that the banking system remained the instrument of financial elites. He promoted legislation that upheld elite banking

ABSTRACT In 1938, the FBI’s Leon Turrou investigated a Nazi spy ring that was operating in the United States. He proved that the ring had stolen American military secrets, planned to kidnap a senior officer in the US Army, and plotted to establish a honey-trap brothel in Washington, DC. Turrou then conducted a propaganda campaign against the Nazis, culminating in a Warner Brothers movie, Confessions

ABSTRACT This article centers around the failed attempt of US engineer James Eads to link the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico by constructing a ship railway across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec during the 1880s. The article examines the numerous factors that contributed to the project’s failure while arguing that it was a legitimate contender among transisthmian routes of the era, represents

ABSTRACT This article considers postwar Peru (1952–1963) using categories of race, ethnicity, and a unique case-study: Japanese Peruvians running for political office. Japanese Peruvians, who comprise multiple generations, have been subjects of scholarship, but their entry into politics before Alberto Fujimori’s campaign (in 1990) is scarcely studied. Here, the author uses print media from mainstream

Few figures embody the triumphs and tragedies of postwar American liberalism more than Hubert Humphrey. In his biography of the Minnesota senator and failed presidential candidate, Arnold Offner ca...

Only one of these, Samuel Spelman, ever left his own brief account of such a life, which Kupperman has re-edited as a companion volume. The conflict of loyalties came to a head in 1622 when Opechancanough decided to destroy the English colony before the settlers could become too numerous. Although his warriors killed hundreds in a surprise attack, he had waited too long. Some intermediaries, notably

such as the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, have direct ties to the production and regulation of bourbon. As he explains, trademarks and branding laws that regulate all commercial products are part of the history of the drink. Finally, the narrative has an underlying theme: since the end of World War II bourbon production has become a global business. Haara reminds us that today’s distillers draw on

contextualizing its composition, at a specific point in Hansen’s academic career. There are a number of commendable aspects of this book. Instead of providing a general overview of Japanese American wartime history, Hansen focuses on individual life experiences and specific events within the internment camps. In addition to looking at significant cases of resistance in these camps, three chapters provide

grief, and anger. In the final chapter, Broomall convincingly argues that paramilitary groups appealed to men who hoped to reestablish their accustomed supremacy in a society that had been turned upside down. Initiation into groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, characterized by specific rituals, oath-taking, and performative aspects, provided a sense of mastery over self. While the initiate had no control

participated in the king’s efforts to manipulate local electorates in order to secure a tolerationist Parliament, an effort that was seen at the time as a threat to free elections in England. Despite these potential black marks, Murphy sketches a largely sympathetic portrait of the founder of Pennsylvania. If Penn was born with advantages, he also capitalized upon them. Throughout his life he displayed

guard by the 1992 riot. Instead of honestly examining the causes of the violence, LAPD cast blame on Blacks and Latino/as and used the uprising further to augment the power of the police. Policing Los Angeles is an excellent study that should be required reading for anyone interested in late twentieth-century urban development and the expansion of police power. Felker-Kantor is wise to place LAPD,

was the head of her own ministry, carefully crafting her television image by always being center-stage while drawing on a supporting cast of men in the background. There was never any doubt that Kathryn Kuhlman was in charge. Artman’s contention, however, that charismatic Christianity was widely accepted by mainstream Christians is less convincing. Kuhlman rounded off the rough edges of the charismatic

either side to move toward a lessening of the tensions. And any friendly overture was usually quashed by the rapidly changing international situation, such as the takeover of the Saar region, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, or the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. It is odd, meanwhile, to observe the Nazi preoccupation with the Comintern, which had its seventh and final congress in the summer

At this point, there is no shortage of critical overviews of the Crusades written by professional scholars. As modern politicians of all persuasions continue to evoke this medieval movement as the ...

ABSTRACT These notes cover my contributions over 65 years as a member of Phi Alpha Theta, my experience in research and writing about Benjamin Disraeli, my interpretation of the significance for his political career of Disraeli being a closeted gay man, and my research at the Disraeli Project (DP) at Queen’s University in Ontario, where his letters in 18 volumes were being edited. They also discuss

ABSTRACT The digital approach to the study of archaeology currently appears to be the most important research trend in this field. However, it is still unclear what exactly Digital Archaeology is, and it is perceived and practiced differently in the European and American academic communities. Essentially the application of certain computer science methods to address archaeological research questions

ABSTRACT Digital History is a relatively new sub-discipline within the academy. Understanding the nature of digital history, especially whence its core principles have evolved and how key practitioners have applied digital tools in generating historical knowledge, is the focus of this work. If Digital History is to grow into a more meaningful part of the historical discourse, we must make certain changes

ABSTRACT The advent of desktop GIS systems, along with increasing access to high-speed internet connections in the academy, has led to what some call the “spatial turn” in the study of history, and more broadly, the humanities. The Pleiades and World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) projects represent the intersection of spatial theory and digital methodologies, a unique combination that situates them at

has little else to speak for it. While most anthropologists have moved beyond using grand unified theories to explain complex and ever-shifting aspects of human phenomena (e.g. religion), Lewis-Williams and Pearce have not. It is wildly implausible that shamanism, hallucinations, or altered states of consciousness are the unifying factors in artistic representations over the past 40,000 years. While

sort is needed, as it covers the Spanish-AmericanWar, late nineteenth-century U.S. empire and race relations, and the intermixing of domestic life and foreign policy. While there is quite a bit of repetition, Morey is a fluent, and even a dramatic, writer. His interrogation of often conflicting sources can be an object lesson for students for why and how carefully to weigh evidence. Morey accepts no

sudden or opportunistic reversal, but instead the culmination of a long-standing antipathy between the two, and an act of revenge for Cromwell’s fallen former master. MacCulloch places Cromwell’s complex religious outlook at the heart of his biography, arguing that he was a committed Protestant or evangelical from the late 1520s onward. Like so many of the Italian evangelicals with whom he was acquainted

ABSTRACT As digital projects continue to grow in popularity, traditional concerns around evidence and argumentation linger. Some of these concerns are very old, such as the consequences of using European sources to write the history of West Africa. In response to this, some scholars have turned to digital platforms to expand the range, analysis, and design of their historical research. New Maps of

cles are, nevertheless, deceptive, according to Herrick. The long scholarship on the Crónicas de Indias and their ethnographical, historical, geographical, scientific, and literary value, even if biased, are ignored here. Thus, he mistakenly situates the Joint Report in Oviedo’s 1547 printed edition, instead of its actual debut in a mid-nineteenthcentury publication. Herrick then caricatures Oviedo’s

Kissinger? Half a century after he had clandestinely seized control of America’s war in Indochina, Kissinger is remembered as this smart guy who could look geopolitical truth in the face, and far from flinching, then make a clever remark about it. As Brigham demonstrates, Kissinger was most definitely not a deep thinker and, when he gained power as Richard Nixon’s geopolitical muse, ensured that those

Nations, through a divided Senate. O’Toole paints a clear portrait of the U.S.’s 28 President. He was led for good and for ill by a core moral vision, one that centered on an exceptionalist view that the U.S. “could—and should—do more than any other nation to make the new world order [after the war] a success” (488). Ultimately The Moralist makes a case that will be obvious to historians but is still

In one of the many memorable sequences of Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, “Benzino Napaloni”, ruler of “Bacteria”, pays a visit to “Adenoid Hynkel of Ptomania”, his self-styled “dictator friend”. Planned and scripted in 1938, the film was not released until 1940, when the world was at war—and the real “Napaloni” had yet to enter the conflict on the side of his supposed ally in the Rome-Berlin

Industrial Designer” (which Loewy created with stage designer Lee Simonson) appeared in 1937 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (it was actually in 1934). Later in the volume, we are told that the exhibition was held in 1934, but at The Museum of Modern Art (where it most certainly was not displayed). Three years may seem trivial, but in the development of industrial design during the 1930s it was the

remained fundamental later in the war. According to Marvel, this was the primary motivation for veterans to reenlist in 1863, and it also explains the influx of 1864 recruits, who were either too young, too old, or otherwise unsuitable for the field. Military service could, alternatively, be a boon, have little effect, or worsen the financial lot of Union soldiers. Marvel contends that “hundreds of

In a hidden corner of the North Burial Ground in Providence, RI, is an assemblage of monuments that, from a distance, resembles a typical nineteenth-century family plot. The marble obelisk in the center of this plot is almost identical to countless others used to commemorate families in the cemeteries of the American Northeast, and there are many similar obelisks in the North Burial Ground (Figure

realized with particular clarity, especially in his close readings of the understudied records from Shetland, which extend and make concrete some of the major interpretations of early modern witchcraft, including those of Wolfgang Behringer and Lyndal Roper. At the moment, I have more of a question than a criticism of the book. I could not help but wonder how an examination of New World foods in print

colonialism and imperialism did not cohere with British servicemen’s and women’s expectations of overseas employment opportunities and “adventure” in India. This mismatch resulted in a subculture marred by uncertainties, finding an outlet in the rejection of the host society, the inadvertent development of a selfenclosed community, and the plangent notion of returning home. Whatever might have been

tradition-bound Royal Navy that failed to live up to its reputation. Philbrick asserts that these seemingly isolated events in different regions ultimately aligned and resulted in Washington and his ambivalent French allies trapping Cornwallis’s army at Yorktown. Philbrick fills his book with personalities. Many of these, such as Nathaniel Greene, the Marquis de Lafayette, François-Joseph-Paul de Grasse

Are modern people happier than their counterparts in the past, or should they be? And are these constructive historical questions? Over the past several years we have been treated to a number of really interesting discussions about the possibility of charting the history of happiness. On the one side, there stand some very smart social scientists, armed with considerable data, deeply committed to the

ican music in perhaps the book’s strongest section. Greene’s final chapter gets to the heart of the matter, challenging the representations of Broonzy in scholarship and criticism that have most often highlighted his final role as a folk blues musician. The central thesis of the study, confronting the work of Alan Lomax and others, should have been made clearer throughout: “these culture brokers have

INTRODUCTION States and societies around the world face conflicts and security problems. None can be indifferent to the phenomena of violence, terrorism, and the deaths of hundreds and thousands of people. An increase in terrorist activities in Africa has meant that security problems in that continent have become ever more important. In response, many African universities have developed resources in