REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY最新文献

{"title":"Nixon’s War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism by Daniel S. Chard (review)","authors":"Camilo E. Lund-Montaño","doi":"10.1353/rah.2023.a900722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2023.a900722","url":null,"abstract":"In the fall of 1970, Judge Damon Keith presided over a “conspiracy” case involving members of the White Panther Party, a radical leftist organization in Michigan. Three leaders of the organization were charged at the United States District Court of Eastern Michigan, accused of bombing CIA offices in Ann Arbor on September of 1968. The government lawyers presented evidence including electronic surveillance tapes to demonstrate that the defendants had conspired to commit the bombing. The defense attorneys filed a motion against this particular evidence because it lacked a judicial warrant. Judge Keith ruled in favor of the defense and stated that this was in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. The prosecutors, instead of moving forward with the case, pushed this particular matter further. In the Appeals trial, Attorney General John Mitchell’s representatives, under direction of William Rehnquist, then Assistant Attorney General, found examples from old English case books of assertions by British monarchs between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries of their “inherent power” to authorize extraordinary searches when deemed necessary to protect the nation. When the Court of Appeals of the Sixth District ruled in favor of Judge Keith, Mitchell and the justice Department pushed the case up to the Supreme Court in 1972. In the case of United States v. U.S. District Court et al, 407 U.S. 297, Robert Mardian, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, argued in front of the Supreme Court that the president had an “inherent power” to authorize the use of electronic surveillance without a warrant. In other words, the president should be allowed to circumvent provisions in the Fourth Amendment, when invoked as a matter of national security.1 In his opening remarks, Mardian argued that it was ultimately at the discretion of the executive to determine matters of domestic security and expedite the use of warrantless surveillance tactics. Arthur Kinoy, lead counsel for","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"51 1","pages":"56 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41537176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Haunted by Slavery: A Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (review)","authors":"R. Sparks","doi":"10.1353/rah.2023.a900724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2023.a900724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"51 1","pages":"86 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45117955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds (review)","authors":"Brian P. Luskey","doi":"10.1353/rah.2023.a900720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2023.a900720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"51 1","pages":"40 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41784884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900 by Jon K. Lauck (review)","authors":"Timothy Messer-Kruse","doi":"10.1353/rah.2023.a900719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2023.a900719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"51 1","pages":"30 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49626373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement by Jane Berger (review)","authors":"F. Gooding","doi":"10.1353/rah.2023.a900721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2023.a900721","url":null,"abstract":"With the case of African Americans, Jane Berger reminds us in A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement that history may not necessarily repeat itself, but it can strike us as awfully familiar. While A New Working Class valiantly details attempts by Black public-sector workers and the unions they formed to struggle for racial and economic justice in Baltimore, the obstacles they faced and setbacks they suffered unfortunately fairly consistently represent stories that can be told virtually wherever large concentrations of Black public-sector workers can be found. Not to be cynical, but often, there is no happy ending to this recurring narrative—at least not by Hollywood standards. Speaking of Hollywood, while many Americans only know what they know of Baltimore from the highly-acclaimed HBO cable television series “The Wire,” which aired from 2002–2008, Berger goes back in time to when labor conditions precipitated the almost trite—if not stereotypical—depictions of “Inner City, USA” as projected upon the bleak and blank canvas of the city’s decaying landscape. In watching Baltimore through the para-realistic lens of such gritty, yet still fictional, cable television storytelling, one can be forgiven for losing sight of its nickname—“Charm City.” If anything, during the outbreak of World War II, numerous opportunistic Black laborers left economically dead-end jobs in the South for the prospects of improved pay and working conditions on federal jobs in northern metropolitan cities such as Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. As Berger notes early in her monograph, Baltimore was a site of prosperous boom times, boasting low levels of unemployment, expanding suburban neighborhoods, and increasing car registrations to match, all thanks to defense orders. Even better, these good times were open to white and Black workers to enjoy alike. While the concept seems relatively simple—move to a better environment and start fresh with a better job leading to a better existence—numerous Black,","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"51 1","pages":"48 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44507219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America by Louis P. Masur (review)","authors":"Michael S. Green","doi":"10.1353/rah.2023.a900716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2023.a900716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"51 1","pages":"15 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45335813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review)","authors":"Alice L. Baumgartner","doi":"10.1353/rah.2023.a900718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2023.a900718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"51 1","pages":"23 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41994420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)","authors":"B. Rouleau","doi":"10.1353/rah.2023.a900717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2023.a900717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"51 1","pages":"16 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43997793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, & the World They Made and Lost by Marilyn J. Westerkamp (review)","authors":"Sarah Crabtree","doi":"10.1353/rah.2023.a900715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2023.a900715","url":null,"abstract":"I gave a talk to K-12 teachers last March broadly and blandly titled “Reapproaching Women’s History Month.” I opened with a collage of “well-behaved women seldom make history” and “notorious RBG” knick-knacks. I then invited those attending to join me in investigating a number of current books aimed at young people, perhaps best represented by the She Persisted series known collectively as the Persisterhood and the “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls” app and podcast based on the ever-expanding book series by the same name.1 We talked together about the promise and pitfalls of this “shero” approach to Women’s History Month curricula, thinking about what would be gained by devoting just as much attention—even all year round!—to everyday women from the past and how they, and therefore we, make history. This aim, of course, has long been the driving force behind women’s history. Generations of historians have brilliantly illuminated the everyday lives of ordinary women, demonstrating how they shaped and were shaped by the worlds in which they lived. In the process, they have revealed complex identities and societies intersected and ordered by everchanging ideas about race, religion, ethnicity, class, ability, and sexuality—as well as marriage, motherhood, sex, citizenship, and work. My conversation with these educators highlighted the need for diverse and multifaceted stories that, yes, inspired students with examples of strong women doing uncommon things, but that also represented ordinary women who, while perhaps not exceptional, were nevertheless extraordinarily important. So imagine my sheepishness when it took several chapters before I realized what Marilyn Westerkamp was really up to with her excellent book, The Passion of Anne Hutchinson. Despite her clearly stating at the outset she had given up her hope to write “a traditional biography of Anne Hutchinson” (p. 2), I had supposed her work would follow in the tradition of other classic biographies of early American women—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s A Midwife’s Tale (1990), Elaine Foreman Crane’s The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker (1994), Nell Irwin Painter’s","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"51 1","pages":"1 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49540916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conceiving Liberty in Pax Americana","authors":"Lisa Szefel","doi":"10.1353/rah.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"In 1945, after decades of destruction and deprivation, freedom in Europe seemed to be within grasp. In contrast to the post-World War I retreat into isolationism, the United States, intent on forging a world order grounded in liberal democracy and capitalist prosperity, assumed global leadership. Melvin Leffler’s seminal A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (1992) set the terms of debate regarding postwar national and international economic, political, and colonial rearrangements. That doorstopper of a book began as the guns fell silent in Germany, a moment the defeated nation dubbed Stunde Null (“Zero Hour”), and representatives of Imperial Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri. Louis Menand’s The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War surveys the same landscape, but from a different angle. The Free World seeks to map out why, in this Pax Americana, paintings and poems, music and movies seemed to actualize liberty. Menand canvasses the shearing forces that caused this faulting and folding in art and ideas as Americans pivoted away from war footing. The Free World does not explore the use of culture as a weapon against Communism abroad, a field expertly mined by Frances Stonor Saunders’ landmark The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (1991) and, more recently, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (2015) by Greg Barnhisel. Nor does Menand concern himself with the impact of politics on national identity, a vantage point first sketched by Stephen Whitfield’s The Culture of the Cold War (1991). In the context of superpower rivalry, totalitarian peril, and decolonization, Menand carves out deft insights as they form, strike, renovate, and ricochet—sometimes with a chisel, other times with a scalpel. The Free World ends with a bang rather than concludes, bringing Kennan’s prescription of Soviet containment to its logical conclusion in Operation Rolling Thunder, which rained down three-hundred pounds of bombs for every woman, man, and child in North Vietnam. The engines of American political, intellectual, artistic, and moral authority, developed over the previous two decades, came screeching to a halt, shifting","PeriodicalId":43597,"journal":{"name":"REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"408 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46445586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}