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The Journal of American History Volume 79 June 1992 to March 1993 Editorial Staff David Thelen, Indiana University / Editor Casey Nelson Blake, Indiana University / Associate Editor Susan Armeny / Assistant Eaitor Barbara Tarrant / Production Manager Mary Jane Gormley / Copyeditor Lynn Lightfoot / Assistant Copyeditor Paul V. Murphy, Emilye J. Cros/b Seynio r Editorial Assistants Sarah McNair Vosmeier, Chad Berry, Dot McCullough, Meg A. Meneghel, Raymond A. Marcus / Editorial Assistants Dorothy Riggins, April Easter, Carolyn May / Production Assistants Brent A. Shannon / Editorial Intern Editorial Board Mark H. Leff, University of Illinois, Urbana Mary Ryan, University of California, Berkeley Mari Jo Buhle, Brown University Drew Gilpin Faust, University of Pennsylvania Michael S. Sherry, Northwestern University Paula Baker, University of Pittsburgh Kenneth Cmiel, University of Iowa John M. Murrin, Princeton University Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Arnita A. Jones, Organization of American Historians (Ex Officio) Contents of Volume 79 Articles Republicanism: The Career of a Concept Daniel T. Rodgers 11 “Separate Interests” and the Nation-State: The Washington Administration and the Origins of Regionalism in the Trans-Appalachian West Andrew R. L. Cayton 39 “Nous Autres”: Reading, Passion, and the Creation of M. Carey Thomas Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz 68 “Closing Ranks” and “Seeking Honors”: W. E. B. Du Bois in World War I Mark Ellis 96 Reading the Judicial Canon: Alexander Bickel and the Book of Brandeis Clyde Spillenger 125 Aliens in the WASP Nest: Ethnocultural Diversity in the Antebellum Urban South Dennis C. Rousey 152 Recovering America’s Historic Diversity: Beyond Exceptionalism Joyce Appleby 419 Toward the Internationalization of American History: A Round Table Of Audiences, Borderlands, and Comparisons: Toward the Internationalization of American History David Thelen 432 On the Significance of Frontiers in Writing American History in Germany Willi Paul Adams 463 Which American Past for Congolese Audiences? Honoré Mobonda 472 Shifting Perspectives from the North: Quebec Bruno Ramirez 477 Demystifying the United States—Mexico Border Jorge A. Bustamante 485 From American Studies to American History: A French Point of View Marianne Debouzy 491 Letter from Algeria: Reinterpreting United States History Abdelkrim Belkheiri 499 Japanese Scholarship and the Meaning of American History Tadashi Aruga 504 1786 The Journal of American History March 1993 Volume Contents Confessions of a British Americanist Tony Badger 515 American History in Russia: Retrospect and Prospect Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov 524 American History: A View from Cuba Oscar Zanetti 530 The American Historian in Continental Europe: An Italian Perspective Maurizio Vaudagna 532 Eighteenth-Century Colonial Legislatures and Their Constituents Alison G. Olson 543 What Did Eisenhower Teil Kennedy about Indochina? The Politics of Misperception Fred I. Greenstein and Richard H. Immerman 568 Discovering America: A Special Issue Discovering America: An Introduction Frederick E. Hoxie 835 Dis-Covering the Subject of the “Great Constitutional Discussion,” 1786-1789 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 841 Discovering Nature in North America Richard White 874 The Tempest in the Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery Ronald Takaki 892 “A Broad Fluid Language of Democracy”: Discovering the American Idiom Kenneth Cmiel 913 Columbia, Columbus, and Columbianism ThomasJ . Schlereth 937 Exploring a Cultural Borderland: Native American Journeys of Discovery in the Early Twentieth Century Frederick E. Hoxie 969 Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930 James R. Barrett 996 Disorientation and Reorientation: The American Landscape Discovered from the West Patricia Nelson Limerick 1021 Making America Home: Racial Masquerade and Ethnic Assimilation in the Transition to Talking Pictures Michael Rogin 1050 “The Art of Hook & Snivey”: Political Culture in Upstate New York during the 1790s Alan Taylor 1371 Evil Humors and Ardent Spirits: The Rough Culture of Canal Construction Laborers Peter Way 1397 The Journal of American History March 1993 To Save the Fish: Canada, the United States, the Great Lakes, and the Joint Commission of 1892 Margaret Beattie Bogue 1429 Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-1958 Joanne Meyerowitz 1455 The Dialectics of Repression: The Los Angeles Police Department and the Chicano Move- ment, 1968-1971 Edward J. Escobar 1483 God and Contemporary Politics Leo P. Ribuffo 1515 Archives and Manuscripts 165 Exhibition Reviews 190/1078 Book Reviews 226/612/1120/1563 Oral History 588 Movie Reviews 1262 Textbooks and Teaching 1534 Microform Reviews 1699 Research and Reference Tools: Reviews 1707 Editor’s Annual Report, 1991-1992 753 Letters to the Editor 353/757/1298/1744 Announcements 361/762/1303/1746 Recent Scholarship 362/763/1304/1747 Volume Contents 1785 Volume Index 1789 oe beater e nee a. Fe eese es