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Previous articleNext article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreHarold J. Cook is John F. Nickoll Professor of History at Brown University and was previously Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. Recipient of the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society and the Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine, he is author of five books and coeditor of six others, together with well over sixty articles. His primary research interests are in the emergence of the new medicines and sciences of early modern Europe; global knowledge exchanges; the coproduction of science and commerce; and processes of translation.William Deringer is Leo Marx Career Development Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research excavates the history of economic and political knowledge practices. His first book, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (Cambridge, Mass., 2018), reconstructs how numerical calculation became an authoritative mode of public reasoning in Anglophone political culture. His new project, Discounting: A History of the Economic Future (in One Calculation), traces “present value” calculations from their early modern beginnings to contemporary debates about climate change.Julia Fein is a historian of Modern Russia, specializing in the intersecting histories of science and empire. She spent two years as a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at Rutgers University, where she was affiliated with the “Networks of Exchange” seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. She has also taught modern European history at Macalester College.Courtney Fullilove is Associate Professor of History, Environmental Studies, and Science in Society at Wesleyan University. She is the author of The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (Chicago, 2017) and of articles on claims to natural and cultural heritage. She is currently writing a history of international biodiversity preservation.Arunabh Ghosh is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Harvard University. A historian of modern China, his interests include social and economic history, history of science and statecraft, and transnational history. His book, Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early PRC, 1949–1959, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Articles have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, BJHS-Themes, and the PRC History Review. He is currently working on two new projects: a history of Chinese dam building in the twentieth century and a history of China-India scientific networks, ca. 1900–1960.Martin Giraudeau is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Sciences Po, in Paris, and a researcher in the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He has published articles on the history of business plans, the invention of entrepreneurship, and the roles of accounting in organizations and society. He recently coedited, with Frédéric Graber, a volume on the modern history of projects: Les Projets: Une histoire politique (16e–21e siècles) (Paris, 2018).Eugenia Lean is Associate Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She is the author of Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2007). Her forthcoming book, Manufacturing China’s Vernacular Industrialism: Nativist Tinkerer and Toothpowder Magnate, Chen Diexian (1879–1940), employs the figure of Chen Diexian, a professional editor, science enthusiast, and pharmaceutical industrialist, to examine the practices of nativist tinkering, innovative adaptation, and knowledge work in the building of early twentieth-century Chinese industry. Her latest research examines China’s involvement in shaping modern global regimes of intellectual property from the early twentieth to twenty-first centuries.Victoria Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ohio University, where she teaches and writes about modern science and technology. She is currently writing a book about Japanese society’s engagement with microbes in science, industry, and environmental management. She has published in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture (ed. Denise Phillips and Sharon Kingsland), and Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.Paul Lucier is a historian of science, business, and the environment. He is the author of Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890 (Baltimore, 2008) and is currently finishing a book on the geology of gold, silver, and copper mining in the American West. The goal of his research is to understand whether and how science-driven capitalism can be ethical, innovative, intellectually creative, and environmentally responsible.Sarah Milov is Assistant Professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Her first book, Smoke and Ashes: From Corporatism to Neoliberalism in Tobacco’s Twentieth Century, is forthcoming. Her recent research focuses on whistle-blowing, particularly the relationship among gender, credibility, and bureaucracy.Emily Pawley is Assistant Professor of History at Dickinson College, where she teaches environmental history, the history of capitalism, and the history of science. Her research focuses on cultivated landscapes as sources of knowledge; recent publications examine analytic tables and the invention of nutritional value, cattle portraiture and markets in blood, and varietal description and counterfeit fruit. Her book project, the Balance-Sheet of Nature: Agriculture and Speculative Science in the Antebellum North, examines the kinds of speculative and futuristic knowledge that emerged to make sense of the rapidly commercializing landscape of post–Erie Canal New York and is under advance contract at the University of Chicago Press. She is also interested in the transatlantic history of moon farming.Lukas Rieppel is David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History at Brown University, where he teaches courses on the history of science and the history of capitalism. His forthcoming book, Assembling the Dinosaur, uses the history of paleontology as a means to examine how the ideals, norms, and practices of modern capitalism shaped the way scientific knowledge was made, certified, and distributed during North America’s Long Gilded Age. In addition, Rieppel has written several essays about the material culture of the earth sciences, the history of museums, the valuation of fossils, and the authentication of specimens.David Singerman is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Virginia. His work has appeared in Radical History Review, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Journal of British Studies. He has also written on the sugar industry for the New York Times and on U.S.-Canada trade wars for The Atlantic.Hallam Stevens is Associate Professor of History and Biology and the Head of History at the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He is the author of Life Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics (Chicago, 2013), Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction (Chicago, 2016), and the coeditor of Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome (Durham, N.C., 2015).Lee Vinsel is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, where he teaches and writes about government and technology. He is a cofounder of The Maintainers, a global, interdisciplinary research network that studies maintenance, repair, and mundane work with things. His forthcoming book with Johns Hopkins University Press examines the history of automobile regulation in the United States from 1893 to today’s dreams of a driverless future. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Osiris Volume 33, Number 12018Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories Published for the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/700195 © 2018 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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Mother Ada Wright and the International Campaign to Free the Scottsboro Boys, 1931–1934

Journal Article Modem and Contemporary European History. By J. Salwyn Schapiro, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History in the College of the City of New York. Under the Editorship of James T. Shotwell, Ph.D., Professor of History in Columbia University. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1918. Pp. xiv, 804. $3.00.) Get access Modem and Contemporary European History. By Schapiro J. Salwyn, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History in the College of the City of New York. Under the Editorship of Shotwell James T., Ph.D., Professor of History in Columbia University. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1918. Pp. xiv, 804. $3.00.) Ferdinand Schevill Ferdinand Schevill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 24, Issue 2, January 1919, Pages 276–278, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/24.2.276 Published: 01 January 1919

Reviewed by: The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America by Matthew E. Stanley M. Keith Harris, Anne E. Marshall, James Marten, Kristopher Maulden, and Matthew E. Stanley Matthew E. Stanley, The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017) Interest in Civil War memory and post–Civil War sectional reconciliation has expanded greatly in recent years, as two 2016 historiographical essays attest.1 Matthew E. Stanley's new book, The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America is thus well timed to make an important contribution to our evolving understanding of the process of sectional reconciliation in the decades following the Civil War. With his focus on Kentucky's northern neighbors in the lower portions of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, the editorial staff of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society believe Stanley's book will help historians better understand the role Kentucky played in the events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which saw a white supremacist version of Civil War memory eclipse an emancipationist version nationally. We have asked four nineteenth-century historians to consider Stanley's book from varying perspectives. M. Keith Harris teaches history at a private high school in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans (2014) and is currently writing a book on D. W. Griffith's controversial 1915 silent film, The Birth of a Nation. Anne E. Marshall is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University and the author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State (2012). James [End Page 79] Marten is professor and chair of the history department at Marquette University. His most recent books are Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (2011) and America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (2014). Kristopher Maulden is a visiting assistant professor of history at Columbia College in Missouri. He is completing a book manuscript on the influence of Federalist politics and federal policy in the Ohio River Valley, and he is engaged in a study of nineteenth-century Ohio newspaper editor Charles Hammond. Finally, the author of The Loyal West, Matthew E. Stanley, assistant professor of history at Albany State University, will respond to the reviews. M. Keith Harris In The Loyal West, historian Matthew E. Stanley invites his readers to consider sectionalism in Civil War–era Middle America beyond conventional North-South binaries. In so doing, Stanley recalls the words of an Indiana man, who recognized the region as existing "between two fires." The Hoosier in question described a section where conflict was both among regions and within sections: between northern and southern interests, between Yankee and Tidewater lineages, and between abolitionist and secessionist politics. The narrative of the so-called Loyal West was both anti-rebel and anti-eastern and, as Stanley suggests, proved a means of "reconciling antebellum regionalism with postwar sectionalism, balancing the revolutionary aspects of emancipation and the Union Cause with the political and cultural conservatism of the white rural Middle West" (p. 6). Identity studies, be they regional or otherwise, should be steeped in nuance. As such this book is a successful effort—not as an endeavor to "complicate" an unsophisticated Blue-Gray story but rather to acknowledge and understand the people of a particular loyal region on their own terms, as a people who identified outside of that story. Stanley suggests that observations concerning Civil War sectionalism tend to travel down familiar paths, with emphasis on the East. Most recently he notes that scholarship on postwar memory, and especially on veterans' commemorative efforts, leans heavily on sectional contentions [End Page 80] concerning the "northern" or "Unionist" emancipationist cause. My own work on Union and Confederate veterans at least partially follows suit. Guilty as charged. And so I read this book with particular interest, finding it a valuable corrective to a body of scholarship that began to emerge several years ago in response to David W. Blight's influential but flawed Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American...

Editor’s Note Kate Masur (bio), Gregory P. Downs (bio), and Judith Giesberg, Editor One hundred and fifty years since Reconstruction, we believe now is a propitious time to take stock of the scholarly literature and public memory that shape our collective understanding of that crucial era. Almost thirty years after the publication of Eric Foner’s monumental Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, we are in the midst of a deep, searching exploration of how to define, analyze, and narrate the crucial period that began during the Civil War and extended, arguably, until the close of the century. Given the vibrancy of the field and growing attention to the public history of the era, it seems wise not to try to pin down exactly where we stand but to take stock, advance ideas, and generate conversation and debate. To assess past and present scholarship and open paths to future work, the Journal of the Civil War Era commissioned scholars to write on discrete topics within the broader world of Reconstruction history. The forum on the future of Reconstruction, introduced and edited by Luke E. Harlow, features brief introductory notes in these pages by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Gary Gerstle, Thomas C. Holt, Martha S. Jones, Mark A. Noll, Adrienne Petty, Lisa Tetrault, Elliott West, and Kidada E. Williams. Each short piece published here serves as an introduction to a longer, freely available essay available at the journal’s Web site, at http://journalofthecivilwarera.org/forum-the-future-of-reconstruction-studies. Reconstruction historiography developed within a broader literary response to the end of the Civil War and to the ongoing transformations of the nation. In his provocative historiographical essay, law and literature scholar Brook Thomas challenges historians to revisit early Reconstruction historiography and to see it in the context of twentieth-century debates about the nature of evidence, narrative, and history itself. Beyond historical writing, the era of Reconstruction has been difficult to publicly commemorate. Page Putnam Miller and Jennifer Whitmer Taylor give us the first detailed study of an early twenty-first-century effort to create a National Park Service site devoted to the era. Beaufort, South Carolina, is at the heart of the piece, which explores the failure of a project that garnered support locally and at high levels of government. At issue here is how and where people learn about history and whom they trust to explain it. Reconstruction remains a crucial and sometimes confusing area to teach. In her essay, Hannah Rosen discusses the approaches she and others [End Page 1] bring to the subject in the classroom, focusing on using the period as an opportunity to teach about the history of race and racism. Finally, in a roundtable on Reconstruction and public memory, David M. Prior moderates a discussion among four professors who have been variously involved in public history projects—Beverly Bond, Thomas J. Brown, Eric Foner, and Salamishah Tillet—along with Nancy Bercaw of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Jennifer Taylor of the Equal Justice Initiative. Their theme is the challenges and possibilities of encouraging public engagement with the era of Reconstruction. While it is clear that certain themes will remain central to the study of the post–Civil War Era—emancipation and abolition, racial formation, labor, state building, constitutional change, and enfranchisement—the essays published here remind us of the protean nature of a period that, a century and a half later, remains open to new historical questions and dramatic reinterpretation. This special issue went into production immediately after the 2016 presidential election, which starkly revealed the significance of Reconstruction-era questions in our own moment. Our hope is that this special issue inspires further discussion and debate about where this era’s future might lie. Kate Masur kate masur is associate professor of History at Northwestern University and author of An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. (2010). Gregory P. Downs gregory p. downs is associate professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and the author of After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War (2015) and Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics...

Journal of Applied IchthyologyVolume 32, Issue 1 p. 113-116 Short Communication The first description of oarfish (Regalecus russellii Cuvier 1816) (Regalecidae) ageing structures S. R. Midway, Corresponding Author S. R. Midway Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Author's address: Stephen R. Midway, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. E-mail: smidway@lsu.eduSearch for more papers by this authorT. Wagner, T. Wagner U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USASearch for more papers by this author S. R. Midway, Corresponding Author S. R. Midway Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Author's address: Stephen R. Midway, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. E-mail: smidway@lsu.eduSearch for more papers by this authorT. Wagner, T. Wagner U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 09 December 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.12967Citations: 2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume32, Issue1February 2016Pages 113-116 RelatedInformation

Steven H. Zarit, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He may be reached at Henderson S-110, University Park, PA 16802; by telephone at (814) 865-5260; and via e-mail at z67@psu.edu. Allison M. Reamy, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.

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Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataVolume 62, Issue 3 p. 301-302 Free Access Effect of temperature on glandular trichome exudate composition and pest resistance in geraniums D. S. Walters, D. S. Walters Pesticide Research Laboratory and Graduate Study Center, Department of Entomology, University Park, PA 16802, USA Department of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USASearch for more papers by this authorJ. Harman, J. Harman Department of Entomology, University Park, PA 16802, USASearch for more papers by this authorR. Graig, R. Graig Department of Horticulture, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USASearch for more papers by this authorR. O. Mumma, R. O. Mumma Pesticide Research Laboratory and Graduate Study Center, Department of Entomology, University Park, PA 16802, USASearch for more papers by this author D. S. Walters, D. S. Walters Pesticide Research Laboratory and Graduate Study Center, Department of Entomology, University Park, PA 16802, USA Department of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USASearch for more papers by this authorJ. Harman, J. Harman Department of Entomology, University Park, PA 16802, USASearch for more papers by this authorR. Graig, R. Graig Department of Horticulture, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USASearch for more papers by this authorR. O. Mumma, R. O. Mumma Pesticide Research Laboratory and Graduate Study Center, Department of Entomology, University Park, PA 16802, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1992 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.1992.tb00671.xCitations: 1 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume62, Issue3March 1992Pages 301-302 RelatedInformation

Reviewed by: Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf by Lane Demas Donald Spivey (bio) Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf. By Lane Demas. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 363. $30.00 cloth; $19.99 ebook) [End Page 128] Lane Demas, an associate professor of history at Central Michigan University, has penned the most important study of African American golfers yet published. The author masterfully weaves the story of black golfers into the African American journey for equality and personhood. The work is laced with historical nuggets as Demas traces black golf from ancient Egypt to slave caddies, to George Grant and the invention of the golf tee, to the pioneer black amateur and professional golfers, to Tiger Woods. Blacks were pitted against the color-line in golf as they were in every other sport from boxing to baseball. Struggling for admission and acceptance in the world of professional white golfers since the founding of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) in 1916, blacks established their own association, the United Golfers Association (UGA), in 1925. Their continuing fight for the integration of the PGA was made even more difficult by the organization's official adoption of the "Caucasian-only clause" in 1934 lasting for twenty-seven years thereafter. Even the Harlem Renaissance did not earn blacks acceptance into the privileged world of white golf and its country clubs. African Americans built their own country clubs and golf courses, such as the famous Shady Rest County Club in South Plains, New Jersey, which served Harlem's elites, both non-golfers and golfers, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Chuck Webb, and Count Basie. Female players Nettie Speedy, Maggie Mae Hathaway, and Sarah Spencer Washington, were mainstays in the development and promotion of African American social clubs, golf courses, and important as players. They helped to bring other black women into the sport. None excelled more on the greens than the great Althea Gibson. The author does not avoid the critics of black golfing such as W. E. B. Du Bois, H. L. Mencken, Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, Thur-good Marshall, and Ella Baker. For many it was a game of privilege, conspicuous consumption, and a waste of intellect and resources. The NAACP was hesitant to devote any of its resources to the fight [End Page 129] to desegregate golf courses and clubs. However, the struggle on the greens gained recognition as a part of the overall battle against the color line and racial discrimination with the Supreme Court victory of Holmes v. Atlanta (1955). The win against segregated public golf courses in Georgia was a substantive implementation of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and a blow against the counter-revolution occurring in the defiant Jim Crow South. Golf echoed the protest spirt of the times from the debates about integration to direct-action and Black Power. Joe Louis's favorite sport outside the boxing ring was golf. The Champ sponsored tournaments and individual players, along with taking to the links himself. Sammy Davis, Jr. and other celebrities lent name and fame to the movement on the greens. The author places the pioneer black golfers within the movement for civil rights: Walter Speedy, John Shippen, Bill Spiller, Ted Rose, Charlie Sifford, Lee Elder, and others. Some were, of course, more radical than others—just like the movement and its leading voices-such as Bill Spiller, one of the most militant of the black golfers who engaged in direct-action protest against the PGA and segregated golf tournaments. The final chapter is devoted to Tiger Woods and is a valuable exploration of race, class, and ethnic identity that Woods personifies. The chapter makes perfect sense, but ends the book without a conclusion or even a final paragraph in which the author ties the pieces together and gives the reader a concluding salvo to golf and its importance to the civil rights movement. That missing hole-in-one aside, Demas is to be commended for putting the game of privilege into its proper historical context as a significant player in the struggle for civil rights. His is a vital contribution to sport...

Reviewed by: The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier John P. Bowes (bio) The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier. By Adam Jortner. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. x, 310. $27.95 cloth) [End Page 199] In The Gods of Prophetstown, Adam Jortner asserts that it is necessary to view the conflict between Americans and American Indians over the Old Northwest Territory in the early nineteenth century within a religious framework. First, he emphasizes that religious movements, like that led by the Shawnee Prophet in the early 1800s, were driving forces for change and not simply products of historical events. Second, he proposes that the conflicts between American Indians and the United States in the Old Northwest culminating in the War of 1812 were, in fact, part of a religious war “with the vast expanse of the western frontier, a holy land, as the prize” (p. 11). Therefore, even though political factors played a role in the creation of and battle over this particular frontier, the gods shaped the contest. In The Gods of Prophetstown, the persons of Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, and William Henry Harrison represent these competing religious worldviews. The strong prologue of the book begins by dissecting the various explanations given over time for the Shawnee Prophet’s prediction of the solar eclipse of June 16, 1806. Rather than focusing on the source or validity of that prediction, however, Jortner stresses that to understand the nature of this religious war it is necessary to take seriously the religious values of the parties involved. The Shawnee Prophet and his followers believed in the power and truth of the celestial sign, and that faith in the supernatural strengthened their resolve to resist American expansion. Even when Tecumseh became an influential figure in the development and maintenance of this pan-Indian confederacy, then, the religious message of the Prophet provided the firm foundation. The case for religion as a driving force in the actions taken by William Henry Harrison during the same period of time is not made as effectively. Harrison’s political ambitions are evident, and the book does well to provide insight into the territorial governor’s approach to handling the pan-Indian confederacy that arose in his jurisdiction. Yet in that process Jortner also weakens the notion that Harrison viewed this as a religious war. When Jortner writes that “Congress [End Page 200] retroactively approved Harrison’s decisions [to attack the Prophet at Tippecanoe] because it accepted his contention of a British plot,” he accomplishes two things (p. 199). First, he reveals the strength of his intricate explanation of the battle and its geopolitical context. Second, he dilutes his view of the conflict as a religious war. Even the observation that Congress believed God was on the side of the Americans is not enough to support the argument that the war was an uncommonly religious conflict. Over the course of seventeen chapters, including the prologue and epilogue, Jortner provides a well-crafted narrative that explains in great detail the events that framed the conflicts that consumed the Great Lakes region in the first two decades of the nineteenth century. The Gods of Prophetstown is therefore a welcome addition to the historiography. Ultimately, however, although religion provides a framework for the narrative, it is not the heart of this analysis. In that respect, the book appears not to fulfill the promise of the prologue. Jortner is at his best when he is unraveling the assumptions that have long framed conclusions about events like the Shawnee Prophet’s prediction and the Battle of Tippecanoe. But religion serves more as a bookend, showing up most effectively in the prologue and the epilogue. John P. Bowes John P. Bowes is an associate professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. He is the author of Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West (2007) and is currently writing a book titled, Northern Indian Removal: An Unfamiliar History. Copyright © 2012 Kentucky Historical Society