VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3 NOVEMBER 2018 ISSN 2515 - 0456
Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 27 Sep 2021 at 09:51:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. Modern American History (MAH) showcases top-quality, emerging research on the history of the United States since the 1890s. Aiming to stimulate debate and make meaningful connections between the subfi elds of this vibrant and expansive fi eld, the journal publishes compelling peer-reviewed articles as well as substantial review essays, forums, and other special features.
Executive Editors Brooke L. Blower, Boston University, MA Sarah T. Phillips, Boston University, MA
Editorial Assistants Cari Babitzke, Boston University, MA Andrew Bell, Boston University, MA
Editorial Board Thomas G. Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Beth Bailey, University of Kansas, KS Brian Balogh, Miller Center, University of Virginia, VA Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard Law School, MA Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University, IL Margot Canaday, Princeton University, NJ Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA Jefferson Cowie, Vanderbilt University, TN Beverly Gage, Yale University, CT Gary Gerstle, University of Cambridge, UK Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Oregon State University, OR Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas, Austin, TX Sarah E. Igo, Vanderbilt University, TN Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne, Australia Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University, NJ Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University, NC Melani McAlister, George Washington University, DC Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, UK Samuel K. Roberts, Columbia University, NY Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University, MA Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Universität Augsburg, Germany Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine, CA
Cover image: Flip Schulke photographs residents taking part in organized daily pool exercises at the Century Village Retirement Community in West Palm Beach, Florida, c. 1975. From the Environmental Protection Agency’s Project DOCUMERICA. U.S. National Archives at College Park, 412-DA-6063.
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Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 27 Sep 2021 at 09:51:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2018
Articles Dilemmas of World-Wide Thinking: Popular Geographies and the Problem of Empire in Wendell Willkie’s Search for One World Samuel Zipp Competing internationalist visions collide in the Republican leader’s bestselling account of his round-the-world trip during World War II 295
Generation Crisis: How Population Research Defined the Baby Boomers Dan Bouk When the invention of a social scientific concept helped recast problems in education and the welfare state as unavoidable 321
Compassionate Capitalism: Amway and the Role of Small-Business Conservatives in the New Right Davor Mondom How one of the nation’s largest direct sales companies fueled opposition to both big government and large corporate workplaces 343
Below the Fold Forum: Discovering the Environment Why has environmental protection been such a hard sell? When Americans did care, why did they care?
Three Eras of Environmental Concern Christopher Sellers 363
Images, Emotions, Politics Finis Dunaway 369
The Growing Rift between Workers and Environmentalists Erik Loomis 377
The Fallout from Residential Segregation Jennifer Thomson 381
Legacies for the Common Good James Morton Turner 385
Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 27 Sep 2021 at 09:51:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. Q&A: The Visitors’ Corner with Sia Sanneh and Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative Lawyers, who became monument builders, reflect on establishing the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama 391
The Soapbox
The Challenge of Garveyism Studies Adam Ewing How the history of black nationalism was pushed to the discipline’s margins and with what consequences 399
Take Three: The Modern American Body One obsession. Three different perspectives
The Nature of Travelling Corpses Ellen Stroud 419
Embodying the Nation of Islam Edward E. Curtis IV 425
The Late Capitalist Physique Sarah Schrank 431
Into the Stacks
The Real Lives of Fake People Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen When historians write biographies of fictional characters 437
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