Editor's Note

"Deceitful Paupers or Worthy Poor? Oscar McCulloch and Charity Reform," by Brent Ruswick

"Oscar McCulloch's 'Tribe of Ishmael' and Twentieth-Century Eugenics," by Elsa F. Kramer

"'The Life of a Methodist Circuit Rider in Pioneer Indiana," by Riley B. Case

Book Reviews

Gehring, James Dean: Rebel with a Cause and Smith, Hoosiers in Hollywood, by Randy Roberts

Owens, The Devil's Topographer: Ambrose Bierce and the American War Story, by Jonathan Elmer

Guice, ed., By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, by Larry A. Morris

Barnes, The Cost of Being Poor, by Edward Schmitt

Steiner, An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, by Gerald Prokopowicz

Washington, Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954, by David Naguib Pellow

Hoover, A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression, by James Trulock

Mason, Slavery and Politics in the Early Republic, by J. Matthew Gallman

Kachun, Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915, by Cornelius Bynum

Blondheim, ed., Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America, by David M. Owens

Currell and Cogdell, Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s, by Jason S. Lantzer

Rymph, Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism From Suffrage Through the Rise of the New Right, by Gregory L. Schneider

Archibald, The New Town Square: Museums and Communities in Transition, by Amy Levin

Middleton, Smerk, and Diehl, eds., Encyclopedia of North American Railroads, by Richard Saunders Jr.

Letters

"The Home of Ben-Hur: Lew Wallace's Study," by Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko

"A Struggle for Respect: Lew Wallace's Relationships with Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman After Shiloh," by William M. Ferraro

"The Charioteer and the Christ: Ben-Hur in America from the Gilded Age to the Culture Wars," by Howard Miller

"Publishing Lew and Susan Wallace in the Twenty-first Century," by Thomas A. Mason, Marcia R. Caudell, Suzanne S. Bellamy, and Ray E. Boomhower

Book Reviews

Holzer, ed., Abraham Lincoln Portrayed in the Collections of the Indiana Historical Society, by Cinda Ann May

Bennett, He Almost Changed the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Riley Marshall, by Joel K. Goldstein

Keating, Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age, by Joseph C. Bigott

Boomhower, 'One Shot': The World War II Photography of John A. Bushemi, by Claude Cookman

Baker, The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War, by John Craig Hammond

Calhoun, Conceiving the New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900, by Peter Argersinger

Lawson, A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis, by John F. Bauman

Jaspin, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America, by Richard Nation

Dippel, Race to the Frontier: 'White Flight' and Westward Expansion, by David Gellman

Jones, The Songs that Fought the War: Popular Music and the Homefront, 1939-1945, by Kenneth J. Bindas

Donahue and Trump, The Politics of Zoos: Exotic Animals and Their Protectors, by Paul Grayson

Ascoli, Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South, by John H. Stanfield II

Recent Articles, Books, Pamphlets, Dissertations, and Other Publications in Indiana History, compiled by Suzanne Hahn