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An exclusive, inside look at "The Teavangelical Movement," an emerging political force in America in which Evangelicals and Tea Party members intersect to impact the governing of America, including rare, behind-the-scenes intelligence from the campaign trail.

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one element of the visual and material culture that played an integral role in debates about empire in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Visualizing American Empire explores the ways visual imagery and design shaped the political and cultural landscape. Drawing on a myriad of sources-including photographs, tattoos, the decorative arts, the popular press, maps, parades, and material from world's fairs and urban planners-Brody offers a distinctive perspective on American imperialism. Exploring the period leading up to the Spanish-American War, as well as beyond it, Brody argues that the way Americans visualized the Orient greatly influenced the fantasies of colonial domestication that would play out in the Philippines. Throughout, Brody insightfully examines visual culture's integral role in the machinery that runs the colonial engine. The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the United States, art, design, or empire.

Responsibilities of the labor historian -- The future of the labor movement in historical perspective -- Labor's institutional sources of expansion and contraction -- Section 8a(2) and the origins of the Wagner act -- World War I and industrial democracy; or, why we have no works councils in America -- Reforming the American workplace? -- On the representation election -- Freedom and solidarity in American labor law -- Workers' rights: finding a way

The questions posed by this symposium are ones that, up to now, I have put out of my mind. What was the point, in the midst of the EFCA campaign, of looking back and apportioning blame for labor's decline? Or of looking forward and wondering whether EFCA really was worth the trouble? It was enough just to make the fight. But now that we have lost, maybe the organizers of this symposium are right that it is time to take up these questions. The exercise cannot do any harm and, just conceivably, might give us some bearings for thinking about next steps.