CONTENTS
FROM THE EDITOR
From "Bundling" to "Hooking Up": Teaching the History of American Courtship
Beth Bailey
ARTICLES
An Annotated Bibliography for Teaching the History of Courtship
Beth Bailey
Courtship and Sexual Freedom in Eighteenth-Century America
Richard Godbeer
Charity Girls and City Pleasures
Kathy Peiss
The Courtship Season: Love, Race, and Elite African American Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Eleanor Alexander
"What’s a Crush?" A Study of Crushes and Romantic Friendships at Barnard College, 1900-1920
Rona M. Wilk
From Front Porch to Back Seat: A History of the Date
Beth Bailey
LESSON PLANS
Courtship in American History
Valerie Matsumoto
"What’s Love Got To Do With It?" The Politics of Race and Marriage in the California Supreme Court’s 1948 Perez v. Sharp Decision
Alex Lubin
Rebel Without a Cause: Using Film to Teach about Dating in the 1950s
Michael Lewis Goldberg
"Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Stay": Using Popular Music to Teach About Dating and Youth Culture from Elvis to the Beatles
Chester Pach
DOCUMENTS FROM THE GILDER LEHRMAN COLLECTION
A Love Letter from Alexander Hamilton to His "Nut-Brown Maid"
Richard Brookhiser
DIALOGUE
The 2004 Presidential Campaign in Historical Perspective
William E. Leuchtenburg
AMERICA ON THE WORLD STAGE
From Rosie the Riveter to the Global Assembly Line: American Women on the World Stage
Leila J. Rupp
BRINGING HISTORY ALIVE
History in the Air
Edward L. Ayers
HISTORY HEADLINES
PROFILE
The 2004 OAH Tachau Award Winner: Linda Olson
Audrey Jefferson
