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Volume 86 Issue 1 June 1999

Articles

    • Mary Hershberger

    Mobilizing Women, Anticipating Abolition: The Struggle against Indian Removal in the 1830s

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 15-40 doi:10.2307/2567405
    • Catherine Collomp

    Immigrants, Labor Markets, and the State, a Comparative Approach: France and the United States, 1880–1930

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 41-66 doi:10.2307/2567406
    • Mae M. Ngai

    The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 67-92 doi:10.2307/2567407

Round Table: Alternatives to the Party System in the “Party Period,” 1830–1890

    • Ronald P. Formisano

    The “Party Period” Revisited

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 93-120 doi:10.2307/2567408
    • Mark Voss-Hubbard

    The “Third Party Tradition” Reconsidered: Third Parties and American Public Life, 1830–1900

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 121-150 doi:10.2307/2567409
    • Michael F. Holt

    The Primacy of Party Reasserted

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 151-157 doi:10.2307/2567410
    • Paula Baker

    The Midlife Crisis of the New Political History

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 158-166 doi:10.2307/2567411

Exhibition Reviews

    • John D. W. Guice

    “1811—Year of Wonders in the Mississippi Territory.” Old Capitol Museum, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 100 S. State St., Jackson, MS 39205

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 167-170 doi:10.2307/2567412
    • Susan D. Pennybacker

    “Amistad: A True Story of Freedom.” Connecticut Historical Society, 1 Elizabeth St., Hartford, CT 06105

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 170-173 doi:10.2307/2567413
    • Kenneth Myers

    “Thomas Moran.” National Gallery of Art, 4th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 173-179 doi:10.2307/2567414
    • David A. Zonderman

    “Americas Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War.” Organized by the Virginia Historical Society, 428 N. Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220, and the Valentine Museum, 1015 E. Clay St., Richmond, VA 23219. Traveled by the South Carolina State Museum, 301 Gervais St., Columbia, SC 29202

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 179-182 doi:10.2307/2567415
    • Curtis Miner

    Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum, 1300 Ninth Ave., Altoona, PA 16672

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 182-186 doi:10.2307/2567416
    • Richard Stott

    “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820–Present.” National Museum of American History, 14th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 186-191 doi:10.2307/2567417
    • DeAnna E. Beachley

    “Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn.” Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10128

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 191-194 doi:10.2307/2567418

Book Reviews

    • Bill Nasson

    Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order. By Timothy Keegan. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia and Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil. By Anthony W. Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 195-196 doi:10.2307/2567419
    • Alan Trachtenberg

    1898: The Birth of the American Century. By David Traxel. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xiv, 365 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-679-45467-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 197-198 doi:10.2307/2567420
    • Gil Troy

    Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973. By Robert Dallek. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv, 754 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-505465-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 198-199 doi:10.2307/2567421
    • Casey N. Blake

    The Degradation of American History. By David Harlan. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxxiv, 289 pp. Cloth, $41.00, ISBN 0-226-31616-5. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-31617-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 200-201 doi:10.2307/2567422
    • Wilfred M. McClay

    The Truth of History. By C. Behan McCullagh. (New York: Routledge, 1998. viii, 327 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-415-17110-5. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 0-415-17111-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 201-202 doi:10.2307/2567423
    • Michael C. Steiner

    Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. By Hugh Prince. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv, 395 pp. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-226-68283-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 202-203 doi:10.2307/2567424
    • John R. Wennersten

    Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History. By Bonnie J. McCay. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xxii, 246 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8165-1804-1.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 203 doi:10.2307/2567425
    • Frieda Knobloch

    Snow in America. By Bernard Mergen. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xxii, 321 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-56098-780-4.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 203-204 doi:10.2307/2567426
    • Michael C. Coleman

    Indian Slavery, Labor, Evangelization, and Captivity in the Americas: An Annotated Bibliography. By Russell M. Magnaghi. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 1998. xiv, 557 pp. $110.00, ISBN 0-8108-3355-7.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 204-205 doi:10.2307/2567427
    • Vine Deloria, Jr.

    The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition. Ed. by Bruce Elliott Johansen. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xii, 410 pp. $95.00, ISBN 0-313-30167-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 205-206 doi:10.2307/2567428
    • Alexis McCrossen

    Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765–1997. By Donald C. Swift, New Directions in American Religious History. Ed. by Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart and Religious Diversity and American Religious History: Studies in Traditions and Cultures. Ed. by Walter H. Conser Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 206-208 doi:10.2307/2567429
    • Susan Grigg

    With Us Always: A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare. Ed. by Donald T. Critchlow and Charles H. Parker. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. vi, 270 pp. Cloth, $56.00, ISBN 0-8476-8969-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8476-8970-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 208-209 doi:10.2307/2567430
    • Leon Jackson

    Print Culture in a Diverse America. Ed. by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii, 291 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02398-6. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-252-06699-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 209-210 doi:10.2307/2567431
    • Nancy Page Fernandez

    Women's History: A Guide to Sources at Hagley Museum and Library. By Lynn Ann Catanese. (Westport: Greenwood, 1997. x, 338 pp. $75.00, ISBN 0-313-30270-7.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 210-211 doi:10.2307/2567432
    • Victoria E. Bynum

    Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women's History. Ed. by Janet L. Coryell, et al. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xii, 224 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1172-0. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8262-1173-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 211-212 doi:10.2307/2567433
    • Daniel R. Mandell

    The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island from Earliest Times to 1700. By John A. Strong. (Interlaken, N.Y.: Empire State Books, 1997. 368 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-55787-148-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 212-213 doi:10.2307/2567434
    • Gilberto M. Hinojosa

    El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536–1860. By John Miller Morris. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1997. x, 414 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87611-154-1.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 213-214 doi:10.2307/2567435
    • Jack P. Greene

    From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 1680–1760. By Ned C. Landsman. (New York: Twayne, 1997. xvi, 223 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8057-1626-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 214 doi:10.2307/2567436
    • Brendan McConville

    Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley. By Elizabeth A. Perkins. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 253 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2400-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4703-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 215 doi:10.2307/2567437
    • Winthrop D. Jordan

    Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. By Michael A. Gomez. Chapel Hill and Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. By Philip D. Morgan. Chapel Hill

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 215-217 doi:10.2307/2567438
    • Christopher Morris

    Masters, Slaves, & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790. By Robert Olwell. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xviii, 294 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8014-3488-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8014-8491-X.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 217-218 doi:10.2307/2567439
    • J. R. Miller

    To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751–1776. Ed. by Laura J. Murray. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xx, 324 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-55849-126-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-55849-127-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 218-219 doi:10.2307/2567440
    • Olive Patricia Dickason

    The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy. By William N. Fenton. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xxii, 786 pp. $70.00, ISBN 0-8061-3003-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 219-220 doi:10.2307/2567441
    • Laurence M. Hauptman

    Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy. By Robert Griffin and Donald A. Grinde Jr. (Quebec: Presses de L'Université Laval, 1997. 271 pp. Paper, $26.00, ISBN 2-7637-7449-0.) In French and English

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 220-221 doi:10.2307/2567442
    • Kermit L. Hall

    We the People. Vol. 2: Transformations. By Bruce Ackerman. (Cambridge: Belknap, 1998. xii, 515 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-94847-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 221 doi:10.2307/2567443
    • Mary Beth Norton

    A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics. By Mark E. Kann. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 238 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-4713-2. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8147-4714-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 221-222 doi:10.2307/2567444
    • Cathy Matson

    Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic. By Peter McNamara. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press and Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt. By John Steele Gordon. New York: Penguin

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 222-224 doi:10.2307/2567445
    • Lawrence B. Glickman

    Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765–1900. By James L. Huston. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xxiv, 482 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-8071-2206-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 224-225 doi:10.2307/2567446
    • R. B. Bernstein

    The First Impeachment: The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount. By Buckner F. Melton Jr. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998. xxiv, 344 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-86554-597-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 225 doi:10.2307/2567447
    • Gene A. Smith

    The Papers of George Washington: Retirement Series. Vol. I: March–December 1797. Ed. by W. W. Abbot. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. xxviii, 566 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-1737-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 225-226 doi:10.2307/2567448
    • Martin J. Burke

    United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic. By David A. Wilson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii, 223 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-3175-1.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 226-227 doi:10.2307/2567449
    • E. Brooks Holifield

    Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 269 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-19-510452-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 227-228 doi:10.2307/2567450
    • Susan M. Yohn

    Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries. By Amanda Porterfield. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 179 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-511301-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 228-229 doi:10.2307/2567451
    • Martha Ackmann

    Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. By Roger Lundin. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. xiv, 305 pp. Cloth, $24.00, ISBN 0-8028-3857-X. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8028-0157-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 229-230 doi:10.2307/2567452
    • Wayne Franklin

    The Book of Nature: Natural History in the United States, 1825–1875. By Margaret Welch. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xiv, 289 pp. $50.00, ISBN 1-55553-342-6.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 230-231 doi:10.2307/2567453
    • Michael G. Kenny

    Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836–1911. By John S. Haller Jr. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. xvi, 207 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87338-577-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 231 doi:10.2307/2567454
    • Howard I. Kushner

    Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine. By John Harley Warner. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xii, 459 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-691-01203-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 231-232 doi:10.2307/2567455
    • Susan D. Jones

    When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America. By Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. xviii, 292 pp. $37.50, ISBN 1-56098-843-6.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 232-233 doi:10.2307/2567456
    • Kevin J. Crisman

    From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500–1900. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xx, 324 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-292-72503-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 233-234 doi:10.2307/2567457
    • Lawrence Frederick Kohl

    Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture. By Lorman A. Ratner. (Westport: Greenwood, 1997. xii, 122 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-313-29958-7.) and Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire. By David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1996. x, 308 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8117-0113-1.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 234-235 doi:10.2307/2567458
    • Laylon Wayne Jordan

    The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina. Vol. 1: 1514–1861. By Lawrence S. Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press and Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story. By James Everett Kibler. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 235-237 doi:10.2307/2567459
    • Marli F. Weiner

    Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South. Ed. by Carol Bleser. Athens, The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848–1879. Ed. by Christine Jacobson Carter. Athens and Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia. Ed. by Elizabeth R. Baer. Athens

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 237-239 doi:10.2307/2567460
    • Susan-Mary Grant

    Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South. By Douglas Ambrose. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xvi, 226 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8071-2080-4.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 239-240 doi:10.2307/2567461
    • Kenneth L. Kusmer

    River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley. By Joe William Trotter Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xvi, 200 pp. Cloth, $29.00, ISBN 0-8131-2065-9. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 0-8131-0950-7.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 240-241 doi:10.2307/2567462
    • Tamara G. Miller

    New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier: The Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio. By Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. xii, 356 pp. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-586-1.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 241-242 doi:10.2307/2567463
    • Walter Johnson

    Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860. By Joanne Pope Melish. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xx, 296 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3413-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 242 doi:10.2307/2567464
    • John Louis Lucaites

    Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818–1845. By Gregory P. Lampe. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. xvi, 350 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-87013-485-X. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-87013-480-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 242-243 doi:10.2307/2567465
    • Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven

    The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston. By Albert J. Von Frank. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xxii, 409 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-03954-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 243-244 doi:10.2307/2567466
    • Leonard L. Richards

    American Mobbing, 1828–1861: Toward Civil War. By David Grimsted. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx, 372 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-19-511707-7.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 244-245 doi:10.2307/2567467
    • Ana R. Suárez

    Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War. By Wallace Ohrt. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xii, 190 pp. ISBN 0-89096-778-4.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 245-246 doi:10.2307/2567468
    • Hans L. Trefousse

    Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative. By William E. Parrish. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xviii, 318 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1156-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 246-247 doi:10.2307/2567469
    • Allen C. Guelzo

    Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. By Douglas L. Wilson. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xi, 383 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-40788-X.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 247 doi:10.2307/2567470
    • Roberta Sue Alexander

    Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. By Herman Belz. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. xii, 265 pp. Cloth, $32.00, ISBN 0-8232-1768-X. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8232-1769-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 247-248 doi:10.2307/2567471
    • Daniel E. Sutherland

    Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861–1862. By Joseph L. Harsh. Kent: Kent State University Press and Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War. By Bruce Tap. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 248-250 doi:10.2307/2567472
    • Juliet E. K. Walker

    Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865–1915. By Robert C. Kenzer. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xvi, 178 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8139-1733-6.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 250-251 doi:10.2307/2567473
    • John N. Ingham

    The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. By Juliet E. K. Walker. (New York: Twayne, 1998. xxvi, 482 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8057-1650-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 251-252 doi:10.2307/2567474
    • George B. Tindall

    Who Killed John Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861–1893. By Kenneth C. Barnes. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. xii, 203 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-2058-4.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 252 doi:10.2307/2567475
    • Robert H. Zieger

    A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910–1948. By Bryant Simon. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 345 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2401-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4704-6.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 252-253 doi:10.2307/2567476
    • Christopher Tomlins

    Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I. By Jeffrey Haydu. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02289-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06628-6.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 253-254 doi:10.2307/2567477
    • Michal R. Belknap

    The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution. By Daniel D. Stid. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii, 231 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0884-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 254-255 doi:10.2307/2567478
    • Joyce S. Goldberg

    The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment: American Economic Expansion in the Hemisphere, 1865–1900. By David M. Pletcher. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xii, 458 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1127-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 255-256 doi:10.2307/2567479
    • Alfred E. Eckes

    Silver and Gold: The Political Economy of International Monetary Conferences, 1867–1892. By Steven P. Reti. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. x, 214 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-30409-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 256-257 doi:10.2307/2567480
    • Elmus Wicker

    The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920–1970. By Perry G. Mehrling. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xvi, 283 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-58430-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 257-258 doi:10.2307/2567481
    • David K. Linnan

    Same Bed, Different Dreams: A History of the Chinese American Bank of Commerce, 1919–1937. By Noel H. Pugach. (University of Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, 1997. xii, 376 pp. HK $160.00, ISBN 962-8269-06-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 258-259 doi:10.2307/2567482
    • William H. Goetzmann

    The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado. By Elliott West. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xxiv, 422 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-0891-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 259 doi:10.2307/2567483
    • Clara Sue Kidwell

    Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887–1934. By Katherine M. B. Osburn. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xiv, 165 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8263-1862-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8263-1863-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 259-260 doi:10.2307/2567484
    • Leland Donald

    The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History. By Christopher Bracken. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-06986-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-226-06987-7.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 260-261 doi:10.2307/2567485
    • Judith A. Allen

    Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down. By Allan G. Bogue. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xviii, 557 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3039-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 261-262 doi:10.2307/2567486
    • Steven Hoelscher

    Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire. By Katherine G. Morrissey. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. x, 220 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3250-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8326-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 262-263 doi:10.2307/2567487
    • Char Miller

    Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science, and Regulation. By Richard A. Rajala. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998. xxiv, 286 pp. $75.00 ISBN 0-7748-0590-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 263-264 doi:10.2307/2567488
    • Robin W. Winks

    Perserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. By Richard West Sellars. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xiv, 380 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06931-6.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 264 doi:10.2307/2567489
    • Kenneth N. Owens

    Lawman: The Life and Times of Harry Morse, 1835–1912. By John Boessenecker. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xviii, 366 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3011-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 264-265 doi:10.2307/2567490
    • Richard Hogan

    Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. By Karen Holliday Tanner. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xxx, 338 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8061-3036-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 265-266 doi:10.2307/2567491
    • David Montgomery

    Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. By Kevin Kenny. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii, 336 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-510664-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-511631-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 266-267 doi:10.2307/2567492
    • Salvatore J. LaGumina

    Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration. By Richard N. Juliani. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xxiv, 398 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-271-01731-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-271-01732-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 267-268 doi:10.2307/2567493
    • Frederik Ohles

    Vom Zarenreich in den amerikanischen Westen: Deutsche in Rußland und Rußlanddeutsche in den USA (1871–1928): Die politsche, soziöokonomische und kulturelle Adaption einer ethnischen Gruppe im Kontext zweier Staaten From the tsar's empire to the American West: Germans in Russia and Russian Germans in the USA [1871-1928]

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 268-269 doi:10.2307/2567494
    • Abraham Hoffman

    Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900–1932. By Juan R. García. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. xii, 292 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8165-1560-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 269 doi:10.2307/2567495
    • Xiaolan Bao

    Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era. Ed. by K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 1-56639-575-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-56639-576-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 269-270 doi:10.2307/2567496
    • Norma Basch

    A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship. By Candice Lewis Bredbenner. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii, 294 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-520-20650-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 270-271 doi:10.2307/2567497
    • Megan McClintock

    Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of Violet Blair. By Virginia Jeans Laas. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. xiv, 169 pp. Cloth, $32.00, ISBN 1-55728-505-5. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 1-55728-506-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 271-272 doi:10.2307/2567498
    • Ann Braude

    Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. By Barbara Goldsmith. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xvi, 531 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-394-55536-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 272-273 doi:10.2307/2567499
    • Jane Rhodes

    African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850–1920. By Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xiv, 192 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33378-4. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-253-21176-X.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 273 doi:10.2307/2567500
    • Maurine W. Greenwald

    Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. By Ellen Carol DuBois. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. x, 353 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06562-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 273-274 doi:10.2307/2567501
    • Julia Grant

    Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell. By Joan Waugh. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii, 296 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-93036-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 274-275 doi:10.2307/2567502
    • Susan L. Porter

    The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare. By Dorothy M. Brown and Elizabeth McKeown. Cambridge: Harvard University Press and Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America. By Timothy A. Hasci. Cambridge: Harvard University Press

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 275-277 doi:10.2307/2567503
    • Carol K. Coburn

    Hoosier Schools: Past and Present. Ed. by William J. Reese. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xviii, 226 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33362-8. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-253-21154-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 277-278 doi:10.2307/2567504
    • Karal Ann Marling

    Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture. By Simon J. Bronner. (Logan: Utah State University Press and The McGuffey Readers: Selections from the 1879 Edition. Ed. by Elliott J. Gorn. Boston: Bedford

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 278-279 doi:10.2307/2567505
    • Molly Ladd-Taylor

    Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers. By Julia Grant. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. x, 309 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07214-7.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 279-280 doi:10.2307/2567506
    • Victoria Alexander

    Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States. By Alan Wallach. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xiv, 152 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-55849-117-1. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-55849-118-X.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 280-281 doi:10.2307/2567507
    • Christine Kleinegger

    The Museum in America: Innovators and Pioneers. By Edward P. Alexander. (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira, 1997. 224 pp. Cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-7619-8946-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7619-8947-1.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 281-282 doi:10.2307/2567508
    • Peter N. Stearns

    The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America. By Daniel Wickberg. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii, 267 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3078-X.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 282-283 doi:10.2307/2567509
    • Murray Sperber

    The American Marathon. By Pamela Cooper. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. xviii, 217 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-0520-X.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 283 doi:10.2307/2567510
    • Susan Levine

    We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans. Donna R. Gabaccia. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. x, 278 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-94860-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 284 doi:10.2307/2567511
    • Angel Kwolek-Folland

    Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. By Kathy Peiss. (New York: Metropolitan, 1998. xii, 334 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8050-5550-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 284-285 doi:10.2307/2567512
    • Pamela Walker Laird

    Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. By Michele H. Bogart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography. By Patricia Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 285-287 doi:10.2307/2567513
    • Jon C. Teaford

    Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image. By Douglas Bukowski. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02365-X. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06668-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 287-288 doi:10.2307/2567514
    • Charles Coate

    Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920–1950. By Craig Miner. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii, 225 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0874-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 288 doi:10.2307/2567515
    • Colette A. Hyman

    Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America. By Laura Browder. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. x, 217 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55849-125-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 288-289 doi:10.2307/2567516
    • Robert Jerome Glennon

    Cardozo. By Andrew L. Kaufman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 731 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-674-09645-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 289-290 doi:10.2307/2567517
    • Cynthia Harrison

    Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy. By Suzanne Mettler. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xvi, 239 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8014-3329-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8546-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 290-291 doi:10.2307/2567518
    • Eileen Boris

    Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890–1940. By Mercedes Steedman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 333 pp. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-541308-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 291-292 doi:10.2307/2567519
    • Elizabeth York Enstam

    A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education. By Leslie Gale Parr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. x, 250 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-1932-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 292 doi:10.2307/2567520
    • Fred Dickinson

    Tairitsu to dakyo (Conflicts and compromises). Ed. by Kazuo Ueyama and Yasuo Sakata. (Tokyo: Daiichihoki Shuppan, 1995. x, 408 pp. ¥3,398, ISBN 4-474-00395-0.) In Japanese

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 292-293 doi:10.2307/2567521
    • Benjamin L. Alpers

    Mobilizing America: Robert P. Patterson and the War Effort, 1940–1945. By Keith E. Eiler. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xviii, 588 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-2276-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 293-294 doi:10.2307/2567522
    • James A. Burran

    World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront. Robert G. Spinney. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xvi, 209 pp. $32.00, ISBN 1-57233-004-X.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 294-295 doi:10.2307/2567523
    • Eric T. Dean, Jr.

    Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944–May 7, 1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. New York: Simon & Schuster and The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II. By Gerald F. Linderman. New York: Free

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 295-296 doi:10.2307/2567524
    • Richard Meixsel

    MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign. By Stephen R. Taaffe. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xiv, 312 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0870-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 296-297 doi:10.2307/2567525
    • Timothy Maga

    Ghost of War: The Sinking of the Awa maru and Japanese-American Relations, 1945–1995. By Roger Dingman. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. xviii, 373 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-55750-159-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 297-298 doi:10.2307/2567526
    • Lawrence S. Wittner

    Peace & War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science. By Robert Serber and Robert P. Crease. New York: Columbia University Press and The Myths of August: A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair with the Atom. By Stewart L. Udall. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 298-299 doi:10.2307/2567527
    • Walter L. Hixson

    Rethinking the Cold War. Ed. by Allen Hunter. Philadelphia: Temple University Press and Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy. By Peter Trubowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 299-301 doi:10.2307/2567528
    • David Steigerwald

    Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers. By Amos Perlmutter. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xviii, 194 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2365-1.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 301 doi:10.2307/2567529
    • Manfred Jonas

    Quellen zu den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, 1917–1963 (Documents on German-American relations, 1917–1963). Ed. by Reiner Pommerin and Michael Frölich. (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1996. lii, 283 pp. DM 118.00. ISBN 3-534-12471-5.) In German

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 302 doi:10.2307/2567530
    • Fiona Venn

    The United States and Iran: In the Shadow of Musaddiq. By James F. Goode. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. xiv, 235 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-312-17272-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 302-303 doi:10.2307/2567531
    • Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

    A Culture of Secrecy: The Government versus the People's Right to Know. Ed. by Athan G. Theoharis. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. viii, 245 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0880-X.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 303-304 doi:10.2307/2567532
    • David Van Leer

    Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism. By Joseph Allen Boone. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 513 pp. Cloth, $54.00, ISBN 0-226-06466-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-226-06467-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 304-305 doi:10.2307/2567533
    • Jessica Weiss

    The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America's Cultural and Legal Struggles over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art. By Rochelle Gurstein. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. x, 357 pp. Cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-8090-8069-9. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8090-1612-5.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 305-306 doi:10.2307/2567534
    • Michael Leja

    The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America. By Daniel Belgrad. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii, 343 pp. $29.00, ISBN 0-226-04188-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 306 doi:10.2307/2567535
    • Richard Gray

    William Styron, a Life. By James L. W. West III. (New York: Random House, 1998. xiv, 506 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-41054-6.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 306-307 doi:10.2307/2567536
    • John Dizikes

    Harry Partch: A Biography. By Bob Gilmore. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xii, 468 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06521-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 307-308 doi:10.2307/2567537
    • Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

    California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West. Ed. by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and Eddie S. Meadows. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. x, 507 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-520-20627-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-520-20628-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 308-309 doi:10.2307/2567538
    • Gregory Mixon

    My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin. Ed. by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xxx, 288 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2213-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 309-310 doi:10.2307/2567539
    • Stewart Burns

    The Children. By David Halberstam. (New York: Random House, 1998. vii, 783 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-679-41561-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 310 doi:10.2307/2567540
    • Richard J. Meister

    Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George Edwards. By Mary M. Stolberg. Detroit: Wayne State University Press and Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 310-312 doi:10.2307/2567541
    • Frederick M. Binder

    The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s. Ed. by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press and Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States. Ed. by Jack Salzman and Cornel West. New York: Oxford University Press

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 312-314 doi:10.2307/2567542
    • Adam Fairclough

    The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign. By Gerald D. McKnight. (Boulder: Westview, 1998. viii, 192 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8133-3384-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 314-315 doi:10.2307/2567543
    • Dennis Mills

    Vietnam: The Early Decisions. Ed. by Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. x, 228 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-292-72800-X.) and My Lai: A Brief History with Documents. By James S. Olson and Randy Roberts. (Boston: Bedford, 1998. xvi, 222 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-312-17767-4. Paper, $7.50, ISBN 0-312-14227-7.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 315-316 doi:10.2307/2567544
    • William Head

    Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command. By Lewis Sorley. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. x, 364 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-0886-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 316-317 doi:10.2307/2567545
    • Rafael Hernandez and
    • Juan Marinello

    Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. By Jorge G. Castañeda. Trans, by Marina Castañeda. New York: Knopf and The Fall of Che Guevara: A Story of Soldiers, Spies, and Diplomats. By Henry Butterfield Ryan. New York: Oxford University Press

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 317-319 doi:10.2307/2567546
    • Frank L. Byrne

    A Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in U.S. Military History. By Robert C. Doyle. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. xxvi, 372 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-55750-180-7.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 319 doi:10.2307/2567547
    • Robert J. McMahon

    The Cost of War: Australians Return. By Stephen Garton. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii, 298 pp. ISBN 0-19-553967-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 319-320 doi:10.2307/2567548
    • Sumiko Higashi

    The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films. By Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xiv, 322 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-313-30183-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 320-321 doi:10.2307/2567549
    • Anne L. Foster

    The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War. By Keith Beattie. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 230 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8147-1326-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 321-322 doi:10.2307/2567550
    • Melvin Small

    A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency. By William Bundy. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xx, 647 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8090-9151-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 322-323 doi:10.2307/2567551
    • Robert Maranto

    Who Speaks for the President? The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton. By W. Dale Nelson. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press and At the President's Side: The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Timothy Walch. Columbia: University of Missouri Press

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 323-324 doi:10.2307/2567552
    • Claire Potter

    The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime, and American Culture. By James W. Clarke. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1998. xviii, 339 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-56000-358-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 324-325 doi:10.2307/2567553
    • Michael L. Kurtz

    Abundance and Anxiety: America, 1945–1960. By Gary A. Donaldson. (Westport: Praeger, 1997. xiv, 191 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-95773-X.) and Blues for America: A Critique, a Lament, and Some Memories. By Doug Dowd. (New York: Monthly Review, 1997. xii, 377 pp. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-85345-981-9. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-85345-982-7.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 325-327 doi:10.2307/2567554
    • John T. Cumbler

    Explorations in Environmental History: Essays by Samuel P. Hays. By Samuel P. Hays. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xl, 584 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8229-3996-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8229-5643-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 327-328 doi:10.2307/2567555
    • Bruce E. Seely

    U.S. Department of Transportation: A Reference History. By Donald R. Whitnah. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xvi, 228 pp. $75.00, ISBN 0-313-28340-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 328-329 doi:10.2307/2567556
    • Greg Hise

    The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles. By William Fulton. (Point Arena, Calif.: Solano, 1997. viii, 395 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-923956-22-0.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 329-330 doi:10.2307/2567557
    • Sidney Plotkin

    When Government Fails: The Orange County Bankruptcy. By Mark Baldassare. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvii, 317 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-520-21485-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-520-21486-2.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 330 doi:10.2307/2567558
    • Susan Porter Benson

    Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest. By Deborah Fink. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 235 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2388-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4695-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 331 doi:10.2307/2567559
    • Ileen A. DeVault

    We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction. By Susan Eisenberg. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1998. xii, 216 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8014-3360-6.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 331-332 doi:10.2307/2567560
    • Carol Polsgrove

    Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism. By Amy Erdman Farrell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 232 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2424-0. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4735-6.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 332-333 doi:10.2307/2567561
    • R. David Edmunds

    Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film. Ed. by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xiv, 226 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8131-2044-6. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8131-0952-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 333-334 doi:10.2307/2567562
    • Rodolfo F. Acuña

    The Making of a Mexican American Mayor: Raymond L. Telles of El Paso. By Mario T. García. (El Paso: Texas Western, 1998. xii, 187 pp. Paper, $12.50, ISBN 0-87404-276-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 334-335 doi:10.2307/2567563
    • Neil Foley

    Strangers among Us: How Latino Immigration Is Transforming America. By Roberto Suro. (New York: Knopf, 1998. viii, 349 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-679-42092-4.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 335 doi:10.2307/2567564
    • Dominic A. Pacyga

    Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976–1990. By Mary Patrice Erdmans. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xii, 267 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-271-01735-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-271-01736-8.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 335-336 doi:10.2307/2567565
    • Allen Hunter

    One Nation, after All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About: God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and Each Other. By Alan Wolfe. (New York: Viking, 1998. viii, 359 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-670-87677-1.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 336-337 doi:10.2307/2567566
    • Suzanne Mettler

    Welfare's End. By Gwendolyn Mink. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii, 180 pp. $21.00, ISBN 0-8014-3347-9.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 337-338 doi:10.2307/2567567
    • David M. Rabban

    Campus Hate Speech on Trial. By Timothy C. Shiell. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. x, 205 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0889-3.)

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 338-339 doi:10.2307/2567568

Letters to the Editor

  • Letters to the Editor

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 340-345 doi:10.1093/jahist/86.1.340

Announcements

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    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 346 doi:10.1093/jahist/86.1.346

Recent Scholarship

  • Recent Scholarship

    The Journal of American History (1999) 86(1): 347-422 doi:10.1093/jahist/86.1.347
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