Table of Contents

Oxford Journals

Volume 86 Issue 3 December 1999

The Nation and Beyond

A Special Issue

- David Thelen
The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 965-975 doi:10.2307/2568601
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Envisioning Transnational History

- Richard White
The Nationalization of Nature
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 976-986 doi:10.2307/2568602
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- Bruno Ramirez
Clio in Words and in Motion: Practices of Narrating the Past
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 987-1014 doi:10.2307/2568603
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Ways of Writing Transnational History

- Ian Tyrrell
Making Nations / Making States: American Historians in the Context of Empire
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1015-1044 doi:10.2307/2568604
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- Robin D. G. Kelley
“But a Local Phase of a World Problem”: Black History's Global Vision, 1883–1950
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1045-1077 doi:10.2307/2568605
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- Marcel van der Linden
Transnationalizing American Labor History
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1078-1092 doi:10.2307/2568606
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- Nicholas Canny
Writing Atlantic History; or, Reconfiguring the History of Colonial British America
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1093-1114 doi:10.2307/2568607
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- Donna R. Gabaccia
Is Everywhere Nowhere? Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm of United States History
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1115-1134 doi:10.2307/2568608
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Transformations across Borders

- Rob Kroes
America and the European Sense of History
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1135-1155 doi:10.2307/2568609
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- Mauricio Tenorio Trillo
Stereophonie Scientific Modernisms: Social Science between Mexico and the United States, 1880s–1930s
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1156-1187 doi:10.2307/2568610
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- Nancy L. Green
Le Melting-Pot: Made in America, Produced in France
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1188-1208 doi:10.2307/2568611
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- S. Ilan Troen
Frontier Myths and Their Applications in America and Israel: A Transnational Perspective
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1209-1230 doi:10.2307/2568612
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- Kenneth Cmiel
The Emergence of Human Rights Politics in the United States
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1231-1250 doi:10.2307/2568613
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Revisiting the United States as a Nation-State

- Alice Kessler-Harris
In the Nation's Image: The Gendered Limits of Social Citizenship in the Depression Era
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1251-1279 doi:10.2307/2568614
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- Gary Gerstle
Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1280-1307 doi:10.2307/2568615
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Book Reviews

- Candice Bredbenner
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. By Linda K. Kerber. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xxiv, 405 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8090-7383-8.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1308-1309 doi:10.2307/2568616
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- Susan G. Davis
Devils Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century West. By Hal K. Rothman. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998. xiv, 434 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-0910-5.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1309-1311 doi:10.2307/2568617
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- Van Gosse
The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958-c. 1974. By Arthur Marwick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx, 903 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-210022-X.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1311-1312 doi:10.2307/2568618
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- Pamela H. Smith
The Footnote: A Curious History. By Anthony Grafton. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv, 241 pp. $23.95, ISBN 0-674-90215-7.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1312-1313 doi:10.2307/2568619
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- Barbara Bair
Christianity in South Africa: A Political Social and Cultural History. Ed. by Richard Elphick and Rodney Davenport. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxxii, 480 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-520-20939-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-520-20940-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1313-1314 doi:10.2307/2568620
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- Joseph Siry
An Environmental History of Northeast Florida. By James J. Miller. (Gainesville: University-Press of Florida, 1998. xvi, 223 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8130-1600-2.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1314-1315 doi:10.2307/2568621
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- Loretta Fowler
The Plains Indians. By Paul H. Carlson. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. xiv, 254 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-828-4. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-89096-817-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1315-1316 doi:10.2307/2568622
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- Christie Anne Farnham
Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700–1835. By Cynthia A. Kierner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998 and Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians. Ed. by Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xii, 187 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8262-1209-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1316-1317 doi:10.2307/2568623
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- Leigh Ann Wheeler
A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792–1995. By Mary Ellen Zuckerman. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xx, 272 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-30675-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1317-1318 doi:10.2307/2568624
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- Joyce Antler
When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography. By Jill Ker Conway. (New York: Knopf, 1998. ix, 205 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-679-44593-5.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1318-1319 doi:10.2307/2568625
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- David A. Chappell
Les Etats-Unis et le Pacifique: Histoire d'une frontière (The United States and the Pacific: History of a frontier). By Jean Heffer. (Paris: Albin Michel, 1995. 505 pp. Paper, F 160.00, ISBN 2-226-07903-3.) In French.
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1319-1320 doi:10.2307/2568626
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- Jim Cullen
Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. By John Seelye. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 699 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2415-1.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1320-1321 doi:10.2307/2568627
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- Robert Bonner
The American Nation, National Identity, Nationalism. Ed. by Knud Krakau. (Münster: LIT, 1997. 347 pp. Paper, DM 58.00, ISBN 3-8258-2857-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1321-1322 doi:10.2307/2568628
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- Thomas C. Leonard
The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Free Press, 1998. x, 390 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-684-82729-8.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1322-1323 doi:10.2307/2568629
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- Joyce Appleby
The Virtues of Liberalism. By James T. Kloppenberg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv, 240 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-512140-6.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1323-1324 doi:10.2307/2568630
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- William H. Sherman
Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World. By Shannon Miller. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. viii, 231 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8122-3442-1.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1324-1325 doi:10.2307/2568631
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- Ruth Bloch
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. By Elizabeth Reis. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xxii, 212 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-2834-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1325-1326 doi:10.2307/2568632
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- Marvin L. Michael Kay
The Invention of the White Race. Vol. 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America. By Theodore W. Allen. (New York: Verso, 1997. x, 372 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-85984-981-4. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 1-85984-076-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1326-1328 doi:10.2307/2568633
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- Joseph C. Miller
Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight. By Eli Faber. New York: New York University Press, 1998. xviii, 366 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8147-2638-0 and Jews and the American Slave Trade. By Saul S. Friedman. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1998. xiv, 326 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-56000-337-5
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1327-1328 doi:10.2307/2568634
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- Thomas S. Abler
Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History. By Roger L. Nichols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvii, 383 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8032-3341-8.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1328-1329 doi:10.2307/2568635
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- Joel W. Martin
American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvi, 189 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-4556-4.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1329 doi:10.2307/2568636
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- Randolph Roth
The Meetinghouse Tragedy: An Episode in the Life of a New England Town. By Charles E. Clark. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998. xviii, 152 pp. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-87451-872-5.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1329-1330 doi:10.2307/2568637
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- Susan Juster
Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845. By Catherine A. Brekus. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii, 466 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2441-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4745-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1330-1331 doi:10.2307/2568638
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- T. H. Breen
The Oxford History of the British Empire. Vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century. Ed. by P. J. Marshall. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxii, 639 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-820563-5.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1331-1332 doi:10.2307/2568639
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- John Ferling
George Washington: A Life. By Willard Sterne Randall. (New York: Holt, 1997. x, 548 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8050-2779-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1332-1333 doi:10.2307/2568640
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- John Brigham
Covenant & Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal Democracy. By Daniel J. Elazar. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1998. xii, 287 pp. $44.95, ISBN 1-56000-235-2.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1333-1334 doi:10.2307/2568641
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- Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr.
The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood: The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783–1829. By James E. Lewis Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 304 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2429-1. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4736-4.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1334-1335 doi:10.2307/2568642
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- Andrew R. L. Cayton
Frontier Illinois. By James E. Davis. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xxiv, 515 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33423-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1335-1336 doi:10.2307/2568643
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- Bradley J. Longfield
New England's Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752–1817. By John R. Fitzmier. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xiv, 261 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33433-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1336 doi:10.2307/2568644
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- Jonathan D. Sassi
The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780–1833. By Peter S. Field. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xvi, 272 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-55849-143-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1336-1337 doi:10.2307/2568645
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- David A. Zonderman
Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore. By William R. Sutton. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-271-01772-4. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-271-01773-2.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1337-1338 doi:10.2307/2568646
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- Anne M. Boylan
The Revival of 1857–58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening. By Kathryn Teresa Long. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. x, 256 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511293-8.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1338-1339 doi:10.2307/2568647
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- Nancy F. Cott
Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. By Nancy Isenberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xx, 319 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2442-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4746-1.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1339-1340 doi:10.2307/2568648
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- Ed Hatton
Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. By John Evangelist Walsh. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xx, 199 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-8135-2605-1.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1340 doi:10.2307/2568649
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- Bruce Levine
Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. By Paul Goodman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxii, 303 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-20794-7.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1341 doi:10.2307/2568650
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- Peter W. Bardaglio
Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. By Steven Weisenburger. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xvi, 352 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8090-6953-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1341-1342 doi:10.2307/2568651
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- Robert E. McGlone
“Right or Wrong, God Judge Me”: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth. Ed. by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997 and War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854–1861. By Thomas Goodrich. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1342-1344 doi:10.2307/2568652
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- Gail Williams O'Brien
Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston. By Wilbert L. Jenkins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998 and Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy. Ed. by David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1344-1345 doi:10.2307/2568653
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- Jonathan M. Bryant
Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South. By Shawn Everett Kantor. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. x, 187 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-226-42375-1. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-226-42377-8.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1345-1346 doi:10.2307/2568654
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- Peter Iverson
Warpath and Cattle Trail. By Hubert E. Collins, ed. by William W. Savage Jr. and James H. Lazalier. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1998 and The Merchant Prince of Dodge City: The Life and Times of Robert M. Wright. By C. Robert Haywood. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1346-1347 doi:10.2307/2568655
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- Stanley Shapiro
All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement. By Carlotta R. Anderson. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 324 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8143-2707-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1348 doi:10.2307/2568656
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- Brooks D. Simpson
Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age. By David M. Tucker. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. x, 139 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8262-1187-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1348-1349 doi:10.2307/2568657
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- Mario S. De Pillis
Mormon Passage: A Missionary Chronicle. By Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998 and Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young. By Ronald W. Walker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1349-1350 doi:10.2307/2568658
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- Jacob H. Dorn
The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886–1926. By Michael Parker. (Lanham: University Press of America and American Society of Missiology 1998. xiv, 250 pp. Cloth, $57.00, ISBN 0-7618-1012-9. Paper, $32.50, ISBN 0-7618-1013-7.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1350-1351 doi:10.2307/2568659
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- Roberta Wollons
A World of Crisis and Progress: The American YMCA in Japan, 1890–1930. By Jon Thares Davidann. (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1998. 207 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-934223-43-2.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1351-1352 doi:10.2307/2568660
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- Jill K. Gill
The Whole Gospel for the Whole World: Sherwood Eddy and the American Protestant Mission. By Rick L. Nutt. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1997. x, 379 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-566-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1352-1353 doi:10.2307/2568661
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- David J. Depew
Darwinism Comes to America. By Ronald L. Numbers. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii, 216 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-674-19311-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-674-19312-1.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1353-1354 doi:10.2307/2568662
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- Margo Anderson
Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years. Ed. by Helene Silverberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 334 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-691-01749-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-691-04820-7.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1354-1355 doi:10.2307/2568663
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- John Pettegrew
The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory. By Susan L. Mizruchi. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 436 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-691-06892-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-691-01506-6.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1355-1356 doi:10.2307/2568664
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- Julia E. Liss
Race Men. By Hazel V. Carby. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. x, 228 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-674-74558-2.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1356-1357 doi:10.2307/2568665
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- Kevin Mumford
Color & Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. By Ross Posnock. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 353 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-14309-4.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1357-1358 doi:10.2307/2568666
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- David W. Stowe
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998 and The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. By George Lipsitz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1358-1359 doi:10.2307/2568667
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- Joan Marie Johnson
Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 162 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-253-33447-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1359-1360 doi:10.2307/2568668
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- Suzanne Wasserman
To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in Neu York before the First World War. By Sandra Adickes. (New York: St. Martins, 1997. x, 294 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-312-16249-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1360-1361 doi:10.2307/2568669
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- Gerald Sorin
Words of the Uprooted: Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America. By Robert A. Rockaway. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998 and Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora. Ed. by Nancy L. Green. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1361-1363 doi:10.2307/2568670
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- Jeanette M. Toohey
N C. Wyeth: A Biography. By David Michaelis. (New York: Knopf, 1998. x, 555 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-679-42626-4.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1363 doi:10.2307/2568671
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- Christopher Clarke-Hazlett
Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876–1926. By Steven Conn. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. vii, 305 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-226-11492-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1364 doi:10.2307/2568672
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- Daniel Horowitz
Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing. By Pamela Walker Laird. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xvi, 479 pp. $35.95, ISBN 0-8018-5841-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1364-1365 doi:10.2307/2568673
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- Mary W. Blanchard
Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890–1945. By Ian Gordon. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. xii, 233 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56098-856-8.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1365-1366 doi:10.2307/2568674
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- Lawrence E. Ziewacz
The Sunday Game: At the Dawn of Professional Football. by Keith McClellan. Akron: University of Akron Press, 1998 and Sports and the American Jew. Ed. by Steven A. Riess. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1366-1367 doi:10.2307/2568675
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- Sally F. Griffith
All the News Is Fit to Print: Profile of a Country Editor. By Chad Stebbins. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xii, 184 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1163-1.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1368 doi:10.2307/2568676
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- Steven A. Reich
Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communitiesy 1880–1942. By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xiv, 257 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-292-77725-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-292-77726-4.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1368-1369 doi:10.2307/2568677
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- John E. Hallwas
Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America. By Richard O. Davies. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. xiii, 236 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8142-0781-0. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-8142-0782-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1369-1370 doi:10.2307/2568678
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- David E. Nye
Empowering the West: Electrical Politics before FDR. By Jay L. Brigham. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii, 211 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0920-2.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1370-1371 doi:10.2307/2568679
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- Judith Sealander
Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader. Ed. by David C. Hammack. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 481 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33489-6 and Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas: The Duke Endowment, 1924–1994. By Robert F. Durden. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. xiv, 386 pp. $55.95, ISBN 0-8223-2151-3
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1371-1372 doi:10.2307/2568680
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- Howell John Harris
Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935. By Ruth O'Brien. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 313 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2430-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4737-2.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1372-1373 doi:10.2307/2568681
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- Catherine McNicol Stock
The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865–1945. By Victoria Saker Woeste. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xx, 369 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2421-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4731-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1373-1374 doi:10.2307/2568682
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- Warren J. Samuels
The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement. By Barbara H. Fried. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 338 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-674-77527-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1374-1375 doi:10.2307/2568683
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- Melvin I. Urofsky
Taft, Holmes, and the 1920s Court: An Appraisal. By David H. Burton. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998. 174 pp. $33.50, ISBN 0-8386-3768-X and Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court. By John E. Semonche. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. x, 499 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8476-8985-9
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1375-1376 doi:10.2307/2568684
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- Wayne K. Hobson
Craftsmanship and Character: A History of the Vinson & Elkins Law Firm of Houston, 1917–1997. By Harold M. Hyman. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xx, 658 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8203-1973-2.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1376-1377 doi:10.2307/2568685
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- Richard Harris
Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny. By Margaret Leslie Davis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 339 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-20292-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1377-1378 doi:10.2307/2568686
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- David E. Hamilton
The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. By Robert H. Ferrell. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii, 244 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0892-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1378 doi:10.2307/2568687
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- Lewis L. Gould
Short of the Glory: The Fall and Redemption of Edward E Prichard Jr. By Tracy Campbell. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. x, 334 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8131-2073-X.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1379 doi:10.2307/2568688
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- Thomas W. Zeiler
Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933–1937. By Michael A. Butler. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. xii, 240 pp. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-596-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1379-1380 doi:10.2307/2568689
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- Nancy West
More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts. By James Naremore. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiv, 345 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-520-21293-2. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-520-21294-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1380-1381 doi:10.2307/2568690
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- Klaus Larres
Umerziehung durch Dokumentarfilm? Ein Instrument amerikanischer Kulturpolitik im Nachkriegsdeutschland (1945–1953) (Reeducation through documentary film? An instrument of American cultural policies in postwar Germany [1945–1953]). By Brigitte J. Hahn. (Münster: Lit, 1997. xiv, 511 pp. Paper, ISBN 3-8258-2820-4.) In German.
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1381-1382 doi:10.2307/2568691
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- Henry L. Feingold
Prelude to Nuremberg: Allied War Crimes Policy and the Question of Punishment. By Arieh J. Kochavi. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 312 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2433-X.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1382-1383 doi:10.2307/2568692
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- Manfred Berg
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War. By David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xxv, 530 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07233-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1383 doi:10.2307/2568693
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- J. Samuel Walker
Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb. By Al Christman. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. xii, 305 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55750-120-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1383-1384 doi:10.2307/2568694
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- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954. By Michael J. Hogan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 525 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-521-64044-X.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1384-1385 doi:10.2307/2568695
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- Jonathan Marshall
Secrecy: The American Experience. By Daniel Patrick Moynihan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. x, 262 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-300-07756-4 and Secret Agencies: U.S. Intelligence in a Hostile World. By Loch K. Johnson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xx, 262 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-300-06611-2. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-300-07654-1
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1385-1386 doi:10.2307/2568696
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- Nur Bilge Criss
Great Britain, the United States, and the Security of the Middle East: The Formation of the Baghdad Pact. By Magnus Persson. (Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1998. 368 pp. Paper, ISBN 91-7966-523-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1386-1387 doi:10.2307/2568697
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- Daniel Lee Kleinman
Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921–1953. By David M. Hart. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998 and American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War. By Jessica Wang. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1387-1389 doi:10.2307/2568698
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- Paul V. Murphy
Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land. By Sanford Lakoff. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxii, 323 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-226-46831-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1389 doi:10.2307/2568699
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- Nancy Gabin
Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism. By Daniel Horowitz. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. x, 355 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55849-168-6.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1389-1390 doi:10.2307/2568700
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- Eileen McMahon
Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television. By Christopher Owen Lynch. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xii, 200 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8431-2067-5.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1390-1391 doi:10.2307/2568701
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- Peter W. Williams
After Heaven: Spirituality in America since the 1950s. By Robert Wuthnow. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. x, 277 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21396-3.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1391-1392 doi:10.2307/2568702
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- Leland Ware
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. By Juan Williams. New York: Times Books, 1998. xx, 459 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8129-2028-7 and Restructured Resistance: The Sibley Commission and the Politics of Desegregation In Georgia. By Jeff Roche. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xviii, 253 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-1979-1
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1392-1393 doi:10.2307/2568703
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- Gerald C. Horne
Bayard Rustin: Troubles Lve Seen: A Biography. By Jervis Anderson. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiv, 418 pp. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-520-21418-8.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1393-1394 doi:10.2307/2568704
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- Martha Hodes
We Had a Dream: A Tale of the Struggle for Integration in America. By Howard Kohn. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 366 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-684-80874-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1394-1395 doi:10.2307/2568705
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- Mark Hulsether
Lift Up Your Voice like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements, 1954–1973. By Michael B. Friedland. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. x, 326 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2338-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4646-5.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1395 doi:10.2307/2568706
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- Juan José Cruz
Apocalypse Then: American Intellectuals and the Vietnam Wan 1954–1975. By Robert R. Tomes. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. xii, 293 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8147-8234-5.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1396 doi:10.2307/2568707
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- Ian Gordon
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. By Thomas Frank. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv, 287 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-226-25991-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1396-1397 doi:10.2307/2568708
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- Daniel J. Leab
Star Trek and History: Race-ing toward a White Future. By Daniel Leonard Bernardi. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xiv, 247 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-8135-2465-2. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 0-8135-2466-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1397-1398 doi:10.2307/2568709
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- Christopher Phelps
The Private Death of Public Discourse. By Barry Sanders. (Boston: Beacon, 1998. xii, 248 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8070-0434-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1398-1399 doi:10.2307/2568710
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- John Howard
American Homo: Community and Perversity. By Jeffrey Escoffier. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 and Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America. By Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman. New York: Penguin Studio, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1399-1400 doi:10.2307/2568711
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- Lorenzo Delgado
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of US.-Latin American Relations. Ed. by Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. xvi, 575 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8223-2085-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8223-2099-1.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1400-1402 doi:10.2307/2568712
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- Timothy Maga
Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisited. Ed. by Mark J. White. New York: New York University Press, 1998 and The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. By Stephen G. Rabe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii, 257 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2461-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4764-X
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1402-1403 doi:10.2307/2568713
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- David L. Anderson
George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy. By James A. Bill. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xx, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06969-3. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-300-07646-0.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1403-1404 doi:10.2307/2568714
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- Joseph M. Siracusa
Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy. By Eric Alterman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii, 244 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8014-3574-9.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1404-1405 doi:10.2307/2568715
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- Stefano Luconi
Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States: Electoral Realignment, 1952–1996. By Robert W. Speel. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xii, 218 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-271-01784-8.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1405 doi:10.2307/2568716
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- Mary C. Brennan
Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945–1966. By Kurt Schuparra. (Armonk: Sharpe, 1998. xxiv, 221 pp. $29.95, isBN 0-7656-0277-6.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1405-1406 doi:10.2307/2568717
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- John Dumbrell
The Carter Presidency: Policy Choices in The Post-New Deal Era. Ed. by Gary M. Fink and Hugh Davis Graham. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998 and The President as Leader: Appealing to the Better Angels of Our Nature. By Erwin C. Hargrove. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1406-1408 doi:10.2307/2568718
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- Judith Stein
Plenty of Nothing: The Downsizing of the American Dream and the Case for Structural Keynesianism. By Thomas I. Palley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998 and Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition. Ed. by Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1408-1409 doi:10.2307/2568719
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- Steven Stoll
Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, and Mortality in American Culture. By Richard P. Horwitz. (New York: St. Martins, 1998. xviii, 312 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-312-21443-X.)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1409-1410 doi:10.2307/2568720
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Movie Reviews

- Stephen E. Lucas
Great American Speeches: 80 Years of Political Oratory. Prod. by Parker Payson. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1995. 275 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1411-1412 doi:10.2307/2568721
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- Herbert Aptheker
Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery. WGBH-Boston, 1998. Four parts, 90 mins. each, (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1412-1413 doi:10.2307/2568722
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- Charlotte G. Borst
A Midwifes Tale. Prod. by Laurie Kahn Leavitt and dir. by Richard P. Rogers. Blueberry Hill Productions, 1998. 88 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1413-1415 doi:10.2307/2568723
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- Joanne Freeman
Liberty! The American Revolution. Prod. by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer. Middlemarch Films, 1997. 360 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1415-1417 doi:10.2307/2568724
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- Harry W. Fritz
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. Prod. by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Florentine Films and WETA-TV, 1997. 240 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1417 doi:10.2307/2568725
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- Dennis Reinhartz
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. Prod. by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Florentine Films and WETA-TV, 1997. 240 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1417-1419 doi:10.2307/2568726
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- Joseph G. Dawson III
The U.S.-Mexican Wan 1846–1848. Prod. by Sylvia Komatsu, Rob Tranchin, and Paul Espi-nosa and dir. by Ginny Martin. KERA-Dallas, 1998. 220 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1419-1420 doi:10.2307/2568727
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- James M. McCaffrey
The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846–1848. Prod. by Sylvia Komatsu, Rob Tranchin, and Paul Espi-nosa and dir. by Ginny Martin. KERA-Dallas, 1998. 220 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1420-1421 doi:10.2307/2568728
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- Wendy Hamand Venet
Rebel Hearts: Sarah & Angelina Grimké and the Anti-Slavery Movement. Prod. by Betsy Newman. South Carolina etv, 1995. 58 mins. (Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 501, New York, NY 10013)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1421 doi:10.2307/2568729
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- Janet Nolan
The Irish in America: The Long Journey Home. Prod. by Thomas Lennon. Lennon Documentary Group in association with Walt Disney Studios and WGBH-Boston, 1998 and May the Road Rise to Meet You: The Irish-American Experience. Prod. by Bryan Skene. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1998
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1422-1423 doi:10.2307/2568730
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- Ann D. Gordon
Americas Victoria: The Victoria Woodhull Story. Prod. by Victoria Weston, 1995. 82 mins. (Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1423-1424 doi:10.2307/2568731
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- John M. Dobson
Destiny of Empires: The Spanish-American War of 1898. Prod. by Hugh Purcell, 1998. “‘Remember the Maine’: The Roots of the Spanish-American War”: 52 mins. “The Spanish-American War: A Conflict in Progress”: 50 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1424-1425 doi:10.2307/2568732
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- Roy Rosenzweig
America 1900. Prod. by David Grubin. David Grubin Productions, 1998. 175 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1425-1426 doi:10.2307/2568733
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- Morgan Sherwood
Alone on the Ice: The Story of Admiral Richard Byrd. Prod. and dir. by Nancy Porter. Nancy Porter Productions, 1998. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1426-1427 doi:10.2307/2568734
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- Paul B. Israel
Rescue at Sea. Prod. and dir. by Ben Loeterman. Ben Loeterman Productions, Inc., 1999. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1427-1428 doi:10.2307/2568735
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- Amy Kesselman
From Danger to Dignity: The Fight for Safe Abortion. Prod. by Dorothy Fadiman, Daniel Meyers, and Beth Seltzer, 1996. 57 mins. (Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1428-1429 doi:10.2307/2568736
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- Allan R. Millett
The Thin Red Line. Prod. by Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, and Grant Hill and dir. by Terence Malick and George Stevens Jr. Phoenix Pictures for Fox Pictures, 1998. 135 mins.
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1429-1431 doi:10.2307/2568737
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- R. Alton Lee
George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman. Prod. by Lou Reda. Lou Reda Productions for A&E Television Networks, 1996. 45 mins. (A&E Home Video, P. O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1431-1432 doi:10.2307/2568738
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- Stanley L. Falk
General Douglas MacArthur. Prod. by Lou Reda. Lou Reda Productions for A&E Network, 1995. 50 mins. (A&E Home Video, P. O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1432 doi:10.2307/2568739
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- Rupert Wilkinson
The G.I. Bill: The Law That Changed America. Prod. and dir. by Karen Thomas. Educational Broadcasting Corp. and Film Odyssey, Inc., 1997. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1433-1434 doi:10.2307/2568740
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- Lawrence Badash
Race for the Superbomb. Prod. by Thomas Ott. 51 Pegasai Pictures, 1999. 120 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1434-1435 doi:10.2307/2568741
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- T. Michael Ruddy
Roy Cohn: Joseph McCarthy's Right-Hand Man. Prod. by Jeff Martin, 1998. 58 mins. (A&E Home Video, P. O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1435-1437 doi:10.2307/2568742
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- Thomas J. Davis
Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man and the Dream. Prod. by Tim Kirby and Lina Gopaul. Black Audio Films, 1997. 50 mins. (A&E Home Video, P. O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1437 doi:10.2307/2568743
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- Johanna Miller Lewis
Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958–1959. Prod. and dir. by Sandra Hubbard, 1998. 28 mins. (Morning Star Studio, P.O. Box 55977, Little Rock, AR 72215)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1437-1439 doi:10.2307/2568744
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- Keith Eubank
The Bay of Pigs. Prod. and dir. by David Davis. Oregon Public Broadcasting. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1997. 60 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1439 doi:10.2307/2568745
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- Bob Miller
The 1960s. Prod. by Jim Chory. NBC-Television, 1999. 240 mins. NBC Video Archives, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112 and A Walk on the Moon. Prod. by Dustin Hoffman and Tony Goldwyn, 1999. 105 mins. Miramax Films
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1439-1441 doi:10.2307/2568746
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- Scott A. Sandage
Dick. Dir. by Andrew Fleming. Columbia Pictures and Phoenix Pictures, 1999. 90 mins.
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1441-1443 doi:10.2307/2568747
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- Robert Freeman Smith
Father Roy: Inside the School of the Assassins. Prod. by Robert Richter. Richter Productions, 1997. 56 mins. (PBS Video, 330 West 42nd St.,New York, NY 10036)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1443-1445 doi:10.2307/2568748
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- Alan Raucher
Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire. Prod. by Molly Thompson, 1997. 50 mins. (A&E Home Video, P. O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1445-1446 doi:10.2307/2568749
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- E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.
Jimmy Carter: To the White House and Beyond. Prod. by Lisa Zeff and Alan Goldberg, ABC News Production in association with A&E Network, 1995. 50 mins. (A&E Home Video, P.O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407)
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1446-1447 doi:10.2307/2568750
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Summer of Sam. Dir. by Spike Lee. Touchstone, 1999. 136 mins.
The Journal of American History (1999) 86(3): 1447-1448 doi:10.2307/2568751
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism

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No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. By Linda K. Kerber. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xxiv, 405 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8090-7383-8.)

Devils Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century West. By Hal K. Rothman. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998. xiv, 434 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-0910-5.)

The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958-c. 1974. By Arthur Marwick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx, 903 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-210022-X.)

The Footnote: A Curious History. By Anthony Grafton. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv, 241 pp. $23.95, ISBN 0-674-90215-7.)

Christianity in South Africa: A Political Social and Cultural History. Ed. by Richard Elphick and Rodney Davenport. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxxii, 480 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-520-20939-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-520-20940-0.)

An Environmental History of Northeast Florida. By James J. Miller. (Gainesville: University-Press of Florida, 1998. xvi, 223 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8130-1600-2.)

The Plains Indians. By Paul H. Carlson. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. xiv, 254 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-828-4. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-89096-817-9.)

A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792–1995. By Mary Ellen Zuckerman. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xx, 272 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-30675-3.)

When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography. By Jill Ker Conway. (New York: Knopf, 1998. ix, 205 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-679-44593-5.)

Les Etats-Unis et le Pacifique: Histoire d'une frontière (The United States and the Pacific: History of a frontier). By Jean Heffer. (Paris: Albin Michel, 1995. 505 pp. Paper, F 160.00, ISBN 2-226-07903-3.) In French.

Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. By John Seelye. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 699 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2415-1.)

The American Nation, National Identity, Nationalism. Ed. by Knud Krakau. (Münster: LIT, 1997. 347 pp. Paper, DM 58.00, ISBN 3-8258-2857-3.)

The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Free Press, 1998. x, 390 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-684-82729-8.)

The Virtues of Liberalism. By James T. Kloppenberg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv, 240 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-512140-6.)

Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World. By Shannon Miller. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. viii, 231 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8122-3442-1.)

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. By Elizabeth Reis. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xxii, 212 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-2834-3.)

The Invention of the White Race. Vol. 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America. By Theodore W. Allen. (New York: Verso, 1997. x, 372 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-85984-981-4. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 1-85984-076-0.)

Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight. By Eli Faber. New York: New York University Press, 1998. xviii, 366 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8147-2638-0 and Jews and the American Slave Trade. By Saul S. Friedman. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1998. xiv, 326 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-56000-337-5

Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History. By Roger L. Nichols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvii, 383 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8032-3341-8.)

American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvi, 189 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-4556-4.)

The Meetinghouse Tragedy: An Episode in the Life of a New England Town. By Charles E. Clark. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998. xviii, 152 pp. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-87451-872-5.)

Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845. By Catherine A. Brekus. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii, 466 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2441-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4745-3.)

The Oxford History of the British Empire. Vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century. Ed. by P. J. Marshall. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxii, 639 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-820563-5.)

George Washington: A Life. By Willard Sterne Randall. (New York: Holt, 1997. x, 548 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8050-2779-3.)

Covenant & Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal Democracy. By Daniel J. Elazar. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1998. xii, 287 pp. $44.95, ISBN 1-56000-235-2.)

The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood: The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783–1829. By James E. Lewis Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 304 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2429-1. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4736-4.)

Frontier Illinois. By James E. Davis. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xxiv, 515 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33423-3.)

New England's Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752–1817. By John R. Fitzmier. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xiv, 261 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33433-0.)

The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780–1833. By Peter S. Field. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xvi, 272 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-55849-143-0.)

Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore. By William R. Sutton. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-271-01772-4. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-271-01773-2.)

The Revival of 1857–58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening. By Kathryn Teresa Long. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. x, 256 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511293-8.)

Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. By Nancy Isenberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xx, 319 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2442-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4746-1.)

Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. By John Evangelist Walsh. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xx, 199 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-8135-2605-1.)

Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. By Paul Goodman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxii, 303 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-20794-7.)

Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. By Steven Weisenburger. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xvi, 352 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8090-6953-9.)

“Right or Wrong, God Judge Me”: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth. Ed. by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997 and War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854–1861. By Thomas Goodrich. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 1998

Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South. By Shawn Everett Kantor. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. x, 187 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-226-42375-1. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-226-42377-8.)

Warpath and Cattle Trail. By Hubert E. Collins, ed. by William W. Savage Jr. and James H. Lazalier. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1998 and The Merchant Prince of Dodge City: The Life and Times of Robert M. Wright. By C. Robert Haywood. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998

All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement. By Carlotta R. Anderson. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 324 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8143-2707-9.)

Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age. By David M. Tucker. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. x, 139 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8262-1187-9.)

Mormon Passage: A Missionary Chronicle. By Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998 and Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young. By Ronald W. Walker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998

The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886–1926. By Michael Parker. (Lanham: University Press of America and American Society of Missiology 1998. xiv, 250 pp. Cloth, $57.00, ISBN 0-7618-1012-9. Paper, $32.50, ISBN 0-7618-1013-7.)

A World of Crisis and Progress: The American YMCA in Japan, 1890–1930. By Jon Thares Davidann. (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1998. 207 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-934223-43-2.)

The Whole Gospel for the Whole World: Sherwood Eddy and the American Protestant Mission. By Rick L. Nutt. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1997. x, 379 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-566-9.)

Darwinism Comes to America. By Ronald L. Numbers. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii, 216 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-674-19311-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-674-19312-1.)

Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years. Ed. by Helene Silverberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 334 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-691-01749-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-691-04820-7.)

The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory. By Susan L. Mizruchi. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 436 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-691-06892-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-691-01506-6.)

Race Men. By Hazel V. Carby. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. x, 228 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-674-74558-2.)

Color & Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. By Ross Posnock. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 353 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-14309-4.)

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998 and The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. By George Lipsitz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998

Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 162 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-253-33447-0.)

To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in Neu York before the First World War. By Sandra Adickes. (New York: St. Martins, 1997. x, 294 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-312-16249-9.)

Words of the Uprooted: Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America. By Robert A. Rockaway. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998 and Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora. Ed. by Nancy L. Green. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998

N C. Wyeth: A Biography. By David Michaelis. (New York: Knopf, 1998. x, 555 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-679-42626-4.)

Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876–1926. By Steven Conn. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. vii, 305 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-226-11492-9.)

Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing. By Pamela Walker Laird. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xvi, 479 pp. $35.95, ISBN 0-8018-5841-0.)