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Volume 90 Issue 2 September 2003

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Articles

    • Naomi R. Lamoreaux

    Rethinking the Transition to Capitalism in the Early American Northeast

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 437-461 doi:10.2307/3659440
    • John Fea

    The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian's Rural Enlightenment

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 462-490 doi:10.2307/3659441
    • Landon R. Y. Storrs

    Red Scare Politics and the Suppression of Popular Front Feminism: The Loyalty Investigation of Mary Dublin Keyserling

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 491-524 doi:10.2307/3659442
    • Adam Rome

    “Give Earth a Chance”: The Environmental Movement and the Sixties

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 525-554 doi:10.2307/3659443

  • Recent Scholarship

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 761-814 doi:10.1093/jahist/90.2.761

Special Essay

    • Joan Shelley Rubin

    What Is the History of the History of Books?

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 555-575 doi:10.2307/3659444

Interchange

Book Reviews

    • Linda Nash

    Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. By Ted Steinberg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv, 347 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-514009-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 612 doi:10.2307/3659446
    • William Newbigging

    The Solidarity of Kin: Ethnohistory, Religious Studies, and the Algonkian-French Religious Encounter. By Kenneth M. Morrison. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $65.50, ISBN 0-7914-5405-3. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-7914-5406-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 613 doi:10.2307/3659447
    • Paul Jerome Croce

    Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy. By Scott L. Pratt. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xx, 316 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-253-34078-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-253-21519-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 613-614 doi:10.2307/3659448
    • Daniel R. Mandell

    Sexual Revolution in Early America. By Richard Godbeer. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv, 430 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-6800-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 614-615 doi:10.2307/3659449
    • Theresa Kaminski

    The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England. By Rebecca J. Tannenbaum. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xviii, 179 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8014-3826-38.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 615-616 doi:10.2307/3659450
    • Catherine Kerrison

    Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia. By Linda L. Sturtz. (New York: Routledge, 2002. xvi, 278 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-415-92855-9. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-415-92882-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 616-617 doi:10.2307/3659451
    • Gayle R. Davis

    Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote. By Janet Theophano. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. xviii, 362 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-312-23378-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 617-618 doi:10.2307/3659452
    • Paul C. Gutjahr

    The Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution, and the Bible. By James P. Byrd Jr. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2002. xii, 286 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-86554-771-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 618-619 doi:10.2307/3659453
    • W. Clark Gilpin

    “The Supreme Harmony of All”: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards. By Amy Plantinga Pauw. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. x, 196 pp. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-8028-4984-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 619 doi:10.2307/3659454
    • Evan Haefeli

    The Imperial Executive in America: Sir Edmund Andros, 1637–1714. By Mary Lou Lustig. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. 339 pp. $59.50, ISBN 0-8386-3936-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 619-620 doi:10.2307/3659455
    • Terry Bouton

    Riot and Revelry in Early America. Ed. by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, and Simon P. Newman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. viii, 316 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-271-02141-1. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-271-02219-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 620-621 doi:10.2307/3659456
    • Larry L. Nelson

    Opening New Markets: The British Army and the Old Northwest. By Walter S. Dunn Jr. (Westport: Praeger, 2002. x, 200 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97329-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 621-622 doi:10.2307/3659457
    • Francis J. Bremer

    London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748–1811. By James Raven. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xxii, 522 pp. $59.95, ISBN 1–57003–406–0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 622-623 doi:10.2307/3659458
    • Reginald C. Stuart

    Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero. By Michael P. Gabriel. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. 277 pp. $47.50, ISBN 0-8386-3931-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 623-624 doi:10.2307/3659459
    • Jean M. Yarbrough

    Thomas Jefferson and the Rhetoric of Virtue. By James L. Golden and Alan L. Golden. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xviii, 522 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-7425-2080-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 624-625 doi:10.2307/3659460
    • Thomas J. Humphrey

    Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. By Leonard L. Richards. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. x, 204 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8122-3669-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 625 doi:10.2307/3659461
    • John K. Alexander

    Crime and the Nation: Prison Reform and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia, 1786—1800. By Peter Okun. (New York: Routledge, 2002. xxii, 167 pp. $70.00, ISBN 0-415-93386-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 625-626 doi:10.2307/3659462
    • Catherine Kaplan

    The Devil & Doctor Dwight: Satire & Theology in the Early American Republic. By Colin Wells. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii, 254 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2715-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5383-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 626-627 doi:10.2307/3659463
    • Robert E. Shalhope

    Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America: Essays in Honor of J. R. Pole. Ed. by Rebecca Starr. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xii, 276 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-7425-2076-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 627-628 doi:10.2307/3659464
    • Stuart Banner

    Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History. Ed. by Sandra F. VanBurkleo, Kermit L. Hall, and Robert J. Kaczorowski. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xxiv, 439 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-1153-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7006-1154-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 628-629 doi:10.2307/3659465
    • David F. Ericson

    Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750–1850. Ed. by Jürgen Heideking and James A. Henretta. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x, 309 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-521-80066-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 629-630 doi:10.2307/3659466
    • John L. Brooke

    Ohio: The History of a People. By Andrew R. L. Cayton. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002. viii, 472 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8142-0899-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 630-631 doi:10.2307/3659467
    • Kevin J. Crisman

    Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath. By Barry Gough. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002. xxiv, 215 pp. $32.95, ISBN 1-55750- 314-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 631-632 doi:10.2307/3659468
    • Simon P. Newman

    Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic. Ed. by Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. vi, 272 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8131- 2203-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 632 doi:10.2307/3659469
    • Clarence E. Walker

    Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775–1995. By Maurice O. Wallace. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xiv, 236 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223- 2854-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2869-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 632-633 doi:10.2307/3659470
    • Jennifer R. Green

    Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South. By Nicolas W. Proctor. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. xii, 220 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2087-6. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-8139-2091-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 633-634 doi:10.2307/3659471
    • Peter A. Coclanis

    In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker. By Claudia L. Bushman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xx, 292 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6725-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 634-635 doi:10.2307/3659472
    • Jeffrey J. Crow

    The Southern Elite and Social Change: Essays in Honor of Willard B. Gatewood Jr. Ed. by Randy Finley and Thomas A. DeBlack. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. xxii, 221 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-55728-720-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 635-636 doi:10.2307/3659473
    • Brian Donahue

    Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America. By Steven Stoll. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2002. xiv, 287 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8090-6431-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 636-637 doi:10.2307/3659474
    • Barton H. Barbour

    Contested Empire: Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions. By John Phillip Reid. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xiv, 258 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3374-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 637-638 doi:10.2307/3659475
    • James F. Brooks

    Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840—1900. By Marèa E. Montoya. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvi, 299 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-520-22744-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 638-639 doi:10.2307/3659476
    • Lillian Guerra

    Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba. By Louis A. Pérez Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. x, 199 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2613-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4928-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 639-640 doi:10.2307/3659477
    • Jane M. Rausch

    Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States. Ed. by Richard L. Kagan. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xiv, 286 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-252-02724-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 640-641 doi:10.2307/3659478
    • Amy S. Greenberg

    American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture. By Shelley Streeby. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvi, 384 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-520-22314-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-520-22945-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 641 doi:10.2307/3659479
    • Pippa Holloway

    Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics. Ed. by Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xii, 427 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-8223-2910-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8223-2938-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 641-642 doi:10.2307/3659480
    • Priscilla J. Brewer

    “O Sisters Ain't You Happy?”: Gender, Family, and Community among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781–1918. By Suzanne R. Thurman. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002. xiv, 262 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8156-2906-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8156-2934-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 643 doi:10.2307/3659481
    • Tracy Fessenden

    Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836–1920. By Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 327 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2473-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4774-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 643-644 doi:10.2307/3659482
    • Steven M. Nolt

    Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History. Ed. by Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble, and Steven D. Reschly. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv, 398 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6786-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 644-645 doi:10.2307/3659483
    • Albert J. von Frank

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual. By Peter S. Field. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xvi, 255 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8476-8842-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 645-646 doi:10.2307/3659484
    • David S. Reynolds

    Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. 2: 1851–1891. By Hershel Parker. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xx, 997 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6892-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 646-647 doi:10.2307/3659485
    • Kenneth J. Winkle

    Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography. By William Lee Miller. (New York: Knopf, 2002. xvi, 515 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0–375–40158–X.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 647-648 doi:10.2307/3659486
    • Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

    Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. By Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xxiv, 542 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-1170-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 648-649 doi:10.2307/3659487
    • Curtis D. Johnson

    Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War. By Terrie Dopp Aamodt. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2002. xx, 236 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-738-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 649 doi:10.2307/3659488
    • Kevin Conley Ruffner

    Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox. By William B. Feis. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xiv, 330 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8032-2005-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 650 doi:10.2307/3659489
    • Steven E. Woodworth

    Jefferson Davis in Blue: The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior. By Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and Gordon D. Whitney. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xx, 475 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2777-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 650-651 doi:10.2307/3659490
    • Earl J. Hess

    A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas. By Ethan S. Rafuse. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2002. xvi, 226 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2875-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2876-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 651-652 doi:10.2307/3659491
    • J. Tracy Power

    Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-Mac-Rae Brigade. By Earl J. Hess. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xviii, 437 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2687-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 652-653 doi:10.2307/3659492
    • William C. Davis

    Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital. By Nelson Lankford. (New York: Viking, 2002. viii, 312 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-670-03117-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 653 doi:10.2307/3659493
    • Bess Beatty

    Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. By Harold S. Wilson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. xxii, 412 pp. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-462-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 653-654 doi:10.2307/3659494
    • Norman D. Brown

    Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building. By Clayton E. Jewett. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. x, 310 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1390-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 654-655 doi:10.2307/3659495
    • Bruce Cumings

    Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development. Ed. by Ira Katznelson and Martin Shefter. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xii, 372 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-691-05703-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-691-05704-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 655-656 doi:10.2307/3659496
    • Brooks D. Simpson

    Politics and the American Press: The Rise of Objectivity, 1865–1920. By Richard L. Kaplan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii, 224 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-521-62151-8. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-521-00602-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 656-657 doi:10.2307/3659497
    • Carol Lasser

    Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866–1910. By Nan Johnson. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. xvi, 220 pp. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8093-2426-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 657-658 doi:10.2307/3659498
    • Steven Conn

    Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia. By Bruno Giberti. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. xii, 304 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8131-2231-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 658-659 doi:10.2307/3659499
    • Marvin Fletcher

    Racial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande. By James N. Leiker. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiv, 241 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-58544-158-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 659 doi:10.2307/3659500
    • Wilbert H. Ahern

    America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900. By Ruth Spack. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xii, 231 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-4291-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 659-660 doi:10.2307/3659501
    • John H. Monnett

    Perilous Pursuit: The U.S. Cavalry and the Northern Cheyennes. By Stan Hoig. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xii, 292 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-87081-660-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 660-661 doi:10.2307/3659502
    • William R. Childs

    Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920. By Steven W. Usselman. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 398 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-80636-4. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-521-00106-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 661-662 doi:10.2307/3659503
    • Steve Babson

    Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization. By Joshua L. Rosenbloom. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 208 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-521-80780-8. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-521-00287-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 662-663 doi:10.2307/3659504
    • William P. LaPiana

    The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886–1937. By William M. Wiecek. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. x, 286 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-19-511854-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-514713-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 663-664 doi:10.2307/3659505
    • Bruce Dorsey

    Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877–1920. By Thomas Winter. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii, 208 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-90230-7. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 0-226-90231-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 664-665 doi:10.2307/3659506
    • Lewis A. Erenberg

    The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements. By Woody Register. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii, 400 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514493-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 665 doi:10.2307/3659507
    • Thomas Winter

    On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth. By Jay Mechling. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xxvi, 323 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-226-51704-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 666 doi:10.2307/3659508
    • Col. James T. Currie

    The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century. By Barry M. Stentiford. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xii, 319 pp. $44.95, ISBN 1-58544-181-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 666-667 doi:10.2307/3659509
    • Diana Davids Olien

    Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889–1909. By Jonathan W. Singer. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiv, 344 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-58544-160-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 667-668 doi:10.2307/3659510
    • Ileen A. DeVault

    Strikebreaking & Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. By Stephen H. Norwood. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 328 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2705-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5373-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 668-669 doi:10.2307/3659511
    • Edward A. Stettner

    The National Civic Federation and the Making of a New Liberalism, 1900–1915. By Christopher J. Cyphers. (Westport: Praeger, 2002. x, 199 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97327-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 669-670 doi:10.2307/3659512
    • Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

    Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism. By Elizabeth Faue. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv, 249 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3461-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 670 doi:10.2307/3659513
    • Jeffrey P. Moran

    The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America. By Elizabeth Francis. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. xxx, 197 pp. Cloth, $52.95, ISBN 0-8166-3327-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8166-3328-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 670-671 doi:10.2307/3659514
    • Jacqueline K. Dirks

    Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities. By Naomi Braun Rosenthal. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xii, 186 pp. Cloth, $54.50, ISBN 0-7914-5205-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-7914-5206-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 671-672 doi:10.2307/3659515
    • Carol K. Coburn

    Catholic Women's Colleges in America. Ed. by Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. x, 439 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6805-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 672-673 doi:10.2307/3659516
    • Landon Storrs

    Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare. By Kim E. Nielsen. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. x, 219 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8142-0882-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8142-5080-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 673-674 doi:10.2307/3659517
    • Judith A. Baer

    Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith in the ERA Debate, 1921–1929. By Amy E. Butler. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. x, 167 pp. Cloth, $54.50, ISBN 0-7914-5319-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-7914-5320-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 674-675 doi:10.2307/3659518
    • Judith A. Allen

    Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982. By Jane Gerhard. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. xii, 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-231-11204-1. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-11205-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 675-676 doi:10.2307/3659519
    • Shelley Armitage

    Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture. By Robin Blaetz. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. xx, 279 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2075-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8139-2076-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 676-677 doi:10.2307/3659520
    • Susan L. Smith

    Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880–2000. Ed. by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. xvi, 304 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-472-11268-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 677-678 doi:10.2307/3659521
    • Angus McLaren

    The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley. By R. Alton Lee. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. xviii, 283 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2232-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 678-679 doi:10.2307/3659522
    • Joel D. Howell

    Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics. Ed. by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm. (New York: New York University Press, 2002. vi, 359 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8147-6197-6. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-8147-6198-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 679-680 doi:10.2307/3659523
    • Jim Baumohl

    Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. By Caroline Jean Acker. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 276 pp. $41.95, ISBN 0-8018-6798-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 680-681 doi:10.2307/3659524
    • K. A. Cuordileone

    Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America. By Henry L. Minton. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii, 344 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-226-53043-4. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-226-53044-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 681-682 doi:10.2307/3659525
    • Lisa Duggan

    How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. By Joanne Meyerowitz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 363 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00925-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 682 doi:10.2307/3659526
    • Tracey Deutsch

    Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. By Nancy F. Koehn. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. 469 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-57851-221-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 683 doi:10.2307/3659527
    • Dennis P. Doordan

    Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900–1930. By Amy E. Slaton. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi, 255 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6559-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 683-684 doi:10.2307/3659528
    • David T. Brundage

    Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905–1930. By Greg Hall. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2001. 279 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-87071-532-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 684-685 doi:10.2307/3659529
    • Francis Shor

    Those without a Country: The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalists. By Michael Miller Topp. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. x, 319 pp. Cloth, $57.95, ISBN 0-8166-3649-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8166-3650-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 685-686 doi:10.2307/3659530
    • Michael Jones-Correa

    Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America. By Daniel J. Tichenor. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiv, 378 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-691-08804-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-691-08805-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 686-687 doi:10.2307/3659531
    • Joseph W. Bendersky

    Crossing Boundaries: The Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities in Germany and the United States. Ed. by Larry Eugene Jones. (New York: Berghahn, 2001. vi, 266 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 1-57181-285-7. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 1-57181-306-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 687-688 doi:10.2307/3659532
    • John C. Rodrigue

    A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900–1970. By Greta de Jong. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xviii, 316 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2711-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5379-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 688-689 doi:10.2307/3659533
    • Dominic J. Capeci, Jr.

    Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation. By Alfred L. Brophy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xx, 187 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-514685-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 689-690 doi:10.2307/3659534
    • Ralph E. Luker

    “We Return Fighting”: The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age. By Mark Robert Schneider. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. xii, 476 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-55553-490-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 690-691 doi:10.2307/3659535
    • Pamela Walker Laird

    Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. By Maury Klein. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxii, 345 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-513516-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 691-692 doi:10.2307/3659536
    • Brian C. Black

    Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry. By Hugh S. Gorman. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2001. xvi, 451 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-884836-74-7. Paper, $39.95, ISBN 1-884836-75-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 692-693 doi:10.2307/3659537
    • David S. Painter

    Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council. By Joseph A. Pratt, William H. Becker, and William M. McClenahan Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xviii, 292 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-185-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 693 doi:10.2307/3659538
    • Lisa McGirr

    My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965. By Becky M. Nicolaides. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii, 412 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-226-58300-7. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-226-58301-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 694 doi:10.2307/3659539
    • Catherine Mulholland

    Fritz B. Burns and the Development of Los Angeles: The Biography of a Community Developer and Philanthropist. By James Thomas Keane. (Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 2001. 287 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-914421-26-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 695 doi:10.2307/3659540
    • Kathleen W. Jones

    Socializing the Young: The Role of Foundations, 1923–1941. By Dennis Raymond Bryson. (Westport: Bergin & Garvey, 2002. xxxviii, 225 pp. $67.95, ISBN 0-89789-662-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 695-696 doi:10.2307/3659541
    • Paul C. Rosier

    Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Imagination: Cheyenne-Arapaho Politics. By Loretta Fowler. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xxx, 356 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8032-2013-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 696-697 doi:10.2307/3659542
    • John E. Miller

    Disputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program. By Jean Choate. ( Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. vi, 232 pp. Paper, $32.00, ISBN 0-7864-1184-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 697-698 doi:10.2307/3659543
    • Jeanne Nienaber Clarke

    Benjamin V. Cohen: Architect of the New Deal. By William Lasser. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xvi, 385 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-08879-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 698-699 doi:10.2307/3659544
    • Theodore Rosenof

    The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism. Ed. by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. vi, 338 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-55849-320-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55849-321-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 699-700 doi:10.2307/3659545
    • Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

    The Strange Death of American Liberalism. By H. W. Brands. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xvi, 200 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-300-09021-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 700-701 doi:10.2307/3659546
    • Allan J. Lichtman

    Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior. By Christopher M. Finan. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2002. x, 396 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-8090-3033-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 701 doi:10.2307/3659547
    • Jack Irby Hayes

    Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee: A Political Biography. By Ann B. Irish. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. xvi, 318 pp. $30.00, ISBN 1-57233-131-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 702 doi:10.2307/3659548
    • William D. Pederson

    Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography. By James E. St. Clair and Linda C. Gugin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. xiv, 394 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2247-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 702-703 doi:10.2307/3659549
    • David B. Sachsman

    Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. Jaffé. By Alexander S. Leidholdt. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xviii, 507 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2751-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 703-704 doi:10.2307/3659550
    • George B. Tindall

    Gerald W. Johnson: From Southern Liberal to National Conscience. By Vincent Fitzpatrick. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xxvi, 310 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2750-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 704-705 doi:10.2307/3659551
    • William S. Solomon

    People's Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics. By Fred Inglis. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xiv, 416 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-300-09327-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 705-706 doi:10.2307/3659552
    • Linda Shopes

    Serving History in a Changing World: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the Twentieth Century. By Sally F. Griffith. (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2001. x, 539 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-910732-27-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 706-707 doi:10.2307/3659553
    • Evelyn C. Hankins

    Alfred H. Barr Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art. By Sybil Gordon Kantor. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. xxv, 472 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-262-11258-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 707-708 doi:10.2307/3659554
    • Roger L. Geiger

    Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University. By Morton Keller and Phyllis Keller. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiv, 578 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514457-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 708 doi:10.2307/3659555
    • Chip Rhodes

    Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. By Alan M. Wald. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx, 412 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2683-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5349-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 708-709 doi:10.2307/3659556
    • John Earl Haynes

    A Communist Front at Mid-Century: The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1933–1959. By John W. Sherman. (Westport: Praeger, 2001. xiv, 174 pp. $64.00, ISBN 0-275-97326-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 709-710 doi:10.2307/3659557
    • Frederick F. Travis

    Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933–1939: Imperial Crossroads. By Greg Kennedy. (London: Cass, 2002. xiv, 313 pp. $57.50, ISBN 0-7146-5188-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 710-711 doi:10.2307/3659558
    • Philip Nash

    Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life. By Carlo D'Este. (New York: Holt, 2002. xiv, 848 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8050-5686-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 711-712 doi:10.2307/3659559
    • Timothy P. Maga

    We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution, vol. 1: Washington, vol. 2: Tokyo. By Dale M. Hellegers. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxx, 826 pp. $99.00/set, ISBN 0-8047-3454-2/set.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 712-713 doi:10.2307/3659560
    • Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain

    Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934–1990. By Lon Kurashige. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxii, 274 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-520-22742-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-520-22743-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 713-714 doi:10.2307/3659561
    • Scott Kurashige

    An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945–1960. By Caroline Chung Simpson. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xii, 234 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2756-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2746-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 714-715 doi:10.2307/3659562
    • Robert D. Eldridge

    Nichibei Kankei to Okinawa, 1945–1972 (Japan-U.S. relations and Okinawa, 1945–1972). By Seigen Miyazato. (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2000. x, 384 pp. ¥9,800, ISBN 4-00-001764-0.) In Japanese

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 715-716 doi:10.2307/3659563
    • Guünter J. Bischof

    Kalter Krieg und Propaganda: Die USA, der Kampf um die Weltmeinung, und die ideelle Westbindung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945–1955 (The Cold War and propaganda: The usa, the struggle over world opinion, and the idealistic Western orientation of West Germany, 1945–1955). By Frank Schumacher. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher, 2000. 332 pp. Paper, DM 64.50, ISBN 3-88476-344-X.) In German

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 716 doi:10.2307/3659564
    • Allen Hunter

    Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy. By Robert D. Dean. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. xii, 329 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55849-312-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 716-717 doi:10.2307/3659565
    • Brett Gary

    The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945–1955. By Shawn J. Parry-Giles. (Westport: Praeger, 2002. xxx, 230 pp. $61.95, ISBN 0-275-97463-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 717-718 doi:10.2307/3659566
    • Michal R. Belknap

    Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counterintelligence but Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years. By Athan Theoharis. (Chicago: Dee, 2002. x, 307 pp. $27.50, ISBN 1-56663-420-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 718-719 doi:10.2307/3659567
    • Allison Graham

    Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film. By Ray Pratt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. x, 323 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-7006-1148-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7006-1150-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 719-720 doi:10.2307/3659568
    • Andrew D. Grossman

    Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. By Jerome F. Shapiro. (New York: Routledge, 2002. x, 386 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-415-93659-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-415-93660-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 720-721 doi:10.2307/3659569
    • Edward Rice-Maximin

    The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. By Arthur J. Dommen. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xvi, 1,172 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0253-33854-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 721-722 doi:10.2307/3659570
    • Qiang Zhai

    Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian Relations. By Catherine Forslund. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2002. xxxiv, 180 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 08420-2832-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-84202833-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 722-723 doi:10.2307/3659571
    • Annick Cizel

    A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era. By Matthew Connelly. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xviii, 400 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-514513-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 723-724 doi:10.2307/3659572
    • David M. Barrett

    The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy. By Mitchell B. Lerner. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xiv, 320 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-11711.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 724-725 doi:10.2307/3659573
    • Rafael Medoff

    “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. By Samantha Power. (New York: Basic Books, 2002. xxiv, 610 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-465-06150-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 725-726 doi:10.2307/3659574
    • Alex Lubin

    Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970. By John A. Kirk. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xx, 243 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8130-2496X.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 726 doi:10.2307/3659575
    • J. M. Floyd-Thomas

    Islam in Black America: Identity, Liberation, and Difference in African-American Islamic Thought. By Edward E. Curtis IV. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xii, 174 pp. Cloth, $54.50, ISBN 0-7914-5369-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-7914-5370-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 726-727 doi:10.2307/3659576
    • Dwight N. Hopkins

    When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures. By Sheila Smith McKoy. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. xii, 170 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-299-17390-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-299-17394-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 727-728 doi:10.2307/3659577
    • Matthew Pratt Guterl

    Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture. By Vron Ware and Les Back. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii, 326 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-226-87341-2. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-226-87342-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 728-729 doi:10.2307/3659578
    • James P. Quigel

    Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh. By John Hinshaw. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.) and Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown. By Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 729-731 doi:10.2307/3659579
    • David R. Contosta

    A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940–1980. By David Schuyler. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. x, 278 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-27102207-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-271-022086.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 731-732 doi:10.2307/3659580
    • Ross Miller

    The American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration. Ed. by Hans Krabbendam, Marja Roholl, and Tity de Vries. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2001. 253 pp. Paper, $46.95, ISBN 90-5383-694-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 732-733 doi:10.2307/3659581
    • Louise Appleton

    Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History. By Joseph A. Amato. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvi, 245 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-520-22772-7. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-520-23293-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 733 doi:10.2307/3659582
    • Linda Pickle

    Growing Up with the Town: Family & Community on the Great Plains. By Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. xviii, 198 pp. $29.95, ISBN 087745-804-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 733-734 doi:10.2307/3659583
    • J. Brooks Flippen

    Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West. By Steven C. Schulte. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xiv.), The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall. By Stephen C. Sturgeon. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 734-736 doi:10.2307/3659584
    • Ken Coates

    Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960–1971. By Donald Craig Mitchell. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001. x, 679 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1889963-23-2. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 1-88996324-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 736-737 doi:10.2307/3659585
    • Michael D. Green

    Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies. Ed. by Nancy Shoemaker. (New York: Routledge, 2002. ix, 215 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 0-415-92674-2. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-415-92675-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 737 doi:10.2307/3659586
    • H. W. Brands

    Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. By Robert A. Caro. (New York: Knopf, 2002. xxiv, 1,167 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0394-52836-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 738-739 doi:10.2307/3659587
    • Dean J. Kotlowski

    From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States. By Craig A. Rimmerman. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. xiv, 239 pp. Cloth, $69.50, ISBN 1-56639-904-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 156639-905-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 738-739 doi:10.2307/3659588
    • David Ake

    Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker. By James Gavin. (New York: Knopf, 2002. 430 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-679-44287-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 739-740 doi:10.2307/3659589
    • James W. Fraser

    The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line. By Steve Golin. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. xii, 288 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8135-3057-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 740-741 doi:10.2307/3659590
    • Philip VanderMeer

    Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America. By Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. x, 319 pp. Cloth, $32.50, ISBN 0-87154-256-0. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-87154-257-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 741-742 doi:10.2307/3659591
    • Sally A. Hastings

    Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women. By Laura Hyun Yi Kang. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. x, 354 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8223-2883-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8223-2898-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 742-743 doi:10.2307/3659592
    • Richard A. Garcia

    Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century. Ed. by Arturo J. Aldama and Naomi H. Quiñonez. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xiv, 413 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-253-34014-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-253-21492-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 743-744 doi:10.2307/3659593
    • David Hochfelder

    Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World. By Louis Galambos and Eric John Abrahamson. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x, 310 pp. $29.00, ISBN 0-521-81616-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 744-745 doi:10.2307/3659594
    • Brigitte L. Nacos

    The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11. Ed. by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. xxiv, 232 pp. $22.00, ISBN 0-465-08356-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 745-746 doi:10.2307/3659595

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Editor's Annual Report, 2002–2003

    • Joanne Meyerowitz

    Editor's Annual Report, 2002–2003

    The Journal of American History (2003) 90(2): 753-756 doi:10.1093/jahist/90.2.753

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