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Volume 90 Issue 4 March 2004

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Book Reviews

    • Robert J. Spitzer

    The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent. By H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xii, 338 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8223-3031-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8223-3017-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 552-1553 doi:10.2307/3660510
    • Karen Halttunen

    Something for Nothing: Luck in America. By Jackson Lears. (New York: Viking, 2003. xvi, 392 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-670-03173-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1415-1416 doi:10.2307/3660361
    • Jean-Christophe Agnew

    A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. By Lizabeth Cohen. (New York: Knopf, 2003. 567 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-375-40750-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1416-1418 doi:10.2307/3660362
    • Ben Mutschler

    The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. By Gerald N. Grob. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. xii, 349 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-674-00881-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1418-1419 doi:10.2307/3660363
    • Neil Jumonville

    The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. By John Lewis Gaddis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv, 192 pp. $23.00, isbn 0-19-506652-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1419-1420 doi:10.2307/3660364
    • Van Cynthia Zandt

    Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500–1820. Ed. by Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy. (New York: Routledge, 2002. viii, 328 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 0-415-92538-X. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-415-92539-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1420-1421 doi:10.2307/3660365
    • Marianne S. Wokeck

    Niedergang und Aufstieg: Geschichte Nord-amerikas vom Beginn der Besiedlung bis zum Ausgang des 17. Jahrhunderts Ausbildung und Neubildung: Die Geschichte Nordamerikas vom Ausgang des 17. Jahrhun-derts bis zum Ausbruch der Amerikanischen Revolution 1775

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1421-1422 doi:10.2307/3660366
    • Peter J. Thuesen

    Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England. By Lisa M. Gordis. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii, 309 pp. $39.00, isbn 0-226-30412-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1422-1423 doi:10.2307/3660367
    • Avihu Zakai

    Jonathan Edwards: A Life. By George M. Marsden. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. xxii, 615 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-300-09693-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1423-1424 doi:10.2307/3660368
    • J. Ritchie Garrison

    Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America. By James D. Kornwolf. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Vol. 1: xxx, 504 pp. Vol. 2: xii, 740 pp. Vol. 3: x, 526 pp. $375.00/set, isbn 0-8018-5986-7/set.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1424-1426 doi:10.2307/3660369
    • Paul G. E. Clemens

    Taverns and Drinking in Early America. By Sharon V. Salinger. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv, 309 pp. $42.00, isbn 0-8018-6878-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1426 doi:10.2307/3660370
    • Kim M. Gruenwald

    Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. By Bruce H. Mann. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii, 344 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-674-00902-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1426-1427 doi:10.2307/3660371
    • Daniel L. Dreisbach

    The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. By Frank Lambert. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xiv, 328 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-691-08829-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1427-1428 doi:10.2307/3660372
    • Roger H. Brown

    Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700–1870. By Charles A. Kromkowski. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxxiv, 451 pp. $70.00, isbn 0-521-80848-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1428-1429 doi:10.2307/3660373
    • Donna D. Curtin

    What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America. By Linda Baumgarten. (Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2002. xii, 265 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-300-09580-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1429-1430 doi:10.2307/3660374
    • Lorri Glover

    Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America. By Martha Saxton. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. x, 388 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-374-11011-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1430-1431 doi:10.2307/3660375
    • Mark Voss-Hubbard

    The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois. By Gerald Leonard. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii, 328 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8078-2744-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1431-1432 doi:10.2307/3660376
    • Joseph C. Miller

    Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. By Ira Berlin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 374 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-674-01061-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1432-1433 doi:10.2307/3660377
    • T. Stephen Whitman

    A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic. By Bruce Dain. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. xii, 321 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-674-00946-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1433-1434 doi:10.2307/3660378
    • Loren Schweninger

    Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory. Ed. by Kenneth S. Greenberg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xx, 289 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-19-513404-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1434 doi:10.2307/3660379
    • George A. Lévesque

    Stories of Freedom in Black New York. By Shane White. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863. By Leslie M. Haris.

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1435-1436 doi:10.2307/3660380
    • John C. Inscoe

    Savannah in the Old South. By Walter J. Fraser Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xvi, 423 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8203-2436-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1436-1437 doi:10.2307/3660381
    • Christopher Sellers

    The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. By Conevery Bolton Valencius. (New York: Basic Books, 2002. viii, 388 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-465-08986-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1437-1438 doi:10.2307/3660382
    • Robert M. Senkewicz

    Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento. By Mark A. Eifler. Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World. Ed. by Kenneth N. Owens

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1438-1439 doi:10.2307/3660383
    • Vernon L. Volpe

    Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire. By Tom Chaffin. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2002. xxx, 559 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-8090-7557-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1439-1440 doi:10.2307/3660384
    • Shelley Streeby

    American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839–1850. By Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. xvi, 270 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-87013-623-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1440-1441 doi:10.2307/3660385
    • James D. German

    Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards. By Douglas A. Sweeney. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii, 255 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-19-515428-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1441-1442 doi:10.2307/3660386
    • David M. Robinson

    American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism. By Dean Grodzins. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 631 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8078-2710-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1442-1443 doi:10.2307/3660387
    • Gillis J. Harp

    Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and WorkEd. by John W. Stewart and James H. Moorhead. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. x, 375 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 0-8028-4750-1.).

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1443-1444 doi:10.2307/3660388
    • Anne M. Boylan

    The Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island in the Antislavery Network. By Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven. Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antisla-very, & Women's Political Identity By Susan Zaeske.

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1444-1446 doi:10.2307/3660389
    • Kris Fresonke

    The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition. By Jacqueline Bacon. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 291 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-57003-434-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1446 doi:10.2307/3660390
    • Lawrence B. Goodheart

    Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children. By Harriet Hyman Alonso. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. x, 409 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 1-55849-233-X. Paper, $24.95, isbn 1-55849-381-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1446-1447 doi:10.2307/3660391
    • Deborah Bingham Broekhoven, Van

    Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828–1865.By Stanley Harrold. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xvi, 280 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 0-8071-2805-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8071-2838-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1447-1448 doi:10.2307/3660392
    • Louis J. Kern

    Creating a Perfect World: Religious and Secular Utopias in Nineteenth-Century Ohio. By Catherine M. Rokicky. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. x, 181 pp. Cloth, $34.95, isbn 0-8214-1438-0. Paper, $17.95, isbn 0-8214-1439-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1448-1449 doi:10.2307/3660393
    • Shirley Teresa Wajda

    Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati. By Wendy Jean Katz. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002. xx, 264 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-8142-0906-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1449-1450 doi:10.2307/3660394
    • Stephen E. Maizlish

    Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War. By Mark Voss-Hubbard. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv, 266 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8018-6940-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1450-1451 doi:10.2307/3660395
    • Wallace Hettle

    Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. By William A. Link. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xx, 387 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8078-2771-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1451-1452 doi:10.2307/3660396
    • David B. Chesebrough

    Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics. By Stewart Winger. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. viii, 271 pp. $38.00, isbn 0-87580-300-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1452-1453 doi:10.2307/3660397
    • Kent Gramm

    Lincoln's Quest for Equality: The Road to Gettysburg. By Carl F. Wieck. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. x, 214 pp. $36.00, isbn 0-87580-299-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1453 doi:10.2307/3660398
    • Jon L. Wakelyn

    Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1454 doi:10.2307/3660399
    • Janet L. Coryell

    They Fought like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. By DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xvi, 277 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8071-2806-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1454-1455 doi:10.2307/3660400
    • Rita Roberts

    Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers during the Civil War. By Keith P. Wilson. Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Ed. by John David Smith

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1455-1457 doi:10.2307/3660401
    • Randall M. Miller

    Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North. By Melinda Lawson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xvi, 265 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-7006-1207-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1457-1458 doi:10.2307/3660402
    • William Warren Rogers Jr.

    The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By James Alex Baggett. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xviii, 323 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8071-2798-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1458-1459 doi:10.2307/3660403
    • Roberta Sue Alexander

    The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate: The Politics of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870–1875 By Kirt H. Wilson. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. xviii, 276 pp. $54.95, isbn 0-87013-617-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1459-1460 doi:10.2307/3660404
    • Mark G. Malvasi

    In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post— Civil War South Carolina. By Charles J. Holden. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xii, 164 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-57003-476-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1460-1461 doi:10.2307/3660405
    • W. Marvin Dulaney

    A Southern Family in White & Black: The Cuneys of Texas. By Douglas Hales. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xiv, 178 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-58544-200-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1461-1462 doi:10.2307/3660406
    • Charles W. Calhoun

    Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876. By Roy Morris Jr. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 311 pp. $27.00, isbn 0-7432-2386-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1462 doi:10.2307/3660407
    • Paul Michel Taillon

    For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity. By Jason Kaufman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii, 286 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-19-514857-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1462-1463 doi:10.2307/3660408
    • Maureen E. Montgomery

    The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew. By Susan K. Harris. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. xviii, 192 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-312-29529-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1463-1464 doi:10.2307/3660409
    • Bryan F. Le Beau

    Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wendy A. Woloson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv, 277 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-8018-6876-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1464-1465 doi:10.2307/3660410
    • C. Elizabeth Raymond

    Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West. By Virginia Scharff. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xii, 239 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-520-21212-6. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-520-23777-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1465-1466 doi:10.2307/3660411
    • Sharon E. Wood

    Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847–1918. By Jeffrey Nichols. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xii, 247 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-252-02768-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1466-1467 doi:10.2307/3660412
    • Lucy E. Salyer

    Americanizing the West: Race, Immigrants, and Citizenship, 1890–1930. By Frank Van Nuys. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xvi, 294 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-7006-1206-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1467-1468 doi:10.2307/3660413
    • Elspeth H. Brown

    Print the Legend: Photography and the American West. By Martha A. Sandweiss. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xiv, 402 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-300-09522-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1468 doi:10.2307/3660414
    • John W. Bailey

    Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux. By Thomas W. Foley. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xviii, 195 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8032-2015-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1468-1469 doi:10.2307/3660415
    • Robert A. Trennert

    Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902–1922. By Jean A. Keller. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. xviii, 272 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-87013-633-X. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-87013-650-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1469-1470 doi:10.2307/3660416
    • Sylvia Yount

    Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation. By Elizabeth Johns. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxiv, 202 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-520-22725-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1470-1471 doi:10.2307/3660417
    • Thomas M. Spencer

    St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall. Ed. by Eric Sandweiss. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xx, 251 pp. $32.50, isbn 0-8262-1439-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1471-1472 doi:10.2307/3660418
    • Kenneth T. Jackson

    The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea. By Thomas Bender. (New York: New Press, 2002. xvi, 287 pp. $30.00, isbn 1-56584-736-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1472-1473 doi:10.2307/3660419
    • Leslie Fishbein

    It Happened on Washington Square. By Emily Kies Folpe. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xii, 353 pp. $22.50, isbn 0-8018-7088-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1473 doi:10.2307/3660420
    • Joel Schwartz

    Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape. By David M. Scobey Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898–1938By Keith D. Revell

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1474-1475 doi:10.2307/3660421
    • Sarah S. Elkind

    Inventing the Charles River. By Karl Haglund. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xxii, 493 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-262-08307-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1475-1476 doi:10.2307/3660422
    • Edward F. Haas

    A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. By Ari Kelman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiv, 283 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-520-23432-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1476-1477 doi:10.2307/3660423
    • Stuart E. Knee

    Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America. By Rennie B. Schoepflin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii, 301 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8018-7057-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1477-1478 doi:10.2307/3660424
    • Laura E. Donaldson

    American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self, 1875–—1915 By Catherine Tumber. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xii, 203 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 0-8476-9748-7. Paper, $23.95, isbn 0-8476-9749-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1478-1479 doi:10.2307/3660425
    • Rod Janzen

    The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theos-ophists and American Culture By W. Michael Ashcraft. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. xviii, 258 pp. $35.00, isbn 1-57233-200-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1479 doi:10.2307/3660426
    • Joel A. Carpenter

    Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862– 1935. By Robert F. Martin. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xviii, 163 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-253-34129-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1480 doi:10.2307/3660427
    • Mina Carson

    Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871–1933. By Maureen A. Flanagan. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xvi, 319 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-691-09539-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1480-1481 doi:10.2307/3660428
    • Randall Balmer

    Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880–1920. By Suzanne M. Sinke Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City By Robert P. Swierenga

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1481-1483 doi:10.2307/3660429
    • Joan Marie Johnson

    Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890–1940. By Georgina Hickey. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. x, 297 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8203-2333-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1483 doi:10.2307/3660430
    • Scott Christianson

    Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair. By Richard Moran. (New York: Knopf, 2002. xxii, 271 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-375-41059-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1484 doi:10.2307/3660431
    • Dennis B. Downey

    The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America. By Christopher Waldrep. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. x, 264 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-312-29399-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1484-1485 doi:10.2307/3660432
    • Hamilton Cravens

    Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist. By Thomas C. Dalton. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xiv, 377 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-253-34082-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1485-1486 doi:10.2307/3660433
    • Thomas D. Isern

    Quacks and Crusaders: The Fabulous Careers of John Brinkley, Norman Baker, and Harry Hoxsey. By Eric S. Juhnke. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xvi, 215 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-7006-1203-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1486-1487 doi:10.2307/3660434
    • Hilton Obenzinger

    Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels. By Burke O. Long. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xiv, 258 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-253-34136-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1487-1488 doi:10.2307/3660435
    • Dolores Janiewski

    The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. By Amy Kaplan. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 260 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-674-00913-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1488 doi:10.2307/3660436
    • David Healy

    The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898–1917. By Robert E. Hannigan. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. xiv, 365 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8122-3666-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1488-1489 doi:10.2307/3660437
    • Kimberly A. Alidio

    American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919–1941. By Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xviii, 302 pp. Cloth, $54.95, isbn 0-520-23094-9. Paper, $21.95, isbn 0-520-23095-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1489-1490 doi:10.2307/3660438
    • Leo J. Bacino

    The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921. By Bertrand M. Patenaude. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xiv, 817 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 0-8047-4467-X. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8047-4493-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1490-1491 doi:10.2307/3660439
    • Thomas R. Turner

    The Lincoln Memorial & American Life. By Christopher A. Thomas. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xxxiv, 213 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-691-01194-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1491-1492 doi:10.2307/3660440
    • Peter Levine

    Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal. By Daniel A. Nathan.(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x, 285 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-252-02765-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1492-1493 doi:10.2307/3660441
    • Regina Lee Blaszczyk

    Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930. By Susan J. Matt. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 223 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-8122-3686-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1493 doi:10.2307/3660442
    • Jennifer Scanlon

    Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick & the Rise of Household Efficiency. By Janice Williams Rutherford. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xxii, 283 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8203-2449-3. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8203-2480-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1493-1494 doi:10.2307/3660443
    • Catherine Turner

    The World's Best Books: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library. By Jay Satterfield. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. xii, 240 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-55849-353-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1494-1495 doi:10.2307/3660444
    • Keith E. Byerman

    Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. By Elizabeth McHenry. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xvi, 423 pp. Cloth, $54.95, isbn 0-8223-2980-8. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-8223-2995-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1495-1496 doi:10.2307/3660445
    • Susan Curtis

    A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910–1927. By David Krasner. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. xii, 370 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-312-29590-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1496-1497 doi:10.2307/3660446
    • Robert J. Norrell

    A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi. By David H. Jackson Jr. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xvi, 282 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8130-2544-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1497-1498 doi:10.2307/3660447
    • Joseph L. Arnold

    John Nolen & Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio. By Millard F. Rogers Jr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi, 260 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8018-6619-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1498 doi:10.2307/3660448
    • James E. Sherow

    Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and theWest, 1902–1935. By Donald J. Pisani. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxii, 394 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-520-23030-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1498-1499 doi:10.2307/3660449
    • Marguerite S. Shaffer

    Red Lodge and the Mythic West: Coal Miners to Cowboys. By Bonnie Christensen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xxiv, 312 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-7006-1198-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1499-1500 doi:10.2307/3660450
    • Mark Harvey

    Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. By Larry Anderson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xii, 452 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8018-6902-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1500-1501 doi:10.2307/3660451
    • Molly H. Mullin

    Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region. By Audrey Goodman. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xxx, 224 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-8165-2187-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1501-1502 doi:10.2307/3660452
    • Jeffrey S. Smith

    The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande. By Charles Montgomery. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvi, 338 pp. $50.00, isbn 0-520-22971-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1502-1503 doi:10.2307/3660453
    • M. Susan Lindee

    Science in the American Southwest: A Topical History. By George E. Webb. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xxii, 271 pp. $48.00, isbn 0-8165-2188-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1503 doi:10.2307/3660454
    • Hans A. Baer

    Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War. Ed. by William H. Schneider. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. x, 251 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-253-34151-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1504-1505 doi:10.2307/3660455
    • Leo P. Ribuffo

    Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, & Popular Culture in America. By Tona J. Hangen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. x, 220 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-8078-2752-5. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-8078-5420-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1505 doi:10.2307/3660456
    • Steven Noll

    Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled: A Sociological History. By Jan Branson and Don Miller. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2002. xx, 300 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 1-56368-118-8. Paper, $34.95, isbn 1-56368-121-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1506 doi:10.2307/3660457
    • Rebecca A. R. Edwards

    Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II. By Susan Burch. (New York: New York University Press, 2002. x, 230 pp. $38.00, isbn 0-8147-9891-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1506-1507 doi:10.2307/3660458
    • Robbie Lieberman

    Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926–1956. By Andrew Hemingway. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. x, 357 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-300-09220-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1507-1508 doi:10.2307/3660459
    • Kathryne V. Lindberg

    Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963. By Kate A. Baldwin. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xii, 346 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8223-2976-X. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8223-2990-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1508-1509 doi:10.2307/3660460
    • Judy Kutulas

    Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s–1950s By Benjamin L. Alpers. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. x, 405 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8078-2750-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5416-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1509-1510 doi:10.2307/3660461
    • Fraser M. Ottanelli

    Little Italies e New Deal: La coalizione rooseveltiana e il voto italo-americano a Filadelfia e Pittsburgh (Little Italies and the New Deal: The Roosevelt coalition and the Italian American vote in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh).

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1510-1511 doi:10.2307/3660462
    • Gary Dean Best

    Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937. By Marian C. McKenna. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. xxviii, 612 pp. $60.00, isbn 0-8232-2154-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1511 doi:10.2307/3660463
    • Frederick W. Marks III

    Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Formation of the Modern World. Ed. by Thomas C. Howard and William D. Pederson. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2003. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $64.95, isbn 0-7656-1030-2. Paper, $23.95, isbn 0-7656-1031-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1511-1512 doi:10.2307/3660464
    • Gerhard L. Weinberg

    Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor: Why the United States Declared War on Germany. By Richard F. Hill. (Boulder: Rienner, 2003. viii, 227 pp. $49.95, isbn 1-58826-126-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1512-1513 doi:10.2307/3660465
    • Judith Stein

    Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II. By Charles D. Chamberlain. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xii, 288 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8203-2429-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8203-2443-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1513-1514 doi:10.2307/3660466
    • Craig Allen

    General Eisenhower: Ideology and Discourse. By Ira Chernus. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. viii, 366 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-87013-616-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1514-1515 doi:10.2307/3660467
    • Mark A. Raider

    Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the UnitedStates, 1926–1948. By Rafael Medoff. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. x, 290 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8173-1071-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1515-1516 doi:10.2307/3660468
    • Mark H. Lytle

    American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945. By Douglas Little. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 407 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8078-2737-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1516-1517 doi:10.2307/3660469
    • John Dumbrell

    Oliver Franks and the Truman Administration: Anglo-American Relations, 1948–1952. By Michael F. Hopkins. (London: Cass, 2003. xviii, 278 pp. $62.50, isbn 0-7146-5303-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1517-1518 doi:10.2307/3660470
    • D'Ann Campbell

    GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany. By Maria Höhn. (Chapel Hill: niversity of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 337 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8078-2706-1. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-8078-5375-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1518-1519 doi:10.2307/3660471
    • Nathan J. Citino

    Egypt and American Foreign Assistance, 1952–1956: Hopes Dashed. By Jon B. Alterman. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. xxiv, 200 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-312-29621-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1519 doi:10.2307/3660472
    • Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

    Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism. By Mari Yoshihara. Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961. By Christina Klein.

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1519-1521 doi:10.2307/3660473
    • J. José Cruz

    Existential America. By George Cotkin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii, 359 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8018-7037-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1521-1522 doi:10.2307/3660474
    • Carlo Rotella

    Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s. By Michael Johns. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. x, 148 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-520-23435-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1522-1523 doi:10.2307/3660475
    • M. J. Heale

    The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America. By Lee Bernstein. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. xiv, 237 pp. $34.95, isbn 1-55849-345-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1523-1524 doi:10.2307/3660476
    • James A. Ward

    Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. By David Farber. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii, 292 pp. $27.50, isbn 0-226-23804-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1524 doi:10.2307/3660477
    • Paul E. Ceruzzi

    Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics. By David A. Mindell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xvi, 439 pp. $46.00, isbn 0-8018-6895-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1524-1525 doi:10.2307/3660478
    • Gregory L. Schneider

    Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement, 1945-65. By Niels Bjerre-Poulsen. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002. 333 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 87-7289-720-1. Paper, $29.95, isbn 87-7289-809-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1525-1526 doi:10.2307/3660479
    • Larry G. Gerber

    Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma. By Jeffrey W. Coker. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xvi, 211 pp. $32.50, isbn 0-8262-1420-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1526-1527 doi:10.2307/3660480
    • Abraham J. Peck

    Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America. By Michael E. Staub. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 386 pp. $29.50, isbn 0-231-12374-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1527-1528 doi:10.2307/3660481
    • Linda C. Gugin

    Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas of Illinois. By Roger Biles. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. viii, 259 pp. $36.00, isbn 0-87580-304-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1528-1529 doi:10.2307/3660482
    • Kenneth W. Goings

    White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. naacp. By Kenneth Robert Janken. (New York: New Press, 2003. xviii, 477 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-56584-773-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1529-1530 doi:10.2307/3660483
    • John P. Jackson, Jr.

    Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision. By Peter Irons. (New York: Viking, 2002. xxiv, 376 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-670-88918-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1530 doi:10.2307/3660484
    • W. Roger Biles

    The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930. Ed. by Elna C. Green. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xx, 275 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8203-2481-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8203-2482-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1530-1531 doi:10.2307/3660485
    • Ted Ownby

    Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy. By Paul Hendrickson. (New York: Knopf, 2003. xii, 343 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-375-40461-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1531-1532 doi:10.2307/3660486
    • Peter J. Ling

    Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. By J. Mills Thornton III. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. xiv, 733 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-8173-1170-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1532-1533 doi:10.2307/3660487
    • Daniel J. Tichenor

    Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition. By Lucy G. Barber. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xiv, 323 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-520-22713-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1533-1534 doi:10.2307/3660488
    • Kate A. Baldwin

    Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1988. Ed. by Brenda Gayle Plummer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 259 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-8078-2761-4. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-8078-5428-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1534-1535 doi:10.2307/3660489
    • Howard A. DeWitt

    Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970. By Ronald D. Cohen. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. xiv, 364 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 1-55849-346-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 1-55849-348-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1535-1536 doi:10.2307/3660490
    • Kathy J. Ogren

    Jazz Cultures. By David Ake. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xiv, 223 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 0-520-22877-1. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-520-22889-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1536 doi:10.2307/3660491
    • Steve Waksman

    Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. By Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. xvi, 368 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-674-00889-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1536-1537 doi:10.2307/3660492
    • Mary Hershberger

    Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War. By Michael S. Foley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xviii, 449 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8078-2767-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5436-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1537-1538 doi:10.2307/3660493
    • Rusty L. Monhollon

    Dissent in the Heartland: The Sixties at Indiana University. By Mary Ann Wynkoop. (Bloomington: ndiana University Press, 2002. xiv, 214 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-253-34118-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-253-21557-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1538-1539 doi:10.2307/3660494
    • Steve Golin

    The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill—Brownsville Crisis. By Jerald E. Podair. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xiv, 273 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-300-08122-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1539-1540 doi:10.2307/3660495
    • Donald Spivey

    Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete By Amy Bass. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. xxii, 438 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-8166-3944-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1540-1541 doi:10.2307/3660496
    • Robert W. Righter

    Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club, and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon. By Byron E. Pearson. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xxii, 246 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8165-2058-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1541-1542 doi:10.2307/3660497
    • Thomas Wellock

    Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska. By Dean W. Kohlhoff. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. x, 166 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-295-98255-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1542 doi:10.2307/3660498
    • Chad Montrie

    Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America. By Timothy Silver. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xxiv, 322 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-8078-2755-X. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5423-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1542-1543 doi:10.2307/3660499
    • Otis L. Graham, Jr.

    Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xx, 408 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-520-21749-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1543-1544 doi:10.2307/3660500
    • Matthew J. Streb

    Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race. By Randy Sanders. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xii, 218 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8130-2565-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1544-1545 doi:10.2307/3660501
    • Benjamin T. Harrison

    A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement. By Pierre Asselin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xxii, 272 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-8078-2751-7. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-8078-5417-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1545-1546 doi:10.2307/3660502
    • J. Morgan Kousser

    The Minority Rights Revolution. By John D. Skrentny. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. xvi, 473 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-674-00899-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1546-1547 doi:10.2307/3660503
    • Roland F. Wacker

    Transnational America: Cultural Pluralist Thought in the Twentieth Century. By Everett Helmut Akam. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. x, 227 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 0-7425-2197-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-7425-2198-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1547-1548 doi:10.2307/3660504
    • Kristin Hoganson

    Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History. By Catherine Ceniza Choy. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xiv, 257 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8223-3052-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8223-3089-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1548-1549 doi:10.2307/3660505
    • Teresita Marténez-Vergne

    Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico. By Laura Briggs. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xiv, 278 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-520-22255-5. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-520-23258-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1549-1550 doi:10.2307/3660506
    • Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

    Talk about Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States. By Janice M. Irvine. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xii, 271 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-520-23503-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1550 doi:10.2307/3660507
    • Nelson Lichtenstein

    Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits. By W. Carl Biven. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 346 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8078-2738-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1550-1551 doi:10.2307/3660508
    • Shawn Francis Peters

    Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards. By Louis Fisher. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xii, 266 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 0-7006-1201-7. Paper, $16.95, isbn 0-7006-1202-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1551-1552 doi:10.2307/3660509
    • Stephen Pitti

    Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. By Glenna Matthews. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.xviii, 313 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8047-4154-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8047-4796-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1553-1554 doi:10.2307/3660511

Presidential Address

    • Ira Berlin

    American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1251-1268 doi:10.2307/3660347

Articles

    • Timothy A. Hickman

    “Mania Americana”: Narcotic Addiction and Modernity in the United States, 1870–1920

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1269-1294 doi:10.2307/3660348
    • David Suisman

    Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Black Swan Records and the Political Economy of African American Music

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1295-1324 doi:10.2307/3660349

Round Table

    • Joanne Meyerowitz

    History's Ethical Crisis: An Introduction

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1325-1326 doi:10.1093/jahist/90.4.1325
    • Elliott J. Gorn

    The Historians' Dilemma

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1327-1332 doi:10.2307/3660351
    • Michael Grossberg

    Plagiarism and Professional Ethics—A Journal Editor's View

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1333-1340 doi:10.2307/3660352
    • Richard Wightman Fox

    A Heartbreaking Problem of Staggering Proportions

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1341-1347 doi:10.2307/3660353
    • Joyce Seltzer

    Honest History

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1347-1350 doi:10.2307/3660354
    • Emma J. Lapsansky

    An Honor System for Historians?

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1351-1356 doi:10.2307/3660355

Special Essay

    • Jon Butler

    Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1357-1378 doi:10.2307/3660356

Textbooks and Teaching

  • “Will That Be on the Exam?” The Role of Testing in Teaching and Learning American History

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1379-1380 doi:10.1093/jahist/90.4.1379
    • Richard Rothstein

    We Are Not Ready to Assess History Performance

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1381-1391 doi:10.2307/3660358
    • Timothy A. Hacsi

    Document-Based Question: What Is the Historical Significance of the Advanced Placement Test?

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1392-1400 doi:10.2307/3660359
    • Sam Wineburg

    Crazy for History

    The Journal of American History (2004) 90(4): 1401-1414 doi:10.2307/3660360

Web Site Reviews

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

    • James Brewer Stewart and
    • Don R. Gerlach

    Letters to the Editor

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