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Volume 91 Issue 4 March 2005

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Web Site Reviews

    • Fritz Umbach

    Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846–1869

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1155-1156 doi:10.2307/3660334
    • Michael D. Pierson

    Territorial Kansas Online, 1854–1861

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1556-1557 doi:10.2307/3660335
    • Marguerite S. Shaffer

    Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880–1920

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1557-1558 doi:10.2307/3660336
    • Gil Troy

    The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952–2004

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1558-1559 doi:10.2307/3660337
    • Meredith H. Lair

    The Vietnam Project

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1559-1560 doi:10.2307/3660338
    • Clifford M. Kuhn

    Studs Terkel: Conversations with America

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1560 doi:10.2307/3660339

Presidential Address

    • Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

    The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1233-1263 doi:10.2307/3660172

Articles

    • Winterer Caroline

    From Royal to Republican: The Classical Image in Early America

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1264-1290 doi:10.2307/3660173
    • Sean P. Holmes

    All the World's a Stage! The Actors' Strike of 1919

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1291-1317 doi:10.2307/3660174
    • Joseph Kip Kosek

    Richard Gregg, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Strategy of Nonviolence

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1318-1348 doi:10.2307/3660175
    • Ruth Feldstein

    “I Don't Trust You Anymore”: Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1349-1379 doi:10.2307/3660176

Textbooks and Teaching

  • “The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth”: Writing, Producing, and Using College-Level American History Textbooks

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1380-1382 doi:10.1093/jahist/91.4.1380
    • Mary Beth Norton

    Reflections of a Longtime Textbook Author; or, History Revised, Revised—and Revised Again

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1383-1390 doi:10.2307/3660178
    • Alan Brinkley

    The Challenges and Rewards of Textbook Writing: An Interview with Alan Brinkley

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1391-1397 doi:10.2307/3660179
    • Steve Forman

    Textbook Publishing: An Ecological View

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1398-1404 doi:10.2307/3660180
    • Daniel J. Cohen

    By the Book: Assessing the Place of Textbooks in U.S. Survey Courses

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1405-1415 doi:10.2307/3660181

Book Reviews

    • David Waldstreicher

    The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence. By T. H. Breen. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xx, 380 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-19-506395-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1416-1417 doi:10.2307/3660182
    • Ronald P. Formisano

    The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History. Ed. by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xvi, 421 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 0-691-11376-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-691-11377-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1417-1420 doi:10.2307/3660183
    • John Nerone

    The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications. By Paul Starr. (New York: Basic Books, 2004. xii, 484 pp. $27.50, isbn 0-465-08193-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1420-1421 doi:10.2307/3660184
    • Henry L. Feingold

    American Judaism: A History. By Jonathan D. Sarna. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xx, 490 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-300-10197-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1421-1423 doi:10.2307/3660185
    • Carl J. Guarneri

    Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Religious Communities, 1732–2000. By Robert P. Sutton and Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Secular Communities, 1824–2000. By Robert P. Sutton

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1423-1424 doi:10.2307/3660186
    • Jack Campisi

    Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience. Ed. by Colin G. Calloway and Neal Salisbury. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 380 pp. $39.50, isbn 0-9620737-6-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1424-1425 doi:10.2307/3660187
    • Larry Gragg

    Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. By April Lee Hatfield. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 312 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8122-3757-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1425-1426 doi:10.2307/3660188
    • William Breitenbach

    Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons. Ed. by David W. Kling and Douglas A. Sweeney. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. xxiv, 330 pp. $59.95, isbn 1-57003-519-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1426 doi:10.2307/3660189
    • Alan H. Levy

    How Early America Sounded. By Richard Cullen Rath. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii, 227 pp. $32.50, isbn 0-8014-4126-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1427 doi:10.2307/3660190
    • B. R. Burg

    Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution. By Paul A. Gilje. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xiv, 344 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8122-3756-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1427-1428 doi:10.2307/3660191
    • Peter S. Onuf

    Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America. By John Howe. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xiv, 281 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-55849-422-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1428-1429 doi:10.2307/3660192
    • John Resch

    The Soldiers' Revolution: Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity. By Gregory T. Knouff. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xxiv, 312 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-271-02335-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1429-1430 doi:10.2307/3660193
    • Holly A. Mayer

    Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898. By Elizabeth D. Samet. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv, 273 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8047-4725-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1430-1431 doi:10.2307/3660194
    • Robert E. Wright

    To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution. By Robert A. McGuire. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii, 395 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-19-513970-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1431-1432 doi:10.2307/3660195
    • Michael P. Zuckert

    A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State. By Max M. Edling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii, 333 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-19-514870-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1432-1433 doi:10.2307/3660196
    • Paul K. Longmore

    George Washington: Uniting a Nation. By Don Higginbotham. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xii, 175 pp. $22.95, isbn 0-7425-2208-3.) and George Washington. By James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn. (New York: Times, 2004. xx, 185 pp. $20.00, isbn 0-8050-6936-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1433-1434 doi:10.2307/3660197
    • Stuart Leibiger

    The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character. By Andrew S. Trees. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii, 208 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-691-11552-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1434-1435 doi:10.2307/3660198
    • Lance Banning

    Thomas Jefferson. By R. B. Bernstein. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii, 253 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-19-516911-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1435-1436 doi:10.2307/3660199
    • J. C. A. Stagg

    The Nationalist Ferment: The Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1789–1812. By Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, trans. Lillian A. Parrott. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004. xxii, 274 pp. $79.95, isbn 0-8142-0941-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1436-1437 doi:10.2307/3660200
    • C. Edward Skeen

    Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History. By Richard B. Parker. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xxx, 285 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-8130-2696-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1437 doi:10.2307/3660201
    • David Jaffee

    Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiv, 294 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8018-7324-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1437-1438 doi:10.2307/3660202
    • Seth Cotlar

    Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania. By Andrew Shankman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xii, 298 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-7006-1304-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1438-1439 doi:10.2307/3660203
    • Robert E. Cray, Jr.

    Down and Out in Early America. Ed. by Billy G. Smith. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xx, 327 pp. Cloth, $67.50, isbn 0-271-02316-3. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-271-02317-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1439-1440 doi:10.2307/3660204
    • M. N. S. Sellers

    Controlling the Law: Legal Politics in Early National New Hampshire. By John Phillip Reid. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. 258 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-87580-321-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1440-1441 doi:10.2307/3660205
    • Susan E. Klepp

    The Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson. By Anne M. Ousterhout. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xx, 391 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-271-02311-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1441-1442 doi:10.2307/3660206
    • Lee Baldwin Dalzell

    Beauty & Convenience: Architecture and Order in the New Republic. By Nora Pat Small. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. xxiv, 155 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-57233-236-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1442-1443 doi:10.2307/3660207
    • Mary E. Young

    Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World. By Robbie Ethridge. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiv, 369 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8078-2827-0. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-8078-5495-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1443-1444 doi:10.2307/3660208
    • Amos J. Beyan

    The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia. By Claude A. Clegg III. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv, 330 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8078-2845-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5516-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1444-1445 doi:10.2307/3660209
    • Christopher Clark

    Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. By Michael J. Connolly. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xii, 210 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-8262-1499-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1445 doi:10.2307/3660210
    • Thomas Augst

    Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. By Michael Zakim. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x, 296 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-226-97793-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1445-1446 doi:10.2307/3660211
    • James M. McCaffrey

    Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. By Allan Peskin. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2004. xii, 328 pp. $49.00, isbn 0-87338-774-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1446-1447 doi:10.2307/3660212
    • Anne M. Butler

    Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829–1865. By Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xii, 163 pp. $55.00, isbN 0-8130-2663-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1447-1448 doi:10.2307/3660213
    • Timothy J. Lockley

    Slavery and the American South. Ed. by Winthrop D. Jordan. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. xx, 224 pp. $45.00, isbn 1-57806-581-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1448-1449 doi:10.2307/3660214
    • Robert H. Gudmestad

    Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South. By Jonathan D. Martin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 237 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-674-01149-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1449-1450 doi:10.2307/3660215
    • B. W. Higman

    Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies. By Nathalie Dessens. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. x, 213 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8130-2682-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1450 doi:10.2307/3660216
    • Cheryll Ann Cody

    Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina. By Emily West. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xii, 184 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-252-02903-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1450-1451 doi:10.2307/3660217
    • James L. Conyers, Jr.

    African Voices in the African American Heritage. By Betty M. Kuyk. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xxx, 256 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-253-34204-X. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-253-21576-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1451-1452 doi:10.2307/3660218
    • Joseph P. Reidy

    Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. By Angela Lakwete. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xvi, 232 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8018-7394-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1452-1453 doi:10.2307/3660219
    • Hilary E. Wyss

    Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863. By Maureen Konkle. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii, 367 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2822-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5492-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1453-1454 doi:10.2307/3660220
    • Etsuko Taketani

    Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations. By Cheryl J. Fish. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xiv, 183 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-8130-2711-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1454-1455 doi:10.2307/3660221
    • Thomas J. Brown

    Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform. By Lorien Foote. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xii, 224 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8214-1499-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1455-1456 doi:10.2307/3660222
    • Richard D. Brown

    The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880. By Candy Gunther Brown. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xvi, 336 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8078-2838-6. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5511-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1456 doi:10.2307/3660223
    • Candy Gunther Brown

    Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology. Ed. by Richard J. Mouw and Mark A. Noll. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004. xx, 288 pp. Paper, $18.00, isbn 0-8028-2160-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1457 doi:10.2307/3660224
    • Timothy B. Spears

    The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America. By Thomas Augst. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii, 321 pp. Cloth, $62.00, ISBN 0-226- 03219-1. Paper, $25.00, isbn 0-226-03220-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1457-1458 doi:10.2307/3660225
    • Neil Kamil

    Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination. By Bridget T. Heneghan. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. xxviii, 204 pp. $45.00, isbn 1-57806-585-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1458-1459 doi:10.2307/3660226
    • Hugh Davis

    The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves. By Stanley Harrold. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. x, 246 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-8131-2290-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1459-1460 doi:10.2307/3660227
    • Mary Kemp Davis

    The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory. By Scot French. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. xii, 379 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-618-10448-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1460-1461 doi:10.2307/3660228
    • Catherine Clinton

    Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley. By Keith P. Griffler. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. xviii, 169 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-8131-2298-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1461-1462 doi:10.2307/3660229
    • Michael J. Birkner

    Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. By Nicole Etcheson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xiv, 370 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-7006-1287-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1462-1463 doi:10.2307/3660230
    • Richard J. Carwardine

    Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. By Harold Holzer. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 338 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-7432-2466-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1463 doi:10.2307/3660231
    • Steven E. Woodworth

    A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut. By Jeffrey N. Lash. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2003. xii, 300 pp. $49.00, isbn 0-87338-766-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1463-1464 doi:10.2307/3660232
    • Rodney O. Davis

    Lincoln. By Richard J. Carwardine. (Harlow, Eng.: Pearson, 2003. xviii, 352 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 0-582-03279-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1464-1465 doi:10.2307/3660233
    • Kirt H. Wilson

    Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. By Allen C. Guelzo. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. xviii, 332 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-7432-2182-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1465-1466 doi:10.2307/3660234
    • Herman Belz

    Lincoln's Last Months. By William C. Harris. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2004. xii, 303 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-674-01199-6.)and Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home. By Matthew Pinsker. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi, 256 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-19-516206-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1466-1468 doi:10.2307/3660235
    • Norma Basch

    Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage. By Peg A. Lamphier. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xii, 315 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8032-2947-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1468 doi:10.2307/3660236
    • Susan Wells

    Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War. By Lisa A. Long. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 332 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8122-3748-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1469 doi:10.2307/3660237
    • Lowell H. Harrison

    Kentucky's Last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816–1887. By Peter J. Sehlinger. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. xx, 309 pp. $33.95, isbn 0-916968-33-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1469-1470 doi:10.2307/3660238
    • J. Matthew Gallman

    Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City. By Russell L. Johnson. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. xii, 388 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8232-2269-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1470-1471 doi:10.2307/3660239
    • David Brian Robertson

    Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861–1880. By Kyle S. Sinisi. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. xvi, 208 pp. $50.00, isbn 0-8232-2259-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1471-1472 doi:10.2307/3660240
    • Carl R. Osthaus

    For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South. By Richard H. Abbott, ed. John W. Quist. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xii, 266 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8203-2527-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1472-1473 doi:10.2307/3660241
    • Peter W. Bardaglio

    The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895. By Jane Turner Censer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xviii, 316 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8071-2907-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8071-2921-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1473-1474 doi:10.2307/3660242
    • Karen L. Cox

    Blood & Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861–1937. By Sarah E. Gardner. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. x, 341 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8078-2818-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1474-1475 doi:10.2307/3660243
    • Christine Bolt

    Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement. By Carol Faulkner. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 200 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8122-3744-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1475-1476 doi:10.2307/3660244
    • J. William Harris

    The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Dylan C. Penningroth. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. x, 310 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8078-2797-5. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5476-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1476-1477 doi:10.2307/3660245
    • Charles J. Holden

    Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry. By W. Scott Poole. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xii, 263 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8203-2507-4. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8203-2508-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1477 doi:10.2307/3660246
    • Russ Castronovo

    Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley. By Judith Richardson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiv, 296 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-674-01161-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1477-1478 doi:10.2307/3660247
    • Ena L. Farley

    Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy. By David Quigley. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. xvi, 238 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8090-8514-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1478-1479 doi:10.2307/3660248
    • Walter A. Friedman

    Capital City: New York City and the Men behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900. By Thomas Kessner. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. xx, 396 pp. $27.00, ISBN 0-684-81351-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1479-1480 doi:10.2307/3660249
    • Brian Greenberg

    “A Broad and Ennobling Spirit”: Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886–1898. By Ronald Mendel. (Westport: Praeger, 2003. xxxiv, 226 pp. $67.95, isbn 0-313-32134-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1480-1481 doi:10.2307/3660250
    • Howard Bodenhorn

    Street of Dreams—Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century. By Howard M. Wachtel. (Sterling: Pluto, 2003. xvi, 239 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-7453-1925-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1481-1482 doi:10.2307/3660251
    • Carol Lasser

    How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood. By Jane H. Hunter. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xviii, 478 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-300-09263-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1482-1483 doi:10.2307/3660252
    • Debby Applegate

    Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Karin E. Gedge. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. viii, 290 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-19-513020-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1483-1484 doi:10.2307/3660253
    • Linda Schott

    The Education of Jane Addams. By Victoria Bissell Brown. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. viii, 421 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8122-3747-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1484 doi:10.2307/3660254
    • Kathleen Dalton

    The Education of Jane Addams. By Victoria Bissell Brown. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. viii, 421 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8122-3747-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1484-1485 doi:10.2307/3660255
    • Michael Fellman

    Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. By T. J. Stiles. (New York: Vintage, 2002. xiv, 510 pp. Cloth, $27.50, isbn 0-375-40583-6. Paper, $16.00, isbn 0-375-70558-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1485-1486 doi:10.2307/3660256
    • John M. Coward

    The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform. By Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xii, 211 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-252-02852-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1486-1487 doi:10.2307/3660257
    • John H. Monnett

    Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867–1869. By Jerome A. Greene. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xii, 292 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8061-3551-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1487 doi:10.2307/3660258
    • Peter Iverson

    A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains. By Clyde Ellis. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. viii, 232 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-7006-1274-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1488 doi:10.2307/3660259
    • James Taylor Carson

    Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907. By Carolyn Ross Johnston. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. xvi, 227 pp. Cloth, $48.00, isbn 0-8173-1332-X. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8173-5056-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1488-1489 doi:10.2307/3660260
    • Byron E. Pearson

    Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone & Upper Missouri. By Robert Kelley Schneiders. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xviii, 374 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-7006-1264-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1489-1490 doi:10.2307/3660261
    • Melody Webb

    Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867. By Lydia T. Black. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004. xvi, 328 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 1-889963-04-6. Paper, $29.95, isbn 1-889963-05-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1490-1491 doi:10.2307/3660262
    • Carl Abbott

    Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930. By Terence Young and The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism. By Hal K. Rothman

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1491-1492 doi:10.2307/3660263
    • Amy S. Greenberg

    Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950. By Mark Tebeau. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiv, 425 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8018-6791-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1493 doi:10.2307/3660264
    • John T. Cumbler

    Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Ed. by Joel A. Tarr. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. x, 281 pp. $32.00, isbn 0-8229-4156-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1493-1494 doi:10.2307/3660265
    • Walter LaFeber

    Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy. By David Paull Nickles. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 265 pp. $30.95, isbn 0-674-01035-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1494-1495 doi:10.2307/3660266
    • John L. Brooke

    The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle. By Kathleen Flake. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xvi, 238 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8078-2831-9. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-8078-5501-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1495-1496 doi:10.2307/3660267
    • Ann D. Gordon

    How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914. By Rebecca J. Mead. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. xii, 273 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-8147-5676-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1496-1497 doi:10.2307/3660268
    • Megan Seaholm

    Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. By Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv, 266 pp. $38.00, isbn 0-19-512215-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1497-1498 doi:10.2307/3660269
    • David K. Johnson

    Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World. By Nicholas C. Edsall. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xiv, 377 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8139-2211-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1498-1499 doi:10.2307/3660270
    • Joshua D. Rothman

    The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865–1920. By Alecia P. Long. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xviii, 282 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8071-2932-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1499-1500 doi:10.2307/3660271
    • W. Sherman Jackson

    Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, & Shelby J. Davidson. By Rayvon Fouché. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiv, 225 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8018-7319-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1500 doi:10.2307/3660272
    • Cary D. Wintz

    Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up from Slavery 100 Years Later. Ed. by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. viii, 227 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8130-2674-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1500-1501 doi:10.2307/3660273
    • Barry M. Franklin

    Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society. By David Tyack. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 237 pp. $22.95, isbn 0-674-01198-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1501-1502 doi:10.2307/3660274
    • John R. Thelin

    Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980. By Christopher Newfield. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 290 pp. $32.95, isbn 0-8223-3201-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1502-1503 doi:10.2307/3660275
    • Roger L. Geiger

    Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University. By Kathleen A. Mahoney. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii, 347 pp. $42.95, isbn 0-8018-7340-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1503-1504 doi:10.2307/3660276
    • James Connolly

    Ballots & Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence. By Evelyn Savidge Sterne. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xviii, 294 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8014-4117-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1504 doi:10.2307/3660277
    • William H. Katerberg

    Immigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics: The Dillingham Commission, 1900–1927. By Robert F. Zeidel. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. x, 198 pp. $42.00, isbn 0-87580-323-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1505 doi:10.2307/3660278
    • Stefano Luconi

    Immigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics: The Dillingham Commission, 1900–1927. By Robert F. Zeidel. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. x, 198 pp. $42.00, isbn 0-87580-323-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1505-1506 doi:10.2307/3660279
    • Kendrick A. Clements

    Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman. By Robert Alexander Kraig. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. xii, 244 pp. $45.00, isbn 1-58544-275-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1506-1507 doi:10.2307/3660280
    • Peter S. Kindsvatter

    The “Casualty Issue” in American Military Practice: The Impact of World War I. By Evan Andrew Huelfer. (Westport: Praeger, 2003. xviii, 244 pp. $69.95, isbn 0-275-97760-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1507-1508 doi:10.2307/3660281
    • Cynthia E. Orozco

    Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. By Benjamin Heber Johnson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 260 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-300-09425-6

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1508-1509 doi:10.2307/3660282
    • Andrew R. Graybill

    The Texas Indians. By David La Vere. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. xiv, 293 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-58544-301-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1509-1510 doi:10.2307/3660283
    • Carlos Kevin Blanton

    Beyond Black & White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest. Ed. by Stephanie Cole and Alison M. Parker. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. xxx, 144 pp. Cloth, $32.95, isbn 1-58544-297-6. Paper, $16.95, isbn 1-58544-319-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1510-1511 doi:10.2307/3660284
    • Claude A. Clegg III

    Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914—1940. By Ibrahim Sundiata. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xiv, 442 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 0-8223-3233-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8223-3247-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1511-1512 doi:10.2307/3660285
    • Eric Porter

    Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music. By Ronald Radano. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xx, 417 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 0-226-70197-2. Paper, $27.50, isbn 0-226-70198-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1512 doi:10.2307/3660286
    • Ronald D. Eller

    Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. By Anthony Harkins. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii, 324 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-19-514631-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1513 doi:10.2307/3660287
    • Silvano A. Wueschner

    Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. By Anthony Harkins. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii, 324 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-19-514631-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1513-1514 doi:10.2307/3660288
    • Alan Lawson

    Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. By Kathleen G. Donohue. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiv, 326 pp. $45.95, isbn 0-8018-7426-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1514-1515 doi:10.2307/3660289
    • Susan Albertine

    Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890–1950. By Francesca Sawaya. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 198 pp. $42.50, isbn 0-8122-3743-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1515-1516 doi:10.2307/3660290
    • Buhle Paul

    Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York. By Helen Langa. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. viii, 342 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-520-23155-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1516-1517 doi:10.2307/3660291
    • David Krasner

    Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930–1953. By Stacy I. Morgan. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xii, 356 pp. Cloth, $54.95, isbn 0-8203-2564-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8203-2579-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1517-1518 doi:10.2307/3660292
    • Kenneth O'Reilly

    Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown. By Kevin J. McMahon. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. x, 298 pp. Cloth, $52.00, isbn 0-226-50086-1. Paper, $20.00, isbn 0-226-50088-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1518-1519 doi:10.2307/3660293
    • Naoko Shibusawa

    A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. By Emily S. Rosenberg. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. x, 236 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8223-3206-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1519 doi:10.2307/3660294
    • Eileen H. Tamura

    No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Ha-wai'i during World War II. By Franklin Odo. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. viii, 328 pp. $39.50, ISBN 1-59213-207-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1519-1520 doi:10.2307/3660295
    • Robert Dean

    The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II. By Christina S. Jarvis. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. xvi, 243 pp. $43.00, ISBN 0-87580-322-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1520-1521 doi:10.2307/3660296
    • Paul J. Dosal

    Democracy and U.S. Policy in Latin America during the Truman Years. By Steven Schwartzberg. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xviii, 311 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2664-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1521-1522 doi:10.2307/3660297
    • Wesley T. Wooley

    Beginnings of the Cold War Arms Race: The Truman Administration and the U.S. Arms Build-Up. By Raymond P. Ojserkis. (Westport: Praeger, 2003. x, 237 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-275-98016-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1522-1523 doi:10.2307/3660298
    • Steven Z. Freiberger

    Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945–1961. By Peter L. Hahn. and Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East. By Salim Yaqub

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1523-1524 doi:10.2307/3660299
    • John Bledsoe Bonds

    Stuart Symington: A Life. By James C. Olson. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xviii, 550 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1503-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1524-1525 doi:10.2307/3660300
    • Nick Cullather

    Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America. By Nils Gilman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiv, 329 pp. $48.00, ISBN 0-8018-7399-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1525-1526 doi:10.2307/3660301
    • Alan Wald

    Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development. By David C. Engerman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. x, 399 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-674-01151-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1526-1527 doi:10.2307/3660302
    • Philip Abbott

    Imagining the American Polity: Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy. By John G. Gunnell. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. x, 289 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-271-02352-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1527-1528 doi:10.2307/3660303
    • Shawn J. Parry-Giles

    From Total War to Total Diplomacy: The Advertising Council and the Construction of the Cold War Consensus. By Daniel L. Lykins. (Westport: Praeger, 2003. xii, 128 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97782-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1528-1529 doi:10.2307/3660304
    • Leila J. Rupp

    The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. By David K. Johnson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii, 277 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-226-40481-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1529-1530 doi:10.2307/3660305
    • Alfred E. Eckes

    Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958–1971. By Francis J. Gavin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xvi, 263 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2823-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1530-1531 doi:10.2307/3660306
    • Pablo A. Pozzi

    Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946–61. By Colin J. Davis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xii, 246 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02878-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1531-1532 doi:10.2307/3660307
    • Dennis A. Deslippe

    Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila. By Sandy Polishuk. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xxvi, 273 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 1-4039-6239-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-4039-6240-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1532 doi:10.2307/3660308
    • Catherine J. Kudlick

    The Radical Lives of Helen Keller. By Kim E. Nielsen. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. xiv, 178 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8147-5813-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1533 doi:10.2307/3660309
    • Charlotte Brooks

    Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. By Mae M. Ngai. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xxii, 377 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-07471-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1533-1534 doi:10.2307/3660310
    • K. Scott Wong

    Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882. By Roger Daniels. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. xii, 328 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8090-5343-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1534-1535 doi:10.2307/3660311
    • Stephen Amberg

    American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935–1970. By John Barnard. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. xiv, 607 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8143-2947-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1535-1536 doi:10.2307/3660312
    • Laura Briggs

    Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective. By Ramón Grosfoguel. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xvi, 268 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-520-23020-5. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-520-23021-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1536-1537 doi:10.2307/3660313
    • Mark S. Foster

    Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape. By Owen D. Gutfreund. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xviii, 297 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514141-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1537-1538 doi:10.2307/3660314
    • Karal Ann Marling

    Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. xxxiv, 219 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-87745-889-8. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87745-890-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1538-1539 doi:10.2307/3660315
    • Jon C. Teaford

    Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000. By Dolores Hayden. (New York: Pantheon, 2003. xiv, 318 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-375-42128-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1539 doi:10.2307/3660316
    • Lewis V. Baldwin

    A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. By David L. Chappell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 344 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2819-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1540 doi:10.2307/3660317
    • Nicholas Dagen Bloom

    Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. By Andrew Wiese. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii, 411 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-226-89641-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1540-1541 doi:10.2307/3660318
    • Debra L. Schultz

    South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945–1960. By Raymond A. Mohl with Matilda “Bobbi” Graff and Shirley M. Zoloth. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xii, 263 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8130-2693-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1541-1542 doi:10.2307/3660319
    • William L. Van Deburg

    The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. By Lance Hill. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii, 363 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2847-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1542-1543 doi:10.2307/3660320
    • Matthew Pratt Guterl

    White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900–1960. By Lisa Lindquist Dorr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. viii, 327 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2841-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5514-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1543-1544 doi:10.2307/3660321
    • Angela Boswell

    “Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph”: Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities. Ed. by Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xii, 323 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2675-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1544-1545 doi:10.2307/3660322
    • John B. Boles

    Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Ed. by Winfred B. Moore Jr., Kyle S. Sinisi, and David H. White Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. xiv, 413 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-510-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1545-1546 doi:10.2307/3660323
    • James Edward Smethurst

    Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press. By Melba Joyce Boyd. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xiv, 385 pp. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-13026-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1546 doi:10.2307/3660324
    • David Steigerwald

    Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism. By Dominic Sandbrook. (New York: Knopf, 2004. xiv, 397 pp. $25.95, ISBN 1-4000-4105-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1547 doi:10.2307/3660325
    • Gary Dorrien

    William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience. By Warren Goldstein. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xvi, 379 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-10221-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1547-1548 doi:10.2307/3660326
    • Eugene McCarraher

    Religion in America since 1945: A History. By Patrick Allitt. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xviii, 313 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-231-12154-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1548-1549 doi:10.2307/3660327
    • Beth S. Wenger

    Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America. By Penny Schine Gold. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xviii, 269 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3667-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1549-1550 doi:10.2307/3660328
    • Susan Eleanor Hirsch

    The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America. By Dorothy Sue Cobble. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi, 315 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-06993-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1550-1551 doi:10.2307/3660329
    • Susan M. Hartmann

    Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963–1975. By Patricia Bradley. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. xviii, 322 pp. Cloth, $46.00, ISBN 1-57806-612-3. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-613-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2005) 91(4): 1551 doi:10.2307/3660330
    • Robert C. Fuller

    The Politics of Healing: Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America. Ed. by Robert D. Johnston. (New York: Routledge, 2004. x, 388 pp. Cloth, $90.00, ISBN 0-415-93338-2. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-415-93339-0.)

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    • Sandra Patton-Imani

    Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58. By E. Wayne Carp. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xvi, 238 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1305-6.)

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    • David G. Orr

    Stelle e strisce: Storia di una bandiera (Stars and stripes: A history of a flag). By Arnaldo Testi. (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003. 141 pp. Paper, 9.50, ISBN 88-339-1492-5.) In Italian

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