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Volume 94 Issue 2 September 2007

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Articles

    • Allen C. Guelzo

    Houses Divided: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Political Landscape of 1858

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 391-417 doi:10.2307/25094958
    • Thomas A. Stapleford

    Market Visions: Expenditure Surveys, Market Research, and Economic Planning in the New Deal

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 418-444 doi:10.2307/25094959
    • Andrea Friedman

    The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Race, Gender, and McCarthyism

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 445-468 doi:10.2307/25094960
    • Susan J. Matt

    You Can't Go Home Again: Homesickness and Nostalgia in U.S. History

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 469-497 doi:10.2307/25094961
    • Jan Shipps

    Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and the New Mormon History

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 498-516 doi:10.2307/25094962
    • Richard Lyman Bushman

    What's New in Mormon History: A Response to Jan Shipps

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 517-521 doi:10.2307/25094963
    • Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

    Putting Religion on the Map

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 522-529 doi:10.2307/25094964

  • Recent Scholarship

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 676 doi:10.1093/jahist/94.2.676

Book Reviews

    • Brett Walker

    Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. By Linda Nash. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv, 332 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-520-24891-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24887-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 530-531 doi:10.2307/25094965
    • James Emmett Ryan

    Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature. By Tracy Fessenden. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii, 337 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-04963-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 531 doi:10.2307/25094966
    • Charles D. Cashdollar

    In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism. By James Hudnut-Beumler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xx, 267 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3079-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 532 doi:10.2307/25094967
    • Richard Kyle

    A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion. By Catherine L. Albanese. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xii, 628 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11089-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 532-533 doi:10.2307/25094968
    • Terry Rey

    Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World. Ed. by Margaret Cormack. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-630-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 533-534 doi:10.2307/25094969
    • Charles L. Cohen

    Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700. By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xvi, 327 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-4279-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8047-4280-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 534-535 doi:10.2307/25094970
    • Robert Galgano

    Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513–1783. By Daniel S. Murphree. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. x, 188 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-3024-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 535-536 doi:10.2307/25094971
    • Kent Anderson Leslie

    Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony. By Ben Marsh. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xvi, 253 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2882-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 536-537 doi:10.2307/25094972
    • Alan Gallay

    Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xvi, 383 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02303-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 537 doi:10.2307/25094973
    • L. Scott Philyaw

    The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia. By Christopher E. Hendricks. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xxii, 186 pp. $36.00, ISBN 1-57233-543-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 538 doi:10.2307/25094974
    • Douglas B. Chambers

    Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730–1807. By Emma Christopher. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii, 241 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-86162-4. Paper, $21.99, ISBN 0-521-67966-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 538-539 doi:10.2307/25094975
    • Timothy J. Shannon

    Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776. By Alden T. Vaughan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxvi, 337 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86594-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 539-540 doi:10.2307/25094976
    • John T. McGrath

    Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. By Carolyn Podruchny. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxiv, 414 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-8790-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 540-541 doi:10.2307/25094977
    • Matthew C. Ward

    Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England. By Ann M. Little. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. x, 262 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-3965-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 541-542 doi:10.2307/25094978
    • Melvin Yazawa

    The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776. By Brendan McConville. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xviii, 322 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3065-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 542-543 doi:10.2307/25094979
    • James Kirby Martin

    War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. Ed. by John Resch and Walter Sargent. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. viii, 318 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-366-1. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-87580-614-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 543-544 doi:10.2307/25094980
    • Gerald F. Reid

    Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution. By Joseph T. Glatthaar and James Kirby Martin. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. xii, 434 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-4601-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 544-545 doi:10.2307/25094981
    • Whitman Hawley Ridgway

    George Mason: Forgotten Founder. By Jeff Broadwater. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 329 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3053-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 545 doi:10.2307/25094982
    • Patrick J. Ryan

    The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940. By John Carson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xx, 401 pp. $39.50, ISBN 978-0-691-01715-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 545-546 doi:10.2307/25094983
    • Arthur Riss

    Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois. By Caroline F. Levander. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xii, 247 pp. Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3856-7. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3872-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 546-547 doi:10.2307/25094984
    • Timothy A. Milford

    Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature. By Ivy Schweitzer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3069-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5778-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 547-548 doi:10.2307/25094985
    • Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler

    Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail. By William R. Casto. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 202 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-629-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 548-549 doi:10.2307/25094986
    • Paul E. Doutrich

    Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship. By Matthew Warshauer. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. x, 314 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57233-548-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 549-550 doi:10.2307/25094987
    • Robert L. Harris, Jr.

    What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality. By Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos, and Marshall Ganz. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xvi, 291 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12299-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 550-551 doi:10.2307/25094988
    • Spencer C. Tucker

    Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842–1861. By Donald L. Canney. (Dulles: Potomac, 2006. xiv, 277 pp. $27.50, ISBN 1-57488-606-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 551 doi:10.2307/25094989
    • Robert L. Paquette

    From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences. By Nathalie Dessens. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xiv, 257 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-3037-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 551-552 doi:10.2307/25094990
    • Bridget Brereton

    Post-Emancipation Race Relations in the Bahamas. By Whittington B. Johnson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xii, 190 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2994-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 552-553 doi:10.2307/25094991
    • Russ Castronovo

    Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Arthur Riss. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. viii, 238 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85674-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 554-555 doi:10.2307/25094993
    • Frank J. Byrne

    An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York. By Martha Jane Brazy. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xvi, 232 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3141-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 555-556 doi:10.2307/25094994
    • Anya Jabour

    Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation. By Lorri Glover. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii, 250 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8498-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 556-557 doi:10.2307/25094995
    • Lacy K. Ford

    Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820–1865. By Frank J. Byrne. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. x, 297 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2404-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 557-558 doi:10.2307/25094996
    • Enrico Dal Lago

    An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia. By Daniel Kilbride. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 216 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-656-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 558 doi:10.2307/25094997
    • Paul Douglas Newman

    Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. By Andrew M. Schocket. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. xiv, 274 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-369-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 558-559 doi:10.2307/25094998
    • Myra C. Glenn

    “The First of Causes to Our Sex”: The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834–1848. By Daniel S. Wright. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xii, 278 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-415-97910-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 559-560 doi:10.2307/25094999
    • Anne M. Boylan

    To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord. By Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv, 233 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-4157-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 560-561 doi:10.2307/25095000
    • Craig D. Townsend

    Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827. By David N. Gellman. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiv, 297 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3174-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 561-562 doi:10.2307/25095001
    • Matthew Mancini

    Alexis de Tocqueville: A Biography. By Hugh Brogan. (London: Profile, 2006. xii, 724 pp. £30.00, ISBN 978-1-86197-509-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 562 doi:10.2307/25095002
    • Menahem Blondheim

    Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom. By Robert C. Williams. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xviii, 411 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8147-9402-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 562-563 doi:10.2307/25095003
    • Robert J. Chandler

    Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush. By Richard T. Stillson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. x, 274 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-4325-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 563-564 doi:10.2307/25095004
    • Charles E. Orser, Jr.

    The Sangamo Frontier: History and Archaeology in the Shadow of Lincoln. By Robert Mazrim. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. x, 352 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-226-51424-6. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-226-51425-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 564-565 doi:10.2307/25095005
    • Mark V. Tushnet

    The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War. By H. Robert Baker. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xiv, 260 pp. $38.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1690-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 565-566 doi:10.2307/25095006
    • Jon L. Wakelyn

    Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War. By Robert Tracy McKenzie. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 306 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-518294-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 566-567 doi:10.2307/25095007
    • Gary Dorrien

    The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. By Mark A. Noll. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 199 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3012-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 567 doi:10.2307/25095008
    • Kevin Conley Ruffner

    The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861–1865. By Susannah Ural Bruce. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiv, 309 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9939-0. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9940-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 567-568 doi:10.2307/25095009
    • Jason Sokol

    Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. By James C. Cobb. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii, 404 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-508959-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531581-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 568-569 doi:10.2307/25095010
    • Joel Dinerstein

    Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. By Scott Reynolds Nelson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 214 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530010-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 569-570 doi:10.2307/25095011
    • R. Ben Brown

    In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law. By Joseph A. Ranney. (Westport: Praeger, 2006. x, 199 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-275-98972-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 570-571 doi:10.2307/25095012
    • Randal L. Hall

    Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization. By Daniel S. Margolies. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xii, 340 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2417-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 571 doi:10.2307/25095013
    • Jacqueline M. Moore

    A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray. By John F. Marszalek. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xx, 211 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-3002-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 571-572 doi:10.2307/25095014
    • Peter F. Lau

    Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972. By R. Scott Baker. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xxvi, 248 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-632-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 572-573 doi:10.2307/25095015
    • Jonathan Wright

    Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919. By Gerald McKevitt. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xx, 428 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5357-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 573-574 doi:10.2307/25095016
    • Michael J. Pfeifer

    Lynching in the West: 1850–1935. By Ken Gonzales-Day. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xiv, 299 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3781-2. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3794-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 574-575 doi:10.2307/25095017
    • Rodolfo F. Acuña

    Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By Samuel Truett. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii, 259 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11091-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 575 doi:10.2307/25095018
    • Jerilyn Sue McIntyre

    Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics, and the Montana Press, 1889–1959. By Dennis L. Swibold. (Helena: Montana Historical Society, 2006. xx, 408 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-9721522-8-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-9759196-0-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 576 doi:10.2307/25095019
    • Carroll Engelhardt

    Schools as Imagined Communities: The Creation of Identity, Meaning, and Conflict in U.S. History. Ed. by Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Sherman Dorn, and Barbara J. Shircliffe. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 1-4039-6471-8. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-4039-6472-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 576-577 doi:10.2307/25095020
    • Thomas D. Hall

    Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. By Ned Blackhawk. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 372 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02290-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 577-578 doi:10.2307/25095021
    • Martha McCollough

    Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life. By Kingsley M. Bray. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xviii, 510 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3785-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 578-579 doi:10.2307/25095022
    • Brenda J. Child

    Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860–1919. By Jane E. Simonsen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 266 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3032-1. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5695-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 579-580 doi:10.2307/25095023
    • Lisa E. Emmerich

    Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxxiv, 276 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-1829-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 580-581 doi:10.2307/25095024
    • Gretchen M. Bataille

    Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film. By M. Elise Marubbio. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xiv, 298 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2414-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 581-582 doi:10.2307/25095025
    • Margot A. Henriksen

    Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America. By Laura Browder. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 287 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3050-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 582 doi:10.2307/25095026
    • Marilyn Greenwald

    Front Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880–1930. By Jean Marie Lutes. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv, 226 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4235-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 583 doi:10.2307/25095027
    • Jennifer de Forest

    Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. By Ruth Crocker. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xxii, 526 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-253-34712-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 583-584 doi:10.2307/25095028
    • Miriam Forman-Brunell

    The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women's Lives, 1890–1940. By Beverly Gordon. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xii, 273 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-542-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 584-585 doi:10.2307/25095029
    • Kathryn J. Oberdeck

    Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America. By Fred Nadis. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xiv, 318 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-8135-3515-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 585-586 doi:10.2307/25095030
    • Timothy Marr

    A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb. By Umar F. Abd-Allah. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii, 388 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-518728-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 586-587 doi:10.2307/25095031
    • Lisa Jacobson

    American Commodities in an Age of Empire. By Mona Domosh. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xii, 202 pp. Cloth, $90.00, ISBN 978-0-415-94571-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-415-94572-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 587-588 doi:10.2307/25095032
    • Robert Lawson-Peebles

    Observing America: The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890–1950. By Robert Frankel. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. xvi, 318 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-299-21880-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 588 doi:10.2307/25095033
    • Stephanie S. Pincetl

    American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land. By Peter Coates. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. x, 256 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24930-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 588-589 doi:10.2307/25095034
    • Sharon E. Kingsland

    All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850–1950. By Robert E. Kohler. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xvi, 363 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12539-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 589-590 doi:10.2307/25095035
    • Christopher J. Otter

    The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. By David Edgerton. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii, 270 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-19-532283-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 590-591 doi:10.2307/25095036
    • R. Hal Williams

    The Demise of the American Convention System, 1880–1911. By John F. Reynolds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 270 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85963-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 591-592 doi:10.2307/25095037
    • Lisa Mundey

    Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870–1917. By Eleanor L. Hannah. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. x, 304 pp. Cloth, $42.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-1045-1. CD-ROM, $9.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-9125-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 592-593 doi:10.2307/25095038
    • Stephen L. Fisher

    Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890–1930s. By Ken Fones-Wolf. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xxx, 236 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03131-1. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07371-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 593-594 doi:10.2307/25095039
    • Pamela Nickless

    A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry. By Beth English. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xii, 236 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2628-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 594 doi:10.2307/25095040
    • Stephen Mihm

    Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. By David A. Zimmerman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 294 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3023-9. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5687-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 594-595 doi:10.2307/25095041
    • Richard S. Tedlow

    Andrew Carnegie. By David Nasaw. (New York: Penguin, 2006. xiv, 878 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-59420-104-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 595-596 doi:10.2307/25095042
    • David E. Hamilton

    Mellon: An American Life. By David Cannadine. (New York: Knopf, 2006. xvi, 779 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-45032-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 596-597 doi:10.2307/25095043
    • Jonathan J. Bean

    Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South. By Peter M. Ascoli. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xvi, 453 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-34741-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 597-598 doi:10.2307/25095044
    • Renee M. Laegreid

    A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960. By Abigail A. Van Slyck. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxxviii, 296 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8166-4876-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 598-599 doi:10.2307/25095045
    • Bernard Mergen

    Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight. By Fred Erisman. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2006. xx, 346 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-87565-330-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 599-600 doi:10.2307/25095046
    • Martin Meeker

    Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics. By Daniel Hurewitz. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xii, 367 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24925-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 600-601 doi:10.2307/25095047
    • Mansel G. Blackford

    Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism. By Cristina Bacchilega. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xii, 230 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-3975-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 601 doi:10.2307/25095048
    • Karen Miller Russell

    Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment. By Duane C. S. Stoltzfus. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii, 187 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03115-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 601-602 doi:10.2307/25095049
    • Charles Pete Banner-Haley

    Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I. By Marcy S. Sacks. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 231 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-3961-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 602-603 doi:10.2307/25095050
    • S. J. Kleinberg

    Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900–1935. By Anna R. Igra. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. viii, 175 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3070-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5779-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 603-604 doi:10.2307/25095051
    • Axel R. Schäfer

    Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City. By John Louis Recchiuti. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xii, 311 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-3957-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 604-605 doi:10.2307/25095052
    • Liping Bu

    A Leadership for Peace: How Edwin Ginn Tried to Change the World. By Robert I. Rotberg. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xvi, 247 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5455-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 605 doi:10.2307/25095053
    • Fritz Fischer

    Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century. By Jonathan Zimmerman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 300 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02361-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 605-606 doi:10.2307/25095054
    • Catherine E. Rymph

    The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s. By Lorraine Gates Schuyler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvi, 336 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3066-6. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5776-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 606-607 doi:10.2307/25095055
    • William P. Jones

    Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920–1927. By Mary G. Rolinson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 286 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3092-5. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5795-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 607-608 doi:10.2307/25095056
    • Elena Razlogova

    Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio. By Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii, 307 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03119-9. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07364-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 608-609 doi:10.2307/25095057
    • Jacqueline K. Dirks

    Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. By Inger L. Stole. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xviii, 290 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03059-8. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07299-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 609-610 doi:10.2307/25095058
    • Nancy J. Rosenbloom

    Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History. By Amelie Hastie. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. xii, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3676-1. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3687-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 610-611 doi:10.2307/25095059
    • Sharon M. Leon

    Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Ed. by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. x, 406 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1691-4. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1692-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 611-612 doi:10.2307/25095060
    • Robert Casillo

    Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade. By Alan M. Wald. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xx, 319 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3075-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 612 doi:10.2307/25095061
    • Judy Kutulas

    Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism. By David Ciepley. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 379 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02296-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 612-613 doi:10.2307/25095062
    • Steven A. Riess

    Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s. By Barbara J. Keys. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv, 274 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02326-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 613-614 doi:10.2307/25095063
    • Wyatt C. Wells

    Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004. By Tony A. Freyer. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 437 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-81788-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 614-615 doi:10.2307/25095064
    • Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman

    Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South. By Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xx, 234 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-8071-3133-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 615-616 doi:10.2307/25095065
    • Robert F. Himmelberg

    Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956. By Jason Scott Smith. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 283 pp. $75.00, ISBN 0-521-82805-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 616-617 doi:10.2307/25095066
    • Brad D. Lookingbill

    Regions in Transition: The Northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in the Great Depression. By Rolland Dewing. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2006. x, 245 pp. Paper, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7618-3544-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 617 doi:10.2307/25095067
    • Haim Genizi

    Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper. By Laurel Leff. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi, 426 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-521-81287-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 618 doi:10.2307/25095068
    • Gar Alperovitz

    Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. By Michael D. Gordin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi, 209 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12818-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 618-619 doi:10.2307/25095069
    • Alan McPherson

    Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation. By Harvey R. Neptune. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3080-2. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5788-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 619-620 doi:10.2307/25095070
    • Amy Swerdlow

    Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest. By Marian Mollin. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. x, 255 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-3952-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 620-621 doi:10.2307/25095071
    • William Thomas Allison

    Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II. By Sahr Conway-Lanz. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xiv, 280 pp. Cloth, $95.00, ISBN 0-415-97828-9. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-415-97829-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 621-622 doi:10.2307/25095072
    • Oren Baruch Stier

    Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws, from Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial. By Anthony M. Platt and Cecilia E. O'Leary. (Boulder: Paradigm, 2006. xii, 268 pp. Cloth, $72.00, ISBN 1-59451-139-X. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-59451-140-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 622 doi:10.2307/25095073
    • Neil A. Wynn

    Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation. By Suzanne Mettler. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii, 252 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-518097-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 622-623 doi:10.2307/25095074
    • Thomas R. Huffman

    Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945–1972. By Paul Charles Milazzo. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii, 340 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1475-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 623-624 doi:10.2307/25095075
    • Steven M. Nolt

    Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture. By Royden Loewen. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxiv, 331 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03178-6. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07425-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 624-625 doi:10.2307/25095076
    • Jane Marcellus

    Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. By Kathleen M. Barry. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. xviii, 304 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3934-2. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3946-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 625-626 doi:10.2307/25095077
    • Jane Park

    Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance. By Hye Seung Chung. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. xxii, 232 pp. Cloth, $66.50, ISBN 1-59213-515-3. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-59213-516-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 626-627 doi:10.2307/25095078
    • Hilary Radner

    Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television. By Elana Levine. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. viii, 320 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3902-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3919-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 627 doi:10.2307/25095079
    • Scott Saul

    This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture. By Iain Anderson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 254 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-3980-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 627-628 doi:10.2307/25095080
    • John Nerone

    Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture. By Lisa Gitelman. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2006. xvi, 205 pp. $36.00, ISBN 978-0-262-07271-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 628-629 doi:10.2307/25095081
    • Ross Knox Bassett

    From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. By Fred Turner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x, 327 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-81741-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 629-630 doi:10.2307/25095082
    • Mark Silk

    Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South. By Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xxvi, 177 pp. $36.00, ISBN 1-57233-493-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 630-631 doi:10.2307/25095083
    • Margo Anderson

    The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. By Sarah E. Igo. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 398 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02321-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 631-632 doi:10.2307/25095084
    • Stephanie Dyer

    The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950. By Avner Offner. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii, 454 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-19-820853-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 632 doi:10.2307/25095085
    • Steven Biel

    American Fear: The Causes and Consequences of High Anxiety. By Peter N. Stearns. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xii, 243 pp. Cloth, $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-95540-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-415-95542-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 632-633 doi:10.2307/25095086
    • Mary Glantz

    From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War. By Wilson D. Miscamble. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xx, 393 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86244-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 633-634 doi:10.2307/25095087
    • Richard Polenberg

    Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. By Charles Thorpe. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xx, 413 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-226-79845-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 634-635 doi:10.2307/25095088
    • Ira Chernus

    Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945–1963. By Benjamin P. Greene. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii, 358 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5445-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 635-636 doi:10.2307/25095089
    • Stephen E. Kercher

    Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest. By Gerard J. DeGroot. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiv, 321 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8147-1995-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 636-637 doi:10.2307/25095090
    • Jacob Darwin Hamblin

    Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science. By Dian Olson Belanger. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xxxiv, 494 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-87081-830-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 637 doi:10.2307/25095091
    • John T. McNay

    Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. By Robert L. Beisner. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi, 800 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-504578-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 637-638 doi:10.2307/25095092
    • William I. Hitchcock

    A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe. By Michael Creswell. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xviii, 238 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02297-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 638-639 doi:10.2307/25095093
    • Erin Rose Mahan

    Transatlantic Relations at Stake: Aspects of nato, 1956–1972. Ed. by Christian Nuenlist and Anna Locher. (Zurich: Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, 2006. 257 pp. ISBN 3-905696-12-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 639-640 doi:10.2307/25095094
    • Jon Davidann

    America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy. By Naoko Shibusawa. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. 397 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02348-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 640-641 doi:10.2307/25095095
    • Edwin Moïse

    Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. By Seth Jacobs. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xii, 207 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-4447-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-4448-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 641-642 doi:10.2307/25095096
    • Nathan Godfried

    A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television. By David Everitt. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. xvi, 411 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-1-56663-575-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 642-643 doi:10.2307/25095097
    • Susan Carruthers

    What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xvi, 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-4124-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8166-4125-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 643 doi:10.2307/25095098
    • Margaret Garb

    Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. By Adam Green. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi, 306 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-30641-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 643-644 doi:10.2307/25095099
    • Hilary J. Moss

    Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron. By Hoda M. Zaki. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi, 187 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03110-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 644-645 doi:10.2307/25095100
    • John Salmond

    From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice. By Thomas F. Jackson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 459 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-3969-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 645-646 doi:10.2307/25095101
    • Christopher Barry Strain

    The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Simon Wendt. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xiv, 279 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3018-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 646-647 doi:10.2307/25095102
    • Glenn Feldman

    There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945–1975. By Jason Sokol. (New York: Knopf, 2006. 433 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-307-26356-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 647-648 doi:10.2307/25095103
    • Mark Newman

    Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement. By George Lewis. (London: Hodder Headline, 2006. x, 254 pp. Paper, £18.99, ISBN 9780-340-90022-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 648 doi:10.2307/25095104
    • F. Arturo Rosales

    ¡Raza Sí! ¡Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the Viet Nam War Era. By Lorena Oropeza. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xviii, 278 pp. $21.95, ISBN 0-520-22511-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 648-649 doi:10.2307/25095105
    • Thomas R. Turner

    The jfk Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy. By Michael L. Kurtz. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xvi, 280 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1474-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 649-650 doi:10.2307/25095106
    • Robert J. McMahon

    Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings. By Joseph A. Fry. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-4435-2. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-4436-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 650-651 doi:10.2307/25095107
    • Robert V. Daniels

    Henry Kissinger e l'ascesa dei neoconservatori: Alle origini della politica estera americana (Henry Kissinger and the rise of the neoconservatives: On the origins of American foreign policy). By Mario Del Pero. (Rome-Bari: Laterza, 2006. 197 pp. Paper, €18.00, ISBN 88-420-8009-8.) In Italian.

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 651-652 doi:10.2307/25095108
    • Melvin Small

    Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. By Robert Dallek. (New York: HarperCollins, 2007. xii, 740 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-06-0722302.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 652-653 doi:10.2307/25095109
    • Jon Wiener

    Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. By James T. Patterson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 448 pp. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-19-512216-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 653 doi:10.2307/25095110
    • W. Elliot Brownlee

    Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President. By Kyle Longley, Jeremy D. Mayer, Michael Schaller, and John W. Sloan. (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. xviii, 150 pp. Cloth, $56.95, ISBN 978-0-7656-1590-9. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-7656-1591-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 653-654 doi:10.2307/25095111
    • Catherine McNicol Stock

    Aryan Cowboys: White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, 1970–2000. By Evelyn A. Schlatter. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. xviii, 250 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-292-71421-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71471-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 654-655 doi:10.2307/25095112
    • Barbara Franco

    Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations. Ed. by Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 602 pp. Cloth, $99.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3878-9. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3894-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 655-656 doi:10.2307/25095113
    • Mary Frances Berry

    Reparations: Pro and Con. By Alfred L. Brophy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii, 287 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-530408-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 656-657 doi:10.2307/25095114

Book Review

    • Myra B. Young Armstead

    The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era. By Wilma King. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xviii, 290 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1657-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8262-1660-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 553-554 doi:10.2307/25094992

Web Site Reviews

    • Robert P. Watson

    The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu:8100/dmde/. University of Virginia Press. Edited by Holly C. Shulman. The Dolley Madison Project, http://moderntimes.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/. Virginia Center for Digital History. Edited by Holly C. Shulman and David B. Mattern

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 658-660 doi:10.2307/25095115
    • Daniel Pope

    Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850–1920, http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/. Created and maintained by the Digital Scriptorium and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History, Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, Duke University. Reviewed Dec. 4–15, 2006

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 660-661 doi:10.2307/25095116
    • Miriam Forman-Brunell

    Twentieth-Century Girls: Coming of Age in the Twentieth Century, Stories from Minnesota and Beyond, http://www.mnsu.edu/mngirls/. Created and maintained by Minnesota State University, Mankato. Reviewed Nov. 25–Dec. 4, 2006

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 661 doi:10.2307/25095117
    • Carl R. Lounsbury

    Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933–Present, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/. Created and maintained by the Library of Congress American Memory Project, Washington, D.C. Reviewed Jan. 2007

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 661-662 doi:10.2307/25095118
    • Robert O. Self

    Invincible Cities, http://invinciblecities.camden.rutgers.edu/. Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey. Reviewed Nov. 2006

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 662-663 doi:10.2307/25095119

Editor's Annual Report, 2006–2007

    • Edward T. Linenthal

    Editor's Annual Report, 2006–2007

    The Journal of American History (2007) 94(2): 664-667 doi:10.1093/jahist/94.2.664

Letters to the Editor

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