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Volume 94 Issue 4 March 2008

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Presidential Address

    • Richard White

    A Commemoration and a Historical Mediation

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1073-1081 doi:10.2307/25095320

Articles

    • J. M. Opal

    The Labors of Liberality: Christian Benevolence and National Prejudice in the American Founding

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1082-1107 doi:10.2307/25095321
    • Andrew W. Kahrl

    “The Slightest Semblance of Unruliness”: Steamboat Excursions, Pleasure Resorts, and the Emergence of Segregation Culture on the Potomac River

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1108-1136 doi:10.2307/25095322
    • Rebecca L. Davis

    “Not Marriage at All, but Simple Harlotry”: The Companionate Marriage Controversy

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1137-1163 doi:10.2307/25095323
    • James J. Weingartner

    Americans, Germans, and War Crimes: Converging Narratives from “the Good War”

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1164-1183 doi:10.2307/25095324

  • Recent Scholarship

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1338 doi:10.1093/jahist/94.4.1338

Textbooks and Teaching

    • Scott E. Casper

    Starting Places: Studying How Students Understand History

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1184-1185 doi:10.2307/25095325
    • Sam Wineburg and
    • Chauncey Monte-Sano

    “Famous Americans”: The Changing Pantheon of American Heroes

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1186-1202 doi:10.2307/25095326
    • David M. Wrobel

    A Place for Regions in the Modern U.S. Survey?

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1203-1210 doi:10.2307/25095327
    • Arlene Díaz,
    • Joan Middendorf,
    • David Pace,
    • and Leah Shopkow

    The History Learning Project: A Department “Decodes” Its Students

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1211-1224 doi:10.2307/25095328

Book Reviews

    • Mark E. Neely, Jr.

    The Road to Disunion, vol. 2: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854–1861. By William W. Freehling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii, 605 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-505815-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1225-1226 doi:10.2307/25095329
    • Eldon J. Eisenach

    Attendant Cruelties: Nation and Nationalism in American History. By Patrice Higonnet. (New York: Other, 2007. l, 378 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-1-59051-235-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1226-1227 doi:10.2307/25095330
    • H. W. Brands

    American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time. By John McGowan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. x, 269 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3171-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1227-1228 doi:10.2307/25095331
    • Douglas A. Sweeney

    The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice. By Ted A. Smith. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 340 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87131-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1228-1229 doi:10.2307/25095332
    • Warren R. Hofstra

    The Jamestown Project. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007. x, 380 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02474-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1229 doi:10.2307/25095333
    • George Pierre Castile

    The State, Removal, and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620–2000. By Claudia B. Haake. (New York: Routledge, 2007. xiv, 293 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-95860-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1229-1230 doi:10.2307/25095334
    • Junius P. Rodriguez

    If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Eric Robert Taylor. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xviii, 266 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3181-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1230-1231 doi:10.2307/25095335
    • Jon Sensbach

    The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000. By Colin Kidd. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. viii, 309 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-521-79324-7. Paper, $27.99, ISBN 978-0-521-79729-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1231-1232 doi:10.2307/25095336
    • Julius H. Bailey

    A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism. By J. Gordon Melton. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xii, 317 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-5264-7. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-5265-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1232-1233 doi:10.2307/25095337
    • Gilberto M. Hinojosa

    Death and Dying in New Mexico. By Martina Will de Chaparro. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xxiv, 261 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-4163-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1233 doi:10.2307/25095338
    • Steve Longenecker

    Jesus Is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion in Early America. By Aaron Spencer Fogleman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. x, 330 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-3992-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1233-1234 doi:10.2307/25095339
    • Lucy E. Salyer

    Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law. By John Fabian Witt. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 406 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02360-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1234-1235 doi:10.2307/25095340
    • Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr.

    Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America. By Mark Garrett Longaker. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xxii, 266 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1547-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1235-1236 doi:10.2307/25095341
    • Daniel W. Hamilton

    Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: A History of Search and Seizure, 1789-1868. By Andrew E. Taslitz. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xii, 363 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-8263-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1236-1237 doi:10.2307/25095342
    • Ben Mutschler

    Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse: A Life in Medicine and Public Service (1754-1846). By Philip Cash. (Canton: Science History Publications, 2006. xii, 516 pp. $56.00, ISBN 0-88135-264-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1237-1238 doi:10.2307/25095343
    • Marty D. Matthews

    Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different. By Gordon S. Wood. (New York: Penguin, 2006. xiv, 321 pp. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 978-0-14-311208-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1238 doi:10.2307/25095344
    • Thomas J. Humphrey

    That Ever Loyal Island: Staten Island and the American Revolution. By Phillip Papas. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. xii, 185 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-6724-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1238-1239 doi:10.2307/25095345
    • John Edward Grenier

    Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. By John Ferling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv, 679 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-518121-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1239-1240 doi:10.2307/25095346
    • Edward Watts

    The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler. By Edward G. Gray. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv, 224 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11055-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1240-1241 doi:10.2307/25095347
    • Gregg Camfield

    River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain. By Thomas Ruys Smith. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xii, 232 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3233-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1241-1242 doi:10.2307/25095348
    • Matthew Klingle

    Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West. By Richard W. Etulain. Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West. By Michael L. Johnson

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1242-1243 doi:10.2307/25095349
    • Richard W. Judd

    American Wilderness: A New History. Ed. by Michael Lewis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii, 290 pp. Cloth, $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517415-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-19-517414-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1243-1244 doi:10.2307/25095350
    • Brian Steele

    Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia. By Susan Dunn. (New York: Basic, 2007. x, 310 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-465-01743-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1244-1245 doi:10.2307/25095351
    • Jane Weiss

    The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wendy Gamber. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv, 213 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8571-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1245-1246 doi:10.2307/25095352
    • D. Scott Molloy

    The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv, 242 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8600-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1246-1247 doi:10.2307/25095353
    • Paul Otto

    Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians. By Amy C. Schutt. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 250 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-3993-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1247-1248 doi:10.2307/25095354
    • Dedra McDonald Birzer

    Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820–1880. By María Raquél Casas. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007. xiv, 261 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-87417-697-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1248-1249 doi:10.2307/25095355
    • Brad Agnew

    The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825–1855. By William E. Unrau. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 201 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1511-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1249-1250 doi:10.2307/25095356
    • Michael L. Tate

    The Black Hawk War of 1832. By Patrick J. Jung. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xii, 275 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3811-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1250 doi:10.2307/25095357
    • Bruce E. Johansen

    Gall: Lakota War Chief. By Robert W. Larson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xvi, 301 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3830-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1251 doi:10.2307/25095358
    • Tiya Miles

    African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation. By Gary Zellar. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xx, 343 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3815-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1251-1252 doi:10.2307/25095359
    • Jean R. Soderlund

    Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820–1865. By Ryan P. Jordan. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xvi, 175 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-34860-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1252-1253 doi:10.2307/25095360
    • James T. Campbell

    Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. By Stephanie E. Smallwood. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 273 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02349-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1253-1254 doi:10.2307/25095361
    • Dennis K. Boman

    The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America. By Robert Pierce Forbes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 369 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3105-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1254-1255 doi:10.2307/25095362
    • David M. Robinson

    Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life; The Public Years. By Charles Capper. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xxii, 649 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-19-506313-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1255-1256 doi:10.2307/25095363
    • Michael P. Young

    Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform. By Scott Gac. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv, 312 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11198-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1256 doi:10.2307/25095364
    • David Hochfelder

    The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. By David M. Henkin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvi, 221 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-226-32720-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1256-1257 doi:10.2307/25095365
    • Mark Rice

    Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850–1890. By Robin Kelsey. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xii, 273 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24935-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1257-1258 doi:10.2307/25095366
    • Kristen T. Oertel

    The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line. By Jeremy Neely. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xx, 305 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1729-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1258-1259 doi:10.2307/25095367
    • Mary Ellen Rowe

    Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and Civil-Military Relations during the Mexican War. By John C. Pinheiro. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. xii, 228 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-275-98409-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1259-1260 doi:10.2307/25095368
    • Allan Peskin

    A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign. By Timothy D. Johnson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 365 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1541-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1260 doi:10.2307/25095369
    • John C. Pinheiro

    A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States. By Timothy J. Henderson. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xxii, 216 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-6120-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1260-1261 doi:10.2307/25095370
    • James Schwartz

    A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War, 1854–1877. By Scott Reynolds Nelson and Carol Sheriff. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 372 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-514654-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1261-1262 doi:10.2307/25095371
    • Richard B. McCaslin

    Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through His Private Letters. By Elizabeth Brown Pryor. (New York: Viking, 2007. xxvi, 658 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-670-03829-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1262-1263 doi:10.2307/25095372
    • Edward J. Blum

    The Age of Lincoln. By Orville Vernon Burton. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. 420 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-9513-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1263 doi:10.2307/25095373
    • William D. Pederson

    Lincoln the Lawyer. By Brian Dirck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi, 228 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03181-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1264 doi:10.2307/25095374
    • Brian R. Dirck

    Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum. Ed. by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. xvi, 369 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8232-2736-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1264-1265 doi:10.2307/25095375
    • Stephen Hansen

    Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency. By William C. Harris. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 412 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1520-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1265-1266 doi:10.2307/25095376
    • Aaron Sheehan-Dean

    Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861–1865. By Richard R. Duncan. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xxii, 380 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3217-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1266-1267 doi:10.2307/25095377
    • Gerald N. Grob

    The Madness of Mary Lincoln. By Jason Emerson. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xvi, 255 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8093-2771-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1267-1268 doi:10.2307/25095378
    • Bruce W. Eelman

    Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer. By Mary Gorton McBride. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xvi, 320 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3234-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1268 doi:10.2307/25095379
    • David Steigerwald

    Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865–1920. By Kristin L. Hoganson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 402 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3089-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5793-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1268-1269 doi:10.2307/25095380
    • Wayne K. Durrill

    Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Post-bellum United States. Ed. by Thomas J. Brown. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 246 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517595-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1269-1270 doi:10.2307/25095381
    • Mark Roman Schultz

    Becoming Free in the Cotton South. By Susan Eva O'Donovan. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. xiv, 364 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02483-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1270-1271 doi:10.2307/25095382
    • Daniel S. Margolies

    The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War. By Gerald Horne. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. vi, 253 pp. Cloth, $59.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3121-9. Paper, $29.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3147-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1271-1272 doi:10.2307/25095383
    • Ted Tunnell

    A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction. By William Warren Rogers Jr. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi, 269 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03160-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1272-1273 doi:10.2307/25095384
    • Robert F. Engs

    The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era. By Andrew L. Slap. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xxvi, 306 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2709-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1273-1274 doi:10.2307/25095385
    • Murney Gerlach

    Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform. By Leslie Butler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xviii, 381 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3084-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5792-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1274-1275 doi:10.2307/25095386
    • Shirley J. Yee

    Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation. Ed. by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xxiv, 385 pp. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11593-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1275-1276 doi:10.2307/25095387
    • Judith H. Raftery

    Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870–1920. By Leslie Petty. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. viii, 231 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2858-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1276 doi:10.2307/25095388
    • Cathleen D. Cahill

    Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place. By Coll Thrush. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xxii, 326 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-0-295-98700-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1276-1277 doi:10.2307/25095389
    • Richard J. Altenbaugh

    American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study. By Michael C. Coleman. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi, 367 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-1563-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1277-1278 doi:10.2307/25095390
    • Janet Farrell Brodie

    The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870–1920. By Timothy A. Hickman. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xvi, 190 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-1-55849-565-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-566-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1278-1279 doi:10.2307/25095391
    • Douglas E. Kupel

    Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson. By Michael F. Logan. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. xii, 228 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8229-4294-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1279-1280 doi:10.2307/25095392
    • Mart Stewart

    Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. By Jack Temple Kirby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xxii, 361 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3057-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1280 doi:10.2307/25095393
    • David Turley

    African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. By Kimberly K. Smith. (Law- rence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 257 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1516-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1280-1281 doi:10.2307/25095394
    • Jacqueline Bacon

    Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds. Ed. by Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway. (Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2007. xiv, 462 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-1-58465-633-3. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-634-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1281-1282 doi:10.2307/25095395
    • H. Mark Wild

    Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880–1925. By Melissa R. Klapper. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. xx, 219 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-1-56663-733-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1282-1283 doi:10.2307/25095396
    • Huping Ling

    Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans. By Jean Pfaelzer. (New York: Random House, 2007. xxx, 400 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-4000-6134-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1283-1284 doi:10.2307/25095397
    • Xiaojian Zhao

    Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion. By Estelle T. Lau. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 214 pp. Cloth, $74.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3735-5. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3747-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1284-1285 doi:10.2307/25095398
    • Gregg Cantrell

    The Populist Vision. By Charles Postel. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv, 397 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517650-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1285 doi:10.2307/25095399
    • Richard Kaplan

    The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms. By W. Joseph Campbell. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xxii, 317 pp. Cloth, $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-97702-9. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-415-97703-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1285-1286 doi:10.2307/25095400
    • Lisa Lindquist Dorr

    The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940. By Julian B. Carter. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 219 pp. Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3937-3. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3948-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1286-1287 doi:10.2307/25095401
    • Richard W. Etulain

    Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show. By Louis S. Warren. (New York: Knopf, 2005. xvi, 652 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-375-41216-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1287-1288 doi:10.2307/25095402
    • Bruce E. Seely

    Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market. By Sally H. Clarke. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii, 296 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86878-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1288-1289 doi:10.2307/25095403
    • Melissa R. Klapper

    Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America. By Susan A. Miller. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xii, 270 pp. Cloth, $68.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-4063-4. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4064-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1289-1290 doi:10.2307/25095404
    • George A. Lévesque

    The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950. By Violet Showers Johnson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xii, 181 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-34752-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1290-1291 doi:10.2307/25095405
    • Lillian Serece Williams

    African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids. By Randal Maurice Jelks. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xx, 217 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-252-03040-0. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-252-07347-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1291-1292 doi:10.2307/25095406
    • Victor Silverman

    Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History. By Deborah R. Weiner. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x, 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03094-9. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07335-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1292-1293 doi:10.2307/25095407
    • James Colgrove

    From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health. By R. Alton Lee. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. xii, 233 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-275-99467-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1293-1294 doi:10.2307/25095408
    • Christopher W. Wells

    Hell on Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America's Car Culture, 1900–1940. By David Blanke. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 266 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1515-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1294 doi:10.2307/25095409
    • John P. Jackson, Jr.

    In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement. By Michael Lienesch. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xii, 338 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3096-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1294-1295 doi:10.2307/25095410
    • Brenda Murphy

    Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire under Democracy. By John Patrick Diggins. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi, 305 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-14880-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1295-1296 doi:10.2307/25095411
    • Kyle E. Ciani

    The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920–30. By Jan Doolittle Wilson. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii, 245 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03167-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1296-1297 doi:10.2307/25095412
    • Bruce Bustard

    No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. By Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii, 419 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-226-31606-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1297-1298 doi:10.2307/25095413
    • Jill Watts

    Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949. By Judith Weisenfeld. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 341 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-22774-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1298 doi:10.2307/25095414
    • Susan Ware

    “Something on My Own”: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929–1956. By Glenn D. Smith Jr. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xvi, 293 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-0887-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1299 doi:10.2307/25095415
    • Clifford J. Doerksen

    Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture. By Bruce Lenthall. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii, 261 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-226-47191-4. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-226-47192-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1299-1300 doi:10.2307/25095416
    • Albert Churella

    The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. By Christopher D. McKenna. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii, 370 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-521-81039-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1300-1301 doi:10.2307/25095417
    • David Clinton

    Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals: Essays Honoring Robert H. Ferrell. Ed. by J. Garry Clifford and Theodore A. Wilson. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xii, 350 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1747-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1301-1302 doi:10.2307/25095418
    • Gene A. Sessions

    Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907–1921. By Matthew C. Godfrey. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. vi, 226 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-87421-658-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1302-1303 doi:10.2307/25095419
    • Robert M. Collins

    Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. By Thomas K. McCraw. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007. xii, 719 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02523-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1303 doi:10.2307/25095420
    • Robert E. Wright

    The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed over Industry. By Lawrence E. Mitchell. (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007. xiv, 395 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-57675-400-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1303-1304 doi:10.2307/25095421
    • Harold L. Platt

    Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast. Ed. by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8229-4335-8. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-5963-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1304-1305 doi:10.2307/25095422
    • Dayle C. Hardy-Short

    Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks. By Hal K. Rothman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x, 281 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531116-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1305-1306 doi:10.2307/25095423
    • Susan D. Jones

    Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. By Gregg Mitman. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xviii, 312 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11035-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1306-1307 doi:10.2307/25095424
    • Minna P. Ziskind

    For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934–1953. By Daniel J. Opler. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. x, 270 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-1063-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1307-1308 doi:10.2307/25095425
    • Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

    Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xviii, 316 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1736-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1308 doi:10.2307/25095426
    • Diane Ghirardo

    Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration. By Robert D. Leighninger Jr. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. xxx, 298 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-945-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1308-1309 doi:10.2307/25095427
    • Heather Fryer

    The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II. By Kevin Allen Leonard. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xii, 360 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-4047-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1309-1310 doi:10.2307/25095428
    • Ron Robin

    Orwell Subverted: The cia and the Filming of Animal Farm. By Daniel J. Leab. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xxiv, 195 pp. $55.00, ISBN 987-0-271-02978-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1310-1311 doi:10.2307/25095429
    • Scott L. Pratt

    In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America. By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi, 189 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-226-29824-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1311-1312 doi:10.2307/25095430
    • Jean Preer

    Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund. By Marybeth Gasman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xviii, 269 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8604-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1312 doi:10.2307/25095431
    • Jonathan Zimmerman

    Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education. By Kathryn M. Neckerman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii, 260 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-56960-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1312-1313 doi:10.2307/25095432
    • Peyton McCrary

    Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By Brian K. Landsberg. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 264 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1510-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1313-1314 doi:10.2307/25095433
    • Stephen Sandford Estes, Jr.

    Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle. By Laurie B. Green. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 415 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3106-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5802-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1314-1315 doi:10.2307/25095434
    • R. Fred Wacker

    White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. By Joshua M. Zeitz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 278 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3095-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5798-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1315 doi:10.2307/25095435
    • Andrew L. Johns

    Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949–1979. By Guangqiu Xu. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2007. xiv, 409 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-931968-36-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1315-1316 doi:10.2307/25095436
    • Matthew Jones

    Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam. By Kathryn C. Statler. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xiv, 378 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2440-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1316-1317 doi:10.2307/25095437
    • Richard Striner

    Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965. By Robert J. Cook. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xvi, 300 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3227-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1317-1318 doi:10.2307/25095438
    • Mark K. Bauman

    “Silent No More”: Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989. By Henry L. Feingold. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xviii, 400 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8156-3101-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1318-1319 doi:10.2307/25095439
    • John Prados

    Henry Kissinger and the American Century. By Jeremi Suri. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007. x, 358 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02579-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1319-1320 doi:10.2307/25095440
    • E. Timothy Smith

    Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance. Ed. by William Anthony Hay and Harvey Sicherman. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. x, 251 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-82-621692-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1320-1321 doi:10.2307/25095441
    • Perry Bush

    Lutherans and the Longest War: Adrift on a Sea of Doubt about the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964–1975. By David E. Settje. (Lanham: Lexington, 2007. x, 221 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-1531-2. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 978-0-7391-1532-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1321 doi:10.2307/25095442
    • Joseph A. Fry

    Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past. Ed. by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young. (New York: New Press, 2007. xii, 322 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-1-59558-149-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1321-1322 doi:10.2307/25095443
    • Elana Levine

    Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s. By Sam Binkley. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. xii, 296 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3973-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3989-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1322-1323 doi:10.2307/25095444
    • Gregory J. Higby

    Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History. Ed. by Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-8300-9. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-8301-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1323-1324 doi:10.2307/25095445
    • Lisa D. Brush

    The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America. By Felicia Kornbluh. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xiv, 287 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4005-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1324-1325 doi:10.2307/25095446
    • Catherine L. Albanese

    Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion. By Jeffrey J. Kripal. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv, 575 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-226-45369-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1325-1326 doi:10.2307/25095447
    • David K. Johnson

    Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. By Steve Estes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 280 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3115-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1326-1327 doi:10.2307/25095448
    • Joy Porter

    Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote. By Daniel McCool, Susan M. Olson, and Jennifer L. Robinson. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 232 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-83983-9. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 978-0-521-54871-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1327-1328 doi:10.2307/25095449
    • Barton H. Barbour

    New Indians, Old Wars. By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi, 226 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03166-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1328 doi:10.2307/25095450

Web Site Reviews

    • Simon Appleford,
    • Vernon Burton,
    • and Kelly Schrum

    Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1329-1331 doi:10.2307/25095451
    • Christopher Hamner

    Military Campaign Maps, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/milhome.html. Created and maintained by the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Reviewed Aug. 1–8, 2007

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1331-1332 doi:10.2307/25095452
    • Tara Kathleen Kelly

    Immigration to the United States, 1789–1930, http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/. Created and maintained by the Open Collections Project, Harvard University Library. Reviewed May–Aug. 2007

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1332 doi:10.2307/25095453
    • Laura Briggs

    Adoption History Project, http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~adoption/. Created and maintained by Ellen Herman, University of Oregon. Designed by the Wired Humanities Project. Reviewed June 12–13, 2007

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1332-1333 doi:10.2307/25095454
    • Daniel J. Cohen

    Linus Pauling and the Race for dna: A Documentary History, http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/index.html. Created and maintained by the Special Collections division of the Valley Library, Oregon State University. Reviewed June 8–14, 2007

    The Journal of American History (2008) 94(4): 1333-1334 doi:10.2307/25095455

Letters to the Editor

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