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Volume 95 Issue 2 September 2008

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Articles

    • Tami J. Friedman

    Exploiting the North-South Differential: Corporate Power, Southern Politics, and the Decline of Organized Labor after World War II

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 323-348 doi:10.2307/25095621
    • R. Marie Griffith

    The Religious Encounters of Alfred C. Kinsey

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 349-377 doi:10.2307/25095622
    • Edward T. Linenthal

    Editor's Annual Report, 2007–2008

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 626-629 doi:10.1093/jahist/95.2.626

  • Recent Scholarship

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 633 doi:10.1093/jahist/95.2.633

The Senses in American History: A Round Table

    • Mark M. Smith

    Still Coming to “Our” Senses: An Introduction

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 378-380 doi:10.2307/25095623
    • Mark M. Smith

    Getting in Touch with Slavery and Freedom

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 381-391 doi:10.2307/25095624
    • Gerard J. Fitzgerald and
    • Gabriella M. Petrick

    In Good Taste: Rethinking American History with Our Palates

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 392-404 doi:10.2307/25095625
    • Connie Y. Chiang

    The Nose Knows: The Sense of Smell in American History

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 405-416 doi:10.2307/25095626
    • Richard Cullen Rath

    Hearing American History

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 417-431 doi:10.2307/25095627
    • James W. Cook

    Seeing the Visual in U.S. History

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 432-441 doi:10.2307/25095628
    • David Howes

    Can These Dry Bones Live? An Anthropological Approach to the History of the Senses

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 442-451 doi:10.2307/25095629

  • Interchange: The Promise of Digital History

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 452-491 doi:10.2307/25095630

Book Reviews

    • Richard J. Ellis

    America's Three Regimes: A New Political History. By Morton Keller. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 336 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-19-532502-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 492-493 doi:10.2307/25095631
    • Daniel E. Bender

    Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. Ed. by James T. Campbell, Matthew Pratt Guterl, and Robert G. Lee. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. viii, 383 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3127-4. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5828-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 493-494 doi:10.2307/25095632
    • Lawrence C. Allin

    The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600–2000. By Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster, and Alexander Keyssar. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2008. xviii, 521 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-470-13600-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 494-495 doi:10.2307/25095633
    • James H. O'Donnell III

    Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492–1715. By Paul Kelton. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii, 288 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2756-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 495-496 doi:10.2307/25095634
    • Paul E. Hoffman

    A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, the Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked across America in the Sixteenth Century. By Andrés Reséndez. (New York: Basic, 2007. xiv, 314 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-465-06840-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 496-497 doi:10.2307/25095635
    • Philip P. Boucher

    Histoire de l'Amérique francaise (History of French America). By Gilles Havard and Cécile Vidal. (Paris: Champs Flammarion, 2006. 731 pp. Paper, €12.50, ISBN 2-08-080121-X.) In French

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 497-498 doi:10.2307/25095636
    • Paola Gemme

    The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693–1796. By Colleen Gray. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xxxvi, 250 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-7735-3227-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 498 doi:10.2307/25095637
    • J. R. McNeill

    France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?. By Philip P. Boucher. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi, 372 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8725-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8726-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 499 doi:10.2307/25095638
    • Matthew Mason

    Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700. By Susan Dwyer Amussen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 302 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3165-6. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5854-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 499-500 doi:10.2307/25095639
    • David Armitage

    English Atlantics Revisited: Essays Honouring Professor Ian K. Steele. Ed. by Nancy L. Rhoden. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xxviii, 528 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-7735-3219-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 500-501 doi:10.2307/25095640
    • Aaron Spencer Fogleman

    Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World. Ed. by Michele Gillespie and Robert Beachy. (New York: Berghahn, 2007. x, 267 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-184545-339-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 501-502 doi:10.2307/25095641
    • Richard P. Gildrie

    Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts. By James E. McWilliams. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xii, 201 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2636-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 502-503 doi:10.2307/25095642
    • J. Richard Olivas

    The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America. By Thomas S. Kidd. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xx, 392 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11887-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 503-504 doi:10.2307/25095643
    • Scott C. Martin

    Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater. By Jason Shaffer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 230 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4024-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 504-505 doi:10.2307/25095644
    • Archie Vernon Huff, Jr.

    To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732–1865. By Arlin C. Migliazzo. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxiv, 435 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-682-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 505-506 doi:10.2307/25095645
    • Cynthia A. Kierner

    Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766–1820. By Nicholas Michael Butler. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxii, 375 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-705-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 506-507 doi:10.2307/25095646
    • David Wagner

    Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America—Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln. By Matthew S. Holland. (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2007. xii, 321 pp. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-58901-183-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 507 doi:10.2307/25095647
    • Lisa M. Gordis

    The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England. By Matthew P. Brown. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xvi, 265 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4015-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 507-508 doi:10.2307/25095648
    • Teresa Toulouse

    Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Ed. by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. x, 263 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4054-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 508-509 doi:10.2307/25095649
    • Jean V. Matthews

    The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900. By Caroline Winterer. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. xiv, 242 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4163-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 509-510 doi:10.2307/25095650
    • Patrick Griffin

    Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Margaret Connell Szasz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xvi, 285 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3861-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 510-511 doi:10.2307/25095651
    • Kevin J. Fernlund

    William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest. By Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. x, 269 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2455-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 511-512 doi:10.2307/25095652
    • Akim D. Reinhardt

    The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations. By Kevin Bruyneel. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxiv, 313 pp. Cloth, $67.50, ISBN 978-0-8166-4987-7. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8166-4988-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 512 doi:10.2307/25095653
    • Paul H. Bergeron

    Middle Tennessee, 1775–1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier. By Kristofer Ray. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xxviii, 236 pp. $41.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-597-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 513 doi:10.2307/25095654
    • Joshua David Bellin

    Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier. By Cynthia Cumfer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xii, 324 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3151-9. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5844-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 513-514 doi:10.2307/25095655
    • Andrew K. Frank

    The Seminole Freedmen: A History. By Kevin Mulroy. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxxii, 446 pp. $36.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3865-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 514-515 doi:10.2307/25095656
    • Stephen W. Angell

    Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Ed. by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3812-3. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3865-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 515-516 doi:10.2307/25095657
    • Daniel S. Murphree

    Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. by Richmond F. Brown. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xiv, 313 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-6267-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 516-517 doi:10.2307/25095658
    • Light Townsend Cummins

    Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier. By H. Sophie Burton and F. Todd Smith. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xvi, 216 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-60344-018-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 517-518 doi:10.2307/25095659
    • Kevin Bruyneel

    American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790–1880. By Deborah A. Rosen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xx, 340 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-3968-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 518-519 doi:10.2307/25095660
    • Paul D. Moreno

    Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise: A Historical Inquiry. By Edward A. Purcell Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. x, 301 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-12203-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 519 doi:10.2307/25095661
    • Ralph Ketcham

    Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World. By Michael I. Meyerson. (New York: Basic, 2008. xvi, 309 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-465-00264.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 519-520 doi:10.2307/25095662
    • Jonathan M. Chu

    The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America. By Michael J. Thompson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xiv, 249 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14074-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 520-521 doi:10.2307/25095663
    • Michael P. Zuckert

    The Age of Strict Construction: A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789–1861. By Peter Zavodnyik. (Washington: Catholic University of America, 2007. x, 372 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8132-1504-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 521-522 doi:10.2307/25095664
    • Larry L. Nelson

    In the Midst of Alarms: The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812. By Dianne Graves. (Toronto: Robin Brass, 2007. xvi, 495 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-1-896941-52-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 522-523 doi:10.2307/25095665
    • Bryant Franklin Tolles, Jr.

    Hotel: An American History. By A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 375 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-300-10616-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 523-524 doi:10.2307/25095666
    • Lynne Pierson Doti

    The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse. By Jane Kamensky. (New York: Viking, 2008. xxii, 442 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-670-01841-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 524 doi:10.2307/25095667
    • Gordon Sayre

    Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932. By Joshua David Bellin. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 264 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4034-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 524-525 doi:10.2307/25095668
    • Robert S. Levine

    Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region. Ed. by JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2007. xxvi, 244 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-641-8. Paper, $26.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-642-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 525-526 doi:10.2307/25095669
    • Joanne Pope Melish

    A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation. By David W. Blight. (New York: Harcourt, 2007. 307 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-15-101232-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 526-527 doi:10.2307/25095670
    • Robert D. Friedel

    The Toothpick: Technology and Culture. By Henry Petroski. (New York: Knopf, 2007. xii, 443 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-307-26636-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 527-528 doi:10.2307/25095671
    • David A. Wolff

    Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail. By Keith Heyer Meldahl. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xxii, 329 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-226-51960-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 528 doi:10.2307/25095672
    • Nancy J. Taniguchi

    Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush. By Aims McGuinness. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiv, 249 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4521-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 529 doi:10.2307/25095673
    • Adam I. P. Smith

    “Gentleman George” Hunt Pendleton: Party Politics and Ideological Identity in Nineteenth-Century America. By Thomas S. Mach. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2007. x, 307 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-87338-913-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 529-530 doi:10.2307/25095674
    • Hugh Davis

    Charles Eliot Norton: The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America. By Linda Dowling. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2007. xxiv, 221 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-58465-646-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 530-531 doi:10.2307/25095675
    • Ellen Herman

    Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830–1930. By Crista DeLuzio. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii, 330 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8699-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 531-532 doi:10.2307/25095676
    • Joel D. Howell

    Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine. By Heather Munro Prescott. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. xiv, 234 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-472-11608-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 532-533 doi:10.2307/25095677
    • Samantha J. King

    Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society. By Robert A. Aronowitz. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii, 366 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-521-82249-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 533 doi:10.2307/25095678
    • James W. Trent

    Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States. By Mark A. Largent. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xii, 213 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4182-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 533-534 doi:10.2307/25095679
    • Sherry H. Penney

    Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Womenś Rights Movement. By Sally G. McMillen. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 310 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-518265-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 534-535 doi:10.2307/25095680
    • Thomas Saunders Kidd

    American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion. By Michael P. Carroll. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xx, 219 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8683-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 535-536 doi:10.2307/25095681
    • Norma Basch

    Guarding Lifeś Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy. By Lawrence M. Friedman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xii, 348 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8047-5739-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 536-537 doi:10.2307/25095682
    • James L. Hunt

    A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854–1903. By O. Gene Clanton. (Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 2004. xvi, 328 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-89745-276-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 537 doi:10.2307/25095683
    • Sylvia D. Hoffert

    America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. By J. Matthew Gallman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 262 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-516145-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 538 doi:10.2307/25095684
    • Martin Crawford

    The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War. By William L. Barney. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 245 pp. Cloth, $22.00, ISBN 978-0-19-531434-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 538-539 doi:10.2307/25095685
    • Ralph A. Wooster

    Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South. By Donald E. Reynolds. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xiv, 237 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3283-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 539-540 doi:10.2307/25095686
    • Wayne C. Temple

    The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America. By Roy Morris Jr. Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America. By Allen C. Guelzo

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 540-541 doi:10.2307/25095687
    • Susan-Mary Grant

    Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession. By Russell McClintock. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 388 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3188-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 541-542 doi:10.2307/25095688
    • Stanley Harrold

    The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. By James Oakes. (New York: Norton, 2007. xxii, 328 pp. Cloth, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-393-06194-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-393-33065-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 542-543 doi:10.2307/25095689
    • Matthew Pinsker

    Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. By Burrus M. Carnahan. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. x, 202 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2463-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 543-544 doi:10.2307/25095690
    • Kirt H. Wilson

    Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Ed. by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. viii, 271 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8093-2764-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 544-545 doi:10.2307/25095691
    • Nicole Etcheson

    The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox. By Stephen Budiansky. (New York: Viking, 2008. 322 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-670-01840-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 545-546 doi:10.2307/25095692
    • J. Matthew Gallman

    The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction. By Mark E. Neely Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 277 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02658-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 546-547 doi:10.2307/25095693
    • David T. Gleeson

    Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia. By Aaron Sheehan-Dean. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 291 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3158-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 547 doi:10.2307/25095694
    • Ian Binnington

    Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility. By Jason Phillips. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xii, 257 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2836-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 547-548 doi:10.2307/25095695
    • Louis S. Gerteis

    Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy. By Roger Pickenpaugh. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xiv, 175 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1582-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 548-549 doi:10.2307/25095696
    • William C. Harris

    Lincoln's Legacy: Ethics and Politics. Ed. by Phillip Shaw Paludan. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. x, 85 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03223-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 549-550 doi:10.2307/25095697
    • Michael Fellman

    The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction. By LeeAnna Keith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xviii, 219 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531026-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 550-551 doi:10.2307/25095698
    • Steven D. Reschly

    Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri. By Robert W. Frizzell. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xiv, 202 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1761-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 551-552 doi:10.2307/25095699
    • Stewart E. Tolnay

    Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence. By Cynthia Skove Nevels. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xiv, 189 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-589-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 552-553 doi:10.2307/25095700
    • Richard A. Van Orman

    Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875–1910. By Andrew R. Graybill. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi, 277 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-6002-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 553-554 doi:10.2307/25095701
    • Jeffrey J. Crow

    Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement. By Joseph Gerteis. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 274 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4210-6. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4224-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 554 doi:10.2307/25095702
    • David Goldfield

    Roanoke, Virginia, 1882–1912: Magic City of the New South. By Rand Dotson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xxii, 338 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-592-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 555 doi:10.2307/25095703
    • Peter J. Hill

    Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867–1910. By Mark R. Ellis. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii, 262 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-1830-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 555-556 doi:10.2307/25095704
    • Joseph A. Stout, Jr.

    Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann. By William Chebahtah and Nancy McGown Minor. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi, 276 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-1097-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 556-557 doi:10.2307/25095705
    • Pablo Mitchell

    Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona. By Eric V. Meeks. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xvi, 326 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-292-71698-8. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71699-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 557-558 doi:10.2307/25095706
    • Judith Berg Sobré

    Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio. By Laura Hernández-Ehrisman. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. x, 238 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-4310-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 558-559 doi:10.2307/25095707
    • Susan Craddock

    Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles. By Emily K. Abel. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xii, 188 pp. Cloth, $68.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-4175-4. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4176-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 559 doi:10.2307/25095708
    • Elliott R. Barkan

    Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846–1906. By Barbara Berglund. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xviii, 294 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1530-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 560 doi:10.2307/25095709
    • William L. Hewitt

    Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family. By Claudio Saunt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii, 300 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531310-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 560-561 doi:10.2307/25095710
    • Katherine Ellinghaus

    White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation. By Lauren L. Basson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xvi, 238 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3143-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5837-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 561-562 doi:10.2307/25095711
    • Ronald T. McCoy

    Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century. By Gregory E. Smoak. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xii, 289 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 978-0-24658-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25627-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 562-563 doi:10.2307/25095712
    • Gerald E. Poyo

    Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1956. By Reinaldo L. Román. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 273 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3141-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5836-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 563-564 doi:10.2307/25095713
    • Barry Gough

    In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire along the Inside Passage. By Robert Campbell. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 348 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4021-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 564 doi:10.2307/25095714
    • Stephen M. Griffin

    The Great Tradition: Constitutional History and National Identity in Britain and the United States, 1870–1960. By Anthony Brundage and Richard A. Cosgrove. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiv, 341 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5686-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 564-565 doi:10.2307/25095715
    • Kevin J. McMahon

    A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900–1910. By Brent J. Aucoin. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. xii, 169 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-849-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 565-566 doi:10.2307/25095716
    • H. Michael Gelfand

    A Soul on Trial: A Marine Corps Mystery at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. By Robin R. Cutler. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xviii, 382 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-4849-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 566-567 doi:10.2307/25095717
    • Jeremy Engels

    Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era. By Russ Castronovo. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv, 287 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-226-09628-5. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-226-09629-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 567-568 doi:10.2307/25095718
    • George Cotkin

    American Pragmatism and Democratic Faith. By Robert J. Lacey. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. x, 286 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-379-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 568 doi:10.2307/25095719
    • R. Bruce Stephenson

    Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. By Matthew Klingle. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xx, 344 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11641-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 568-569 doi:10.2307/25095720
    • Barbara Handy-Marchello

    Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age through the Great Depression. By Carrie A. Meyer. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. x, 251 pp. Cloth, $54.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-5032-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 978-0-8166-5033-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 569-570 doi:10.2307/25095721
    • Cary D. Wintz

    Dan Moody: Crusader for Justice. By Ken Anderson. (Georgetown, Tex.: Georgetown, 2008. 194 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-96444-21-4-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 570-571 doi:10.2307/25095722
    • Anthony B. Pinn

    A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader. By Cynthia Taylor. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xii, 291 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-8287-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 571-572 doi:10.2307/25095723
    • Daniel Katz

    A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York. By Tony Michels. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xii, 335 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-01913-X.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 572-573 doi:10.2307/25095724
    • Randolph E. Bergstrom

    Labor Law and Labor Policy in New York State, 1920s–1930s. By Jin Hee Kim. (Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2006. xvi, 321 pp. ISBN 978-89-951257-0-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 573-574 doi:10.2307/25095725
    • John B. Jentz

    Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880–1914. By Tom Goyens. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 263 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03175-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 574 doi:10.2307/25095726
    • Louis Fisher

    The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice. By Chad Millman. (New York: Little, Brown, 2006. xviii, 330 pp. $24.99, ISBN 978-0-316-73496-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 574-575 doi:10.2307/25095727
    • Sherry L. Smith

    North American Indians in the Great War. By Susan Applegate Krouse. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xii, 248 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2778-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 575-576 doi:10.2307/25095728
    • John Earl Haynes

    Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928–35. By Randi Storch. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 297 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03206-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 576-577 doi:10.2307/25095729
    • Richard A. Meckel

    Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America. By Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove with Daniel Wolfe. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xxiv, 342 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25202-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25325-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 577-578 doi:10.2307/25095730
    • David E. Ruth

    Verne Sankey: America's First Public Enemy. By Timothy W. Bjorkman. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xii, 279 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3853-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 578-579 doi:10.2307/25095731
    • Stuart E. Knee

    Alfred Kazin: A Biography. By Richard M. Cook. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. x, 452 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11505-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 579 doi:10.2307/25095732
    • Donald A. Ritchie

    The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary. By Linda Lotridge Levin. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2008. 538 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-59102-577-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 579-580 doi:10.2307/25095733
    • E. Bruce Geelhoed

    Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century. By David Reynolds. (New York: Basic, 2007. xiv, 544 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-465-06904-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 580-581 doi:10.2307/25095734
    • Jeremy D. Mayer

    Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism. By Victoria Clark. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. x, 331 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11698-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 581-582 doi:10.2307/25095735
    • Steve J. Wurtzler

    Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations. By Jonathan Auerbach. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xii, 200 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25259-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25293-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 582-583 doi:10.2307/25095736
    • Jerold L. Simmons

    Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration. By Thomas Doherty. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xii, 427 pp. $29.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14358-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 583 doi:10.2307/25095737
    • Gregg A. Mitman

    Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television. Ed. by Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007. x, 343 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-58046-234-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 584 doi:10.2307/25095738
    • Shane J. Maddock

    The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War. By Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi. (Cambridge: Harvard Uni versity Press, 2005. 387 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-674-01714-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 584-585 doi:10.2307/25095739
    • Loch K. Johnson

    The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the cia Played America. By Hugh Wilford. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xvi, 342 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02681-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 585-586 doi:10.2307/25095740
    • Richard Gid Powers

    J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: fbi Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939–1945. By Douglas M. Charles. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. x, 197 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-1061-1. cd-rom, $9.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-9140-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 586-587 doi:10.2307/25095741
    • Martin Halpern

    Soapy: A Biography of G. Mennen Williams. By Thomas J. Noer. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xvi, 419 pp. $79.95, ISBN 0-472-11508-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 587-588 doi:10.2307/25095742
    • Joseph W. Bendersky

    Karl Loewenstein: Transatlantischer Denker der Politik (Karl Loewenstein: Transatlantic political thinker). By Markus Lang. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2007. 353 pp. €46.00, ISBN 978-3-515-08930-2.) In German

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 588-589 doi:10.2307/25095743
    • Richard J. Smethurst

    Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. By Edward S. Miller. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2007. xvi, 323 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-1-59114-520-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 589 doi:10.2307/25095744
    • Leisa D. Meyer

    Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II. By James H. Madison. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xx, 300 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-253-35047-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 589-590 doi:10.2307/25095745
    • Heike Raphael-Hernandez

    Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany. By Timothy L. Schroer. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. xvi, 295 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-87081-869-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 590-591 doi:10.2307/25095746
    • James J. Lorence

    “Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era. Ed. by Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, and Peter Stanfield. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. 416 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-4197-6. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4198-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 591-592 doi:10.2307/25095747
    • Jeffrey J. Lange

    The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. By Diane Pecknold. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 294 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4059-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4080-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 592-593 doi:10.2307/25095748
    • Barbara Foley

    Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction. By Anthony Hutchison. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xxvi, 230 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-231-14138-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 593-594 doi:10.2307/25095749
    • M. Elizabeth Sanders

    Against the President: Dissent and Decision-Making in the White House: A Historical Perspective. By Mark J. White. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. x, 370 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-1-66663-744-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 594-595 doi:10.2307/25095750
    • Steven Goldstein

    Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949–1972. By Yafeng Xia. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xviii, 326 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-34758-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 595-596 doi:10.2307/25095751
    • William L. Cumiford

    Ecuador and the United States: Useful Strangers. By Ronn Pineo. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xvi, 260 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2970-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2971-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 596-597 doi:10.2307/25095752
    • H. Larry Ingle

    Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism. By Angela M. Lahr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 281 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531448-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 597-598 doi:10.2307/25095753
    • Harvey Kantor

    See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan. By Gareth Davies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 387 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1532-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 598 doi:10.2307/25095754
    • Kenneth R. Janken

    There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior. By Judith Kilpatrick. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. x, 221 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-848-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 598-599 doi:10.2307/25095755
    • Judith Weisenfeld

    Daddy Grace: A Celebrity Preacher and His House of Prayer. By Marie W. Dallam. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. viii, 263 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-2010-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 599-600 doi:10.2307/25095756
    • Kathryn M. Daynes

    Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. By Donald Harman Akenson. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. x, 349 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7735-3295-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 600-601 doi:10.2307/25095757
    • Carl Abbott

    Building the Body Politic: Power and Urban Space in Washington, D.C. By Margaret E. Farrar. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. viii, 183 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03227-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 601-602 doi:10.2307/25095758
    • Louise Michele Newman

    Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. By Anne M. Valk. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvi, 253 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03298-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 602-603 doi:10.2307/25095759
    • Benita Roth

    Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism. By Anne Enke. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. xvi, 369 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4062-1. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4083-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 603-604 doi:10.2307/25095760
    • Matthew Bokovoy

    The End of the Innocence: The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair. By Lawrence R. Samuel. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xxiv, 243 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-0890-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 604-605 doi:10.2307/25095761
    • Edward D. Berkowitz

    The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy. By Brian Steensland. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 304 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12714-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 605 doi:10.2307/25095762
    • Jacqueline R. Braitman

    Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics. By Bill Boyarsky. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xii, 265 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-520-21967-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 605-606 doi:10.2307/25095763
    • James R. Ralph, Jr.

    Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers. By Karl E. Campbell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xx, 425 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3156-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 606-607 doi:10.2307/25095764
    • Gregory L. Schneider

    In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. By Joseph Crespino. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xx, 360 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12209-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 607-608 doi:10.2307/25095765
    • John Ehrman

    White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics. By Martin Durham. (New York: Routledge, 2007. viii, 180 pp. Cloth, $140.00, ISBN 978-0-415-36232-0. Paper, $33.95, ISBN 978-0-415-36233-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 608-609 doi:10.2307/25095766
    • J. Samuel Walker

    Real-World Nuclear Deterrence: The Making of International Strategy. By David G. Coleman and Joseph M. Siracusa. (Westport: Praeger Security International, 2006. xiv, 164 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-275-98098-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 609 doi:10.2307/25095767
    • Nikki Brown

    Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America. By Micki McElya. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii, 322 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02433.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 609-610 doi:10.2307/25095768
    • Yohuru R. Williams

    Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon. By Jane Rhodes. (New York: New Press, 2007. xii, 404 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-56584-961-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 610-611 doi:10.2307/25095769
    • Andrew Witt

    Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. By Paul Alkebulan. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xx, 176 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1549-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 611-612 doi:10.2307/25095770
    • Thomas J. Davis

    Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations. By Charles P. Henry. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. x, 249 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8147-3692-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 612-613 doi:10.2307/25095771
    • Eithne Quinn

    Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap. By Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 236 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1547-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 613-614 doi:10.2307/25095772
    • Louis P. Cain

    Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization. By Steven High and David W. Lewis. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. x, 193 pp. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-7401-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 614 doi:10.2307/25095773
    • William Kahrl

    Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism. By Andrew G. Kirk. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 303 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1545-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 614-615 doi:10.2307/25095774
    • William P. Head

    The War That Never Ends: New Perspectives on the Vietnam War. Ed. by David L. Anderson and John Ernst. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. viii, 368 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2473-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 615-616 doi:10.2307/25095775
    • Elizabeth Siegel Watkins

    Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now. By Charles E. Rosenberg. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii, 214 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8715-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8716-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 616-617 doi:10.2307/25095776
    • Robert S. Robins

    When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine. By Barron H. Lerner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xviii, 334 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8018-8462-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 617-618 doi:10.2307/25095777
    • Steven R. Hoffbeck

    The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today. By Odd S. Lovoll. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xvi, 299 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8166-2833-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 618-619 doi:10.2307/25095778
    • Kenneth E. Foote

    Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero. By Marita Sturken. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xii, 344 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4122-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 619-620 doi:10.2307/25095779
    • Andrew Stern

    American Angels: Useful Spirits in the Material World. By Peter Gardella. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 285 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1537-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 620 doi:10.2307/25095780

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    • William D. Rowley

    Heading West: Mapping the Territory; and Touring West: 19th-Century Performing Artists on the Overland Trail, http://www.nypl.org/west/. New York Public Library. Reviewed Dec. 2007

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 621-622 doi:10.2307/25095781
    • John M. Sherrer III and
    • Helena Ferguson

    Sanborn® Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884–1922, Sanborn® Fire Insurance Maps, Utah, Sanborn® Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina, Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867–1970 (access by subscription)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 622-624 doi:10.2307/25095782
    • Kathryn Fuller-Seeley

    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/index.html. Created and maintained by the National Digital Newspaper Program, jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Reviewed Nov. 15–Dec. 29, 2007

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 624-625 doi:10.2307/25095783
    • Donald A. Ritchie

    CQ Historic Documents, http://library.cqpress.com/historicdocuments/. A division of Congressional Quarterly, Inc. Reviewed Dec. 27–28, 2007

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(2): 625 doi:10.2307/25095784

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