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Volume 95 Issue 3 December 2008

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Articles

    • Joshua D. Rothman

    The Hazards of the Flush Times: Gambling, Mob Violence, and the Anxieties of America's Market Revolution

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 651-677 doi:10.2307/27694375
    • Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

    Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater's Early Senate Career and the De-legitimization of Organized Labor

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 678-709 doi:10.2307/27694376
    • Daniel Geary

    “Becoming International Again”: C. Wright Mills and the Emergence of a Global New Left, 1956–1962

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 710-736 doi:10.2307/27694377
    • James H. Meriwether

    “Worth a Lot of Negro Votes”: Black Voters, Africa, and the 1960 Presidential Campaign

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 737-763 doi:10.2307/27694378
    • Christopher Grasso and
    • Karin Wulf

    Nothing Says “Democracy” Like a Visit from the Queen: Reflections on Empire and Nation in Early American Histories

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 764-781 doi:10.2307/27694379

Exhibition Reviews

Book Reviews

    • George C. Rable

    This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. By Drew Gilpin Faust. (New York: Knopf, 2008. xviii, 346 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-375-40404-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 808-809 doi:10.2307/27694387
    • Edwin Gaustad

    God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America. By E. Brooks Holifield. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. x, 356 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-0381-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 809-810 doi:10.2307/27694388
    • Robert H. Craig

    Religion in American Politics: A Short History. By Frank Lambert. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. x, 294 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12833-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 810-811 doi:10.2307/27694389
    • John T. Juricek

    The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians. By Michael Leroy Oberg. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xvi, 205 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-8122-4031-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 811-812 doi:10.2307/27694390
    • Julie Anne Sweet

    Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital, and Social Power. By Cameron B. Wesson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxviii, 228 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-4795-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 812 doi:10.2307/27694391
    • Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

    A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy. By David C. Major and John S. Major. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 261 pp. $29.50, ISBN 978-0-8386-4152-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 812-813 doi:10.2307/27694392
    • Henry L. Feingold

    Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654–1800. By William Pencak. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv, 321 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-472-11454-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 813-814 doi:10.2307/27694393
    • Roxann Wheeler

    Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940. By Laura Doyle. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xii, 578 pp. Cloth, $99.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4135-2. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4159-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 814-815 doi:10.2307/27694394
    • Richard R. Johnson

    Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture. By Elaine G. Breslaw. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xvi, 348 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3278-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 815-816 doi:10.2307/27694395
    • Edwin J. Perkins

    Taxation in Colonial America. By Alvin Rabushka. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxii, 946 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-691-13345-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 816-817 doi:10.2307/27694396
    • John E. Stealey III

    Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860. By Laura Croghan Kamoie. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xii, 222 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2637-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 817-818 doi:10.2307/27694397
    • Patricia D'Antonio

    The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present. By E. Fuller Torrey and Judy Miller. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xvi, 416 pp. Cloth, $28.00, ISBN 0-8135-3003-2. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4207-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 818 doi:10.2307/27694398
    • Bruce C. Daniels

    Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George Whitefield and the Founding of a New Nation. By Jerome Dean Mahaffey. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007. xiv, 295 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-932792-88-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 818-819 doi:10.2307/27694399
    • John Resch

    Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution. By John A. Nagy. (Yardley: Westholme, 2008. xx, 386 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59416-055-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 819-820 doi:10.2307/27694400
    • Daniel P. Barr

    Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier. By Paul B. Moyer. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. xvi, 216 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-4494-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 820-821 doi:10.2307/27694401
    • Suzanne Geissler

    Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr. By Nancy Isenberg. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xx, 540 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-670-06352-9. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 978-0-14-311371-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 821-822 doi:10.2307/27694402
    • Rex Ellis

    Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine. By Scott E. Casper. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. xii, 286 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-8414-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 822 doi:10.2307/27694403
    • Mark Voss-Hubbard

    For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s. By Ronald P. Formisano. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. x, 315 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3172-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 822-823 doi:10.2307/27694404
    • A. Kristen Foster

    “Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together”: Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775–1840. By Albrecht Koschnik. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xiv, 351 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2648-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 823-824 doi:10.2307/27694405
    • Robert A. Taylor

    Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810. By Andrew McMichael. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xiv, 226 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3004-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3023-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 824-825 doi:10.2307/27694406
    • Terry Bouton

    American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition before the Civil War. By Christian G. Fritz. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 427 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-88188-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 825-826 doi:10.2307/27694407
    • Gordon Morris Bakken

    The Supreme Court: An Essential History. By Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N. E. H. Hull. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 491 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1538-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 826-827 doi:10.2307/27694408
    • Richard H. K. Vietor

    One Nation under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. By Robert E. Wright. (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2008. x, 419 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-07-154393-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 827 doi:10.2307/27694409
    • Jerald A. Combs

    The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy. By Walter L. Hixson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 377 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-11912-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 828 doi:10.2307/27694410
    • Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

    Thaddeus William Harris (1795–1856): Nature, Science, and Society in the Life of an American Naturalist. By Clark A. Elliott. (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2008. 294 pp. $59.50, ISBN 978-0-934223-91-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 828-829 doi:10.2307/27694411
    • Angela G. Ray

    Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship. By Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 239 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3164-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5853-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 829-830 doi:10.2307/27694412
    • Gretchen Townsend Buggeln

    From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications. By Barbara E. Lacey. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 220 pp. $69.50, ISBN 978-0-87413-961-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 830-831 doi:10.2307/27694413
    • Andrew R. L. Cayton

    Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West. By John P. Bowes. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 272 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85755-0. Paper, $22.99, ISBN 978-0-521-67419-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 831-832 doi:10.2307/27694414
    • Amos J. Beyan

    An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia. By Marie Tyler-McGraw. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 249 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3167-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 832-833 doi:10.2307/27694415
    • Shawn Francis Peters

    Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature. By D. Graham Burnett. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi, 266 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12950-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 833 doi:10.2307/27694416
    • Richard H. Chused

    Inherited Wealth. By Jens Beckert, trans. Thomas Dunlap. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. x, 382 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12497-1. Paper, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13451-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 833-834 doi:10.2307/27694417
    • Cheryl A. Wells

    A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America. By Thomas M. Allen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xvi, 275 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3179-3. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5865-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 834-835 doi:10.2307/27694418
    • Michael O'Brien

    Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single. Ed. by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. viii, 273 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4210-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 835-836 doi:10.2307/27694419
    • Scott W. See

    Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities: Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. By Elizabeth Jane Errington. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-0-7735-3265-6. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7735-3266-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 836-837 doi:10.2307/27694420
    • Jeanne D. Petit

    Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922. By Malcolm Campbell. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xiv, 249 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-299-22330-2. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-299-22334-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 837-838 doi:10.2307/27694421
    • Thomas E. Jeffrey

    “In the Habit of Acting Together”: The Emergence of the Whig Party in Louisiana, 1828–1840. By Henry O. Robertson. (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2007. xxiv, 163 pp. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 1-887366-73-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 838 doi:10.2307/27694422
    • James M. Prichard

    Citizens More than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic. By Harry S. Laver. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xii, 216 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2970-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 838-839 doi:10.2307/27694423
    • Anthony Quiroz

    Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821–1861. By Raúl A. Ramos. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xvi, 297 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3207-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 839-840 doi:10.2307/27694424
    • Stephanie Cole

    Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. By Laura E. Gómez. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. xii, 243 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3174-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 840-841 doi:10.2307/27694425
    • Sarah Schrank

    The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space. By William David Estrada. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. xviii, 357 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-292-71754-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71755-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 841-842 doi:10.2307/27694426
    • Stanley Nadel

    Deutsche Juden in Amerika: Bürgerliches Selbstbewusstsein und jüdische Identität in den Orden B'nai B'rith und Treue Schwestern, 1843–1914 (German Jews in America: Middle-class self-assurance and Jewish identity in the B'nai B'rith Order and True Sisters, 1843–1914). By Cornelia Wilhelm

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 842-843 doi:10.2307/27694427
    • William L. Joyce

    The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America. By Leon Jackson. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xii, 331 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5705-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 843 doi:10.2307/27694428
    • Oz Frankel

    A History of the Book in America, vol. 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880. Ed. by Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xx, 539 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3085-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 843-844 doi:10.2307/27694429
    • John K. Brown

    Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860. By Paul F. Paskoff. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xx, 324 pp. $48.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3268-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 844-845 doi:10.2307/27694430
    • E. Wayne Carp

    Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City. By Julie Miller. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xiv, 319 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-5725-3. Paper, $23.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-5726-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 845-846 doi:10.2307/27694431
    • Christopher M. Duncan

    Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South. By Timothy James Lockley. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xvi, 276 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3173-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 846-847 doi:10.2307/27694432
    • Steven P. Miller

    Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture. Ed. by Walter H. Conser Jr. and Rodger M. Payne. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 382 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2494-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 847-848 doi:10.2307/27694433
    • Lynne Curry

    When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law. By Shawn Francis Peters. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 262 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-530635-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 848-849 doi:10.2307/27694434
    • Robert Olwell

    Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. By Anthony E. Kaye. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. x, 365 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3103-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 849-850 doi:10.2307/27694435
    • Sharon Block

    Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina. By Rebecca J. Fraser. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. x, 137 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-934110-07-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 850 doi:10.2307/27694436
    • Stephen E. Maizlish

    Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877. By Walter A. McDougall. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. xxviii, 787 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-06-056751-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 850-851 doi:10.2307/27694437
    • Frederick J. Blue

    President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman. By William Lee Miller. (New York: Knopf, 2008. x, 497 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-4000-4103-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 851-852 doi:10.2307/27694438
    • Sean Patrick Adams

    Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union. By Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick. (New York: Walker, 2008. x, 306 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8027-1523-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 852-853 doi:10.2307/27694439
    • Allan G. Bogue

    Senator Henry Wilson and the Civil War. By John L. Myers. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. x, 233 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-7618-3876-0. Paper, $34.00, ISBN 978- 0-7618-3877-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 853-854 doi:10.2307/27694440
    • John David Smith

    George Thomas: Virginian for the Union. By Christopher J. Einolf. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xii, 413 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3867-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 854-855 doi:10.2307/27694441
    • Thomas F. Curran

    Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War. By James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv, 353 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0- 8018-8672-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 855 doi:10.2307/27694442
    • Donald R. Shaffer

    Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era. By Richard M. Reid. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xx, 420 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3174-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 855-856 doi:10.2307/27694443
    • Rita Roberts

    Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War. By Margaret Humphreys. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xxii, 197 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8696-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 856-857 doi:10.2307/27694444
    • Christian B. Keller

    Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam. By Benjamin Franklin Cooling. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii, 354 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-1515-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 857-858 doi:10.2307/27694445
    • Hans L. Trefousse

    Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 337 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3208-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5885-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 858-859 doi:10.2307/27694446
    • Dean Grodzins

    From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century. By John T. Cumbler. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xii, 238 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4026-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 859-860 doi:10.2307/27694447
    • Micki McElya

    Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause. By Caroline E. Janney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 290 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3176-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 860 doi:10.2307/27694448
    • Andrew Denson

    Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. By Fay A. Yarbrough. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. x, 184 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 860-861 doi:10.2307/27694449
    • Kenneth N. Owens

    Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii, 388 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02612-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 861-862 doi:10.2307/27694450
    • Paul D. Casdorph

    The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas. By James M. Smallwood. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xxiv, 229 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-60344-017-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 862-863 doi:10.2307/27694451
    • Andrew R. Graybill

    Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande. By Paul Cool. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xviii, 360 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-60344-016-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 863-864 doi:10.2307/27694452
    • William D. Carrigan

    Law on the Last Frontier: Texas Ranger Arthur Hill. By S. E. Spinks. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxii, 265 pp. $28.50, ISBN 978-0-89672-619-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 864-865 doi:10.2307/27694453
    • Brian Kelly

    For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865. By Robert H. Zieger. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. x, 276 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-8131-2460-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 865-866 doi:10.2307/27694454
    • Tracey Jean Boisseau

    Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870–1929. By Allison L. Sneider. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 209 pp. Cloth, $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-532116-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-19-532117-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 866 doi:10.2307/27694455
    • Linda J. Lumsden

    Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign. By Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xx, 274 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03220-2. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07471-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 866-867 doi:10.2307/27694456
    • Robert Eric Barde

    Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States. By Michelle T. Moran. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 280 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3145-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5839-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 867-868 doi:10.2307/27694457
    • Thomas Dublin

    Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York. By Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. (New York: New Press, 2007. xx, 268 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-59558-199-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 868-869 doi:10.2307/27694458
    • Richard A. Overfield

    Britton's Botanical Empire: The New York Botanical Garden and American Botany, 1888–1929. By Peter Mickulas. (Bronx: New York Botanical Garden Press, 2007. 317 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-89327-479-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 869-870 doi:10.2307/27694459
    • William W. Stowe

    The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters. By Mark Rennella. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 280 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-230-60382-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 870-871 doi:10.2307/27694460
    • Miles David Samson

    usa: Modern Architectures in History. By Gwendolyn Wright. (London: Reaktion, 2008. 320 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-86189-344-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 871-872 doi:10.2307/27694461
    • Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr.

    Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering Anthropologist. By Darlis A. Miller. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xx, 298 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3832-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 872 doi:10.2307/27694462
    • Charles Hersch

    A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz. By Samuel Charters. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. xii, 380 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-898-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 872-873 doi:10.2307/27694463
    • Douglas Carl Abrams

    After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915. By John M. Giggie. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xviii, 315 pp. Cloth, $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530403-9. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-19-530404-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 873-874 doi:10.2307/27694464
    • Davarian L. Baldwin

    A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860–1930. By Jack S. Blocker. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. xviii, 330 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-1067-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 874-875 doi:10.2307/27694465
    • Lawrence O. Christensen

    The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters. By Bryan M. Jack. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xiv, 178 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1772-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 875-876 doi:10.2307/27694466
    • Thomas A. Krainz

    Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890–1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies. By David R. Berman. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. xvi, 386 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-87081-884-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 876-877 doi:10.2307/27694467
    • William D. Rowley

    Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse. By Andrew P. Duffin. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xvi, 240 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-295-98743-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 877 doi:10.2307/27694468
    • Mark S. Foster

    Motoring: The Highway Experience in America. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xiv, 274 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3028-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 877-878 doi:10.2307/27694469
    • Thomas Chambers

    Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills. By David Stradling. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xxviii, 311 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-295-98747-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 878-879 doi:10.2307/27694470
    • Brian C. Hosmer

    Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900. Ed. by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler. (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2007. xx, 347 pp. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-930618-86-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 879-880 doi:10.2307/27694471
    • Kelly Ann Long

    U.S.-China Educational Exchange: State, Society, and Intercultural Relations, 1905–1950. By Hongshan Li. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. x, 284 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4199-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 880-881 doi:10.2307/27694472
    • Robert Miraldi

    Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star. By Harry Haskell. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xiv, 450 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1769-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 881-882 doi:10.2307/27694473
    • David T. Brundage

    Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? By Robin Archer. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xviii, 348 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12701-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 882-883 doi:10.2307/27694474
    • David Bergman

    Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History. By Scott Herring. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi, 278 pp. Cloth, $62.50, ISBN 978-0-226-32790-7. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-226-32791-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 883-884 doi:10.2307/27694475
    • Timothy A. Hacsi

    Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economics in the Interwar United States. By Susan Porter Benson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. xvi, 233 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-3723-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 884 doi:10.2307/27694476
    • Laura Wittern-Keller

    Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915–1966. By Gerald R. Butters Jr. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xviii, 348 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1749-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 884-885 doi:10.2307/27694477
    • George Potamianos

    Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981. By Laura Wittern-Keller. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 356 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2451-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 885-886 doi:10.2307/27694478
    • Richard Maltby

    Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing. Ed. by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 276 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-520-23067-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24973-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 886-887 doi:10.2307/27694479
    • Douglas Gomery

    The Citizen Audience: Crowds, Publics, and Individuals. By Richard Butsch. (New York: Routledge, 2008. x, 186 pp. Cloth, $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-97789-0. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-415-97790-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 887-888 doi:10.2307/27694480
    • Robert C. Cottrell

    Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War. By Harriet Hyman Alonso. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. 394 pp. Cloth, $98.00, ISBN 978-1-55849-618-7. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-619-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 888-889 doi:10.2307/27694481
    • Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

    Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II. By Cedric J. Robinson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xxii, 431 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3148-9. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5841-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 889 doi:10.2307/27694482
    • Nelson Ouellet

    Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. By Davarian L. Baldwin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 363 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3099-4. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5799-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 889-890 doi:10.2307/27694483
    • Jay D. Green

    Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915–1952. By Wallace D. Best. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xxii, 250 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-691-11578-8. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13375-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 890-891 doi:10.2307/27694484
    • Brigitte L. Nacos

    Metropole und Verbrechen: Die Gerichtsreportage in Berlin, Paris, und Chicago, 1919–1933 (The city and crime: Courtroom reporting in Berlin, Paris, and Chicago, 1919–1933). By Daniel Siemens. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007. 444 pp. €54.00, ISBN 978-3-515-09008-7.) In German

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 891-892 doi:10.2307/27694485
    • Terri L. Snyder

    The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South. By Michael Ayers Trotti. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 301 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3178-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5842-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 892-893 doi:10.2307/27694486
    • Sarah Deutsch

    Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle. By John C. Putman. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008. xiv, 296 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-87417-736-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 893-894 doi:10.2307/27694487
    • Mark Reisler

    Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories. Ed. by Vicki L. Ruiz and John R. Chávez. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03238-7. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07478-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 894-895 doi:10.2307/27694488
    • Craig A. Kaplowitz

    Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916–39. By Gabriela F. Arredondo. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 255 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03269-1. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07497-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 895 doi:10.2307/27694489
    • David M. P. Freund

    Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love. By James Wolfinger. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 318 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3149-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 896 doi:10.2307/27694490
    • Hanes Walton, Jr.

    The Lost Promise of Civil Rights. By Risa L. Goluboff. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. viii, 376 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02465-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 897 doi:10.2307/27694491
    • Jason Colby

    Brother's Keeper: The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937–1962. By Jason C. Parker. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, 248 pp. Cloth, $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-533201-8. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-19-533202-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 897-898 doi:10.2307/27694492
    • Christopher Simpson

    Telecommunications and Empire. By Jill Hills. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 291 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03258-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 898-899 doi:10.2307/27694493
    • Richard T. Ortquist

    Electing fdr: The New Deal Campaign of 1932. By Donald A. Ritchie. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 274 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1550-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 899 doi:10.2307/27694494
    • James A. Burran

    American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the wpa; When fdr Put the Nation to Work. By Nick Taylor. (New York: Bantam, 2008. x, 630 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-0-553-80235-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 900 doi:10.2307/27694495
    • David Stebenne

    An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Supreme Court. By Patrick M. Garry. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 192 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-271-03280-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 900-901 doi:10.2307/27694496
    • Manfred Jonas

    Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill Won One War and Began Another. By Jonathan Fenby. (San Francisco: MacAdam Cage, 2007. xii, 464 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-1-59692-253-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 901-902 doi:10.2307/27694497
    • David J. Snyder

    The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico. By Larry Ceplair. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xii, 327 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2453-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 902-903 doi:10.2307/27694498
    • Gerd Horten

    The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture. By Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies II. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 327 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-521-83365-3. Paper, $21.99, ISBN 978-0-521-71231-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 903-904 doi:10.2307/27694499
    • Jessica Gienow-Hecht

    Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War. By Patrick Wright. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii, 488 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-923150-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 904-905 doi:10.2307/27694500
    • Douglas Little

    U.S. Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy: Truman, Secret Warfare, and the cia, 1945–53. By Sarah-Jane Corke. (New York: Routledge, 2008. x, 240 pp. $140.00, ISBN 978-0-415-42077-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 905-906 doi:10.2307/27694501
    • Anna K. Nelson

    Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity. By Ira Chernus. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiv, 307 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5807-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 906 doi:10.2307/27694502
    • David S. Foglesong

    Local Consequences of the Global Cold War. Ed. by Jeffrey A. Engel. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xx, 334 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5947-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 906-907 doi:10.2307/27694503
    • Robert C. Bannister

    The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States. By David Paul Haney. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xii, 283 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-59213-713-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 907-908 doi:10.2307/27694504
    • Ronald Lora

    Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School. By Andrew Hartman. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 251 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-230-60010-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 908-909 doi:10.2307/27694505
    • Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod

    The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles. By Scott Kurashige. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xiv, 346 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12639-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 909-910 doi:10.2307/27694506
    • Pamela Walker Laird

    Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry. By Jason Chambers. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 322 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4047-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 910-911 doi:10.2307/27694507
    • Ulf Jonas Bjork

    It's So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture. By Vanessa R. Schwartz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xviii, 259 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-226-74242-7. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978- 0-226-74243-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 911-912 doi:10.2307/27694508
    • David Culbert

    Hollywood's Cold War. By Tony Shaw. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. x, 342 pp. Cloth, $98.00, ISBN 978-1-55849-611-8. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-612-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 912 doi:10.2307/27694509
    • K. A. Cuordileone

    Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy. By Michael S. Sherry. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. x, 292 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3121-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 912-913 doi:10.2307/27694510
    • Raffaella Baritono

    Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady. By Marilyn Irvin Holt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 190 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1539-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 913-914 doi:10.2307/27694511
    • Gil Troy

    Attack Politics: Negativity in Presidential Campaigns since 1960. By Emmett H. Buell Jr. and Lee Sigelman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xii, 354 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1561-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 914-915 doi:10.2307/27694512
    • Matthew J. Streb

    Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism. By William A. Link. (New York: St. Martin's, 2008. xii, 643 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-312-35600-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 915-916 doi:10.2307/27694513
    • Laura McEnaney

    Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace: Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism. By Mary C. Brennan. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. xiv, 197 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-87081-885-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 916 doi:10.2307/27694514
    • Marian B. Mollin

    Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. By Carole Boyce Davies. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xxviii, 311 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4096-6. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4116-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 917 doi:10.2307/27694515
    • Dominick Cavallo

    The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade. By Gerard J. DeGroot. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xiv, 508 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02786-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 917-918 doi:10.2307/27694516
    • Dale Andradé

    Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the arvn. By Andrew Wiest. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xviii, 350 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9410-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 918-919 doi:10.2307/27694517
    • Ronald J. Granieri

    Kennedy in Berlin. By Andreas W. Daum, trans. Dona Geyer. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii, 294 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85824-3. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 978-0-521-67497-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 919-920 doi:10.2307/27694518
    • David R. Wrone

    The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy. By David Kaiser. Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the cia. By Jefferson Morley

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 920-921 doi:10.2307/27694519
    • Jeffrey F. Taffet

    Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964–1974. By Kristian Gustafson. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. xiv, 317 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59797-097-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 921-922 doi:10.2307/27694520
    • Nur Bilge Criss

    Middle Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11. By Mark Ensalaco. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 318 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4046-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 922-923 doi:10.2307/27694521
    • Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar

    Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party. Ed. by Judson L. Jeffries. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 310 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-253-34928-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-253-21930-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 923-924 doi:10.2307/27694522
    • Amanda Irene Seligman

    Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. By Mary Pattillo. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii, 388 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-64931-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 924-925 doi:10.2307/27694523
    • Jo Ann O. Robinson

    Blue and Gold and Black: Racial Integration of the U.S. Naval Academy. By Robert J. Schneller Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xviii, 437 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-60344-000-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 925-926 doi:10.2307/27694524
    • Karl Hagstrom Miller

    The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City. By César Miguel Rondón, trans. Frances R. Aparicio and Jackie White. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 340 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3129-8. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-5859-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 926 doi:10.2307/27694525
    • Melvin Small

    Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969–1977. Ed. by Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 348 pp. Cloth, $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-531535-6. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531536-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 926-928 doi:10.2307/27694526
    • Jonathan Soffer

    Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s. Ed. by Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. x, 373 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02757-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02758-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 928-929 doi:10.2307/27694527
    • Roger L. Goldman

    Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice. By Tinsley E. Yarbrough. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 397 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-514123-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 929 doi:10.2307/27694528
    • Steven Volk

    Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul. By Michael Reid. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xvi, 384 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11616-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 930 doi:10.2307/27694529
    • David F. Schmitz

    The Future Almost Arrived: How Jimmy Carter Failed to Change U.S. Foreign Policy. By Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh. (New York: Peter Lang, 2008. viii, 373 pp. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8204-8185-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 930-931 doi:10.2307/27694530
    • Betty Boyd Caroli

    Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House. By Scott Kaufman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 206 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1544-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 931-932 doi:10.2307/27694531
    • Ronald Garay

    Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television. By Patrick R. Parsons. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. x, 804 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-59213-287-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 932-933 doi:10.2307/27694532
    • M. J. Heale

    Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg. By Richard J. Jensen. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xii, 164 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 978-1-58544-623-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-625-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 933 doi:10.2307/27694533
    • Larry J. Zimmerman

    Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition. By Greg Johnson. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xiv, 208 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2661-2. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2662-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 933-934 doi:10.2307/27694534
    • Paul Andrew Hutton

    Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. By Michael A. Elliott. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. viii, 336 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-226-20146-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 934-935 doi:10.2307/27694535
    • Todd Moye

    Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Town. By Ann Denkler. (Lanham: Lexington, 2007. vi, 131 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-1991-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 935-936 doi:10.2307/27694536

Movie Reviews

    • James T. Kloppenberg

    John Adams. Dir. by Tom Hooper. Prod. by David Coatsworth and Steve Shareshian. Playtone and hbo Films, 2008. 501 mins. (hbo, http://www.hbo.com/films/johnadams/)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 937-940 doi:10.2307/27694537
    • Charles J. Maland

    Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900–1934. Scott Simmon, curator; Martin Marks, music curator. National Film Preservation Foundation, 2007. 4 dvds. 739 mins. (National Film Preservation Foundation, http://www.filmpreservation.org)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 940-942 doi:10.2307/27694538
    • Joy S. Kasson

    Buffalo Bill. Dir. and prod. by Rob Rapley. HiddenHill Productions for American Experience, 2008. 60 mins. (pbs Home Video, http://www.shoppbs.org)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 942-944 doi:10.2307/27694539
    • John Raeburn

    Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the fsa/owi Photographers. Dir. by Jeanine Isabel Butler. Prod. by Alastair Reilly and Catherine Butler. Butler Films, 2008. 60 mins. (pbs Home Video, http://www.shoppbs.org)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 944-946 doi:10.2307/27694540
    • Lary L. May

    Sputnik Mania. Dir. by David Hoffman. Prod. by Eric Reid, David Hoffman, and John Vincent Barrett. History Films and Balcony Releasing, 2008. 87 mins. (http://www.sputnikmania.com)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 946-947 doi:10.2307/27694541
    • Walter L. Hixson

    Chicago 10. Dir. by Brett Morgen. Prod. by Graydon Carter and Brett Morgen. Participant Productions and River Road Entertainment, 2007. 100 mins. (Roadside Attractions, http://www.roadsideattractions.com)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 947-949 doi:10.2307/27694542
    • Eve Allegra Raimon

    Lioness. Dir. and prod. by Meg McLagan and Daria Somners. Room 11 Productions. Chicken & Egg Pictures, Impact Partners, 2008. 82 mins. (www.lionessthefilm.com)

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 949-950 doi:10.2307/27694543

Web Site Reviews

    • Sally E. Hadden

    American State Papers, 1789–1838 (access by subscription), http://infoweb.newsbank.com. Created and maintained by Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc. Reviewed July–Dec. 2007

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 951-952 doi:10.2307/27694544
    • Aaron Sheehan-Dean

    Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars, http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html. Designed by Thirteen/wnet and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Reviewed Feb. 2008

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 952-953 doi:10.2307/27694545
    • Ari Kelman

    Jewish-American History on the Web, http://www.jewish-history.com. Created and maintained by Leah M. Berkowitz and the Jewish-American History Documentation Foundation. Reviewed Feb. 6–12, 2008

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 953 doi:10.2307/27694546
    • John McClymer

    Lost in the Virtual Museum: The Smithsonian Online Exhibitions, http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/category.cfm?category=online. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Reviewed 2008

    The Journal of American History (2008) 95(3): 954-956 doi:10.2307/27694547

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