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Volume 96 Issue 2 September 2009

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Articles

    • Jon Grinspan

    “Young Men for War”: The Wide Awakes and Lincoln's 1860 Presidential Campaign

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 357-378 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.357
    • Dorothy Ross

    Lincoln and the Ethics of Emancipation: Universalism, Nationalism, Exceptionalism

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 379-399 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.379
    • Allen C. Guelzo

    The Not-So-Grand Review: Abraham Lincoln in the Journal of American History

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 400-416 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.400

Lincoln Studies at the Bicentennial: A Round Table

Book Reviews

    • Richard Godbeer

    The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World. By John Demos. (New York: Viking, 2008. xvi, 318 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-670-01999-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 500-501 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.500
    • Thomas W. Zeiler

    From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776. By George C. Herring. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xviii, 1035 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-507822-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 501-503 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.501
    • Klaus J. Hansen

    House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. By Shannon A. Novak. Innocent Blood: Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Ed. by David L. Bigler and Will Bagley. Massacre at Mountain Meadows. By Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 503-505 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.503
    • Robert Galgano

    Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico. By John L. Kessell. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xii, 225 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3969-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 505-506 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.505
    • Charles R. Cutter

    Indian Captivity in Spanish America: Frontier Narratives. By Fernando Operé, trans. Gustavo Pellón. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xxxiv, 289 pp. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2586-8. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2587-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 506-507 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.506
    • Roger Schlesinger

    Champlain's Dream. By David Hackett Fischer. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. x, 834 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-1-4165-9332-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 507-508 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.507
    • John V. Orth

    The Common Law in Colonial America, vol. 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607–1660. By William E. Nelson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 198 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-532728-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 508 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.508
    • Daniel B. Thorp

    Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650–1750. By Rosalind J. Beiler. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xvi, 208 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-271-03372-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 508-509 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.508-a
    • Jeffrey S. Smith

    Between Two Rivers: The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque History, 1692–1968. By Joseph P. Sánchez. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xvi, 235 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3902-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 509-510 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.509
    • James E. Klein

    Oklahoma: A History. By W. David Baird and Danney Goble. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xiv, 342 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3910-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 510-511 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.510
    • Susan E. Gray

    Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest. Ed. by R. David Edmunds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03330-8. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07537-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 511-512 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.511
    • David J. Silverman

    Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial Religion. By Richard W. Pointer. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xviii, 289 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-253-34912-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 512-513 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.512
    • Megan Kate Nelson

    Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore. By Walter J. Fraser Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xvi, 319 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2866-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 513 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.513
    • Brian Cowan

    Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. By Marcy Norton. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xviii, 334 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4493-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 514 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.514
    • Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.

    The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. By Vincent Brown. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xviii, 340 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02422-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 514-515 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.514-a
    • Edward E. Curtis IV

    American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism. By Thomas S. Kidd. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xxii, 201 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13349-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 515-516 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.515
    • Thomas R. Cox

    Nature, Business, and Community in North Carolina's Green Swamp. By Tycho de Boer. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xiv, 279 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3248-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 516-517 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.516
    • Thomas Augst

    Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xiv, 221 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-1-55849-656-9. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-657-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 517-518 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.517
    • Nian-Sheng Huang

    Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement. By Alan Houston. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xiv, 321 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-12447-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 518-519 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.518
    • Jonathan D. Sassi

    The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition. By Thomas P. Slaughter. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. 449 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-9514-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 519-520 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.519
    • Carol V. R. George

    Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the ame Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. By Richard S. Newman. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xiv, 359 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8147-5826-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 520-521 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.520
    • Willard Carl Klunder

    Political Moderation in America's First Two Centuries. By Robert McCluer Calhoon. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xviii, 291 pp. Cloth, $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-51554-2. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 978-0-521-73416-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 521 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.521
    • Steven W. Hackel

    The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting among Complex Hunter-Gatherers. By Lynn H. Gamble. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 361 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25441-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 522 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.522
    • Roger L. Nichols

    Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands. Ed. by Karl S. Hele. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. xxiv, 351 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-55458-004-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 522-523 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.522-a
    • Carole Watterson Troxler

    Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775–1782. By Jim Piecuch. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 437 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-737-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 523-524 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.523
    • Julie Roy Jeffrey

    Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850. By Christine Levecq. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2008. xiv, 306 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-734-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 524-525 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.524
    • Joan R. Gundersen

    A War of Religion: Dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution. By James B. Bell. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xxii, 323 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-230-54297-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 525-526 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.525
    • Jonathan R. Dull

    Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York. By Thomas M. Truxes. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xvi, 288 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11840-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 526-527 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.526
    • Darren Staloff

    A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic. By J. Rixey Ruffin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 266 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-19-532651-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 527-528 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.527
    • Gary L. McDowell

    The Madisonian Constitution. By George Thomas. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiv, 248 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8852-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 528 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.528
    • William Stinchcombe

    This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792–1794. By Robert J. Alderson Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 273 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-745-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 528-529 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.528-a
    • Peter C. Messer

    The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr. By Peter Charles Hoffer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. viii, 212 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1591-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1592-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 529-530 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.529
    • Benjamin L. Carp

    Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic. By Dell Upton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 395 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-12488-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 530-531 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.530
    • L. A. Scot Powe, Jr.

    Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History. By Stephen M. Feldman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 585 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-226-24066-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 531-532 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.531
    • Cynthia Patterson

    Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800–1940. By Dianne Sachko Macleod. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xii, 310 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-520-23729-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 532-533 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.532
    • Kent Anderson Leslie

    The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia. By Janice L. Sumler-Edmond. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xiv, 171 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-880-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 533 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.533
    • Catherine Nickerson

    Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic. By Susan Branson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xii, 182 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4088-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 533-534 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.533-a
    • Joel H. Silbey

    Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson. Ed. by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. x, 293 pp. $46.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1783-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 534-535 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.534
    • Lawrence A. Peskin

    Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic. By Barbara M. Tucker and Kenneth H. Tucker Jr. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 262 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-1-4039- 8480-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 535-536 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.535
    • John Howe

    Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson. By David S. Reynolds. (New York: Harper-Collins, 2008. xiv, 466 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-06-082656-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 536-537 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.536
    • Lawrence B. Goodheart

    Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-226-70963-5. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-226-70964-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 537-538 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.537
    • James A. Spiller

    Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, From Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee. By Bee Wilson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 384 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13820-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 538-539 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.538
    • Rodrigo Lazo

    The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880. By Ivan Jaksić. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. x, 256 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-8079-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 539 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.539
    • J. Gerald Kennedy

    Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature. By Laura L. Mielke. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xiv, 255 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-1-55849-630-9. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-631-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 540 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.540
    • Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

    “We Shall Independent Be”: African American Place Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the United States. Ed. by Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. xviii, 538 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-87081-906-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 540-541 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.540-a
    • Jewel L. Spangler

    Redeeming the Southern Family: Evangelical Women and Domestic Devotion in the Antebellum South. By Scott Stephan. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xii, 304 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3222-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 541-542 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.541
    • Gary Land

    God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World. By David L. Rowe. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xxii, 249 pp. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-0380-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 542-543 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.542
    • Jean Lamarre

    Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States. By Mark Paul Richard. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2008. x, 388 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-87013-837-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 543-544 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.543
    • Kathleen A. Tobin

    Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. By Matthew Connelly. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2008. xvi, 521 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02423-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 544 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.544
    • George W. Geib

    War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. By Brian DeLay. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xxii, 473 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11932-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 544-545 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.544-a
    • Lawrence T. McDonnell

    Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, vol. 2: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850–1861. By John Ashworth. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. x, 683 pp. Cloth, $120.00, isbn 978-0-521-88592-8. Paper, $34.99, ISBN 978-0-521-71369-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 545-546 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.545
    • Michael William Pfau

    The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854. Ed. by John R. Wunder and Joann M. Ross. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-4822-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 546-547 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.546
    • Rennie B. Schoepflin

    Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860–1900. By Heather D. Curtis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv, 269pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8686-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 547-548 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.547
    • Susan S. Williams

    The Strange Case of William Mumler: Spirit Photographer. By Louis Kaplan. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxii, 264 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-5156-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8166-5157-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 548-549 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.548
    • Stephen L. Hansen

    A. Lincoln: A Biography. By Ronald C. White Jr. (New York: Random House, 2009. xviii, 796 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-4000-6499-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 549-550 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.549
    • John F. Marszalek

    Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends. By Ferenc Morton Szasz. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xiv, 242 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8093-2855-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 550 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.550
    • Orville Vernon Burton

    Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860–1861. By Harold Holzer. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. xii, 623 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-7432-8947-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 550-551 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.550-a
    • Kevin M. Gannon

    Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. By James M. McPherson. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xviii, 329 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-59420-191-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 551-552 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.551
    • John W. Quist

    Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North. By Jennifer L. Weber. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xviii, 286 pp. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-19-534124-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 552-553 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.552
    • Dwight L. Teeter, Jr.

    Lincoln's Censor: Milo Hascall and Freedom of the Press in Civil War Indiana. By David W. Bulla. (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009. xviii, 340 pp. Paper, $39.95, ISBN 978-1-55753-473-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 553-554 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.553
    • Benjamin Franklin Cooling

    Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War. By Craig L. Symonds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, 430 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531022-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 554-555 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.554
    • Joseph G. Dawson III

    The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy. By Tom Chaffin. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. xxvi, 324 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-9512-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 555 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.555
    • Chandra Miller Manning

    First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War. By Joan E. Cashin. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2006. xii, 403 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02294-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03037-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 555-556 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.555-a
    • Jason Stacy

    Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War. By Robert Roper. (New York: Walker, 2008. viii, 421 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-8027-1553-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 556-557 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.556
    • Russell Duncan

    Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War. By Stephen V. Ash. (New York: Norton, 2008. xvi, 282 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-393-06586-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 557-558 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.557
    • Brian Holden Reid

    Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863–1865. By Ethan S. Rafuse. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xiv, 283 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-5125-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 558 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.558
    • Michael P. Gray

    Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners. By James M. Gillispie. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008. viii, 278 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-57441-255-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 558-559 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.558-a
    • Victoria E. Ott

    Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina. By Edmund L. Drago. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. x, 204 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2937-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 559-560 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.559
    • Tom Lee

    Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South. By John C. Inscoe. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 395 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2499-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 560-561 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.560
    • Russell McClintock

    1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History. By Charles Bracelen Flood. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. xviii, 521 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-4165-5228-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 561 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.561
    • Jane Turner Censer

    North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Ed. by Paul D. Escott. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 307 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3222-6. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5901-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 562 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.562
    • Carol Faulkner

    Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction. By Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xiv, 528 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3324-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 562-563 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.562-a
    • Thomas Aiello

    Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States. Ed. by Marguerite S. Shaffer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xvi, 376 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4081-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 563-564 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.563
    • Steven Heath Mitton

    Hero of Hispaniola: America's First Black Diplomat, Ebenezer D. Bassett. By Christopher Teal. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. xii, 206 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-313-35195-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 564-565 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.564
    • Donald L. Parman

    Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History. By Karl Jacoby. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xxii, 358 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-1-59420-193-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 565-566 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.565
    • Larry Benson

    Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers. By John E. Hallwas. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvi, 402 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03352-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 566 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.566
    • Karl Jacoby

    Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border. By Casey Walsh. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 234 pp. $47.50, ISBN 978-1-60344-013-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 567 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.567
    • Keith Ian Polakoff

    By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. By Michael F. Holt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xiv, 300 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1608-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 567-568 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.567-a
    • Charles N. Glaab

    How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America. By Carl Abbott. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. x, 347 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-3312-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 568-569 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.568
    • David E. Alsobrook

    Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880–1917. By Kolan Thomas Morelock. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 422 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2504-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 569-570 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.569
    • Hamilton Cravens

    Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880–1980: An Oral History. By Lucinda McCray Beier. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xviii, 242 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03348-3. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07554-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 570-571 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.570
    • Garna L. Christian

    The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper. By Charles M. Robinson III. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xviii, 197 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3521-2)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 571-572 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.571
    • Diane Pecknold

    Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South. By Michelle R. Scott. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvi, 198 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03338-4. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07545-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 572 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.572
    • Laura L. Mielke

    Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist. By Linda M. Waggoner. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxviii, 355 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3954-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 572-573 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.572-a
    • Worth Robert Miller

    Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888. By Charles W. Calhoun. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xii, 243 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1596-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 573-574 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.573
    • Laura M. Westhoff

    Women of Conscience: Social Reform in Danville, Illinois, 1890–1930. By Janet Duitsman Cornelius and Martha LaFrenz Kay. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xxviii, 239 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-746-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 574-575 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.574
    • Lawrence M. Lipin

    Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. By Thomas G. Andrews. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 386 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03101-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 575-576 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.575
    • Robert H. Woodrum

    Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields. By Ronald L. Lewis. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 395 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3220-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 576-577 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.576
    • Paul Michel Taillon

    Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh. By Edward Slavishak. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiv, 354 pp. Cloth, $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4206-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4225-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 577 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.577
    • Bonnie Yochelson

    The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America. By Tom Buk-Swienty, trans. Annette Buk-Swienty. (New York: Norton, 2008. xviii, 331 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-393-06023-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 578 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.578
    • Eric Homberger

    The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction. By Max Page. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 271 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-300-11026-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 578-579 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.578-a
    • Ann-Marie Szymanski

    Grappling with Demon Rum: The Cultural Struggle over Liquor in Early Oklahoma. By James E. Klein. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. x, 238 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3938-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 579-580 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.579
    • Peter J. Hugill

    Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy. By Shane Hamilton. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xii, 305 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13582-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 580-581 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.580
    • Thomas G. Andrews

    Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis. By David W. Jones. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xvi, 268 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-253-35152-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 581-582 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.581
    • Ann Norton Greene

    Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace. By Steven M. Gelber. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiv, 224 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8997-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 582 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.582
    • Stan Luger

    Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. By Tom McCarthy. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xx, 347 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-300-11038-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 582-583 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.582-a
    • David Gartman

    Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America. By Cotton Seiler. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 230 pp. Cloth, $52.00, ISBN 978-0-226-74563-3. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 978-0-226-74564-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 583-584 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.583
    • Herbert Hovenkamp

    Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. vi, 353 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03082-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 584-585 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.584
    • Harvey R. Neptune

    Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos. By Louis A. Pérez Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 333 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3216-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 585-586 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.585
    • Keith Byerman

    Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South. By Catherine Oglesby. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xx, 252 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3247-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 586-587 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.586
    • Wayne J. Urban

    Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine. By Bruce Kuklick. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xiv, 171 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4098-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 587-588 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.587
    • Charles W. Eagles

    Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xxiv, 470 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-755-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 588-589 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.588
    • David S. Barnes

    Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. By Priscilla Wald. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiv, 373 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4128-4. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4153-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 589-590 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.589
    • Paul C. Mishler

    Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp. By Leslie Paris. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xii, 364 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-814-6707-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 590 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.590
    • Janna Dieckmann

    Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia. By Melanie Beals Goan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 348 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3211-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 590-591 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.590-a
    • Terrence J. McDonald

    Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers. By Jessica Trounstine. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii, 307 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-226-81281-6. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 978-0-226-81282-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 591-592 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.591
    • Cheryl Greenberg

    American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics. By Charles L. Lumpkins. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiv, 312 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8214-1802-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1803-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 592-593 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.592
    • James T. Patterson

    A People's History of Poverty in America. By Stephen Pimpare. (New York: New Press, 2008. xiv, 322 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-56584-934-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 593-594 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.593
    • Robert H. Zieger

    Unsafe for Democracy: World War I and the U.S. Justice Department's Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent. By William H. Thomas Jr. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xii, 251 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-299-22890-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 594-595 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.594
    • Louise M. Benjamin

    Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television. By Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 314 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-226-46759-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 595 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.595
    • Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

    The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. By Steven Shapin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xviii, 468 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-75024-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 596 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.596
    • Julia Grant

    Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture. By Megan J. Elias. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 226 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4079-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 596-597 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.596-a
    • William J. Reese

    Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929–1970. By John F. Lyons. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvi, 287 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03272-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 597-598 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.597
    • Eileen H. Tamura

    Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity. By J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xvi, 241 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4058-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4079-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 598-599 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.598
    • Tiffany Ruby Patterson

    Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit. By Deborah G. Plant. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. xi, 241 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-275-98751-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 599-600 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.599
    • Robert P. Watson

    First Ladies and the Fourth Estate: Press Framing of Presidential Wives. By Lisa M. Burns. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. xii, 205 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-391-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 600 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.600
    • Bonnie M. Miller

    The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress. By Cheryl R. Ganz. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 206 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03357-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 600-601 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.600-a
    • Stephen Lassonde

    Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s. By Susan K. Freeman. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xviii, 220 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03324-7. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07531-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 601-602 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.601
    • Michael Kackman

    The Columbia History of American Television. By Gary R. Edgerton. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xviii, 493 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-231-12164-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 602-603 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.602
    • Edward F. Haas

    Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer. By Wendell E. Pritchett. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 433 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-226-68448-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 603-604 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.603
    • Stephanie Gilmore

    Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White. Ed. by Anne Firor Scott. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvi, 194 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3055-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5928-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 604-605 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.604
    • W. Marvin Dulaney

    Living as Equals: How Three White Communities Struggled to Make Interracial Connections during the Civil Rights Era. By Phyllis Palmer. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. xii, 299 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8265-1596-4. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8265-1597-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 605-606 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.605
    • John C. McWilliams

    James Jesus Angleton, the cia, and the Craft of Counterintelligence. By Michael Holzman. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xiv, 399 pp. Cloth, $98.00, ISBN 978-1-55849-649-1. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55859-650-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 606 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.606
    • Gregg Herken

    Hiroshima: The World's Bomb. By Andrew J. Rotter. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19- 280437-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 606-607 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.606-a
    • David E. Settje

    Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945–1960: The Soul of Containment. By William Inboden. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 356 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-51347-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 607-608 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.607
    • David G. Coleman

    The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945–1963. By David Tal. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xviii, 328 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-3166-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 608-609 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.608
    • Michael L. Krenn

    The End of Empires: African Americans and India. By Gerald Horne. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. 266 pp. $54.50, ISBN 978-1-59213-899-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 609-610 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.609
    • William Toll

    American Jewish Identity Politics. Ed. by Deborah Dash Moore. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 336 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-0-472-11648-5. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-472-03288-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 610-611 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.610
    • Julie Ingersoll

    Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America. By Barry Hankins. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xvi, 272 pp. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-6389-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 611 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.611
    • Jon Lewis

    Hollywood's Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History. By Reynold Humphries. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. viii, 184 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2455-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 612 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.612
    • Liping Zhu

    Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown. By Chiou-Ling Yeh. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 315 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25350-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25351-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 612-613 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.612-a
    • E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.

    Jimmy Carter as Educational Policymaker: Equal Opportunity and Efficiency. By Deanna L. Michael. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. viii, 191 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-7914-7529-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 613-614 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.613
    • Barbara J. Shircliffe

    Resistance to Public School Desegregation: Little Rock, Arkansas, and Beyond. By Frances Lisa Baer. (New York: lfb, 2008. viii, 328 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-1-59332-260-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 614-615 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.614
    • Nicolas Rasmussen

    Psychedelic Psychiatry: lsd from Clinic to Campus. By Erika Dyck. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi, 199 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8994-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 615-616 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.615
    • Nancy D. Campbell

    The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers. By Andrea Tone. (New York: Basic, 2009. xx, 298 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-465-08658-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 616-617 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.616
    • Joseph Heathcott

    Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven. By Mandi Isaacs Jackson. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xvi, 279 pp. Cloth, $72.50, ISBN 978-1-59213-603-2. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 978- 1-59213-604-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 617 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.617
    • Donna M. Binkiewicz

    Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy. By David A. Smith. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008. x, 309 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-1-56663-768-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 617-618 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.617-a
    • Curtis Jerome Austin

    The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966–1977. By Andrew Witt. (New York: Routledge, 2007. x, 152 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-98148-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 618-619 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.618
    • Yafeng Xia

    Nixon, Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign Policy Making: The Machinery of Crisis. By Asaf Siniver. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii, 252 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-89762-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 619-620 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.619
    • Gary A. Donaldson

    Reinventing Richard Nixon: A Cultural History of an American Obsession. By Daniel Frick. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xii, 331 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1599-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 620 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.620
    • Mary Welek Atwell

    Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp. By Anna R. Hayes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xvi, 559 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3214-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 621 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.621
    • Bradford Martin

    Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America. By William Graebner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 218 pp. $20.00, ISBN 978-0-226-30522-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 621-622 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.621-a
    • Hilary Radner

    Screening Sex. By Linda Williams. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 412 pp. Cloth, $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4263-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4285-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 622-623 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.622
    • Jane Gerhard

    The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington. By Amin Ghaziani. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xxiv, 419 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-0-226-28995-3. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-226-28996-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 623-624 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.623
    • David J. Garrow

    Queen's Court: Judicial Power in the Rehnquist Era. By Nancy Maveety. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xii, 194 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1610-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 624-625 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.624
    • Michael Allen

    Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West. By Renée M. Laegreid. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xii, 273 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-2955-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 625-626 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.625
    • Gabriela Gonzalez

    Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By Alicia Schmidt Camacho. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xiv, 375 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-1648-9. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-1649-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 626-627 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.626
    • David A. Badillo

    Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism, and Culture. Ed. by Gastón Espinosa and Mario T. García. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 443 pp. Cloth, $94.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4098-0. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4119-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 627-628 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.627
    • Guadalupe San Miguel

    Chicano Students and the Courts: The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality. By Richard R. Valencia. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xx, 484 pp. $49.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-8819-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 628-629 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.628
    • Robert J. Spitzer

    Out of the Shadow: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War. By Christopher Maynard. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xvi, 176 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-60344-039-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 629 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.629
    • Caroline E. Janney

    Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South. Ed. by Anthony J. Stanonis. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xii, 296 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2951-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3169-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 629-630 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.629-a

Web Site Reviews

    • Joan Bristol

    Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas, http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/kislak/index/cultural.html. Created and maintained by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania. Reviewed Feb. 1–4, 2009

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 631-632 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.631
    • Marla R. Miller

    The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag That Inspired the National Anthem, http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/. Created and maintained by the National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Washington, D.C. Reviewed Sept. 2008

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 632-633 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.632
    • Joel Myerson

    American Transcendentalism Web, http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism. Created and maintained by Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Reviewed Sept. 2008

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 633-634 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.633
    • David Hicks

    Linking to Our Past: Documenting the African American Experience in Virginia, http://www.vahistorical.org/tah/intro.htm. Created and maintained by the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. Reviewed Sept. 2008

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 634 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.634
    • Robert W. Cherny

    Before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897–1916, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/sfhome.html. Created and maintained by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Reviewed June 30–July 1, 2008

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 634-635 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.634-a
    • Katherine Jellison

    Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from around the World, http://www.giftsofspeech.org. Created and maintained by Liz Kent, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va. Reviewed June 23–26, 2008

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 635-636 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.635

Editor's Annual Report, 2008–2009

    • Edward T. Linenthal

    Editor's Annual Report, 2008–2009

    The Journal of American History (2009) 96(2): 637-640 doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.637

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