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Volume 97 Issue 2 September 2010

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    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 312-313 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.312
    • Kirsten Sword

    Remembering Dinah Nevil: Strategic Deceptions in Eighteenth-Century Antislavery

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 315-343 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.315
    • Matthew Furrow

    Samuel Gridley Howe, the Black Population of Canada West, and the Racial Ideology of the “Blueprint for Radical Reconstruction”

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 344-370 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.344
    • Andrew Wender Cohen

    Smuggling, Globalization, and America's Outward State, 1870–1909

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 371-398 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.371
    • Katherine Turk

    Out of the Revolution, into the Mainstream: Employment Activism in the now Sears Campaign and the Growing Pains of Liberal Feminism

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 399-423 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.399
    • Adrian Burgos, Jr.,
    • Donna Gabaccia,
    • María Cristina García,
    • Matthew Garcia,
    • Kelly Lytle Hernández,
    • Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof,
    • María E. Montoya,
    • George J. Sánchez,
    • Virginia Sánchez Korrol,
    • and Paul Spickard

    Latino History: An Interchange on Present Realities and Future Prospects

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 424-463 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.424

Interchange Supplement: Selected Book Reviews in Latino History

    • Grace Peña Delgado

    Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882–1930. By Patrick Ettinger. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. xii, 244 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-292-72118-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 464-465 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.464
    • Jennifer Lisa Koslow

    Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles: A Transnational Perspective, 1890–1940. By Stephanie Lewthwaite. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. xiv, 297 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8165-2633-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 465-466 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.465
    • Eduardo Obregón Pagán

    Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II. By Emilio Zamora and No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. By Cynthia E. Orozco

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 466-468 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.466
    • Carlos Velez-Ibanez

    Honor and Fidelity: The 65th Infantry in Korea, 1950–1953. By Gilberto N. Villahermosa. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2009. xviii, 329 pp. Paper, $33.00, ISBN 978-0-16-083324-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 468-469 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.468
    • Mario T. García

    Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the ufw, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. By Randy Shaw and The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement. By Miriam Pawel

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 469-471 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.469
    • Geraldo Lujan Cadava

    Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands. Ed. by Alexis McCrossen. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xx, 414 pp. Cloth, $99.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4460-5. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4475-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 471-472 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.471
    • Ernesto Chávez

    Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South. Ed. by Mary E. Odem and Elaine Lacy and Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges. Ed. by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Patricia Zavella

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 472-473 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.472

Book Reviews

    • Matt Wray

    The History of White People. By Nell Irvin Painter. (New York: Norton, 2010. xiv, 496 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-393-04934-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 474-475 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.474
    • Sean Wilentz

    Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815. By Gordon S. Wood. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxii, 778 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-503914-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 475-477 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.475
    • Claude A. Clegg III

    Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950. By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. (New York: Norton, 2008. xiv, 646 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-393-06244-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-393-33532-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 477-479 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.477
    • Steven F. Lawson

    We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama. By Stephen Tuck. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2010. x, 494 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03626-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 479-480 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.479
    • Thomas G. Jones

    Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited about Doing History. By James W. Loewen. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2010. xvi, 248 pp. Cloth, $61.00, ISBN 978-0-8077-4992-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8077-4991-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 480-481 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.480
    • James W. Loewen

    The Teaching American History Project: Lessons for History Educators and Historians. Ed. by Rachel G. Ragland and Kelly A. Woestman. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xviii, 333 pp. Cloth, $135.00, ISBN 978-0-415-98881-0. Paper, $38.95, ISBN 978-0-415-98882-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 481-482 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.481
    • Dianne Harris

    Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation. By Ned Kaufman. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xii, 421 pp. Cloth, $150.00, ISBN 978-0-415-96539-2. Paper, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-415-96540-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 482-483 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.482
    • Steven Conn

    Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives. Ed. by Susan Sleeper-Smith. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 362 pp. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-1948-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 483-484 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.483
    • Geoffrey Plank

    Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian's Journey through Public Memory. By Ronald Rudin. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xii, 350 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8020-9950-1. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8020-9657-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 484-485 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.484
    • David Silkenat

    American Homicide. By Randolph Roth. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2009. xvi, 655 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-03520-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 485-486 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.485
    • Peter N. Stearns

    Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials. By Michael Kammen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xii, 260 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-226-42329-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 486 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.486
    • Marcie Cohen Ferris

    Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine. By Andrew F. Smith. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xiv, 376 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0231-14092-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 486-487 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.486-a
    • Kevin J. Smant

    The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities throughout American History. By Patrick Allitt. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. x, 325 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11894-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 487-488 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.487
    • Michael J. Gerhardt

    The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power. By Benjamin A. Kleinerman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xvi, 322 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1665-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 488-489 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.488
    • D. G. Hart

    Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day. Ed. by Charles Mathewes and Christopher McKnight Nichols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, 250 pp. Cloth, $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-534253-6. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-19-534254-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 489-490 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.489
    • Thomas J. Little

    Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World. Ed. by Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. viii, 397 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-774-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 490-491 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.490
    • Thomas J. Lappas

    The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667–1783. By David L. Preston. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. x, 395 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-1369-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 491 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.491
    • Bruce E. Johansen

    The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact. By Michael V. Wilcox. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xiv, 316 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25205-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 491-492 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.491-a
    • William J. Campbell

    The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion. By Jay Gitlin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xvi, 269 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-300-10118-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 492-493 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.492
    • Gregory Nobles

    The Brittle Thread of Life: Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America. By Mark Williams. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xiv, 265 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-13922-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 493-494 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.493
    • Craig Marin

    Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World. Ed. by Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. x, 328 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4063-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 494-495 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.494
    • Hilary Moss

    Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. By Catherine Adams and Elizabeth H. Pleck. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii, 265 pp. Cloth, $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-538909-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-19-538908-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 495-496 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.495
    • John T. Cumbler

    Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings. Ed. by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. x, 333 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8229-4381-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 496-497 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.496
    • Donald A. Grinde

    Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations since 1800. By Laurence M. Hauptman. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xxxii, 326 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8156-3165-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-3189-7.

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 497-498 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.497
    • Jon Kukla

    The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers. By Thomas Fleming. (New York: HarperCollins, 2009. xviii, 456 pp. $27.99, ISBN 978-0-06-113912-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 498 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.498
    • Catherine O'Donnell

    A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution. By Carolyn Eastman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii, 290 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-22618019-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 499 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.499
    • H. Jefferson Powell

    Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic. By Thomas H. Cox. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xviii, 260 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1845-1. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1846-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 499-500 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.499-a
    • Gautham Rao

    The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good. By John Lauritz Larson. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 208 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-521-88365-8. Paper, $20.99, ISBN 978-0-521-70989-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 500-501 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.500
    • Russell L. Riley

    Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System. By Donald B. Cole. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xiv, 254 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1661-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 501-502 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.501
    • Mark V. Barrow

    Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America. By Lee Alan Dugatkin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii, 166 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-226-16914-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 502-503 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.502
    • Elliott West

    The American West: Competing Visions. By Karen R. Jones and John Wills. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $135.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2251-1. Paper, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2252-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 503 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.503
    • Karl S. Hele

    Conflict on the Michigan Frontier: Yankee and Borderland Cultures, 1815–1840. By James Z. Schwartz. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. viii, 184 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-400-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 503-504 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.503-a
    • Carrie A. Meyer

    Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside. By Benjamin R. Cohen. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xiv, 272 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-300-13923-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 504-505 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.504
    • Andrew Shankman

    The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland. By Robert E. Shalhope. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x, 196 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03480-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 505-506 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.505
    • John Gilbert McCurdy

    Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800–1840. By Joshua R. Greenberg. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xxvi, 254 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-231-13542-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 506-507 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.506
    • T. Christopher Jespersen

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776–1876. By John Rogers Haddad. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xxii, 321 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-231-13094-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 507-509 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.507
    • Richard Bruce Winders

    Eagles and Empire: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent. By David A. Clary. (New York: Bantam, 2009. xxx, 590 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-553-80652-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 509 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.509
    • Eileen Ka-May Cheng

    A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. By Stephen G. Hall. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xviii, 334 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3305-6. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5967-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 510 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.510
    • John R. McKivigan

    Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism. By Peter C. Myers. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xiv, 265 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1572-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 510-511 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.510-a
    • Jack D. Marietta

    Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System. By Glenn McNair. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xiv, 234 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2793-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 511-512 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.511
    • W. Caleb McDaniel

    John Brown's Trial. By Brian McGinty. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 350 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03517-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 512-513 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.512
    • Charles Post

    The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War. By Brian Schoen. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xiv, 369 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-9303-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 513-514 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.513
    • Phillip E. Myers

    Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations. By Howard Jones. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xvi, 416 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3349-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 514 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.514
    • Mark E. Neely, Jr.

    Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War. By David Williams. (New York: New Press, 2008. 310 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-59558-108-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 514-515 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.514-a
    • John David Smith

    Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861–1865. By Barton A. Myers. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xiv, 193 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-8071-3475-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 515-516 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.515
    • Barton A. Myers

    The Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals. By Clay Mountcastle. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. x, 202 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1668-8

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 516-517 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.516
    • Jonathan Sarris

    A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War. By Daniel E. Sutherland. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xviii, 435 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3277-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 517-518 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.517
    • Michael Barton

    Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians. By Robert M. Sandow. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. xiv, 234 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-3051-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 518-519 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.518
    • Anne Sarah Rubin

    Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Front. By Judith Giesberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 232 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3307-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 519 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.519
    • Catherine Allgor

    Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant. By Carol Berkin. (New York: Knopf, 2009. xiv, 361 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-1-4000-4446-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 519-520 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.519-a
    • Brian Craig Miller

    Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia. By Jeffrey W. McClurken. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xiv, 239 pp. $39.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2813-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 520-521 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.520
    • Gregg Cantrell

    Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865–1900. By Jacqueline M. Moore. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. xii, 269 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-5739-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 521-522 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.521
    • David O. Stowell

    Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877–1917. By Paul Michel Taillon. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xvi, 266 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03485-5. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07678-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 522-523 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.522
    • Lisa Levenstein

    Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865–1920. By Lara Vapnek. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 216 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03471-8. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-525-07661-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 523 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.523
    • Gayle R. Davis

    “Make It Yourself”: Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890–1930. By Sarah A. Gordon. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxii, 164 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-231-14244-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 523-525 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.523-a
    • Evelyn Hu-DeHart

    Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. By Adam M. McKeown. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xvi, 450 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14076-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 525-526 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.525
    • Arleen de Vera

    Asian Americans in New England: Culture and Community. Ed. by Monica Chiu. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. xviii, 252 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-794-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 526-527 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.526
    • Barbara Berglund

    The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850–1920. By Wendy Rouse Jorae. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 295 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3313-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5973-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 527-528 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.527
    • David Steven Cohen

    Freedom on the Horizon: Dutch Immigration to America, 1840–1940. By Hans Krabbendam. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009. xxvi, 404 pp. Paper, $32.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-6545-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 528 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.528
    • Martin Anthony Summers

    Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom. By Douglas Walter Bristol Jr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xii, 216 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-9283-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 528-529 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.528-a
    • Rebecca J. Fraser

    'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America. By Frances Smith Foster. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xx, 198 pp. $21.95, ISBN 978-0-19-532852-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 529-530 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.529
    • Alison Bashford

    Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1890s. By Gregory D. Smithers. (London: Routledge, 2009. xvi, 298 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-98977-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 530-531 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.530
    • Wayne K. Durrill

    Law and Society in the South: A History of North Carolina Court Cases. By John W. Wertheimer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. x, 282 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2535-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 531 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.531
    • John C. Hudson

    Chicago: A Biography. By Dominic A. Pacyga. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 462 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-64431-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 532 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.532
    • Beverly Gage

    In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History. By Michael Fellman. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 272 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-300-11510-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 532-533 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.532-a
    • Catherine McNicol Stock

    To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement. By Robert H. Churchill. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. xiv, 370 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-472-11682-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 533-534 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.533
    • Carlos A. Schwantes

    Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet. By Timothy J. LeCain. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xiv, 273 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4529-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 534-535 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.534
    • Timothy J. LeCain

    Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People, and Place. By Leah S. Glaser. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xiv, 304 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2219-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 535 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.535
    • David Hochfelder

    Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry. By Frederick Dalzell. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2010. xiv, 288 pp. $21.60, ISBN 978-0-262-04256-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 535-536 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.535-a
    • Mark R. Shulman

    Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century. By Henry J. Hendrix. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xviii, 230 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-59114-363-5.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 536-537 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.536
    • John M. Findlay

    Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power. By Bruce Cumings. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xxii, 641 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11188-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 537-538 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.537
    • Mark Wahlgren Summers

    Realigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896. By R. Hal Williams. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010. xiv, 250 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1721-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 538-539 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.538
    • John Milton Cooper, Jr.

    Remaking the Presidency: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, 1901–1916. By Peri E. Arnold. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xii, 277 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1659-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 539-540 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.539
    • Lloyd E. Ambrosius

    Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. By John Milton Cooper Jr. (New York: Knopf, 2009. viii, 702 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-307-26541-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 540 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.540
    • Amy Louise Wood

    Ida: A Sword among Lions; Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching. By Paula J. Giddings. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. xvi, 800 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-06051921-6. Paper, $19.99, ISBN 978-0-06-079736-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 540-541 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.540-a
    • Allison Dorsey

    The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880–1950. By LeeAnn Lands. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xii, 295 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2979-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3392-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 541-542 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.541
    • David McBride

    Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy. By Susan M. Reverby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 384 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3310-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 542-543 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.542
    • Leonard Ray Teel

    Battling Nell: The Life of Southern Journalist Cornelia Battle Lewis, 1893–1956. By Alexander S. Leidholdt. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xii, 331 pp. $47.50, ISBN 978-0-8071-3455-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 543-544 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.543
    • Tyler Anbinder

    American Passage: The History of Ellis Island. By Vincent J. Cannato. (New York: HarperCollins, 2009. viii, 487 pp. $27.99, ISBN 978-0-06-074273-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 544-545 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.544
    • Janice L. Reiff

    Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908–1929. By Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xiv, 233 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-3361-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 545 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.545
    • Colin John Davis

    On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York. By James T. Fisher. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xvi, 370 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-08014-4804-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 545-546 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.545-a
    • John J. Bukowczyk

    In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy. By Anna Pegler-Gordon. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xx, 319 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-520-25297-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25298-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 546-547 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.546
    • F. Jack Hurley

    Lewis Hine as Social Critic. By Kate Sampsell-Willmann. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xii, 331 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-60473-368-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 547-548 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.547
    • Marilynn S. Johnson

    New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era. By Jennifer Fronc. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. viii, 240 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-26609-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 548-549 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.548
    • D'Ann Campbell

    The Search for Negotiated Peace: Women's Activism and Citizen Diplomacy in World War I. By David S. Patterson. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xx, 443 pp. Cloth, $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-96141-7. Paper, $36.95, ISBN 978-0-415-96142-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 549 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.549
    • Arnold Krammer

    Pursuit of an “Unparalleled Opportunity”: The American ymca and Prisoner-of-War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I, 1914–1923. By Kenneth Steuer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xii, 440 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-231-13028-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 550 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.550
    • David Stradling

    The Nature Study Movement: The Forgotten Popularizer of America's Conservation Ethic. By Kevin C. Armitage. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. x, 291 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1673-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 551 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.551
    • David Rich Lewis

    Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country. By Marsha L. Weisiger. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. xxvi, 391 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-295-98881-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 551-552 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.551-a
    • David Samuels

    Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934. By John W. Troutman. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xvi, 323 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-4019-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 552-553 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.552
    • Charles Hersch

    Cuttin' Up: How Early Jazz Got America's Ear. By Court Carney. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xii, 219 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1675-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 553-554 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.553
    • Daniel Hurewitz

    Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles. By Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xii, 401 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25284-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25285-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 554-555 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.554
    • Clay McShane

    Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge. By Louise Nelson Dyble. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 294 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4147-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 555 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.555
    • Brian T. Edwards

    How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790–1935. By Susan Nance. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 344 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3274-5.

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 555-556 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.555-a
    • Kenneth O'Reilly

    White Collar Radicals: tva's Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era. By Aaron D. Purcell. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. xxviii, 258 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57233-661-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 556-557 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.556
    • Kevin Mattson

    Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics. By Marc Stears. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. x, 246 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13340-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 557-558 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.557
    • Jeffrey G. Barlow

    Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators, and Interpreters in the Pacific War. By Roger Dingman. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xx, 340 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59114-211-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 558-559 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.558
    • Dennis M. Ogawa

    Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow. By John Howard. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 344 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-35476-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 559-560 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.559
    • Brian Masaru Hayashi

    A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. By Greg Robinson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. x, 397 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-231-12922-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 560 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.560
    • Daniel Lee Kleinman

    Science on the Home Front: American Women Scientists in World War II. By Jordynn Jack. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x, 165 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03470-1. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07659-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 560-561 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.560-a
    • Jean Edward Smith

    fdr's World: War, Peace, and Legacies. Ed. by David B. Woolner, Warren F. Kimball, and David Reynolds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xiv, 254 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-0-230-60938-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 561-562 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.561
    • Hal M. Friedman

    Sumner Welles, Postwar Planning, and the Quest for a New World Order, 1937–1943. By Christopher D. O'Sullivan. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xx, 256 pp. $49.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14258-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 562-564 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.562
    • Katherine A. S. Sibley

    Spies: The Rise and Fall of the kgb in America. By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. liv, 650 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-12390-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 564 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.564
    • John Howard

    Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968. By Michael P. Bibler. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xii, 298 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2791-6. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2792-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 564-565 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.564-a
    • Marcia G. Synnott

    Marching in Step: Masculinity, Citizenship, and The Citadel in Post-World War II America. By Alexander Macaulay. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xii, 285 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2651-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 565-566 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.565
    • Timothy J. Meagher

    After the Flood: Irish America, 1945–1960. Ed. by James Silas Rogers and Matthew J. O'Brien. (Portland: Irish Academic, 2009. xiv, 223 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-7165-2987-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 566-567 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.566
    • Kevin E. Schmiesing

    The fbi and the Catholic Church, 1935–1962. By Steve Rosswurm. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xiv, 330 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-729-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 567-568 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.567
    • Abraham Hoffman

    Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963. By Kevin Starr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 564 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-515377-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 568-569 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.568
    • Susan Gelfand Malka

    Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War. By Kara Dixon Vuic. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xiv, 271 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-9391-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 569 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.569
    • Kenneth S. Jolly

    Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936–75. By Clarence Lang. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. xiv, 324 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 978-0-472-07065-7. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-0472-05065-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 569 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.569-a
    • Mary L. Dudziak

    The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights. By Anders Walker. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 241 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-518174-6.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 570-571 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.570
    • Melissa Kean

    The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss. By Charles W. Eagles. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 560 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3273-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 571-572 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.571
    • Yohuru Williams

    Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt. By Hasan Kwame Jeffries. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. xx, 348 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-4305-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 572-573 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.572
    • Adam Fairclough

    William L. Dawson and the Limits of Black Electoral Leadership. By Christopher Manning. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. x, 241 pp. $37.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-395-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 573-574 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.573
    • John McMillian

    Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s. By Robert Cohen. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi, 512 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-518293-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 574 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.574
    • Barbara Winslow

    Beyond Vietnam: The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974–1990. By Robert Surbrug Jr. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 323 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-155849-712-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 574-575 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.574-a
    • Jonathan Zimmerman

    Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy. By Carol Mason. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xii, 242 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-4728-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-7581-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 575-576 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.575
    • David K. Yoo

    Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America. By Daryl J. Maeda. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xviii, 203 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-4890-0. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-4891-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 576-577 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.576
    • Erika Dyck

    The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs. By Jeremy Kuzmarov. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xiv, 303 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-1-55849-704-7. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-705-4.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 577-578 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.577
    • Anne Kirschmann

    The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care. By John S. Haller Jr. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xvi, 191 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4583-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 578-579 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.578
    • Susan E. Henking

    Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the aids Crisis. By Jennifer Brier. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xx, 289 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3314-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 579 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.579
    • Robert E. Weems

    Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990. By Jennifer Delton. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. vi, 313 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-51509-2. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 978-0-521-73080-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 579-580 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.579-a
    • Laurence M. Hauptman

    Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century. By Paul C. Rosier. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. viii, 360 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03610-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 580-581 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.580
    • John Ibson

    Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America. By Elizabeth Fraterrigo. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 295 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-538610-3.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 581-582 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.581
    • Adolph H. Grundman

    American Hoops: U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball from Berlin to Beijing. By Carson Cunningham. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xx, 508 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-08032-2293-9.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 582-583 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.582
    • Eugene Taylor

    The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology. By William H. Tucker. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv, 254 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03400-8.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 583 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.583
    • Jaap Verheul

    Eb en vloed: Europa en Amerika van Reagan tot Obama (Ebb and flow: Europe and America from Reagan to Obama). By Ronald Havenaar. (Amsterdam: Van Oorschot, 2009. 307 pp. Paper, €22,50, ISBN 9789028241008.) In Dutch

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 583-584 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.583-a
    • Gil Troy

    A Bubble in Time: America during the Interwar Years, 1989–2001. By William L. O'Neill. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. xiv, 427 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-1-56663-806-7.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 584-585 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.584
    • Patrick Allitt

    Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism. By George H. Nash. (Wilmington, Del.: isi, 2009. xxii, 446 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-935191-65-0.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 585-586 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.585
    • Andrew J. Huebner

    America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force. By Beth Bailey. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2009. xiv, 319 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03536-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 586-587 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.586
    • Clayton R. Koppes

    Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq. By Susan A. Brewer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. x, 342 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-019-538135-1.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 587-588 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.587
    • Charles H. Lippy

    Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States. By Mark Hulsether. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 249 pp. Cloth, $74.50, ISBN 978-0-231-1440-25. Paper, $24.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14403-2.)

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 588 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.588

Web Site Reviews

Editor's Annual Report, 2009–2010

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    Editor's Annual Report, 2009–2010

    The Journal of American History (2010) 97(2): 595-599 doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.595

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