Recent Scholarship

African American

 

Aguilar Fernández, Susana, “Contexto histórico y protesta: El movimiento por los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos (1933–68)” (Historical context and protest: The civil rights movement in the United States, 1933–68), Revista de Estudios Políticos (Madrid) (no. 136, April–June 2007), 11–49. In Spanish.

Andrews, Gregg, “Black Working-Class Political Activism and Biracial Unionism: Galveston Longshoremen in Jim Crow Texas, 1919–1921,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Aug. 2008), 627–68.

Blum, Edward J., “Race and Christian Scholarship: The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois,” Fídes et Hístoría, 40 (Winter–Spring 2008), 25–41.

Brooks, Cecelia, “‘Touch the Bottom and Lift’: Black Women Home Extension Agents in Oklahoma, 1912–1935,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 88–108.

Canton, David, “A Dress Rehearsal for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: Raymond Pace Alexander and the Berwyn, Pennsylvania, School Desegregation Case, 1932–1935,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 260–84.

Fink, Robert C., “Semi-Professional African American Baseball in Texas before the Great Depression,” in The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology, ed. Bruce A. Glasrud and James M. Smallwood, 218–30. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxi, 404 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-89672-609-3.)

Furukawa, Tetsushi, “Afurika-kei Amerikajin to Nihon/Higashi Ajia: Sono kankeishi no igi to kadai wo kangaeru” (African American relations with Japan and/or East Asia: Toward a transnationalization of African American history and its significance), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 82–92. In Japanese.

Gustafsson, Tommy, “The Visual Re-creation of Black People in a ‘White’ Country: Oscar Micheaux and Swedish Film Culture in the 1920s,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 30–49.

Harris, Paul W., “Racial Identity and the Civilizing Mission: Double-Consciousness at the 1895 Congress on Africa,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Summer 2008), 145–76.

Higuchi, Hayami, “Amerika gasshukoku no kioku kara kesareru furansu/Haichi kakumei no kozai: Jiyu kokujin, dorei-hoki, iju mondai wo megutte” (Merits and demerits of the Haitian revolution erased from the public memory of the U.S.: Free blacks, slave uprisings, and migration), Senshu Jinbun Ronshu (Tokyo), 80 (2007), 41–83. In Japanese.

Joseph, Peniel E., “Historians and the Black Power Movement,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (July 2008), 8–15.

Kaneko, Ayumu, “‘Kokujin reipisuto no shinwa’ no poritikusu: 20-seiki Amerika ni okeru jinshu-boryoku, jenda, kaikyu” (The politics of the ‘black rapist myth’: American racial violence, gender, and class in the 20th century), Jenda Shigaku (Tokyo), 3 (2007), 5–17. In Japanese.

Kousser, J. Morgan, “The Strange, Ironic Career of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 1965–2007,” Texas Law Review, 86 (March 2008), 667–775.

Kraeplin, Camille, “Two Tales of One City: How Cultural Perspective Influenced the Framing of a Pre–Civil Rights Story in Dallas,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 73–97.

Krebsbach, Suzanne, “Black Catholics in Antebellum Charleston,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (April 2007), 143–59.

Longley, Neil, Todd Crosset, and Steve Jefferson, “The Migration of African-Americans to the Canadian Football League during the 1950s: An Escape from Racism?,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 25 (Sept. 2008), 1374–97.

McCorkle, Gerald S., “Busing Comes to Dallas Schools,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Jan. 2008), 305–33.

Minchin, Timothy J., “Making Best Use of the New Laws; The naacp and the Fight for Civil Rights in the South, 1965–1975,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Aug. 2008), 669–702.

Perkiss, Abigail, “Public Accountability and the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments: A Restorative Justice Approach,” Berkeley Journal of African-American Law and Policy, 10 (Spring 2008), 70–90.

Prentiss, Craig, “‘Terrible Laughing God’: Challenging Divine Justice in African American Antilynching Plays, 1916–1945,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Summer 2008), 177–214.

Rivers, Larry O., “‘Leaning on the Everlasting Arms’: Virgil Darnell Hawkins’s Early Life and Entry into the Civil Rights Struggle,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Winter 2008), 279–308.

Robinson, Greg, “Une alliance malaisée: Nisei et Africains-Américains” (An uncomfortable alliance: Nisei and African Americans), Matériaux, 87 (Fall 2007), 49–66. In French.

Rodman, Rosamond C., “Naming a Place Nicodemus,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Winter 2008), 49–62.

Sieving, Christopher, “The Concessions of Nat Turner,” Velvet Light Trap, 61 (Spring 2008), 38–50.

Smith, Eric Ledell, “The 1917 Race Riot in Chester, Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 171–96.

Spencer, Robyn Ceanne, “Engendering the Black Freedom Struggle: Revolutionary Black Womanhood and the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area, California,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 90–113.

Uzoigwe, Godfrey N., “A Matter of Identity: Africa and Its Diaspora in America since 1900, Continuity and Change,” African and Asian Studies, 7 (July 2008), 259–88.

Varela, Maria, “‘If You Have Come To Help Us . . . Go Home!,’” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 67–82.

Wall, Diana diZerega, Nan A. Rothschild, and Cynthia Copeland, “Seneca Village and Little Africa: Two African American Communities in Antebellum New York City,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 97–107.

Williams, Rhonda Y., “Black Women and Black Power,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (July 2008), 22–26.

Williams, Yohuru, “‘Some Abstract Thing Called Freedom’: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (July 2008), 16–21.

 

Allen, Jody Lynn, “Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County, Virginia, during the Era of Disfranchisement” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3282507.

Alvarez, Thomas, “The Place Between: The New York Independent Colored Movement and the Democratic Party, 1883–1905” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287445.

Boyd, Stacy C., “Black Men Worshipping: Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279861.

Brailey, Carla D., “A Critical Analysis of Black Preachers’ Sermons in the Electronic-Digital Age (1980 to 2005): A Quest for Social Change” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283225.

Brodnax, David Junius, Sr., “‘Breathing the Freedom’s Air’: The African American Struggle for Equal Citizenship in Iowa, 1830–1900” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3284324.

Dieng, Babacar, “The Emergence of Postcolonialism in Mid-Century Novels of the African Diaspora: A Study” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283236.

Dumas, Michael J., “Sitting Next to White Children: School Desegregation in the Black Educational Imagination” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3284386.

Durham, Aisha S., “Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290225.

Gubrium, Erika K., “African American Teachers Look Back: Interpreting Participation in the 1968 Florida School Walkout” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3286868.

Harris, LaShawn Denise, “Reconstructing Respectability: The Remaking of African-American Women’s Activism, 1896–1960” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283247.

Irwin-Mulcahy, Judith, “Black Atlas: Geography and Scales of Movement in African American Literature” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288747.

Jimenez y West, Christopher D., “More than My Color: Race, Space, and Politics in Black Los Angeles, 1940–1968” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3278350.

Manigault, LeRhonda S., “‘Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time’: Religion among Gullah/Geechee Women of the Carolina Lowcountry” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279884.

Reich, Paul D., “Race-ing West: Propaganda and Pedagogy in African American Fiction, Poetry, and Autobiography” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3287207.

Shelton, Vanessa, “Interpretive Community and the Black Press: Racial Equality and Politics in ‘The St. Louis American’ and ‘The St. Louis Argus,’ 1928–1956” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281406.

Stoever, Jennifer Lynn, “The Contours of the Sonic Color-Line: Slavery, Segregation, and the Cultural Politics of Listening” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3283509.

Trent, Dietra Yvette, “Public Policy Preferences and Political Attitudes: Exploring the Generational Divide among African Americans” (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2007). Order No. DA3285851.

Varda, Scott Joseph, “A Rhetorical History of Malcolm X” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281417.

Wilson, Rai Imani, “Foundations of Sand: Federalism, Formalism, and the Matter of Money in the African American Legal Experience, Florida, 1900–1950” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3289595.

 

Anderson, Elijah, ed., Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xvi, 296 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4097-9.)

Carpio, Glenda R., Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, 287 pp. Cloth, $74.00, isbn 978-0-19-530470-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-19-530469-5.)

Cunningham, Roger D., The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864–1901. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xxii, 206 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1807-0.)

Glasrud, Bruce A., and James M. Smallwood, eds., The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxi, 404 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-89672-609-3.)

Ho, Fred, and Bill V. Mullen, eds., Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 403 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4258-8. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4281-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Kawashima, Masaki, Amerika shimin-undou no rekishi: Rensasuru chiiki toso to gasshukoku shakai (A history of the American civil rights movement: Connected regional struggles and U.S. society). (Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2008. 652 pp. ¥9,975, isbn 978-4-8158-0591-3.) In Japanese.

Kershner, Jim, Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xii, 264 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-295-98846-7.)

Lindsay, Beverly, ed., Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 199 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03225-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Lüthe, Martin, “We Missed a Lot of Church, So the Music is Our Confessional”: Rap and Religion. (Münster: lit, 2008. 93 pp. Paper, €19.90, isbn 978-3-8258-0816-7.)

Meissner, Jochen, Ulrich Mücke, and Klaus Weber, eds., Schwarzes Amerika: Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei (Black America: A history of slavery). (München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2008. 320 pp. €26.90, isbn 978-3-406-56225-9.)

Parks, Gregory S., ed., Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-first Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xviii, 490 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2491-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Royal, Alice C., Mickey Ellinger, and Scott Braley, Allensworth, the Freedom Colony: A California African American Township. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2008. xvi, 141 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-59714-091-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Smith, Catherine Parsons, William Grant Still. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 116 pp. $37.00, isbn 978-0-252-03322-3.)

Ward, Andrew, The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. xiv, 386 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-618-63400-2.)

 

Andrews, William L., and Regina E. Mason, eds., Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxii, 145 pp. Cloth, $64.00, isbn 978-0-19-534331-1. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-19-534332-8.) Originally published in 1825.

Bush, A. E., and P. L. Dorman, eds., History of the Mosaic Templars of America: Its Founders and Officials. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. lviii, 291 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-55728-882-0.)

Chandler, Genevieve W., comp., Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from wpa Oral Histories, ed. Kincaid Mills, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and Aaron McCollough. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xlvi, 391 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-721-4.)

Cole, Jean Lee, and Charles Mitchell, eds., Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 389 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4291-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4292-8.)

Hilliard, David, ed., The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii, 158 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4394-9.)

Stanford, Karin L., ed., If We Must Die: African American Voices on War and Peace. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. x, 373 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4113-9. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4114-6.)

Agricultural

 

Rowley, Rex J., “Extending the Security Net: The Impact of Rangeland Insurance on Ranching Economy and Culture,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Spring 2008), 91–104.

Smith, Phyllis, “‘Peas That Please’: The Gallatin Valley Pea Industry, 1911–1970,” Montana, 58 (Summer 2008), 60–69. Heavily illustrated.

Valentine, David W., “High Rock High Jinx or How the Cow Outmaneuvered the Plow,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Winter 2007), 325–43.

 

Herbin, Elizabeth Ann, “Healing the Land, Healing the South: Reforming the Southern Cotton Farm, 1900–1939” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285087.

Lauzon, Glenn P., “Civic Learning through Agricultural Improvement: Bringing ‘the Loom and the Anvil into Proximity with the Plow’ in Nineteenth-Century Indiana” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3290769.

Levy, Teresita A., “The History of Tobacco Cultivation in Puerto Rico, 1899–1940” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283616.

Saffell, Cameron Lee, “Common Roots of a New Industry: The Introduction and Expansion of Cotton Farming in the American West” (Iowa State University, 2007). Order No. DA3289425.

 

Bolsterli, Margaret Jones, During Wind and Rain: The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848–2006. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xiv, 144 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-55728-871-4.)

American Indian

 

Abe, Juri, “It’s a Good Day to Die: Native American Warrior Tradition and American Wars,” Rikkyo Amerika Sutadizu (Tokyo), 29 (2007), 53–70.

Abrahams, Roger D., “Mohawks, Mohocks, Hawkubites, Whatever: Down and Dirty in Eighteenth-Century London and Boston,” Common-Place, 8 (July 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Aikau, Hokulani K., “Resisting Exile in the Homeland: He Mo’oleno No La’ie,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 70–95.

Anthes, Bill, “Learning from Foxwoods: Visualizing the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 204–18.

Arndt, Grant, “Ho-Chunk Powwows: Innovation and Tradition in a Changing World,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Spring 2008), 28–41. Heavily illustrated.

Ben-zvi, Yael, “Ethnography and the Production of Foreignness in Indian Captivity Narratives,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), ix–xxxii.

Blee, Lisa, “The 1925 Fort Union Indian Congress: Divergent Narratives, One Event,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Fall 2007), 582–612.

Brown, Richard D., “‘No Harm to Kill Indians’: Equal Rights in a Time of War,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 34–62.

Champagne, Duane, “From First Nations to Self-Government: A Political Legacy of Indigenous Nations in the United States,” American Behavioral Scientist, 51 (Aug. 2008), 1672–93.

Clark, D. Anthony Tyeeme, and Malea Powell, “Resisting Exile in the ‘Land of the Free’: Indigenous Groundwork at Colonial Intersections,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 1–15.

Cox-Paul, Lori, “John M. Chivington: ‘The Reverend Colonel,’ ‘Marry-Your-Daughter,’ ‘Sand Creek Massacre,’” Nebraska History, 88 (Winter 2007), 126–47.

Eick, Gretchen Cassel, “U.S. Indian Policy, 1865–1890: As Illuminated through the Lives of Charles A. Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Winter 2008), 27–47.

Fitz, Caitlin A., “‘Suspected on Both Sides’: Little Abraham, Iroquois Neutrality, and the American Revolution,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 299–335.

Flagler, Edward K., “Relaciones interétnicas: Los indios zuñi de Nuevo México y los españoles” (Interethnic relations: The Zuñi Indians of New Mexico and the Spaniards), Revista Española de Antropología Americana (Madrid), 38 (no. 2, 2008), 57–73. In Spanish.

Ganter, Granville, “Red Jacket and the Decolonization of Republican Virtue,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Fall 2007), 559–81.

Hemmer, Joseph J., “Exploitation of American Indian Symbols: A First Amendment Analysis,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 121–40.

Holm, Sharon, “The ‘Lie’ of the Land: Native Sovereignty, Indian Literary Nationalism, and Early Indigenism in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 243–74.

Konkle, Maureen, “Indigenous Ownership and the Emergence of U.S. Liberal Imperialism,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 297–323.

Kraft, Lisa, “Thrice Purchased: Acquisition and Allotment of the Citizen Potawatomi Reservation,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 64–87.

Lee, Lloyd L., “Reclaiming Indigenous Intellectual, Political, and Geographic Space: A Path for Navajo Nationhood,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 96–110.

Lowitt, Richard, “From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954–1980, Part 2,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 32–63.

Neuman, Lisa Kay, “Indian Play: Students, Wordplay, and Ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 178–203.

Oberg, Michael Leroy, “Good Neighbors: The Onondagas and the Fort Schuyler Treaty of September 1788,” New York History, 88 (Fall 2007), 391–417.

Ohnesorge, Karen, “Uneasy Terrain: Image, Text, Landscape, and Contemporary Indigenous Artists in the United States,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 43–69.

Purdue, Theda, “American Indian Survival in South Carolina,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (July 2007), 215–34.

Schneider, Bethany, “Boudinot’s Change: Boudinot, Emerson, and Ross on Cherokee Removal,” English Literary History, 75 (Spring 2008), 151–77.

Shackelford, Alan G., “The Frontier in Pre-Columbian Illinois,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Fall 2007), 182–206.

Shepherd, Jeffrey P., “At the Crossroads of Hualapai History, Memory, and American Colonization: Contesting Space and Place,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 16–42.

Sherfy, Michael, “A Persistent Removal: Black Hawk, Commemoration, and Historic Sites in Illinois,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Fall 2007), 240–67.

Snow, Dean R., “Searching for Hendrick: Correction of a Historic Conflation,” New York History, 88 (Summer 2007), 229–53.

Stock, Melissa A., “Sovereign or Suzerain: Alexander McGillivray’s Argument for Creek Independence after the Treaty of Paris of 1783,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2008), 149–76.

Sweet, Julie Anne, “Will the Real Tomochichi Please Come Forward?,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 141–77.

Tahmahkera, Dustin, “Custer’s Last Sitcom: Decolonized Viewing of the Sitcom’s ‘Indian,’” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 324–51.

Walczynski, Mark, “The Starved Rock Massacre of 1769: Fact or Fiction,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Fall 2007), 215–36.

Ward, Kathleen A., “Before and After the White Man: Indian Women, Property, Progress, and Power,” Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, 6 (Spring–Summer 2007), 245–67.

Wilcox, David R., et al., “Ancient Cultural Interplay of the American Southwest in the Mexican Northwest,” Journal of the Southwest, 50 (Summer 2008), 103–206.

Wojcik, Eva, “Trust and Survival: awol Hunkpapa Indian Family Prisoners of War at Fort Sully, 1890–1891,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 275–96.

Zamir, Shamoon, “Native Agency and the Making of The North American Indian: Alexander B. Upshaw and Edward S. Curtis,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Fall 2007), 613–53.

 

Busacca, Jeremy, “Seeking Self-Determination: Framing, the American Indian Movement, and American Indian Media” (Claremont Graduate University, 2007). Order No. DA3285223.

Cole, Daniel, “Indian Questions: Native American Writing in Response to Removal” (Fordham University, 2007). Order No. DA3286417.

Goble, Luke J., “Indians and the National Unconscious: Discourses of Nationalism and Democracy in the United States and Bolivia, 1780–1850” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277712.

Iverson, Margot Lynn, “Blood Types: A History of Genetic Studies of Native Americans, 1920–1955” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3285656.

Jacobson, Lori L., “Agencies and Associations: Women Writing Indian Reform in Nineteenth-Century America” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277713.

Lindsay, Brendan Charles, “Naturalizing Atrocity: California’s Indian Genocide, 1846–1916” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3281669.

Moore, Paul James, “Kiowa Changes: The Impact of Transatlantic Influences” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2007). Order No. DA3288887.

O’Sullivan, Meg Devlin, “‘We Worry about Survival’: American Indian Women, Sovereignty, and the Right to Bear and Raise Children in the 1970s” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289127.

Rozzell, Kristin Lynn, “Reinventing the Self: Native American Women’s Autobiographies” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2007). Order No. DA3288898.

Sauder Muhlfeld, Sharon, “Ambiguous Alliances: Native American Efforts to Preserve Independence in the Ohio Valley, 1768–1795” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3282514.

Spivey, Jessica R. S., “Red Rat and the Maker: British American and Native American Exchange in the Colonial Southeast” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288536.

Travis, Tara Elisabeth, “Continuity and Change in the Navajo Community of Canyons del Muerto and de Chelly” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3288024.

 

Bailey, Garrick A., ed., Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 2: Indians in Contemporary Society. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 2008. xiv, 577 pp. $64.00, isbn 978-0-16-080388-8.)

Biolsi, Thomas, ed., A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians. (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 2008. xxiv, 567 pp. Paper, $50.00, isbn 978-1-4051-8288-1.)

Calloway, Colin G., The Shawnees and the War for America. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xl, 216 pp. Cloth, $19.95, isbn 978-0-670-03862-6. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-14-311391-1.)

Carroll, Al, Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. viii, 287 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1085-1.)

Chapman, Janet, and Karen Barrie, Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xiv, 370 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4424-3.)

Edmunds, R. David, ed., Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest. (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.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Ellis, Anita J., and Susan Labry Meyn, Rookwood and the American Indian: Masterpieces of American Art Pottery from the James J. Gardner Collection. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xviii, 294 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1739-3. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1740-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Gaudio, Michael, Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxvi, 207 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4846-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4847-4.)

Hoelscher, Steven D., Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett’s Wisconsin Dells. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xxii, 194 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-299-22600-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-299-22604-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Mann, Barbara Alice, ed., Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 133 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8032-6042-9.)

Mizuno, Yumiko, “Indian” to “shimin” no hazama de: Gasshukoku seibu ni okeru Senjumin shakai no saihensei (Between the “Indian” and the “citizen”: The process of reorganization of Native American society). (Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2007. 340 pp. ¥5,985, isbn 78-4-8158-0564-7.) In Japanese.

Perdue, Theda, and Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xviii, 189 pp. Cloth, $19.95, isbn 978-0-670-03150-4. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-14-311367-6.)

Reyes, Lawney L., B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xxii, 155 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-295-98853-5.)

Shannon, Timothy J., Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier. (New York: Viking, 2008. xii, 260 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-670-01897-0.)

Uchida, Ayako, Amerika Senjumin no gendaishi: Rekishiteki kioku to bunka keisho (A modern history of Native Americans: Historical memory and cultural inheritance). (Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2008. 434 pp. ¥6,300, isbn 978-4-8158-0581-4.) In Japanese.

 

Witte, Stephen S., and Marsha V. Gallagher, eds., The North American Journals of Prince Maximillian of Wied, vol. 1: May 1832–April 1833, trans. William J. Orr, Paul Schach, and Dieter Karch. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xliv, 467 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8061-3888-6.)

Antebellum

 

Davis, Joseph H., and Douglas A. Irwin, “The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry: Domestic Production and Foreign Competition,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (July 2008), 254–69.

Archives and Bibliography

Prom, Christopher J., and Ellen D. Swain, eds., College and University Archives: Readings in Theory and Practice. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2008. xvi, 357 pp. Paper, $54.95, isbn 978-1-931666-27-5.)

Asian American

Azuma, Eiichiro, “Toransunashonaru Ajia-kei Amerikajin-shi: Kan-kokka paradaimu no kanosei” (Transnational Asian American history: The possibilities of an international paradigm), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 48–64. In Japanese.

Junn, Jane, “From Coolie to Model Minority,” Du Bois Review, 4 (September 2007), 355–73.

Robinson, Greg, “Une alliance malaisée: Nisei et Africains-Américains” (An uncomfortable alliance: Nisei and African Americans), Matériaux, 87 (Fall 2007), 49–66. In French.

Siener, William H., “Through the Back Door: Evading the Chinese Exclusion Act along the Niagara Frontier, 1900 to 1924,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 27 (Summer 2008), 34–70.

Takai, Yukari, “Hokubei-Tairiku-shi toshiteno Imin-shi Kochiku ni Mukete: 20seiki-shoto kabei kokkyo no nihonjin ekkyosha wo chushin ni” (Doing transnational history at a Canada-U.S. borderland: Japanese emigrants crossing the border at the beginning of the 20th century), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 64–81. In Japanese.

Wu, Ellen D., “‘America’s Chinese’: Anti-Communism, Citizenship, and Cultural Democracy during the Cold War,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Aug. 2008), 391–422.

Yanagisawa, Ikumi, “Nihonjin imin joseitachi no Nikkeijin kyosei shuyojo” (The Japanese American concentration camp for Japanese immigrant women), Iminkenkyu Nenpo (Tokyo), 13 (2007), 99–110. In Japanese.

Yoneyama, Hiroshi, “Amerikashi kijutu no ekkyoka to Nihonjin no kokusai-ido: Iminshi no wakugumi no kaitai to Saikochiku nimujket” (Internationalizing the understanding of American history through pre-WWII Japanese immigrants’ participation in the economy of Southern California), Ritsumeikan Bungaku (Kyoto), 597 (2007), 350–59. In Japanese.

Zesch, Scott, “Prelude to a Massacre: Chinese Los Angeles in 1870–1871,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Summer 2008), 109–58.

 

Cruz, Denise, “Transpacific Femininities: Unmapping the Narratives of Philippine-U.S. Contact” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3288207.

Takita, Sachiko, “The Tule Lake Pilgrimage and Japanese American Internment: Collective Memory, Solidarity, and Division in an Ethnic Community” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3280945.

 

Ho, Fred, and Bill V. Mullen, eds., Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 403 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4258-8. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4281-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Mimamikawa, Fuminori, “Nikkei-Amerika-jin” no Rekishi-shakaigaku: Esunishiti, jinshu, nashonarizumu (Historical sociology of Japanese Americans: Ethnicity, race, and nationalism). (Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2007. 289 pp. ¥3,675, isbn 978-4-7791-1278-2.) In Japanese.

Business and Economics

 

Ainlay-Conley, Jacqui, “From the Silver City to Kansas City: August and Emma Meyer in Leadville and Beyond,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2008), 36–47. Heavily illustrated.

Alstott, Anne L., and Ben Novick, “War, Taxes, and Income Redistribution in the Twenties: The 1924 Veterans’ Bonus and the Defeat of the Mellon Plan,” Tax Law Review, 59 (Summer 2006), 373–438.

Davis, Joseph H., and Douglas A. Irwin, “The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry: Domestic Production and Foreign Competition,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (July 2008), 254–69.

Francis, Stephen S., “Back to Business: Marriner Eccles and the Effect of Public Service on Private Enterprise,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 265–80.

Gordon, Jeffrey N., “The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950–2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices,” Stanford Law Review, 59 (April 2007), 1465–568.

Harvey, Gordon E., “The Nut with a Huey Long Outlook versus the Goblins of Fear and Distortion: Reubin Askew and the Campaign to Establish the Florida Corporate Profits Tax,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Winter 2008), 309–45.

Hightower, Michael J., “The Businessman’s Frontier: C. C. Hightower, Commerce, and Old Greer Country, 1891–1903,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 4–31.

Hinton, Diana Davids, “Creating Company Culture: Oil Company Camps in the Southwest, 1920–1960,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (April 2008), 369–87.

Hoover, Michael, “Before Disney Arrived: Florida’s Ill-Fated Attempt to Build interama,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Spring 2008), 445–69.

Kopczynski, Michal, “Samuel Colt i amerykanski sposób produkcji” (Samuel Colt and the American method of production), Mówia Wieki (Warsaw) (no. 9, 2007), 40–46. In Polish.

Lovin, Hugh T., “Lucien Nunn, Provo Entrepreneur, and His Hydropower Realm in Utah and Idaho,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 132–47.

Makholm, Jeff D., “‘Decoupling’ for Energy Distributors: Changing 19th Century Tariff Structures to Address 21st Century Energy Markets,” Energy Law Journal, 29 (no. 1, 2008), 157–72.

Marler, Scott P., “‘An Abiding Faith in Cotton’: The Merchant Capitalist Community of New Orleans, 1860–1862,” Civil War History, 54 (Sept. 2008), 247–76.

Mullins, Paul R., “Marketing in a Multicultural Neighborhood: An Archaeology of Corner Stores in the Urban Midwest,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 88–96.

Richards, Susan L., and Rex C. Myers, “An Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove: Thomas J. Grier’s Management of the Homestake Mine, 1885–1914,” South Dakota History, 38 (Summer 2008), 95–124.

Spector, Bert, “‘Business Responsibilities in a Divided World’: The Cold War Roots of the Corporate Social Responsibility Movement,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (June 2008), 314–36.

Stranger, Howard R., “The Larkin Clubs of Ten: Consumer Buying Clubs and Mail-Order Commerce, 1890–1940,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (March 2008), 125–64.

Weaver, Glen D., and Ryan C. Graham, “Largest Coke Plant West of Chicago,” New Mexico Historical Review, 83 (Summer 2008), 323–51.

 

Bohn, Sarah E., “Immigration and Wages in the U.S. Labor Market” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283414.

DiMoia, John Paul, “Hanmi Hyopcho (Korean-American Cooperation) and the Origins of South Korean State Science (1945–1975)” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3281300.

Hyman, Louis Roland, “Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285490.

Lampe, Evan, “Merchants, Traders, and Sailors in the Early American Pacific, 1763–1850” (State University of New York, Albany, 2007). Order No. DA3286296.

Mrozowski, Daniel J., “Tracing the Corporation: The Cultural Imagination of Business in American Literary Realism, 1865–1917” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287587.

O’Connor, Mike, “Democratic Capitalism in the United States” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3285892.

 

Broehl, Wayne G., Jr., Cargill: From Commodities to Customers. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. xvi, 348 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-58465-694-4.)

Delfino, Susanna, and Michele Gillespie, eds., Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization: From the Antebellum Era to the Computer Age. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 215 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1795-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Nigra, Fabio G., Una historia económica (inconformista) de los Estados Unidos, 1865–1980 (Economic (nonconformist) history of the United States of America, 1865–1980). (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007. 262 pp. $35.00.) In Spanish.

Prentiss, Craig R., Debating God’s Economy: Social Justice in America on the Eve of Vatican II. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xii, 267 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-271-03341-9.)

Westbrook, Jack H., Material Memories of the Mohawk-Hudson Region. (Fleischmanns: Purple Mountain Press, 2007. 205 pp. Paper, $15.00, isbn 978-1-930098-86-2.)

 

Racine, Philip N., Gentlemen Merchants: A Charleston Family’s Odyssey, 1828–1870. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxxvi, 890 pp. $38.95, isbn 978-1-57233-616-2.)

Childhood and Youth

 

Greenberg, Joy Pastan, “Early Childhood Education and Care Policies and Children’s Care Arrangements from 1991–2005: Evidence from the National Household Education Survey” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285084.

 

Krueger, Gretchen, Hope and Suffering: Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 216 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8831-1.)

 

Krapf, Norbert, The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2008. xiv, 262 pp. $15.95, isbn 978-0-87195-262-2.)

Civil War and Reconstruction

 

Cronin, Mary M., “‘Confounding the Wise, If Not the Devil Himself’: Rediscovering Forgotten Civil War Humorist R. R. Gilbert,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (April 2008), 389–416.

Derengowski, Piotr, “Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski i Legion Polski (58 pulk piechoty z Nowego Jorku)” (Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski and the Polish Legion (the 58th Infantry Regiment of New York)), Przeglad Historyczno-Wojskowy (Warsaw), 8 (no. 3, 2007), 5–26. In Polish.

Deverell, William, “Convalescence and California: The Civil War Comes West,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2008), 1–26.

Ferraro, William M., “A Struggle for Respect: Lew Wallace’s Relationships with Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman after Shiloh,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (June 2008), 125–52.

Gallagher, Patrick, “Through Battle, Prison, and Disease: The Civil War Diaries of George Richardson Crosby,” Vermont History, 76 (Winter–Spring 2008), 19–45.

Glatthaar, Joseph T., “Everyman’s War: A Rich and Poor Man’s Fight in Lee’s Army,” Civil War History, 54 (Sept. 2008), 229–46.

Gold, Susanna W., “‘Fighting It Over Again’: The Battle of Gettysburg at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition,” Civil War History, 54 (Sept. 2008), 277–310.

Graber, Samuel, “‘British Tribute to Virginia Valor’: Unveiling the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Statue,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (June 2008), 141–64.

Grant, Susan-Mary, “Reimagined Communities: Union Veterans and the Reconstruction of American Nationalism,” Nations and Nationalism (Oxford), 14 (July 2008), 498–519.

Niewinski, Lukasz, “Brygada Polska w Armii Konfederacji, 1861–1865” (The Polish Brigade in the Confederate army, 1860–1865), Studia i Materialy do Historii Wojskowosci, 43 (2007), 223–50. In Polish.

Rafuse, Ethan S., “‘Poor Burn?’: The Antietam Conspiracy That Wasn’t,” Civil War History, 54 (June 2008), 146–75.

Sacher, John M., “‘Our Interest and Destiny Are the Same’: Gov. Thomas Overton Moore and Confederate Loyalty,” Louisiana History, 49 (Summer 2008), 261–86.

Stanton, Michael N., “The Civil War Memoir of Charles Dubois,” Vermont History, 76 (Winter–Spring 2008), 47–61.

Vagts, Detlev F., “Military Commissions: The Forgotten Reconstruction Chapter,” American University International Law Review, 23 (no. 2, 2008), 231–74.

 

Lundberg, John Richard, “Granbury’s Texas Brigade, C.S.A.: The Color Brigade of the Army” (Texas Christian University, 2007). Order No. DA3278279.

McConnell, Kent Alan, “‘There Must Be Tears in the Houses’: A Search for Religious Meaning from the Carnage of the American Civil War” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3288356.

Rubin, Karen Aviva, “The Aftermath of Sorrow: White Women’s Search for Their Lost Cause, 1861–1917” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282659.

 

Beagle, Donald Robert, and Bryan Albin Giemza, Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xii, 342 pp. $48.95, isbn 978-1-57233-606-3.)

Cozzens, Peter, Shenandoah, 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xvi, 623 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3200-4.)

Durham, Roger S., Guardian of Savannah: Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xx, 282 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-742-9.)

Gramm, Kent, ed., Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. xii, 147 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8173-1622-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Luvaas, Jay, and Harold W. Nelson, eds., Guide to the Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xvi, 383 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1569-8. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1570-4.)

Marvel, William, Lincoln’s Darkest Year: The War in 1862. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. xvi, 443 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-618-85869-9.)

Mays, Thomas D., Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson’s Civil War. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xiv, 194 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2860-4.)

Trudeau, Noah Andre, Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. xvi, 671 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-06-059867-9.)

Ward, Andrew, The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. xiv, 386 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-618-63400-2.)

 

Burnett, Lonnie A., ed., Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist: Selected Writings on Revolution, Recognition, and Race. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. xii, 251 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1620-4.)

Thompson, Jerry D., ed., New Mexico Territory during the Civil War: Wallen and Evans Inspection Reports, 1862–1863. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. viii, 304 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4479-3.)

Wells, Cheryl A., ed., A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac: Francis M. Wafer. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. xliv, 225 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7735-3381-3.)

Cold War

 

Griesdorf, Michael Jeffrey, “Norms as a Rhetorical Competition: Soviet-American Confrontations over Cuba, 1970–85,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Aug. 2008), 299–326.

Kalinovsky, Artemy, “Old Politics, New Diplomacy: The Geneva Accords and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Aug. 2008), 381–404.

 

Tyvela, Kirk A., “The Dictatorship Dilemma: The United States, Paraguay, and the Cold War, 1954–1989” (Ohio University, 2007). Order No. DA3282050.

 

Bostdorff, Denise M., Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 193 pp. Cloth, $34.95, isbn 978-1-60344-032-5. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-60344-034-9.)

Wang, Zuoyue, In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xxii, 454 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4331-4.)

Colonial

 

Alonso Baquer, Mariano, “En busca del río Colorado: La exploracíon de Antonio María de Rivera desde Santa Fe, año 1765” (In search of the Colorado River: The exploration from Santa Fe by Antonio María Rivera in the year 1765), Revista de Historia Militar (Madrid) (no. 97, 2005), 217–49. In Spanish.

Cogswell, Thomas, “‘In the Power of the State’: Mr. Anys’s Project and the Tobacco Colonies, 1626–1628,” English Historical Review (Oxford), 123 (Feb. 2008), 35–64.

Desan, Christine, “From Blood to Profit: Making Money in the Practice and Imagery of Early America,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 26–46.

Flagler, Edward K., “Comercio y ferias de trueque: España y los indios de Nuevo México” (Trade and barter fairs: Spain and the Indians of New Mexico), Revista Española de Antropología Americana (Madrid), 37 (no. 1, 2007), 67–90. In Spanish.

Flagler, Edward K., “Relaciones interétnicas: Los indios zuñi de Nuevo México y los españoles” (Interethnic relations: The Zuñi Indians of New Mexico and the Spaniards), Revista Española de Antropología Americana (Madrid), 38 (no. 2, 2008), 57–73. In Spanish.

Furstenberg, François, “The Significance of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier in Atlantic History,” American Historical Review, 113 (June 2008), 647–77.

Haefeli, Evan, “A Scandalous Minister in a Divided Community: Ulster County in Leisler’s Rebellion, 1689–1691,” New York History, 88 (Fall 2007), 357–89.

Ivey, James E., “A Reconsideration of the Survey of the Villa de San Fernando de Béxar in 1731,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Jan. 2008), 251–81.

Kashay, Jennifer Fish, “Competing Imperialisms and Hawaiian Authority: The Cannonading of Lahaina in 1827,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Aug. 2008), 369–90.

Woodward, Walter W., “Captain John Smith and the Campaign for New England: A Study in Early Modern Identity and Promotion,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 91–125.

 

Crouch, Christian Ayne, “Imperfect Reflections: New France’s Use of Indigenous Violence and the Crisis of French Empire during the Seven Years’ War, 1754–1760” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3284251.

Crutchfield, Lisa Laurel, “‘Indispensably Necessary’: Cultural Brokers on the Georgia Frontier, 1733–1765” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3282509.

Hinton, Michele M., “Law and Society: Gender, Class, and Race in the Prosecution of Bastardy in Colonial Maryland, 1653–1783” (Saint Louis University, 2007). Order No. DA3280207.

Jeffries, James Bradford, “Denying Religion: French and Native American Spiritual Crossroads in Seventeenth-Century New France” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3285830.

Spivey, Jessica R. S., “Red Rat and the Maker: British American and Native American Exchange in the Colonial Southeast” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288536.

 

Games, Alison, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 381 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-19-533554-5.)

Powell, Philip Wayne, Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xvi, 210 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4576-9.) Originally published in 1971.

Skinner, Claiborne A., The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi, 202 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8837-3. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8838-0.)

Yerxa, Donald A., ed., Recent Themes in Early American History: Historians in Conversation. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. x, 152 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-764-1. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-57003-765-8.)

Crime and Violence

 

Baumler, Ellen, “Justice as an Afterthought: Women and the Montana Prison System,” Montana, 58 (Summer 2008), 41–59. Heavily illustrated.

Brackett, John M., “Cutting Costs by Cutting Lives: Prisoner Health and the Abolishment of Florida’s Convict-Lease System,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 69–83.

Cutter, Barbara, “The Female Indian Killer Memorialized: Hannah Duston and the Nineteenth-Century Feminization of American Violence,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 10–33.

McKnight, Roger, “The Dinkytown Murder: A Study of Violence, Media Response, and Immigrant Assimilation in Nineteenth-Century Minnesota,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (April 2008), 57–107.

Sadler, Richard W., “The Spencer-Pike Affair,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 79–93.

Tomlins, Christopher, “Necessities of State: Police, Sovereignty, and the Constitution,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 47–63.

Waldrep, Christopher, “National Policing, Lynching, and Constitutional Change,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Aug. 2008), 589–626.

Weaver, Vesla M., “Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 230–65.

 

Andrews, Norwood Henry, III, “Sunbelt Justice: Politics, the Professions, and the History of Sentencing and Corrections in Texas since 1968” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3278089.

Holub, Rona L., “Fredericka ‘Marm’ Mandelbaum, ‘Queen of Fences’: The Rise and Fall of a Female Immigrant Criminal Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century New York City” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285090.

Kramer, Alisa Sarah, “William H. Parker and the Thin Blue Line: Politics, Public Relations, and Policing in Postwar Los Angeles” (American University, 2007). Order No. DA3286654.

O’Deane, Matthew David, “Effectiveness of Gang Injunction in California: A Multicounty 25-Year Study” (Walden University, 2007). Order No. DA3283460.

Reynolds, Todd, “Security Exchanges: The Rise of Systematic Criminal Justice in the Gilded Age U.S. Imagination” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3281591.

Smith, Nathaniel Lee, “‘Cured of the Habit by Force’: The United States and the Global Campaign to Punish Drug Consumers, 1898–1970” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289140.

 

Mays, Thomas D., Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson’s Civil War. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xiv, 194 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2860-4.)

Moore, Paula, Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled Politics in New Mexico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii, 203 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4341-3.)

Wagner, Allen E., Good Order and Safety: A History of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, 1861–1906. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 2008. xviii, 532 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-883982-63-8.)

Demography

 

Hochschild, Jennifer L., and Brenna Marea Powell, “Racial Reorganization and the United States Census, 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 59–96.

 

Powell, Lawrence N., ed., The New Orleans of George Washington Cable: The 1887 Census Office Report. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xii, 207 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3319-4.)

Education

 

Anderson, Marvin J., “The Architectural Education of Nineteenth-Century American Engineers: Dennis Hart Mahan at West Point,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (June 2008), 222–47.

Beadie, Nancy, “Toward a History of Education Markets in the United States: An Introduction,” Social Science History, 32 (Spring 2008), 47–73.

Beadie, Nancy, “Tuition Funding for Common Schools: Education Markets and Market Regulation in Rural New York, 1815–1850,” Social Science History, 32 (Spring 2008), 107–33.

Dorn, Charles, “‘Treason in the Textbooks’: Reinterpreting the Harold Rugg Textbook Controversy in the Context of Wartime Schooling,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 44 (Aug. 2008), 457–79.

Douglas, Bill R., “Penn in Technicolor: Cecil Hinshaw’s Radical Pacifist-Perfectionist Experiment at William Penn College, 1944–1949,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 54–68.

Embry, Jessie, “Diploma Nursing at Salt Lake City Religious Based Hospitals,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 281–99.

Frank, Marie, “The Theory of Pure Design and American Architectural Education in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (June 2008), 248–73. Heavily illustrated.

Gyure, Dale Allen, “The Heart of the University: A History of the Library as an Architectural Symbol of American Higher Education,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 107–32.

Hampel, Robert, “Testing Medical Students at Harvard, 1870–1930,” History of Education and Children’s Literature (Macerata), 3 (no. 1, 2008), 155–74.

Huber, Patrick, and Stephen Foster, “Making Boys into Miners: The Freshman Fight and Hazing at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1903–1945,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (July 2008), 195–213.

Matzko, James, “‘This Is It, Isn’t It, Brother Stone?’: The Move of Bob Jones University from Cleveland, Tennessee, to Greenville, 1946–1947,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (July 2007), 235–56.

McCorkle, Gerald S., “Busing Comes to Dallas Schools,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Jan. 2008), 305–33.

Neuman, Lisa Kay, “Indian Play: Students, Wordplay, and Ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 178–203.

Parkinson, Brian, “A Creole in Cairo: Judge Pierre Crabitès Thoughts on the Middle East,” Louisiana History, 49 (Summer 2008), 315–34.

Piggot, W. Benjamin, “Radicalism in the Cradle of the New Right: The University of California’s Irvine Campus in 1960s Orange County,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2008), 55–85.

Sautter, John A., “Equity and History: Vermont’s Education Revolution in the Early 1890s,” Vermont History, 76 (Winter–Spring 2008), 1–18.

Spearman, Mindy, “‘Everything to Help, Nothing to Hinder’: The Story of the Texas School Journal,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Jan. 2008), 283–302.

Swartz, David, “Social Closure in American Elite Higher Education,” Theory and Society (Dordrecht), 37 (August 2008), 409–19.

Tolley, Kimberley, “Music Teachers in the North Carolina Education Market, 1800–1840: How Mrs. Sambourne Earned a ‘Comfortable Living for Herself and Her Children,’” Social Science History, 32 (Spring 2008), 75–106.

 

Beverly, Monifa Green, “Black Generational Dialogue(s): Unpacking Tensions and Learning the Commonalities of Education Values in One Rural Community” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289078.

Bowker, Kathie Marie, “The Boarding School Legacy: Ten Contemporary Lakota Women Tell Their Stories” (Montana State University, 2007). Order No. DA3284077.

Davis, Lowell Kent, “A Story Untold: How Five African American Women Used State Aid Acts to Attain Advanced Degrees, 1940–1959” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3290752.

Edghill, Vernese E., “Historical Patterns of Institutional Diversity: Black Women in Race-Specific Positions on Predominantly White College Campuses” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283238.

Hammond, Thomas Chalmers, “Media, Scaffolds, Canvases: A Quantitative and Qualitative Investigation of Student Content Knowledge Outcomes in Technology-Mediated Seventh-Grade History Instruction” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3288057.

Hicklin, Alisa Kay, “Increasing Minority Enrollments in Higher Education: Political Institutions, Public Universities, and Policy Outcomes” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3280539.

Lauzon, Glenn P., “Civic Learning through Agricultural Improvement: Bringing ‘the Loom and the Anvil into Proximity with the Plow’ in Nineteenth-Century Indiana” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3290769.

de Leon Mendiola, Annalisa, “Traditionalists versus Multiculturalists: Discourses from the 2003 U.S. History Textbook Adoption in Texas” (University of Texas, San Antonio, 2007). Order No. DA3289291.

Lord, Kathleen M., “Fourth Graders’ Comprehension of History Themes” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3290520.

McCoy Grissom, Shelly A., “An Examination of a Woman’s Life Work: Laura Smith Haviland and the Founding of the Raisin Institute” (Capella University, 2007). Order No. DA3284067.

Moran, Patricia, “‘Hide It under a Bush, Hell No!’: Women’s Volunteer Associations as Adult Education Initiatives” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3292602.

Noraian, Monica Cousins, “Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam: The Nation’s First Female School Superintendent (1874–1892); A Biography of One Woman Learning to Dare and Daring to Lead” (Illinois State University, 2007). Order No. DA3280907.

Shaik Ali-Williams, Suraiya B., “Shaping the Quality of Public Education Teachers in the United States of America: 1830s–1950s” (Capella University, 2008). Order No. DA3289492.

Turk-Bicakci, Lori A., “The Development of Social Movement Programs and Departments in Higher Education: Women’s and Ethnic Studies from 1975 to 2000” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3281696.

 

Heskel, Julia, and Davis Dyer, After the Harkness Gift: A History of Phillips Exeter Academy since 1930. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. xiv, 312 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-9769787-1-8.)

Kaestle, Carl F., and Alyssa E. Lodewick, eds., To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 320 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1542-1. xvi, 320 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1543-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay Roberts, Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xviii, 418 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8814-4.)

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

Mathison, Sandra, and E. Wayne Ross, eds., The Nature and Limits of Standards-Based Reform and Assessment: Defending Public Schools. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2008. xxvi, 194 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-8077-4901-2.)

Strong, Susan Rumsey, Thought Knows No Sex: Women´s Rights at Alfred University. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7513-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7514-0.)

Environment and Natural Resources

 

Arnold, Watson C., “The Mule: The Worker That ‘Can’t Get No Respect,’” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (July 2008), 33–50.

Bouk, Dan, and D. Graham Burnett, “Knowledge of Leviathan: Charles W. Morgan Anatomizes His Whale,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 433–66.

Bramwell, Lincoln, “The Origins and Work Culture of America’s Elite Wildland Firefighters,” New Mexico Historical Review, 83 (Summer 2008), 291–322.

Edgington, Ryan H., “‘Be Receptive to the Good Earth’: Health, Nature, and Labor in Countercultural Back-to-the-Land Settlements,” Agricultural History, 82 (Summer 2008), 279–308.

Flores, Dan, “Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade and the Early American West, 1775–1825,” Montana, 58 (Summer 2008), 3–21. Heavily illustrated.

Johnson, Erik W., “Social Movement Size, Organizational Diversity, and the Making of Federal Law,” Social Forces, 86 (March 2008), 967–93.

Jones, Darrell E., and W. Randall Dixon, “‘It Was Very Warm and Smelt Very Bad’: Warm Springs and the First Bath House in Salt Lake City,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 212–26.

Mauch, Christof, and Kiran Klaus Patel, “Raubbau und Rettung: Natur und Umweltschutz in den usa und Deutschland” (Destruction and protection: Nature and the protection of the environment in the usa and Germany), Internationale Politik (Frankfurt), 62 (no. 2, 2007), 82–89. In German.

Mink, Nicolaas, “Eating the Claws of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, and the Taste of Conservation in Florida and Beyond,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Spring 2008), 470–97.

O’Neill, Karen M., “Broken Levees, Broken Lives, and a Broken Nation after Hurricane Katrina,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Summer 2008), 89–108.

Stalls, Clay, “Damna Absque Injuria: Reparations in the Owens Valley Water Wars,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Summer 2008), 159–88.

 

Finley, Mary Carmel, “The Tragedy of Enclosure: Fish, Fisheries Science, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1920–1960” (University of California, San Diego, 2007). Order No. DA3284217.

Jones, Joseph John, “The Making of a National Forest: The Contest over the West Michigan Cutover, 1888–1943” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282131.

Murphy, Kathleen S., “Portals of Nature: Networks of Natural History in Eighteenth-Century British Plantation Societies” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288506.

Park, Hyung Sam, “A Longitudinal Statistical Network Analysis of the Environmental Litigation and Alliances in the United States, 1970–2001” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3284607.

Reed, Cyrus B. H., “The Texas-Mexico Water Dispute and Its Resolution (?): Agricultural Liquid and Land Practice and Discourse along the Rio Conchos, Chihuahua, 1990–2005” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3277612.

Swanson, Emily Alice, “Natural Arguments: Popular Discourse and Environmental Legislation, 1945–2007” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3280733.

Turney, Elaine C., “From Reformations to Progressive Reforms: Paradigmatic Influences on Wildlife Policy in Yellowstone National Park” (Texas Christian University, 2007). Order No. DA3284014.

 

Mitchell, John Hanson, The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston. (Boston: Beacon, 2008. xvi, 254 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8070-7148-9.)

 

Johnston, Barbara Rose, and Holly M. Barker, Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report. (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast, 2008. 296 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-1-59874-345-6. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-1-59874-346-3.)

Weston, Harold, Freedom in the Wilds: An Artist in the Adirondacks, ed. Rebecca Foster. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xxiv, 276 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0899-8.) Originally published in 1971.

Ethnicity

 

Bungert, Heike, “Deutschamerikanische Ethnizitätsbildungsprozesse in San Antonio und San Francisco, 1848–1914” (Processes of ethnicity formation among German-Americans in San Antonio and San Francisco, 1848–1914), in Die deutsche Präsenz in den usa (The German presence in the usa), ed. Josef Raab and Jan Wirrer, 57–94. (Berlin: Lit, 2008. 848 pp. isbn 978-3-8258-0039-0.) In German.

Hofmann, Annette, “Between Ethnic Separation and Assimilation: German Immigrants and Their Athletic Endeavours in Their New American Home Country,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 25 (July 2008), 993–1009.

Walaszek, Adam, “Images of Neighbors and Poles in Early 20th Century Polish American School Books,” Polish American Studies, 64 (Spring 2007), 5–25.

 

Kaczorowska, Teresa, “Mieczyslaw Haiman (1888–1949): Dzialacz i historyk Polonii amerykanskiej” (Mieczyslaw Haiman (1888–1949): Leader and historian of the Polish community in America) (Pultusk Academy of Humanities, Poland, 2007). In Polish.

Kenna, Laura Cook, “Dangerous Men, Dangerous Media: Constructing Ethnicity, Race, and Media’s Impact through the Gangster Image, 1959–2007” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3289118.

 

Choate, Mark I., Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 319 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02784-8.)

Dudzinski, Andrzej, Pierwsi Polacy w Ameryce (First Poles in America). (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2008. 112 pp. zl. 14.95, isbn 978-83-7441-954-1.) In Polish.

Goodfriend, Joyce D., Benjamin Schmidt, and Annette Stott, eds., Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America, 1609–2009. (Leiden: Brill, 2008. 367 pp. €99.00, isbn 978-90-04-16368-3.)

Raab, Josef, and Jan Wirrer, eds., Die deutsche Präsenz in den usa (The German presence in the usa). (Berlin: Lit, 2008. 848 pp. isbn 978-3-8258-0039-0.) In German.

Wilson, David A., Thomas D’Arcy McGee, vol. 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825–1857. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. xvi, 432 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7735-3357-8.)

 

Steinbach, Matthias, and Sven Schlotter, eds., Zweimal Amerika: Deutsche reisetagebücher, 1926 und 1990 (Two Americas: German travel diaries, 1926 and 1990). (Jena: Verlag Dr. Bussert & Stadeler, 2007. 140 pp. €24.90, isbn 978-3-932906-78-7.)

Family

 

Genetin-Pilawa, C. Joseph, “‘All Intent on Seeing the White Woman Married to the Red Man’: The Parker/Sackett Affair and the Public Spectacle of Intermarriage,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 57–85.

Hamm, Thomas D., “Quakerism, Ministry, Marriage, and Divorce: The Ordeal of Priscilla Hunt Cadwalader,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 407–31.

Mason, Patrick Q., “The Prohibition of Interracial Marriage in Utah, 1888–1963,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 108–31.

 

Kennedy, Vasantha Lynn, “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Narratives of Childbirth and Motherhood in the Antebellum South” (University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2004). Order No. DANR30772.

Rivers, Daniel Winunwe, “Radical Relations: A History of Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children in the United States, 1945–2003” (Stanford University, 2007). Order No. DA3281934.

Winfield, Michael J., “Marriage and the Legal Construction of Race in the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and the United States, 1850–1914; A Comparative Analysis” (St. John’s University, New York, 2007). Order No. DA3282356.

 

Márquez, Raquel R., and Harriett D. Romo, eds., Transformations of La Familia on the U.S.-Mexico Border. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. xiv, 321 pp. Paper, $28.00, isbn 978-0-268-03509-9.)

 

Racine, Philip N., Gentlemen Merchants: A Charleston Family’s Odyssey, 1828–1870. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxxvi, 890 pp. $38.95, isbn 978-1-57233-616-2.)

Film

 

Anderson, Emily, “Treacherous Pin-ups, Politicized Prostitutes, and Activist Betrayals: Jane Fonda’s Body in Hollywood and Hanoi,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 25 (July 2008), 315–33.

Auerbach, Jonathan, “Noir Citizenship: Anthony Mann’s Border Incident,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 102–20.

Banner, Lois W., “The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Marilyn Monroe and Whiteness,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 4–29.

Bibler, Michael P., “Always the Tragic Jezebel: New Orleans, Katrina, and the Layered Discourse of a Doomed Southern City,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Summer 2008), 6–27.

Boddy, William, “A Century of Electronic Cinema,” Screen (Oxford), 49 (Summer 2008), 142–56.

Brown, Tom, “Spectacle/Gender/History: The Case of Gone with the Wind,” Screen (Oxford), 49 (Summer 2008), 157–78.

Carman, Emily Susan, “Independent Stardom: Female Film Stars and the Studio System in the 1930s,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 583–615.

Christie, Thomas B., and Andrew M. Clark, “Framing Two Enemies in Mass Media: A Content Analysis of U.S. Government Influence in American Film during World War II,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 55–72.

Godfried, Nathan, “Revising Labor History for the Cold War: The ilgwu and the Film, With These Hands,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (Aug. 2008), 311–33.

Gustafsson, Tommy, “The Visual Re-creation of Black People in a ‘White’ Country: Oscar Micheaux and Swedish Film Culture in the 1920s,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 30–49.

Haspel, Paul, “Antietam, James Island, and Fort Wagner: The Battle Sequences in Edward Zwick’s Glory,” Studies in Popular Culture, 30 (Fall 2007), 65–85.

Jurca, Catherine, “What the Public Wanted: Hollywood, 1937–1942,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Winter 2008), 3–25.

Leff, Leonard, “Becoming Clifton Webb: A Queer Star in Mid-Century Hollywood,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Spring 2008), 3–28.

Maurice, Alice, “What the Shadow Knows: Race, Image, and Meaning in Shadows (1922),” Cinema Journal, 47 (Spring 2008), 66–89.

McFadden, Margaret T., “Shall We Dance? Gender and Class Conflict in Astaire-Rogers Dance Musicals,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 678–706.

Rogers-Carpenter, Katherine, “Re-envisioning 1930s Working Women: The Case of Kitty Foyle,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 707–30.

Ross, Harris, “The Pennsylvania State Board of Censors: The Great War, the Movies, and D. W. Griffith,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 227–59.

Sieving, Christopher, “The Concessions of Nat Turner,” Velvet Light Trap, 61 (Spring 2008), 38–50.

 

Davis, Blair, “The 1950s B-Movie: The Economics of Cultural Production” (McGill University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR32170.

Gillespie, Michael Boyce, “Significations of Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of a Black Film” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3286478.

Laderman, David Jon, “Slip-Sync: In/authenticity and Performance in the Punk Musical Film Cycle, 1978–1986” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3282986.

Robinson, Linda A., “Far from Simple: Nostalgia for America’s Turn-of-the-Century Small Town in Film and Television, 1940–1963” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3278080.

Scott, Ellen Christine, “Race and the Struggle for Cinematic Meaning: Film Production, Censorship, and African American Reception, 1940–1960” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287628.

Setliff, Jonathan Stuart, “The March of Time and the American Century” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283403.

 

Briley, Ron, Michael K. Schoenecke, and Deborah A. Carmichael, eds., All-Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film and History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. x, 318 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2448-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Lindlof, Thomas R., Hollywood under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 394 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2517-6.)

Gay and Lesbian

 

Howarth, Joan W., “The Geronimo Bank Murders: A Gay Tragedy,” Law & Sexuality, 17 (2008), 39–73.

Leff, Leonard, “Becoming Clifton Webb: A Queer Star in Mid-Century Hollywood,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Spring 2008), 3–28.

Sklansky, David Alan, “‘One Train May Hide Another’: Katz, Stonewall, and the Secret Subtext of Criminal Procedure,” U.C. Davis Law Review, 41 (Feb. 2008), 875–934.

 

Hanhardt, Christina B., “‘Safe Space’: Sexual Minorities, Uneven Urban Development, and the Politics of Anti-Violence” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3286481.

Iimuro Van Ausdall, Mimi Susan, “Writing Revolution in the 1970s Lesbian Novel” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281370.

Rivers, Daniel Winunwe, “Radical Relations: A History of Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children in the United States, 1945–2003” (Stanford University, 2007). Order No. DA3281934.

Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity

 

Araki, Wakako, “Gender, Race, and the Idea of Separate Spheres: Neo-Abolitionist Work in South Carolina Sea Islands,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 221–38.

Sato, Chitose, “Hahaoya Nenkin kara Jido Hojo e: 1935nen Shakai-Hoshou-ho to Jendani kansuru Ichi Kosatsu” (From mothers’ pension to aid to dependent children: Gender in the United States Social Security Act of 1935), Jenda Shigaku (Tokyo), 3 (2007), 45–56. In Japanese.

Shaheen, Aaron, “I Have Heard the Mermaids Screaming: Modern Femininity and Donald Davidson’s Attempt to Form an All-Male Coterie of Southern Letters,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 49–68.

 

Cruz, Denise, “Transpacific Femininities: Unmapping the Narratives of Philippine-U.S. Contact” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3288207.

Durham, Aisha S., “Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290225.

Espino, Virginia Rose, “Women Sterilized as They Give Birth: Population Control, Eugenics, and Social Protest in the Twentieth-Century United States” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287938.

Gasser, Erika Anne, “Manhood, Witchcraft, and Possession in Old and New England” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287516.

Gerardo, Galadriel Mehera, “Misunderstood Masculinities: Competing Expressions of Manhood, the Zoot Suit Riots, and Young Mexican American Masculine Identity in World War II Los Angeles” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3288190.

Hill, Robert S., “‘As a Man I Exist; As a Woman I Live’: Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Gender and Sexuality in Postwar America” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287538.

Jones, Leigh Ann, “Common Destiny: Rhetorical Constructions of U.S. Masculine Nationalism from the Boy Scouts to President Bush” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3289144.

Nelson, Cristina Rosa, “‘In the Service of Femininity’: American Foundation Garments from World War II to the 1970s” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289065.

Rosen, Jody Rachel, “‘People Don’t Want to Marry Me. People Want to Marry Me. I Don’t Want to Marry People’: Marriage-Plot Subversion through Repetition in Anglo-American Fiction of the 1920s” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288750.

Gilded Age and Progressive Era

 

Holliday, Kathryn E., Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age. (New York: Norton, 2008. 200 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-393-73239-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Immigration and Migration

 

Bhalla, Vibha, “‘Couch Potatoes and Super-Women’: Gender, Migration, and the Emerging Discourse on Housework among Asian Indian Immigrants,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 27 (Summer 2008), 71–99.

Donner, William W., “‘Neither Germans nor Englishmen, but American’: Education, Assimilation, and Ethnicity among Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Germans,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 197–226.

Kelley, Suzzanne, “Coffins, Country Stores, and Carnivals: Emily Lunde’s Memory Paintings,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (Jan. 2008), 9–34.

Klaczkow, Jaroslaw, “Polska emigracja protestancka w krajach anglosaskich w XIX i XX w” (Polish Protestant emigration in Anglo-Saxon countries in the 19th and 20th centuries), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 149–63. In Polish.

Lamarre, Jean, “L’émigration des Canadiens français au Michigan et en Illinois au XIXe siècle” (French-Canadian migration to Michigan and Illinois during the nineteenth century), in Franco-Amérique (Franco-America), by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, 197–214. (Sillery: Septentrion, 2008. 378 pp. $39.95, isbn 2-89448-533-6.) In French.

Lee, Rika Rihwa, “Hawai Kaigenreika no Korian Imin no Nashonarizumu: ‘Tekisei Gaikokujin’ kara ‘Yukoteki Gaikokujin’ eno Katari no Keisei” (Nationalism under martial law in Hawai‘i: Reconstructing a narrative of the ‘enemy alien’ into that of the ‘friendly foreigner’), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 137–54. In Japanese.

Lichtenstein, Merav, “An Examination of Guest Worker Immigration Reform Policies in the United States,” Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal, 5 (Spring 2007), 689–727.

Murata, Katsuyuki, “Amerikajin” no Kyokai to Ratino Esunishiti: “Higoho-imin Mondai” no Shakai-Bunkashi (The social cultural history of the “problem of the illegal aliens”). (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2007. 302 pp. ¥6,090, isbn 978-4-13-026131-9.) In Japanese.

Pula, James S., “Forgotten Ancestors: Nineteenth Century Antecedents of Modern Polonia,” Polish American Studies, 64 (Spring 2007), 47–62.

Siener, William H., “Through the Back Door: Evading the Chinese Exclusion Act along the Niagara Frontier, 1900 to 1924,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 27 (Summer 2008), 34–70.

Takai, Yukari, “Hokubei-Tairiku-shi toshiteno Imin-shi Kochiku ni Mukete: 20seiki-shoto kabei kokkyo no nihonjin ekkyosha wo chushin ni” (Doing transnational history at a Canada-U.S. borderland: Japanese emigrants crossing the border at the beginning of the 20th century), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 64–81. In Japanese.

Tichenor, Daniel J., “Strange Bedfellows: The Politics and Pathologies of Immigration Reform,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Summer 2008), 39–60.

 

Anderson, Shannon Latkin, “Assimilation and the Meaning of America, 1915–2005” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3282499.

Bartley, Katherine, “New Migratory Dynamics, North of the Border, across the Border, and below the Border: Three Essays Examining Internal and Mexico-U.S. Migration” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3292007.

DelSordi, Nicholas C., “Contextualizing Assimilation: A Comparative-Historical Analysis of Cultural and Structural Change across the Generations in the United States and Great Britain” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287931.

Lubotina, Paul A., “Conflict and Community Building: The Dichotomy of Immigrant Life on Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range, 1893–1930” (Saint Louis University, 2006). Order No. DA3280213.

 

Choate, Mark I., Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 319 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02784-8.)

Dunn, Mary Lee, Ballykilcline Rising: From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xxiv, 218 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-658-3. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-55849-659-0.)

Hathaway, Karen L., Making His Own Way: A Biography of Frank Clarkson Garbutt. (Nashville: Cold Tree Press, 2008. xii, 334 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-58385-270-5.)

Hernández-León, Rubén, Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 258 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-520-25673-6. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-520-25674-3.)

Jacobson, Robin Dale, The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxviii, 190 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8166-5027-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5029-6.)

Junn, Jane, and Kerry L. Haynie, eds., New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 195 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-521-85427-6. Paper, $25.99, isbn 978-0-521-67014-2.)

Lachowicz, Teofil, Dla Ojczyzny ratowania: Szkice z dziejów wychodzstwa polskiego w Ameryce i inne (For rescue of the Motherland: Essays from the history of Polish immigration to America and others). (Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Weteranów Armii Polskiej w Ameryce, 2007. 545 pp. zl. 64.00, isbn 978-83-7399-225-2.) In Polish.

Lee, Anthony W., A Shoemaker’s Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. x, 303 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-691-13325-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Nevins, Joseph, Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid. (San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2008. 255 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-87286-486-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Intellectual

 

Burns, Dave, “The Soul of Socialism: Christianity, Civilization, and Citizenship in the Thought of Eugene Debs,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Summer 2008), 83–116.

Ceplair, Larry, “The Base and Superstructure Debate in the Hollywood Communist Party,” Science & Society, 72 (July 2008), 319–48.

Constantinesco, Thomas, “Discordant Correspondence in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘Friendship,’” New England Quarterly, 81 (June 2008), 218–51.

Cotkin, George, et al., “History’s Moral Turn,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 69 (April 2008), 293–337. Roundtable.

Durrill, Wayne K., “Becoming Rafinesque: Market Society and Academic Reputation in the Early American Republic,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (June 2008), 123–40.

Mancini, Matthew J., “Too Many Tocquevilles: The Fable of Tocqueville’s American Reception,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 69 (April 2008), 245–68.

Ortiz García, Carmen, “Raíces hispánicas y culturas americanas: Folkloristas de Norteamérica en el Centro de Estudios Históricos” (Hispanic origins and American cultures: U.S. folklorists in the Center for Historical Studies), Revista de Indias (Madrid), 67 (Jan.–April 2007), 125–62. In Spanish.

Rossi, William, “Performing Loss, Elegy, and Transcendental Friendship,” New England Quarterly, 81 (June 2008), 252–77.

Smolinski, Reiner, “How to Go to Heaven, or How Heaven Goes? Natural Science and Interpretation in Cotton Mather’s ‘Biblia Americana’ (1693–1728),” New England Quarterly, 81 (June 2008), 278–329.

Umezaki, Toru, “Teikoku, Taisei, Minshu: 1970nendai kara 80nenndai nikaketeno Amerikashi Kenkyu-kai no Mondaiishiki to Gakumon-teki Kadai” (The empire, establishment, and people: Reassessing the problem awareness and agendas of the Society of American Historical Studies in its early years), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 22–34. In Japanese.

Vaughn, Gerald F., “Teaching Moral Philosophy in the South during Slavery and Reconstruction: Edward Wadsworth of LaGrange College and Southern University,” Methodist History, 46 (April 2008), 179–88.

Winterer, Caroline, “The Big Picture: The Ancient Mediterranean in Early America,” Common-Place, 8 (July 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

 

Atanassow, Ewa, “Tocqueville and the Question of the Nation” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3287025.

Baland, Eileen, “Love, Truth, Beauty: A Critical Biography of Frederick Turner” (University of Texas, Dallas, 2007). Order No. DA3285269.

Chappo, John Fabian, “William H. Mahone of Virginia: An Intellectual Biography, 1830–1890” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3289727.

Chen, Owen, “John Jay Chapman: Critic and Artist” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285452.

Felber, Ron, “Lessons in Leadership: What Executives (And Everyone Else) Can Learn from Five Great Presidents” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3284515.

Gillooly, John, “Between Culture and Politics: The Mass Culture Critique among Left Intellectuals in America, 1939–1964” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285081.

Schut, Melvin Leonard, “Tocqueville on Liberty” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3287082.

Smith, Anthony Woodruff, “Ethics and Interaction: The Democratic Origins of George Herbert Mead’s Social Psychology” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285550.

 

Gura, Philip F., American Transcendentalism: A History. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xvi, 365 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8090-3477-2.)

Kerr, Robert L., The Corporate Free-Speech Movement: Cognitive Feudalism and the Endangered Marketplace of Ideas. (New York: lfb, 2008. x, 275 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-59332-293-9.)

Lindsay, Beverly, ed., Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 199 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03225-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Pizer, Donald, American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xviii, 88 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-03343-8.)

 

Sacks, Kenneth S., Emerson: Political Writings. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-521-88369-6. Paper, $23.99, isbn 978-0-521-71002-2.)

Zolberg, Aristide R., How Many Exceptionalisms? Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xiv, 362 pp. $54.50, isbn 978-1-59213-831-9.)

International Relations

 

Baylis, John, “The 1958 Anglo-American Mutual Defence Agreement: The Search for Nuclear Interdependence,” Journal of Strategic Studies (London), 31 (June 2008), 425–66.

Bogdanowicz, Mateusz, “Kanada: Amerykanski emisariusz w Londynie czy brytyjski w Waszyngtonie? Rola Kanady w stosunkach transatlantyckich w okresi II wojny swiatowej” (Canada: An American emissary in London or a British one in Washington? The role played by Canada in Trans-Atlantic relations during the Second World War), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 51–90. In Polish.

De la Guardia Salvetti, Fernando, “La historia vivida: Un incidente diplomático entre España y los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica” (Living history: A diplomatic incident between Spain and the United States of North America), Revista de Historia Naval (Madrid), 25 (no. 99, 2007), 91–99. In Spanish.

Griesdorf, Michael Jeffrey, “Norms as a Rhetorical Competition: Soviet-American Confrontations over Cuba, 1970–85,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Aug. 2008), 299–326.

Kalinovsky, Artemy, “Old Politics, New Diplomacy: The Geneva Accords and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Aug. 2008), 381–404.

Karaagac, John, “Warianty polityki zagranicznej Partii Republikanskiej w okresie Trumana: Idee, tradycje, komentarz” (Republican foreign policy tendencies in the Truman years: Ideas, traditions, commentary), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 127–34. In Polish.

Kiwerska, Jadwiga, “Spór Ameryki z Europa o dlugi wojenne I reparacje, 1921–1932” (The American-European dispute about war debts and reparations, 1921–1932), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 17–34. In Polish.

Klosowicz, Robert, US Marines jako narzedzie polityki zagranicznej Stanów Zjednoczonych (U.S. Marines as an instrument of United States foreign policy). (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2008. 327 pp. zl. 37.90, isbn 978-83-233-2510-9.) In Polish.

Korga, Iwona Drag, “The Information Policy of the Polish Government-in-Exile toward the American Public during World War II,” Polish American Studies, 64 (Spring 2007), 27–45.

Kuzma-Markowska, Sylwia, “Transatlantyckie kontakty dzialaczy na rzecz kontroli urodzen w Polsce i Stanach Zjednoczonych, 1931–1960” (Trans-Atlantic contacts of birth control activists in Poland and the United States, 1931–1960), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 200–214. In Polish.

Lesniewski, Michal, “Trudne poczatki specjalnych stosunków: Wielka Brytania i usa, 1945–1948” (The difficult beginnings of special relations between Great Britain and the United States, 1945–1948), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 115–26. In Polish.

Lienau, Odette, “Who is the ‘Sovereign’ in Sovereign Debt? Reinterpreting a Rule-of-Law Framework from the Early Twentieth Century,” Yale Journal of International Law, 33 (Winter 2008), 63–111.

Mazurkiewicz, Anna, Dyplomacja Stanów Zjednoczonych wobec wyborów w Polsce w latach 1947 i 1989 (The United States diplomacy toward elections in Poland in 1947 and 1989). (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Neriton l Instytut Historii pan, 2007. 319 pp. zl. 37.90, isbn 978-83-7543-007-3.) In Polish.

Michalek, Krzysztof, “Oni sa z Marsa, my jestesmy z Wenus: New York Times wobec przystapienia Stanów Zjednoczonych do I wojny swiatowej w 1917 r” (They are from Mars, we are from Venus: The New York Times and U.S. access to the First World War in 1917), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 5–16. In Polish.

Nakano, Hirofumi, “Amerika Seishin no Taigai Koro” (The international trajectory of American spirits), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 12–21. In Japanese.

Nowaczewska, Renata, “Wybrane amerykanskie fundacje a ‘budowa pokoju i postepu’ w Europie w okresie miedzywojennym” (Selected American foundations and the ‘construction of peace and progress’ in Europe during the interwar period), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 35–49. In Polish.

Perla, Héctor, “Si Nicaragua Venció, El Salvador Vencerá: Central American Agency in the Creation of the U.S.–Central American Peace and Solidarity Movement,” Latin American Research Review, 43 (no. 2, 2008), 136–58.

Porczynska, Anna, “Stanowisko rzadu Johna F. Kennedy’ego wobec kryzysu kongijskiego na forum onz, 1961–1963” (The John F. Kennedy administration’s position toward the Congo crisis presented to the United Nations, 1961–1963), Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, Folia Historia, 81 (2007), 183–200. In Polish.

Sagredo Santos, Antonia, “El auge del asociacionismo en la agricultura americana del New Deal y su proyección en la prensa española de los años 30” (The increase of associationism in U.S. agriculture during the New Deal and its projection in the Spanish press of the 1930s), Historia y Comunicación Social (Madrid), 11 (2006), 173–98. In Spanish.

Teigrob, Robert, “‘Which Kind of Imperialism?’: Early Cold War Decolonization and Canada-U.S. Relations,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 37 (no. 1, 2007), 403–30.

Wasiewicz, Magdalena, “Udzial delegacji Stanów Zjednoczonych w moskiewskiej konferencji Rady Ministrów Spraw Zagranicznych w 1947 roku” (Participation of the United States delegation in the Moscow Conference of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in 1947), Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, Folia Historia, 81 (2007), 183–200.

Wordliczek, Rafal, “Stany Zjednoczone wobec problemu granicznego miedzy Wlochami a Jugoslawia na poczatku lat 50. XX wieku” (The United States’ position toward the Italian-Yugoslavian border dispute at the beginning of the 1950s), Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, Prace Historyczne (Krakow), 134 (2007), 163–77. In Polish.

Zabierowski, Maciej, “‘Naprawde umieramy z glodu’: Prasa amerykanska o gettach w latach, 1939–1941” (‘We are really dying of hunger’: The American press on the situation in Jewish ghettos, 1939–1941), Studia Historyczne, 50 (no. 2, 2007), 193–214.

Zermeño Padilla, Guillermo, “Los usos políticos de América-americano (México, 1750–1850)” (The political uses of American America, Mexico, 1750–1850), Revista de Estudios Políticos (Madrid) (no. 134, Oct.–Dec. 2006), 71–95. In Spanish.

Zukowski, Przemyslaw Marcin, “Podróz Edouarda Herriota do Waszyngtonu wiosna 1933 w swietle zródel polskiej dyplomacji” (Edouard Herriot’s mission to Washington in the spring of 1933 observed from the perspective of Polish diplomatic primary sources), Polski Przeglad Dyplomatyczny (Warsaw) (no. 3, 2007), 135–54. In Polish.

 

Crampton, Alexandra Lee, “Negotiating Old Age, Mediation, and Elder Advocacy in the Social Life of Helping: ngo Pilot Projects in Ghana, the U.S., and the Politics of Global Intervention Work” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287495.

Geary, Brent M., “A Foundation of Sand: U.S. Public Diplomacy, Egypt, and Arab Nationalism, 1953–1960” (Ohio University, 2007). Order No. DA3289338.

Marrar, Khalil M., “Arab Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Two-State Solution” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3280693.

Mason, Kevin, “Building an Unwanted Nation: The Anglo-American Partnership and Austrian Proponents of a Separate Nationhood, 1918–1934” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289021.

Oberda Monkiewicz, Anita, “Polityka usa wobec Ameryki Lacinskiej po Zimnej Wojnie” (United States policy toward Latin America after the end of the Cold War) (Warsaw University, Poland, 2007). In Polish.

Paquin, Jonathan, “Recognizing the Obvious? The United States Response to Secessionist Ambitions since the End of the Cold War” (McGill University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR32229.

Podliska, Bradley Florian, “Acting Alone: U.S. Unilateral Uses of Force, Military Revolutions, and Hegemonic Stability Theory” (Texas A&M University, 2007). Order No. DA3281011.

Rampersad, Indira, “Down with the Embargo: Social Movements, Contentious Politics, and U.S. Cuba Policy, (1960–2006)” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3281589.

 

Conant, Jennet, The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. xxii, 393 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-7432-9458-4.)

Dick, Steven J., and Roger D. Launius, eds., Societal Impact of Spaceflight, vol. 2: Reinventing the Airplane. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2007. xvi, 680 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-16-080190-7.)

Fain, W. Taylor, American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 283 pp. $84.95, isbn 978-0-230-60151-2.)

Fromkin, David, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xiv, 256 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-59420-187-5.)

Lynch, Timothy J., and Robert S. Singh, After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 382 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-521-88004-6.)

Maar, Rimko van der, Welterusten mijnheer de President: Nederland en de Vietnam oorlog, 1965–1973 (Goodnight Mister President: The Netherlands and the Vietnam war, 1965–1973). (Amsterdam: Boom, 2007. 294 pp. €39.00, isbn 90-8506-351-5.) In Dutch.

Matera, Paulina, and Rafal Matera, Stany Zjednoczone I Europa: Stosunki polityczne I gospodarcze, 1776–2004 (The United States and Europe: Political and economic relationship, 1776–2004). (Warsaw: Ksiazka i Wiedza, 2007. 439 pp. zl. 63.00, isbn 978-83-05-13490-3.) In Polish.

Mauch, Christof, and Kiran Klaus Patel, eds., Wettlauf um die Moderne: Die usa und Deutschland 1890 bis heute (The race for modernity: The usa and Germany from 1890 to the present). (Munich: Pantheon, 2008. 480 pp. €16.95, isbn 978-3-5705-5069-4.) In German.

Molenaar, Arnout, (Dis)organising European Security: The Iraq Controversy and Patterns in U.S.-European Relations. (The Hague: Netherlands Atlantic Association, 2007. 260 pp. €34.50, isbn 978-90-733-2917-1.)

Nakano, Satoshi, Rekishikeiken toshiteno Amerika Teikoku: Bei-Hi Kankeishi no Gunzo (The American empire as historical experience: Portraits of the history of Philippine-U.S. relations). (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2008. 458 pp. ¥3,675, isbn 978-4-00-002537-9.) In Japanese.

Pastusiak, Longin, Droga Stanów Zjednoczonych do mocarstwowosci (The United States’ rise to power). (Lodz: Wyzsza Szkola Stosunków Miedzynarodowych, 2007. 442 pp. zl. 44.00, isbn 978-83-60902-72-1.) In Polish.

Powell, Philip Wayne, Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xvi, 210 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4576-9.) Originally published in 1971.

Royot, Daniel, Divided Loyalties in a Doomed Empire: The French in the West from New France to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 282 pp. $57.50, isbn 978-0-87413-968-6.)

Rózanski, Przemyslaw, Stany Zjednoczone wobec kwestii zydowskiej w Polsce, 1918–1921 (The United States and the Jewish problem in Poland, 1918–1921). (Gdansk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdanskiego, 2007. 386 pp. zl. 35.00, isbn 83-7326-394-2.) In Polish.

Sánchez Montañés, Emma, et al., eds., Norteamérica a finales del siglo XVIII: España y los Estados Unidos (North America toward the end of the eighteenth century: Spain and the United States). (Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2008. 358 pp. isbn 978-84-9768-463-7.) In Spanish.

Seregni, Alessandro, El antiamericanismo español (Spanish anti-Americanism). (Madrid: Editorial Síntesis, 2007. 303 pp. isbn 978-84975650-4-2.) In Spanish.

Szatlach, Maria E., Plan Marshalla: Amerykanska wizja integracji europejskiej (The Marshall Plan: American visions of European integration). (Bydgoszcz: Wydawnictwo Wers, 2008. 182 pp. zl. 32.00, isbn 83-921685-9-3.) In Polish.

Thomàs, Joan Maria, Roosevelt y Franco: De la guerra civil española a Pearl Harbor (Roosevelt and Franco: From the Spanish civil war to Pearl Harbor). (Barcelona: Edhasa, Colección Ensayo Histórico, 2007. 659 pp. isbn 978-84-350-2682-6.) In Spanish.

Widmer, Ted, Ark of the Liberties: America and the World. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. xxii, 355 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8090-2735-4.)

Jewish

 

Anderson, Mark M., “The Child Victim as Witness to the Holocaust: An American Story?,” Jewish Social Studies, 14 (Fall 2007), 1–22.

Magilow, Daniel H., “Counting to Six Million: Collecting Projects and Holocaust Memorialization,” Jewish Social Studies, 14 (Fall 2007), 23–39.

Raider, Mark A., “‘Vigilantibus non dormientibus’: The Judicial Activism of Louis Marshall,” Jewish Social Studies, 14 (Fall 2007), 40–62.

Sonenshein, Raphael J., “The Role of the Jewish Community in Los Angeles Politics: From Bradley to Villaraigosa,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Summer 2008), 189–205.

Watt, David Harrington, “Jews, Fundamentalism, and Supersessionism,” Fídes et Hístoría, 40 (Winter–Spring 2008), 1–23.

 

Braun, Sarah Alisa, “Jews, Writing, and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880–1940” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287461.

Breitzer, Susan Roth, “Jewish Labor’s Second City: The Formation of a Jewish Working Class in Chicago, 1886–1928” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281344.

Stern, Miriam Heller, “‘Your Children—Will They Be Yours?’ Educational Strategies for Jewish Survival, the Central Jewish Institute, 1916–1944” (Stanford University, 2007). Order No. DA3281953.

 

Buhle, Paul, ed., Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form. (New York: New Press, 2008. x, 198 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59558-331-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Hoberman, Michael, How Strange It Seems: The Cultural Life of Jews in Small-Town New England. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xvi, 253 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-645-3. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-55849-646-0.)

Pizer, Donald, American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xviii, 88 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-03343-8.)

Tobias, Henry J., Jews in New Mexico since World War II. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii, 172 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4418-2.)

 

Stern, Norton B., “The Five Journeys of Jewish Discovery of Norton B. Stern, O.D., 1966–1967,” Western States Jewish History, 40 (Spring–Summer 2008), 203–347.

Labor and Working Class

 

Godfried, Nathan, “Revising Labor History for the Cold War: The ilgwu and the Film, With These Hands,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (Aug. 2008), 311–33.

Griffin, R. Steven, “Workers of the Sunshine State Unite! The Florida Socialist Party during the Progressive Era, 1900–1920,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Winter 2008), 346–79.

Horowitz, Roger, “‘That Was a Dirty Job!’: Technology and Workplace Hazards in Meatpacking over the Long Twentieth Century,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Summer 2008), 13–25.

Hunt, Monica, “Organized Labor along Savannah’s Waterfront: Mutual Cooperation among Black and White Longshoremen, 1865–1894,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2008), 177–99.

Kirk, Andrew Taylor, “Radical Labor, Racism, and the Preservation of Hegemony in Ogden, Territorial Utah, 1885–1886,” American Journalism, 24 (Fall 2007), 149–73.

Minami, Shuhei, “Hadohatto no Aikokushatachi: Nyuyoku Kensetsu Rodosha no Nichijo Sekai to Sono Yuragi” (Hardhat patriots: The mundane world of construction workers in New York City and its change), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 155–74. In Japanese.

Nakakita, Koji, “Incorporating Japanese Labor into the Free World: Cold War Diplomacy and Economic Interdependence, 1949–1964,” Labor History, 49 (May 2008), 199–222.

Tedesco, Marie, “Claiming Public Space, Asserting Class Identity, and Displaying Patriotism: The 1929 Rayon Workers’ Strike Parades in Elizabethton, Tennessee,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 12 (Fall 2006), 55–87.

Walker, Mark, “Aristocracies of Labor: Craft Unionism, Immigration, and Working-Class Households in West Oakland, California,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 108–32.

Zietlow, Rebecca E., and James Gray Pope, “The Toledo Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 and the Fight against ‘Wage Slavery,’” University of Toledo Law Review, 38 (Spring 2007), 839–54.

 

Breitzer, Susan Roth, “Jewish Labor’s Second City: The Formation of a Jewish Working Class in Chicago, 1886–1928” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281344.

Dozier, Lorraine, “Accumulating Disadvantage: The Growth in Black-White Wage Gap among Women” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3289765.

Reeve, Patricia Anne, “Cultural and Legal Representations of Imperiled Workers and Their Political Significance, Massachusetts (1820–1910)” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3283897.

Taylor, Kieran Walsh, “Turn to the Working Class: The New Left, Black Liberation, and the U.S. Labor Movement (1967–1981)” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289075.

 

Pérez, Juan Manuel, Por mundi beneficio: Los trabajadores gallegos en la construcción del Canal de Panamá (1904–1914) (For the benefit of the world: Spanish workers from Galicia in the construction of the Panama Canal, 1904–1914). (La Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, 2007.) In Spanish.

Legal and Constitutional

 

Abrams, Robert Haskell, “Walking the Beach to the Core of Sovereignty: The Historic Basis for the Public Trust Doctrine Applied in Glass v. Goeckel,” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 40 (Summer 2007), 861–906.

Alexander, Roberta, “Dred Scott: The Decision That Sparked a Civil War,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 643–61.

Badger, Anthony, “The South Confronts the Court: The Southern Manifesto of 1956,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 126–42.

Balestra, Mike, “Thou Shall Not Hunt: A Historical Introduction to and Discussion of the Modern Debate over Sunday Hunting Laws,” Kentucky Law Journal, 96 (no. 3, 2007–2008), 447–63.

Berresford, John W., “The Grand Jury in the Hiss-Chambers Case,” American Communist History, 7 (June 2008), 1–38.

Bilder, Mary Sarah, “Idea or Practice: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 6–25.

Brown, Richard D., “‘No Harm to Kill Indians’: Equal Rights in a Time of War,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 34–62.

Carpenter, Daniel, and Gisela Sin, “Policy Tragedy and the Emergence of Regulation: The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 149–80.

Chemerinksy, Erwin, “Rediscovering Brandeis’s Right to Privacy,” Brandeis Law Journal, 45 (Summer 2007), 643–57.

Critchlow, Donald T., and Cynthia L. Stachecki, “The Equal Rights Amendment Reconsidered: Politics, Policy, and Social Mobilization in a Democracy,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 157–76.

Dryer, Trevor D., “‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’: The New York Times, ‘Yellow’ Journalism, and the Criminal Trial, 1898–1902,” Nevada Law Journal, 8 (Winter 2008), 541–69.

Dueholm, James A., “Lincoln’s Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus: An Historical and Constitutional Analysis,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 29 (Summer 2008), 47–66.

Easton, Eric B., “The Colonel’s Finest Campaign: Robert R. McCormick and Near v. Minnesota,” Federal Communications Law Journal, 60 (March 2008), 183–228.

Eck, Brian D., “Rebel without a Clause: The Right ‘Rights of Students’ in Nixon v. Board of Education and the Shadow of Freedom under Harper v. Poway,” Ave Maria Law Review, 6 (Fall 2007), 197–233.

Ferguson, Lindsay C., “Whistle Blowing Is Not Just for Gym Class: Looking into the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX,” Texas Tech Law Review, 39 (Fall 2006), 167–96.

Festa, Matthew J., “Applying a Usable Past: The Use of History in Law,” Seton Hall Law Review, 38 (no. 2, 2008), 479–553.

Goldstein, Leslie Friedman, “The Specter of the Second Amendment: Rereading Slaughterhouse and Cruikshank,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 131–48.

Graber, Mark, “‘No Better Than They Deserve’: Dred Scott and Constitutional Democracy,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 589–617.

Green, Steven K., “‘Bad History’: The Lure of History in Establishment Clause Adjudication,” Notre Dame Law Review, 81 (June 2006), 1717–54.

Greenberger, Marcia D., and Neena K. Chaudhry, “Worth Fighting For: Thirty-five Years of Title IX Advocacy in the Courts, Congress, and the Federal Agencies,” Cleveland State Law Review, 55 (no. 4, 2007), 491–501.

Gross, Ariela, “When Is the Time of Slavery? The History of Slavery in Contemporary Legal and Political Argument,” California Law Review, 96 (Feb. 2008), 283–321.

Gumina, Joseph, “From Austria to Sacco and Vanzetti: The Development of Frankfurter’s ‘Fundamental Rights’ Theory,” Western New England Law Review, 30 (no. 2, 2008), 389–417.

Kirby, Michael, “Sexuality and Global Forces: Dr. Alfred Kinsey and the Supreme Court of the United States,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 14 (Summer 2007), 485–508.

Kousser, J. Morgan, “The Strange, Ironic Career of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 1965–2007,” Texas Law Review, 86 (March 2008), 667–775.

Levy, David W., “Brandeis, the Reformer,” Brandeis Law Journal, 45 (Summer 2007), 711–31.

von Lingen, Kerstin, “Conspiracy of Silence: How the ‘Old Boys’ of American Intelligence Shielded ss General Karl Wolff from Prosecution,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 22 (Spring 2008), 74–109.

Lyon, Thomas D., and Raymond LaMagna, “The History of Children’s Hearsay: From Old Bailey to Post-Davis,” Indiana Law Journal, 82 (Fall 2007), 1029–58.

Mehrotra, Ajay K., “Forging Fiscal Reform: Constitutional Change, Public Policy, and the Creation of Administrative Capacity in Wisconsin, 1880–1920,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 94–112.

Merkel, William G., “Jefferson’s Failed Anti-slavery Proviso of 1784 and the Nascence of Free Soil Constitutionalism,” Seton Hall Law Review, 38 (no. 2, 2008), 555–603.

Power, Jeanne M., and Lirio Patton, “Between Mendez and Brown: Gonzales v. Sheely (1951) and the Legal Campaign against Segregation,” Law & Social Inquiry, 33 (Winter 2008), 127–71.

Pruitt, Paul M., Jr., “Plantation Progressive on the Federal Bench: Law, Politics, and the Life of Judge Henry D. Clayton,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 85–139.

Quigley, David, “Constitutional Revision and the City: The Enforcement Acts and Urban America, 1870–1894,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 64–75.

Reid, Charles J., Jr., “Judicial Precedent in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Commentary on Chancellor Kent’s Commentaries,” Ave Maria Law Review, 5 (no. 1, 2007), 47–111.

Rogers, Alan, “State Constitutionalism and the Death Penalty,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 143–56.

Sandler, Bernice Resnick, “Title IX: How We Got It and What a Difference It Made,” Cleveland State Law Review, 55 (no. 4, 2007), 473–89.

Scott, David W., “Religion in the Schools: Illinois Courts v. United States Supreme Court,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Winter 2007–2008), 328–59.

Sklansky, David Alan, “‘One Train May Hide Another’: Katz, Stonewall, and the Secret Subtext of Criminal Procedure,” U.C. Davis Law Review, 41 (Feb. 2008), 875–934.

Smith, Charles Anthony, “Credible Commitments and the Early American Supreme Court,” Law & Society Review, 42 (March 2008), 75–110.

Stearns, Maxwell L., “Standing at the Crossroads: The Roberts Court in Historical Perspective,” Notre Dame Law Review, 83 (May 2008), 875–958.

Strum, Philippa, “Brandeis: The Public Activist and Freedom of Speech,” Brandeis Law Journal, 45 (Summer 2007), 659–709.

Tanenhaus, David S., and William Bush, “Toward a History of Children as Witnesses,” Indiana Law Journal, 82 (Fall 2007), 1059–75.

Thompson, John A., “Woodrow Wilson and a World Governed by Evolving Law,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 113–25.

Urofsky, Melvin I., “Louis D. Brandeis: Teacher,” Brandeis Law Journal, 45 (Summer 2007), 733–53.

Vagts, Detlev F., “Military Commissions: The Forgotten Reconstruction Chapter,” American University International Law Review, 23 (no. 2, 2008), 231–74.

Valauri, John T., “Dred Scott, Lincoln, and the Constitution: A Reply to Professor Graber,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 619–42.

Walston, Roderick E., “California Water Law: Historical Origins to the Present,” Whittier Law Review, 29 (Summer 2008), 765–826.

Washburn, Kevin K., “The Legacy of Bryan v. Itasca County: How an Erroneous $147 County Tax Notice Helped Bring Tribes $200 Billion in Indian Gaming Revenue,” Minnesota Law Review, 92 (April 2008), 919–70.

Weaver, Vesla M., “Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 230–65.

 

Crowe, Justin, “Building the Judiciary: Law, Courts, and the Politics of Institutional Development” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3281298.

Czapracka, Katarzyna Anna, “Intellectual Property and the Limits of Antitrust: A Comparative Study of us and eu Approaches” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285062.

Henquinet, Jeffrey W., “Analysis and Evaluation of the Laurentian Great Lakes Fishery Management Legal Framework” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282115.

Johnson, Robert J., Jr., “Trial by Fire: Abraham Lincoln and the Law” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283166.

McDermott, Stacy Pratt, “‘Gentlemen of the Jury’: The Status of Jurors and the Representation of the Jury in the Midwest, 1830–1860” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290315.

O’Donnell, Seán Taht, “Courting Science, Binding Truth: A Social History of Frye v. United States” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285520.

Pfister, Jude M., “Constitutional Development in the United States Supreme Court during the 1790s” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3284516.

Shimsky, MaryJane, “‘Hesitating between Two Worlds’: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Robert H. Jackson” (University of New York, Albany, 2007). Order No. DA3283210.

Temkin, Moshik, “The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: American Justice on Trial, 1926–1977” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285187.

Wilson, Rai Imani, “Foundations of Sand: Federalism, Formalism, and the Matter of Money in the African American Legal Experience, Florida, 1900–1950” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3289595.

 

Andrain, Charles F., Political Justice and Religious Values. (New York: Routledge, 2008. xiv, 233 pp. Cloth, $115.00, isbn 978-0-415-98964-0. xiv, 233 pp. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-415-98965-7.)

Bodenhamer, David J., and James W. Ely Jr., eds., The Bill of Rights in Modern America. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv, 322 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-253-35159-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-253-21991-6.) Revised and expanded. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Irons, Peter, God on Trial: Landmark Cases from America’s Religious Battlefields. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xx, 362 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-0-670-03851-0. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-311375-1.)

Kerr, Robert L., The Corporate Free-Speech Movement: Cognitive Feudalism and the Endangered Marketplace of Ideas. (New York: lfb, 2008. x, 275 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-59332-293-9.)

Matsumoto, Yuko, Tsukurareru Amerika Kokumin to “Tasha”: “Amerikaka” Jidai no Shitizunshippu (The created American nation and the “other”: Citizenship in the era of “Americanization”). (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2007. 328 pp. ¥5,880, isbn 978-4-13-026132-6.) In Japanese.

Paxton, Mark, Censorship. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xiv, 154 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-33751-2.)

Shortell, Christopher, Rights, Remedies, and the Impact of State Sovereign Immunity. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 216 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7507-2.)

Wolf, Michael Allan, The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xvi, 188 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1620-6. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1621-3.)

 

Tushnet, Mark, ed., I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases. (Boston: Beacon, 2008. xxvi, 229 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-8070-0036-6.)

Latino/a

 

Erman, Sam, “Meanings of Citizenship in the U.S. Empire: Puerto Rico, Isabel Gonzalez, and the Supreme Court, 1898 to 1905,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 27 (Summer 2008), 5–33.

Iber, Jorge, “‘La Voz de los Otros’: An Overview of the Life and Career of Eliud ‘Pete’ Suazo, Utah’s First Hispanic State Senator, 1951–2001,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 168–87.

 

Bartley, Katherine, “New Migratory Dynamics, North of the Border, across the Border, and below the Border: Three Essays Examining Internal and Mexico-U.S. Migration” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3292007.

Bebout, Lee, “The Presence of the Past: The Mythohistorical in the Chicano Movement and the Post-Movement Era” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3287286.

Bejarano, Christina Elizabeth, “Latina’s Diminishing Electoral Disadvantages” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281339.

Gerardo, Galadriel Mehera, “Misunderstood Masculinities: Competing Expressions of Manhood, the Zoot Suit Riots, and Young Mexican American Masculine Identity in World War II Los Angeles” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3288190.

Lee, Sonia Song-Ha, “Between Boricua and Black: How the Civil Rights Struggle Shaped Puerto Rican Racial and Ethnic Identities in New York City, 1950s–1970s” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285502.

Masley, Kate Elizabeth, “Living the ‘Latina Paradox’: An Ethnography of Pregnant and Postpartum Mexican Immigrants in Northeast Ohio” (Case Western Reserve University, 2007). Order No. DA3286075.

McCoyer, Michael, “Darkness of a Different Color: Mexicans and Racial Formation in Greater Chicago, 1916–1960” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3283923.

Ragland, Catherine Ann, “Ni aquí ni allá (Neither here nor there): Música norteña and the Mexican Working-Class Diaspora” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3287104.

 

Hernández-León, Rubén, Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 258 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-520-25673-6. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-520-25674-3.)

Johnson, Benjamin Heber, with Jeffrey Gusky, Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 210 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-300-13928-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Márquez, Raquel R., and Harriett D. Romo, eds., Transformations of La Familia on the U.S.-Mexico Border. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. xiv, 321 pp. Paper, $28.00, isbn 978-0-268-03509-9.)

Molinary, Ramón Darío, ed., Puerto Rico, ¿La autodeterminación huracanada? El engaño de EE.UU. a la ONU; expansionismo militarista, modelo colonial y rezago económico (Puerto Rico, the whirlwind self-determination? U.S. deception of the United Nations; Militarist expansionism, the colonial model, and economic underdevelopment). (Madrid: Casa de Puerto Rico en España, Fundación F. Carvajal, 2006. 478 pp. isbn 84-93002127.)

Nevins, Joseph, Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid. (San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2008. 255 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-87286-486-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Pérez, Juan Manuel, Por mundi beneficio: Los trabajadores gallegos en la construcción del Canal de Panamá (1904–1914) (For the benefit of the world: Spanish workers from Galicia in the construction of the Panama Canal, 1904–1914). (La Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, 2007.) In Spanish.

Roybal, David, Taking on Giants: Fabián Chávez Jr. and New Mexico Politics. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xvi, 304 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4436-6.)

Mass Communications

 

Davis, Blair, “Small Screen, Smaller Pictures: Television Broadcasting and B-Movies in the Early 1950s,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (June 2008), 219–38.

Fickers, Andreas, “Presenting the ‘Window on the World’ to the World: Competing Narratives of the Presentation of Television at the World’s Fairs in Paris (1937) and New York (1939),” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (Aug. 2008), 291–310.

Hutchison, Phillip J., and Richard V. Birley, “Marshal J and Cap’n Ken: The Lost History of Live Local Television in Fifties America,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (Aug. 2008), 371–90.

Kackman, Michael, “Nothing On but Hoppy Badges: Hopalong Cassidy, William Boyd Enterprises, and Emergent Media Globalization,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 76–101.

MacLennan, Anne F., “Women, Radio Broadcasting, and the Depression: A ‘Captive’ Audience from Household Hints to Story Time and Serials,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 616–33.

Perlman, Allison Joyce, “Reforming the Wasteland: Television, Reform, and Social Movements, 1950–2004” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3277618.

Tahmahkera, Dustin, “Custer’s Last Sitcom: Decolonized Viewing of the Sitcom’s ‘Indian,’” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 324–51.

 

Jenkins, Tricia Anne, “The Female Agen(t)cy: Gender and Nationalism in American Primetime Espionage Series (1950–2006)” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282130.

Trammell, James Young, “The Power of Religious Media Criticism: An Analysis of the Christian Film and Television Commission, 1985–2005” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281414.

 

Berry, Chad, ed., The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 215 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03353-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07557-5.)

Feldges, Benedikt, American Icons: The Genesis of a National Visual Language. (New York: Routledge, 2008. viii, 288 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-95635-2.)

Material Culture and Architecture

 

Anderson, Marvin J., “The Architectural Education of Nineteenth-Century American Engineers: Dennis Hart Mahan at West Point,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (June 2008), 222–47.

Delle, James A., and Jason Shellenhamer, “Archaeology at the Parvin Homestead: Searching for the Material Legacy of the Underground Railroad,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 2, 2008), 38–62. Heavily illustrated.

Faulkner, Charles H., “The Archaeology of Temporary Construction Devices on Historic Building Sites in the Southeast,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 2, 2008), 88–103.

Frank, Marie, “The Theory of Pure Design and American Architectural Education in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (June 2008), 248–73. Heavily illustrated.

Gyure, Dale Allen, “The Heart of the University: A History of the Library as an Architectural Symbol of American Higher Education,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 107–32.

Schnare, Susan E., “The Exeter Landscape Designs of Robert Morris Copeland,” Historical New Hampshire, 62 (Spring 2008), 19–40. Heavily illustrated.

Smith, Mark A., “Engineering Slavery: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Slavery at Key West,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Spring 2008), 498–526.

White, Carolyn L., “Personal Adornment and Interlaced Identities at the Sherburne Site, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 2, 2008), 17–37. Heavily illustrated.

 

Dubbelde, David Mark, “Influence of Culture, Faith, Environment, and Building Technology on the Built Form: The Case of Nineteenth Century Catholic Churches in Galveston, Texas” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3280454.

Eggebeen, Janna, “Airport Age: Architecture and Modernity in America” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283159.

Phillips, Ruth Anne, “‘Pre-Columbian Revival’: Defining and Exploring a U.S. Architectural Style, 1910–1940” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283183.

Pratt, Anastasia L., “Home: A 20th Century American Construction” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287611.

Quinn, Kelly Anne, “Making Modern Homes: A History of Langston Terrace Dwellings, a New Deal Housing Program in Washington, D.C.” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283424.

 

Bergeijk, Herman van, Amerikaanse dromen: Frank Lloyd Wright en Nederland (American dreams: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Netherlands). (Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010, 2008. 189 pp. €24.50, isbn 978-0-64509-593-5.) In Dutch.

De Pillis, Mario S., and Christian Goodwillie, eds., Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. viii, 392 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-300-13760-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Ellis, Anita J., and Susan Labry Meyn, Rookwood and the American Indian: Masterpieces of American Art Pottery from the James J. Gardner Collection. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xviii, 294 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1739-3. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1740-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Fenske, Gail, The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiv, 400 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-226-24141-8.)

Holliday, Kathryn E., Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age. (New York: Norton, 2008. 200 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-393-73239-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Maddex, Diane, Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern. (New York: Norton, 2008. 239 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-393-73248-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Murray-Wooley, Carolyn, Early Stone Houses of Kentucky. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 227 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2479-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Tolles, Bryant F., Jr., Summer by the Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820–1950. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. xxiv, 231 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-576-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Wilson, Richard Guy, Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House. (New York: Norton, 2008. xii, 178 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-393-73216-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Medicine

 

Appel, Jacob M., “‘Physicians Are Not Bootleggers’: The Short, Peculiar Life of the Medicinal Alcohol Movement,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Summer 2008), 355–86.

Cautin, Robin L., “David Shakow and Schizophrenia Research at Worcester State Hospital: The Roots of the Scientist-Practitioner Model,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 44 (Summer 2008), 219–37.

Embry, Jessie, “Diploma Nursing at Salt Lake City Religious Based Hospitals,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 281–99.

Hamilton, Cynthia S., “‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’: Phrenology and Anti-slavery,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 173–87.

Hampel, Robert, “Testing Medical Students at Harvard, 1870–1930,” History of Education and Children’s Literature (Macerata), 3 (no. 1, 2008), 155–74.

Howe, Barbara, “Practicing Medicine in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wheeling: The Story of Dr. Eliza Clark Hughes,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 12 (Fall 2006), 7–35.

Kastor, Peter J., and Conevery Bolton Valencius, “Sacagawea’s ‘Cold’: Pregnancy and the Written Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Summer 2008), 276–309.

Raz, Mical, “Between the Ego and the Icepick: Psychosurgery, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatric Discourse,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Summer 2008), 387–420.

 

Boyle, Eric W., “The Boundaries of Medicine: Redefining Therapeutic Orthodoxy in an Age of Reform” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3283775.

Espino, Virginia Rose, “Women Sterilized as They Give Birth: Population Control, Eugenics, and Social Protest in the Twentieth-Century United States” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287938.

Mandel, Ellen D., “The Mythic Image of the American Physician” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3284521.

Osborn, Matthew Warner, “The Anatomy of Intemperance: Alcohol and the Diseased Imagination in Philadelphia, 1784–1860” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3283017.

Padamsee, Tasleem Juana, “Infusing Health into the Welfare State: hiv/aids Policy Making in the United States and the United Kingdom” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287600.

Schafer, James A., Jr., “Finding a Niche: Doctors, Urban Change, and the Business of Private Medical Practice in Philadelphia, 1900–1940” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288529.

 

Cantor, David, ed., Cancer in the Twentieth Century. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. x, 350 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8867-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Colgrove, James, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner, eds., The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. x, 293 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4311-6. x, 293 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4312-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Krueger, Gretchen, Hope and Suffering: Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 216 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8831-1.)

McLendon, William W., Floyd W. Denny Jr., and William B. Blythe, Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the unc School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health Movement. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, 2007. xiv, 477 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3195-3.)

 

Wells, Cheryl A., ed., A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac: Francis M. Wafer. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. xliv, 225 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7735-3381-3.)

Migration/Migrant

 

Junn, Jane, “From Coolie to Model Minority,” Du Bois Review, 4 (September 2007), 355–73.

Suga-Schichinohe, Miya, “Hito no Ido wo Meguru Toransunashonaru Hisutori: Nihon ni okeru Kenkyu Doko” (Transnational history of the migration of peoples: Recent publications in Japan), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 35–46. In Japanese.

 

Merlino, Matthew, “Contemporary Historical Fiction and the Unsettling of America” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3292054.

Miller, David, “‘Heroes’ of American Empire: John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and the Culture of Imperialism, 1842–1898” (University of California, San Diego, 2007). Order No. DA3286242.

Shaw, Barbara L., “(Re)mapping the Black Atlantic: Violence, Affect, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Migration Literature” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283419.

 

Horsman, Reginald, Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. x, 356 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1789-9.)

Uzuki, Yusuke, Fujitsuna Hahaoya, Sakarau Kodomo-tachi: 19-seiki Amerika niyoru Kyoseiiju to Indian (Unfaithful mothers, resisting children: Forced migration policy and Indians in 19th century America). (Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2007. 270 pp. ¥3,675, isbn 978-4-8332-2386-7.) In Japanese.

Military

 

Andrzejewski, Marek, “Bombardowanie niemieckichmiast w latach ll wojny swiatowej przez brytyjskie l amerykanskie lotnictwo: Zarys problematyki” (British and American air raids of German towns during the Second World War: An outline), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 91–113. In Polish.

Biddle, Tami Davis, “Dresden, 1945: Reality, History, and Memory,” Journal of Military History, 72 (April 2008), 413–50.

Bigler, David L., “A Lion in the Path: Genesis of the Utah War, 1857–1858,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 4–21.

Ciaston, Rafal, “Odwet za Pearl Harbor” (Retaliation for Pearl Harbor), Mówia Wieki (Warsaw) (no. 8, 2007), 35–39. In Polish.

Crager, Kelly E., “‘God Knows What’s Going to Happen to Us’: The Lost Battery of Texas’s ‘Lost Battalion’ during World War II,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (July 2008), 1–32.

Derengowski, Piotr, “Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski i Legion Polski (58 pulk piechoty z Nowego Jorku)” (Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski and the Polish Legion (the 58th Infantry Regiment of New York)), Przeglad Historyczno-Wojskowy (Warsaw), 8 (no. 3, 2007), 5–26. In Polish.

Eldredge, John, “The Utah War: A Photographic Essay of Some of Its Important Historic Sites,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 38–65. Heavily illustrated.

Klosowicz, Robert, US Marines jako narzedzie polityki zagranicznej Stanów Zjednoczonych (U.S. Marines as an instrument of United States foreign policy). (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2008. 327 pp. zl. 37.90, isbn 978-83-233-2510-9.) In Polish.

Lamarre, Jean, “Du Mexique à l’Italie, en passant par les États-Unis: Les volontaires québécois dans les conflits militaires du XIXe siècle” (From Mexico to Italy, through the United States: Quebec volunteers in military conflicts during the nineteenth century), Cap-aux-Diamants (Quebec) (no. 90, Summer 2007), 23–27. In French.

MacKinnon, William P., “And the War Came: James Buchanan, the Utah Expedition, and the Decision to Intervene,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 22–37.

Niewinski, Lukasz, “Brygada Polska w Armii Konfederacji, 1861–1865” (The Polish Brigade in the Confederate army, 1860–1865), Studia i Materialy do Historii Wojskowosci, 43 (2007), 223–50. In Polish.

Trauschweizer, Ingo, “Learning with an Ally: The U.S. Army and the Bundeswehr in the Cold War,” Journal of Military History, 72 (April 2008), 477–508.

 

Bach, Morten, “None So Consistently Right: The American Legion’s Cold War, 1945–1950” (Ohio University, 2007). Order No. DA3282048.

Crouch, Christian Ayne, “Imperfect Reflections: New France’s Use of Indigenous Violence and the Crisis of French Empire during the Seven Years’ War, 1754–1760” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3284251.

El-Zoghbi, Christine J., “Airship Advocates: Innovation in the United States Navy’s Rigid Airship Program” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3289126.

Greer, David Alan, “Revolutionary—Federalist—Republican: The Early Life and Reputations of William Hull” (Texas Christian University, 2007). Order No. DA3284079.

Mikolashek, Jon, “Flawed, but Essential: Mark W. Clark and the Italian Campaign in World War II” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282646.

 

Burr, Lawrence, U.S. Cruisers, 1883–1904: The Birth of the Steel Navy. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2008. 48 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-84603-267-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Carroll, Al, Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. viii, 287 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1085-1.)

Cawthorne, Nigel, The Mammoth Book of Inside the Elite Forces: Training, Equipment, and Endeavors of British and American Elite Combat Units. (Philadelphia: Running, 2008. vi, 551 pp. Paper, $13.95, isbn 978-0-7624-3382-7.)

Cunningham, Roger D., The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864–1901. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xxii, 206 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1807-0.)

Dobbins, James F., After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan. (Dulles: Potomac, 2008. viii, 179 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-59797-083-9.)

Fain, W. Taylor, American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 283 pp. $84.95, isbn 978-0-230-60151-2.)

Franklin, H. Bruce, War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii, 280 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-55849-651-4.) Revised edition. Originally published in 1988.

Guinn, Gilbert S., The Arnold Scheme: British Pilots, the American South, and the Allies’ Daring Plan. (Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2007. 559 pp. Paper, $39.99, isbn 978-1-59629-042-6.)

Holloway, David, Cultures of the War on Terror: Empire, Ideology, and the Remaking of 9/11. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. x, 197 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7735-3483-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7735-3484-1.)

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 214 pp. $18.95, isbn 978-0-19-531465-6.)

Lefkowitz, Arthur S., Benedict Arnold´s Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada during the Revolutionary War. (New York: Savas Beatie, 2008. xx, 380 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-1-932714-03-6.)

Mahnken, Thomas G., Technology and the American Way of War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xii, 244 pp. $29.50, isbn 978-0-231-12336-5.)

Mansoor, Peter R., Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xxx, 376 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-300-14069-9.)

Martin, Adrian R., and Larry W. Stephenson, Operation Plum: The Ill-Fated 27th Bombardment Group and the Fight for the Western Pacific. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xviii, 364 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-019-6.)

Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Summer the Archduke Died: Essays on Wars and Warriors. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 167 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1810-0.)

Shay, Michael E., The Yankee Division in the First World War: In the Highest Tradition. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xvi, 294 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-60344-030-1.)

Sherry, Mark D., The Army Command Post and Defense Reshaping, 1987–1997. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2008. xiv, 225 pp. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-0-1607-9935-8.)

Wieviorka, Olivier, Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris, trans. M. B. DeBevoise. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2008. xviii, 446 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-02838-8.)

 

Fulbright, Jim, and Albert Stehno, eds., Oklahoma Rough Rider: Billy McGinty´s Own Story. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xiv, 218 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-87062-356-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3935-7.)

Henshaw, John Corey, Recollections of the War with Mexico, ed. Gary F. Kurutz. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 253 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1799-8.)

Steely, Skipper, Pearl Harbor Countdown: Admiral James O. Richardson. (Gretna: Pelican, 2008. 543 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58980-592-7.)

Music

 

Connell, John, and Chris Gibson, “‘No Passport Necessary’: Music, Record Covers, and Vicarious Tourism in Post-War Hawai‘i,” Journal of Pacific History (Melbourne), 43 (June 2008), 51–75.

George, John R., “Imagining Tee-Tot: Blues, Race, and the Legend of Hank Williams,” Southern Studies, 14 (Spring–Summer 2007), 33–45.

Ruchala, James, “‘Sally Ann’ and the Blue-Ridge String-Band Tradition,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 54 (Fall–Winter 2007), 29–75.

 

Bartkowiak, Mathew J., “Rock and Revolution: The mc5 and Music’s Political Life” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282058.

Congdon, Darinda J., “‘Tibet Chic’: Myth, Marketing, Spirituality and Politics in Musical Representations of Tibet in the United States” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3284542.

Dearden, Jennifer, “The American Trumpet Sonata in the 1950s: An Analytical and Sociohistorical Discussion of Trumpet Sonatas by George Antheil, Kent Kennan, Halsey Stevens, and Burnet Tuthill” (University of North Texas, 2007). Order No. DA3288254.

Scully, Michael Francis, “American Folk Music Revivalism, 1965–2005” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3287336.

 

Berry, Chad, ed., The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 215 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03353-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07557-5.)

Lornell, Kip, and Tracey E. W. Laird, eds., Shreveport Sounds in Black and White. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. xx, 358 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-1-934110-41-6. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-1-934110-42-3.)

Lüthe, Martin, “We Missed a Lot of Church, So the Music is Our Confessional”: Rap and Religion. (Münster: lit, 2008. 93 pp. Paper, €19.90, isbn 978-3-8258-0816-7.)

Magee, Gayle Sherwood, Charles Ives Reconsidered. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvi, 231 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03326-1.)

Orr, N. Lee, Dudley Buck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xxxiv, 138 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-252-03279-0.) Includes cd.

Smith, Catherine Parsons, William Grant Still. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 116 pp. $37.00, isbn 978-0-252-03322-3.)

Tyson, John R., Assist Me To Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. xii, 356 pp. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8028-2939-9.)

Naval and Maritime

 

LaMarre, Paul C., III, “Iron Elegance: The History of the ss Col. James M. Schoonmaker,” Inland Seas, 64 (Spring 2008), 2–13.

Whipple, Hank, “The Schooner Christina Nilsson,” Inland Seas, 64 (Spring 2008), 16–31.

 

El-Zoghbi, Christine J., “Airship Advocates: Innovation in the United States Navy’s Rigid Airship Program” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3289126.

 

Adams, John A., If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War: An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xii, 458 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-253-35105-0.)

Burr, Lawrence, U.S. Cruisers, 1883–1904: The Birth of the Steel Navy. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2008. 48 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-84603-267-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Mauch, Christof, and Thomas Zeller, eds., Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. 256 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8229-4345-7.)

Simmons, Edwin H., and Joseph H. Alexander, Through the Wheat: The U.S. Marines in World War I. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xxvi, 296 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-59114-791-6.)

 

Steely, Skipper, Pearl Harbor Countdown: Admiral James O. Richardson. (Gretna: Pelican, 2008. 543 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58980-592-7.)

Politics

 

Abbott, Philip, “‘Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan’: Democratic Theory, Populism, and Philip Roth’s ‘American Trilogy,’” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 37 (no. 1, 2007), 431–52.

Batóg, Wlodzimierz, “‘Nowa Lewica’ I studencka rewolucja w Stanach Zjednoczonych w latach szescdziesiatych: Przeglad badan” (The ‘New Left’ and student revolution in the United States in the 1960s: A survey of scholarship), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 40 (no. 1, 2008), 49–59. In Polish.

Benedict, Les, “James M. Ashley, Toledo Politics, and the Thirteenth Amendment,” University of Toledo Law Review, 38 (Spring 2007), 815–37.

Bertram, Eva C., “The Institutional Origins of ‘Workfarist’ Social Policy,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 203–29.

Bigler, David L., “A Lion in the Path: Genesis of the Utah War, 1857–1858,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 4–21.

Bonica, Joseph S., “‘The Motherly Office of the State’: Cultural Struggle and Comprehensive Administration before the Civil War,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 97–110.

Brand, Donald R., “The President as Chief Administrator: James Landis and the Brownlow Report,” Political Science Quarterly, 123 (Spring 2008), 69–93.

Bridges, Amy, “Managing the Periphery in the Gilded Age: Writing Constitutions for the Western States,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 32–58.

Cox, Daniel G., and Diane L. Duffin, “Cold War, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy Spending Decisions: Dynamic Representation by Congress and the President,” Congress & the Presidency, 35 (Spring 2008), 29–52.

Edwards, Lee, “Les origines du mouvement conservateur américain contemporain” (The origins of the contemporary American conservative movement), in Les conservatisme aux États-Unis (Conservatism in the United States), ed. Julien Toureille and Charles-Philippe David, 13–26. (Quebec City: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2007. isbn 978-2-7605-1496-6.) In French.

Elovitz, Paul H., “Presidential Responses to National Trauma: Case Studies of G. W. Bush, Carter, and Nixon,” Journal of Psychohistory, 36 (Summer 2008), 36–58.

Etcheson, Nicole, “‘A Living, Creeping Lie’: Abraham Lincoln on Popular Sovereignty,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 29 (Summer 2008), 1–25.

Feinstein, Brian D., and Eric Schickler, “Platforms and Partners: The Civil Rights Realignment Reconsidered,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 1–31.

Francis, Stephen S., “Back to Business: Marriner Eccles and the Effect of Public Service on Private Enterprise,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 265–80.

Gadzinski, Michal, “Republikanie i Demokraci” (The Republicans and the Democrats), Mówia Wieki (Warsaw) (no. 10, 2007), 28–32. In Polish.

Geduld, Victoria Phillips, “Performing Communism in the American Dance: Culture, Politics, and the New Dance Group,” American Communist History, 7 (June 2008), 39–65.

Gerhardt, Michael J., “The Constitutional Significance of Forgotten Presidents,” Cleveland State Law Review, 54 (no. 4, 2006), 467–509.

Giglio, James N., “‘Tom, You’re Not Going to Get [It] On a Silver Platter’: The Inaugural Senate Campaign of Thomas F. Eagleton,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (April 2008), 133–53.

Haefeli, Evan, “A Scandalous Minister in a Divided Community: Ulster County in Leisler’s Rebellion, 1689–1691,” New York History, 88 (Fall 2007), 357–89.

Hicks, Paul, “Caroline O’Day: The Gentlewoman from New York,” New York History, 88 (Summer 2007), 287–305.

Iber, Jorge, “‘La Voz de los Otros’: An Overview of the Life and Career of Eliud ‘Pete’ Suazo, Utah’s First Hispanic State Senator, 1951–2001,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 168–87.

James, Scott C., “Timing and Sequence in Congressional Elections: Interstate Contagion and America’s Nineteenth-Century Scheduling Regime,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 181–202.

Jenkins, Jeffery A., and Timothy P. Nokken, “Legislative Shirking in the Pre–Twentieth Amendment Era: Presidential Influence, Party Power, and Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877–1933,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 111–40.

Keller, Morton, “Governance and Democracy: Public Policy in Modern America,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 177–89.

Kirkendall, Richard S., “Faith and Foreign Policy: An Exploration into the Mind of Harry Truman,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (July 2008), 214–24.

MacKinnon, William P., “And the War Came: James Buchanan, the Utah Expedition, and the Decision to Intervene,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 22–37.

Mason, Patrick Q., “The Prohibition of Interracial Marriage in Utah, 1888–1963,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 108–31.

Mauch, Christof, “Der singuläre Präsident: George Washingon, Ikone der amerikanischen Kultur und Geschichte” (The singular president: George Washington, icon of American culture and history), Damals (no. 6, 2008), 36–40. In German.

Mayhew, David R., “Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Presidential Elections: The Historical Record,” Political Science Quarterly, 123 (Summer 2008), 201–28.

McDaniel, Eric L., and Christopher G. Ellison, “God’s Party? Race, Religion, and Partisanship over Time,” Political Research Quarterly, 61 (June 2008), 180–91.

Novak, William J., “The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State,” American Historical Review, 113 (June 2008), 752–72.

O’Neill, Karen M., “Broken Levees, Broken Lives, and a Broken Nation after Hurricane Katrina,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Summer 2008), 89–108.

Olree, Andy G., “James Madison and Legislative Chaplains,” Northwestern University Law Review, 102 (Winter 2008), 145–221.

Paddock, Joel, “The Gubernatorial Campaigns of Robert Docking, 1966–1972,” Kansas History, 31 (Summer 2008), 86–103.

Piggot, W. Benjamin, “Radicalism in the Cradle of the New Right: The University of California’s Irvine Campus in 1960s Orange County,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2008), 55–85.

Pinsker, Matthew, “Not Always Such a Whig: Abraham Lincoln’s Partisan Realignment in the 1850s,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 29 (Summer 2008), 27–46.

Robinson, Greg, “Le conservatisme chez les minorités raciales et sexuelles” (Conservatism among racial and sexual minorities), in Les conservatisme aux États-Unis (Conservatism in the United States), ed. Julien Toureille and Charles-Philippe David, 41–52. (Quebec City: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2007. isbn 978-2-7605-1496-6.) In French.

Sacher, John M., “‘Our Interest and Destiny Are the Same’: Gov. Thomas Overton Moore and Confederate Loyalty,” Louisiana History, 49 (Summer 2008), 261–86.

Sonenshein, Raphael J., “The Role of the Jewish Community in Los Angeles Politics: From Bradley to Villaraigosa,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Summer 2008), 189–205.

Steinle, John, “‘Shall the People Rule?’: Denver Hosts the Democrats, 1908,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2008), 2–19. Heavily illustrated.

Thomas, William G., III, “William Jennings Bryan, the Railroads, and the Politics of ‘Workingmen,’” Nebraska Law Review, 86 (no. 1, 2007), 161–79.

Umezaki, Toru, “Breaking through the Cane-Curtain: The Cuban Revolution and the Emergence of New York’s Radical Youth, 1961–1965,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 18 (2007), 187–209.

Van Atta, John R., “‘A Lawless Rabble’: Henry Clay and the Cultural Politics of Squatters’ Rights, 1832–1841,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 337–78.

Van Wagenen, Michael Scott, “Sam Houston and the Utah War,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Winter 2008), 66–78.

 

Anil, Merih, “Gender and Voting by Nativity and Ethnicity in New York City” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283146.

Cunningham, Sean P., “The Perfect Storm: Social Change, Partisan Realignment, and the Transformation of Modern Texas Conservatism, 1963–1980” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3281517.

Godbout, Jean-François, “Congress, Representation, and Participation: The Influence of Voter Turnout on Legislative Behavior in the House of Representatives” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3278083.

Jensen, Michael James, “Electronic Democracy in America: The Internet and Participation in American Local Politics” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3282798.

Kuzma-Markowska, Sylwia, “Ruch kontroli urodzen w Stanach Zjednoczonych na przykladzie stanu Illinois (1923–1941)” (The birth control movement in the United States and the case of the state of Illlinois, 1923–1941) (University of Bialystok, Poland, 2008). In Polish.

Moore, Robert G., “Separatism in Decline: How Political Involvement Has Moderated the Evangelical Right” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282166.

O’Connor, Mike, “Democratic Capitalism in the United States” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3285892.

Posner-Ginsberg, Beth Sarah, “Why Do People Vote? The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Turnout in U.S. Presidential Elections” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3286490.

Rana, Aziz, “Settler Empire and the Promise of American Freedom” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285531.

Rangel, Nicolas, “Part of Something Larger than Ourselves: George H. W. Bush and the Rhetoric of the First U.S. War in the Persian Gulf” (Texas A&M University, 2007). Order No. DA3281141.

Sheppard, Simon, “American Media, American Bias: The Partisan Press from Broadsheet to Blog” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288607.

Spurgeon, Ian Michael, “Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3289753.

Whitten, Jeffrey H., “Egalitarianism Begins at Home and in Cohorts: Egalitarianism in United States Public Opinion, 1952–2000” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3287327.

 

Abbott, Philip, Accidental Presidents: Death, Assassination, Resignation, and Democratic Succession. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 233 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60766-8.)

Atkins, Stephen E., ed., The 9/11 Encyclopedia. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. Vol. 1: xxii, 325 pp. Vol. 2: xxxii, 259 pp. $199.95/set, isbn 978-0-275-99431-0/set.) Includes primary documents.

Bartelt, William E., “There I Grew Up”: Remembering Abraham Lincoln’s Indiana Youth. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2008. xvi, 240 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-87195-263-9.)

Batóg, Wlodzimierz, Protesty studentów Ivy League przeciw wojnie wietnamskiej, 1965–1970 (Ivy League students’ protests against the Vietnam War, 1965–1970). (Kielce: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczego Jana Kochanowskiego, 2008. 360 pp. zl. 40.00, isbn 978-83-7133-356-9.) In Polish.

Bodenhamer, David J., and James W. Ely Jr., eds., The Bill of Rights in Modern America. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv, 322 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-253-35159-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-253-21991-6.) Revised and expanded. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Conant, Jennet, The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. xxii, 393 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-7432-9458-4.)

Crockett, David A., Running against the Grain: How Opposition Presidents Win the White House. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xvi, 201 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-60344-010-3.)

Fromkin, David, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xiv, 256 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-59420-187-5.)

Goldzwig, Steven R., Truman’s Whistle-Stop Campaign. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 147 pp. Cloth, $34.95, isbn 978-1-60344-005-9. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-60344-006-6.)

Griffith, R. Marie, and Melani McAlister, eds., Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 536 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8868-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Gutin, Myra G., Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xx, 216 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1583-4.)

Homma, Nagayo, Amerika Daitoryo no Chosen: “Jiyu no Teikoku” no Hikari to Kage (The challenges of American presidents: The light and the shadow of the “empire of liberty”). (Tokyo: ntt, 2008. 287 pp. ¥2,520, isbn 978-4-7571-4185-8.) In Japanese.

Huret, Romain, La fin de la pauvreté? Les experts sociaux en guerre contre la pauvreté aux États-Unis (1945–1974) (The end of poverty? Social experts in the war against poverty in the United States, 1945–1974). (Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2008. 237 pp. Paper, €21.00, isbn 978-2-7132-2162-0.) In French.

Junn, Jane, and Kerry L. Haynie, eds., New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 195 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-521-85427-6. Paper, $25.99, isbn 978-0-521-67014-2.)

Kaestle, Carl F., and Alyssa E. Lodewick, eds., To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 320 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1542-1. xvi, 320 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1543-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Laidler, Pawel, Konstytucja Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki: Przewodnik (The Constitution of the United States of America: A guidebook). (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2007. 193 pp. zl. 30.00, isbn 978-83-233-2433-1.) In Polish.

Lehrman, Lewis E., Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2008. xx, 412 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8117-0361-1.)

Miller, Joseph S., The Wicked Wine of Democracy: A Memoir of a Political Junkie, 1948–1995. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xx, 268 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-295-98801-6.)

Miller, Richard Lawrence, Lincoln and His World: Prairie Politician, 1834–1842. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2008. viii, 673 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8117-0392-5.)

Moore, Paula, Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled Politics in New Mexico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii, 203 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4341-3.)

Nardulli, Peter F., ed., International Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 264 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03335-3. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-252-07544-5.)

Roybal, David, Taking on Giants: Fabián Chávez Jr. and New Mexico Politics. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xvi, 304 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4436-6.)

Schaffer, Frederic Charles, The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xx, 243 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8014-4115-8.)

Schlesinger, Robert, White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. x, 581 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-7432-9169-9.)

Toureille, Julien, and Charles-Philippe David, eds., Les conservatisme aux États-Unis (Conservatism in the United States). (Quebec City: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2007. isbn 978-2-7605-1496-6.) In French. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Tucker, David, Enlightened Republicanism: A Study of Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. xii, 159 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1792-7.)

Verhagen, Frans, De beste wint nooit: Het ABC van de Amerikaanse verkiezingen (The best never wins: The ABC of American elections). (Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam, 2007. 250 pp. €12.95, isbn 978-90-468-0260-1.) In Dutch.

Wilson, David A., Thomas D’Arcy McGee, vol. 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825–1857. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. xvi, 432 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7735-3357-8.)

Wynn, Neil A., Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt-Truman Era. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2008. xxxii, 497 pp. $105.00, isbn 978-0-8108-5616-5.)

 

Cross, James U., Around the World with lbj: My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot, White House Aide, and Personal Confidant. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 208 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-292-71768-8.)

Monje, Scott C., The Central Intelligence Agency: A Documentary History. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. l, 417 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-0-313-35028-3.)

Perlstein, Rick, ed., Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. lxxii, 291 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-691-13699-8.)

Print Culture

 

Abbott, Traci B., “Every Woman’s Share: Female Sexuality in Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 634–60.

Adams, Amanda, “‘Painfully Southern’: Gone with the Wind, the Agrarians, and the Battle for the New South,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 58–75.

Ammons, Elizabeth, “The Myth of Imperiled Whiteness and Ethan Frome,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 5–33.

Betjemann, Peter, “Henry James’ Shop Talk: The Spoils of Poynton and the Language of Artisanship,” American Literary Realism, 40 (Spring 2008), 204–25.

Ceplair, Larry, “Reporting the Blacklist: Anti-Communist Challenges to Elizabeth Poe Kerby,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (June 2008), 135–51.

Dryer, Trevor D., “‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’: The New York Times, ‘Yellow’ Journalism, and the Criminal Trial, 1898–1902,” Nevada Law Journal, 8 (Winter 2008), 541–69.

Easton, Eric B., “The Colonel’s Finest Campaign: Robert R. McCormick and Near v. Minnesota,” Federal Communications Law Journal, 60 (March 2008), 183–228.

Farca, Paula Anca, “And, You, Miss, Are No Lady: Feminist and Postfeminist Scarlett O’Hara Rethinks the Southern Lady,” Southern Studies, 14 (Spring–Summer 2007), 73–90.

Foster, Jonathan, “Stigma Cities: Birmingham and Las Vegas in the National Newspaper Media, 1945–2000,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Winter 2007), 297–324.

Gabrial, Brian, “A Woman’s Place: Defiance and Obedience; Newspaper Stories about Women during the Trial of John Brown,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 7–29.

Guth, David W., “The Bay Bridge Metonymy: How Maryland Newspapers Interpreted the Opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 57–83.

Holm, Sharon, “The ‘Lie’ of the Land: Native Sovereignty, Indian Literary Nationalism, and Early Indigenism in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 243–74.

Hutchison, Phillip J., “Journalism and the Perfect Heat Wave: Assessing the Reportage of North America’s Worst Heat Wave, July–August 1936,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 31–54.

Jackson, Lawrence Patrick, “Bucklin Moon and Thomas Sancton in the 1940s: Crusaders for the Racial Left,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 76–97.

Johanningsmeier, Charles, “The 1894 Syndicated Newspaper Appearances of The Red Badge of Courage,” American Literary Realism, 40 (Spring 2008), 226–47.

Keever, Beverly Ann Deepe, “Top Secret: Censoring the First Rough Drafts of Atomic-Bomb History,” Media History (Abingdon), 14 (Aug. 2008), 185–204.

Kirby, Lisa A., “‘How it Grieves the Heart of a Mother [. . .]’: The Intersection of Gender, Class, and Politics in Grace Lumpkin’s To Make My Bread,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 661–77.

Kirk, Andrew Taylor, “Radical Labor, Racism, and the Preservation of Hegemony in Ogden, Territorial Utah, 1885–1886,” American Journalism, 24 (Fall 2007), 149–73.

Kraeplin, Camille, “Two Tales of One City: How Cultural Perspective Influenced the Framing of a Pre–Civil Rights Story in Dallas,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 73–97.

Lewis, Norman P., “From Cheesecake to Chief: Newspaper Editors’ Slow Acceptance of Women,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 33–55.

McNay, John T., “Breaking the Copper Collar: Press Freedom, Professionalization, and the History of Montana Journalism,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 99–123.

Michalek, Krzysztof, “Oni sa z Marsa, my jestesmy z Wenus: New York Times wobec przystapienia Stanów Zjednoczonych do I wojny swiatowej w 1917 r” (They are from Mars, we are from Venus: The New York Times and U.S. access to the First World War in 1917), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 5–16. In Polish.

Miller, Howard, “The Charioteer and the Christ: Ben-Hur in America from the Gilded Age to the Culture Wars,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (June 2008), 153–75.

Ossian, Lisa L., “‘Almost an Athens’: Iowa’s Rural Women’s Poetry of Place and Farm Playlets, 1930–1932,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 731–49.

Palmegiano, E. M., “‘BABY–BEER–BULLETS!!!’: British Perceptions of American Journalism in the Nineteenth Century,” American Journalism, 24 (Fall 2007), 37–66.

Prentiss, Craig, “‘Terrible Laughing God’: Challenging Divine Justice in African American Antilynching Plays, 1916–1945,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Summer 2008), 177–214.

Ramsey, William M., “Frederick Douglass, Southerner,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 19–38.

Ruskin, Steve, “‘Among the Favored Mortals of Earth’: The Press, State Pride, and the Great Eclipse of 1878,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2008), 22–35. Heavily illustrated.

Spratt, Meg, “When Police Dogs Attacked: Iconic News Photographs and Construction of History, Mythology, and Political Discourse,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 85–105. Heavily illustrated.

Stokes, Claudia, “In Defense of Genius: Howells and the Limits of Literary History,” American Literary Realism, 40 (Spring 2008), 189–203.

Tan, Yue, and David H. Weaver, “Agenda-Setting Effects among the Media, the Public, and Congress, 1946–2004,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 84 (Winter 2007), 729–44.

Thomas, Brook, “Thomas Dixon’s A Man of the People: How Lincoln Saved the Union by Cracking Down on Civil Liberties,” Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, 20 (Spring 2008), 21–42.

Wells, Jonathan Daniel, “A Voice in the Nation: Women Journalists in the Early Nineteenth-Century South,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (June 2008), 165–82.

Wise, Benjamin E., “On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry: Nostalgia, Sex, and the Souths of William Alexander Percy,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Spring 2008), 54–79.

Wixson, Douglas, “Growing Up Radical in Missoula and Butte: Norman Macleod, Poet, Editor, Novelist (1906–1985),” North Dakota Quarterly, 74 (Summer 2007), 7–30.

Zabierowski, Maciej, “‘Naprawde umieramy z glodu’: Prasa amerykanska o gettach w latach, 1939–1941” (‘We are really dying of hunger’: The American press on the situation in Jewish ghettos, 1939–1941), Studia Historyczne, 50 (no. 2, 2007), 193–214.

 

Ainsworth, Diann Elizabeth Smith, “‘Strangely Tangled Threads’: American Women Writers Negotiating Naturalism, 1850–1900” (Texas Christian University, 2007). Order No. DA3284082.

Anderson, Eric, “Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in the United States, 1831–1891” (Bowling Green State University, 2007). Order No. DA3285333.

Arab, Teresa Fernández, “Cultural Identity Revisited: Early Twentieth-Century Women’s Work of Cultural Preservation (María Cristina Mena, Humishuma, Sui Sin Far and the Daughters of Hawai‘i)” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3277878.

Blanco, María del Pilar, “Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting the Hemispheric Imaginary” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3284104.

Braun, Sarah Alisa, “Jews, Writing, and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880–1940” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287461.

Briante, Susan Carol, “American Ruins: Nostalgia, Amnesia, and Blitzkrieg Bop” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3285874.

Chasar, Michael David, “Everyday Reading: U.S. Poetry and Popular Culture, 1880–1945” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281351.

Cleland, Jaime, “‘I Had Always Thought I Was a Yankee’: Creating the Representative American Self in 20th Century Ethnic Autobiography” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283195.

Crosby, Shelby Lucille, “Over the River and through the Woods: Miscegenation and the American Experiment” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277744.

Darznik, Jasmin, “Writing outside the Veil: Literature by Women of the Iranian Diaspora” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3286113.

DiBenedetto, Tamra Elizabeth, “‘How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?’: Walker Percy and the Problematics of Race” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3281654.

Dieng, Babacar, “The Emergence of Postcolonialism in Mid-Century Novels of the African Diaspora: A Study” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283236.

Dodman, Trevor R., “Enduring Wounds: Locating Sites of Loss in World War I Fiction” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3288834.

Dunley, Kathleen Ann, “The Space Between: Ruins, Narratives, and History” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007). Order No. DA3284468.

Genoways, Theodore Howard, “Whitman’s Lost War: America’s Poet during the Forgotten Years of 1860–1862” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281361.

Gillette, Meg, “Modernism’s Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900–1945” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290239.

Green, Keith Michael, “Master Narratives: Captivity and Nineteenth-Century American Autobiographical Writing, 1816–1861” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287523.

Hirsh-Dickinson, Sally, “Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets: Sex and Race in Peyton Place” (University of New Hampshire, 2007). Order No. DA3290102.

Ihara, Rachel, “Novels on the Installment Plan: American Authorship in the Age of Serial Publication, from Stowe to Hemingway” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288842.

Irwin-Mulcahy, Judith, “Black Atlas: Geography and Scales of Movement in African American Literature” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288747.

Jacobson, Lori L., “Agencies and Associations: Women Writing Indian Reform in Nineteenth-Century America” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277713.

Jecmen, Timothy, “Writing the Revolution: Radicalism and the U.S. Historical Romance, 1835–1860” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289047.

Jones, Leigh Ann, “Common Destiny: Rhetorical Constructions of U.S. Masculine Nationalism from the Boy Scouts to President Bush” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3289144.

Keyes, Carl Robert, “Early American Advertising: Marketing and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288481.

Lamm, Kimberly Kay, “Composing and Contesting the Space of Visibility: Literary and Visual Portraiture in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3289768.

Leise, Christopher, “A Covenant in Fiction: Legacies of Puritanism in the Post-War American Novel” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277776.

Merlino, Matthew, “Contemporary Historical Fiction and the Unsettling of America” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3292054.

Mrozowski, Daniel J., “Tracing the Corporation: The Cultural Imagination of Business in American Literary Realism, 1865–1917” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287587.

Muzak, Joanne Marie, “High Lives/Low Lives: Women’s Narratives of Drug Addiction” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR33035.

Nichols, Jennifer, “Stuck in Go: The Radical Exclusion of ‘Mobile Women’ in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282172.

Pelletier, Kevin D., “Apocalyptic Incarnations: The Aesthetics of Fear and Catastrophe in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277706.

Ponder, Benjamin, “Independence Unfurled: Common Sense and the Constitution of the American Public” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3284174.

Quinn, Katrina J., “Journalism, Letters, and Nation: The Newspaper Letters of Samuel Bowles’s Across the Continent (1865)” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3284289.

Rangno, Erik Von Rauterberg, “Bonds against Their Nature: The Political Aesthetic of Transnationalism in American Literature, 1850–1920” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3282821.

Rosen, Jody Rachel, “‘People Don’t Want to Marry Me. People Want to Marry Me. I Don’t Want to Marry People’: Marriage-Plot Subversion through Repetition in Anglo-American Fiction of the 1920s” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288750.

Schlueter, Jennifer, “Our Lively Arts: American Culture as Theatrical Culture, 1922–1931” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3286759.

Shelton, Vanessa, “Interpretive Community and the Black Press: Racial Equality and Politics in ‘The St. Louis American’ and ‘The St. Louis Argus,’ 1928–1956” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281406.

Smith, Jeffrey Ross, “Hazardous Reconstitutions: Imitation and the Production of the Self in Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3283038.

Sommers, Joseph Michael, “The Inheritance of Modernism: Contemporary Children’s Literature and the Construction of New Chronotopes in the United States and Great Britain” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3277950.

Swenson, Jeffrey Charles, “Canoe Passages: Cross-Cultural Conveyance in U.S. and Canadian Literature” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281410.

Tydlaska, Faye Felterman, “Between Nation and Empire: Representations of the Haitian Revolution in Antebellum Literary Culture” (Tulane University, 2007). Order No. DA3285427.

Van Dahm, Stacey, “Nationalism and Narratives of Subjectivity in the Cold War Imaginary” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3283665.

Wagers, Kelley, “Beginning Again Then: History, Progress, and American Modernism” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277728.

Wilhite, Keith M., “Framing Suburbia: U.S. Literature and the Postwar Suburban Region, 1945–2002” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281419.

Wing-Paz, Elizabeth, “Subverting History: Orality and Place in the Novel of the Americas” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3278320.

 

Buhle, Paul, ed., Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form. (New York: New Press, 2008. x, 198 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59558-331-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Edmunds, Susan, Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 258 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-19-533853-9.)

Hill, Daniel Delis, As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2004. xii, 226 pp. Paper, $36.95, isbn 978-0-89672-616-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Paxton, Mark, Censorship. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xiv, 154 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-33751-2.)

Ronda, Bruce A., Reading the Old Man: John Brown in American Culture. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 218 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57233-620-9.)

Vitek, Jack, The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. viii, 290 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2503-9.)

 

Caron, James E., Mark Twain: Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 448 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1802-5.)

Felton, Harold W., ed., Legends of Paul Bunyan. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxiv, 418 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5460-4.) Originally published in 1947.

Public History and Memory

 

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, and Judie Newman, “Public Art, Artefacts, and Atlantic Slavery: Introduction,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 135–50.

Budreau, Lisa M., “The Politics of Remembrance: The Gold Star Mothers’ Pilgrimage and America’s Fading Memory of the Great War,” Journal of Military History, 72 (April 2008), 371–411.

Gold, Susanna W., “‘Fighting It Over Again’: The Battle of Gettysburg at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition,” Civil War History, 54 (Sept. 2008), 277–310.

Hodgen, Maurice, “Riverside’s Mission Inn: The Beginning of a Landmark,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2008), 27–54.

Kaplan, James M., “Doing the Work of Memory in Stockholm and San Francisco,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (Jan. 2008), 35–53.

Kozin, Alexander, and Katharina Draheim, “A Standoff with History: At the Site of the ‘Bad River Gathering,’” Rethinking History (London), 12 (June 2008), 209–27.

Love, William G., “A History of Memory Grove,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 148–67.

Magilow, Daniel H., “Counting to Six Million: Collecting Projects and Holocaust Memorialization,” Jewish Social Studies, 14 (Fall 2007), 23–39.

Schneider, Steve, “The View From Here: The Story of the George Rogers Clark Statue in Quincy, Illinois,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Winter 2007–2008), 360–82.

Sexton, Jack, “Monticello: The Invention of an American Place,” Common-Place, 8 (July 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Stauffer, John, “Interspatialism in the Nineteenth-Century South: The Natchez of Henry Norman,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 247–63.

Wood, Marcus, “Atlantic Slavery and Traumatic Representations in Museums: The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum as a Test Case,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 151–71.

 

Dunley, Kathleen Ann, “The Space Between: Ruins, Narratives, and History” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007). Order No. DA3284468.

 

Glazer, Nathan, and Cynthia R. Field, eds., The National Mall: Rethinking Washington’s Monumental Core. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. x, 220 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8805-2.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Maynes, Mary Jo, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett, Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii, 186 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8014-4617-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8014-7392-0.)

 

Chandler, Genevieve W., comp., Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from wpa Oral Histories, ed. Kincaid Mills, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and Aaron McCollough. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xlvi, 391 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-721-4.)

Race

 

Araki, Wakako, “Gender, Race, and the Idea of Separate Spheres: Neo-Abolitionist Work in South Carolina Sea Islands,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 221–38.

Banner, Lois W., “The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Marilyn Monroe and Whiteness,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 4–29.

Brattain, Michelle, “Race, Racism, and Antiracism: unesco and the Politics of Presenting Science to the Postwar Public,” American Historical Review, 112 (Dec. 2007), 1386–1413.

Clavin, Matthew, “A Second Haitian Revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the Making of the American Civil War,” Civil War History, 54 (June 2008), 117–45.

Cummins, Amy, “‘Loyal and Devoted Attachment’: Anti-Abolition Rhetoric by Southern Women of Letters, 1852–1860,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 13–27.

Davis, Timothy, “Race and Sports in America: An Historical Overview,” Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, 7 (Spring 2008), 291–311.

Fink, Deborah, “Who Are We? Race and Ethnicity in a 1950s Nebraska Town,” Nebraska History, 88 (Winter 2007), 110–25. Heavily illustrated.

Gray, Elizabeth Kelly, “‘Whisper to Him the Word “India”’: Trans-Atlantic Critics and American Slavery, 1830–1860,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 379–406.

Hochschild, Jennifer L., and Brenna Marea Powell, “Racial Reorganization and the United States Census, 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 59–96.

Jackson, Lawrence Patrick, “Bucklin Moon and Thomas Sancton in the 1940s: Crusaders for the Racial Left,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 76–97.

Kamphoefner, Walter D., “The Handwriting on the Wall: The Klan, Language Issues, and Prohibition in the German Settlements of Eastern Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (July 2008), 53–66.

Kaneko, Ayumu, “‘Kokujin reipisuto no shinwa’ no poritikusu: 20-seiki Amerika ni okeru jinshu-boryoku, jenda, kaikyu” (The politics of the ‘black rapist myth’: American racial violence, gender, and class in the 20th century), Jenda Shigaku (Tokyo), 3 (2007), 5–17. In Japanese.

Lee, Julia H., “Estrangement on a Train: Race and Narratives of American Identity,” English Literary History, 75 (Summer 2008), 345–65.

Manuel, Jeffrey T., “The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music’s ‘Social Origins,’” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Oct. 2008), 417–31.

Nystrom, Justin, “In My Father’s House: Relationships and Identity in an Interracial New Orleans Creole Family, 1845–1875,” Louisiana History, 49 (Summer 2008), 287–313.

Smith, Eric Ledell, “The 1917 Race Riot in Chester, Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 171–96.

 

Aiséirithe, A. J., “Piloting the Car of Human Freedom: Abolitionism, Woman Suffrage, and the Problem of Radical Reform, 1860–1870” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3287023.

Bonillas, Luisa Elena, “Pushing for Change: Women of Color at Wellesley College, 1966–2001” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287915.

Campney, Brent MacDonald Stevenson, “‘And This in Free Kansas’: Racist Violence, Black and White Resistance, Geographical Particularity, and the ‘Free State’ Narrative in Kansas, 1865 to 1914” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279862.

HoSang, Daniel Wei, “Racial Propositions: ‘Genteel Apartheid’ in Postwar California” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3278358.

Kenna, Laura Cook, “Dangerous Men, Dangerous Media: Constructing Ethnicity, Race, and Media’s Impact through the Gangster Image, 1959–2007” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3289118.

Smith, Philip Matthew, “Persistent Borderland: Freedom and Citizenship in Territorial Florida” (Texas A&M University, 2007). Order No. DA3281155.

Sumchai, Mujahidun, “Race Evolution n America: Myth and/or Reality, 1619–1996 (347 years)” (California Institute of Integral Studies, 2007). Order No. DA3288593.

Weiner, Dana Elizabeth, “Racial Radicals: Antislavery Activism in the Old Northwest, 1830–1861” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3278073.

Winfield, Michael J., “Marriage and the Legal Construction of Race in the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and the United States, 1850–1914; A Comparative Analysis” (St. John’s University, New York, 2007). Order No. DA3282356.

Yellin, Eric Steven, “In the Nation’s Service: Racism and Federal Employees in Woodrow Wilson’s Washington” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3281326.

 

Jacobson, Robin Dale, The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxviii, 190 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8166-5027-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5029-6.)

Messer-Kruse, Timothy, Race Relations in the United States, 1980–2000. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xvi, 173 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-34311-7.)

Ronda, Bruce A., Reading the Old Man: John Brown in American Culture. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 218 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57233-620-9.)

Stowe, Gene, Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie’s Will. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. xii, 309 pp. $35.00, isbn 1-57806-864-9.)

West, Stephen A., From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xiv, 261 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2699-5.)

Religion

 

Beard, Gary Lee, “Georg Landgraf: A Pioneer Nineteenth Century Midwestern Lutheran Pastor, Part 2,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 81 (Spring 2008), 35–60.

Binzley, Ronald A., “Ganganelli’s Disaffected Children: The Ex-Jesuits and the Shaping of Early American Catholicism, 1773–1790,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 47–77.

Blum, Edward J., “Race and Christian Scholarship: The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois,” Fídes et Hístoría, 40 (Winter–Spring 2008), 25–41.

Carter, Michael S., “‘What Shall We Say to This Liberal Age?’: Catholic-Protestant Controversy in the Early National Capital,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 79–95.

Cooney, Jonathan, “‘The Means of Doing Some Good’: The Methodist Female Relief Society of Boston, 1828–1868,” Methodist History, 46 (Jan. 2008), 114–23.

Crouse, Eric, “Senator Margaret Chase Smith against McCarthyism: The Methodist Influence,” Methodist History, 46 (April 2008), 167–78.

Curran, Robert Emmett, “Ambrose Marèchal, the Jesuits, and the Demise of Ecclesial Republicanism in Maryland, 1818–1838,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 97–110.

Danielson, Leilah, “‘It Is a Day of Judgment’: The Peacemakers, Religion, and Radicalism in Cold War America,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Summer 2008), 215–48.

Douglas, Bill R., “Penn in Technicolor: Cecil Hinshaw’s Radical Pacifist-Perfectionist Experiment at William Penn College, 1944–1949,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 54–68.

Hamm, Thomas D., “Quakerism, Ministry, Marriage, and Divorce: The Ordeal of Priscilla Hunt Cadwalader,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 407–31.

Hartmann-Ting, L. E., “The National Catholic School of Social Service: Redefining Catholic Womanhood through the Professionalization of Social Work during the Interwar Years,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 101–19.

Hickman, Jared, “The Theology of Democracy,” New England Quarterly, 81 (June 2008), 177–217.

Holley, Val, “Slouching towards Slaterville: Joseph Morris’s Wide Swath in Weber County,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 247–64.

Kirkendall, Richard S., “Faith and Foreign Policy: An Exploration into the Mind of Harry Truman,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (July 2008), 214–24.

Kneeland, Timothy W., “Robert Hare: Politics, Science, and Spiritualism in the Early Republic,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (July 2008), 245–60.

Krebsbach, Suzanne, “Black Catholics in Antebellum Charleston,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (April 2007), 143–59.

Lancaster, Sarah Heaner, “Ecclesiology and Ministry in the Methodist Church (1939–1968),” Methodist History, 46 (April 2008), 156–66.

Lindell, Lisa R., “‘Sowing the Seeds of Liberal Thought’: Unitarian Women Ministers in Nineteenth-Century South Dakota,” South Dakota History, 38 (Summer 2008), 148–80.

MacKinnon, William P., “Sex, Subalterns, and Steptoe: Army Behavior, Mormon Rage, and Utah War Anxieties,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 227–46.

Mannard, Joseph, “Widows in Convents of the Early Republic: The Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1790–1860,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 111–32.

Martínez, Juan Francisco, “Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missionaries’ Perceptions of the Penitente Brotherhood,” New Mexico Historical Review, 83 (Summer 2008), 353–70.

Masatsugu, Michael K., “‘Beyond This World of Transiency and Impermanence’: Japanese Americans, Dharma Bums, and the Making of American Buddhism during the Early Cold War Years,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Aug. 2008), 423–51.

McDaniel, Eric L., and Christopher G. Ellison, “God’s Party? Race, Religion, and Partisanship over Time,” Political Research Quarterly, 61 (June 2008), 180–91.

McGuinness, Margaret M., “Urban Settlement Houses and Rural Parishes: The Ministry of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, 1910–1986,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 23–42.

Meyer, Scott J., “Missouri Synod Chicagoland Churches and Home Missions: Part 1,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 81 (Spring 2008), 10–34.

Olree, Andy G., “James Madison and Legislative Chaplains,” Northwestern University Law Review, 102 (Winter 2008), 145–221.

Petit, Jeanne, “‘Organized Catholic Womanhood’: Suffrage, Citizenship, and the National Council of Catholic Women,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 83–100.

Proud, James, “A Note on John Woolman’s Paternal Ancestors: The Gloucestershire Roots; The West New Jersey Plantation,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 28–53.

Pycior, Julie Leininger, “Bearing Witness: Catherine De Hueck Doherty and the ‘Gospel of Dorothy Day,’” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 43–66.

Pyne, Tricia T., “Ritual and Practice in the Maryland Catholic Community, 1634–1776,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 17–46.

Rossi, Joseph S., “Jesuits, Slaves, and Scholars at ‘Old Bohemia,’ 1704–1756,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 1–15.

Shaw, Susan M., “Gracious Submission: Southern Baptist Fundamentalists and Women,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 20 (Spring 2008), 51–77.

Shepard, William, “Shadows on the Sun Dial: John E. Page and the Strangites,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 41 (Spring 2008), 34–66.

Skok, Deborah A., “The Historiography of Catholic Laywomen and Progressive Era Reform,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 1–22.

Teasdale, Mark, “Peter Cartwright and the Emerging National Identity in Antebellum America,” Methodist History, 46 (Jan. 2008), 101–13.

Watt, David Harrington, “Jews, Fundamentalism, and Supersessionism,” Fídes et Hístoría, 40 (Winter–Spring 2008), 1–23.

White, Andrew, “A ‘Consuming’ Oppression: Sugar, Cannibalism, and John Woolman’s 1770 Slave Dream,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 1–27.

Wood, Linda Sargent, “Contact, Encounter, and Exchange at Esalen: A Window onto Late Twentieth-Century American Spirituality,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Aug. 2008), 453–87.

 

Azaransky, Sarah April, “The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray’s Theology of American Democracy” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3282489.

Boyd, Stacy C., “Black Men Worshipping: Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279861.

Brailey, Carla D., “A Critical Analysis of Black Preachers’ Sermons in the Electronic-Digital Age (1980 to 2005): A Quest for Social Change” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283225.

Brazell, Charles F., Jr., “Reluctant Restorationist: Thomas Campbell’s Trial and Its Role in His Legacy” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2007). Order No. DA3288885.

Bulthuis, Kyle Timothy, “Four Steeples over the City Streets: Trinity Episcopal, St. Philip’s Episcopal, John Street Methodist, and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches in New York City, 1760–1840” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3282951.

Eichler-Levine, Jodi, “Memory’s Offspring: Uses of the Past in Jewish, Latter-Day Saint, and African American Children’s Literature” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285069.

Glascott, Brenda Marguerite, “The Ends of Literacy Education: Evangelical Protestantism and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of Contemporary Writing Instruction” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3284564.

Johnson, Gregory O., “From Morning Watch to Quiet Time: The Historical and Theological Development of Private Prayer in Anglo-American Protestant Instruction, 1870–1950” (Saint Louis University, 2007). Order No. DA3280209.

Manigault, LeRhonda S., “‘Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time’: Religion among Gullah/Geechee Women of the Carolina Lowcountry” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279884.

Marchand, Rebecca Giacosie, “The Impact of the Second Vatican Council on the Concert Mass in the United States” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3285836.

McConnell, Kent Alan, “‘There Must Be Tears in the Houses’: A Search for Religious Meaning from the Carnage of the American Civil War” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3288356.

Miller, Randall H., “Colored Justice: Situating Martin Luther King’s Justice Ethic within Normative Theoretical Discourse” (Graduate Theological Union, 2007). Order No. DA3289820.

Thich, Quang Minh, “Vietnamese Buddhism in America” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282670.

Withrow, Brandon G., “‘Full of Wondrous and Glorious Things’: The Exegetical Mind of Jonathan Edwards in His Anglo-American Cultural Context” (Westminster Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3286653.

Zietsma, David, “Imagining Heaven and Hell: Religion, National Identity, and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1930–1953” (University of Akron, 2007). Order No. DA3280836.

 

Andrain, Charles F., Political Justice and Religious Values. (New York: Routledge, 2008. xiv, 233 pp. Cloth, $115.00, isbn 978-0-415-98964-0. xiv, 233 pp. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-415-98965-7.)

Bial, Raymond, The Shaker Village. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 41 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2489-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Erling, Maria, and Mark Granquist, The Augustana Story: Shaping Lutheran Identity in North America. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2008. x, 390 pp. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-8066-8025-5.)

Golway, Terry, ed., Catholics in New York: Society, Culture, and Politics, 1808–1946. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. 206 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2904-8.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Griffith, R. Marie, and Melani McAlister, eds., Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 536 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8868-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Irons, Peter, God on Trial: Landmark Cases from America’s Religious Battlefields. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xx, 362 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-0-670-03851-0. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-311375-1.)

Lindlof, Thomas R., Hollywood under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 394 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2517-6.)

Neese, Stephen T., Algernon Sidney Crapsey: The Last of the Heretics. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. vi, 458 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-84718-395-8.)

Prentiss, Craig R., Debating God’s Economy: Social Justice in America on the Eve of Vatican II. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xii, 267 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-271-03341-9.)

Tyson, John R., Assist Me To Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. xii, 356 pp. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8028-2939-9.)

 

Smith, Joseph, Jr., trans., The Book of Mormon. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xxxvi, 598 pp. $15.00, isbn 978-0-14-310553-4.) First published in 1830.

Revolutionary and Early National

 

Abrahams, Roger D., “Mohawks, Mohocks, Hawkubites, Whatever: Down and Dirty in Eighteenth-Century London and Boston,” Common-Place, 8 (July 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Danisi, Thomas C., and W. Raymond Wood, “James MacKay: International Explorer,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (April 2008), 154–64.

Dorfman, Grant, “The Founders’ Legal Case: ‘No Taxation without Representation’ versus Taxation No Tyranny,” Houston Law Review, 44 (Winter 2008), 1377–414.

Gould, Philip, “Wit and Politics in Revolutionary British America: The Case of Samuel Seabury and Alexander Hamilton,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 41 (Spring 2008), 383–403.

Kopperman, Paul, “The Numbers Game: Health Issues in the Army That Burgoyne Led to Saratoga,” New York History, 88 (Summer 2007), 255–85.

Rusinowa, Izabella, “George Washington i jego legenda” (George Washington and his legend), Przeglad Humanistyczny (Warsaw), 51 (no. 3, 2007), 41–56.

Rusinowa, Izabella, “Hamilton kontra Burr: Pojedynek, który zmienil usa” (Hamilton versus Burr: The duel that changed the United States), Mówia Wieki (Warsaw) (no. 10, 2007), 34–39. In Polish.

Swan, Philip G., “‘The Present Defenceless State of the Country’: Gunpowder Plots in Revolutionary South Carolina,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (Oct. 2007), 297–315.

 

Brannon, Rebecca Nathan, “Reconciling the Revolution: Resolving Conflict and Rebuilding Community in the Wake of Civil War in South Carolina, 1775–1860” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287460.

Ford, Lisa M., “Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in Georgia and New South Wales, 1788–1836” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285076.

Greer, David Alan, “Revolutionary—Federalist—Republican: The Early Life and Reputations of William Hull” (Texas Christian University, 2007). Order No. DA3284079.

Krebs, Daniel, “Approaching the Enemy: German Captives in the American War of Independence, 1776–1783” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279880.

Ponder, Benjamin, “Independence Unfurled: Common Sense and the Constitution of the American Public” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3284174.

Shuler, John (Jack), “Calling Out Liberty: Human Rights Discourse and Early American Literature” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283163.

 

Anes, Gonzalo, and Guillermo Céspedes, eds., La illustracíon española en la independencia de los Estados Unidos: Benjamin Franklin (The Spanish Enlightenment and the independence of the United States: Benjamin Franklin). (Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 2007. 222 pp. isbn 978-84-9768-425-5.) In Spanish.

Grundset, Eric G., ed., Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War. (Washington: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 2008. viii, 854 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-892237-10-1.)

Lefkowitz, Arthur S., Benedict Arnold´s Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada during the Revolutionary War. (New York: Savas Beatie, 2008. xx, 380 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-1-932714-03-6.)

Yerxa, Donald A., ed., Recent Themes in Early American History: Historians in Conversation. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. x, 152 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-764-1. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-57003-765-8.)

 

Markoe, Peter, The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania or, Letters Written by a Native of Algiers on the Affairs of the United States in America, from the Close of the Year 1783 to the Meeting of the Convention, ed. Timothy Marr. (Yardley: Westholme, 2008. xxxvi, 130 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-59416-063-9.)

Rural

 

Ainlay-Conley, Jacqui, “From the Silver City to Kansas City: August and Emma Meyer in Leadville and Beyond,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2008), 36–47. Heavily illustrated.

Buller, Rebecca A., “Life and Landscapes in the Post-Office Communities of Holt County, Nebraska,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Spring 2008), 135–51.

Kruckenberg, Molly, and Richard W. Slatta, eds., “‘$30 a Month for All Summer and Don’t Have to Work Sundays’: Letters from Cowboy Earl J. Martin,” South Dakota History, 38 (Summer 2008), 125–47.

 

Roberts, Mark Allen, “Hillbilly Authentication: Investigating Authentic Regional Identity in Postmodern Appalachian Culture” (Union Institute & University, 2007). Order No. DA3281256.

 

Bolsterli, Margaret Jones, During Wind and Rain: The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848–2006. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xiv, 144 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-55728-871-4.)

Krapf, Norbert, The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2008. xiv, 262 pp. $15.95, isbn 978-0-87195-262-2.)

Science and Technology

 

Berry, William B. N., “Robert M. Kleinpell: Founder of the Berkeley School of Stratigraphic Paleontology,” Earth Sciences History, 27 (no. 1 2008), 100–112.

Creager, Angela N. H., and Gregory J. Morgan, “After the Double Helix,” Isis, 99 (June 2008), 239–72.

Francaviglia, Richard V., “On the Margins of Science and Civilization: W. K. Gordon’s 1895 Geological Reconnaissance in the Trans-Pecos Borderlands,” Earth Sciences History, 27 (no. 1 2008), 113–30.

Hall, R. Cargill, “The Evolution of U.S. National Security Space Policy and Its Legal Foundations in the 20th Century,” Journal of Space Law, 33 (Summer 2007), 1–104.

McQuaid, Kim, “Sputnik Reconsidered: Image and Reality in the Early Space Age,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 37 (no. 3, 2007), 371–401.

Terzian, Sevan G., “‘Adventures in Science’: Casting Scientifically Talented Youth as National Resources on American Radio, 1942–1958,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 44 (June 2008), 309–25.

Tontonoz, Matthew, “The Scopes Trial Revisited: Social Darwinism versus Social Gospel,” Science as Culture (London), 17 (June 2008), 121–43.

Vetter, Jeremy, “Cowboys, Scientists, and Fossils,” Isis, 99 (June 2008), 273–303.

 

Puaca, Laura Micheletti, “A New National Defense: Feminism, Education, and the Quest for ‘Scientific Brainpower,’ 1940–1965” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3288985.

Russell, Andrew Lawrence, “‘Industrial Legislatures’: Consensus Standardization in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288527.

Shell, Hanna Rose, “Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Animal Skin, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 1859–1945” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285545.

 

Delfino, Susanna, and Michele Gillespie, eds., Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization: From the Antebellum Era to the Computer Age. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 215 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1795-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Dick, Steven J., and Roger D. Launius, eds., Societal Impact of Spaceflight, vol. 2: Reinventing the Airplane. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2007. xvi, 680 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-16-080190-7.)

Gillespie, Paul G., and Grant T. Weller, eds., Harnessing the Heavens: National Defense through Space. (Chicago: Imprint, 2008. xii, 235 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-879176-45-4.)

Heppenheimer, T. A., Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2007. xviii, 336 pp. $20.00.)

Kargon, Robert H., and Arthur P. Molella, Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2008. x, 190 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-262-11320-5.)

Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay Roberts, Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xviii, 418 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8814-4.)

Mahnken, Thomas G., Technology and the American Way of War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xii, 244 pp. $29.50, isbn 978-0-231-12336-5.)

Tsiao, Sunny, “Read You Loud and Clear!”: The Story of nasa’s Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. xlii, 481 pp. $59.00, isbn 978-0-16-080191-4.)

Wang, Zuoyue, In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xxii, 454 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4331-4.)

 

Hansen, James R., et al., eds., The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America, vol.2; Reinventing the Airplane. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2007. xxviii, 957 pp. $35.00.)

Johnston, Barbara Rose, and Holly M. Barker, Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report. (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast, 2008. 296 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-1-59874-345-6. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-1-59874-346-3.)

Sexuality

 

Kirby, Michael, “Sexuality and Global Forces: Dr. Alfred Kinsey and the Supreme Court of the United States,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 14 (Summer 2007), 485–508.

Self, Robert O., “Sex in the City: The Politics of Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles, 1963–79,” Gender & History (Oxford), 20 (Aug. 2008), 288–311.

 

Gillette, Meg, “Modernism’s Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900–1945” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290239.

Hill, Robert S., “‘As a Man I Exist; As a Woman I Live’: Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Gender and Sexuality in Postwar America” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287538.

Slavery

 

Akehurst, Hazel, “Sectional Crises and the Fate of Africans Illegally Imported into the United States, 1806–1860,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (June 2008), 97–122.

Alexander, Roberta, “Dred Scott: The Decision That Sparked a Civil War,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 643–61.

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, and Judie Newman, “Public Art, Artefacts, and Atlantic Slavery: Introduction,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 135–50.

Bravo, Karen E., “Exploring the Analogy between Modern Trafficking in Humans and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,” Boston University International Law Journal (Boston), 25 (Fall 2007), 207–95.

Brophy, Alfred L., “Considering William and Mary’s History with Slavery: The Case of President Thomas Roderick Dew,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 16 (April 2008), 1091–1139.

Clavin, Matthew, “A Second Haitian Revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the Making of the American Civil War,” Civil War History, 54 (June 2008), 117–45.

Delle, James A., and Jason Shellenhamer, “Archaeology at the Parvin Homestead: Searching for the Material Legacy of the Underground Railroad,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 2, 2008), 38–62. Heavily illustrated.

Dishman, Robert B., “Ona Maria Judge Takes French Leave of Her Mistress to Live Free in New Hampshire,” Historical New Hampshire, 62 (Spring 2008), 41–65.

Eltis, David, Philip Morgan, and David Richardson, “Agency and Diaspora in Atlantic History: Reassessing the African Contribution to Rice Cultivation in the Americas,” American Historical Review, 112 (Dec. 2007), 1329–58.

Forret, Jeff, “Conflict and the ‘Slave Community’: Violence among Slaves in Upcountry South Carolina,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Aug. 2008), 551–88.

Graber, Mark, “‘No Better Than They Deserve’: Dred Scott and Constitutional Democracy,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 589–617.

Gray, Elizabeth Kelly, “‘Whisper to Him the Word “India”’: Trans-Atlantic Critics and American Slavery, 1830–1860,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 379–406.

Gross, Ariela, “When Is the Time of Slavery? The History of Slavery in Contemporary Legal and Political Argument,” California Law Review, 96 (Feb. 2008), 283–321.

Hamilton, Cynthia S., “‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’: Phrenology and Anti-slavery,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 173–87.

Meyers, Terry L., “A First Look at the Worst: Slavery and Race Relations at the College of William and Mary,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 16 (April 2008), 1141–68.

Monteith, Sharon, “Sally Hemings in Visual Culture: A Radical Act of the Imagination?,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 233–46.

Oshatz, Molly, “The Problem of Moral Progress: The Slavery Debates and the Development of Liberal Protestantism in the United States,” Modern Intellectual History, 5 (Aug. 2008), 225–50.

Rossi, Joseph S., “Jesuits, Slaves, and Scholars at ‘Old Bohemia,’ 1704–1756,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 1–15.

Smith, Mark A., “Engineering Slavery: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Slavery at Key West,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Spring 2008), 498–526.

Stauffer, John, “Interspatialism in the Nineteenth-Century South: The Natchez of Henry Norman,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 247–63.

Valauri, John T., “Dred Scott, Lincoln, and the Constitution: A Reply to Professor Graber,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 619–42.

White, Andrew, “A ‘Consuming’ Oppression: Sugar, Cannibalism, and John Woolman’s 1770 Slave Dream,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 1–27.

Wood, Marcus, “Atlantic Slavery and Traumatic Representations in Museums: The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum as a Test Case,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 151–71.

 

Marshall, Amani N., “Enslaved Women Runaways in South Carolina, 1820–1865” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3278199.

Wilson, Karen Marguerite, “Diaspora River: Charting Continuity and Change in African Diasporic Slave Quarter Communities of the United States through Song, Story, and Dance” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3281699.

 

Meissner, Jochen, Ulrich Mücke, and Klaus Weber, eds., Schwarzes Amerika: Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei (Black America: A history of slavery). (München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2008. 320 pp. €26.90, isbn 978-3-406-56225-9.)

 

Andrews, William L., and Regina E. Mason, eds., Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxii, 145 pp. Cloth, $64.00, isbn 978-0-19-534331-1. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-19-534332-8.) Originally published in 1825.

Social and Cultural

 

Edmonds, Michael, “On the Trail of Paul Bunyon,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Summer 2008), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.

Howard, Judith A., “Home at the Mouth of the Mississippi,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Summer 2008), 69–88.

Lockwood, J. Samaine, “Shopping for the Nation: Women’s China Collecting in Late-Nineteenth-Century New England,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 63–90.

Manuel, Jeffrey T., “The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music’s ‘Social Origins,’” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Oct. 2008), 417–31.

Martinez, J. Michael, “The Georgia Confederate Flag Dispute,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2008), 200–228.

Mink, Nicolaas, “Eating the Claws of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, and the Taste of Conservation in Florida and Beyond,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Spring 2008), 470–97.

Murphree, Vanessa, “Mission Accomplished: Margaret Sanger and the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, 1929–1937,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 7–32.

Spencer, Brett, “Preparing for an Air Attack: Libraries and American Air Raid Defense during World War II,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 2, 2008), 125–47.

Stanonis, Anthony J., “Through a Purple (Green and Gold) Haze: New Orleans Mardi Gras in the American Imagination,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Summer 2008), 109–31.

Swartz, David, “Social Closure in American Elite Higher Education,” Theory and Society (Dordrecht), 37 (August 2008), 409–19.

 

Aieta, Nicholas J., “Frontier Settlement and Community Development in Richardson, Burt, and Platte Counties, Nebraska, 1854–1870” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2007). Order No. DA3284006.

Arceneaux, Ronald J. (Noah), “Department Stores and the Origins of American Broadcasting, 1910–1931” (University of Georgia, 2007). Order No. DA3287679.

Brekke, Linzy A., “Fashioning America: Clothing, Consumerism, and the Politics of Appearance in the Early Republic” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285447.

Burges, Joel, “The Uses of Obsolescence: Historical Change and the Politics of the Outmoded in American Postmodernity” (Stanford University, 2007). Order No. DA3281800.

Buss, James J., “The Winning of the West with Words: Clearing the Middle Ground for American Pioneers” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3286093.

Freund, Daniel, “The Battle for a Brighter America: A Social History of Natural Light, 1850–1935” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285077.

Jacobs, Thomas, “Consuming Anxieties: Rituals of Acquisition, Collection, and Display in Mid-Twentieth Century American Culture” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3286484.

Keyes, Carl Robert, “Early American Advertising: Marketing and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288481.

McDowell, Kathleen, “The Cultural Origins of Youth Services Librarianship, 1876–1900” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290317.

Osborne, Vanessa Griffith, “Consuming Objects, Consuming Individuals: U.S. Literature, Mass Media, and the Construction of the Modern Celebrity” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3282809.

Tilley, Carol L., “Of Nightingales and Supermen: How Youth Services Librarians Responded to Comics between the Years 1938 and 1955” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3277995.

Tobias, Steven Michael, “Engaging in Maghreb: Productions of the Secular/Sacred within the Context of the U.S.-Barbary Conflicts” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA0819819.

Weisman, Raymond J., “Night in America: Staying Awake, Sleeping, and Dreaming from Colonial to Modern Times” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3290533.

Yates, Timothy Archibald, “Unmade in America: The Cultural Construction of the Alcohol Abuser in the Industrializing United States” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3283059.

 

DeLue, Rachael Ziady, George Innes and the Science of Landscape. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xvi, 317 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-14230-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Fisher, Carol, and John Fisher, Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry: Missouri’s Cookbook Heritage. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 235 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1791-2.)

Hill, Daniel Delis, As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2004. xii, 226 pp. Paper, $36.95, isbn 978-0-89672-616-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Holloway, David, Cultures of the War on Terror: Empire, Ideology, and the Remaking of 9/11. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. x, 197 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7735-3483-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7735-3484-1.)

Horsman, Reginald, Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. x, 356 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1789-9.)

Kooijman, Jaap Willem, Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. 179 pp. €30.00, isbn 978-90-535-6492-9.)

Raphael, Ray, and Freeman House, Humbolt History, vol. 1: Two Peoples, One Place. (Eureka: Humbolt County Historical Society, 2007. x, 353 pp. $29.95, isbn 9781883254018.) Heavily illustrated.

Reyes, Lawney L., B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xxii, 155 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-295-98853-5.)

de Vries, Jan, The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 327 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-521-89502-6. Paper, $22.99, isbn 978-0-521-71925-4.)

 

Caron, James E., Mark Twain: Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 448 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1802-5.)

Kline, Tiny, Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline, ed. Janet M. Davis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 359 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03312-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07510-0.)

Social Movements

 

Gonzales, Nicki Margaret, “‘Yo Soy Loco por esa Sierra’: The History of Land Rights Activism in San Luis, Colorado, 1863–2002” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007). Order No. DA3284449.

Jecmen, Timothy, “Writing the Revolution: Radicalism and the U.S. Historical Romance, 1835–1860” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289047.

Taylor, Kieran Walsh, “Turn to the Working Class: The New Left, Black Liberation, and the U.S. Labor Movement (1967–1981)” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289075.

Social Welfare and Public Health

 

Posey, Trisha, “‘Alive to the Cry of Distress’: Joseph and Jan Sill and Poor Relief in Antebellum Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (July 2008), 215–43.

Sato, Chitose, “Hahaoya Nenkin kara Jido Hojo e: 1935nen Shakai-Hoshou-ho to Jendani kansuru Ichi Kosatsu” (From mothers’ pension to aid to dependent children: Gender in the United States Social Security Act of 1935), Jenda Shigaku (Tokyo), 3 (2007), 45–56. In Japanese.

Schneiderhan, Erik, “Jane Addams and Charity Organization in Chicago,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Winter 2007–2008), 299–327.

Skok, Deborah A., “The Historiography of Catholic Laywomen and Progressive Era Reform,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 1–22.

Willrich, Michael, “‘The Least Vaccinated of Any Civilized Country’: Personal Liberty and Public Health in the Progressive Era,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 76–93.

 

Arena, John D., “Winds of Change before Katrina: New Orleans’ Public Housing Struggles within a Race, Class, and Gender Dialectic” (Tulane University, 2007). Order No. DA3289688.

Cote, Jennifer Lyn, “‘Nobody Ever Paid Me for Anything’: Crafting a Professional Social Work Identity in Progressive-Era Boston” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3283906.

Lawinski, Terese, “Welfare Restructuring in Suburban New York” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283625.

Nathan Wright, Amy, “Civil Rights ‘Unfinished Business’: Poverty, Race, and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3277859.

Padamsee, Tasleem Juana, “Infusing Health into the Welfare State: hiv/aids Policy Making in the United States and the United Kingdom” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287600.

Rosenheck, Stephen, “Community-Based Care for the Severe Mentally Ill in Sweden and the United States” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3284489.

 

Cantor, David, ed., Cancer in the Twentieth Century. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. x, 350 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8867-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Colgrove, James, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner, eds., The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. x, 293 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4311-6. x, 293 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4312-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Edmunds, Susan, Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 258 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-19-533853-9.)

Huret, Romain, La fin de la pauvreté? Les experts sociaux en guerre contre la pauvreté aux États-Unis (1945–1974) (The end of poverty? Social experts in the war against poverty in the United States, 1945–1974). (Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2008. 237 pp. Paper, €21.00, isbn 978-2-7132-2162-0.) In French.

Pasquill, Robert, Jr., The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, 1933–1942: A Great and Lasting Good. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $57.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1621-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8173-5495-4.) Includes cd.

Sommer, Barbara W., Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2008. viii, 205 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-87351-612-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Sports and Recreation

 

Davis, Timothy, “Race and Sports in America: An Historical Overview,” Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, 7 (Spring 2008), 291–311.

Duru, N. Jeremi, “The Fritz Pollard Alliance, the Rooney Rule, and the Quest to ‘Level the Playing Field’ in the National Football League,” Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, 7 (Spring 2008), 179–97.

Fink, Robert C., “Semi-Professional African American Baseball in Texas before the Great Depression,” in The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology, ed. Bruce A. Glasrud and James M. Smallwood, 218–30. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxi, 404 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-89672-609-3.)

Hofmann, Annette, “Between Ethnic Separation and Assimilation: German Immigrants and Their Athletic Endeavours in Their New American Home Country,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 25 (July 2008), 993–1009.

Longley, Neil, Todd Crosset, and Steve Jefferson, “The Migration of African-Americans to the Canadian Football League during the 1950s: An Escape from Racism?,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 25 (Sept. 2008), 1374–97.

Love, William G., “A History of Memory Grove,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 148–67.

Swaim, Ginalie, “Solving the Leisure Problem: Recreation and the wpa,” Iowa Heritage Illustrated, 88 (Fall 2007), 126–44. Heavily illustrated.

 

Briley, Ron, Michael K. Schoenecke, and Deborah A. Carmichael, eds., All-Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film and History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. x, 318 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2448-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Gorn, Elliott J., ed., Sports in Chicago. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. x, 322 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03317-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07523-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Kyle, Donald G., and Robert B. Fairbanks, eds., Baseball in America and America in Baseball. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 222 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-023-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Teaching, Surveys, and Textbooks

 

Wawrzyczek, Irmina, “The Study of U.S. History in Poland,” in Teaching and Studying U.S. History in Europe: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Cornelius A. van Minnen and Sylvia L. Hilton, 209–18. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2007. 269 pp. isbn 90-8659-049-7.)

 

Atkins, Stephen E., ed., The 9/11 Encyclopedia. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. Vol. 1: xxii, 325 pp. Vol. 2: xxxii, 259 pp. $199.95/set, isbn 978-0-275-99431-0/set.) Includes primary documents.

Bakken, Gordon Morris, ed., Icons of the American West: From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1: xxx, 328 pp. Vol. 2: xxx, 246 pp. $175.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-34148-9/set.)

Craver, Kathleen W., Term Paper Resource Guide to Nineteenth-Century U.S. History. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xiv, 407 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-313-34810-5.)

Hood, James Larry, Restless Heart: Kentucky’s Search for Individual Liberty and Community. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. xx, 136 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-7618-4044-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4032-9.)

Mauch, Christof, Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: Amerikanische Geschichte (The 101 most important questions: American history). (Munich: Beck, 2008. 176 pp. Paper, €9.95, isbn 978-3-406-54800-0.) In German.

Sagredo Santos, Antonia, Arroyo Vázquez, and María Luz, History and Culture of the United States. (Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2007. 497 pp. isbn 978-84-362-5452-5.)

Testi, Arnaldo, Il secolo degli Stati Uniti (The century of the United States). (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008. 347 pp. Paper, €20.00, isbn 978-88-15-12156-1.)

Transnational and Comparative

 

Nakakita, Koji, “Incorporating Japanese Labor into the Free World: Cold War Diplomacy and Economic Interdependence, 1949–1964,” Labor History, 49 (May 2008), 199–222.

Uzoigwe, Godfrey N., “A Matter of Identity: Africa and Its Diaspora in America since 1900, Continuity and Change,” African and Asian Studies, 7 (July 2008), 259–88.

 

Games, Alison, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 381 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-19-533554-5.)

Theory and Methodology

 

Burnard, Trevor, “A Passion for Places: The Geographic Turn in Early American History,” Common-Place, 8 (July 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Furukawa, Tetsushi, “Afurika-kei Amerikajin to Nihon/Higashi Ajia: Sono kankeishi no igi to kadai wo kangaeru” (African American relations with Japan and/or East Asia: Toward a transnationalization of African American history and its significance), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 82–92. In Japanese.

Shirai, Yoko, “Nihon ni okeru Amerikashi Kenkyu no Genjo to Kadai: Amerika Reigaishugi to Gendaichi” (The state of American history and its tasks in Japan: American exceptionalism and historical perspectives in American Studies), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 2–11. In Japanese.

 

Lea, Carolyn, “Beyond Celebration: A Call for Rethinking Cultural Studies” (Bowling Green State University, 2007). Order No. DA3285409.

 

Brooks, James F., Christopher R. N. DeCorse, and John Walton, eds., Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory. (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2008. x, 332 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-930618-94-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Maynes, Mary Jo, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett, Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii, 186 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8014-4617-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8014-7392-0.)

Transportation, Travel, and Exploration

 

Amidon, Kevin S., “The Visible Hand and the New American Biology: Toward an Integrated Historiography of Railroad-Supported Agricultural Research,” Agricultural History, 82 (Summer 2008), 309–36.

Bates, Milton J., “Navigating the Kilbourn Canal,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Spring 2008), 42–53. Heavily illustrated.

Langbauer, Laurie, “Early British Travelers to the U.S. South,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 1–18.

Luckin, Richard W., “The Dining Car and Railroad China,” Railroad History (no. 198, Spring–Summer 2008), 28–41. Heavily illustrated.

Schwieterman, Joseph P., “Midwest Metamorphosis,” Railroad History (no. 198, Spring–Summer 2008), 42–59. Heavily illustrated.

Skidmore, Max J., “Following the Theodore Roosevelt Trail into the Heart of New Hampshire,” Historical New Hampshire, 62 (Spring 2008), 3–18. Heavily illustrated.

White, John H., Jr., “A Short History of American Locomotive Builders in the Steam Era,” Railroad History (no. 197, Fall–Winter 2007), 8–85.

 

Bennett-Bealer, Nichole, “The Beginning of Willa Cather’s European Journeys: Fourteen Travel Articles from 1902” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3284511.

Cabello, Juanita, “Literary Travel, the Woman Traveler, and Twentieth Century Constructions of Mexican Tourist Spaces” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287469.

Hardesty, Michele L., “The Ambivalent American: Political Travel Writing during the Cold War” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285086.

Quinn, Katrina J., “Journalism, Letters, and Nation: The Newspaper Letters of Samuel Bowles’s Across the Continent (1865)” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3284289.

Roth, Matthew William, “Concrete Utopia: The Development of Roads and Freeways in Los Angeles, 1910–1950” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3283519.

 

Harwood, Herbert H., Jr., The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway: J. P. Morgan’s Magnificent Mistake. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. x, 155 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35143-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Holley, I. B., Jr., The Highway Revolution, 1895–1925: How the United States Got Out of the Mud. (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. x, 204 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-59460-353-2.)

Morgan, Cecilia, “A Happy Holiday”: English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870–1930. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xxiv, 461 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-0-8020-9758-3. Paper, $37.95, isbn 978-0-8020-9518-3.)

Taylor, Jerry, and Ray Poteat, The csx Clinchfield Route in the 21st Century. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xii, 165 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35085-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Turner, Gregg M., A Journey into Florida Railroad History. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xii, 283 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8130-3233-7.)

 

Hansen, James R., et al., eds., The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America, vol.2; Reinventing the Airplane. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2007. xxviii, 957 pp. $35.00.)

Steinbach, Matthias, and Sven Schlotter, eds., Zweimal Amerika: Deutsche reisetagebücher, 1926 und 1990 (Two Americas: German travel diaries, 1926 and 1990). (Jena: Verlag Dr. Bussert & Stadeler, 2007. 140 pp. €24.90, isbn 978-3-932906-78-7.)

Wallace, Andrew, and Richard H. Hevly, eds., From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, Surgeon-Naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xl, 357 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-89672-597-3.)

Urban and Suburban

 

Baumann, Timothy, Andrew Hurley, and Lori Allen, “Economic Stability and Social Identity: Historic Preservation in Old North St. Louis,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 70–87.

Foster, Jonathan, “Stigma Cities: Birmingham and Las Vegas in the National Newspaper Media, 1945–2000,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Winter 2007), 297–324.

Johnson, Katherine M., “‘The Glorified Municipality’: State Formation and the Urban Process in North America,” Political Geography (Oxford), 27 (May 2008), 400–417.

Kessenides, James, “The Tropical Turn: Los Angeles before the Movies,” Common-Place, 8 (July 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Miyata, Ichiro, “Manufacturing Segregation: The Birth and Death of Underground Atlanta, 1969–1981,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 239–58.

Plank, Lisa, and Thomas Saylor, “Constructing Suburbia: Richfield in the Postwar Era,” Minnesota History, 61 (Summer 2008), 48–61. Heavily illustrated.

Purser, Margaret, and Noelle Shaver, “Plats and Place: The Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Speculation Townsites on the Sacramento River,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 26–46.

Rotman, Deborah L., and R. Berle Clay, “Urban Archaeology at the Site of the Argosy Casino: The Materiality of Social Change in the Canal Town of Lawrenceburg, Southern Indiana,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 47–69.

Warner, Mark S., and Robert A. Genheimer, “‘Cats Here, Cats There, Cats and Kittens Everywhere’: An Urban Extermination of Cats in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 11–25.

 

Arena, John D., “Winds of Change before Katrina: New Orleans’ Public Housing Struggles within a Race, Class, and Gender Dialectic” (Tulane University, 2007). Order No. DA3289688.

Berger, Jane A., “When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay: Gender and the Urban Crisis in Baltimore, 1945–1985” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3286772.

Gish, Todd Douglas, “Building Los Angeles: Urban Housing in the Suburban Metropolis, 1900–1936” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3278383.

Houser, Patricia McMahon, “Gotham’s Drinking Cup: The 19th Century Struggle to Protect New York City’s Croton Watershed” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285091.

Liazos, Ariane Mary Aphrodite, “The Movement for ‘Good City Government’: Municipal Leagues, Political Science, and the Contested Meaning of Progressive Democracy, 1880–1930” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285505.

Livie, Kyle Mitchell, “Wide Open Spaces: Rural Communities and the Making of Metropolitan California, 1870–1940” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3280982.

Lloyd, Joanne, “Beneath the ‘City on the Hill’: The Lower Orders, Boston, 1700–1850” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3288830.

O’Hara, S. Paul, “The End of Utopia: Imagining the Rise and Fall of Gary, Indiana” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3277990.

Quinn, Kelly Anne, “Making Modern Homes: A History of Langston Terrace Dwellings, a New Deal Housing Program in Washington, D.C.” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283424.

Ritter, Jonathan, “The American Civic Center: Urban Ideals and Compromise on the Ground” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3283366.

Roth, Matthew William, “Concrete Utopia: The Development of Roads and Freeways in Los Angeles, 1910–1950” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3283519.

 

Fenske, Gail, The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiv, 400 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-226-24141-8.)

Golway, Terry, ed., Catholics in New York: Society, Culture, and Politics, 1808–1946. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. 206 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2904-8.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Kargon, Robert H., and Arthur P. Molella, Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2008. x, 190 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-262-11320-5.)

Mitchell, John Hanson, The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston. (Boston: Beacon, 2008. xvi, 254 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8070-7148-9.)

Wolf, Michael Allan, The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xvi, 188 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1620-6. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1621-3.)

Visual and Performing Arts

 

Black, Cheryl, “After the Emperor: Interracial Collaborations between Provincetown Alumni and Black Theatre Artists, c. 1924–1946,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Winter 2008), 5–26.

Civetta, Peter, “(Well, At Least) Lazarus Laughed: O’Neill, Religious Drama, and Stageability,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Winter 2008), 27–52.

Dando, Christina E., “Constructing a Home on the Range: Homemaking in Early-Twentieth-Century Plains Photograph Albums,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Spring 2008), 105–33. Heavily illustrated.

Evans, Curtis J., “The Religious and Racial Meanings of The Green Pastures,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Winter 2008), 59–93.

Geduld, Victoria Phillips, “Performing Communism in the American Dance: Culture, Politics, and the New Dance Group,” American Communist History, 7 (June 2008), 39–65.

Grieve, Victoria M., “‘Work That Satisfies the Creative Instinct’: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Arts and Crafts,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 159–82.

Monteith, Sharon, “Sally Hemings in Visual Culture: A Radical Act of the Imagination?,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 233–46.

Nochlin, Linda, “A Life of Learning,” American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper (no. 64 2007), 1–20.

Ott, John, “How New York Stole the Luxury Art Market: Blockbuster Auctions and Bourgeois Identity in Gilded Age America,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 133–58.

Spratt, Meg, “When Police Dogs Attacked: Iconic News Photographs and Construction of History, Mythology, and Political Discourse,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 85–105. Heavily illustrated.

 

Davis, Carol Bunch, “Troubling the Boundaries: ‘Blacknesses,’ Performance, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3278340.

Fleming, Tuliza, “Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835–1907): ‘Reconstructed Rebel’” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283401.

Gevinson, Alan, “The Origins of Vaudeville: Aesthetic Power, Disquietude, and Cosmopolitanism in the Quest for an American Music Hall” (Johns Hopkins University, 2007). Order No. DA3288462.

Glahn, Philip, “Estrangement and Politicization: Bertolt Brecht and American Art, 1967–1979” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288948.

Jensen, Kirsten, “The American Salon: The Art Gallery at the Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition, 1873–1890” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283151.

Lamm, Kimberly Kay, “Composing and Contesting the Space of Visibility: Literary and Visual Portraiture in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3289768.

McDaniel, L. Bailey, “Nurturing Fallacies: Constructing the Maternal in Twentieth-Century American Drama” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3290759.

Older, Caroline Doswell, “American Artists’ Frames: Paintings, Environments, and Viewers, 1860–1920” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3285840.

Price, Justine Dana, “Abstraction, Expression, Kitsch: American Painting in a Critical Context, 1936–1951” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3283459.

Roark, Kathleena Lucille, “Acting American in the Age of Abolition: Transatlantic Black Celebrity and the Rise of Yankee Theatre, 1787–1827” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290361.

Romaine, James, “Constructing a Beloved Community: The Methodological Development of Time Rollins and k.o.s.” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283181.

Scarborough, K. Neil, “Modern Primitive Body Art: The Cutting Edge of Queer Performance” (Bryn Mawr College, 2005). Order No. DA3282539.

Schlueter, Jennifer, “Our Lively Arts: American Culture as Theatrical Culture, 1922–1931” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3286759.

Schmick, Robert Paul, “A Wilderness for All: The Transmuting and Transmitting of Wilderness Imagery by Print Media and Material Culture for Antebellum America” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3278633.

Schwartz, Stephanie, “The Crime of Cuba: Urbanism, Photography, and the Geopolitics of Americanization” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285161.

Thomas, Margaret Frances, “Through the Lens of Experience: American Women Newspaper Photographers” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3285970.

Wagelie, Jennifer, “Maori Art in America: The Display and Collection History of Maori Art in the United States, 1802–2006” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283178.

Wallis, Brian, “Conflicting Images: Postmodernism and the Demystification of Art in American Culture, 1984–2001” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3286496.

Yannacci, Christin Essin, “Landscapes of American Modernity: A Cultural History of Theatrical Design, 1912–1951” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3285871.

 

Chapman, Janet, and Karen Barrie, Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xiv, 370 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4424-3.)

DeLue, Rachael Ziady, George Innes and the Science of Landscape. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xvi, 317 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-14230-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Feldges, Benedikt, American Icons: The Genesis of a National Visual Language. (New York: Routledge, 2008. viii, 288 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-95635-2.)

Gaudio, Michael, Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxvi, 207 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4846-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4847-4.)

Gould, Neil, Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. xviii, 610 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2871-3.)

Jiménez-Blanco, María Dolores, and Cindy Mack, Buscadores de belleza: Historias de los grandes coleccionistas de arte (Seekers of beauty: Stories of the great art collectors). (Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 2007. 414 pp. isbn 987-84-344-5346-3.) In Spanish.

Johnson, Benjamin Heber, with Jeffrey Gusky, Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 210 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-300-13928-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Spirn, Anne Whiston, Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xvi, 359 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-226-76984-4.) Heavily illustrated.

 

Cole, Jean Lee, and Charles Mitchell, eds., Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 389 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4291-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4292-8.)

Weston, Harold, Freedom in the Wilds: An Artist in the Adirondacks, ed. Rebecca Foster. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xxiv, 276 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0899-8.) Originally published in 1971.

Women

 

Abbott, Traci B., “Every Woman’s Share: Female Sexuality in Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 634–60.

Baumler, Ellen, “Justice as an Afterthought: Women and the Montana Prison System,” Montana, 58 (Summer 2008), 41–59. Heavily illustrated.

Brooks, Cecelia, “‘Touch the Bottom and Lift’: Black Women Home Extension Agents in Oklahoma, 1912–1935,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 88–108.

Carman, Emily Susan, “Independent Stardom: Female Film Stars and the Studio System in the 1930s,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 583–615.

Chambers, Sarah C., and Lisa Norling, “Choosing to Be a Subject: Loyalist Women in the Revolutionary Atlantic World,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 39–62.

Cummins, Amy, “‘Loyal and Devoted Attachment’: Anti-Abolition Rhetoric by Southern Women of Letters, 1852–1860,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 13–27.

Farca, Paula Anca, “And, You, Miss, Are No Lady: Feminist and Postfeminist Scarlett O’Hara Rethinks the Southern Lady,” Southern Studies, 14 (Spring–Summer 2007), 73–90.

Ferguson, Lindsay C., “Whistle Blowing Is Not Just for Gym Class: Looking into the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX,” Texas Tech Law Review, 39 (Fall 2006), 167–96.

Gabrial, Brian, “A Woman’s Place: Defiance and Obedience; Newspaper Stories about Women during the Trial of John Brown,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 7–29.

Gatti, Stacey Horstmann, “In Their Own Backyard: The Local Imperative of Small Town Women’s Citizenship, 1896–1930,” New York History, 88 (Fall 2007), 419–52.

Greenberger, Marcia D., and Neena K. Chaudhry, “Worth Fighting For: Thirty-five Years of Title IX Advocacy in the Courts, Congress, and the Federal Agencies,” Cleveland State Law Review, 55 (no. 4, 2007), 491–501.

Hartmann-Ting, L. E., “The National Catholic School of Social Service: Redefining Catholic Womanhood through the Professionalization of Social Work during the Interwar Years,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 101–19.

Hicks, Paul, “Caroline O’Day: The Gentlewoman from New York,” New York History, 88 (Summer 2007), 287–305.

Howe, Barbara, “Practicing Medicine in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wheeling: The Story of Dr. Eliza Clark Hughes,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 12 (Fall 2006), 7–35.

Kaag, John, “Women and Forgotten Movements in American Philosophy: The Work of Ella Lyman Cabot and Mary Parker Follett,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 44 (Winter 2008), 134–57.

Katz, Sherry J., “‘Researching Around Our Subjects’: Excavating Radical Women,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 168–86.

Kirby, Lisa A., “‘How it Grieves the Heart of a Mother [. . .]’: The Intersection of Gender, Class, and Politics in Grace Lumpkin’s To Make My Bread,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 661–77.

Kuzma-Markowska, Sylwia, “Transatlantyckie kontakty dzialaczy na rzecz kontroli urodzen w Polsce i Stanach Zjednoczonych, 1931–1960” (Trans-Atlantic contacts of birth control activists in Poland and the United States, 1931–1960), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 200–214. In Polish.

Lewis, Norman P., “From Cheesecake to Chief: Newspaper Editors’ Slow Acceptance of Women,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 33–55.

Lindell, Lisa R., “‘Sowing the Seeds of Liberal Thought’: Unitarian Women Ministers in Nineteenth-Century South Dakota,” South Dakota History, 38 (Summer 2008), 148–80.

Lyon, Mary Lou, “Juana Briones de Miranda: The First Woman Settler of San Francisco,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 73, Spring 2008), 4–14.

MacLennan, Anne F., “Women, Radio Broadcasting, and the Depression: A ‘Captive’ Audience from Household Hints to Story Time and Serials,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 616–33.

Mannard, Joseph, “Widows in Convents of the Early Republic: The Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1790–1860,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 111–32.

Ogawa, Manako, “Estranged Sisterhood: The Wartime Trans-Pacific Dialogue of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1931–1945,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 18 (2007), 163–86.

Ossian, Lisa L., “‘Almost an Athens’: Iowa’s Rural Women’s Poetry of Place and Farm Playlets, 1930–1932,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 731–49.

Petit, Jeanne, “‘Organized Catholic Womanhood’: Suffrage, Citizenship, and the National Council of Catholic Women,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 83–100.

Register, Cheri, “When Women Went Public: Feminist Reforms in the 1970s,” Minnesota History, 61 (Summer 2008), 62–75. Heavily illustrated.

Sandler, Bernice Resnick, “Title IX: How We Got It and What a Difference It Made,” Cleveland State Law Review, 55 (no. 4, 2007), 473–89.

Shaddox, Abagail M., “From Backbench to Oval Office: The Letters of Lucy Randolph Mason and Eleanor Roosevelt,” Southern Studies, 14 (Spring–Summer 2007), 13–31.

Shaw, Susan M., “Gracious Submission: Southern Baptist Fundamentalists and Women,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 20 (Spring 2008), 51–77.

Spencer, Robyn Ceanne, “Engendering the Black Freedom Struggle: Revolutionary Black Womanhood and the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area, California,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 90–113.

Ward, Kathleen A., “Before and After the White Man: Indian Women, Property, Progress, and Power,” Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, 6 (Spring–Summer 2007), 245–67.

Wells, Jonathan Daniel, “A Voice in the Nation: Women Journalists in the Early Nineteenth-Century South,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (June 2008), 165–82.

Williams, Rhonda Y., “Black Women and Black Power,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (July 2008), 22–26.

 

Bieluk, Halina, “Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady and Her Image” (University of Bialystok, Poland, 2007).

Bonillas, Luisa Elena, “Pushing for Change: Women of Color at Wellesley College, 1966–2001” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287915.

Cabello, Juanita, “Literary Travel, the Woman Traveler, and Twentieth Century Constructions of Mexican Tourist Spaces” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287469.

Dozier, Lorraine, “Accumulating Disadvantage: The Growth in Black-White Wage Gap among Women” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3289765.

Harris, LaShawn Denise, “Reconstructing Respectability: The Remaking of African-American Women’s Activism, 1896–1960” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283247.

Jenkins, Tricia Anne, “The Female Agen(t)cy: Gender and Nationalism in American Primetime Espionage Series (1950–2006)” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282130.

McDaniel, L. Bailey, “Nurturing Fallacies: Constructing the Maternal in Twentieth-Century American Drama” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3290759.

Motl, Kevin Conrad, “A Time for Reform: The Woman Suffrage Campaign in Rural Texas, 1914–1919” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3280540.

Muzak, Joanne Marie, “High Lives/Low Lives: Women’s Narratives of Drug Addiction” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR33035.

O’Sullivan, Meg Devlin, “‘We Worry about Survival’: American Indian Women, Sovereignty, and the Right to Bear and Raise Children in the 1970s” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289127.

Puaca, Laura Micheletti, “A New National Defense: Feminism, Education, and the Quest for ‘Scientific Brainpower,’ 1940–1965” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3288985.

Rubin, Karen Aviva, “The Aftermath of Sorrow: White Women’s Search for Their Lost Cause, 1861–1917” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282659.

Shaw, Barbara L., “(Re)mapping the Black Atlantic: Violence, Affect, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Migration Literature” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283419.

 

DeLatte, Carolyn E., Lucy Audubon: A Biography. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xxvi, 248 pp. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3381-1.) Originally published in 1982.

Gorn, Elliott J., ed., Sports in Chicago. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. x, 322 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03317-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07523-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Mann, Barbara Alice, ed., Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 133 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8032-6042-9.)

Smith, Merril D., Women’s Roles in Seventeeth-Century America. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xxviii, 183 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-313-33976-9.)

Strong, Susan Rumsey, Thought Knows No Sex: Women´s Rights at Alfred University. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7513-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7514-0.)

Yamauchi, Megumi, Fushizen to Yobareta Feminisuto: Sharotto Pakinzu Giruman to Atarashii Bosei (A feminist called unnatural: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and new motherhood). (Tokyo: Toshindo, 2008. 219 pp. ¥3,360, isbn 978-4-8871-3840-7.) In Japanese.

 

Brown, Frances DeBra, An Army in Skirts: The World War II Letters of Frances DeBra. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2008. x, 264 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-87195-264-0.)

Patterson, Martha H., ed., The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894–1930. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xvi, 340 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4295-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4296-6.)

World War I and Interwar (1914-1941)

 

Dodman, Trevor R., “Enduring Wounds: Locating Sites of Loss in World War I Fiction” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3288834.

Mason, Kevin, “Building an Unwanted Nation: The Anglo-American Partnership and Austrian Proponents of a Separate Nationhood, 1918–1934” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289021.

 

Shay, Michael E., The Yankee Division in the First World War: In the Highest Tradition. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xvi, 294 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-60344-030-1.)

Simmons, Edwin H., and Joseph H. Alexander, Through the Wheat: The U.S. Marines in World War I. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xxvi, 296 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-59114-791-6.)

East

Hoberman, Michael, How Strange It Seems: The Cultural Life of Jews in Small-Town New England. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xvi, 253 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-645-3. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-55849-646-0.)

Midwest

 

Bakeman, Mary Hawker, “The Oldest House in St. Paul: A Sesquicentennial Parable,” Minnesota History, 61 (Spring 2008), 24–35. Heavily illustrated.

Shackelford, Alan G., “The Frontier in Pre-Columbian Illinois,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Fall 2007), 182–206.

Sundstrom, Linea, “The Pageant of Paha Sapa: An Origin Myth of White Settlement in the American West,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Winter 2008), 3–26.

 

Brodnax, David Junius, Sr., “‘Breathing the Freedom’s Air’: The African American Struggle for Equal Citizenship in Iowa, 1830–1900” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3284324.

McDermott, Stacy Pratt, “‘Gentlemen of the Jury’: The Status of Jurors and the Representation of the Jury in the Midwest, 1830–1860” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290315.

South

Planitzer, Walter Kyle, “A Dangerous Class of Men, without Direct Interest in Slavery: Proslavery Concern about Southern Nonslaveholders in the Late Antebellum Era” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288519.

 

West, Stephen A., From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xiv, 261 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2699-5.)

West

 

Connell, John, and Chris Gibson, “‘No Passport Necessary’: Music, Record Covers, and Vicarious Tourism in Post-War Hawai‘i,” Journal of Pacific History (Melbourne), 43 (June 2008), 51–75.

Flores, Dan, “Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade and the Early American West, 1775–1825,” Montana, 58 (Summer 2008), 3–21. Heavily illustrated.

 

Buss, James J., “The Winning of the West with Words: Clearing the Middle Ground for American Pioneers” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3286093.

Reich, Paul D., “Race-ing West: Propaganda and Pedagogy in African American Fiction, Poetry, and Autobiography” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3287207.

 

Bakken, Gordon Morris, ed., Icons of the American West: From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1: xxx, 328 pp. Vol. 2: xxx, 246 pp. $175.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-34148-9/set.)

Glasrud, Bruce A., and James M. Smallwood, eds., The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxi, 404 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-89672-609-3.)

Kimura, Kazuo, Kita-Taiheiyo no “Hakken” (“Discovery” of the Northern Pacific). (Tokyo: Yamakawa shuppansha, 2007. 250 pp. ¥3,570, isbn 978-4-634-64025-2.) In Japanese.

Okihiro, Gary Y., ed., Island World: A History of Hawai‘i and the United States. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 308 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-520-25299-8.)

Raphael, Ray, and Freeman House, Humbolt History, vol. 1: Two Peoples, One Place. (Eureka: Humbolt County Historical Society, 2007. x, 353 pp. $29.95, isbn 9781883254018.) Heavily illustrated.

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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