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Adelt, Ulrich, “Germany Gets the Blues: Negotiations of ‘Race’ and Nation at the American Folk Blues Festival,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 951–74.

Beyerlein, Kraig, and Kenneth T. Andrews, “Black Voting during the Civil Rights Movement: A Micro-level Analysis,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 65–93.

Burton, Linda M., and M. Belinda Tucker, “Romantic Unions in an Era of Uncertainty: A Post-Moynihan Perspective on African American Women and Marriage,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 132–48.

Campney, Brent M. S., “W. B. Townsend and the Struggle against Racist Violence in Leavenworth,” Kansas History, 31 (Winter 2008–2009), 260–73.

Cope, Graeme, “‘Everybody Says All Those People . . . Were from Out of Town, but They Weren’t’: A Note on Crowds during the Little Rock Crisis,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2008), 246–67.

Curwood, Anastasia, “A Fresh Look at E. Franklin Frazier’s Sexual Politics in The Negro Family in the United States,” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 325–37.

Danielson, Chris, “‘Lily White and Hard Right’: The Mississippi Republican Party and Black Voting, 1965–1980,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 83–118.

Diemer, Andrew, “Reconstructing Philadelphia: African Americans and Politics in the Post–Civil War North,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (Jan. 2009), 29–58.

Dolan, Mark K., “Dave Peyton, the Chicago Defender, and Local 208,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 154–48.

Furstenberg, Frank F., “If Moynihan Had Only Known: Race, Class, and Family Change in the Late Twentieth Century,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 94–110.

Gems, Gerald R., “Blocked Shot: The Development of Basketball in the African-American Community of Chicago,” in The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City, ed. Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems, 281–98. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 368 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03281-3. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07615-2.)

Greene, Anthony C., “The Black Bronx: A Look at the Foundation of the Bronx’s Black Communities until 1900,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 44 (Spring–Fall 2007), 1–18.

Hawkins, Karen M., “Rising Phoenix-Like: The African American Struggle and Mobilization for Political Rights in New Bern, North Carolina, 1968–1979,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (Oct. 2008), 379–415.

Henderson, Simon, “Crossing the Line: Sport and the Limits of Civil Rights Protest,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 101–21.

Higashida, Cheryl, “To Be(come) Young, Gay, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry’s Existentialist Routes to Anticolonialism,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 899–924.

Holzer, Harry J., “The Labor Market and Young Black Men: Updating Moynihan’s Perspective,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 47–69.

Johnson, Ellen, “Geographic Context and Ethnic Context: Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Walker,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 235–55.

Lawrence, Noah, “‘Since It Is My Right, I Would Like to Have It’: Edna Griffin and the Katz Drug Store Desegregation Movement,” Annals of Iowa, 67 (Fall 2008), 298–330.

Litwack, Leon F., “‘Fight the Power!’: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 3–28.

Malone, Barry F., “Before Brown: Cultural and Social Capital in a Rural Black School Community, W. E. B. Du Bois High School, Wake Forest, North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (Oct. 2008), 416–47.

Mangun, Kimberley, “Boosting the Bottom Line: Beatrice Morrow Cannady’s Tactics to Promote The Advocate, 1923–1933,” American Journalism, 25 (Summer 2008), 31–69.

Massey, Douglas S., and Robert J. Sampson, “Moynihan Redux: Legacies and Lessons,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 6–27.

Parker, Maegan, “Ironic Openings: The Interpretive Challenge of the ‘Black Manifesto,’” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 94 (Aug. 2008), 320–42.

Pitman, Bambra (Barb), “Culture, Caste, and Conflict in New Orleans Catholicism: Archbishop Francis Janssens and the Color Line,” Louisiana History, 49 (Fall 2008), 423–62.

Prasch, Robert E., “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Contributions to U.S. Economics (1893–1910),” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 309–24.

Reed, Lesley-Anne, “Transitional Generations: African American Workers, Industrialization, and Education in the Northern Louisiana Lumber and Paper Industries, 1930–1950,” Louisiana History, 50 (Winter 2009), 25–56.

Runstedtler, Theresa, “Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line,” Radical History Review (no. 103, Winter 2009), 59–81.

Schwartz, Barry, “The Limits of Gratitude: Lincoln in African American Memory,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 27–33.

Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, “Replicating History in a Bad Way? White Activists and Black Power in sncc’s Arkansas Project,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2008), 268–87.

Whitfield, Stephen J., “The ‘Golden’ Era of Civil Rights: Consequences of The Carolina Israelite,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Fall 2008), 26–51.

Wilson, William Julius, “The Moynihan Report and Research on the Black Community,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 34–46.

Younger, Karen Fisher, “Liberia and the Last Slave Ships,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 424–42.

Benard, Akeia A. F., “The Free African American Cultural Landscape: Newport, R.I., 1774–1826” (University of Connecticut, 2008). Order No. DA3308227.

Benson, Michon Anita, “From the Ride‘n’Tie to Ryde-or-Die: A Pedagogy of Survival in Black Youth Popular Cultural Forms” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309831.

Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun, “The Black Maternal: Heterogeneity and Resistance in Literary Representations of Black Mothers in 20th-Century African American and Anglo-Caribbean Women’s Fiction” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304362.

Brown, Kathleen, “Writing Our Way Home: A Life History Study of African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century Who Grew to Adulthood Enslaved” (California Institute of Integral Studies, 2008). Order No. DA3306674.

Callaway, Patricia Birch, “‘Don’t You Fall’ Resilient and Academically Successful African Americans’ Literacy and Family Involvement Practices” (University of Kentucky, 2008). Order No. DA3315005.

Clark, Adam L., “Honoring the Ancestors: Toward an Afrocentric Approach to Christian Theology” (Union Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3314595.

Dalrymple, Daniel A., “In the Shadow of Garvey: Garveyites in New York City and the British Caribbean, 1925–1950” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3312677.

Decker, Stefanie Lee, “The Mask of the Southern Lady: Virginia Foster Durr, Southern Womanhood, and Reform” (Oklahoma State University, 2007). Order No. DA3304192.

Demas, Lane, “Integrating the Gridiron: Civil Rights and American College Football, 1935–1970” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3311554.

Faraj, Gaidi, “Unearthing the Underground: A Study of Radical Activism in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306133.

Ferreira, Isabel Cristina Rodrigues, “The Dialogue about ‘Racial Democracy’ among African-American and Afro-Brazilian Literatures” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304408.

Field, Allyson Nadia, “Filming Back and Black: Strategies of African American Political Modernism” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312355.

Fullwood, Willie, “African American Political Participation: A Case Study of Brunswick County, North Carolina” (Union Institute & University, 2008). Order No. DA3311974.

Gilbert, Kenyatta R., “A Time to Preach, a Time to Cry: An Investigation into the Nature of Prophetic Preaching in Black Churches during the Great Migration Period, 1916–1940” (Princeton Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3316572.

Gillespie, Deanna M., “‘They Walk, Talk, and Act like New People’: Black Women and the Citizenship Education Program, 1957–1970” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3307992.

Green, Michael Cullen, “Black Yanks in America’s Pacific: Race and the Making of a Military Empire, 1945–1953” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3303649.

Hampton, Isaac W., II, “The Journey of African American Officers through the Vietnam Era” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3311737.

Hohle, Randolph H., Jr., “Symbolic Citizenship, Ethical Practice, and the Body: Competing Political Projects in the Black Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1968” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3311708.

Johnson, David Miles, “Beyond Freedom: The Black North, 1863–1883” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306181.

Johnson, Nalo M., “The History of the Founding of the Legal Rights Center: A Study in Coalition Building between the Black and Amerian Indian Communities of Minneapolis” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA33133449.

Kaliss, Gregory John, “Everyone’s All-Americans: Race, Men’s College Athletics, and the Ideal of Equal Opportunity” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304342.

Lansbury, Jennifer H., “Champions Indeed: The Emergence of African American Women Athletes in American Society, 1930–1960” (George Mason University, 2008). Order No. DA3313515.

Macki, Adrienne C., “Staging the ‘Folk’: A History of Harlem’s Little Theatre Movement, 1920–1940” (Tufts University, 2008). Order No. DA3304127.

Mantler, Gordon Keith, “Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People’s Campaign, and Its Legacies” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297872.

McKay, Charles, “The American Front Porch as a Lieu de Mémoire in African American Literature” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3308656.

Mustakeem, Sowandé, “‘Make Haste & Let Me See You with a Good Cargo of Negroes’: Gender, Health, and Violence in the Eighteenth-Century Middle Passage” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3312724.

Powell, Damon A., “Black Is Beautiful: An Exploration in Black Theology, Aesthetics & Art” (Graduate Theological Union, 2008). Order No. DA3313238.

Pritchard, Eric Darnell, “‘A Litany for Survival’: Black Queer Literacies” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314337.

Ragar, Cheryl R., “Plunging into the Very Depths of the Souls of Our People: The Life and Art of Aaron Douglas” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3307709.

Redmond, Shana L., “Anthem: Music and Politics in Diaspora, 1920–1970s” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317206.

Sato, Paula Kaye, “The Gothic or the Monstrous: African American and Caribbean Nightmares” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312166.

Shabazz Sanders, G. Rashad, “‘They Imprison the Whole Population’: U.S. and South African Prison Literature and the Emergence of Symbiotic Carcerality, 1900–Present” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317409.

Shearer, Tobin Miller, “‘A Pure Fellowship’: The Danger and Necessity of Purity in White and African-American Mennonite Racial Exchange, 1935–1971” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3303602.

Van Sickle, Eugene S., “A Transnational Vision: John H. B. Latrobe and Maryland’s African Colonization Movement” (West Virginia University, 2005). Order No. DA3306709.

Zogry, Kenneth Joel, “The House That Dr. Pope Built: Race, Politics, Memory, and the Early Struggle for Civil Rights in North Carolina” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304242.

Archer, Jermaine O., Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 128 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-99027-1.)

Baker, John F., Jr., The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom. (New York: Atria, 2009. xii, 419 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-1-4165-6740-0.)

Ezra, Michael, Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $69.50, isbn 978-1-59213-661-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-59213-662-9.)

Friedman, Joel William, Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xiv, 401 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3384-2.)

Gero, Anthony F., Black Soldiers of New York State: A Proud Legacy. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xiv, 174 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2615-0. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-4384-2616-7.)

Glasrud, Bruce A., and Archie P. McDonald, eds., Blacks in East Texas History: Selections from the East Texas Historical Journal. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xx, 188 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-041-7.)

Osborne, Linda Barrett, Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War through Reconstruction. (New York: Abrams, 2009. 128 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8109-8338-0.)

Podair, Jerald, Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xiv, 173 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4513-7.)

Rieder, Jonathan, The Word of the Lord Is upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King Jr. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2008. xiv, 394 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-02822-7.)

Tidwell, John Edgar, and Steven C. Tracy, eds., After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxvi, 470 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-19-536580-1.)

Walton, Jonathan L., Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9417-3. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9452-4.)

Ellis, William W., White Ethics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization. (New York: Aldine de Gruyter / Aldine Transaction, 2009. xviii, 190 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-202-36289-2.) Originally published in 1969.

Houck, Davis W., and David E. Dixon, eds., Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xx, 322 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-107-1.)

Neal, Anthony W., Unburdened by Conscience: A Black People’s Collective Account of America’s Ante-bellum South and the Aftermath. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. xii, 153 pp. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4387-0.)

Robinson, Mildred Wigfall, and Richard J. Bonnie, eds., Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. xiv, 249 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8265-169-0.)

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Agricultural

Arson, Steven, “Yeoman Farmers in a Planters’ Republic: Socioeconomic Conditions and Relations in Early National Prince George’s County, Maryland,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Spring 2009), 63–99.

Duensing, Dawn E., “Hawai‘i’s Forgotten Crop: Corn on Maui, 1851–1951,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 159–75.

McGlade, Jacqueline, “More a Plowshare than a Sword: The Legacy of U.S. Cold War Agricultural Diplomacy,” Agricultural History, 83 (Winter 2009), 79–102.

Olmstead, Alan L., and Paul W. Rhode, “Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 1123–71.

Prince, K. Stephen, “A Rebel Yell for Yankee Doodle: Selling the New South at the 1881 Atlanta International Cotton Exposition,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Fall 2008), 340–71.

Duvall, Jeffery Alan, “‘Burley Paid the Bills’: Twentieth Century Tobacco Culture in the Central Ohio River Valley” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3307421.

Sokol, Marienka J., “Illusions of Abundance: Culture and Urban Water Use in the Arid Southwest” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314291.

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American Indian

Beatty, James K., “Interpreting the Shawnee Sun: Literacy and Cultural Persistence in Indian Country, 1833–1841,” Kansas History, 31 (Winter 2008–2009), 242–59.

Berg, Richard E., “The Flandreau Indian School, 1892–2005: An Educational and Architectural Overview,” South Dakota History, 38 (Winter 2008), 283–311.

Chang, David A., “‘An Equal Interest in the Soil’: Creek Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866–1889,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Winter 2008), http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_indian_quarterly/v033/33.1.chang.pdf.

Faught, Jerry L., “John Davis and Joseph Islands: Indigenous Missionaries among the Creeks in Indian Territory,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Spring 2008), 32–43.

Gills, Bradley J., “Navigating the Landscape of Assimilation: The Anishnabeg, the Lumber Industry, and the Failure of Federal Indian Policy in Michigan,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 57–74.

Hartwig, Jason, “‘We Will Put Our Old Men and Chiefs behind Us’: Generational Conflict and Native American Confederation in the Ohio Country, 1770–95,” Northwest Ohio History, 76 (no. 1, 2008), 1–20.

Naumec, David J., “From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut’s Volunteer Regiments and the Union Navy,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Dec. 2008), 596–635.

Norrgard, Chantal, “From Berries to Orchards: Tracing the History of Berrying and Economic Transformation among Lake Superior Ojibwe,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Winter 2008), http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_indian_quarterly/v033/33.1.norrgard.pdf.

Schwartz, James Z., “Taming the ‘Savagery’ of Michigan’s Indians,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 39–55.

Strobel, Christoph, “The Delaware Indians’ Revolution: A Struggle for Sovereignty and Independence in the Tuscarawas and the Muskingum River Valley,” Northwest Ohio History, 76 (no. 1, 2008), 21–32.

Ware, Amy M., “Will Roger’s Radio: Race and Technology in the Cherokee Nation,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Winter 2008), http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_indian_quarterly/v033/33.1.ware.pdf.

Babcock, Matthew M., “Turning Apaches into Spaniards: North America’s Forgotten Indian Reservations” (Southern Methodist University, 2008). Order No. DA3307175.

Barnd, Natchee Blu, “Inhabiting Indianness: U.S. Colonialism and Indigenous Geographies” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3307536.

Carpenter, Leah J., “Tracking the Land: Ojibwe Land Tenure and Acquisition at Grand Portage and Leech Lake” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3307266.

Fatzinger, Amy S., “‘Indians in the House’: Revisiting American Indians in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ‘Little House’ Books” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3304436.

Genetin-Pilawa, C. Joseph, “Confining Indians: Power, Authority, and the Colonialist Ideologies of Nineteenth-Century Reformers” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3312686.

Leibowitz, Rachel, “Constructing the Navajo Capital: Landscape, Power, and Representation at Window Rock” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314835.

McCleary, Timothy Paul, “Ghosts on the Land: Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Interpretations of Rock Art” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314852.

Murray, Keat, “Disssembling Gentlemen and Pretended Purposes in the Early Republic: Constructing Indians and Gentlemen in the Writings of John Heckewelder and James Fenimore Cooper, 1760–1830” (Lehigh University, 2008). Order No. DA3314476.

Ruff, Mary M. (Peggy), “Tracking Whiteness: Portrayals of Whites in American Indian Literature” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307340.

Schulze, Jeffrey M., “Trans-nations: Indians, Imagined Communities, and Border Realities in the Twentieth Century” (Southern Methodist University, 2008). Order No. DA3307178.

Skye, Harriett, “Mini Nataka Pi: The Oahe Dam and the Standing Rock People, 1900–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306408.

Turner, Jennifer Louise, “From Savagery to Slavery: Upper Louisiana and the American Nation” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314222.

Waterman, Adam John, “The Price of the Purchase: Black Hawk’s War and the Colonization of the Upper Mississippi River Valley” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3310577.

Zappia, Natale A., “The Interior World: Trading and Raiding in Native California, 1700–1863” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317421.

Duthu, N. Bruce, American Indians and the Law. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xxxii, 270 pp. Cloth, $21.95, isbn 978-0-670-01857-4. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-311478-9.)

Greene, Candace S., One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xxii, 263 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1940-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Harmon, Alexandra, ed., The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xiv, 358 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-295-98838-2. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-295-98839-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Hausdoerffer, John, Caitlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xvi, 184 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1631-2.)

Lonetree, Amy, and Amanda J. Cobb, eds., The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxxii, 475 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1111-7.)

Martínez, David, Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009. xx, 185 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87351-629-7.)

Nichols, Patricia Causey, Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xii, 196 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-775-7.)

Schofield, Brian, Selling Your Father’s Bones: America’s 140-Year War against the Nez Perce Tribe. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 356 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3993-3.)

Starita, Joe, “I Am a Man”: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice. (New York: St. Martin’s, 2008. xiv, 257 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-312-53304-5.)

Wojtczak, Jaroslaw, Sand Creek, 1864 (Sand Creek, 1864). (Warsaw: Bellona, 2007. 296 pp. zl. 22.00, isbn 978-8-311-10676-5.) In Polish.

Parks, Douglas R., and Lula Nora Pratt, A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xviii, 548 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1926-7.)

Posey, Alexander, Song of the Oktahutche: Collected Poems, ed. Matthew Wynn Sivils. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xlii, 246 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1079-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2053-9.)

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Antebellum

Mason, Matthew, “‘The Fire-Brand of Discord’: The North, the South, and the Savannah Fire of 1820,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Winter 2008), 443–59.

Photos, Lisa E., “Cleaning Up: Representations of Housework and Womanhood in Antebellum America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314389.

Volk, Kyle G., “Majority Rule, Minority Rights: The Christian Sabbath, Liquor, Racial Amalgamation, and Democracy in Antebellum America” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3309117.

Guelzo, Allen C., Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xii, 612 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2861-1.)

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Asian American

Chapman, Mary, “A ‘Revolution in Ink’: Sui Sin Far and Chinese Reform Discourse,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 975–1001.

Hajimu, Masuda, “Rumors of War: Immigration Disputes and the Social Construction of American-Japanese Relations, 1905–1913,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 1–37.

Park, Yoosun, “Facilitating Injustice: Tracing the Role of Social Workers in the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans,” Social Service Review, 82 (Sept. 2008), 447–83.

Nakamura, Kelli Y., “Suspected Criminals, Spies, and ‘Human Secret Weapons’: The Evolution of Japanese-American Representations in Political and Cultural Discourse from Hawai‘I to Japan, 1880–1950s” (University of Hawai‘i, 2008). Order No. DA3311888.

Oyen, Meredith Leigh, “Allies, Enemies, and Aliens: Migration and U.S.-Chinese Relations, 1940–1965” (Georgetown University, 2007). Order No. DA3313029.

Park, Jung Eun Sophia, “A Hermeneutics of Dislocation as Experience: A Resource for Asian American Christian Spirituality” (Graduate Theological Union, 2008). Order No. DA3313236.

Tran, Tuyen Ngoc, “Behind the Smoke and Mirrors: The Vietnamese in California, 1975–1994” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306370.

Vo Dang, Thanh Thuy, “Anticommunism as Cultural Praxis: South Vietnam, War, and Refugee Memories in the Vietnamese American Community” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3307329.

Wood, Tracy Dianne, “Korean American Literature: Literary Orphans and the Legacy of Han” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3305668.

Dusselier, Jane E., Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xvi, 200 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4407-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4408-3.)

Ling, Huping, ed., Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xii, 265 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4341-3. Paper, $25.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4342-0.)

Stewart, Todd, Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 125 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3951-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Yano, Fleur, and Saralyn Daly, eds., Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 265 pp. $42.00, isbn 978-0-252-03380-3.)

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Archives and Bibliography

Bullis, Don, New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, 1540–1980, vol. 2. (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2008. xii, 393 pp. Cloth, $32.95, isbn 978-1-890689-22-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-890689-17-9.)

Parks, Douglas R., and Lula Nora Pratt, A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xviii, 548 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1926-7.)

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Business and Economics

Arem, Jocelyn, “Lena’s Legacy: The Lasting Power of Caffé Lena, America’s Oldest Continuously Running Folk Coffeehouse,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 55 (Spring–Summer 2008), 17–31.

Bucheli, Marcelo, “Negotiating under the Monroe Doctrine: Weetman Pearson and the Origins of U.S. Control of Colombian Oil,” Business History Review, 82 (Autumn 2008), 529–53.

Edirisooriya, Gunapala, “A Market Analysis of the Latter Half of the Nineteenth-Century American Higher Education Sector,” History of Education (London), 38 (Jan. 2009), 115–32.

Frank, Alison, “The Petroleum War of 1910: Standard Oil, Austria, and the Limits of the Multinational Corporation,” American Historical Review, 114 (Feb. 2009), 16–41.

Harley, C. Knick, “Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870–1913,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 1028–58.

Hintz, Eric S., “Portable Power: Inventor Samuel Ruben and the Birth of Duracell,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Jan. 2009), 24–57.

Howard, Vicki, “The Rise and Fall of Rudge & Guenzel: From Independent Retailer to Department Store Chain,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 102–19.

Lanciotti, Norma S., “Foreign Investments in Electric Utilities: A Comparative Analysis of Belgian and American Companies in Argentina, 1890–1960,” Business History Review, 82 (Autumn 2008), 503–28.

Lehmann, Timothy C., “Keeping Friends Close and Enemies Closer: Classical Realist Statecraft and Economic Exchange in U.S. Interwar Strategy,” Security Studies (London), 18 (Jan. 2009), 115–47.

Mata, Tiago, “Migrations and Boundary Work: Harvard, Radical Economists, and the Committee on Political Discrimination,” Science in Context (Cambridge), 22 (March 2009), 115–43.

Neufeld, John L., “Corruption, Quasi-rents, and the Regulation of Electric Utilities,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 1059–97.

Prasch, Robert E., “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Contributions to U.S. Economics (1893–1910),” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 309–24.

Sparrow, James T., “‘Buying Our Boys Back’: The Mass Foundations of Fiscal Citizenship in World War II,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 263–86.

St-Onge, Nicole, “The Persistence of Travel and Trade: St. Lawrence River Valley French Engagés and the American Fur Company, 1818–1840,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 17–37.

Surdam, David G., “The New York Yankees Cope with the Great Depression,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Dec. 2008), 816–40.

Williams, Benton, “AT&T and the Private-Sector Origins of Private-Sector Affirmitive Action,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 542–68.

Wong, John Chi-Kit, “Entrepreneurship and the Rise of the Chicago Blackhawks,” in The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City, ed. Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems, 253–80. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 368 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03281-3. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07615-2.)

Comstock, Sandra Curtis, “Imperial Denim: The Place of Blue Jeans in the Consolidation and Transformation of American Power in the 20th Century” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3311588.

Cserno, Isabell, “Race and Mass Consumption in Consumer Culture: National Trademark Advertising Campaigns in the United States and Germany, 1890–1930” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307782.

Duvall, Jeffery Alan, “‘Burley Paid the Bills’: Twentieth Century Tobacco Culture in the Central Ohio River Valley” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3307421.

Marsh, Allison C., “The Ultimate Vacation: Watching Other People Work, a History of Factory Tours in America, 1880–1950” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3311840.

Pilatic, Heather, “Genealogies of Attention: The Emergence of U.S. Hegemony, 1870–1929” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297878.

Taylor, Tom, “The Servant Leadership of John Wooden” (Pepperdine University, 2008). Order No. DA3307917.

Venit, Tamara Hilary, “A Squatters’ Republic: Land Rights, Reform, and Anti-monopoly in California and the Nation, 1850–1920” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313680.

Wolff, Joshua D., “‘The Great Monopoly’: Western Union and the American Telegraph, 1845–1893” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317619.

Zappia, Natale A., “The Interior World: Trading and Raiding in Native California, 1700–1863” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317421.

Delfino, Susanna, La fabbrica dei sogni: Dilemmi economici nel sud degli Stati Uniti tra l’età della Rivoluzione e la crisi di metà Ottocento (The dreams’ factory: Economic dilemmas in the U.S. South before the Revolution and the mid-nineteenth century crisis). (Milan: Selene, 2008. 323 pp. €14.40, isbn 978-8-878-94080-2.) In Italian.

Derbyshire, Wyn, Six Tycoons: The Lives of John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and Joseph P. Kennedy. (London: Spiramus, 2008. viii, 251 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-1904905-84-4.)

Ellickson, Robert C., The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xviii, 251 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-13442-0.)

Gran, Peter, The Rise of the Rich: A New View of Modern World History. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxxii, 269 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3171-2.)

Perkins, Edwin J., Perkins on U.S. Financial History and Related Topics. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. viii, 173 pp. Paper, $27.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4420-4.)

Rohatyn, Felix, Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. x, 259 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3312-2.)

Sánchez, Joseph P., and Larry D. Miller, Martineztown, 1823–1950: Hispanics, Italians, Jesuits, and Land Investors in New Town Albuquerque. (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2009. 220 pp. Cloth, $32.95, isbn 978-1-890689-53-7. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-890689-44-5.)

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Childhood and Youth

Condran, Gretchen A., and Jennifer Murphy, “Defining and Managing Infant Mortality: A Case Study of Philadelphia, 1870–1920,” Social Science History, 32 (Winter 2008), 473–513.

Frederick, Carl B., and Robert M. Hauser, “Have We Put an End to Social Promotion? Changes in School Progress among Children Aged 6 to 17 from 1972 to 2005,” Demography, 45 (Aug. 2008), 719–40.

Mayes, Rick, and Jennifer Erkulwater, “Medicating Kids: Pediatric Mental Health Policy and the Tipping Point for adhd and Stimulants,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 309–43.

Richardson, Janine M., “‘None of Them Came for Me’: The Kapi‘olani Home for Girls, 1885–1938,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 1–26.

Goldenberg, Jennifer E., “‘The Feelings of My Family Are with Me’: The Posttraumatic Coping of Adolescent Survivors of the Holocaust” (Bryn Mawr College, 2008). Order No. DA3313877.

Napolitano, Laura Groves, “Nurturing Change: Lilly Martin Spencer’s Images of Children” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307822.

Kacandes, Irene, Daddy’s War: Greek American Stories. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 396 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1933-5.)

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Civil War and Reconstruction

Campbell, Jacqueline G., “There Is No Difference between a He and a She Adder in Their Venom: Benjamin F. Butler, William T. Sherman, and Confederate Women,” Louisiana History, 50 (Winter 2009), 5–24.

David, William C., “Creating a Military Image: Lincoln as Commander in Chief,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 19–23.

DeGruccio, Michael, “Manhood, Race, Failure, and Reconciliation: Charles Francis Adams Jr. and the American Civil War,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Dec. 2008), 636–75.

Diemer, Andrew, “Reconstructing Philadelphia: African Americans and Politics in the Post–Civil War North,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (Jan. 2009), 29–58.

English, Bertis, “A Black Belt Anomaly: Biracial Cooperation in Reconstruction-Era Perry County, 1865–1874,” Alabama Review, 62 (Jan. 2009), 3–36.

Geiger, Mark W., “Indebtedness and the Origins of Guerrilla Violence in Civil War Missouri,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 49–82.

Le Beau, Bryan F., “The Mind of the North in Pictures: Currier and Ives’s Civil War,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.

Lundberg, John R., “Wheat Farmers in the Secession Crisis: The Imprint of the Upper South on Northeast Texas Politics,” East Texas Historical Journal, 47 (no. 1, 2009), 29–43.

Naumec, David J., “From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut’s Volunteer Regiments and the Union Navy,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Dec. 2008), 596–635.

Noe, Kenneth W., “‘Damned North Carolinians’ and ‘Brave Virginians’: The Lane-Mahone Controversy, Honor, and Civil War Memory,” Journal of Military History, 72 (Oct. 2008), 1089–1116.

Shields, Johanna Nicol, “The Dynamics of Southern Friendship in the Civil War Novels of Augusta Evans and Jeremiah Clemens,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 305–33.

Sim, David, “The Peace Policy of Ulysses S. Grant,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 241–68.

Stith, Matthew M., “At the Heart of Total War: Guerrillas, Civilians, and the Union Response in Jasper County, Missouri, 1861–1865,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 1–27.

Walker, Katherine D., “United, Regardless, and a Bit Regretful: Confederate History Month, the Slavery Apology, and the Failure of Commemoration,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 315–38.

Wolters, Timothy S., “Electric Torpedoes in the Confederacy: Reconciling Conflicting Histories,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 755–83.

Cohen, Michael David, “Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312323.

Finck, James W., “Cling to the Olive Branch while Holding to the Sword: Kentucky’s Struggle for Armed Neutrality, 1860–1861” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3317812.

Karppi, Daniel G., “Render unto Caeser, Render unto God: Texas Denominational Colleges and Universities and the Politics of the Civil War Era” (Baylor University, 2008). Order No. DA3310773.

Kato, Junko Isono, “From Slavery to Freedom in Tennessee, 1860–1870” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3305237.

White, Jonathan W., “‘To Aid Their Rebel Friends’: Politics and Treason in the Civil War North” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307818.

Allardice, Bruce S., and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds., Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. viii, 336 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2475-9.)

Bobrick, Benson, Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 416 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-7432-9025-8.)

Coddington, Ronald S., Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xxiv, 288 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8018-9019-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Davis, William C., and James I. Robertson Jr., eds., Virginia at War, 1863. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xiv, 218 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2510-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Durham, Walter T., Nashville: The Occupied City, 1862–1863. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 307 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-633-9.)

Durham, Walter T., Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union, 1863–1865. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxvi, 327 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-634-6.)

Grear, Charles D., ed., The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xxii, 272 pp. $37.50, isbn 978-1-55728-883-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Jermann, Donald R., Fitz-John Porter, Scapegoat of Second Manassas: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the General Accused of Disobedience. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 287 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3930-0.)

McKenney, Tom C., Jack Hinson’s One-Man War. (Gretna: Pelican, 2009. 400 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-58980-640-5.)

Phillips, Christopher, The Making of a Southerner: William Barclay Napton’s Private Civil War. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 162 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1825-4.)

Pierson, Michael D., Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 250 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3228-8.)

Rafuse, Ethan S., Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xviii, 263 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-3970-8.)

Ross, D. Reid, Lincoln’s Veteran Volunteers Win the War: The Hudson Valley’s Ross Brothers and the Union’s Fight for Emancipation. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xx, 450 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7641-3.)

Sachsman, David B., S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris Jr., eds., Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism. (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008. xiv, 412 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-55753-490-3.)

Crist, Lynda Lasswell, ed., The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. 12: June 1865–December 1870. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. lii, 624 pp. $105.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3341-5.)

Figg, Royall W., Where Men Only Dare to Go, Or the Story of a Boy Company, C.S.A. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xxiv, 272 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3378-1.) Originally published in 1885.

Wright, Catherine M., ed., Lee’s Last Casualty: The Life and Letters of Sgt. Robert W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxx, 231 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57233-630-8.)

Zon, Calvin Goddard, ed., The Good Fight That Didn’t End: Henry P. Goddard’s Accounts of Civil War and Peace. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xx, 359 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-1-57003-772-6.)

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Class

Flynt, Wayne, “Memoir and Historical Reality: White Poverty through the Eyes of Rick Bragg and Barbara Robinette Moss,” Southern Humanities Review, 42 (Fall 2008), 305–27.

Renner, Andrea, “A Nation That Bathes Together: New York City’s Progressive Era Public Baths,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 504–31.

Barclay, Sonya Marie, “Reading the Social Landscape: A Lexicon of Rural Class in Western Pennsylvania, 1790–1860” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2008). Order No. DA3305808.

Mantler, Gordon Keith, “Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People’s Campaign, and Its Legacies” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297872.

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Colonial

Blaine, Marcia Schmidt, “The Johnsons’ Plight: The Role of Captivity on Anglo-American Identity,” History (London), 94 (Jan. 2009), 53–73.

Bourque, Todd J., “L’Hôpital des Pauvres to Hospital de los Pobres: New Orleans’ Charity Hospital in Spanish Colonial Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 50 (Winter 2009), 57–70.

Frederick, Julia, “In Defense of Crown and Colony: Luis de Unzaga and Spanish Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 49 (Fall 2008), 389–422.

Pusch, Donald E., “Kerlérec’s Cipher: The Code Book of Louisiana’s Last French Governor,” Louisiana History, 49 (Fall 2008), 463–80.

Scott, John Thomas, “‘Next to Nothing’: Benjamin Ingham’s Mission to Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Fall 2008), 287–320.

Cruz Soto, Marie, “Inhabiting Isla Nena, 1514–2003: Island Narrations, Imperial Dramas, and Vieques, Puerto Rico” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3304955.

Ferro, David L., “Selling Science in the Colonial American Newspaper: How the Middle Colonial American General Periodical Represented Nature, Philosophy, Medicine, and Technology, 1728–1765” (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001). Order No. DA3313206.

Grandjean, Katherine Alysia, “Reckoning: The Communications Frontier in Early New England” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312372.

Lambert, Margo M., “Francis Daniel Pastorius: An American in Early Pennsylvania, 1683–1719/20” (Georgetown University, 2007). Order No. DA3313015.

López-Jordan, Carmen, “Calusa Responses to the Spanish Missionary Enterprise in Post-contact Florida” (University of Miami, 2008). Order No. DA3306754.

Lucas, Michael Thomas, “Negotiating Public Landscapes: History, Archaeology, and the Material Culture of Colonial Chesapeake Towns, 1680 to 1720” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307773.

Murphy, Emily Axford, “‘To Keep Our Trading for Our Livelihood’: The Derby Family of Salem, Massachusetts, and Their Rise to Power in the British Atlantic World” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314056.

Scholl, Michael David, “The American Yeoman: An Historical Ecology of Production in Colonial Pennsylvania” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304267.

Townes, J. Edward, “Invisible Lines: The Life and Death of a Borderland” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3297949.

Zappia, Natale A., “The Interior World: Trading and Raiding in Native California, 1700–1863” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317421.

Grabbe, Hans-Jürgen, ed., Halle Pietism, Colonial North America, and the Young United States. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008. 321 pp. €59.00, isbn 978-3-515-08767-4.)

Nelson, Louis P., The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 483 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3233-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Reid, John G., Essays on Northeastern North America, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xvi, 322 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8020-9137-6. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-8020-9416-2.)

Schwoch, James, Global tv: New Media and the Cold War, 1946–69. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xviii, 220 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03374-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07569-8.)

del Castillo, Bernal Díaz, and Davíd Carrasco, eds., The History of the Conquest of New Spain. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxx, 473 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4287-4.)

Lemay, J. A. Leo, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748–1757. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. xxii, 746 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8122-4121-1.)

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Cold War

Lucas, Scott, and Kaeten Mistry, “Illusions of Coherence: George F. Kennan, U.S. Strategy, and Political Warfare in the Early Cold War, 1946–1950,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 39–66.

McGlade, Jacqueline, “More a Plowshare than a Sword: The Legacy of U.S. Cold War Agricultural Diplomacy,” Agricultural History, 83 (Winter 2009), 79–102.

Naylor, Aimon, Katrina Dean, and Martin Siegert, “The igy and the Ice Sheet: Surveying Antarctica,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 34 (Oct. 2008), 574–95.

Herzog, Jonathan, “The Hammer and the Cross: America’s Holy War against Communism” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313585.

Miles, Mary C., “Democracy Within: Religious Outsiders and the Americanization of Psychoanalysis during and after World War II” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317448.

Khalidi, Rashid, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. (Boston: Beacon, 2009. xvi, 308 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-8070-0310-7.)

Selverstone, Marc J., Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945–1950. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xiv, 304 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-03179-1.)

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Crime and Violence

Arinaga, Esther K., and Caroline A. Garrett, “A Murder, a Trial, a Hanging: The Kapea Case of 1897–1898,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 201–30.

Blaine, Marcia Schmidt, “The Johnsons’ Plight: The Role of Captivity on Anglo-American Identity,” History (London), 94 (Jan. 2009), 53–73.

Campney, Brent M. S., “W. B. Townsend and the Struggle against Racist Violence in Leavenworth,” Kansas History, 31 (Winter 2008–2009), 260–73.

Caton, Lou, “Fiery Rhetoric and Burning Cars: An Irrational Tolerance for Susan Sontag after 9/11,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 1030–44.

Davis, Robert Scott, “Hysteria and Literature: Atlanta’s First Execution and Its Legendary Ties to Organized Crime,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Fall 2008), 321–39.

Gürsel, Bahar, “Yargiç Lynch’in mirasi: Amerikan tarihinde kolektif siddet” (Judge Lynch’s legacy: Collective violence in U.S. history), Dogu Bati: Düsünce Dergisi (Istanbul), 44 (April 2008), 237–48. In Turkish.

Kuzmarov, Jeremy, “From Counter-insurgency to Narco-insurgency: Vietnam and the International War on Drugs,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 344–78.

Minchin, Timothy J., “One America? Church Burnings and Perceptions of Race Relations in the Clinton Years,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 1–28.

Nemeth, Neil, “From Reporting Sleuth to Pioneer in Media Accountability: The Career of the New York World’s Isaac D. White,” American Journalism, 25 (Summer 2008), 7–29.

Ricketts, Jeremy R., “Tennessee’s 1884 ‘Mormon Massacre’ and the Cane Creek Vigilante Movement,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Fall 2008), 208–35.

Allen, Ardith M., “The Deradicalization of Columbus, Ohio’s Antirape Movement, 1972–2002” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3313013.

Cassino, Peter P., “A National and a Local Response to a Local Problem: How the Public, Media, Government, and Local Organizations Reacted to the Crime Wave of the Late 1980s and Early 1990s” (Northeastern University, 2008). Order No. DA3304116.

Turcotte, Heather M., “Petro-Sexual Politics: Global Oil, Legitimate Violence, and Transnational Justice” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317419.

Wessels-Cruz, Kathleen L., “A History of Drug Regulation in the United States, 1902–2008: Effects on Women’s Health” (Dowling College, 2008). Order No. DA3313053.

Guinn, Jeff, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. x, 467 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-4165-5706-7.)

Higdon, Hal, The Union vs. Dr. Mudd. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xvi, 241 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3267-2.) Originally published in 1964.

Kan, Paul Rexton, Drugs and Contemporary Warfare. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-59797-256-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-59797-257-4.)

Loury, Glenn C., Race, Incarceration, and American Values. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2008. 86 pp. $14.95, isbn 978-0-262-12311-2.)

Parsons, Chuck, The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2009. xii, 388 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-57441-257-4.)

Pitch, Anthony S., “They Have Killed Papa Dead!”: The Road to Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance. (Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth, 2008. xviii, 493 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58642-158-8.)

Wojtczak, Jaroslaw, Sand Creek, 1864 (Sand Creek, 1864). (Warsaw: Bellona, 2007. 296 pp. zl. 22.00, isbn 978-8-311-10676-5.) In Polish.

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Demography

Clay, Karen, and Randall Jones, “Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 997–1027.

Guldi, Melanie, “Fertility Effects of Abortion and Birth Control Pill Access for Minors,” Demography, 45 (Nov. 2008), 817–27.

Hunt, Larry L., Matthew O. Hunt, and William W. Faulk, “Who is Headed South? U.S. Migration Trends in Black and White, 1970–2000,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 95–119.

White, Katherine J. Curtis, “Population Change and Farm Dependence: Temporal and Spatial Variation in the U.S. Great Plains, 1900–2000,” Demography, 45 (May 2008), 363–86.

Yang, Yang, “Trends in U.S. Adult Chronic Disease Mortality, 1960–1999: Age, Period, and Cohort Variations,” Demography, 45 (May 2008), 387–416.

Calderón-Zaks, Michael Aaron, “Constructing the ‘Mexican Race’: Racial Formation and Empire Building, 1884–1940” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3310528.

de Vries, Daniel H., “Temporal Vulnerability: Historical Ecologies of Monitoring, Memory, and Meaning in Changing United States Floodplain Landscapes” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304420.

Hubbard, Bill, Jr., American Boundaries: The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 452 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-226-35591-7.) Heavily illustrated.

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Education

Becker, Anja, “Southern Academic Ambitions Meet German Scholarship: The Leipzig Networks of Vanderbilt University’s James H. Kirkland in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Nov. 2008), 855–86.

Benowitz, June Melby, “Reading, Writing, and Radicalism: Right-Wing Women and Education in the Post-war Years,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 89–111.

Berg, Richard E., “The Flandreau Indian School, 1892–2005: An Educational and Architectural Overview,” South Dakota History, 38 (Winter 2008), 283–311.

Berman, Elizabeth Popp, “Why Did Universities Start Patenting? Institution-Building and the Road to the Bayh-Dole Act,” Social Studies of Science, 38 (Dec. 2008), 835–71.

Carl, Jim, “‘Good Politics Is Good Government’: The Troubling History of Mayoral Control of the Public Schools in Twentieth-Century Chicago,” American Journal of Education, 115 (Feb. 2009), 305–36.

Craine, David M., “Image Enhancement: Three Chicago Institutions and the National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament, 1924–1941,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 205–20.

Dibbell, Jeremy B., “‘A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors’: The First Purchase Collection of Union College,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 4, 2008), 367–96.

Edirisooriya, Gunapala, “A Market Analysis of the Latter Half of the Nineteenth-Century American Higher Education Sector,” History of Education (London), 38 (Jan. 2009), 115–32.

de Forest, Jennifer, “Tilting at Windmills? Judge Justine Wise Polier and a History of Justice and Education in New York City,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 68–88.

Furstenberg, Barbara, “Defining the Role of College Professor: John Mason Young and the Early Years of the College of Hawaii,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 231–63.

Hagen, Joel B., “Teaching Ecology during the Environmental Age, 1965–1980,” Environmental History, 13 (Oct. 2008), 704–23.

Mokher, Christine G., and Michael K. McLendon, “Uniting Secondary and Postsecondary Education: An Event History Analysis of State Adoption of Dual Enrollment Policies,” American Journal of Education, 115 (Feb. 2009), 249–77.

Neeley, James D., “A Library for Engineering Education: Frank O. Marvin and the University of Kansas, 1875–1915,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 4, 2008), 411–39.

Ogata, Amy F., “Building for Learning in Postwar American Elementary Schools,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 562–91.

Schmitt, Natalie Crohn, “Creating Community: Experiments in Drama at Francis W. Parker School, Chicago,” Theatre Survey, 49 (May 2008), 37–64.

Solberg, Winton U., “A Struggle for Control and a Moral Scandal: President Edmund J. James and the Powers of the President at the University of Illinois, 1911–14,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 39–ed.

Wraga, William G., “Latin Literacy Redux: The Classical Investigation in the United States, 1921–1924,” History of Education (London), 38 (Jan. 2009), 79–98.

Alvarez, René Luis, “Minority Education in the Urban Midwest: Culture, Identity, and Mexican Americans in Chicago, 1910–1977” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309390.

Atherton, Donna, “Perceptions of School Board Members and a Superintendent on Superintendent Long-Tenure” (Lewis & Clark College, 2008). Order No. DA3304159.

Bachoo, Richard R., “Gubernatorial Decision-Making: A Case Study of Gubernatorial Influence on the Contemporary Development of Connecticut Public Higher Education from 1980–2001” (University of Connecticut, 2008). Order No. DA3313264.

Calvert, Scout Amanda Rainbow, “Technobibliocapital: Knowledge, Practice, and Play in Library Worlds” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317368.

Clapper, Michael, “The Constructed World of Postwar Philadelphia Area Schools: Site Selection, Architecture, and the Landscape of Inequality” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309412.

Cohen, Michael David, “Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312323.

Collins, Lisa Phelps, “Venturing Out: Students at Eastern Kentucky State Normal School, 1910–1924” (University of Kentucky, 2008). Order No. DA3311932.

Cortés, Ángel de Jesús, “Student Idealists and the Specter of Natural Science, 1870–1910” (University of Notre Dame, 2008). Order No. DA3309164.

Crawford, Jerry, II, “Twenty-Five Years of Accreditation in Journalism and Mass Communication at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1982–2007” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3304158.

Gelber, Scott M., “Academic Populism: The People’s Revolt and Public Higher Education, 1880–1905” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312366.

Hinshaw, Gregory P., “‘The Best Rural Schools in the Country’: Lee L. Driver and the Consolidated Schools of Randolph County, Indiana, 1907–1920” (Ball State University, 2008). Order No. DA3303355.

Karppi, Daniel G., “Render unto Caeser, Render unto God: Texas Denominational Colleges and Universities and the Politics of the Civil War Era” (Baylor University, 2008). Order No. DA3310773.

Kirschner, Donna Harel, “Producing Unschoolers: Learning through Living in a U.S. Education Movement” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309459.

LaSusa, Michael, “The Rise and Demise and Resurrection of the New Jersey School District: Localism versus Systematization, 1664–1900” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3305132.

Radle, Carol Ann, “Vassar College and the 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act: The Impact of the G.I. Bill on Women College Students” (Marywood University, 2008). Order No. DA3312634.

Ramsey, Paul J., “A Polyglot Boardinghouse: A History of Public Bilingual Schooling in the United States, 1840–1920” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3307564.

Rivera, Angelica, “Re-inserting Mexican-American Women’s Voices into 1950s Chicago Educational History” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314873.

Wearne, Eric, “From ‘Fear-Based Choice’ to ‘Freedom-Based Choice’: A Case Study of Georgia’s Tuition Grants Act, 1960–1997” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310300.

Dupre, Anne Proffitt, Speaking Up: The Unintended Costs of Free Speech in Public Schools. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xii, 289 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-03114-2.)

Greenwald, Brian H., and John Vickrey Van Cleve, eds., A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2008. xii, 198 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-56368-395-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Herbst, Jurgen, Women Pioneers of Public Education: How Culture Came to the Wild West. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xii, 217 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60835-1.)

Pohlmann, Marcus D., Opportunity Lost: Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xiv, 282 pp. $42.00, isbn 978-1-57233-638-4.)

Vinovskis, Maris A., From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2009. xiv, 297 pp. Paper, $45.95, isbn 978-0-8077-4922-7.)

Wolters, Raymond, Race and Education, 1954–2007. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 313 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1828-5.)

Hartley, James E., ed., Mary Lyon: Documents and Writings. (South Hadley: Doorlight, 2008. xx, 398 pp. Cloth, $36.00, isbn 978-0-9778372-6-7. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-0-9778372-5-0.)

Pieschel, Bridget Smith, ed., Golden Days: Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xxiv, 411 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-60473-097-5.)

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Environment and Natural Resources

Boime, Eric, “‘Beating Plowshares into Swords’: The Colorado River Delta, the Yellow Peril, and the Movement for Federal Reclamation, 1901–1928,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 27–55.

Buecker, Thomas R., “The Fort Robinson War Dog Reception and Training Center, 1942–1946,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 115–40.

Caporaso, Alicia, “Six Upper Missouri River Fur Trading Posts: Trends in Organization,” South Dakota History, 38 (Winter 2008), 312–34.

Davis, Frank L., Albert H. Wurth, and John C. Lazarus, “The Green Vote in Presidential Elections: Past Performance and Future Promise,” Social Science Journal, 45 (Dec. 2008), 525–45.

Everett, Derek R., “To Shed Our Blood for Our Beloved Territory: The Iowa-Missouri Borderland,” Annals of Iowa, 67 (Fall 2008), 269–97.

Hagen, Joel B., “Teaching Ecology during the Environmental Age, 1965–1980,” Environmental History, 13 (Oct. 2008), 704–23.

Hirt, Paul, Annie Gustafson, and Kelli L. Larson, “The Mirage in the Valley of the Sun,” Environmental History, 13 (July 2008), 482–514.

Hoffman, Richard C., et al., “AHR Conversation: Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis,” American Historical Review, 113 (Dec. 2008), 1431–65.

Rome, Adam, “Nature Wars, Culture Wars: Immigration and Environmental Reform in the Progressive Era,” Environmental History, 13 (July 2008), 432–53.

Skillen, James R., “Closing the Public Lands Frontier: The Bureau of Land Management, 1961–1969,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 419–45.

St-Onge, Nicole, “The Persistence of Travel and Trade: St. Lawrence River Valley French Engagés and the American Fur Company, 1818–1840,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 17–37.

Stradling, David, and Richard Stradling, “Perceptions of the Burning River: Deindustrialization and Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River,” Environmental History, 13 (July 2008), 515–35.

Balsiger, Joerg, “Uphill Struggles: The Politics of Sustainable Mountain Development in the Swiss Alps and California’s Sierra Nevada” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306057.

Chanse, Victoria Teresa, “Muddy, Mapped, and Maintained: Urban Creeks and the Emerging Practice of Participatory Watershed Stewardship” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306089.

Everett, Derek R., “Frontiers Within: State Boundaries and Borderlands in the American West” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3317810.

Giese, Michael W., “A Federal Foundation for Wildlife Conservation: The Evolution of the National Wildlife Refuge System, 1920–1968” (American University, 2008). Order No. DA3305788.

Hazleton, Gregory J., “Composition as Ecology: Environments of Writing in American Poetry in the Emersonian Tradition” (Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3316625.

Lewis, Keri, “Negotiating for Nature: Conservation Diplomacy and the Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere, 1929–1976” (University of New Hampshire, 2008). Order No. DA3308377.

Baker, Nicholas, and Margaret M. Betts, John Prentiss Benson: American Marine Artist. (Portsmouth: Baker Marine, 2008. 136 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-9821761-0-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Hennigan, Robert D., Water for New York I: The Development and Management of the Waters of New York, 1789–1970. (Victoria, Canada: Trafford, 2006. xvi, 255 pp. Paper, $21.99, isbn 978-1-4120613-0.)

Levitt, Jeremy I., and Matthew C. Whitaker, Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 324 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1760-7.)

Helms, Douglas, Steven E. Phillips, and Paul F. Reich, eds., The History of Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting: Interviews with U.S. Department of Agriculture Pioneers. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2008. xii, 306 pp.) Available online at www.nrcs.usda.gov.

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Ethnicity

Kibler, M. Alison, “Pigs, Green Whiskers, and Drunken Widows: Irish Nationalists and the ‘Practical Censorship’ of McFadden’s Row of Flats in 1902 and 1903,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 489–514.

Anderson, Eileen Margaret, “Resisting Anglicization: Irish and Puerto Rican Intersections in New York in the Twentieth Century” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3304269.

Burt, Ryan Edward, “Reading for Time: Race and the Politics of the American Canon in an Age of Empire” (University of Washington, 2008).

Gulotta, Kenneth, “Down from Italy: The Fall and Rise of Italian American Modernist Fiction” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3310068.

Janis, Ely M., “The Land League in the United States and Ireland: Nationalism, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Gilded Age” (Boston College, 2008). Order No. DA3310161.

McAndrew, Jennifer Malia, “All-American Beauty: The Experiences of African American, European American, and Japanese American Women with Beauty Culture in the Mid-twentieth Century United States” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307835.

Turner, Jennifer Louise, “From Savagery to Slavery: Upper Louisiana and the American Nation” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314222.

Nichols, Patricia Causey, Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xii, 196 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-775-7.)

Okamura, Jonathan Y., Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai‘i. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xii, 238 pp. Cloth, $79.50, isbn 978-1-59213-755-8. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-1-59213-756-5.)

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Family

Haines, Michael R., and Avery M. Guest, “Fertility in New York State in the Pre–Civil War Era,” Demography, 45 (May 2008), 345–61.

Lucas, Marion B., “‘Dear Pa Is in a Worry’: The Life and Death of Burritt Hamilton Fee,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 105 (Autumn 2007), 617–56.

O’Neil, Patrick W., “Bosses and Broomsticks: Ritual and Authority in Antebellum Slave Weddings,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 29–48.

Rosenfeld, Michael J., “Racial, Educational, and Religious Endogamy in the United States: A Comparative Historical Perspective,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 1–31.

di Bonaventura, Allegra, “This Little World: Family and Slavery in Old New England, 1678–1764” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317092.

Harris, JuNelle, “A Law Apart? The Politics of Pioneering Legislative Family Law Reforms in England and the United States” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312388.

Ellickson, Robert C., The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xviii, 251 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-13442-0.)

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Film

Dinerstein, Joel, “‘Emergent Noir’: Film Noir and the Great Depression in High Sierra (1941) and This Gun for Hire (1942),” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 415–48.

Elliot, Jane, “Stepford usa: Second-Wave Feminism, Domestic Labor, and the Representation of National Time,” Cultural Critique (no. 70, Fall 2008), 32–62.

Hanson, Philip, “The Arc of National Confidence and the Birth of Film Noir, 1929–1941,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 387–414.

Jacobs, Lea, “Unsophisticated Lady: The Vicissitudes of the Maternal Melodrama in Hollywood,” Modernism/Modernity, 16 (Jan. 2009), 123–40.

Rice, Tom, “‘The True Story of the Ku Klux Klan’: Defining the Klan through Film,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 471–88.

Sanfilippo, Matteo, “La figura dell’immigrato nel cinema statunitense” (The image of the immigrant in American movies), Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies (Rome), 169 (2008), 87–105. In Italian.

Gorfinkel, Elena, “‘Indecent Desires’: Sexploitation Cinema, 1960s Film Culture, and the Adult Film Audience” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3307997.

Houser, Tai Lynden, “Mind the Gap: Overcoming Dualities in Motor City, USA” (Florida Atlantic University, 2008). Order No. DA3316918.

James, Deveryle, “‘A Zoo of Lusts . . . A Harem of Fondled Hatreds’: Interrogating Sexual Violence against Women in Film, 1915–2003” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3307654.

MacLeod, Douglas C., Jr., “De-politicization: A Process in Film Adaptation” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3311699.

Mosher, Jerry Dean, “Weighty Ambitions: Fat Actors and Figurations in American Cinema, 1910–1960” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3304674.

Segura, Allison C., “Perfect Creatures: A Social and Cultural Interpretation of Vampires in Fiction and Film” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2008). Order No. DA3313954.

Spiro, Jarrett, “The Impact of Network Position and Network Mobility on Collaborative Strategies, Novelty, and Innovation: The Case of the Artists Network in the U.S. Film Industry, 1909–2005” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313667.

Steinberg Woll, Susan, “Persistence of Vision: A History of American Personal Documentary Film” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3308161.

Thomas, Katharine S., “Hollywood Blackface and Its Descendents: Negotiating Race and Difference through Performances of the Other in Hollywood Musicals” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309515.

Turnock, Julie A., “Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Art, and Technology in 1970s U.S. Filmmaking” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3309114.

Abel, Richard, Giorgio Bertellini, and Rob King, eds., Early Cinema and the “National.” (New Barnet: John Libbey, 2008. vi, 354 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-861-96689-9.)

Gehring, Wes D., Red Skelton: The Mask behind the Mask. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2008. xxxiv, 362 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-87195-275-2.)

Grieveson, Lee, and Haidee Wasson, eds., Inventing Film Studies. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xxxii, 446 pp. Cloth, $99.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4289-2. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4307-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

King, Rob, The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xvi, 355 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-520-25537-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-25538-8.)

Spehr, Paul, The Man Who Made Movies: W. K. L. Dickson. (New Barnet: John Libbey, 2008. vi, 706 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-861-96695-0.)

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Gay and Lesbian

Johnson, Colin R., “Camp Life: The Queer History of ‘Manhood’ in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1937,” American Studies, 48 (Summer 2007), 19–35.

Syrett, Nicholas L., “The Boys of Beaver Meadow: A Homosexual Community at 1920s Dartmouth College,” American Studies, 48 (Summer 2007), 9–18.

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Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity

Baritono, Raffaella, “Il femminismo americano degli anni ’60: Betty Friedan, Shulamith Firestone, Kate Millet, Robin Morgan, Frances Beal e Gloria Anzaldúa” (American feminism in the sixties: Betty Friedan, Shulamith Firestone, Kate Millet, Robin Morgan, Francesca Beal, and Gloria Anzaldúa), Storicamente (Bologna), 4 (Dec. 2008), http://www.storicamente.org/index.htm. In Italian.

Chatterjee, Choi, “‘Odds and Ends of the Russian Revolution,’ 1917–1920: Gender and American Travel Narratives,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 10–33.

Cunningham, Mick, “Changing Attitudes toward the Male Breadwinner, Female Homemaker Family Model: Influences of Women’s Employment and Education over the Lifecourse,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 299–323.

Curwood, Anastasia, “A Fresh Look at E. Franklin Frazier’s Sexual Politics in The Negro Family in the United States,” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 325–37.

Johnson, Colin R., “Camp Life: The Queer History of ‘Manhood’ in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1937,” American Studies, 48 (Summer 2007), 19–35.

Laville, Helen, “A New Era in International Women’s Rights? American Women’s Associations and the Establishment of the un Commission on the Status of Women,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 34–56.

Matlok-Ziemann, Ellen, “Southern Fairy Tales: Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘The Princess’ and Carson McCullers’s ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café,’” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 257–72.

Pappas, Robin, “H. D. and Havelock Ellis: Popular Science and the Gendering of Thought and Vision,” Women’s Studies, 38 (March 2009), 151–82.

Scanlon, Jennifer, “Sexy from the Start: Anticipatory Elements of Second Wave Feminsm,” Women’s Studies, 38 (March 2009), 127–50.

Sehat, David, “Gender and Theatrical Realism: The Problem of Clyde Fitch,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (July 2008), 325–52.

Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel, “Medicine, Masculinity, and the Disappearance of Male Menopause in the 1950s,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 21 (Aug. 2008), 329–44.

Conner, Robin S., “Gendered Garrisons: Masculinity, Femininity, and Class Identity in the Post–Civil War Western Army, 1865–1898” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310247.

Figueroa Rubero, Norma Isabel, “The Masculine Construction of the Profession and Women Architects in Practice in Puerto Rico, from 1960 to 1979” (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, 2008). Order No. DA3305732.

John, Caresse A., “Narrating Choices: The Significance of Technique in the Work of Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston” (Northern Illinois University, 2008). Order No. DA3310693.

Kernan, Barbara L., “Edith Wharton in the Art and ‘Act of Making a Habitation for Herself’” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314187.

Legath, Jennifer Anne Wiley, “The Phoebe Phenomenon: The Protestant Deaconess Movement in the United States, 1880–1930” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3305301.

Photos, Lisa E., “Cleaning Up: Representations of Housework and Womanhood in Antebellum America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314389.

Scott, William Ramsey, “Dressing Down: Modernism, Masculinity, and the Men’s Leisurewear Industry in California, 1930–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306335.

Tanglen, Randi Lynn, “Reconfiguring Religion, Race, and the Female Body Politic in American Fiction by Women, 1859–1911” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3307979.

O’Brien, Jodi, ed., Encyclopedia of Gender and Society. (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009. Vol. 1: xxxii, 496 pp. Vol. 2: xx, 479 pp. $315.00, isbn 978-1-4129-0916-7.)

Ramírez, Catherine S., The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xxvi, 229 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4286-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4303-5.)

Rustin, Nichole T., and Sherrie Tucker, eds., Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 460 pp. Cloth, $94.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4336-3. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4320-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

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Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Ramsey, Paul J., “A Polyglot Boardinghouse: A History of Public Bilingual Schooling in the United States, 1840–1920” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3307564.

Kirkland, Kate Sayen, The Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. xxii, 373 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-292-71865-4.)

Welch, Richard F., King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008. 222 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8386-4176-7.)

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Immigration and Migration

Badillo, David A., “New Immigrants in the Bronx: Redefining a Cityscape,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 44 (Spring–Fall 2007), 19–37.

Benoît, Virgil, “De Minomin à Wild Rice en passant par Folle Avoine: Une historie du Midwest” (From Minomin to Wild Rice passing by Folle Avoine: A history of the Midwest), in Franco-Amérique (Franco-America), by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, 253–68. (Sillery: Septentrion, 2008. 378 pp. $39.95, isbn 2-89448-533-6.) In French.

Craver, Earlene, “On the Boundary of White: The Cartozian Naturalization Case and the Armenians, 1923–1925,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Winter 2009), 30–56.

Darby, Paul, “‘Without the Aid of a Sporting Safety Net?’: The Gaelic Athletic Association and the Irish Emigre in San Francisco (1888–c. 1938),” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 63–83.

Dziekonska, Malgorzata, “Migracje podlaskich elit intelektualnych do usa: Spojrzenie na American dream” (Immigration of intellectual elites from Podlasie to the U.S.: A view on the American dream), in Oblicze polityczne regionów Polski: Elity i spoleczenstwo, ed. Malgorzata Dejnowicz, 89–101. (Bialystok: Wydawnictwo Wyzszej Szkoly Finansów i Zarzadzania, 2008. isbn 978-8-360-43237-2.) In Polish.

Gürsel, Bahar, “Citizenship and Military Service in Italian-American Relations, 1901–1918,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (July 2008), 353–76.

Hueston, Robert F., “The Assimilation of German Immigrants into a Pennsylvania German Township, 1840–1900,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (Jan. 2009), 59–87.

Jetté, Melinda Marie, “Un îlot oublié de la diaspora canadienne-française: La vallée de la Willamette en Orégon” (A forgotten isle of the French-Canadian diaspora: The Willamette Valley in Oregon), in Franco-Amérique (Franco-America), by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, 281–92. (Sillery: Septentrion, 2008. 378 pp. $39.95, isbn 2-89448-533-6.) In French.

Klug, Thomas A., “Residents by Day, Visitors by Night: The Origins of the Alien Commuter on the U.S.-Canadian Border during the 1920s,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 75–98.

Luconi, Stefano, “From the Mediterranean to the United States: The Transformation of the Sense of Identity and Community among Italian Migrants,” in Migrazione e identità culturale (Migration and cultural identities), ed. Stefania Taviano, 155–65. (Messina: Mesogea, 2008. 315 pp. €27.00, isbn 978-8-846-92071-3.)

Rodrigue, Barry, “Francophones, pas toujours, mais toujours Franco-Américains” (Not always Francophones but always Franco-Americans), in Franco-Amérique (Franco-America), by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, 113–36. (Sillery: Septentrion, 2008. 378 pp. $39.95, isbn 2-89448-533-6.) In French.

Rome, Adam, “Nature Wars, Culture Wars: Immigration and Environmental Reform in the Progressive Era,” Environmental History, 13 (July 2008), 432–53.

Sanfilippo, Matteo, “Un’occasione mancata? A proposito di un libro di David A. Gerber sulle lettere degli emigranti” (A missed opportunity? On David A. Gerber’s book on emigrants’ letters), Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies (Rome), 170 (2008), 475–88. In Italian.

Jurado, Kathy, “Alienated Citizens: ‘Hispanophobia’ and the Mexican Im/migrant Body” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3304999.

Tran, Tuyen Ngoc, “Behind the Smoke and Mirrors: The Vietnamese in California, 1975–1994” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306370.

Alba, Richard, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWind, eds., Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. vi, 407 pp. Cloth, $78.00, isbn 978-0-8147-0504-9. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-8147-0505-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Cohn, Raymond L., Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi, 254 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-51322-7.)

Colic-Peisker, Val, Migration, Class, and Transnational Identities: Croatians in Australia and America. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 252 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-252-03360-5.)

Garroni, Maria Susanna, Sorelle d’oltreoceano: Religiose italiane ed emigrazione negli Stati Uniti, una storia da scoprire (Sisters across the ocean: Religious Italian women and immigration in the United States, a story to discover). (Rome: Carocci, 2009. 262 pp. €23.70, isbn 978-8-843-03376-8.) In Italian.

Tablit, Ali, Selim: The Algerian in Virginia, 1759. (Algiers: Thala Editions, 2009. 44 pp. A.D.250, isbn 978-9-947-83443-5.)

Taviano, Stefania, ed., Migrazione e identità culturale (Migration and cultural identities). (Messina: Mesogea, 2008. 315 pp. €27.00, isbn 978-8-846-92071-3.) In English.

Vergara, Benito M., Jr., Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. vi, 220 pp. Cloth, $72.50, isbn 978-1-59213-664-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-59213-665-0.)

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Intellectual

Bélanger, Damien-Claude, “L’antiaméricanisme et l’antimodernisme dans le discours de la droite intellectuelle du Canada, 1891–1945” (Anti-Americanism and anti-modernism in the Canadian intellectual right, 1891–1945), Revue d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française (Montreal), 61 (no. 3–4, 2008), 501–30. In French.

Benjafield, John G., “George Kelly: Cognitive Psychologist, Humanistic Psychologist, or Something Else Entirely?,” History of Psychology, 11 (Nov. 2008), 239–62.

Brickhouse, Anna, “Scholarship and the State: Robert Greenhow and Transnational American Studies 1848/2008,” American Literary History, 20 (Winter 2008), 695–722.

Castiglia, Chris, “‘A Democratic and Fraternal Humanism’: The Cant of Pessimism and Newton Arvin’s Queer Socialism,” American Literary History, 21 (Spring 2009), 159–82.

Donaldson, Anthony, “The Father of Alabama Historians: Professor George Petrie and His Survey of Slavery,” Alabama Review, 62 (Jan. 2009), 37–58.

Gohar, Saddik Mohamed, “Subverting the History of Slavery and Colonization in the Poetry of M. Al-Fayturi and Langston Hughes,” Western Journal of Black Studies, 32 (Spring 2008), 16–29.

Mata, Tiago, “Migrations and Boundary Work: Harvard, Radical Economists, and the Committee on Political Discrimination,” Science in Context (Cambridge), 22 (March 2009), 115–43.

Mitrano, G. F., “Sontag and the Europeans,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 908–20.

Penner, James, “Gendering Susan Sontag’s Criticism in the 1960s: The New York Intellectuals, the Counter Culture, and the Kulturkampf over ‘The New Sensibility,’” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 921–41.

Rhoads, Bonita, “Sontag’s Captions: Writing the Body from Riefenstahl to S&M,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 942–70.

Socolow, Michael J., “The Behaviorist in the Boardroom: The Research of Frank Stanton, Ph.D.,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52 (Dec. 2008), 526–43.

Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer, “‘This Rude Stage’: Enacting Utopia and the Utopic Sensibility in Sontag’s In America,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 1008–29.

Wilson, William Julius, “The Moynihan Report and Research on the Black Community,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 34–46.

Cortés, Ángel de Jesús, “Student Idealists and the Specter of Natural Science, 1870–1910” (University of Notre Dame, 2008). Order No. DA3309164.

Jenkins, Brad, “Writers & Typists: Intersections of Modernism and Sexology” (University of Victoria, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR37439.

Nichols, Christopher McKnight, “From Empire to Isolation: Internationalism and Isolationism in American Thought” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312186.

Sherwood, Robert M., III, “The Cartography of Alexander von Humboldt: Images of the Enlightenment in America” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307235.

Churchyard, Charles, National Lies: The Truth About American Values. (Cambridge, Mass.: Axroide, 2009. vi, 442 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-98-5716-4-5.)

Frohnen, Bruce P., and Kenneth L. Grasso, eds., Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1820-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1831-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Goetzmann, William H., Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism. (New York: Basic, 2009. xvi, 456 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-465-00495-9.)

Kurzman, Charles, Democracy Denied, 1905–1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. 396 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-03092-3.)

Matsuura, Jeffrey H., Jefferson vs. the Patent Trolls: A Populist Vision of Intellectual Property Rights. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xii, 154 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2771-8.)

Murphey, Murray G., Truth and History. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. x, 213 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7623-9.)

Pollard, Finn, The Literary Quest for an American National Character. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 257 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-96373-2.)

Purdy, Jedediah, A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom. (New York: Knopf, 2009. 294 pp. $23.95, isbn 978-1-4000-4447-4.)

Rogers, Melvin L., The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxiv, 328 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-231-14486-5.)

Signer, Michael, Demagogue: The Fight To Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 272 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-230-60624-1.)

Wood, W. Kirk, Nullification, A Constitutional History, 1776–1833, vol. 1: James Madison, Not the Father of the Constitution; Other Framers, Different Intentions, and the Origins of Nullification, 1776–1787. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. xxii, 258 pp. Paper, $38.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4011-4.)

Vernier, Richard B., The Revolutionary Writings of Alexander Hamilton. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2008. xxiv, 206 pp. Cloth, $20.00, isbn 978-0-86597-705-1. Paper, $12.00, isbn 978-0-86597-706-8.)

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International Relations

Bucheli, Marcelo, “Negotiating under the Monroe Doctrine: Weetman Pearson and the Origins of U.S. Control of Colombian Oil,” Business History Review, 82 (Autumn 2008), 529–53.

Castledine, Jacqueline, “‘In a Solid Bond of Unity’: Anticolonial Feminism in the Cold War Era,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 57–81.

Corley, J. Susan, “The British Press Greets the King of the Sandwich Islands: Kamehameha II in London, 1824,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 69–103.

Fink, Carole, “Louis Marshall: An American Jewish Diplomat in Paris, 1919,” American Jewish History, 94 (March–June 2008), 21–40.

Gismondi, Michael, and Jeremy Mouat, “‘La Enojosa Cuestión de Emery’: The Emery Claim in Nicaragua and American Foreign Policy, c. 1880–1910,” Americas, 65 (Jan. 2009), 375–409.

Grieves, Kevin, “The U.S. Information Bulletin and Mixed Signals in the Democracy Lessons for Postwar Germany,” American Journalism, 25 (Summer 2008), 71–96.

Hackler, Rhoda E. A., “‘Earnest Persuasion but Not Peremptory Demand’: United States Government Policy toward the Kingdom of Hawai‘I, 1820–1863,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 49–67.

Hajimu, Masuda, “Rumors of War: Immigration Disputes and the Social Construction of American-Japanese Relations, 1905–1913,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 1–37.

Klosowicz, Robert, “Polityka usa wobec Libanu po II wojnie swiatowej I jej wplyw na sytuacje wewnetrzna w tym kraju” (The U.S. policy toward Lebanon after World War II and its impact on a domestic situation in that country), in Swiat arabski w procesie przemian: Zmiany spoleczne i kultruowe oraz reformy polityczne (The Arab world in the process of change: Social change), ed. Andrzej Kapiszewski, 305–16. (Kraków: Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 2008. 383 pp. zl. 38.00, isbn 8-3718-8081-0.) In Polish.

Mauch, Peter, “A Bolt from the Blue? New Evidence on the Japanese Navy and the Draft Understanding between Japan and the United States, April 1941,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 55–81.

Michalek, Krysztof, “Powinno powstac niezawisle panstwo polskie: 1918–1947” (An independent Polish state should be erected: 1918–1947), in My Naród: 90 lat stosunków dyplomatycznych miedzy Polska a usa (We the people: 90 years of Polish-U.S. diplomatic ties), ed. Henryk Szlajfer, 22–55. (Warsaw: Archiwum Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych, Ambasada Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki w Warszawie, 2009. 98 pp. isbn 978-8-392-64622-8.) In Polish.

Niemi, William L., and David J. Plante, “Antecedents of Resistance: Populism and the Possibilities for Democratic Globalizations,” New Political Science, 30 (Dec. 2008), 427–47.

Nuenlist, Christian, “The Quiet Man: Dean Rusk and Western Europe,” Journal of Transatlantic Studies (Edinburgh), 6 (no. 3, 2008), 263–78.

Pisarski, Maciej, “Stosunki Polski ze Stanami Zjednoczonymi” (Polish-U.S. relations), Rocznik Polskiej Polityki Zagranicznej (Warsaw) (2007), 83–96. In Polish.

Pula, James S., “Przyjmijmy ich z otwartymi ramionami: 1608–1918” (Let the shoulders of our nation be opened: 1608–1918), in My Naród: 90 lat stosunków dyplomatycznych miedzy Polska a usa (We the people: 90 years of Polish-U.S. diplomatic ties), ed. Henryk Szlajfer, 6–21. (Warsaw: Archiwum Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych, Ambasada Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki w Warszawie, 2009. 98 pp. isbn 978-8-392-64622-8.) In Polish.

Rafael de la Cova, Antonio, “The Kentucky Regiment That Invaded Cuba in 1850,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 105 (Autumn 2007), 571–615.

Savel’eva, I. M., and A. V. Poletaev, “Istoricheskoe znaniia amerikantsev” (Historical knowledge of Americans), in Vremia, Istoriia, Pamiat’: Istoricheskoe soznanie v prostranstve kul’tury (Time, history, memory: Historical consciousness in cultural space), ed. L. P. Repina, 287–318. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2007. 319 pp. isbn 978-5-940-67193-0.) In Russian.

Wandycz, Piotr S., “Widzialem Polske zdradzona: Lata zimnej wojny, 1947–1988” (I saw Poland betrayed: Cold War years, 1947–1988), in My Naród: 90 lat stosunków dyplomatycznych miedzy Polska a usa (We the people: 90 years of Polish-U.S. diplomatic ties), ed. Henryk Szlajfer, 56–75. (Warsaw: Archiwum Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych, Ambasada Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki w Warszawie, 2009. 98 pp. isbn 978-8-392-64622-8.) In Polish.

Warner, Geoffrey, “The United States and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974,” International Affairs (London), 85 (Jan. 2009), 129–43.

Webster, David, “Regimes in Motion: The Kennedy Administration and Indonesia’s New Frontier, 1960–1962,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 95–123.

Bui, Diem-My Thi, “Embodiments of Difference: Representations of Vietnamese Women in the U.S. Cultural Imaginary” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314969.

Cadle, Nathaniel, “The Mediating Nation: American Literature and Globalization from Henry James to Woodrow Wilson” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304331.

Chen, Liang (Larry), “From a Christian Socialist to a Christian Realist: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Soviet Union, 1930–1945” (National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2008).

DeSilvio, David M., “The Influence of Domestic Politics on Foreign Policy in the Election of 1940” (Wayne State University, 2008). Order No. DA3303514.

DeWaters, Diane K., “The World War II Conferences in Washington, D.C. and Quebec City: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307245.

Lawler, Kristin, “Radical: The Image of the Surfer and the Politics of Popular Culture” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310642.

Nichols, Christopher McKnight, “From Empire to Isolation: Internationalism and Isolationism in American Thought” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312186.

Olsen, Margaret Nunnelley, “One Nation, One World: American Clubwomen and the Politics of Internationalism, 1945–1961” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309934.

Oyen, Meredith Leigh, “Allies, Enemies, and Aliens: Migration and U.S.-Chinese Relations, 1940–1965” (Georgetown University, 2007). Order No. DA3313029.

Sargent, Daniel Jonathan, “From Internationalism to Globalism: The United States and the Transformation of International Politics in the 1970s” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312511.

Skonieczny, Amy Marie, “Trading Stories: Narrative, Event, and Social Theory in International Economic Relations” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3310631.

Stewart, Caitlin Carenen, “Religious Diplomacy: American Protestants and a Jewish State, 1933–1979” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310293.

Throntveit, Trygve Van Regenmorter, “Related States: Pragmatism, Progressivism, and Internationalism in American Thought and Politics, 1880–1920” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312543.

Urayama, Kaori, “Missile Defense, U.S.-Japan Alliance, and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1983–2007” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314085.

Verinakis, Theofanis Costas Dino, “Barbaric Sovereignty: States of Emergency and Their Colonial Legacies” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3307699.

Weisbrode, Kenneth, “The State Department’s Bureau of European Affairs and American Diplomacy, 1909–1989” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312562.

Wong, Wendy H., “Centralizing Principles: How Amnesty International Shaped Human Rights Politics through Its Transnational Network” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3307141.

Wright, Thomas J., “Great Power Responses to Threat Transitions and the Legitimacy Burden: U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1943–1950” (Georgetown University, 2007). Order No. DA3313020.

Bass, Thomas A., The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An’s Dangerous Game. (New York: Public Affairs, 2009. xviii, 297 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-58648-409-5.)

Braisted, William Reynolds, Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922–1933. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xviii, 405 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-8130-3288-7.)

Campus, Mauro, L’Italia, gli Stati Uniti, e il piano Marshall: 1947–1951 (Italy, the United States, and the Marshall Plan: 1947–1951). (Rome–Bari: Laterza, 2008. 240 pp. €24.00, isbn 978-8-842-08733-5.) In Italian.

Chua, Amy, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—And Why They Fall. (New York: Anchor, 2009. xxxiv, 396 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-4000-7741-0.)

Davidson, Lawrence, Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America’s National Interest. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. x, 188 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2524-4.)

Dejnowicz, Malgorzata, ed., Oblicze polityczne regionów Polski: Elity i spoleczenstwo. (Bialystok: Wydawnictwo Wyzszej Szkoly Finansów i Zarzadzania, 2008. isbn 978-8-360-43237-2.) In Polish. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Egorova, N. I., et al., eds., Rossiia-SShA: Politika i diplomatiia v XX–XXI vv. (Russia-usa: Politics and diplomacy in the 20th–21st centuries). (Moscow: OLMA Media Grup, 2008. 160 pp. isbn 978-5-373-02337.) In Russian.

Fiorentino, Daniele, and Matteo Sanfilippo, Le relazioni tra Stati Uniti e Italia nel periodo di Roma capitale (The relations between Italy and the United States in the age of Rome as the capital of Italy). (Rome: Gangemi, 2008. 192 pp. €22.00, isbn 978-8-849-21587-8.) In Italian.

Gran, Peter, The Rise of the Rich: A New View of Modern World History. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxxii, 269 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3171-2.)

Hodgson, Godfrey, The Myth of American Exceptionalism. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xviii, 221 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-300-12570-2.)

Ikenberry, G. John, et al., The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 157 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-13969-2.)

Johnstone, Andrew, Dilemmas of Internationalism: The American Association for the United Nations and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1941–1948. (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2009. 212 pp. £55.00, isbn 978-0-754-66360-7.)

Jones, Howard, Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations from 1945. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xiv, 383 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-7425-6453-4. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7425-6454-1.)

Klitzing, Holger, The Nemesis of Stability: Henry A. Kissinger’s Ambivalent Relationship with Germany. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2007. xiv, 515 pp. Paper, €49.50, isbn 978-3-88476-942-3.)

Kubyshkin, A. I., ed., Americana, vol. 9: Amerikantsy na Volge, volzhane v Amerike (Americana, vol. 9: Americans on the Volga, Volga people in America). (Volgograd: Izdatel’stvo Volgogradskogo gosuderstvennogo universiteta, 2008. isbn 978-5-9669-0458-6.) In Russian. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Kurzman, Charles, Democracy Denied, 1905–1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. 396 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-03092-3.)

Lulat, Y. G-M., United States Relations with South Africa: A Critical Overview from the Colonial Period to the Present. (New York: Peter Lang, 2008. lxii, 632 pp. Cloth, $149.95, isbn 978-0-8204-7907-1. Paper, $52.95, isbn 978-0-8204-7906-4.)

Marczewska-Zagdanska, Hanna, Stany Zjednoczone a Europa Srodkowo-Wschodnia w latach 1933–1841 (The United States and East-Central Europe in the years 1933–1941). (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2008. 657 pp. zl. 60, isbn 978-8-371-81558-4.) In Polish.

Miller, James Edward, The United States and the Making of Modern Greece: History and Power, 1950–1974. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xviii, 301 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3247-9.)

Missal, Alexander, Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xii, 267 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-299-22940-5.)

Moss, Walter G., An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces. (New York: Anthem, 2008. xxviii, 325 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-84331-301-4.)

Nelson, Anna Kasten, ed., The Policy Makers: Shaping American Foreign Policy from 1947 to the Present. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. viii, 188 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-7425-5041-4. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-7425-5042-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Ross-Nazzal, James, The U.S. Veto and the Polemics of the Question of Palestine in the United Nations Security Council, 1972–2007. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. vi, 192 pp. $109.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5062-2.)

Sinno, Abdulkader H., ed., Muslims in Western Politics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Summitt, April R., John F. Kennedy and U.S.–Middle East Relations: A History of American Foreign Policy in the 1960s. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. iv, 275 pp. $109.95, isbn 978-0-7734-4942-8.)

Szlajfer, Henryk, ed., My Naród: 90 lat stosunków dyplomatycznych miedzy Polska a usa (We the people: 90 years of Polish-U.S. diplomatic ties). (Warsaw: Archiwum Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych, Ambasada Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki w Warszawie, 2009. 98 pp. isbn 978-8-392-64622-8.) In Polish and English. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Thomàs, Joan Maria, Roosevelt and Franco during the Second World War: From the Spanish Civil War to Pearl Harbor. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 272 pp. $84.95, isbn 978-0-230-60450-6.)

Wells, Allen, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, fdr, and the Jews of Sosúa. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xxxii, 447 pp. Cloth, $99.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4389-9. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4407-0.)

Grady, Henry F., The Memoirs of Ambassador Henry J. Grady: From the Great War to the Cold War, ed. John T. McNay. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. x, 222 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1832-2.)

Qaimmaqami, Linda W., and Adam M. Howard, eds., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, vol. 24: Middle East Region and Arabian Peninsula, 1969–1972; Jordan, September 1970. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2008. xxxii, 966 pp. isbn 978-0-16-079992-1.)

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Jewish

Cohen, Judah, “Hip-Hop Judaica: The Politics of Representin’ Heebster Heritage,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 28 (Jan. 2009), 1–18.

Kelner, Shaul, “Ritualized Protest and Redemptive Politics: Cultural Consequences of the American Mobilization to Free Soviet Jewry,” Jewish Social Studies, 14 (Spring–Summer 2008), 1–37.

Raider, Mark A., “The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall, Stephen S. Wise, and the Challenge of American Jewish Leadership,” American Jewish History, 94 (March–June 2008), 91–113.

Rifkind, Robert S., “Confronting Anitsemitism in America: Louis Marshall and Henry Ford,” American Jewish History, 94 (March–June 2008), 71–90.

Sarna, Jonathan D., “Two Jewish Lawyers Named Louis,” American Jewish History, 94 (March–June 2008), 1–19.

Silver, Matthew, “Louis Marshall and the Democratization of Jewish Identity,” American Jewish History, 94 (March–June 2008), 41–69.

Cohen, Michael R., “Schechter’s Disciples: How Solomon Schechter’s Students Created Conservative Judaism, 1902–1946” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3304015.

Golden, Jonathan J., “From Cooperation to Confrontation: The Rise and Fall of the Synagogue” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3308683.

Goldenberg, Jennifer E., “‘The Feelings of My Family Are with Me’: The Posttraumatic Coping of Adolescent Survivors of the Holocaust” (Bryn Mawr College, 2008). Order No. DA3313877.

Mendelsohn, Adam D., “Tongue Ties: Religion, Culture, and Commerce in the Making of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora, 1840–1870” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3304023.

Thaler, Valerie Sandler, “The Reshaping of American Jewish Identity, 1945 to 1960” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317230.

Mitchell, William E., Kinship, Ethnicity, and Voluntary Associations: Jewish Family Life in New York City. (New York: Aldine de Gruyter / Aldine Transaction, 2009. 262 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-202-36301-1.) Originally published in 1978.

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Labor and Working Class

Boal, William M., “The Effect of Unionism on Accidents in U.S. Coal Mining, 1897–1929,” Industrial Relations, 48 (Jan. 2009), 97–120.

Hendrickson, Mark, “Gender Research as Labor Activism: The Women’s Bureau in the New Era,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 482–515.

Klug, Thomas A., “Residents by Day, Visitors by Night: The Origins of the Alien Commuter on the U.S.-Canadian Border during the 1920s,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 75–98.

Laurie, Bruce, “Workers, Abolitionists, and the Historians: A Historiographical Perspective,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Winter 2008), 17–55.

Nissen, Bruce, and Sherman Henry, “The Legacy of Racism: A Case Study of Continuing Racial Impediments to Union Effectiveness,” Labor Studies Journal, 33 (Dec. 2008), 349–70.

Pencavel, John, “How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 62 (Jan. 2009), 147–56.

Pierce, Michael, “The Mechanics of Little Rock: Free Labor Ideas in Antebellum Arkansas, 1845–1861,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2008), 222–44.

Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy, “Counter-organizing the Sunbelt: Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-union Conservatism, 1943–1958,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 81–119.

Kille, J. Dee, “United by Gold and Glory: The Making of Mining Culture in Goldfield, Nevada, 1906–1908” (University of Nevada, Reno, 2008). Order No. DA3311916.

Leung, Therese Sook-Yan, “Add Oil and Water, Then Stir: The Incompatibility of Work and Family” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312439.

Rhee, Nari, “Searching for Working Class Politics: Labor, Community, and Urban Power in Silicon Valley” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306309.

Cassanello, Robert, and Melanie Shell-Weiss, eds., Florida’s Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xiv, 286 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3283-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Fink, Leon, and Brian Greenberg, Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: 1199seiu and the Politics of Health Care Unionism. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xx, 366 pp. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07605-3.) Originally published in 1989.

Wyatt, Lee T., III, The Industrial Revolution. (Westport: Greenwood, 2009. xx, 263 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-313-33769-7.)

Collomp, Catherine, and Bruno Groppo, eds., An American in Hitler’s Berlin: Abraham Plotkin’s Diary, 1932–33. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xlx, 206 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03361-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07559-9.)

García, Mario T., ed., A Dolores Huerta Reader. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxx, 350 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4513-4.)

Mitchell, H. L., Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life and Times of H. L. Mitchell, Co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xviii, 403 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3984-5.) Originally published in 1979.

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Legal and Constitutional

Carey, George W., “Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the Declaration of Independence,” in Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Bruce P. Frohnen and Kenneth L. Grasso, 80–105. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1820-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1831-5.)

Chapple, Simon, “Writing Law into ‘New Western History’: Law and Order in Wyoming and New Mexico,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 44–65.

de Forest, Jennifer, “Tilting at Windmills? Judge Justine Wise Polier and a History of Justice and Education in New York City,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 68–88.

Ernst, Daniel, “Morgan and the New Dealers,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 447–81.

Finkelman, Paul, “Regulating the African Slave Trade,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 379–405.

Grisinger, Joanna, “Law in Action: The Attorney General’s Committee on Administrative Procedure,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 379–418.

McGuire, John Thomas, “‘The Most Unjust Piece of Legislation’: Section 213 of the Economy Act of 1932 and Feminism during the New Deal,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 516–41.

Crust, Louis, “Challenging Nonprofit Legal Services: Four Cases from New Orleans, 1970–2004” (University of New Orleans, 2007). Order No. DA3313777.

Field, Corinne T., “Woman’s Rights and the Politics of Adulthood in the United States, 1792–1939” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317547.

Harris, JuNelle, “A Law Apart? The Politics of Pioneering Legislative Family Law Reforms in England and the United States” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312388.

Shugerman, Jed Handelsman, “The People’s Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections in America” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317214.

Walker, William R., “Only the Heretics Are Burning: Democracy and Repression in World War I America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314243.

White, Jonathan W., “‘To Aid Their Rebel Friends’: Politics and Treason in the Civil War North” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307818.

Dupre, Anne Proffitt, Speaking Up: The Unintended Costs of Free Speech in Public Schools. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xii, 289 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-03114-2.)

Duthu, N. Bruce, American Indians and the Law. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xxxii, 270 pp. Cloth, $21.95, isbn 978-0-670-01857-4. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-311478-9.)

Friedman, Joel William, Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xiv, 401 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3384-2.)

Gless, Alan G., ed., The History of Nebraska Law. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiv, 318 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1787-4.)

Morris, Jeffrey Brandon, Establishing Justice in Middle America: A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xx, 441 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8166-4816-0.)

Solomon, Burt, fdr v. the Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy. (New York: Walker & Company, 2009. viii, 337 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-8027-1589-0.)

Stowell, Daniel W., ed., The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. Vol. 1: xliv, 442 pp. Vol. 2: vi, 479 pp. Vol. 3: vi, 453 pp. Vol. 4: 503 pp. $300.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2606-3.)

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Latino/a

Alvarez, René Luis, “Minority Education in the Urban Midwest: Culture, Identity, and Mexican Americans in Chicago, 1910–1977” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309390.

Calderón-Zaks, Michael Aaron, “Constructing the ‘Mexican Race’: Racial Formation and Empire Building, 1884–1940” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3310528.

Escobedo, John L., “Dangerous Crossroads: Mestizaje in the U.S. Latino/a Imaginary” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309864.

Galasso, Regina, “Latin from Manhattan: Transatlantic and Interamerican Cultural Production in New York (1913–1963)” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3309656.

Gonzales, Trinidad, “The World of México Texanos, Mexicanos, and México Americanos: Transnational and National Identities in the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the Last Phase of United States Colonization, 1900 to 1930” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3311735.

Guerra, Ramón J., “Literature as Witness: Testimonial Aspects of Chicano Self Identity Narratives” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3309212.

Jurado, Kathy, “Alienated Citizens: ‘Hispanophobia’ and the Mexican Im/migrant Body” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3304999.

Lourdes, Alberto, “Making Racial Subjects: Indigeneity and the Politics of Chicano/a Cultural Production” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309827.

Magnani, Jessica, “Divided Loyalties: Latina Family Sagas and National Romances” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3311631.

Negrete White, Charlotte Rebecca, “Power vs. the People of Chávez Ravine: A Study of Their Determination and Fortitude” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3308415.

Quiñones Maurás, Irma Ivette, “Student Activism and the University Administration’s Response at the Río Piedras Campus, University of Puerto Rico, 1970–2000” (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2008). Order No. DA3314537.

Rivera, Angelica, “Re-inserting Mexican-American Women’s Voices into 1950s Chicago Educational History” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314873.

Barvosa, Edwina, Wealth of Selves: Multiple Identities, Mestiza Consciousness, and the Subject of Politics. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xiv, 290 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-60344-069-1.)

Lomas, Laura, Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernists. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xviii, 379 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4342-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4325-7.)

McDonnell, Jeanne Farr, Juana Briones of Nineteenth-Century California. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. xiv, 258 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8165-2586-7. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8165-2587-4.)

García, Mario T., ed., A Dolores Huerta Reader. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxx, 350 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4513-4.)

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Mass Communications

Socolow, Michael J., “The Behaviorist in the Boardroom: The Research of Frank Stanton, Ph.D.,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52 (Dec. 2008), 526–43.

Robinson, Mary Jean, “‘Voice of the City’: The Rise and Fall of wnyc-tv” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3308288.

Welch, Cindy C., “Broadcasting the Profession: The American Library Association and the National Children’s Radio Hour” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314935.

Tobia, Simona, Advertising America: The United States Information Service in Italy, 1945–1956. (Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2008. 323 pp. Paper, €33.00, isbn 978-88-7916-400-9.)

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Material Culture and Architecture

Ogata, Amy F., “Building for Learning in Postwar American Elementary Schools,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 562–91.

Osmond, Gary, “‘Modest Monuments’?,” Journal of Pacific History (Melbourne), 43 (Dec. 2008), 313–29.

Smucker, Janneken, “Early Nineteenth-Century Embroidered Bedcovers,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Winter 2008), 223–42.

Kernan, Barbara L., “Edith Wharton in the Art and ‘Act of Making a Habitation for Herself’” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314187.

Lourie, Ariane de la Belleissue, “Mass-Produced Aura: Thonet and the Market for Modern Design, 1930–1953” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3312919.

Marcinkus, Andrea Kolasinski, “Nature Fancywork: Women’s Discourse with Nature through Craft in late Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314170.

Shellenbarger, Melanie, “High Country Summers: The Emergence and Development of the Second Home in Colorado, 1880–1940” (University of Colorado at Denver, 2008). Order No. DA3312867.

Strassel, Annemarie Elizabeth, “Redressing Women: Feminism in Fashion and the Creation of American Style, 1930–1960” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317280.

Bassett, Lynne Zacek, ed., Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2009. xviii, 336 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-1-58465-745-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Goode, James M., Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation’s Capitol. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 830 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8810-6.)

Greene, Candace S., One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xxii, 263 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1940-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Postal, Matthew A., ed., Guide to New York City Landmarks. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2009. xii, 451 pp. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-470-28963-1.) Fourth edition with new landmark designations.

Stubbs, John H., Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation; Parameters, Theory, and Evolution of an Ethos. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2009. xiv, 434 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-470-26049-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Harbeson, John F., The Study of Architectural Design. (New York: Norton, 2008. xxxii, 310 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-393-73128-6.) Originally published in 1926; heavily illustrated.

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Medicine

Bourque, Todd J., “L’Hôpital des Pauvres to Hospital de los Pobres: New Orleans’ Charity Hospital in Spanish Colonial Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 50 (Winter 2009), 57–70.

Buerki, Robert A., “The Conscience Clause in American Pharmacy: An Historical Overview,” Pharmacy in History, 50 (no. 3, 2008), 107–18.

Lakoff, Andrew, “The Generic Biothreat, Or, How We Became Unprepared,” Cultural Anthropology, 23 (Aug. 2008), 399–428.

Lucas, Marion B., “‘Dear Pa Is in a Worry’: The Life and Death of Burritt Hamilton Fee,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 105 (Autumn 2007), 617–56.

Mayes, Rick, and Jennifer Erkulwater, “Medicating Kids: Pediatric Mental Health Policy and the Tipping Point for adhd and Stimulants,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 309–43.

Osborne, John B., “The Lancaster County Cholera Epidemic of 1854 and the Challenge to the Miasma Theory of Disease,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (Jan. 2009), 5–28.

Smith, Matthew, “Psychiatry Limited: Hyperactivity and the Evolution of American Psychiatry, 1957–1980,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 21 (Dec. 2008), 541–59.

Stevens, Rosemary A., “History and Health Policy in the United States: The Making of a Health Care Industry, 1948–2008,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 21 (Dec. 2008), 461–83.

Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel, “Medicine, Masculinity, and the Disappearance of Male Menopause in the 1950s,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 21 (Aug. 2008), 329–44.

Yang, Yang, “Trends in U.S. Adult Chronic Disease Mortality, 1960–1999: Age, Period, and Cohort Variations,” Demography, 45 (May 2008), 387–416.

Finger, Simon, “Epidemic Constitutions: Public Health and Political Culture in the Port of Philadelphia, 1735–1800” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3305758.

Fradelos, Christina Kathryn, “The Last Desperate Cure: Electrical Brain Stimulation and Its Controversial Beginnings” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3309034.

Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina, “Faces of Depression: A Study of Antidepressant Advertisements in the American and British Journals of Psychiatry, 1960–2004” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3313444.

Levine, Deborah I., “Managing American Bodies: Diet, Nutrition, and Obesity in America, 1840–1920” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312441.

Loving, David A., “The Development of American Public Health, 1850–1925” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3303520.

Miles, Mary C., “Democracy Within: Religious Outsiders and the Americanization of Psychoanalysis during and after World War II” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317448.

Wisniewski, Theodore, “Experimenting with Power: Liberal Psychologists and the Challenge of Social Reform, 1945–1975” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3303801.

Bartlett, Marie, The Frontier Nursing Service: America’s First Rural Nurse-Midwife Service and School. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. x, 250 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3342-1.)

Dorr, Gregory Michael, Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xiv, 297 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2755-8.)

Gootenberg, Paul, Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xx, 442 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3229-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5905-6.)

More, Ellen S., Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry, eds., Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xvi, 357 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9037-6. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9038-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

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Migration/Migrant

Clay, Karen, and Randall Jones, “Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 997–1027.

Hunt, Larry L., Matthew O. Hunt, and William W. Faulk, “Who is Headed South? U.S. Migration Trends in Black and White, 1970–2000,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 95–119.

Battat, Erin Mary Royston, “‘Ain’t Got No Home’: Race and American Migration Narratives in the Depression Era” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312286.

Everett, Derek R., “Frontiers Within: State Boundaries and Borderlands in the American West” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3317810.

Kane, Michael David, “William Lewis Manly” (University of Utah, 2008). Order No. DA3303445.

Lambert, Margo M., “Francis Daniel Pastorius: An American in Early Pennsylvania, 1683–1719/20” (Georgetown University, 2007). Order No. DA3313015.

Oyen, Meredith Leigh, “Allies, Enemies, and Aliens: Migration and U.S.-Chinese Relations, 1940–1965” (Georgetown University, 2007). Order No. DA3313029.

Steptoe, Tyina Leaneice, “Dixie West: Race, Migration, and the Color Lines in Jim Crow Houston” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314354.

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Military

Birtle, Andrew J., “provn, Westmoreland, and the Historians: A Reappraisal,” Journal of Military History, 72 (Oct. 2008), 1213–47.

Buecker, Thomas R., “The Fort Robinson War Dog Reception and Training Center, 1942–1946,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 115–40.

Burris, Val, “From Vietnam to Iraq: Continuity and Change in Between-Group Differences in Support for Military Action,” Social Problems, 55 (Nov. 2008), 443–79.

Cruse, J. Brett, “The Battle of Round Timber Creek and the Use of Experimental Carbines during the Red River War of 1874,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 51–83.

David, William C., “Creating a Military Image: Lincoln as Commander in Chief,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 19–23.

Deitchman, Seymour J., “The ‘Electronic Battlefield’ in the Vietnam War,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 869–87.

Flint, James, “A Chaplain’s Diary: Reverend Victor Laketek, O.S.B., 1942–1946,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 853–67.

Frederick, Julia, “In Defense of Crown and Colony: Luis de Unzaga and Spanish Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 49 (Fall 2008), 389–422.

Geiger, Mark W., “Indebtedness and the Origins of Guerrilla Violence in Civil War Missouri,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 49–82.

Perras, Galen Roger, and Katrina E. Kellner, “‘A Perfectly Logical and Sensible Thing’: Billy Mitchell Advocates a Canadian-American Aerial Alliance against Japan,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 785–823.

Rafael de la Cova, Antonio, “The Kentucky Regiment That Invaded Cuba in 1850,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 105 (Autumn 2007), 571–615.

Renard, Paul, “With the XXV Corps along the Rio Grande in 1865: Two usct Officers in Postwar Texas,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 29–50.

Stentiford, Barry M., “The Meaning of a Name: The Rise of the National Guard and the End of a Town Militia,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 727–54.

Wolters, Timothy S., “Electric Torpedoes in the Confederacy: Reconciling Conflicting Histories,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 755–83.

Conner, Robin S., “Gendered Garrisons: Masculinity, Femininity, and Class Identity in the Post–Civil War Western Army, 1865–1898” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310247.

Dockery, Jared, “‘Quick on His Feet, and Even Quicker in His Brain’: Lightning Joe Collins at War” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3317807.

Faughnan, Michael J., “You’re in the Army Now: The Students’ Army Training Corps at Selected Virginia Universities in 1918” (College of William and Mary, 2008). Order No. DA3308108.

Hampton, Isaac W., II, “The Journey of African American Officers through the Vietnam Era” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3311737.

Schwartz, Rebecca Press, “The Making of the History of the Atomic Bomb: Henry DeWolf Smyth and the Historiography of the Manhattan Project” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3312809.

Urayama, Kaori, “Missile Defense, U.S.-Japan Alliance, and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1983–2007” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314085.

Waterman, Adam John, “The Price of the Purchase: Black Hawk’s War and the Colonization of the Upper Mississippi River Valley” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3310577.

Whitt, Jacqueline Earline, “Conflict and Compromise: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304383.

Zwald, Zachary John, “Solving an Imaginary Problem: Why Should Determines Can on U.S. National Missile Defense” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306407.

Bobrick, Benson, Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 416 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-7432-9025-8.)

Bonk, David, Trenton and Princeton, 1776–77: Washington Crosses the Delaware. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2009. 96 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-84603-350-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Cimbala, Stephen J., Shield of Dreams: Missile Defense and U.S.-Russian Nuclear Strategy. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $48.00, isbn 978-1-59114-116-7. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-1-59114-117-4.)

Craft, Stephen G., Embry-Riddle at War: Aviation Training during World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xviii, 313 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3299-3.)

Durham, Walter T., Nashville: The Occupied City, 1862–1863. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 307 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-633-9.)

Durham, Walter T., Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union, 1863–1865. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxvi, 327 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-634-6.)

Kan, Paul Rexton, Drugs and Contemporary Warfare. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-59797-256-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-59797-257-4.)

Lassman, Thomas C., Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense: The Role of In-House Research and Development, 1945–2000. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2008. xii, 153 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-16-079418-6.)

McKenney, Tom C., Jack Hinson’s One-Man War. (Gretna: Pelican, 2009. 400 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-58980-640-5.)

Neville, Leigh, Special Operations Forces in Iraq. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2008. 64 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-84603-357-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Rafuse, Ethan S., Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xviii, 263 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-3970-8.)

Regis, Margaret, When Our Mothers Went to War: An Illustrated History of Women in World War II. (Bellingham: NavPublishing, 2008. 175 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-879932-05-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Ryan, Maureen, The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii, 340 pp. Cloth, $98.00, isbn 978-1-55849-685-9. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-686-6.)

Sussna, Stephen, Defeat and Triumph: The Story of a Controversial Allied Invasion and French Rebirth. (Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2008. 719 pp. Cloth, $38.99, isbn 978-1-4257-6586-6. Paper, $28.99, isbn 978-1-4257-6555-2.)

Tucker, Todd, Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History. (New York: Free Press, 2009. x, 277 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-4433-3.)

Yardley, Laura E., Generations of Service. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2008. iv, 47 pp. Paper.)

Andrews, Martha Shipman, ed., The Whole Damned World: New Mexico Aggies at War, 1941–1954; World War II Correspondence of Dean Daniel B. Jett. (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2009. xii, 371 pp. Cloth, $45.95, isbn 978-1-890689-51-3. Paper, $35.95, isbn 978-1-890689-38-4.)

Kacandes, Irene, Daddy’s War: Greek American Stories. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 396 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1933-5.)

Lea, Tom, The Two Thousand Yard Stare: Tom Lea’s World War II, ed. Brendan M. Greeley Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xx, 227 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-60344-008-0.) Heavily illustrated.

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Social Movements

Agar, Jon, “What Happened in the Sixties?,” British Journal for the History of Science (London), 41 (Dec. 2008), 567–600.

Castledine, Jacqueline, “‘In a Solid Bond of Unity’: Anticolonial Feminism in the Cold War Era,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 57–81.

Elliot, Jane, “Stepford usa: Second-Wave Feminism, Domestic Labor, and the Representation of National Time,” Cultural Critique (no. 70, Fall 2008), 32–62.

Hogan, Lisa Shawn, “The Politics of Feminist Autobiography: Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Eighty Years and More as Ideological Manifesto,” Women’s Studies, 38 (Jan. 2009), 1–22.

Isaac, Larry, “Movement of Movements: Culture Moves in the Long Civil Rights Struggle,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 33–63.

Kelner, Shaul, “Ritualized Protest and Redemptive Politics: Cultural Consequences of the American Mobilization to Free Soviet Jewry,” Jewish Social Studies, 14 (Spring–Summer 2008), 1–37.

Mittelstadt, Jennifer, “Philanthropy, Feminism, and Left Liberalism, 1960–1985,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 105–31.

Mohl, Raymond A., “The Interstates and the Cities: The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Freeway Revolt, 1966–1973,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 193–226.

Scanlon, Jennifer, “Sexy from the Start: Anticipatory Elements of Second Wave Feminsm,” Women’s Studies, 38 (March 2009), 127–50.

Watkins, Susan, “Lulling Nuclear Protest,” New Left Review (London), 54 (Nov.–Dec. 2008), 5–26.

Wood, John, “Unity or Diversity: An Assessment of the Movement of Movements in the United States,” New Political Science, 30 (Dec. 2008), 475–96.

Podair, Jerald, Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xiv, 173 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4513-7.)

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Music

Adelt, Ulrich, “Germany Gets the Blues: Negotiations of ‘Race’ and Nation at the American Folk Blues Festival,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 951–74.

Byrd, Joseph, “Whitewashing Blackface Minstrelsy in American College Textbooks,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Feb. 2009), 77–86.

Cohen, Judah, “Hip-Hop Judaica: The Politics of Representin’ Heebster Heritage,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 28 (Jan. 2009), 1–18.

Fitzgerald, Jon, “Creating Those Good Vibrations: An Analysis of Brian Wilson’s U.S. Top 40 Hits, 1963–66,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Feb. 2009), 3–24.

Chybowski, Julia J., “Developing American Taste: A Cultural History of the Early Twentieth-Century Music Appreciation Movement” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314214.

Ferguson, Homer Ashton, III, “John Brombaugh: The Development of America’s Master Organ Builder” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3304832.

Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie, “‘Sparring with Fate’: Miriam Gideon’s 1958 Opera Fortunato” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3303790.

Priest, Charles Thomas, “Regionalism in Selected Musical Works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911–1955)” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3314607.

Redmond, Shana L., “Anthem: Music and Politics in Diaspora, 1920–1970s” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317206.

Dolan, Brian, Inventing Entertainment: The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xx, 205 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7425-6127-4.)

Waksman, Steve, This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xii, 391 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-520-25310-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-25717-7.)

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Naval and Maritime

Barber, Alan, “‘Schooner Flash, Captain Falwell . . .’: The Short Wartime Life of a Texian Sailing Vessel, 1835–1837,” East Texas Historical Journal, 47 (no. 1, 2009), 18–28.

Chaput, Don, and Ed Chaput, “Great Lakes Treasure,” Inland Seas, 64 (Fall 2008), 194–210.

Harley, C. Knick, “Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870–1913,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 1028–58.

Ohls, Gary J., “Roots of Tradition: Amphibious Warfare in the Early American Republic” (Texas Christian University, 2208). Order No. DA3303585.

Braisted, William Reynolds, Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922–1933. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xviii, 405 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-8130-3288-7.)

Robinson, J. Dennis, Strawberry Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making. (Portsmouth: Strawbery Banke Museum, 2007. xxii, 393 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-9603896-2-9.)

Walker, Frank, John Paul Jones: Maverick Hero. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2008. x, 278 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-1-932033-82-3.)

Ray, William, Horrors of Slavery: Or, the American Tars in Tripoli, ed. Hester Blum. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 202 pp. Cloth, $68.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4412-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4413-7.) Originally published in 1808.

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Politics

Ammerman, Nancy T., “Southern Baptists and the New Christian Right,” Review of Religious Research, 50 (Oct. 2008), 69–91.

Askman, Douglas V., “Her Majesty’s Disloyal Opposition: An Examination of the English-Language Version of Robert Wilcox’s the Liberal, 1892–1893,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 177–200.

Bailey, Jeremy D., “The New Unitary Executive and Democratic Theory: The Problem of Alexander Hamilton,” American Political Science Review, 102 (Nov. 2008), 453–65.

Benowitz, June Melby, “Reading, Writing, and Radicalism: Right-Wing Women and Education in the Post-war Years,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 89–111.

Bergmann, William H., “Delivering a Nation through the Mail: The Post Office in the Ohio Valley, 1789–1815,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Fall 2008), 1–18.

Beyerlein, Kraig, and Kenneth T. Andrews, “Black Voting during the Civil Rights Movement: A Micro-level Analysis,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 65–93.

Brooke, John L., “Cultures of Nationalism, Movements of Reform, and the Composite-Federal Polity: From Revolutionary Settlement to Antebellum Crisis,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Spring 2009), 1–33.

Brown, Robert D., and John M. Bruce, “Partisan-Ideological Divergence and Changing Party Fortunes in the States, 1968–2003,” Political Research Quarterly, 61 (Dec. 2008), 585–97.

Bunker, Gary L., “‘Old Abe’ in Political Caricature: Revisiting the Drawn Lincoln,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 37–46.

Chansky, Dorothy, “Usable Performance Feminism for Our Time: Reconsidering Betty Friedan,” Theatre Journal, 60 (Oct. 2008), 341–64.

Danielson, Chris, “‘Lily White and Hard Right’: The Mississippi Republican Party and Black Voting, 1965–1980,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 83–118.

Davis, Frank L., Albert H. Wurth, and John C. Lazarus, “The Green Vote in Presidential Elections: Past Performance and Future Promise,” Social Science Journal, 45 (Dec. 2008), 525–45.

Ecelbarger, Gary, “Before Cooper Union: Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 Cincinnati Speech and Its Impact on His Nomination,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30 (Winter 2009), 1–17.

Edwards, Mark, “‘God Has Chosen Us’: Re-membering Christian Realism, Rescuing Christendom, and the Contest of Responsibilities during the Cold War,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 67–94.

Ernst, Daniel, “Morgan and the New Dealers,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 447–81.

Everett, Derek R., “To Shed Our Blood for Our Beloved Territory: The Iowa-Missouri Borderland,” Annals of Iowa, 67 (Fall 2008), 269–97.

Fornieri, Joseph, “Tracing the Roots of Lincoln’s Democratic Vision,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 11–16.

Frohnen, Bruce P., “Individual and Group Rights: Self-Government and Claims of Right in Historical Practice,” in Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Bruce P. Frohnen and Kenneth L. Grasso, 106–31. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1820-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1831-5.)

Gordon, Cameron, “Whose Policy Is It Anyway? Interest Groups and the War on Poverty,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 22, Autumn 2008), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

Grisinger, Joanna, “Law in Action: The Attorney General’s Committee on Administrative Procedure,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 379–418.

Hendrickson, Mark, “Gender Research as Labor Activism: The Women’s Bureau in the New Era,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 482–515.

Landis, Michael Todd, “‘A Champion Had Come’: William Pitt Fessenden and the Republican Party, 1854–60,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 269–85.

Massey, Douglas S., and Robert J. Sampson, “Moynihan Redux: Legacies and Lessons,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 6–27.

Nisbet, Erik C., Ronald Ostman, and James Shanahan, “Public Opinion toward Muslim Americans: Civil Liberties and the Role of Religiosity, Ideology, and Media Use,” in Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno, 161–99. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.)

Pee, Robert, “Political Warfare Old and New: The State and Private Groups in the Formation of the National Endowment for Democracy,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 22, Autumn 2008), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

Schlozman, Daniel, “How Initiatives Don’t Always Make Citizens: Ballot Initiatives in the American States, 1978–2004,” Political Behavior, 30 (Dec. 2008), 469–89.

Schmeller, Mark, “The Political Economy of Opinion: Public Credit and Concepts of Public Opinion in the Age of Federalism,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Spring 2009), 35–61.

Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy, “Counter-organizing the Sunbelt: Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-union Conservatism, 1943–1958,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 81–119.

Silver, Matthew, “Louis Marshall and the Democratization of Jewish Identity,” American Jewish History, 94 (March–June 2008), 41–69.

Sinno, Abdulkader H., “Muslim Underrepresentation in American Politics,” in Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno, 69–95. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.)

Skillen, James R., “Closing the Public Lands Frontier: The Bureau of Land Management, 1961–1969,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 419–45.

Smallwood, James, “Operation Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Jewish Question, and the Nazi Holocaust,” East Texas Historical Journal, 47 (no. 1, 2009), 3–17.

Steele, Brian, “Thomas Jefferson, Coercion, and the Limits of Harmonious Union,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Nov. 2008), 823–54.

Stevens, Rosemary A., “History and Health Policy in the United States: The Making of a Health Care Industry, 1948–2008,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 21 (Dec. 2008), 461–83.

Thrift, Bryan Hardin, “Jesse Helms’s Politics of Pious Incitement: Race, Conservatism, and Southern Realignment in the 1950s,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Nov. 2008), 887–926.

Watkins, Susan, “Lulling Nuclear Protest,” New Left Review (London), 54 (Nov.–Dec. 2008), 5–26.

Weiner, Dana E., “Anti-abolition Violence and Freedom of Speech in Peoria, Illinois, 1843–1848,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 179–204.

Wells, Wyatt, “Public Power in the Eisenhower Administration,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 227–62.

Anderson, Melissa Cully, “Entrusting Legislators to Self-Reform: A Study of Initiative-Enabling Bills from 1897 to 1916” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306049.

Connolly, David Hugh, Jr., “A Question of Honor: State Character and the Lower South’s Defense of the African Slave Trade in Congress, 1789–1807” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309848.

DeSilvio, David M., “The Influence of Domestic Politics on Foreign Policy in the Election of 1940” (Wayne State University, 2008). Order No. DA3303514.

Herman, Luciana Louise, “1794: American Race, Republicanism, and Transnational Revolution” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306164.

Riley, Padraig Griffin, “Northern Republicans and Southern Slavery: Democracy in the Age of Jefferson, 1800–1819” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306312.

Russo, Mary Teresa Burns, “Abraham Lincoln: Prophetic Politician” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3308666.

Saldivar Hodgson, Maria Nicolasa, “A Content Analysis of Leadership Language in Selected Speeches Communicated by America’s First Ladies Hillary Rodham Clinton and Laura Welch Bush” (Our Lady of the Lake University, 2007). Order No. DA3309537.

Selinger, Jeffrey S., “Embracing Dissent: Presidential Leadership and the Development of Legitimate Party Opposition in the United States” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3311607.

Skonieczny, Amy Marie, “Trading Stories: Narrative, Event, and Social Theory in International Economic Relations” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3310631.

Teten, Ryan Lee, “Evolution of the Modern Rhetorical Presidency Reconsidered: Presidential Presentation and Development of the State of the Union Address” (Vanderbilt University, 2004). Order No. DA3312084.

Turcotte, Heather M., “Petro-Sexual Politics: Global Oil, Legitimate Violence, and Transnational Justice” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317419.

Urayama, Kaori, “Missile Defense, U.S.-Japan Alliance, and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1983–2007” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314085.

Volmert, Andrew R., “Arguing with Authority: Democratic Legitimacy and the Public Use of History” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317237.

Wright, Thomas J., “Great Power Responses to Threat Transitions and the Legitimacy Burden: U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1943–1950” (Georgetown University, 2007). Order No. DA3313020.

Young, Neil J., “We Gather Together: Catholics, Mormons, Southern Baptists, and the Question of Interfaith Politics, 1972–1984” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3305279.

Ziker, Ann Katherine, “Race, Conservative Politics, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-colonial World, 1948–1968” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3310000.

Bonk, David, Trenton and Princeton, 1776–77: Washington Crosses the Delaware. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2009. 96 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-84603-350-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Bullis, Don, New Mexico and Politicians of the Past: True Tales of Some of the State’s Founding Fathers and a Few Other Office Seekers and Holders. (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2009. 127 pp. Cloth, $27.95, isbn 978-1-890689-58-2. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-1-890689-48-3.)

Canellos, Peter S., ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. xii, 464 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-1-4391-3817-5.)

Churchyard, Charles, National Lies: The Truth About American Values. (Cambridge, Mass.: Axroide, 2009. vi, 442 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-98-5716-4-5.)

Crain, Andrew Downer, The Ford Presidency: A History. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 335 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4145-7.)

Craughwell, Thomas J., Stealing Lincoln’s Body. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007. xiv, 250 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-674-02458-8. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-674-03039-8.)

Daalder, Ivo H., and I. M. Destler, eds., In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served—From jfk to George W. Bush. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 386 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-4165-5319-9.)

Davidson, Lawrence, Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America’s National Interest. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. x, 188 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2524-4.)

Emerson, Jason, Lincoln the Inventor. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xvi, 111 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2898-7. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2897-0.)

Geggus, David Patrick, and Norman Fiering, eds., The World of the Haitian Revolution. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xviii, 419 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35232-3.)

Goetzmann, William H., Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism. (New York: Basic, 2009. xvi, 456 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-465-00495-9.)

Guelzo, Allen C., Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xii, 612 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2861-1.)

Higdon, Hal, The Union vs. Dr. Mudd. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xvi, 241 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3267-2.) Originally published in 1964.

Howland, Douglas, and Luise White, eds., The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35231-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22016-5.)

Howlett, Charles F., and Robbie Lieberman, A History of the American Peace Movement from Colonial Times to the Present. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. xxxvi, 584 pp. $149.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5092-9.)

Ikenberry, G. John, et al., The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 157 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-13969-2.)

Kahler, Gerald E., The Long Farewell: Americans Mourn the Death of George Washington. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xii, 190 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2750-3.)

Kaplan, Fred, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. x, 406 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-06-077334-2.)

Keneally, Thomas, Abraham Lincoln: A Life. (New York: Penguin, 2008. 183 pp. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-14-311475-8.)

McPherson, James M., Abraham Lincoln. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv, 79 pp. $12.95, isbn 978-0-19-537452-0.)

Miner, Craig, Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854–1858. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xvi, 305 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1612-1.)

Moss, Walter G., An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces. (New York: Anthem, 2008. xxviii, 325 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-84331-301-4.)

Mulford, Carla, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii, 183 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-0-521-87134-1. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-69186-4.)

Nicholson, Linda, Identity before Identity Politics. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. viii, 192 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-0-521-86213-4. Paper, $34.99, isbn 978-0-521-68048-6.)

Phillips, Christopher, The Making of a Southerner: William Barclay Napton’s Private Civil War. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 162 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1825-4.)

Portolano, Marlana, The Passionate Empiricist: The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xiv, 231 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7699-4.)

Purdy, Jedediah, A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom. (New York: Knopf, 2009. 294 pp. $23.95, isbn 978-1-4000-4447-4.)

Rohatyn, Felix, Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. x, 259 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3312-2.)

Schild, Georg, Abraham Lincoln: Eine Politische Biographie (Abraham Lincoln: A political biography). (Paderborn, Germany: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2009. 269 pp. €24.90, isbn 978-3-506-76748-6.) In German.

Schneider, Gregory L., The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xiv, 261 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4284-6.)

Signer, Michael, Demagogue: The Fight To Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 272 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-230-60624-1.)

Solomon, Burt, fdr v. the Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy. (New York: Walker & Company, 2009. viii, 337 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-8027-1589-0.)

Sullivan, Timothy J., New York State and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: Redrawing Party Lines. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. x, 247 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7643-7.)

Vile, John R., William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams, eds., James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiv, 302 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1831-4. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1832-1.)

Vinovskis, Maris A., From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2009. xiv, 297 pp. Paper, $45.95, isbn 978-0-8077-4922-7.)

Walker, Clarence E., Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten By Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xiv, 128 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2777-0.)

Ward, Harry M., “Going Down Hill”: Legacies of the American Revolutionary War. (Palo Alto: Academica, 2009. xii, 353 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-1-933146-57-7.)

Williams, Frank J., and William D. Pederson, eds., Lincoln Lessons: Reflections on America’s Greatest Leader. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. viii, 184 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2891-8.)

Cohn, Ellen R., ed., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 39: January 21 through May 15, 1783. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. lxii, 676 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-300-13448-3.)

Crist, Lynda Lasswell, ed., The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. 12: June 1865–December 1870. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. lii, 624 pp. $105.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3341-5.)

Friedman, Mickey, ed., A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xx, 182 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03396-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07604-6.)

Kaminski, John P., ed., The Founders on the Founders: Word Portraits from the American Revolutionary Era. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xxxiv, 589 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2757-2.)

Kreider, Angela, ed., The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 6: 8 February–24 October 1813. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xl, 775 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2756-5.)

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Print Culture

Armstrong, Nancy, and Leonard Tennenhouse, “The Problem of Population and the Form of the American Novel,” American Literary History, 20 (Winter 2008), 667–85.

Beatty, James K., “Interpreting the Shawnee Sun: Literacy and Cultural Persistence in Indian Country, 1833–1841,” Kansas History, 31 (Winter 2008–2009), 242–59.

Bunker, Gary L., “‘Old Abe’ in Political Caricature: Revisiting the Drawn Lincoln,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 37–46.

Carothers, James B., and Kimma Jean Sheldon, “Comprehending Faulkner’s Humor,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Summer 2007), 437–60.

Castiglia, Chris, “‘A Democratic and Fraternal Humanism’: The Cant of Pessimism and Newton Arvin’s Queer Socialism,” American Literary History, 21 (Spring 2009), 159–82.

Chapman, Mary, “A ‘Revolution in Ink’: Sui Sin Far and Chinese Reform Discourse,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 975–1001.

Cohen, Matt, “Plantation Modernism,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 385–411.

Corley, J. Susan, “The British Press Greets the King of the Sandwich Islands: Kamehameha II in London, 1824,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 69–103.

Curwood, Anastasia, “A Fresh Look at E. Franklin Frazier’s Sexual Politics in The Negro Family in the United States,” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 325–37.

Dolan, Mark K., “Dave Peyton, the Chicago Defender, and Local 208,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 154–48.

Dyer, Gary, “The Transatlantic Pocahontas,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 30 (Dec. 2008), 301–22.

Elfenbein, Anna Shannon, “Anne Tyler as Social Critic: Inequality, Racism, and Alienation in ‘The Geologist’s Maid,’” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 369–84.

Flint, James, “A Chaplain’s Diary: Reverend Victor Laketek, O.S.B., 1942–1946,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 853–67.

Flynt, Wayne, “Memoir and Historical Reality: White Poverty through the Eyes of Rick Bragg and Barbara Robinette Moss,” Southern Humanities Review, 42 (Fall 2008), 305–27.

Frisken, Amanda, “Obscenity, Free Speech, and ‘Sporting News’ in 1870s America,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 537–77.

Gohar, Saddik Mohamed, “Subverting the History of Slavery and Colonization in the Poetry of M. Al-Fayturi and Langston Hughes,” Western Journal of Black Studies, 32 (Spring 2008), 16–29.

Grieves, Kevin, “The U.S. Information Bulletin and Mixed Signals in the Democracy Lessons for Postwar Germany,” American Journalism, 25 (Summer 2008), 71–96.

Heicht, David K., “The Atomic Hero: Robert Oppenheimer and the Making of Scientific Icons in the Early Cold War,” Technology and Culture, 49 (Oct. 2008), 943–66.

Higashida, Cheryl, “To Be(come) Young, Gay, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry’s Existentialist Routes to Anticolonialism,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 899–924.

Hohenhaus, Ron, “The ‘Petrified Man’ Returns: An Early Mark Twain Hoax Makes an Unexpected Appearance in Australasia,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 83–103.

Johnson, Ellen, “Geographic Context and Ethnic Context: Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Walker,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 235–55.

Khailova, Ladislava, “Ethnic Freaks, White Ladies, and the Dissolution of Southern Patriarchy: Eudora Welty’s Critical Commentary on Sideshow Practices in ‘Keela, the Outcast Indian Maid,’” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 273–87.

Lowance, Mason, and Jan Pilditch, “Writing the Law: Literature and Slavery in Nineteenth Century America,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 66–82.

Maimon, Vered, “Displaced ‘Origins’: William Henry Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature,” History of Photography (London), 32 (Winter 2008), 314–25.

Mangun, Kimberley, “Boosting the Bottom Line: Beatrice Morrow Cannady’s Tactics to Promote The Advocate, 1923–1933,” American Journalism, 25 (Summer 2008), 31–69.

Marshall, Kenneth E., “Threat of a Bondman: Political Self-Fashioning and Christian Empowerment in the Memoir of Quamino Buccau, A Pious Methodist,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (Sept. 2008), 361–88.

Mellinger, Gwyneth, “Rekindling the Fire: The Compromise that Initiated the Formal Integration of Daily Newspaper Newsrooms,” American Journalism, 25 (Summer 2008), 97–126.

Milder, Robert, “The Other Hawthorne,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Dec. 2008), 559–95.

Morgan, Michelle, “‘We’ve Spoiled Your Prison for You’: Gender & Anti-Catholicism in Early 19th-Century Convent Captivity Narratives,” New England Journal of History, 65 (Fall 2008), 56–78.

Nemeth, Neil, “From Reporting Sleuth to Pioneer in Media Accountability: The Career of the New York World’s Isaac D. White,” American Journalism, 25 (Summer 2008), 7–29.

Newman, Leonard S., “Was Walter Lippmann Interested in Stereotyping? Public Opinion and Cognitive Social Psychology,” History of Psychology, 12 (Feb. 2009), 7–18.

Noble, Marianne, “The Courage to Speak and Hear the Truth: Sympathy and Genuine Human Contact in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Dec. 2008), 676–702.

Otter, Samuel, “Frank Webb’s Still Life: Rethinking Literature and Politics through The Garies and Their Friends,” American Literary History, 20 (Winter 2008), 728–52.

Palumbo-Liu, David, “The Occupation of Form: (Re)theorizing Literary History,” American Literary History, 20 (Winter 2008), 814–35.

Pappas, Robin, “H. D. and Havelock Ellis: Popular Science and the Gendering of Thought and Vision,” Women’s Studies, 38 (March 2009), 151–82.

Rattray, Laura, “Cinematic License: Editorial Imprints on the Hollywood Novels of Horace McCoy,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 102 (March 2008), 77–94.

Reid, Mandy, “Racial Profiling: Visualizing Racial Science on the Covers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852–1928,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 30 (Dec. 2008), 369–87.

Rhoads, Bonita, “Sontag’s Captions: Writing the Body from Riefenstahl to S&M,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 942–70.

Rifkind, Robert S., “Confronting Anitsemitism in America: Louis Marshall and Henry Ford,” American Jewish History, 94 (March–June 2008), 71–90.

Sasson, Diane, “The Self-Inventions of Laura Carter Holloway,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Fall 2008), 178–207.

Shields, Johanna Nicol, “The Dynamics of Southern Friendship in the Civil War Novels of Augusta Evans and Jeremiah Clemens,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 305–33.

Silva, Noenoe K., with Iokepa Badis, “Early Hawaiian Newspapers and Kanaka Maoli Intellectual History, 1834–1855,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 105–34.

Vollaro, Daniel R., “Lincoln, Stowe, and the ‘Little Woman/Great War’ Story: The Making, and Breaking, of a Great American Anecdote,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30 (Winter 2009), 18–34.

Voyce, Stephen, “‘Make the World Your Salon’: Poetry and Community at the Arensberg Apartment,” Modernism/Modernity, 15 (Nov. 2008), 627–46.

Waite, Noel, “‘The Best Holidays on the Globe’: Charles Francis, American Typhothetae, and the Federation of New Zealand Master Printers,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 102 (June 2008), 175–95.

Whitfield, Stephen J., “The ‘Golden’ Era of Civil Rights: Consequences of The Carolina Israelite,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Fall 2008), 26–51.

Will, Barbara, “Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Ruthless Flowers of Friendship,” Modernism/Modernity, 15 (Nov. 2008), 647–63.

Zafar, Rafia, “Frederick Douglass and George Teamoh: Anxieties of Influence in the Postbellum Slave Narrative,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.

Ahearan, Amy, “Engaging with the Political: Willa Cather, ‘McClure’s Magazine,’ and the Production of National Rhetoric” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3309216.

Anderson, Karen Leona, “Classifying Life: Metaphor, Popular Biology, and Social Categorization in Emily Dickinson, Anne Spencer, Marianne Moore, and Lorine Niedecker” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317464.

Basham, Leilani, “I mau ke ea o ka ’aina i ka pono: He puke mele lahui no ka Lahui Hawai‘i” (University of Hawai‘i, 2007). Order No. DA3308207.

Berliner, Jonathan, “Discursive Ground: Naturalization in American Literature, 1836–1918” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3309006.

Berrey, Sara Elizabeth Clare, “Generations in Print: Revision in American Literature, 1850–1900” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3313425.

Bowers, Kimberly Paige, “Misreading Justice: The Rhetoric of Revenge in Feminist Texts about Domestic Violence” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307346.

Bui, Diem-My Thi, “Embodiments of Difference: Representations of Vietnamese Women in the U.S. Cultural Imaginary” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314969.

Burt, Ryan Edward, “Reading for Time: Race and the Politics of the American Canon in an Age of Empire” (University of Washington, 2008).

Cadle, Nathaniel, “The Mediating Nation: American Literature and Globalization from Henry James to Woodrow Wilson” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304331.

Cardon, Lauren S., “Marrying in and out of Whiteness: Twentieth-Century Intermarriage Narratives” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3310066.

Carruth, Allison, “Global Appetites: Literary Form and Food Politics from World War I to the World Trade Organization” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313543.

Corey, Joshua M., “The American Avant-Pastoral: Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Ronald Johnson” (Cornell University, 2--9). Order No. DA3311566.

Coulombe, Lauri Donna, “‘If These Walls Could Talk’: The Semiotics of Domestic Objects and the Expression of Ipseity in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Literature” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309849.

Egan, Sean, “Gardens and Grasses: The Question of Literature and Democracy for New York City’s Public Intellectuals in the Era of Greeley and Whitman” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310652.

Fatzinger, Amy S., “‘Indians in the House’: Revisiting American Indians in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ‘Little House’ Books” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3304436.

Faust, Marjorie Ann Hollomon, “The Great Gatsby and Its 1925 Contemporaries” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3308461.

Festa, Elizabeth A., “Precious Specimens: Public Museums, Popular Culture, and American Literary Modernism” (Vanderbilt University, 2007). Order No. DA3312206.

Gagel, Mandy, “Selected Letters of Vernon Lee (1856–1935)” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314018.

Garrett, Matthew Carl, “Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic: The Politics of Writing in Parts” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313574.

Gilchrist, Jennifer Lynn, “Houses on Fire: Late Modernist Subjectivity and Historical Crisis” (Fordham University, 2008). Order No. DA3314561.

Guerra, Ramón J., “Literature as Witness: Testimonial Aspects of Chicano Self Identity Narratives” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3309212.

Gulotta, Kenneth, “Down from Italy: The Fall and Rise of Italian American Modernist Fiction” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3310068.

Hazleton, Gregory J., “Composition as Ecology: Environments of Writing in American Poetry in the Emersonian Tradition” (Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3316625.

Heon, John Patrick, “The Dionysia of Science: Humor, Rational Madness, and Comic Experimental Methods in the Works of Bruce Nauman and Thomas Pynchon” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309442.

Hickman, Jared Winston, “Black Prometheus: Political Theologies of Atlantic Slavery” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312382.

Hinrichsen, Lisa, “Moving Forward, Looking Past: Trauma, Fantasy, and Misrecognition in Southern Literature, 1930–2001” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314030.

Hlibchuk, Geoffrey, “The Poetics of Exception: Contemporary North American Poetry and the Ghosts of Relation” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3307657.

Houser, Tai Lynden, “Mind the Gap: Overcoming Dualities in Motor City, USA” (Florida Atlantic University, 2008). Order No. DA3316918.

Hsu, Shih-szu, “Manifest Domesticity in Times of Love and War: Gender, Race, Nation, and Empire in the Works of Louisa May Alcott, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Gertrude Atherton, and Pauline Hopkins” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3307326.

Jung, Michael, “The Readers of Oz: A Behind-the-Curtain Look at the Meanings Created from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3304852.

Kang, Sooyoung, “Tracing the Maternal: Memory and Writing in Contemporary American Women Writers of the Diaspora” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3307659.

Mahin, Michael James, “Resting in Change: The Early Works of Ronald Sukenick” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3308413.

Mastroianni, Dominic Bruno, “Secrets of American Romanticism: The Politics and Ethics of Separation” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310274.

McKay, Charles, “The American Front Porch as a Lieu de Mémoire in African American Literature” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3308656.

Mendoza, Victor Roman Reyes, “The Erotics of ‘White Love’; or, Queering Philippine-U.S. Imperial Relations” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306256.

Morrissey, Joanne Stone, “A Convergence of Eagles: Flannery O’Connor and Walt Whitman” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3308661.

Nicholas, Tessa Joseph, “Imagining Community: Individual Influence and Group Cohesion in American Avant-Garde Poetry and Poetics” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304263.

Pitzulo, Carrie A., “Bachelors and Bunnies: Playboy Magazine and Modern Heterosexuality, 1953–1973” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310596.

Prodoehl, Dana Edwards, “Not Just a Novel of Epic Proportions: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man as Modern American Epic” (Marquette University, 2008). Order No. DA3306506.

Reynolds, Claire E., “Speaking Out: Class, Race, and Gender in the Writings of Ruth McEnery Stuart, Edith Summers Kelley, and Harriette Simpson Arnow” (University of Rhode Island, 2008). Order No. DA3314458.

Rivera, Ann, “‘And Sympathy Unites, Whom Fate Divides’: Reading and Social Bonds in Early America” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3307624.

Ruff, Mary M. (Peggy), “Tracking Whiteness: Portrayals of Whites in American Indian Literature” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307340.

Sato, Paula Kaye, “The Gothic or the Monstrous: African American and Caribbean Nightmares” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312166.

Scott, Andrea, “Lyric Diplomacy: Cold War Poetics in the United States and West Germany, 1945–1955” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3309105.

Segura, Allison C., “Perfect Creatures: A Social and Cultural Interpretation of Vampires in Fiction and Film” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2008). Order No. DA3313954.

Serpell, Carla Namwali, “The Ethics of Uncertainty: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312515.

Sy, Kadidia, “Women’s Relationships: Female Friendship in Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula’ and ‘Love,’ Mariama Ba’s ‘So Long a Letter,’ and Sefi Atta’s ‘Everything Good Will Come’” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3308463.

Takayoshi, Ichiro, “Empire on Paper: Interventionist and Isolationist Literature in the United States, 1939–1941” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317635.

Tanglen, Randi Lynn, “Reconfiguring Religion, Race, and the Female Body Politic in American Fiction by Women, 1859–1911” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3307979.

Tracy, Daniel, “Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913–1932” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314917.

Tuttle, Tara, “‘Biting Temptation’: An Examination of the Eden Myth in the Southern Fiction of William Faulkner, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison” (University of Louisville, 2008). Order No. DA3308335.

Walter, Christina Michelle, “The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality from Optics to Aesthetics” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314930.

Weik, Alexa, “Beyond the Nation: American Expatriate Writers and the Process of Cosmopolitanism” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3307132.

Welch, Milton Lamont, “Tortured Shadows: Representations of Lynching in Modernist U.S. Poetry” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3305897.

Wilson, Christine Renee, “‘Ever Learning to Dwell’: Habitability in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3312754.

Wise, Benjamin E., “Cosmopolitan Southerner: The Life and World of William Alexander Percy” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309984.

Wolkowski, Jenifer Lynn, “Ideas of Community in Three Depression-Era Southern Novels: Faulkner’s The Hamlet, Dargan’s Call from the Heart, and Still’s River of Earth” (Case Western Reserve University, 2008). Order No. DA3316917.

Wood, Tracy Dianne, “Korean American Literature: Literary Orphans and the Legacy of Han” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3305668.

Bass, Thomas A., The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An’s Dangerous Game. (New York: Public Affairs, 2009. xviii, 297 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-58648-409-5.)

Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr., The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xviii, 413 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3383-5.)

Kaplan, Fred, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. x, 406 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-06-077334-2.)

Katerberg, William H., Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xii, 281 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1609-1.)

Martínez, David, Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009. xx, 185 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87351-629-7.)

McLaird, James D., Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2008. x, 174 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-9777955-9-8.)

Miner, Craig, Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854–1858. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xvi, 305 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1612-1.)

Pollard, Finn, The Literary Quest for an American National Character. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 257 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-96373-2.)

Rich, Charlotte J., Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. x, 230 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1826-1.)

Shulman, George, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxii, 315 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-3074-5. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8166-3075-2.)

Stuckey, Sterling, African Culture and Melville’s Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 154 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-19-537270-0.)

Voigt, Lisa, Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xii, 339 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3199-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5944-5.)

Kimber, Edward, The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson, ed. Matthew Mason and Nicholas Mason. (Peterborough: Broadview, 2009. 242 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-55111-703-4.)

Stewart, Bruce E., ed., King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. lxii, 127 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-57233-640-7.)

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Public History and Memory

Allerfeldt, Kristofer, “Rome, Race, and the Republic: Progressive America and the Fall of the Roman Empire, 1890–1920,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (July 2008), 297–324.

Carson, Cary, “The End of History Museums: What’s Plan B?,” Public Historian, 30 (Nov. 2008), 9–27.

Cunningham, David, “Truth, Reconciliation, and the Ku Klux Klan,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Fall 2008), 68–87.

Fornieri, Joseph, “Tracing the Roots of Lincoln’s Democratic Vision,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 11–16.

McCarthy, John P., “The Archaeology of Community Identity in the Past and Remembrance in the Present,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 305–14.

Noe, Kenneth W., “‘Damned North Carolinians’ and ‘Brave Virginians’: The Lane-Mahone Controversy, Honor, and Civil War Memory,” Journal of Military History, 72 (Oct. 2008), 1089–1116.

Osmond, Gary, “‘Modest Monuments’?,” Journal of Pacific History (Melbourne), 43 (Dec. 2008), 313–29.

Schwalm, Leslie A., “‘Agonizing Groans of Mothers’ and ‘Slave-Scarred Veterans’: The Commemoration of Slavery and Emancipation,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 289–304.

Schwartz, Barry, “The Limits of Gratitude: Lincoln in African American Memory,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 27–33.

Smith, Maureen, “Willie Mays Plaza, McCovey Point, and the Dominican Dandy in Bronze: (De)Constructing History at AT&T Park in San Francisco,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 60–69.

Symon, Robert B., Jr., “Louisville’s Lost National Holiday: Sectional Reconciliation and the Ulysses S. Grant 1885 Birthday Celebration,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Fall 2008), 40–61.

Voelker, David J., “Cincinnati’s Infernal Regions Exhibit and the Waning of Calvinist Authority,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 219–39.

Vogt, Jay D., “The State of Historic Preservation: A Glass More than Half Full,” South Dakota History, 38 (Winter 2008), 335–51.

Browne, Dorothy M., “New York City Museums and Cultural Leadership, 1917–1940” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310757.

Cruz Soto, Marie, “Inhabiting Isla Nena, 1514–2003: Island Narrations, Imperial Dramas, and Vieques, Puerto Rico” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3304955.

Elkin, Courtney Carmel, “Clashes of Cultural Memory in Popular Festival Performance in Southern California: 1910s–Present” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007).

Festa, Elizabeth A., “Precious Specimens: Public Museums, Popular Culture, and American Literary Modernism” (Vanderbilt University, 2007). Order No. DA3312206.

Hasinoff, Erin, “Seeing through Things: Material Burma, the Missionary Exhibit, and Its Object Lessons, 1900–2008” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3305228.

Leibowitz, Rachel, “Constructing the Navajo Capital: Landscape, Power, and Representation at Window Rock” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314835.

Lourie, Ariane de la Belleissue, “Mass-Produced Aura: Thonet and the Market for Modern Design, 1930–1953” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3312919.

McCleary, Timothy Paul, “Ghosts on the Land: Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Interpretations of Rock Art” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314852.

Repina, L. P., ed., Vremia, Istoriia, Pamiat’: Istoricheskoe soznanie v prostranstve kul’tury (Time, history, memory: Historical consciousness in cultural space). (Moscow: ivi ran, 2007. 319 pp. isbn 978-5-940-67193-0.) In Russian.

Robinson, J. Dennis, Strawberry Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making. (Portsmouth: Strawbery Banke Museum, 2007. xxii, 393 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-9603896-2-9.)

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Race

Bobo, Lawrence D., “Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 243–59.

Byrd, Joseph, “Whitewashing Blackface Minstrelsy in American College Textbooks,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Feb. 2009), 77–86.

Craver, Earlene, “On the Boundary of White: The Cartozian Naturalization Case and the Armenians, 1923–1925,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Winter 2009), 30–56.

Cunningham, David, “Truth, Reconciliation, and the Ku Klux Klan,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Fall 2008), 68–87.

DeGruccio, Michael, “Manhood, Race, Failure, and Reconciliation: Charles Francis Adams Jr. and the American Civil War,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Dec. 2008), 636–75.

English, Bertis, “A Black Belt Anomaly: Biracial Cooperation in Reconstruction-Era Perry County, 1865–1874,” Alabama Review, 62 (Jan. 2009), 3–36.

Essington, Amy, “Equality on the Baseball Diamond: Integrating the Pacific Coast League, 1948–1952,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 49–59.

Jamal, Amaney, “The Racialization of Muslim Americans,” in Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno, 200–15. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.)

Minchin, Timothy J., “One America? Church Burnings and Perceptions of Race Relations in the Clinton Years,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 1–28.

Newman, Harvey K., and Glenda Krunk, “Religious Leaders in the Aftermath of Atlanta’s 1906 Race Riot,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Winter 2008), 460–85.

Nissen, Bruce, and Sherman Henry, “The Legacy of Racism: A Case Study of Continuing Racial Impediments to Union Effectiveness,” Labor Studies Journal, 33 (Dec. 2008), 349–70.

Pierce, Michael, “The Mechanics of Little Rock: Free Labor Ideas in Antebellum Arkansas, 1845–1861,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2008), 222–44.

Reid, Mandy, “Racial Profiling: Visualizing Racial Science on the Covers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852–1928,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 30 (Dec. 2008), 369–87.

Rice, Tom, “‘The True Story of the Ku Klux Klan’: Defining the Klan through Film,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 471–88.

Runstedtler, Theresa, “Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line,” Radical History Review (no. 103, Winter 2009), 59–81.

Sumpter, Amy R., “Segregation of the Free People of Color and the Construction of Race in Antebellum New Orleans,” Southeastern Geographer, 48 (May 2008), 19–37.

Williams, Benton, “AT&T and the Private-Sector Origins of Private-Sector Affirmitive Action,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 542–68.

Battat, Erin Mary Royston, “‘Ain’t Got No Home’: Race and American Migration Narratives in the Depression Era” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312286.

Browder, Dorothea, “From Uplift to Agitation: Working Women, Race, and Coalition in the Young Women’s Christian Association, 1908–1950” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314380.

Cardon, Lauren S., “Marrying in and out of Whiteness: Twentieth-Century Intermarriage Narratives” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3310066.

Jopling, Hannah, “Making a Way out of No Way: Relations between Blacks and Whites in Annapolis, Maryland, from 1902 to 1952” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3303789.

Mellis, Delia Cunningham, “‘The Monsters We Defy’: Washington, D.C. in the Red Summer of 1919” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310654.

Sokol, Marienka J., “Illusions of Abundance: Culture and Urban Water Use in the Arid Southwest” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314291.

Spaulding, Stephany R., “The Crisis of White Imagination: Towards the Literary Abolition of Whiteness” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3307487.

Steptoe, Tyina Leaneice, “Dixie West: Race, Migration, and the Color Lines in Jim Crow Houston” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314354.

Dorr, Gregory Michael, Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xiv, 297 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2755-8.)

High, Steven, Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere, 1940–1967. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii, 299 pp. $89.95, isbn 978-0-230-60943-3.)

Hollandsworth, James G., Jr., Portrait of a Scientific Racist: Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xviii, 318 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3336-1.)

Levitt, Jeremy I., and Matthew C. Whitaker, Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 324 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1760-7.)

Litwack, Leon F., How Free Is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 187 pp. $18.95, isbn 978-0-674-03152-4.)

Loury, Glenn C., Race, Incarceration, and American Values. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2008. 86 pp. $14.95, isbn 978-0-262-12311-2.)

Pohlmann, Marcus D., Opportunity Lost: Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xiv, 282 pp. $42.00, isbn 978-1-57233-638-4.)

Schueller, Malini Johar, Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-colonial Citizenship. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. viii, 247 pp. Cloth, $74.50, isbn 978-0-7914-7681-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7682-6.)

Stockley, Grif, Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the Present. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. xxiv, 529 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55728-885-1.)

Stuckey, Sterling, African Culture and Melville’s Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 154 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-19-537270-0.)

Walker, Clarence E., Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten By Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xiv, 128 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2777-0.)

Wolters, Raymond, Race and Education, 1954–2007. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 313 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1828-5.)

Kimber, Edward, The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson, ed. Matthew Mason and Nicholas Mason. (Peterborough: Broadview, 2009. 242 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-55111-703-4.)

Lockley, Timothy James, ed., Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xxiv, 142 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-776-4. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-57003-777-1.)

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Religion

Ammerman, Nancy T., “Southern Baptists and the New Christian Right,” Review of Religious Research, 50 (Oct. 2008), 69–91.

Brenneman, Robert, “Embodied Forgiveness: Yoder and the (Body) Politics of Footwashing,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 83 (Jan. 2009), 7–28.

Crumb, Lawrence N., “The Extra-Canonical Ordination of Bishops and the Episcopal Church,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 77 (Dec. 2008), 402–13.

Day, Sara, “Harriet E. Freeman and the Larger Life of Edward Everett Hale,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 32 (2008), 21–90.

Faught, Jerry L., “John Davis and Joseph Islands: Indigenous Missionaries among the Creeks in Indian Territory,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Spring 2008), 32–43.

Flowers, Elizabeth H., “‘A Man, a Christian . . . And a Gentleman?’: John Day, Southern Baptists, and the Nineteenth-Century Mission to Liberia,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Spring 2008), 70–85.

Grasso, Christopher, “Skepticism and Faith: The Early Republic,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.

Hart, D. G., “After the Breakup, Heartbreak: Conservative Presbyterians without a Common Foe,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 86 (Fall–Winter 2008), 61–70.

Hoge, Dean R., “Interpreting Change in American Catholicism: The River and the Floodgate,” Review of Religious Research, 50 (Oct. 2008), 55–65.

Holcomb, J. David, “A Millstone Hanged about His Neck? George W. Truett, Anti-Catholicism, and Baptist Conceptions of Religious Liberty,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Summer–Fall 2008), 68–81.

Hughes, Lynn Gordon, “Orestes A. Brownson’s This-Worldly Universalism,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 32 (2008), 1–20.

Meyer, Scott J., “Missouri Synod Chicagoland Churches and Home Missions: Part Two,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 81 (Fall 2008), 154–76.

Miller, Keith Graber, “Transforming Vocation: A Mennonite Perspective,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 83 (Jan. 2009), 29–48.

Newman, Harvey K., and Glenda Krunk, “Religious Leaders in the Aftermath of Atlanta’s 1906 Race Riot,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Winter 2008), 460–85.

Pitman, Bambra (Barb), “Culture, Caste, and Conflict in New Orleans Catholicism: Archbishop Francis Janssens and the Color Line,” Louisiana History, 49 (Fall 2008), 423–62.

Ricketts, Jeremy R., “Tennessee’s 1884 ‘Mormon Massacre’ and the Cane Creek Vigilante Movement,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Fall 2008), 208–35.

Scott, John Thomas, “‘Next to Nothing’: Benjamin Ingham’s Mission to Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Fall 2008), 287–320.

Underwood, William D., “The Metaphor of the Wall of Separation: Baptists and the First Amendment,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Summer–Fall 2008), 27–43.

Voelker, David J., “Cincinnati’s Infernal Regions Exhibit and the Waning of Calvinist Authority,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 219–39.

Walker, C. Douglas, “Baptists and the First Amendment: An Historical Overview,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Summer–Fall 2008), 8–26.

Woods, Fred E., “A Most Influential Mormon Islander: Jonathan Hawaii Napela,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 135–57.

Brodrecht, Grant R., “‘Our Country’: Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction” (University of Notre Dame, 2008). Order No. DA3309161.

Callon, David Jerome, “Converting Catholicism: Orestes A. Brownson, Anna H. Dorsey, and Irish America, 1840–1896” (Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3316599.

Chen, Liang (Larry), “From a Christian Socialist to a Christian Realist: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Soviet Union, 1930–1945” (National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2008).

Clark, Adam L., “Honoring the Ancestors: Toward an Afrocentric Approach to Christian Theology” (Union Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3314595.

Cohen, Michael R., “Schechter’s Disciples: How Solomon Schechter’s Students Created Conservative Judaism, 1902–1946” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3304015.

Egan, James Truett, “The Impact of William Tennent Sr. on the First Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies” (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3305474.

Fanusie, Fatimah Abdul-Tawwab, “Fard Muhammad in Historical Context: An Islamic Thread in the American Religious and Cultural Quilt” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3307750.

Gasaway, Brantley W., “An Alternative Soul of Politics: The Rise of Contemporary Progressive Evangelism” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304416.

Hackett, Paul Gerard, “Barbarian Lands: Theos Bernard, Tibet, and the American Religious Life” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3305226.

Herzog, Jonathan, “The Hammer and the Cross: America’s Holy War against Communism” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313585.

Iwig-O’Byrne, Liam, “How Methodists Were Made: ‘The Arminian Magazine’ and Spiritual Transformation in the Transatlantic World, 1778–1803” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307252.

Johnson, Michelle, “‘Pure and Undefiled Religion’: David Walker’s Use of the Bible against the Christian Slaveocracy in America” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3308405.

Karppi, Daniel G., “Render unto Caeser, Render unto God: Texas Denominational Colleges and Universities and the Politics of the Civil War Era” (Baylor University, 2008). Order No. DA3310773.

Kenny, Gale L., “Contentious Liberties: Gendered Power and Religious Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century American Mission to Jamaica” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309898.

Lamb, Lisa Washington, “To Remember Well Together: Preaching and the Formation of Ethnically Diverse Congregations” (Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Theology, 2008). Order No. DA3308926.

Lang, John C., “William Sloane Coffin Jr.: Preacher to America’s Conscience” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3308665.

Legath, Jennifer Anne Wiley, “The Phoebe Phenomenon: The Protestant Deaconess Movement in the United States, 1880–1930” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3305301.

McIlhenny, Ryan, “To Preach Deliverance to the Captives: Antislavery and Anti-Catholicism in the Religious Writings of George Bourne (1780–1845)” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3308604.

Miles, Mary C., “Democracy Within: Religious Outsiders and the Americanization of Psychoanalysis during and after World War II” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317448.

Monk, Karen Annita, “‘My Lord, My Love, Is Crucified!’ A Theological and Depth Psychological Exploration of Vicissitudes of Aggression, Mourning, and Grace in Good Friday Worship in the United Methodist Church” (Union Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3314596.

Park, Jung Eun Sophia, “A Hermeneutics of Dislocation as Experience: A Resource for Asian American Christian Spirituality” (Graduate Theological Union, 2008). Order No. DA3313236.

Pingel, Jim, “Providential Leader: The Influence and Impact of Religion on George Washington” (Cardinal Stritch University, 2008). Order No. DA3313830.

Powell, Damon A., “Black Is Beautiful: An Exploration in Black Theology, Aesthetics & Art” (Graduate Theological Union, 2008). Order No. DA3313238.

Santiago Vendrell, Angel Daniel, “Contextual Theology and Revolutionary Transformation: The Missiology of M. Richard Shaull, 1942–2002” (Boston University School of Theology, 2008). Order No. DA3305404.

Smith, David P., “B. B. Warfield’s Scientifically Constructive Theological Scholarship” (Trinity International University, 2008). Order No. DA3308211.

Stern, Andrew, “Southern Cross, Southern Crucifix: Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310292.

Stewart, Caitlin Carenen, “Religious Diplomacy: American Protestants and a Jewish State, 1933–1979” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310293.

Stewart, Kenneth Todd, “An Inquiry into the Determinative Evangelistic Growth Factors at the First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, under the Leadership of W. A. Criswell, 1944–1991” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3313307.

Tanglen, Randi Lynn, “Reconfiguring Religion, Race, and the Female Body Politic in American Fiction by Women, 1859–1911” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3307979.

Wilcox, Jeffrey A., “A More Thorough Trinitarian: Reconsidering Moses Stuart’s Role in the Trinitarian Debate in New England, 1819–1850” (Marquette University, 2008). Order No. DA3306524.

Young, Neil J., “We Gather Together: Catholics, Mormons, Southern Baptists, and the Question of Interfaith Politics, 1972–1984” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3305279.

Grabbe, Hans-Jürgen, ed., Halle Pietism, Colonial North America, and the Young United States. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008. 321 pp. €59.00, isbn 978-3-515-08767-4.)

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

Jackson, Gregory S., The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 409 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-226-39003-1. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-226-39004-8.)

Lindman, Janet Moore, Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 270 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4114-3.)

Santana, Richard W., and Gregory Erickson, Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. vi, 225 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3553-1.)

Smart, William B., Mormonism’s Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2008. x, 347 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-87421-722-3.) Includes cd.

Smith, John Howard, The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion: A History of Sandemanianism in the Eighteenth Century. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. x, 236 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2507-8.)

White, Christopher G., Unsettled Minds: Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830–1940. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xii, 266 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-520-25679-8.)

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Revolutionary and Early National

Grasso, Christopher, “Skepticism and Faith: The Early Republic,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.

Luconi, Stefano, “James Madison and Impeachment: Theory and Practice,” in James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman, ed. John R. Vile, William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams, 193–208. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiv, 302 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1831-4. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1832-1.)

Schmeller, Mark, “The Political Economy of Opinion: Public Credit and Concepts of Public Opinion in the Age of Federalism,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Spring 2009), 35–61.

Uhm, Kiyul, “The Founders and the Revolutionary Underpinning of the Concept of the Right to Know,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 85 (Summer 2008), 393–417.

Herman, Luciana Louise, “1794: American Race, Republicanism, and Transnational Revolution” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306164.

Ohls, Gary J., “Roots of Tradition: Amphibious Warfare in the Early American Republic” (Texas Christian University, 2208). Order No. DA3303585.

Pingel, Jim, “Providential Leader: The Influence and Impact of Religion on George Washington” (Cardinal Stritch University, 2008). Order No. DA3313830.

Rivera, Ann, “‘And Sympathy Unites, Whom Fate Divides’: Reading and Social Bonds in Early America” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3307624.

Wewers, Daniel Corbett, “The Specter of Disunion in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312564.

Kahler, Gerald E., The Long Farewell: Americans Mourn the Death of George Washington. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xii, 190 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2750-3.)

Lindman, Janet Moore, Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 270 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4114-3.)

Ward, Harry M., “Going Down Hill”: Legacies of the American Revolutionary War. (Palo Alto: Academica, 2009. xii, 353 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-1-933146-57-7.)

Cohn, Ellen R., ed., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 39: January 21 through May 15, 1783. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. lxii, 676 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-300-13448-3.)

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Rural

Caporaso, Alicia, “Six Upper Missouri River Fur Trading Posts: Trends in Organization,” South Dakota History, 38 (Winter 2008), 312–34.

Sanderson, Nathan B., “More Than a Potluck: Shared Meals and Community-Building in Rural Nebraska at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 120–31.

White, Katherine J. Curtis, “Population Change and Farm Dependence: Temporal and Spatial Variation in the U.S. Great Plains, 1900–2000,” Demography, 45 (May 2008), 363–86.

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Science and Technology

Cavicchi, Elizabeth, “Charles Grafton Page’s Experiment with a Spiral Conductor,” Technology and Culture, 49 (Oct. 2008), 884–907.

Collis, Christy, and Klaus Dodds, “Assault on the Unknown: The Historical and Political Geographies of the International Geophysical Year (1957–8),” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 34 (Oct. 2008), 555–73.

Deitchman, Seymour J., “The ‘Electronic Battlefield’ in the Vietnam War,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 869–87.

Glasberg, Elena, “Who Goes There? Science, Fiction, and Belonging in Anarctica,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 34 (Oct. 2008), 639–57.

Heicht, David K., “The Atomic Hero: Robert Oppenheimer and the Making of Scientific Icons in the Early Cold War,” Technology and Culture, 49 (Oct. 2008), 943–66.

Hintz, Eric S., “Portable Power: Inventor Samuel Ruben and the Birth of Duracell,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Jan. 2009), 24–57.

Holley, I. B., Jr., “The Mechanization of Brickmaking,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Jan. 2009), 82–102.

McCray, W. Patrick, “From Lab to iPod: A Story of Discovery and Commercialization in the Post–Cold War Era,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Jan. 2009), 58–81.

Naylor, Aimon, Katrina Dean, and Martin Siegert, “The igy and the Ice Sheet: Surveying Antarctica,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 34 (Oct. 2008), 574–95.

Slavishak, Edward, “From Nation to Family: Two Careers in the Recasting of Eugenics,” Journal of Family History, 34 (Jan. 2009), 89–115.

Wells, Wyatt, “Public Power in the Eisenhower Administration,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 227–62.

Calvert, Scout Amanda Rainbow, “Technobibliocapital: Knowledge, Practice, and Play in Library Worlds” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317368.

Carruth, Allison, “Global Appetites: Literary Form and Food Politics from World War I to the World Trade Organization” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313543.

David, Shay, “Open Systems in Practice and Theory: The Social Construction of Participatory Information Networks” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317452.

Lavine, Matthew, “A Cultural History of Radiation and Radioactivity in the United States, 1895–1945” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314335.

Mount, Houston Faust, “Oilfield Revolutionary: The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer” (Southern Methodist University, 2008). Order No. DA3307754.

Mullet, Shawn Khristian, “Little Man: Four Junior Physicists and the Red Scare Experience” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312464.

Paton, Miranda Vierra, “Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1894–1944” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317482.

Schwartz, Rebecca Press, “The Making of the History of the Atomic Bomb: Henry DeWolf Smyth and the Historiography of the Manhattan Project” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3312809.

Wald, Stephen E., “Minds Divided: Science, Spirituality, and the Split Brain in American Thought” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314264.

Wolff, Joshua D., “‘The Great Monopoly’: Western Union and the American Telegraph, 1845–1893” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317619.

Conway, Erik M., Atmospheric Science at nasa: A History. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xx, 386 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8984-4.)

Craft, Stephen G., Embry-Riddle at War: Aviation Training during World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xviii, 313 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3299-3.)

Dick, Steven J., ed., Remembering the Space Age. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. xiv, 465 pp. isbn 978-0-16-081723-6.)

Emerson, Jason, Lincoln the Inventor. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xvi, 111 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2898-7. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2897-0.)

Hoddeson, Lillian, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall, Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiv, 497 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-226-34623-6.)

Mudgway, Douglas J., William H. Pickering: America’s Deep Space Pioneer. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. xvi, 255 pp. isbn 978-0-16-081536-2.)

Yardley, Laura E., Generations of Service. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2008. iv, 47 pp. Paper.)

Leadership in Space: Selected Speeches of nasa Administrator Michael Griffin, May 2005–October 2008. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. xii, 329 pp.)

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Sexuality

Guldi, Melanie, “Fertility Effects of Abortion and Birth Control Pill Access for Minors,” Demography, 45 (Nov. 2008), 817–27.

Hanchett, William, “Lincoln and the Tripp Thesis,” Lincoln Herald, 110 (Fall 2008), 161–204.

Gorfinkel, Elena, “‘Indecent Desires’: Sexploitation Cinema, 1960s Film Culture, and the Adult Film Audience” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3307997.

Kahan, Benjamin, “Modern American Celibacies, 1886–1969” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309449.

Pitzulo, Carrie A., “Bachelors and Bunnies: Playboy Magazine and Modern Heterosexuality, 1953–1973” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310596.

Pritchard, Eric Darnell, “‘A Litany for Survival’: Black Queer Literacies” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314337.

Taylor, Jami Kathleen, “The Adoption of Gender Identity Inclusive Legislation in the American States” (North Carolina State University, 2008). Order No. DA3306647.

Turcotte, Heather M., “Petro-Sexual Politics: Global Oil, Legitimate Violence, and Transnational Justice” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317419.

Pastusiak, Longin, Romanse prezydentów usa (The love affairs of U.S. presidents). (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2009. 438 pp. zl. 34.30, isbn 978-8-372-32835-9.) In Polish.

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Slavery

Eltis, David, “The U.S. Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644–1867: An Assessment,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 347–78.

Finkelman, Paul, “Regulating the African Slave Trade,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 379–405.

Kelley, Sean, “Blackbirders and Bozales: African-Born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the Nineteenth Century,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 406–23.

Lowance, Mason, and Jan Pilditch, “Writing the Law: Literature and Slavery in Nineteenth Century America,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 66–82.

O’Neil, Patrick W., “Bosses and Broomsticks: Ritual and Authority in Antebellum Slave Weddings,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 29–48.

Olmstead, Alan L., and Paul W. Rhode, “Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 1123–71.

Weiner, Dana E., “Anti-abolition Violence and Freedom of Speech in Peoria, Illinois, 1843–1848,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 179–204.

Younger, Karen Fisher, “Liberia and the Last Slave Ships,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 424–42.

Zafar, Rafia, “Frederick Douglass and George Teamoh: Anxieties of Influence in the Postbellum Slave Narrative,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.

Connolly, David Hugh, Jr., “A Question of Honor: State Character and the Lower South’s Defense of the African Slave Trade in Congress, 1789–1807” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309848.

Dacus, Chad, “Essays on the Economic History of Slavery” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309851.

di Bonaventura, Allegra, “This Little World: Family and Slavery in Old New England, 1678–1764” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317092.

Fuentes, Marisa Joanna, “Buried Landscapes: Enslaved Black Women, Sex, Confinement, and Death in Colonial Bridgetown, Barbados and Charleston, South Carolina” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306141.

Gibbs, Jenna Marie, “Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Rights, and Revolution in Transatlantic Theatricality (1760s–1830s)” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3318238.

Hickman, Jared Winston, “Black Prometheus: Political Theologies of Atlantic Slavery” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312382.

Johnson, Michelle, “‘Pure and Undefiled Religion’: David Walker’s Use of the Bible against the Christian Slaveocracy in America” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3308405.

Picarelli, John T., “The ‘Modern Day’ Trade in Human Beings: How Historical Experience Influences the Contemporary Trafficking in Persons” (American University, 2008). Order No. DA3305794.

Riley, Padraig Griffin, “Northern Republicans and Southern Slavery: Democracy in the Age of Jefferson, 1800–1819” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306312.

Turner, Jennifer Louise, “From Savagery to Slavery: Upper Louisiana and the American Nation” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314222.

Walsh-Russo, Cecelia Catherine, “‘The World Is My Country and My Countrmen Are All Mankind’: Transnational Diffusion of Anglo-American Abolitionism, 1824–1839” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317629.

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, and Judith Newman, eds., Public Art, Memorials, and Atlantic Slavery. (London: Routledge, 2009. 178 pp. $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-48315-5.)

Thomas, Kenneth, The Religious Dancing of American Slaves, 1820–1865: Spiritual Ecstasy at Baptisms, Funerals, and Sunday Meetings. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. x, 136 pp. $99.95, isbn 978-0-7734-4926-8.)

Woolfork, Lisa, Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 233 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03390-2.)

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Social and Cultural

Agar, Jon, “What Happened in the Sixties?,” British Journal for the History of Science (London), 41 (Dec. 2008), 567–600.

Brandimarte, Cynthia, “Women on the Home Front: Hostess Houses during World War I,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Winter 2008), 201–22.

Burris, Val, “From Vietnam to Iraq: Continuity and Change in Between-Group Differences in Support for Military Action,” Social Problems, 55 (Nov. 2008), 443–79.

Dawn, Leslie, “Cross-Border Trading: Mungo Martin Carves for the World of Tomorrow,” bc Studies (Vancouver) (no. 159, Autumn 2008), 7–44.

Dibbell, Jeremy B., “‘A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors’: The First Purchase Collection of Union College,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 4, 2008), 367–96.

Fiorentino, Daniele, “Prospettive di una grande potenza, società, e cultura negli Stati Uniti a metà del XIX secolo” (Prospectives on a great power, society, and culture in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century), Giornale di storia Contemporanea (Rome), 7 (2008), 27–67. In Italian.

Howard, Vicki, “The Rise and Fall of Rudge & Guenzel: From Independent Retailer to Department Store Chain,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 102–19.

Krishnendu, Ray, “Nation and Cuisine: The Evidence from American Newspapers, ca. 1830–2003,” Food & Foodways, 16 (Oct. 2008), 259–97.

Kuzmarov, Jeremy, “From Counter-insurgency to Narco-insurgency: Vietnam and the International War on Drugs,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 344–78.

Osborn, Matthew Warner, “A Detestable Shrine: Alcohol Abuse in Antebellum Philadelphia,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Spring 2009), 101–32.

Park, Yoosun, “Facilitating Injustice: Tracing the Role of Social Workers in the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans,” Social Service Review, 82 (Sept. 2008), 447–83.

Prince, K. Stephen, “A Rebel Yell for Yankee Doodle: Selling the New South at the 1881 Atlanta International Cotton Exposition,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Fall 2008), 340–71.

Rogers, Randal, “Colonial Imitation and Racial Insubordination: Photography at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition of 1904,” History of Photography (London), 32 (Winter 2008), 347–67.

Runyon, Carl, and Randy K. Mills, “‘The Most Wonderful Thing I Have Ever Seen’: Indiana’s Contribution to Petrified Man Hoaxes,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (Dec. 2008), 367–78.

Sanderson, Nathan B., “More Than a Potluck: Shared Meals and Community-Building in Rural Nebraska at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 120–31.

Scroop, Daniel, “The Anti–Chain Store Movement and the Politics of Consumption,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 925–49.

Slavishak, Edward, “From Nation to Family: Two Careers in the Recasting of Eugenics,” Journal of Family History, 34 (Jan. 2009), 89–115.

Sparrow, James T., “‘Buying Our Boys Back’: The Mass Foundations of Fiscal Citizenship in World War II,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 263–86.

Steigerwald, David, “Did the Protestant Ethic Disappear? The Virtue of Thrift on the Cusp of Postwar Affluence,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Dec. 2008), 788–815.

Surdam, David G., “The New York Yankees Cope with the Great Depression,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Dec. 2008), 816–40.

Blum, Francelle L., “When Marriages Fail: Divorce in Nineteenth-Century Texas” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309835.

Burt, Ryan Edward, “Reading for Time: Race and the Politics of the American Canon in an Age of Empire” (University of Washington, 2008).

Callon, David Jerome, “Converting Catholicism: Orestes A. Brownson, Anna H. Dorsey, and Irish America, 1840–1896” (Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3316599.

Chybowski, Julia J., “Developing American Taste: A Cultural History of the Early Twentieth-Century Music Appreciation Movement” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314214.

Duvall, Jeffery Alan, “‘Burley Paid the Bills’: Twentieth Century Tobacco Culture in the Central Ohio River Valley” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3307421.

Hinrichsen, Lisa, “Moving Forward, Looking Past: Trauma, Fantasy, and Misrecognition in Southern Literature, 1930–2001” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314030.

Houser, Tai Lynden, “Mind the Gap: Overcoming Dualities in Motor City, USA” (Florida Atlantic University, 2008). Order No. DA3316918.

Kraus-Friedberg, Chana, “‘Where You Stay?’: Transnational Identity in Sugar Plantation Worker Cemeteries, Pahala, Hawai‘i” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309461.

Lawler, Kristin, “Radical: The Image of the Surfer and the Politics of Popular Culture” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310642.

Mellis, Delia Cunningham, “‘The Monsters We Defy’: Washington, D.C. in the Red Summer of 1919” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310654.

Nehls, Christopher Courtney, “‘A Grand and Glorious Feeling’: The American Legion and American Nationalism between the World Wars” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3305894.

O’Heron, Diane M., “Renunciation and Resistance: Confessions of the Alcoholic and Addicted Experience in the 19th and 20th Centuries” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3310690.

Otis, Katherine Ann, “Everything Old Is New Again: A Social and Cultural History of Life on the Retirement Frontier, 1950–2000” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304374.

Possner, Roger, “Cultures of Militarism: Preparations for War in the Progressive Era” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3305660.

Scott, William Ramsey, “Dressing Down: Modernism, Masculinity, and the Men’s Leisurewear Industry in California, 1930–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306335.

Thaler, Valerie Sandler, “The Reshaping of American Jewish Identity, 1945 to 1960” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317230.

Walter, Christina Michelle, “The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality from Optics to Aesthetics” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314930.

Batchelor, Bob, The 2000s. (Westport: Greenwood, 2009. xxii, 236 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-34912-6.)

Brownell, Susan, ed., The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xviii, 471 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1098-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Koritz, Amy, Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 200 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03384-1.)

Santana, Richard W., and Gregory Erickson, Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. vi, 225 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3553-1.)

Tidwell, John Edgar, and Steven C. Tracy, eds., After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxvi, 470 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-19-536580-1.)

Woolfork, Lisa, Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 233 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03390-2.)

Stewart, Bruce E., ed., King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. lxii, 127 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-57233-640-7.)

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Social Welfare and Public Health

Gutman, Marta, “Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the wpa Swimming Pools in New York City,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 532–61.

Hutchinson, John M., “What Was Tad Lincoln’s Speech Problem?,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30 (Winter 2009), 35–51.

Mittelstadt, Jennifer, “Philanthropy, Feminism, and Left Liberalism, 1960–1985,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 105–31.

Renner, Andrea, “A Nation That Bathes Together: New York City’s Progressive Era Public Baths,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 504–31.

Richardson, Janine M., “‘None of Them Came for Me’: The Kapi‘olani Home for Girls, 1885–1938,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 1–26.

Crust, Louis, “Challenging Nonprofit Legal Services: Four Cases from New Orleans, 1970–2004” (University of New Orleans, 2007). Order No. DA3313777.

Field, Corinne T., “Woman’s Rights and the Politics of Adulthood in the United States, 1792–1939” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317547.

Venit, Tamara Hilary, “A Squatters’ Republic: Land Rights, Reform, and Anti-monopoly in California and the Nation, 1850–1920” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313680.

Kirkland, Kate Sayen, The Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. xxii, 373 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-292-71865-4.)

Gunn, Thomas Butler, ed., The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xxxiv, 200 pp. Cloth, $68.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4439-7. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4440-2.)

Lynd, Alice, and Staughton Lynd, Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together. (Lanham: Lexington, 2009. xvi, 191 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-7391-2749-0.)

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Sports and Recreation

Barker-Ruchti, Natalie, “Ballerinas and Pixies: A Genealogy of the Changing Female Gymnastics Body,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 45–62.

Dyreson, Mark, “The Endless Olympic Bid: Los Angeles and the Marketing of the American West,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 26–39.

Dyreson, Mark, and Matthew Llewellyn, “Los Angeles Is the Olympic City: Legacies of the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 25 (Dec. 2008), 1991–2018.

Essington, Amy, “Equality on the Baseball Diamond: Integrating the Pacific Coast League, 1948–1952,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 49–59.

Gutman, Marta, “Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the wpa Swimming Pools in New York City,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 532–61.

Henderson, Simon, “Crossing the Line: Sport and the Limits of Civil Rights Protest,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 101–21.

Lomax, Michael, “Not Quite Ready for Prime Time: The Pacific Coast League’s Attempt to Become a Third Major League in Baseball,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 14–25.

McMurray, David, “Rivaling the Gentleman in the Gentle Art: The Authority of the Victorian Woman Angler,” Sport History Review, 39 (Nov. 2008), 99–126.

Smith, Maureen, “Willie Mays Plaza, McCovey Point, and the Dominican Dandy in Bronze: (De)Constructing History at AT&T Park in San Francisco,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 60–69.

Tope, Jennifer Day, “Fighting the Second World War in Paradise with a Bat and Glove: Major League Baseball Comes to Hawai‘i,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 265–76.

Demas, Lane, “Integrating the Gridiron: Civil Rights and American College Football, 1935–1970” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3311554.

Kaliss, Gregory John, “Everyone’s All-Americans: Race, Men’s College Athletics, and the Ideal of Equal Opportunity” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304342.

Lansbury, Jennifer H., “Champions Indeed: The Emergence of African American Women Athletes in American Society, 1930–1960” (George Mason University, 2008). Order No. DA3313515.

Lawler, Kristin, “Radical: The Image of the Surfer and the Politics of Popular Culture” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310642.

Taylor, Tom, “The Servant Leadership of John Wooden” (Pepperdine University, 2008). Order No. DA3307917.

Ezra, Michael, Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $69.50, isbn 978-1-59213-661-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-59213-662-9.)

Fountain, Charles, Under the March Sun: The Story of Spring Training. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. x, 322 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-537203-8.)

Kuska, Bob, Cinderella Ball: A Look Inside Small-College Basketball in West Virginia. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xx, 289 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1392-0.)

Riess, Steven A., and Gerald R. Gems, eds., The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 368 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03281-3. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07615-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

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Teaching, Surveys, and Textbooks

Follett, Richard, et al., “Documenting the Louisiana Sugar Economy, 1845–1917: An Online Database Project,” Journal of Peasant Studies (London), 35 (Nov. 2008), 801–10.

Laurie, Bruce, “Workers, Abolitionists, and the Historians: A Historiographical Perspective,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Winter 2008), 17–55.

Berkin, Carol, Margaret S. Crocco, and Barbara Winslow, eds., Clio in the Classroom: A Guide for Teaching U.S. Women’s History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv, 318 pp. Cloth, $99.00, isbn 978-0-19-532012-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-532013-8.)

Brescia, Michael M., and John C. Super, North America: An Introduction. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xvi, 247 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-80209-675-3.)

O’Brien, Jodi, ed., Encyclopedia of Gender and Society. (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009. Vol. 1: xxxii, 496 pp. Vol. 2: xx, 479 pp. $315.00, isbn 978-1-4129-0916-7.)

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Transnational and Comparative

Bhalla, Vibha, “Detroit and Windsor as Transnational Spaces: A Case Study of Asian Indian Migrants,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 99–116.

Dawn, Leslie, “Cross-Border Trading: Mungo Martin Carves for the World of Tomorrow,” bc Studies (Vancouver) (no. 159, Autumn 2008), 7–44.

Dyer, Gary, “The Transatlantic Pocahontas,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 30 (Dec. 2008), 301–22.

Frank, Alison, “The Petroleum War of 1910: Standard Oil, Austria, and the Limits of the Multinational Corporation,” American Historical Review, 114 (Feb. 2009), 16–41.

Fujimoto, Shigeo, “Trans-Pacific Boy Scout Movement in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of the Boy Scout Movement in Osaka, Japan,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 29–43.

Longo, Julie, “Consuming Freedom: The International Freedom Festival as Transnational Tourism Strategy on the Windsor-Detroit Border, 1959–1976,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 119–37.

Michalek, Krysztof, “Levittown a Mies: Czy doswiadczenia z wczesnego okresu amerykanskiej suburbanizacji moga miec zastosowanie w Polsce?” (Levittown and Mies: Might an experience from an early period of American suburbanization be applied to Polish realities?), in Oblicze polityczne regionów Polski: Elity I spoleczenstwo, ed. Malgorzata Dejnowicz, 15–29. (Bialystok: Wydawnictwo Wyzszej Szkoly Finansów I Zarzadzania, 2008. isbn 978-8-360-43237-2.) In Polish.

Mitrano, G. F., “Sontag and the Europeans,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 908–20.

Ziólek, Magdalena, “Americanization as Globalization of Culture? Theories and Their Relevance for Polish Cultural Identity Today,” Polish Anglosaxon Studies (Poznan), 12–13 (2007), 105–28.

Comstock, Sandra Curtis, “Imperial Denim: The Place of Blue Jeans in the Consolidation and Transformation of American Power in the 20th Century” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3311588.

Harris, JuNelle, “A Law Apart? The Politics of Pioneering Legislative Family Law Reforms in England and the United States” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312388.

Hong, Christine Jean, “Legal Fictions: Human Rights Cultural Production and the Pax Americana in the Pacific Rim” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306167.

Mendelsohn, Adam D., “Tongue Ties: Religion, Culture, and Commerce in the Making of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora, 1840–1870” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3304023.

Archer, Jermaine O., Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 128 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-99027-1.)

Kapiszewski, Andrzej, ed., Swiat arabski w procesie przemian: Zmiany spoleczne i kultruowe oraz reformy polityczne (The Arab world in the process of change: Social change). (Kraków: Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 2008. 383 pp. zl. 38.00, isbn 8-3718-8081-0.) In Polish.

Khalidi, Rashid, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. (Boston: Beacon, 2009. xvi, 308 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-8070-0310-7.)

Neville, Leigh, Special Operations Forces in Iraq. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2008. 64 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-84603-357-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Shaler, William, Communication on the Language, Manners, and Customs of the Berbers or Brebers of Africa, trans. Ali Tablit. (Algiers: Thala Editions, 2009. 64 pp. A.D.300.00, isbn 978-9-947-83444-2.) In Arabic.

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Theory and Methodology

Berlant, Lauren, “Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event,” American Literary History, 20 (Winter 2008), 845–60.

Birtle, Andrew J., “provn, Westmoreland, and the Historians: A Reappraisal,” Journal of Military History, 72 (Oct. 2008), 1213–47.

Black, Jeremy, “Frontiers and Military History,” Journal of Military History, 72 (Oct. 2008), 1047–59.

Bukowczyk, John J., “The Permeable Border, the Great Lakes Region, and the Canadian-American Relationship,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 1–16.

Cohen, Sande, “On the Body and Passion of History and Historiography,” Rethinking History (London), 12 (Dec. 2008), 515–35.

Hanchett, William, “Lincoln and the Tripp Thesis,” Lincoln Herald, 110 (Fall 2008), 161–204.

Hoffman, Richard C., et al., “AHR Conversation: Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis,” American Historical Review, 113 (Dec. 2008), 1431–65.

Meyerowitz, Joanne, “A History of ‘Gender,’” American Historical Review, 113 (Dec. 2008), 1346–56.

Spiegel, Gabrielle M., “The Task of the Historian,” American Historical Review, 114 (Feb. 2009), 1–15.

Gilchrist, Jennifer Lynn, “Houses on Fire: Late Modernist Subjectivity and Historical Crisis” (Fordham University, 2008). Order No. DA3314561.

Turcotte, Heather M., “Petro-Sexual Politics: Global Oil, Legitimate Violence, and Transnational Justice” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317419.

Murphey, Murray G., Truth and History. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. x, 213 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7623-9.)

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Transportation, Travel, and Exploration

Bergmann, William H., “Delivering a Nation through the Mail: The Post Office in the Ohio Valley, 1789–1815,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Fall 2008), 1–18.

Carter, John E., “The Platte River Road in 1866: Charles Savage’s Visual Narrative,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 132–41.

Chambliss, Julian C., “A Question of Progress and Welfare: The Jitny Bus Phenomenon in Atlanta, 1915–1925,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Winter 2008), 486–506.

Chatterjee, Choi, “‘Odds and Ends of the Russian Revolution,’ 1917–1920: Gender and American Travel Narratives,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 10–33.

Kastor, Peter J., “‘What Are the Advantages of the Acquisition?’: Inventing Expansion in the Early American Republic,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 1003–35.

Lamadrid, Enrique R., “Pilgrimage and Cultural Commerce on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro,” New Mexico Historical Review, 83 (Fall 2008), 423–49.

Mohl, Raymond A., “The Interstates and the Cities: The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Freeway Revolt, 1966–1973,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 193–226.

Pearcy, Matthew T., “Science, Politics, and Bureaucracy: Andrew A. Humphreys and the Office of Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 85–114.

Wrobel, David M., “Global West, American Frontier,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 1–27.

Bible, Ann Vollmann, “Cakewalking into Representation: Gabriele Münter’s America Travels (1898–1900) and Art of Dailiness” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008).

Grandjean, Katherine Alysia, “Reckoning: The Communications Frontier in Early New England” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312372.

Kane, Michael David, “William Lewis Manly” (University of Utah, 2008). Order No. DA3303445.

Marsh, Allison C., “The Ultimate Vacation: Watching Other People Work, a History of Factory Tours in America, 1880–1950” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3311840.

Bass, Bob, When Steamboats Reigned in Florida. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. 171 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8130-3235-1.)

Bianculli, Anthony J., Iron Rails in the Garden State: Tales of New Jersey Railroading. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xvi, 190 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35174-6.)

Gaertner, John, The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway: A History of the Lake Superior District’s Pioneer Iron Ore Hauler. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xvi, 349 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-253-35192-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Williams, Glyn, The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. x, 197 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-674-03194-4.)

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Urban and Suburban

Badillo, David A., “New Immigrants in the Bronx: Redefining a Cityscape,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 44 (Spring–Fall 2007), 19–37.

Chambliss, Julian C., “A Question of Progress and Welfare: The Jitny Bus Phenomenon in Atlanta, 1915–1925,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Winter 2008), 486–506.

Dyreson, Mark, “The Endless Olympic Bid: Los Angeles and the Marketing of the American West,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 26–39.

Greene, Anthony C., “The Black Bronx: A Look at the Foundation of the Bronx’s Black Communities until 1900,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 44 (Spring–Fall 2007), 1–18.

Krulikowski, Anne E., “‘A Workingman’s Paradise’: The Evolution of an Unplanned Suburban Landscape,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Winter 2008), 243–85.

Atabay, Piril H., “Belonging to the City: Rural Migrants in Modernizing Chicago and Istanbul” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3312658.

Finger, Simon, “Epidemic Constitutions: Public Health and Political Culture in the Port of Philadelphia, 1735–1800” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3305758.

Mullgardt, Brian C., “‘Don’t Come to Chicago. . . ’: The Events Surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention as Experienced by Chicago Residents” (University of Connecticut, 2008). Order No. DA3304543.

Murphy, Brian Phillips, “Empire State Building: Interests, Institutions, and the Formation of States and Parties in New York, 1783–1845” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312156.

Negrete White, Charlotte Rebecca, “Power vs. the People of Chávez Ravine: A Study of Their Determination and Fortitude” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3308415.

Niedt, Christopher William, “The Politics of Prosperity and Crisis in an Industrial Suburb: Dundalk, Maryland, 1920–2005” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306276.

Stephenson, Ross Wayland, “The Importance of Planning to Waikiki: A History and Analysis” (University of Hawai‘i, 2008). Order No. DA3311905.

Feld, Marjorie N., Lillian Wald: A Biography. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. x, 303 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3236-3.)

Keating, Ann Durkin, Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 329 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-226-42883-3.)

Koritz, Amy, Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 200 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03384-1.)

Postal, Matthew A., ed., Guide to New York City Landmarks. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2009. xii, 451 pp. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-470-28963-1.) Fourth edition with new landmark designations.

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Visual and Performing Arts

Baird, Lisa A., “Susan Sontag and Diane Arbus: The Siamese Twins of Photographic Art,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 971–86.

Carter, John E., “The Platte River Road in 1866: Charles Savage’s Visual Narrative,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 132–41.

Chansky, Dorothy, “Usable Performance Feminism for Our Time: Reconsidering Betty Friedan,” Theatre Journal, 60 (Oct. 2008), 341–64.

Greaves, Brendan, “‘A Paper Wedding’: The Vernacular Modernism of Felipe Jesus Consalvos,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 55 (Spring–Summer 2008), 4–16.

Hammond, Anne, “Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keeffe: On the Intangible in Art and Nature,” History of Photography (London), 32 (Winter 2008), 301–13.

Le Beau, Bryan F., “The Mind of the North in Pictures: Currier and Ives’s Civil War,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.

Maimon, Vered, “Displaced ‘Origins’: William Henry Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature,” History of Photography (London), 32 (Winter 2008), 314–25.

Rogers, Randal, “Colonial Imitation and Racial Insubordination: Photography at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition of 1904,” History of Photography (London), 32 (Winter 2008), 347–67.

Schmitt, Natalie Crohn, “Creating Community: Experiments in Drama at Francis W. Parker School, Chicago,” Theatre Survey, 49 (May 2008), 37–64.

Sehat, David, “Gender and Theatrical Realism: The Problem of Clyde Fitch,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (July 2008), 325–52.

Wall, David, “‘A Chaos of Sin and Folly’: Art, Culture, and Carnival in Antebellum America,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 515–35.

Browne, Dorothy M., “New York City Museums and Cultural Leadership, 1917–1940” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310757.

Chung, Nogin, “Picturing American Women: Popular Culture Images of Postwar Womanhood in the United States” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3313431.

Clancy, Jonathan, “Transcendentalism and the Crisis of Self in American Art and Culture, 1830–1930” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3306980.

Harvey, Douglas S., “Theater and Empire: A History of Assumptions in the English-Speaking Atlantic World, 1700–1860” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3307726.

Heydt, Stephanie Gray Mayer, “The Art of The Gift: Edward L. Carey, William Sidney Mount, Daniel Huntington, and the Antebellum Gift Book” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314029.

Joyce, Valerie Michelle, “‘You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun’ and Other Life Lessons: Biography in the American Musical Theatre” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307892.

McCleary, Timothy Paul, “Ghosts on the Land: Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Interpretations of Rock Art” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314852.

Napolitano, Laura Groves, “Nurturing Change: Lilly Martin Spencer’s Images of Children” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307822.

Nasstrom, Heidi, “‘Live in the Country with Faith’: Jane and Ralph Whitehead, the Simple Life Movement, and Arts and Crafts in the United States, England, and on the Continent, 1870–1930” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307767.

Ragar, Cheryl R., “Plunging into the Very Depths of the Souls of Our People: The Life and Art of Aaron Douglas” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3307709.

Shanks, Samuel T., “Crowd Pleasing Moves: Acting Technique, Social Performance, and the Popularization of the Nineteenth Century American Theatre” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3303794.

Baker, Nicholas, and Margaret M. Betts, John Prentiss Benson: American Marine Artist. (Portsmouth: Baker Marine, 2008. 136 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-9821761-0-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, and Judith Newman, eds., Public Art, Memorials, and Atlantic Slavery. (London: Routledge, 2009. 178 pp. $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-48315-5.)

Hausdoerffer, John, Caitlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xvi, 184 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1631-2.)

Stewart, Todd, Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 125 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3951-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Kramer, Hilton, The Age of the Avant-Garde, 1956–1972. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2009. xxiv, 565 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-4128-0834-7.) Originally published in 1973.

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Women

Barker-Ruchti, Natalie, “Ballerinas and Pixies: A Genealogy of the Changing Female Gymnastics Body,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 45–62.

Brandimarte, Cynthia, “Women on the Home Front: Hostess Houses during World War I,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Winter 2008), 201–22.

DuBois, Ellen Carol, “Seneca Falls in Santa Cruz: Eliza W. Farnham and the Varieties of Women’s Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century California,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.

Fuchs-Abrams, Sabrina, “Women on War: Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, and Diana Trilling Debate the Vietnam War,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 987–1007.

Haines, Michael R., and Avery M. Guest, “Fertility in New York State in the Pre–Civil War Era,” Demography, 45 (May 2008), 345–61.

Hogan, Lisa Shawn, “The Politics of Feminist Autobiography: Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Eighty Years and More as Ideological Manifesto,” Women’s Studies, 38 (Jan. 2009), 1–22.

McMurray, David, “Rivaling the Gentleman in the Gentle Art: The Authority of the Victorian Woman Angler,” Sport History Review, 39 (Nov. 2008), 99–126.

Barker Devine, Jenny, “‘Our Cherished Ideals’: Rural Women, Activism, and Identity in the Midwest, 1950–1990” (Iowa State University, 2008). Order No. DA3307061.

Blair, Melissa Anna Estes, “Women’s Organizations and Grassroots Politics: Denver, Durham, and Indianapolis, 1960–1975” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312197.

Bowers, Kimberly Paige, “Misreading Justice: The Rhetoric of Revenge in Feminist Texts about Domestic Violence” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307346.

Bui, Diem-My Thi, “Embodiments of Difference: Representations of Vietnamese Women in the U.S. Cultural Imaginary” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314969.

Chung, Nogin, “Picturing American Women: Popular Culture Images of Postwar Womanhood in the United States” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3313431.

Cini, Carol Frances, “Making Women’s Rights Matter: Diverse Activists, California’s Commission on the Status of Women, and the Legislative and Social Impact of a Movement, 1962–1976” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3304665.

Decker, Stefanie Lee, “The Mask of the Southern Lady: Virginia Foster Durr, Southern Womanhood, and Reform” (Oklahoma State University, 2007). Order No. DA3304192.

Dunlap, Tameka L., “Washington’s Sweetheart: Nannie Helen Burroughs” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3304467.

Field, Corinne T., “Woman’s Rights and the Politics of Adulthood in the United States, 1792–1939” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317547.

Kang, Sooyoung, “Tracing the Maternal: Memory and Writing in Contemporary American Women Writers of the Diaspora” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3307659.

Kinslow, Carolyn Lindsey, “Attempting Things beyond Us: Belva Lockwood and 19th Century Rhetorics of Repression” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3297953.

Koenig Richards, Cindy, “The Awakening: Rhetoric and the Rise of New Women in the New Northwest, 1868–1912” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3303641.

Lansbury, Jennifer H., “Champions Indeed: The Emergence of African American Women Athletes in American Society, 1930–1960” (George Mason University, 2008). Order No. DA3313515.

Marcinkus, Andrea Kolasinski, “Nature Fancywork: Women’s Discourse with Nature through Craft in late Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314170.

Melina, Lois Ruskai, “Beyond Sisterhood and Superwoman: Alternative Narratives of Women in the 1970s” (Gonzaga University, 2008). Order No. DA3306794.

Mowery, Christine E., “The Impact of National Resources on State Woman Suffrage Outcomes: A Re-examination of the Resource Mobilization Framework” (Vanderbilt University, 2006). Order No. DA3306824.

Olsen, Margaret Nunnelley, “One Nation, One World: American Clubwomen and the Politics of Internationalism, 1945–1961” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309934.

Pilon, Nancy Nygard, “Women’s Athletics at the University of Kansas during the Progressive Era, 1890–1920” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3303997.

Radle, Carol Ann, “Vassar College and the 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act: The Impact of the G.I. Bill on Women College Students” (Marywood University, 2008). Order No. DA3312634.

Reilly, Kimberley A., “Sex without Spheres: Labor, Marriage, and Citizenship in the Era of the New Woman” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3309097.

Strassel, Annemarie Elizabeth, “Redressing Women: Feminism in Fashion and the Creation of American Style, 1930–1960” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317280.

Stur, Heather Marie, “Dragon Ladies, Gentle Warriors, and Girls Next Door: Gender and Ideas That Shaped the Vietnam War” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314310.

Bartlett, Marie, The Frontier Nursing Service: America’s First Rural Nurse-Midwife Service and School. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. x, 250 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3342-1.)

Feld, Marjorie N., Lillian Wald: A Biography. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. x, 303 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3236-3.)

Gunter, Susan E., Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xx, 422 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8032-169-6.)

Hawkins, Carol Hooks, American Women Leaders: 1,560 Current Biographies. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. x, 406 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3847-1.)

Herbst, Jurgen, Women Pioneers of Public Education: How Culture Came to the Wild West. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xii, 217 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60835-1.)

Morin, Karen M., Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xiv, 278 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3167-5.)

Rich, Charlotte J., Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. x, 230 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1826-1.)

Burton, Gabrielle, Searching for Tamsen Donner. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 314 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2285-4.)

Hartley, James E., ed., Mary Lyon: Documents and Writings. (South Hadley: Doorlight, 2008. xx, 398 pp. Cloth, $36.00, isbn 978-0-9778372-6-7. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-0-9778372-5-0.)

Houck, Davis W., and David E. Dixon, eds., Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xx, 322 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-107-1.)

Yano, Fleur, and Saralyn Daly, eds., Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 265 pp. $42.00, isbn 978-0-252-03380-3.)

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World War I and Interwar (1914-1941)

Mellis, Delia Cunningham, “‘The Monsters We Defy’: Washington, D.C. in the Red Summer of 1919” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310654.

Nehls, Christopher Courtney, “‘A Grand and Glorious Feeling’: The American Legion and American Nationalism between the World Wars” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3305894.

Walker, William R., “Only the Heretics Are Burning: Democracy and Repression in World War I America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314243.

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East

Bianculli, Anthony J., Iron Rails in the Garden State: Tales of New Jersey Railroading. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xvi, 190 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35174-6.)

Sullivan, Timothy J., New York State and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: Redrawing Party Lines. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. x, 247 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7643-7.)

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Midwest

Gless, Alan G., ed., The History of Nebraska Law. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiv, 318 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1787-4.)

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South

Matthews, Scott Leslie, “‘Up against the World Like It Is’: Documentary Expression in the South, 1925–1965” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312195.

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West

Langlas, Charles, and Jeffrey Lyon, “Davida Malo’s Unpublished Account of Keopuolani,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 27–48.

Deverell, William, and David Igler, eds., A Companion to California History. (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. xvi, 521 pp. $200.00, isbn 978-1-4051-6183-1.)

Katerberg, William H., Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xii, 281 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1609-1.)

McLaird, James D., Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2008. x, 174 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-9777955-9-8.)

Hendricks, Rick, New Mexico in 1801: The Priests Report. (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2008. 197 pp. Cloth, $32.95, isbn 978-1-890689-35-3. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-890689-23-0.)

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