Recent Scholarship

African American

 

Aiyetoro, Adjoa Artis, “Truth Matters: A Call for the American Bar Association to Acknowledge Its Past and Make Reparations to African Descendants,” George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal, 18 (Fall 2007), 51–105.

Armitage, Katie H., “‘Seeking a Home Where He Himself Is Free’: African Americans Build a Community in Douglas County, Kansas,” Kansas History, 31 (Autumn 2008), 154–75.

Bly, Antonio T., “Navigating the Print Line: Shaping Readers’ Expectations in Booker T. Washington’s Autobiographies,” Alabama Review, 61 (July 2008), 190–215.

Brigham, David R., “Breaking the ‘Chain of Segregation’: The Pyramid Club Annual Exhibitions,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 1, 2008), 3–17.

Carson, Scott Alan, “The Effect of Geography and Vitamin D on African American Stature in the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from Prison Records,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 812–31.

Chen, Anthony S., Robert W. Mickey, and Robert P. Van Houweling, “Explaining the Contemporary Alignment of Race and Party: Evidence from California’s 1946 Ballot Initiative on Fair Employment,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (Sept. 2008), 204–28.

Davis, Nancy M., “A Lutta Continua: Black Catholic Activism in Detroit, Michigan in the 1970s,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Summer 2008), 15–32.

DeLong, Amy, “Change from the Inside Out: The Contribution of Memphis Catholics in Civil Rights Activism, 1961–1968,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 125–46.

Fagan, Ben, “Reclaiming Revolution: William Wells Brown’s Irreducible Haitian Heroes,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 367–83.

Freeman, Damon, “Kenneth B. Clark and the Problem of Power,” Patterns of Prejudice (London), 42 (Sept. 2008), 413–37.

Hanson, Michael, “Suppose James Brown Read Fanon: The Black Arts Movement, Cultural Nationalism, and the Failure of Popular Musical Praxis,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 27 (Oct. 2008), 341–65.

Heitner, Devorah, “The Good Side of the Ghetto: Visualizing Black Brooklyn, 1968–1971,” Velvet Light Trap, 62 (Fall 2008), 48–61.

Higuchi, Hayumi, “Shiroi hada no kokujin” (Portraits of Alex Manly: A white skinned ‘Negro’ in the Jim Crow era), Senshu Jinbun Ronshu (Tokyo), 79 (2006), 1–28. In Japanese.

Honsa, Thomas P., “Doing the Job: The 1964 Desegregation of the Florida Army National Guard,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Summer 2008), 50–70.

Hummon, David M., “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: Reconstructing the Ladder in African American Spirituals,” Journal of American Culture, 31 (June 2008), 164–74.

Johnson, Violet M. Showers, “‘What, Then, Is the African American?’ African and Afro-Caribbean Identities in Black America,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 77–103.

Junger, Richard, “‘God and Man Helped Those Who Helped Themselves’: John and Mary Jones and the Culture of African American Self-Sufficiency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Summer 2008), 111–32.

Kiel, Daniel, “Exploded Dream: Desegregation in the Memphis City Schools,” Law and Inequality, 26 (Summer 2008), 261–303.

Lock, Graham, “Blues on the Brush: Rose Piper’s Blues and Negro Folk Songs Paintings of the 1940s,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 1, 2008), 18–29.

Lowe, Theodore M., “Racial Politics in Dallas in the Twentieth Century,” East Texas Historical Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2008), 27–41.

Macki, Adrienne C., “(Re)constructing Community and Identity: Harlem Experimental Theatre and Social Protest,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 107–39.

Matory, J. Lorand, “Islands Are Not Isolated: Reconsidering the Roots of Gullah Distinctiveness,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 232–44. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.)

McDuffie, Erik S., “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War,” Radical History Review (no. 101, Spring 2008), 81–106.

Mihelich, Dennis N., “From the Depths: Prince Hall Masonry in Nebraska, 1930–1960,” Nebraska History, 89 (Spring 2008), 14–25.

Newman, Richard S., “Faith in the Ballot: Black Shadow Politics in the Antebellum North,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Pethers, Matthew, “Talking Books, Selling Selves: Rereading the Politics of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative,” American Studies, 48 (Spring 2007), 101–34.

Phu, T. N., “Shooting the Movement: Black Panther Party Photography and African American Protest Traditions,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 38 (no. 1, 2008), 165–89.

Powell, John P., and Stephen Menendian, “Little Rock and the Legacy of Dred Scott,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1153–90.

Price-Spratlen, Townsand, “Urban Destination Selection among African Americans during the 1950s Great Migration,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 437–69.

Ruffins, Fath Davis, “The Paradox of Preservation: Gullah Language, Culture, and Imagery,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 216–31. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.)

Rutkowski, Alice, “Leaving the Good Mother: Frances E. W. Harper, Lydia Maria Child, and the Literary Politics of Reconstruction,” Legacy, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 83–104.

Santoro, Wayne A., “The Civil Rights Movement and the Right to Vote: Black Protest, Segregationist Violence, and the Audience,” Social Forces, 86 (June 2008), 1391–1414.

Seigel, Peggy, “Pushing the Color Line: Race and Employment in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1933–1963,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (Sept. 2008), 241–76.

Strauss, David A., “Little Rock and the Legacy of Brown,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1065–86.

Van Der Horn-Gibson, Jodi, “Dismantling Americana: Sambo, Shirley Graham, and African Nationalism,” Americana, 7 (Spring 2008), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.

Walker, Susannah, “‘Independent Livings’ or ‘No Bed of Roses’? How Race and Class Shaped Beauty Culture as an Occupation for African American Women from the 1920s to the 1960s,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 60–83.

Young, Harvey, “‘A New Fear Known to Me’: Emmett Till’s Influence and the Black Panther Party,” Southern Quarterly, 45 (Summer 2008), 22–47.

 

Boyd, Tim, “‘Out of the Shadows’: Southern Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of the New South, 1946–1976” (Vanderbilt University, 2007). Order No. DA3293862.

Buccola, Nicholas, “In Pursuit of Liberty: The Civic Liberalism of Frederick Douglass” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291819.

Bynum, Tommy L., “‘Our Fight Is for Right’: The naacp Youth Councils and College Chapters’ Crusade for Civil Rights, 1936–1965” (Georgia State University, 2007). Order No. DA3293815.

Cavazos, Mary K., “Queen’s Daughters: African American Women, Christian Mission and Racial Change, 1940–1960” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3294228.

Demczuk, Bernard, “Unionville: Race, Time, Place, and Memory in Talbot County, Maryland, 1634–1892” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3297198.

Hopkinson, Natalie Adele, “Go-Go Live: Washington, D.C.’s Cultural Information Network, Drumming the News, Knitting Communities, and Guarding a Black Public Sphere” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297264.

Jackson-Weaver, Karen, “Lift Every Voice: Black Women’s Invisible Leadership and Faith during the Civil Rights Era, 1955–1965” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299314.

Johnson, Lynn R., “Traumas of the Middle Passage: The Foundations of Narrative and Political Discourse in 19th-Century African American Literature” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300357.

Owens, A. Nevell, “Rhetoric of Identification: Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298922.

Randolph, Sherie M., “‘Alliance of the Alienated’: Florynce ‘Flo’ Kennedy and Black Feminist Politics in Post–World War II America” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296847.

Rice, Connie Park, “‘For Men and Measures’: The Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Pioneer J. R. Clifford” (West Virginia University, 2007). Order No. DA3302250.

Rose, Chanelle Nyree, “Neither Southern nor Northern: Miami, Florida and the Black Freedom Struggle in America’s Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968” (University of Miami, 2007). Order No. DA3295171.

Runstedtler, Theresa E., “Journeyman: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293373.

Scott, Jesse James, “Disturbing the Peace: Cultural Narratives and Reparations” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297213.

Swindall, Lindsey R., “Intersections in Theatrics and Politics: The Case of Paul Robeson and Othello” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007). Order No. DA3293931.

Tweedy, Clarence William, III, “Trauma and Self-Narration: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Identity in African American Literature, 1840–1940” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298878.

Ware, Carole M., “African/Native American Identified in Culture” (Union Institute & University, 2008). Order No. DA3302964.

Widell, Robert W., Jr., “‘To Stay and Fight’: Birmingham, Alabama, and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298932.

 

Ali, Omar H., In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1806-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1807-9.)

Broadnax, Samuel L., Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv, 180 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1774-4.)

Dyja, Thomas, Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008. x, 212 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-56663-766-4.)

Goldman, Robert M., One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xviii, 158 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1602-2. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1603-9.)

Kirk, John A., ed., Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 224 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-4039-9653-4. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-1-4039-9654-1.)

Lemak, Jennifer A., Southern Life, Northern City: The History of Albany’s Rapp Road Community. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xvi, 191 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7581-2.)

Luconi, Stefano, La questione razziale negli Stati Uniti dalla Ricostruzione a Barack Obama (The race question in the United States from Reconstruction to Barack Obama). (Padua: Cleup, 2008. 259 pp. €16.00, isbn 88-6129-284-0.) In Italian.

Rael, Patrick, ed., African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North. (New York: Routledge, 2008. x, 307 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-95726-7. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-415-95727-4.)

Sanders, Vivienne, Access to History: Civil Rights in the usa, 1945–68. (London: Hodder Education, 2008. vi, 178 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-34-096583-2.)

Singer, Alan J., New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 166 pp. Cloth, $49.50, isbn 978-0-7914-7509-6. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7510-2.)

Sweeney, Fionnghuala, Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 256 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-8463-1078-2.)

 

Arrington, Richard, There’s Hope for the World: The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama’s First African American Mayor. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. viii, 263 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1623-5.)

Baszile, Jennifer, The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 310 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-1-4165-4327-5.)

Davis, Cynthia, and Verner D. Mitchell, eds., Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxiv, 300 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8061-3956-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3975-3.)

Hahn, Steven, et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867; Series 3, vol. 1: Land and Labor, 1365. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xxxiv, 1073 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3147-2.)

Yellin, Jean Fagan, ed., The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Vol 1: lxxxii, 396 pp. Vol. 2: xl, 533 pp. Cloth, $125.00/set, isbn 978-0-8078-3131-1/set.) Inlcudes cd.

Agricultural

 

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn, “Thomas Minor’s World: Agrarian Life in Seventeenth-Century New England,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 496–518.

Atto, William J., “Brooks Hays and the New Deal,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 168–86.

Duffield, James A., Irene M. Xiarchos, and Steve A. Halbrook, “Ethanol Policy: Past, Present, and Future,” South Dakota Law Review, 53 (no. 3, 2008), 425–53.

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

Gilbert, Jess, “Rural Sociology and Democratic Planning in the Third New Deal,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 421–38.

McWilliams, James E., “‘The Horizon Opened Up Very Greatly’: Leland O. Howard and the Transition to Chemical Insecticides in the United States, 1894–1927,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 468–95.

Roberts, Strother E., “‘Esteeme a Little of Fish’: Fish, Fishponds, and Farming in Eighteenth-Century New England and the Mid-Atlantic,” Agricultural History, 82 (Spring 2008), 143–65.

Turner, Leland, “A New Business Plan for the Matador: Murdo Mackenzie, Modern Management, and the Operational Transformation of the Matador Land and Cattle Company, 1891–1897,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 79 (2006–2007), 3–20.

 

Fabian, Rika, “Making the National Farmer: Progressive Educational Reforms and Transformation of Rural Society in the United States (1902–1918) and Japan (1920–1945)” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3297429.

Gerow, Peggy A., “‘To Do Much with Very Little’: New Mexico’s Farm Women and the Cooperative Extension Service, 1914–1929” (University of New Mexico, 2007). Order No. DA3298176.

Kampbell, Bryan L., “The Story in the Soil: Toward an Agrarian Rhetoric of Property” (Duquesne University, 2008). Order No. DA3303018.

Zaragoza, Tony, “Apple Capital: Growers, Labor, and Technology in the Origin and Development of the Washington State Apple Industry, 1890–1930” (Washington State University, 2007). Order No. DA3302002.

 

Walker, Melissa, and James C. Cobb, eds., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 11: Agriculture and Industry. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xviii, 354 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3240-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5909-4.)

American Indian

 

Anderson, Robert T., “Alaska Native Rights, Statehood, and Unfinished Business,” Tulsa Law Review, 43 (Fall 2007), 17–41.

Berg, Laura, “Let Them Do As They Have Promised,” University of California, Hastings College of Law West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 14 (Winter 2008), 311–29.

Bubíková, Šárka, “At the Cultural Crossroads: Mixed-Bloods in Native American Fiction,” in Cultural Studies at the Turn of the Millennium, ed. Šárka Bubíková, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, 21–30. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2005. 123 pp. isbn 80-7194-816-0.)

Bubíková, Šárka, “Native American Continuity and Change in Louise Erdrich’s Work,” in Continuity and Change in Culture and Literature, ed. Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck, 57–66. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2006. 152 pp. isbn 80-7194-908-6.)

Bubíková, Šárka, “Význam místa v próze Louise Erdrichové” (The role of land in Louise Erdrich’s fiction), Tahy, literárnekulturní rocenka (Pardubice), 1 (2007), 111–15. In Czech.

Carson, James Taylor, “‘The Obituary of Nations’: Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 6–31.

Denson, Andrew, “Remembering Cherokee Removal in Civil Rights–Era Georgia,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 85–101.

EagleWoman, Angelique A., “The Philosophy of Colonization Underlying Taxation Imposed upon Tribal Nations within the United States,” Tulsa Law Review, 43 (Fall 2007), 43–72.

Ellis, Clyde, “‘More Real Than the Indians Themselves’: The Early Years of the Indian Lore Movement in the United States,” Montana, 58 (Autumn 2008), 3–22, 92–94.

Fisher, Linford D., “‘I Believe They Are Papists!’: Natives, Moravians, and the Politics of Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 410–37.

Fletcher, Matthew L. M., “Retiring the ‘Deadliest Enemies’ Model of Tribal-State Relations,” Tulsa Law Review, 43 (Fall 2007), 73–87.

Gardner, Susan, “‘Weaving an Epic Story’: Ella Cara Deloria’s Pageant for the Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, 1940–1941,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Winter 2006–2007), 33–57.

Giemza, Bryan, “The Strange Case of Sequoyah Redivivus: Achievement, Personage, and Perplexity,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Winter 2006–2007), 129–50.

Green, Rayna, “Mother Corn and the Dixie Pig: Native Food in the Native South,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 114–26.

Hirose, Keiko, “Gasshukoku ni okeru kegawakoekishakai ni tsuite” (Fur trade society in the United States), Amerikashi Hyoron (Kyoto), 25 (2007), 1–23. In Japanese.

Hoxie, Frederick E., “Retrieving the Red Continent: Settler Colonialism and the History of American Indians in the U.S.,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 31 (Sept. 2008), 1153–67.

Kotlowski, Dean J., “From Backlash to Bingo: Ronald Reagan and Federal Indian Policy,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Nov. 2008), 617–52.

Leeds, Stacy L., “Defeat or Mixed Blessing? Tribal Sovereignty and the State of Sequoyah,” Tulsa Law Review, 43 (Fall 2007), 5–16.

McMillen, Christian W., “‘The Red Man and the White Plague’: Rethinking Race, Tuberculosis and American Indians, ca. 1890–1950,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Fall 2008), 608–45.

Mize, Richard, “Counting Sioux: American Indian Journalism and the Proposed Lakota Removal to Indian Territory,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Summer 2008), 186–211.

Newell, Quincy D., “The Varieties of Religious Experience: Baptized Indians at Mission San Francisco de Asís, 1776–1821,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Fall 2008), 412–42.

O’Leary, John, “‘Tribes of the Eagle, the Panther, and Wolf’: Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Verse in the United States and Beyond,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 30 (Sept. 2008), 261–74.

Oakley, Christopher Arris, “‘When Carolina Indians Went on the Warpath’: The Media, the Klan, and the Lumbees of North Carolina,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 55–84.

Oakley, Christopher Arris, “The Legend of Henry Berry Lowry: Strike at the Wind and the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Winter 2006–2007), 59–80.

Osburn, Katherine M. B., “Mississippi Choctaws and Racial Politics,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 32–54.

Sloan, De Villo, “The Ruins of Pompey: The Euro-American Invention of Native American Prehistory and the Gothic Mode in Joshua V. H. Clark’s Onondaga,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Aug. 2008), 237–54.

Smetzer, Megan A., “Tlingit Dance Collars and Octopus Bags: Embodying Power and Resistance,” American Indian Art Magazine, 34 (Winter 2008), 64–73.

 

Blackney-Bailey, Jane Anne, “An Analysis of Historic Creek and Seminole Settlement Patterns, Town Design, and Architecture: The Paynes Town Seminole Site (8A1366), a Case Study” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3300715.

Boback, John M., “Indian Warfare, Household Competency, and the Settlement of the Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 to 1794” (West Virginia University, 2007). Order No. DA3298542.

Bossy, Denise Ileana, “The ‘Noble Savage’ in Chains: Indian Slavery in Colonial South Carolina, 1670–1735” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293298.

Clatterbuck, Mark S., “Searching for Souls in a Twice-Foreign Land: An Analysis of Catholic Indian Missions through the Indian Sentinel (1902–1962)” (Catholic University of America, 2008). Order No. DA3294694.

Courtwright, Julie Renee, “Taming the Red Buffalo: Prairie Fire on the Great Plains” (University of Arkansas, 2007). Order No. DA3292642.

Fountain, Steven Michael, “Big Dogs and Scorched Streams: Horses and Ethnocultural Change in the North American West, 1700–1850” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3303156.

Leighton, Arthur J., “‘Eyes on the Wabash’: A History of Indiana’s Indian People from Pre-Contact through Removal” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3296103.

Medina, William Oscar, “Selling Indians at Sherman Intitute, 1902–1922” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3298239.

Ono, Azusa, “Crossroads of Indian Country: Native American Community in Denver, 1950–2005” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3302392.

Penland, Jennifer L., “The Investigation of Educational Experiences and Successful Career Choices of American Indians Who Grew Up during the 1950s and 1960s” (Lamar University, 2007). Order No. DA3301090.

Riggs, Lynette A., “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ Indian Student Placement Service: A History” (Utah State University, 2008). Order No. DA3297497.

Rowley, Kelley E., “‘I Think about This Dream Often’: Nostalgic Visions of Native Americans during the Progressive Era, 1890–1930” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3291552.

Ware, Carole M., “African/Native American Identified in Culture” (Union Institute & University, 2008). Order No. DA3302964.

Watkins, Bradley W., “Reconstructing the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, 1894–1898: Landscape and Settlement on the Eve of Allotment” (Oklahoma State University, 2007). Order No. DA3297541.

 

Bubíková, Šárka, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, eds., Cultural Studies at the Turn of the Millennium. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2005. 123 pp. isbn 80-7194-816-0.)

Coltelli, Laura, ed., Reading Leslie Marmon Silko: Critical Perspectives through Gardens in the Dunes. (Pisa: University of Pisa Press, 2008. 240 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-88-8492-432-2.)

Cruse, J. Brett, Battles of the Red River War: Archeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xxii, 249 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-027-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Daubenmier, Judith M., The Meskwaki and Anthropologists: Action Anthropology Reconsidered. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv, 416 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1732-4.)

Gmelch, Sharon Bohn, The Tlingit Encounter with Photography. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2008. xiv, 210 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-934536-10-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Johnson, Thomas H., and Helen S. Johnson, Also Called Sacajawea: Chief Woman’s Stolen Identity. (Long Grove: Waveland, 2008. xii, 124 pp. Paper, $13.95, isbn 978-1-57766-534-2.)

Johnson, Troy R., The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self-Determination. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 283 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1779-9.) Paperback edition with new afterword.

Kennedy, Frances H., ed., American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. xxvi, 335 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-395-63336-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Michno, Gregory F., and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890. (Missoula: Mountain, 2008. xxviii, 384 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-87842-549-5.)

Summitt, April R., Sacagawea: A Biography. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xviii, 134 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-313-34628-6.)

Uduki, Yusuke, Fujitsuna chichioya, aragau kodomotachi (American Indians against the unfaithful great father in the Jacksonian era). (Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2007. 249 pp. ¥3675, isbn 4-8332-2386-4.) In Japanese.

Waziyatawin, What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland. (St. Paul: Living Justice, 2008. viii, 192 pp. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-0-9721886-5-4.)

 

Kavanagh, Thomas W., ed., Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv, 542 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8032-2764-4.)

Antebellum

Rael, Patrick, ed., African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North. (New York: Routledge, 2008. x, 307 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-95726-7. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-415-95727-4.)

Asian American

 

Chang, Kornel, “Enforcing Transnational White Solidarity: Asian Migration and the Formation of the U.S.-Canadian Boundary,” American Quarterly, 60 (Sept. 2008), 671–96.

Lee, Sharon S., “The De-minoritization of Asian Americans: A Historical Examination of the Representations of Asian Americans in Affirmitive Action Admissions Policies at the University of California,” Asian American Law Journal, 15 (May 2008), 129–52.

Lo, Shauna, “Chinese Women Entering New England: Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files, Boston, 1911–1925,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 383–409.

Nakamura, Masako, “Nikkei-Amerikajin heishi to yoroppajin ‘senso hanayome’” (Japanese American soldiers and European ‘war brides’: American Orientalism and whiteness), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 41 (2007), 153–62. In Japanese.

Smits, Nicholas J., “Roots Entwined: Archaeolgy of an Urban Chinese American Cemetery,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 3, 2008), 111–22.

Van Bueren, Thad M., “Late-Nineteenth-Century Chinese Farm Workers in the California Mother Lode,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 3, 2008), 80–96.

 

Khor, Denise, “Asian Americans at the Movies: Race, Labor, and Migration in the Transpacific West, 1900–1945” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3291752.

Lee, Soo-Young, “God’s Chosen People: Protestant Narratives of Korean Americans and American National Identity” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3296993.

Nguyen, Anna Dimy, “The Role of Education for Vietnamese Immigrants of the 1970s and Implications for Today’s Asian-American Students” (Lamar University, 2007). Order No. DA3301089.

Nielsen, Chris Stewart, “Whiteness Imperiled: Anti-Asian Sentiment in California, 1900–1930” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3298244.

Park, Grace Haekyung, “The Exotics of Representation in Twentieth-Century Korean American Literature” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3302582.

Yeh, Grace I-chun, “Asian Fighters in U.S. Minority Literature: Iconology, Intimacy, and Other Imagined Communities” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3302527.

Archives and Bibliography

 

Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L., Navigating Legal Issues in Archives. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2008. viii, 329 pp. Paper, $69.95, isbn 1-931666-28-8.)

Brown, Nikki L. M., and Barry M. Stentiford, eds., The Jim Crow Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1, A–J: xxviii, 428 pp. Vol. 2, K–Z: 487 pp. $225.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-34181-6/set.)

Miller, Cynthia Pease, Managing Congressional Collections. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, viii, 138 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-931666-29-6.)

Stoler, Ann Laura, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xvi, 314 pp. Cloth, $59.50, isbn 978-0-691-01578-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-691-01577-4.)

 

Mulligan, Timothy P., comp., World War II: Guide to Records Relating to U.S. Military Participation, ed. Rebecca L. Collier. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2008. Vol. 1: xiv, 487 pp. Vol. 2: viii, 566 pp. $75.00/set, isbn 1-880875-09-8/set.)

Business and Economics

 

Alexander, Alba, and Kurt Jacobsen, “Counter-Reform in the American Welfare State: Ideas, Institutions, and Progressive Taxation,” New Political Science, 30 (Sept. 2008), 285–306.

Barger, William J., “New Players at the Table: How Americans Came to Dominate Early Trade in the North Pacific,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Fall 2008), 227–57.

Bucheli, Marcelo, “Multinational Corporations, Totalitarian Regimes, and Economic Nationalism: United Fruit Company in Central America, 1899–1975,” Business History (Liverpool), 50 (July 2008), 433–54.

Calomiris, Charles W., and Joseph R. Mason, “Resolving the Puzzle of the Underissuance of National Bank Notes,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 327–55.

Darling, O. H., and Don C. Bragg, “The Early Mills, Railroads, and Logging Camps of the Crossett Lumber Company,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 107–40.

Deng, Xiaogang, and Lening Zhang, “The Historical Patterns of Occupational Attainment of Racial Minorities in Massachusetts: An Analysis of the 1974–2002 Current Population Survey Data,” Social Science Journal, 45 (Sept. 2008), 476–96.

Djelic, Marie-Laure, and Rolv Petter Amdam, “Americanization in Comparative Perspective: The Managerial Revolution in France and Norway, 1940–1990,” Business History (Liverpool), 49 (July 2007), 483–505.

Domitrovic, Brian, “A Time for Action: William F. Buckley, National Review, and the Defeat of Stagflation,” Intercollegiate Review, 43 (Fall 2008), 34–43.

Eggertsson, Gauti B., “Great Expectations and the End of the Depression,” American Economic Review, 98 (Sept. 2008), 1476–1516.

Geraghty, Thomas M., and Thomas Wiseman, “Wage Strikes in 1880s America: A Test of the War of Attrition Model,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 303–26.

Hagood, Taylor, “Taking ‘Money Right Out of an American’s Pockets’: Faulkner’s South and the International Cotton Market,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 2, 2007), 83–95.

Hashikawa, Kenryu, “Kinnen no kyowakokushokikenkyu ni okeru shijokankei no saiko” (Rethinking market relations in the northern United States in the early republic: A historiography), Jinbun Kenkyu (Chiba), 36 (2007), 181–200. In Japanese.

Hawkins, Richard A., “American Boomers and the Flotation of Shares in the City of London in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Business History (Liverpool), 49 (Nov. 2007), 802–22.

Hilt, Eric, “The Negative Trade-Off between Risk and Incentives: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 424–44.

Hilt, Eric, “When Did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 645–85.

Hoffert, Sylvia D., “Female Self-Making in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 34–59.

Jensen-Eriksen, Niklas, “The First Wave of the Soviet Oil Offensive: The Anglo-American Alliance and the Flow of ‘Red Oil’ to Finland during the 1950s,” Business History (Liverpool), 49 (May 2007), 348–66.

John, Richard R., “Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians,” Business History Review, 82 (Summer 2008), 227–40.

Logan, John, “Permanent Replacements and the End of Labor’s ‘Only True Weapon,’” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 171–92.

Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu, “What T. R. Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903–1937,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 680–721.

McCraw, Thomas K., “Alfred Chandler: His Vision and Achievement,” Business History Review, 82 (Summer 2008), 207–26.

Mixon, Scott, “The Crisis of 1873: Perspectives from Multiple Asset Classes,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 722–57.

Natelson, Robert G., “Paper Money and the Original Understanding of the Coinage Clause,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Summer 2008), 1017–82.

Patmore, Greg, “Employee Representation Plans at the Minnequa Steelworks, Pueblo, Colorado, 1915–1942,” Business History (Liverpool), 49 (Nov. 2007), 844–67.

Quail, John, “Becoming Fully Functional: The Conceptual Struggle for a New Structure for the Giant Corporation in the U.S. and U.K. in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” Business History (Liverpool), 50 (March 2008), 127–46.

Wang, Ta-Chen, “Paying Back to Borrow More: Reputation and Bank Credit Access in Early America,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 477–88.

Warner, Jonathan, “The Anaheim Scrip Plan,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Fall 2008), 307–25.

 

Cowie, Sarah E., “Industrial Capitalism and the Company Town: Structural Power, Bio-Power, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Fayette, Michigan” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3297834.

Glenn, Daniel Patrick, “Facing West from Niagara’s Shores: Competition, Commerce, and Expansionism on the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1810–1855” (University of Cincinnati, 2007). Order No. DA3292849.

Gloege, Timothy E. W., “Consumed: Reuben A. Torrey and the Construction of Corporate Fundamentalism” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299145.

Grbic, Douglas E., “Social Structure and the Dynamics of Interfirm Ties: The Audit Services Market, 1986 to 2002” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3301139.

Lepler, Jessica M., “1837: Anatomy of a Panic” (Brandeis University, 2007). Order No. DA3290956.

McKenna, Christine Anne, “Taxing Issues of Federal Child Care Subsidies in Postwar America, 1946–2006” (Syracuse University, 2007). Order No. DA3295532.

Schwartz, Michael, “A Matter for Experts: Broadway, 1900–1920, and the Rise of the Professional Managerial Class” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300574.

Smith, Travis R., “Race and the Shifting Economy in California’s Northern Interior” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3296183.

 

Cole, Dermot, Fairbanks: A Gold Rush Town That Beat the Odds. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. 224 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-60223-030-9.)

Davis, Charles S., with J. Barto Arnold III, Colin J. McRae: Confederate Financial Agent; Blockade Running in the Trans-Mississippi South as Affected by the Confederate Government’s Direct European Procurement of Goods. (College Station: Institute of Nautical Archaeology, 2008. 222 pp. Paper, isbn 978-0-9795874-1-2.) Originally published 1961.

Walden, Michael L., North Carolina in the Connected Age: Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xxiv, 333 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3221-9.)

Wall, James T., Wall Street and the Fruited Plain: Money, Expansion, and Politics in the Gilded Age. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. x,382 pp. Paper, $49.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4124-1.)

 

Malsberger, John W., and James N. Marshall, eds., The American Economic History Reader: Documents and Readings. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 556 pp. Cloth, $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-96266-7. Paper, $54.95, isbn 978-0-415-96267-4.)

Childhood and Youth

 

Bubíková, Šárka, “Growing Up Multicultural? Childhood and Multiculturalism in the U.S.,” in Peaceful Multiculturalism or Culture Wars?, ed. Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck, 14–20. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2007. 157 pp. isbn 978-80-7395-017-0.)

Mandleco, Barbara, and Carma Miller, “A History of Children’s Hospitals in Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Fall 2008), 338–56.

 

McKenna, Christine Anne, “Taxing Issues of Federal Child Care Subsidies in Postwar America, 1946–2006” (Syracuse University, 2007). Order No. DA3295532.

 

Nonomura, Toshiko, ed., Amerika 19 seiki shojo/ shonen no tameno kondakuto bukku (A collection of conduct books for girls and boys in 19th-century America). (Tokyo: Edition Synapse, 2007. 3000 pp. ¥118000, isbn 4-8616-6044-0.) In Japanese.

 

Mickenberg, Julia L., and Philip Nel, eds., Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xii, 295 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8147-5720-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Civil War and Reconstruction

 

Bailey, Joe R., “Union Lifeline in Tennessee: A Military History of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 106–23. Heavily illustrated.

Diffley, Kathleen, “Splendid Patriotism: How the Illustrated London News Pictured the Confederacy,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 385–407.

Hamilton, Marsha J., “Mercury and Water: Two Civil War Surgeons of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Autumn 2008), 467–504.

Howell, Sarah M., “John C. Gaut: Wielding Justice in Tennessee, 1861–1869,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Spring 2008), 2–21.

Hutchison, Coleman, “On the Move Again: Tracking the ‘Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez,’” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 423–40.

Kennedy-Nolle, Sharon, “Captain Nemo’s Questing after American Causes: Jules Verne’s Transatlantic Vision of Reconstruction,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 441–58.

Laver, Harry S., “Determination and Leadership: Ulysses S. Grant,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 33–60. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Lee, Chulhee, “Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1880,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 862–99.

Leeman, William P., “George Bancroft’s Civil War: Slavery, Abraham Lincolm, and the Course of History,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 462–88.

Matsuda, Hiroyuki, “Nanbokusenso ni okeru gunyodenshinmo no yakuwari” (The role of military telegraph networks during the Civil War: The untold story of the United States Military Telegraph Corps), Koshien Daigaku Kiyo (Takarazuka), 34 (2006), 123–55. In Japanese.

Meekins, Alex Christopher, “Unionism and the Arcane Origin of ‘Buffalo,’” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (July 2008), 282–316.

Newman, Mark, “Toward ‘Blessings of Liberty and Justice’: The Catholic Church in North Carolina and Desegregation, 1945–1974,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (July 2008), 317–51.

Niewinski, Lukasz, “Abraham Lincoln I jego misja ocalenia Unii w latach 1861–1865” (Abraham Lincoln and his mission to save the Union in the years 1860–1865), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 91–102. In Polish.

Smith, Timothy B., “The Forgotten Inhabitants of Shiloh: A Civilian-Government Relationship Case Study,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Spring 2008), 36–55.

Surwillo, Lisa, “Poetic Diplomacy: Carolina Coronado and the American Civil War,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 409–22.

Yang, Jae-Yul, “Miguk Nambukjonjang Sigi Gongwadang Gupjinpa Sangwoneowonui Giyukjui Seonghang” (The sectional dimensions in U.S. Radical Republican senates during the Civil War), Daegusahak/The Journal of Daegu History (Daegu), 90 (Feb. 2008), 207–28. In Korean.

 

DeGruccio, Michael E., “Unmade: American Manhood in the Civil War Era” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299135.

Frawley, Jason Mann, “Marching through Pennsylvania: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians during the Gettysyburg Campaign” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3297466.

Mortenson, Christopher Ryan, “Lew Wallace and the Civil War: Politics and Generalship” (Texas A&M University, 2007). Order No. DA3296484.

Silkenat, David Andrew, “Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289084.

Sternhell, Yael A., “Revolution in Motion: Human Mobility and the Transformation of the South, 1861–1865” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3299827.

 

Allardice, Bruce S., Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 436 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1809-4.)

Allers, Ken, Jr., The Fog of Gettysburg: The Myths and Mysteries of the Battle. (Nashville: Cumberland House, 2008. 288 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-58182-647-0.)

Crocker, H. W., III, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War. (Washington: Regnery, 2008. 370 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-59698-549-0.)

Davis, Charles S., with J. Barto Arnold III, Colin J. McRae: Confederate Financial Agent; Blockade Running in the Trans-Mississippi South as Affected by the Confederate Government’s Direct European Procurement of Goods. (College Station: Institute of Nautical Archaeology, 2008. 222 pp. Paper, isbn 978-0-9795874-1-2.) Originally published 1961.

Farmer, Alan, Access to History: The American Civil War; Causes, Course, and Consequences, 1803–77. (London: Hodder Education, 2008. vi, 250 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-34-096587-0.) Fourth edition.

Howell, Kenneth Wayne, Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xviii, 251 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-040-0.)

Hurst, Jack, Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War. (New York: Basic, 2007. xx, 442 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-465-03184-9.)

Pullen, John J., The Twentieth Maine. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2008. xii, 338 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8117-3524-7.) Originally published in 1957.

Shaffer, Duane E., Men of Granite: New Hampshire’s Soldiers in the Civil War. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xviii, 365 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-751-1.)

Simson, Jay W., Custer and the Front Royal Executions of 1864. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 204 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3973-7.)

 

Dinges, Bruce J., and Shirley A. Leckie, eds., A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xvi, 449 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2859-8.)

Wiche, Glen N., ed., Dispatches from Bermuda: The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861–1888. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xviii, 251 pp. $32.00, isbn 978-0-87338-938-9.)

Class

 

Berman, Lila Corwin, “American Jews and the Ambivalence of Middle-Classness,” American Jewish History, 93 (Dec. 2007), 409–34.

Clemmer, Richard, “The Leisure Class versus the Tourists: The Hidden Struggle in the Collecting of Pueblo Pottery at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” History and Anthropology (Chur), 19 (Sept. 2008), 187–207.

Wehrle, Edmund F., “‘Partisan for the Hard Hats’: Charles Colson, George Meany, and the Failed Blue-Collar Strategy,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Fall 2008), 45–66.

Colonial

Cleary, Patricia, “Drinking, Dying, and Lying to Priests: Community Bonds and Conflicts over Authority in Colonial St. Louis,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (Oct. 2008), 1–21.

Galán, Francis X., “The Chirino Boys: Spanish Soldier-Pioneers from Los Adaes on the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands,” East Texas Historical Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2008), 42–58.

Grinev, A. V., “Germans in the History of Russian America,” trans. Richard L. Bland, Journal of the West, 47 (Spring 2008), 32–43.

Maika, Dennis, “Commemoration and Context: The Flushing Remonstrance Then and Now,” New York History, 89 (Winter 2008), 29–42.

Miura, Nagamitsu, “Jon rokku no jiyushugi to amerika shokuminchikaron” (John Locke’s liberalism and justification of colonization in America), Kokusai Kankeigaku Kenkyu (Tokyo), 33 (2006), 1–27. In Japanese.

Mori, Takeo, “Jusotekichiiki to shiteno taiseiyo” (The Atlantic as an area composed of plural regions: A change of ‘regional character’ in British colonial America), Nanakuma Shigaku (Fukuoka), 8 (2007), 229–42. In Japanese.

Sandos, James A., “Toypurina’s Revolt: Religious Conflict at Mission San Gabriel in 1785,” Boletín, 24 (no. 2, 2007), 4–14.

de la Teja, Jesús F., “Why Urbano and María Trinidad Can’t Get Married: Social Relations in Late Colonial San Antonio,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (Oct. 2008), 121–46.

Voss, Barbara L., “Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire,” American Anthropologist, 110 (June 2008), 191–203.

 

Barnhart, Megan Kathleen, “‘To Secure the Benefits of Science to the General Welfare’: The Scientists’ Movement and the American Public during the Cold War, 1945–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3295739.

Baughn, Thomas M., “French Origins of American Constitutionalism” (Catholic University of America, 2008). Order No. DA3294691.

Domber, Gregory F., “Supporting the Revolution: America, Democracy, and the End of the Cold War in Poland, 1981–1989” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3295049.

Lambert, David E., “Beyond World’s End: The Protestant International and the Huguenot Migration to Virginia” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3294599.

Walker, Daniel Breck, “‘Yesterday’s Answers’ or ‘Tomorrow’s Solutions’?: The Cold War Diplomacy of Cyrus Vance” (Vanderbilt University, 2007). Order No. DA3300696.

van der Woude, Joanne, “Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3298521.

 

Beal, Clifford, Quelch’s Gold: Piracy, Greed, and Betrayal in Colonial New England. (Dulles: Potomac, 2008. xvi, 242 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-59797-233-8.)

Vowell, Sarah, The Wordy Shipmates. (New York: Riverhead, 2008. 254 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-59448-999-0.)

 

van der Donck, Adriaen, A Description of New Netherland, ed. Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna, trans. Diederik Willem Goedhuys. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxiv, 176 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1088-2.) First published in 1655.

Cold War

 

Boyle, Ryan, “A Red Moon over the Mall: The Sputnik Panic and Domestic America,” Journal of American Culture, 31 (Dec. 2008), 373–82.

Gorczyca, Robert, “Sound and Fury: The Sedition Trial of Communist Steve Nelson,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Summer 2008), 44–55. Heavily illustrated.

Masco, Joseph, “‘Survival Is Your Business’: Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America,” Cultural Anthropology, 23 (May 2008), 361–98.

 

Howell, Buddy Wayne, “The Rhetoric of Presidential Summit Diplomacy: Ronald Reagan and the U.S.-Soviet Summits, 1985–1988” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3296402.

Keith, Joseph, “Cold War Cosmopolitanisms: Radical Transnationalisms in the Shadow of U.S. Empire, 1945–1955” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299334.

Steck, Stuart Y., “Veiling the Subject: Ellsworth Kelly and the Discourses of Modernism” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298698.

Williams, Deborah Maureen, “Building the Perfect Citizen: Gender and Patriotism in Early Cold War America” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3293267.

 

May, Elaine Tyler, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. (New York: Basic, 2008. xiv, 302 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-465-01020-2.) Twentieth anniversary edition with a new epilogue.

Spear, Sheldon, Daniel J. Flood: A Biography; The Congressional Career of an Economic Savior and Cold War Nationalist. (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2008. 190 pp. $44.50, isbn 978-0-9801496-0-9.)

Crime and Violence

 

Carson, Scott Alan, “Health during Industrialization: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania State Prison System,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 347–72.

Cramer, Clayton E., and Joseph Edward Olson, “Pistols, Crime, and Public Safety in Early America,” Willamette Law Review, 44 (Summer 2008), 699–722.

Dodge, Tim, “Good Intentions, Disappointing Results: A History of the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women,” Alabama Review, 61 (Oct. 2008), 243–303.

Gaster, Patricia C., “A Fallen Victim to ‘the Liquor Curse’: The Life and Tragic Death of Samuel D. Cox,” Nebraska History, 89 (Summer 2008), 84–93.

Goff, Colin, and Gilbert Geis, “The Michael-Adler Report (1933): Criminology under the Microscope,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 44 (Oct. 2008), 350–63.

Gómez, Alan Eladio, “Resisting Living Death at Marion Federal Penitentiary, 1972,” Radical History Review (no. 96, Fall 2006), 58–86.

Hughes, Rowland, “‘Wonderfully Cruel Proceedings’: The Murderous Case of James Yates,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 38 (no. 1, 2008), 43–62.

Jones, Paul Christian, “‘I Put My Fingers around My Throat and Squeezed It, to Know How It Feels’: Antigallows Sentimentalism and E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand,” Legacy, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 41–61.

Laska, Lewis, “The Tennessee Death Penalty, 1870–1890,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Spring 2008), 22–35.

Pretelli, Matteo, “Fascismo, violenza, e malavita all’estero: Il caso degli Stati Uniti d’America” (Fascism, violence, and the underworld abroad: The case of the United States), Iperstoria (Sept. 2008), http://www.iperstoria.it. In Italian.

Santoro, Wayne A., “The Civil Rights Movement and the Right to Vote: Black Protest, Segregationist Violence, and the Audience,” Social Forces, 86 (June 2008), 1391–1414.

Shadid, Kerri A., “‘An American Tragedy’: Oklahomans React to Martin Luther King’s Assassination,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Summer 2008), 212–32.

 

Coleman, Ellen, “Amicus Curiae Briefs and Their Effect on United States Supreme Court Decisions Involving Rape Convictions from 1950–1999” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296075.

Stemen, Donald, “Policies of Imprisonment: Sentencing and Corrections Policy Innovation in the United States, 1970–2002” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296898.

 

Baumler, Ellen, Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. x, 117 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4547-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Beal, Clifford, Quelch’s Gold: Piracy, Greed, and Betrayal in Colonial New England. (Dulles: Potomac, 2008. xvi, 242 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-59797-233-8.)

Carr, Matthew, The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism from the Assassination of Tsar Alexander II to Al-Qaeda. (New York: New Press, 2008. 410 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-1-59558-179-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-59558-408-3.)

Jamieson, Perry D., Khobar Towers: Tragedy and Response. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2008. xxii, 276 pp. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-16-080701-5.)

Johnson, Troy R., The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self-Determination. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 283 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1779-9.) Paperback edition with new afterword.

Kirkpatrick, Jennet, Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xii, 139 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-0-691-13709-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-691-13877-0.)

Magarrell, Lisa, and Joya Wesley, Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xviii, 278 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4110-5.)

Neal, Bill, From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. xx, 364 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-637-6.)

Newkirk, Vann R., Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865–1941. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. vi, 206 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3928-7.)

Presser, Lois, Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 183 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03358-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07558-2.)

Rottenberg, Dan, Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, the West’s Most Elusive Legend. (Yardley: Westholme, 2008. xiv, 520 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59416-070-7.)

 

Sloan, Kay, ed., Not Without Honor: The Nazi pow Journal of Steve Carano. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xxii, 159 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-55728-884-4.)

Demography

 

Carson, Scott Alan, “Health during Industrialization: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania State Prison System,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 347–72.

Carson, Scott Alan, “The Effect of Geography and Vitamin D on African American Stature in the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from Prison Records,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 812–31.

Deng, Xiaogang, and Lening Zhang, “The Historical Patterns of Occupational Attainment of Racial Minorities in Massachusetts: An Analysis of the 1974–2002 Current Population Survey Data,” Social Science Journal, 45 (Sept. 2008), 476–96.

Hacker, J. David, “Economic, Demographic, and Anthropometric Correlates of First Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 307–45.

Lewis, Michael, “Access to Saloons, Wet Voter Turnout, and Statewide Prohibition Referenda, 1907–1919,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 373–404.

 

Davies, Philip, and Iwan Morgan, eds., America’s Americans: Population Issues in U.S. Society and Politics. (London: Brookings, 2007. €15.00, isbn 978-1-900039-79-6.)

Education

 

Bateman, Robert L., “The Army and Academic Culture,” Academic Questions, 21 (March 2008), 62–78.

Cartwright, Michael G., “The Founding of Indiana Central University: Another Chapter in the History of United Brethren Higher Education,” Methodist History, 46 (July 2008), 212–22.

Dorsey, Dana Thompson, “An Examination of the Legal Debate Regarding Race-Based Education Policies from 1849 to 1964,” Negro Educational Review, 59 (Spring–Summer 2008), 7–26.

Fresne, Jeannette, “History of the Stamps Baxter Singing Schools and Normal School of Music,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 21–38.

Gordy, Sondra, “Through a Heroine’s Eyes: Elizabeth Huckaby and the ‘Lost Year,’” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 141–67.

Kiel, Daniel, “Exploded Dream: Desegregation in the Memphis City Schools,” Law and Inequality, 26 (Summer 2008), 261–303.

Krikun, Andrew, “Popular Music and Jazz in the American Junior College Music Curriculum during the Swing Era (1935–1945),” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 39–49.

Tamir, Eran, “Theorizing the Politics of Educational Reform: The Case of New Jersey’s Alternate Route to Teacher Certification,” American Journal of Education, 115 (Nov. 2008), 65–95.

 

Armwood, Jacquelyn L., “Opportunity and Achievement through Change: A Biographical Study of Carzetta Snell” (Stephen P. Austin State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301655.

Burkholder, Zoë, “With Science as His Shield: Teaching Race and Culture in American Public Schools, 1900–1954” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3295334.

Cook, Bettye Alexander, “A Chronological Study of Experiential Education in the American History Museum” (University of North Texas, 2007). Order No. DA3300938.

Grunzke, Andrew Lawrence, “Exposing the Man behind the Curtain: Educational Aims and Latent Lessons in L. Frank Baum’s ‘Oz’ Books” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3300742.

Hancock, Carole Wylie, “Honorable Soldiers, Too: An Historical Case Study of Post-Reconstruction African American Female Teachers of the Upper Ohio River Valley” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3302718.

Hill, Robert Frederick, III, “An Historical Analysis of Policy Decisions and the Fiscal Equity of School Funding in Ohio, 1980–2003” (Ashland University, 2008). Order No. DA3301851.

McGlynn, Adam James, “Reforming Urban Schools through Systemic Policy Change: The Adoption, Efficiency, and Performance of Mayoral Control” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3302030.

New, Beryl Ann, “A Fire in the Sky: Student Activism in Topeka, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas High Schools in 1969 and 1970” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3297621.

Nguyen, Anna Dimy, “The Role of Education for Vietnamese Immigrants of the 1970s and Implications for Today’s Asian-American Students” (Lamar University, 2007). Order No. DA3301089.

Penland, Jennifer L., “The Investigation of Educational Experiences and Successful Career Choices of American Indians Who Grew Up during the 1950s and 1960s” (Lamar University, 2007). Order No. DA3301090.

Soo Hoo, Tsung Y. (Bill), “How Revenue Sources Have Adjusted to Changes in State Appropriations at the Three New Jersey Public Research Universities from 1994–2003” (Seton Hall University, 2007). Order No. DA3301072.

Traynor, John, Jr., “Ad majorum dei glorium: Jesuit Secondary Education in Washington State, 1886–1919” (Washington State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301999.

 

Duffy, Jennifer O’Connor, Working-Class Students at Radcliffe College, 1940–1970: The Intersection of Gender, Social Class, and Historical Context. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. x, 205 pp. $109.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5098-1.)

Gumprecht, Blake, The American College Town. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xxii, 438 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-671-2.)

Rivera, Lorna, Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post–Welfare Era. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 176 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03351-3. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07555-1.)

Wolferman, Kristie C., The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley: Pioneer of Women’s Education in Missouri. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 160 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1805-6.)

 

Clark, Burton R., with Adele Clark, On Higher Education: Selected Writings, 1956–2006. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xviii, 575 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9020-8. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9021-5.)

Environment and Natural Resources

 

Alagona, Peter S., “Homes on the Range: Cooperative Conservation and Environmental Change on California’s Privately Owned Hardwood Rangelands,” Environmental History, 13 (April 2008), 325–49.

Bogener, Stephen, “Land, Speculation, and Manipulation on the Pecos,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Summer 2008), 209–29.

Flippen, J. Brooks, “Richard Nixon, Russell Train, and the Birth of Modern American Environmental Diplomacy,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 613–38.

Gumm, Angie, “Looking for the Good in Garbage: Bill Compton Builds Wichita a Pyrolysis Plant,” Kansas History, 31 (Autumn 2008), 212–29.

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin, “Gods and Devils in the Details: Marine Pollution, Radioactive Waste, and an Environmental Regime circa 1972,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 539–60.

Lepofsky, Dana, “Deconstructing the McCallum Site,” bc Studies (Vancouver) (no. 158, Summer 2008), 3–31.

Lohry, Jerome L., “Unveilng the Black Rock: A History of Exploration in Nevada’s Remote Northwest Corner,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Spring 2008), 3–24.

Robertson, Thomas, “‘This is the American Earth’: American Empire, the Cold War, and American Environmentalism,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 561–84.

Stoll, Mark, “Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea,” Environmental History, 13 (April 2008), 237–74.

Young, McGee, “From Conservation to Environment: The Sierra Club and the Organizational Politics of Change,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (Sept. 2008), 183–203.

 

Courtwright, Julie Renee, “Taming the Red Buffalo: Prairie Fire on the Great Plains” (University of Arkansas, 2007). Order No. DA3292642.

Filipelli, Deborah L., “Before Smokey Bear There Was Woodbridge Metcalf: Rural and Forest Fire Protection in the California Fire Department, 1926–1945” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3294591.

Fountain, Steven Michael, “Big Dogs and Scorched Streams: Horses and Ethnocultural Change in the North American West, 1700–1850” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3303156.

Hubbell, Jeremy Wayne, “Minneapolis: Urban-Environmental Change in the Upper Mississippi, 1824–1924” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3299729.

Long, Mark Howard, “Cultivating a New Order: Reconstructing Florida’s Postbellum Frontier” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3295466.

Matthews, Todd Lee, “The Spatial Distribution of Industrial Production and Toxic Releases in the United States” (Mississippi State University, 2008). Order No. DA3297762.

Moeckli, Jane Kathleen, “‘Pamper Yourself to Protect the Earth’: Nature in Contemporary American Beauty Culture” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301731.

 

Birch, Eugenie L., and Susan M. Wachter, eds., Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xii, 392 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-2037-7.)

Enright, Kelly, Rhinoceros. (London: Reaktion, 2008. 172 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-86189-374-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Keim, Charles J., Aghvook, White Eskimo: Otto Geist and Alaskan Archaeology. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. xx, 313 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-60223-036-1.) Originally published in 1969.

Marling, Karal Ann, Ice: Great Moments in the History of Hard, Cold Water. (St. Paul: Borealis, 2008. 216 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-87351-628-0.)

O’Brien, Michael, Exxon and the Crandon Mine Controversy. (Middleton: Badger Books, 2008. vi, 214 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1932542-37-0.)

Smith, Duane A., Rocky Mountain Heartland: Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming in the Twentieth Century. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. xiv, 304 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8165-2456-3. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8165-2759-5.)

Thiem, Jon, with Deborah Dimon, Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxviii, 440 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4537-0.)

 

Dunlap, Thomas R., ed., DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism: Classic Texts. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xvi, 150 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-295-98834-4.)

Jack, Zachary Michael, ed., Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xviii, 261 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8014-4709-9.)

Wilson, Jerry, Waiting for Coyote’s Call: An Eco-memoir from the Missouri River Bluff. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2008. 284 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-9777955-8-1.)

Ethnicity

 

Deslippe, Dennis, “‘We Must Bring Together a New Coalition’: The Challenge of Working-Class White Ethnics to Color-Blind Conservatism in the 1970s,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 148–70.

Luconi, Stefano, “Ethnic Allegiance and Class Consciousness among Italian-American Workers, 1900–1941,” Socialism and Democracy, 22 (Nov. 2008), 123–42.

Mancini, J. M., and Graham Finlay, “‘Citizenship Matters’: Lessons from the Irish Citizenship Referendum,” American Quarterly, 60 (Sept. 2008), 575–99.

Merton, Joe, “The Politics of Symbolism: Richard Nixon’s Appeal to White Ethnics and the Frustration of Realignment, 1969–72,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 181–98.

 

Nicholsen, Michael D., “‘Auld Sod’ and the New Turf: Entertainment, Nationalism, and Identity in the Irish Traditional Music Community of Chicago, 1868–1999” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3295469.

Thompson, Daniel N., “The Role of Music in the Construction and Maintenance of Irish Identity among Musicians in New York City at the Turn of the Millennium” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299318.

 

Minamikawa, Fuminori, “Nikkei-amerikajin” no rekishishakaigaku (Historical sociology of Japanese Americans). (Tokyo: Sairyu sha, 2007. 289 pp. ¥3675, isbn 4-7791-1278-2.) In Japanese.

Sollors, Werner, Ethnic Modernism. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. x, 324 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-674-03091-6.) Originally published in Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 6.

Family

 

Cracroft, Richard H., “‘The Assault of Laughter’: The Comic Attack on Mormon Polygamy in Popular Literature,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 233–62.

Hacker, J. David, “Economic, Demographic, and Anthropometric Correlates of First Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 307–45.

Marquardt, H. Michael, “Emily Dow Partridge Smith Young on the Witness Stand: Recollections of a Plural Wife,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 110–41.

Taranto, Stacie, “The Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act and Its Reception in Rhode Island,” Rhode Island History, 66 (Winter–Spring 2008), 3–21.

 

Coontz, Stephanie, Maya Parson, and Gabrielle Raley, eds., American Families: A Multicultural Reader. (New York: Routledge, 2008. viii, 475 pp. Cloth, $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-95820-2. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-415-95821-9.) Second edition; revised and expanded.

May, Elaine Tyler, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. (New York: Basic, 2008. xiv, 302 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-465-01020-2.) Twentieth anniversary edition with a new epilogue.

 

Tyler, Daniel, ed., Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxxiv, 210 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4534-9.)

Film

 

Averbach, Márgara, “La hora 25 de Spike Lee: Una propuesta renovada del ‘American dream’” (Spike Lee’s 25th Hour: A renewed proposal of the American dream), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007) In Spanish.

Cabrera, Marcela, “The Lion King: Una lectura de la sociedad norteamericana” (The Lion King: A reading of American society), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007) In Spanish.

Deocampo, Nick, “Cinema and Colonization: American Colonization and the Rise of Cinema in the Philippines,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 147–71.

Gonshak, Henry, “Does Judgment at Nuremberg Accurately Depict the Nazi War Crimes Trial?,” Journal of American Culture, 31 (June 2008), 153–63.

Johnson, Russell L., “Clara Bow in Free to Love (1925): Feature Films and Eugenics in the 1920s,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 1–15.

Nadel, Alan, “The A-historical Actor on the Historical Stage: American Studies, the Cultural Borderline Personality, and John Sayles’ Lone Star,” Comparative American Studies (London), 6 (March 2008), 55–69.

Slater, Thomas J., “June Mathis’s The Legion of Death (1918): Melodrama and the Realities of Women in World War I,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 833–44.

Vizzini, Bryan E., “Cold War Fears, Cold War Passions: Conservatives and Liberals Square Off in 1950s Science Fiction,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 26 (Jan. 2009), 28–39.

Wetta, Frank J., and Martin A. Novelli, “Good Bombing, Bad Bombing: Hollywood, Air Warfare, and Morality in World War I and World War II,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Oct. 2008), 25–29.

 

Burton, Aaron V., “Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912–2004” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3301428.

Cavallero, Jonathan J., “Italian/American Filmmakers in American Motion Pictures: The Films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3301350.

Cobb, Sean D., “A Shadow Underneath: The Secret History of Paranoia, Borders, and Terrorism in Postwar American Literature and Film” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3297822.

Garcia, Desirée J., “There’s No Place Like Home: Race Cinema, Migration, and the Hollywood Musical, 1900–1950” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3296047.

Goltz, Dustin Bradley, “Tragedies from the Future: Temporal Politics in Gay Male Representation” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3300662.

Khor, Denise, “Asian Americans at the Movies: Race, Labor, and Migration in the Transpacific West, 1900–1945” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3291752.

Leary, Charles, “Film Performance and the American Vernacular: The Independent Acts of John Cassavetes” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296820.

Malin, Leelannee K., “Reel Women: Depictions of Females in the Sport Film Genre” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3299678.

Mithani, Sam, “The Hollywood Left: Cinematic Art and Activism in the 1930s” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291776.

Overpeck, Deron, “Out of the Dark: American Film Exhibition, Political Action, and Industrial Change, 1966–1986” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3295748.

Shafer, Leah Ruth, “Brand-Name Vision: Props and Comedy in the Films of John Hughes” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3300186.

Yaquinto, Marilyn, “Policing the World: American Mythologies and Hollywood’s Rogue Cop Character” (Bowling Green State University, 2006). Order No. DA3301780.

 

Keim, Norman O., Our Movie Houses: A History of Film and Cinematic Innovation in Central New York. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xx, 181 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0896-7.)

Nevins, Francis M., and Gary D. Keller, The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots. (Tempe: Bilingual Press, 2008. xiv, 262 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-1-931010-48-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-931010-49-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Skal, David J., with Jessica Rains, Claude Rains: An Actor’s Voice. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 290 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2432-2.)

Walsh, John Evangelist, When the Laughing Stopped: The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. viii, 189 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-60223-029-3.)

Gay and Lesbian

 

Chiang, Howard Hsueh-Hao, “Effecting Science, Affecting Medicine: Homosexuality, the Kinsey Reports, and the Contested Boundaries of Psychopathology in the United States, 1948–1965,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 44 (Oct. 2008), 300–318.

Hanhardt, Christina B., “Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Gay Safe Street Patrols and the New Gay Ghetto, 1976–1981,” Radical History Review (no. 100, Winter 2008), 61–85.

Kunzel, Regina, “Lessons in Being Gay: Queer Encounters in Gay and Lesbian Prison Activism,” Radical History Review (no. 100, Winter 2008), 11–37.

Nyong’o, Tavia, “Do You Want Queer Theory (or Do You Want the Truth)? Intersections of Punk and Queer in the 1970s,” Radical History Review (no. 100, Winter 2008), 103–19.

 

Goltz, Dustin Bradley, “Tragedies from the Future: Temporal Politics in Gay Male Representation” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3300662.

Reitsma, Richard Dale, “Homosexuality and Race on the Plantation: Deconstructing Myths of National Identity in the American South, Cuba, and Puerto Rico” (Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3299975.

Williams, Howell, “Homosexuality and the American Catholic Church: Reconfiguring the Silence, 1971–1999” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301609.

Winkler, Douglas A., “Lavender Sons of Zion: A History of Gay Men in Salt Lake City, 1950–1979” (University of Utah, 2008). Order No. DA3302801.

Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity

 

Bergland, Renée L., “Urania’s Inversion: Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, and the Strange History of Women Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America,” Signs, 34 (Autumn 2008), 75–99.

Chisholm, Ann, “Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women and Incorporations of Buoyancy: Contouring Femininity, Shaping Sex, and Regulating Middle-Class Consumption,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 84–112.

Fernández-Kelly, Patricia, “Gender and Economic Change in the United States and Mexico, 1900–2000,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (Nov. 2008), 377–404.

Hassel, Holly, “‘Intellectual Loves Rube!’: Class, Gender, and Alcohol in Jean Stafford’s ‘Children Are Bored on Sunday,’” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 815–32.

Hoffert, Sylvia D., “Female Self-Making in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 34–59.

Kahn, Edward, “Desdemona and the Role of Women in the Antebellum North,” Theatre Journal, 60 (May 2008), 235–55.

McGee, Kristin, “The Feminization of Mass Culture and the Novelty of All-Girl Bands: The Case of the Ingenues,” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Dec. 2008), 629–62.

Miyamoto, Natsuki, “Satokibi batake no onnatachi” (Women on sugar plantations: Japanese migrant women in Hawaii and the Oahu strike of 1920), Jenda Shigaku (Tokyo), 3 (2007), 19–31. In Japanese.

Pilcher, Jeffrey M., “Who Chased Out the ‘Chili Queens’? Gender, Race, and Urban Reform in San Antonio, Texas, 1880–1943,” Food & Foodways, 16 (July 2008), 173–200.

Sowinska, Alicja, “Ambiguous Women: Debates within American Evangelical Feminism,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 167–80.

Tinkler, Penny, and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, “Feminine Modernity in Interwar Britain and North America: Corsets, Cars, and Cigarettes,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 113–43.

Voss, Barbara L., “Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire,” American Anthropologist, 110 (June 2008), 191–203.

 

DeGruccio, Michael E., “Unmade: American Manhood in the Civil War Era” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299135.

Gottschall, William Peter, Jr., “Imaging Men, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Magazine Advertising: Ideological and Hegemonic Constructions of Masculinity and Fatherhood in Magazine Advertising (1960–2000)” (Carleton University, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR36787.

Grube, Melinda E., “Burned-Over Thealogy Context and Process in Matilda Joslyn Gage’s Gynocentric History” (Union Institute & University, 2007). Order No. DA3293422.

Lechtman, Zohar, “Gendering Chicago Politics: Institutionalization of Women in Positions of Power” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3300438.

Olson, Gregory Thomas, “Civilizing Men: Protestant Religion in Gold Rush San Francisco, 1848–1856” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296161.

Ondercin, Heather Louise, “The Changing Social Definitions of Men and Women and Their Effect on the Partisan Gender Gap, 1953–2003” (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Order No. DA3299034.

 

Hagemann, Karen, Sonya Michel, and Gunilla Budde, eds., Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. (New York: Berghahn, 2008. xii, 324 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-1-84545-437-1.)

Toyota, Maho, Senryoka no joseiroodo kaikaku (Women’s labor reform under the occupation). (Tokyo: Keiso shobo, 2007. 266 pp. ¥3465, isbn 4-3266-4875-9.) In Japanese.

Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Craven, Wayne, Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. (New York: Norton, 2008. 383 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-393-06754-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Gutzke, David W., ed., Britain and Transnational Progressivism. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 258 pp. $84.95, isbn 978-0-230-60580-0.)

Wall, James T., Wall Street and the Fruited Plain: Money, Expansion, and Politics in the Gilded Age. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. x,382 pp. Paper, $49.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4124-1.)

Immigration and Migration

 

Allerfeldt, Kristofer, “Rejecting the United States of the World: The Consequences of Woodrow Wilson’s New Diplomacy on the 1921 Immigration Act,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 145–65.

Anderson, Kristen L., “German Americans, African Americans, and the Republican Party in St. Louis, 1865–1872,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 34–51.

Chang, Kornel, “Enforcing Transnational White Solidarity: Asian Migration and the Formation of the U.S.-Canadian Boundary,” American Quarterly, 60 (Sept. 2008), 671–96.

Hoffman, Ronald, “The Carroll Family of Maryland,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 2, 2007), 331–50.

Keil, Hartmut, “Francis Lieber’s Attitudes on Race, Slavery, and Abolition,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 13–33.

Light, Ivan, and Elsa von Scheven, “Mexican Migration Networks in the United States, 1980–2000,” International Migration Review, 42 (Fall 2008), 107–28.

Lo, Shauna, “Chinese Women Entering New England: Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files, Boston, 1911–1925,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 383–409.

Naar, Devin E., “From the ‘Jerusalem of the Balkans’ to the Goldene Medina: Jewish Immigration from Salonika to the United States,” American Jewish History, 93 (Dec. 2007), 435–73.

Polland, Annie, “‘May a Freethinker Help a Pious Man?’: The Shared World of the ‘Religious’ and the ‘Secular’ among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants to America,” American Jewish History, 93 (Dec. 2007), 375–407.

Rowe, Amy E., “A Trace of Arabic in Granite: Lebanese Migration to the Green Mountains, 1890–1940,” Vermont History, 76 (Summer–Fall 2008), 91–129.

Sadowski-Smith, Claudia, “Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral: Chinese, European, and Mexican Indocumentados in the United States, 1882–2007,” American Quarterly, 60 (Sept. 2008), 779–804.

Sisson, Kelly J., “Bound for California: Chilean Contract Laborers and Patrones in the California Gold Rush, 1848–1852,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Fall 2008), 259–305.

Smits, Nicholas J., “Roots Entwined: Archaeolgy of an Urban Chinese American Cemetery,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 3, 2008), 111–22.

Spaeth, Catherine T. C., “America in the French Imagination: The French Settlers of Asylum, Pennsylvania, and Their Perceptions of 1790s America,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 38 (no. 2, 2008), 247–74.

Strickland, Jeffery, “How the Germans Became White Southerners: German Immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860–1880,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 52–69.

 

Almalki, Ali Hassan, “Labor Market Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality of Arab Immigrants in the United States: 1980–2000” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301519.

DeLeone, Felicia Yang, “Contextual and Policy Predictors of Early Fertility and Sex in the United States Immigrant Population” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3300205.

Emetuche, Damian Okwudiri, “An Analysis of Worldviews of West African Immigrants to Greater Cincinnati and Their Missiological Implications” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3300628.

Howard, Heather Fay, “An Economic Analysis of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3300177.

Kia, Parandeh, “An Iranian Eden: Women Activists and the Emergence of an Iranian Immigrant Community in Southern California, 1979–1993” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296159.

Sutton, Wesley K., “Heritage Genetics of Spanish-Americans in the Southwest United States” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296896.

Varela-Lago, Ana María, “Conquerors, Immigrants, Exiles: The Spanish Diaspora in the United States (1848–1948)” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3296804.

Weinzimmer, Julianne Melissa, “The Distant Reach of the Middle East: How Perceptions of Conflict Affect Jewish Israeli American and Palestinian American Identity” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297723.

van der Woude, Joanne, “Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3298521.

 

Fitzgerald, David, A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 243 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-520-25704-7. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-520-25705-4.)

Luconi, Stefano, and Matteo Pretelli, L’immigrazione negli Stati Uniti (Immigration in the United States). (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008. 224 pp. €13.00, isbn 978-88-15-12580-4.) In Italian.

Murakawa, Yoko, Kyokaisenjyo no shiminken (Citizenship on the boundaries). (Tokyo: Ochanomizu shobo, 2007. 354 pp. ¥7560, isbn 4-2750-0551-9.) In Japanese.

Rutledge, Doug, with Abdi Roble, The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xiv, 188 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5457-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Yoneyama, Hiroshi, and Norifumi Kawahara, eds., Nikkeijin no keiken to kokusaiido (Transnational Japanese mobility in the modern era: The experiences of overseas Japanese and their descendants). (Kyoto: Jinbun shoin, 2007. 276 pp. ¥2625, isbn 4-4092-3042-8.) In Japanese.

Intellectual

 

Berliner, Jonathan, “Jack London’s Socialistic Social Darwinism,” American Literary Realism, 41 (Fall 2008), 52–78.

Bly, Antonio T., “Navigating the Print Line: Shaping Readers’ Expectations in Booker T. Washington’s Autobiographies,” Alabama Review, 61 (July 2008), 190–215.

John, Richard R., “Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians,” Business History Review, 82 (Summer 2008), 227–40.

Leeman, William P., “George Bancroft’s Civil War: Slavery, Abraham Lincolm, and the Course of History,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 462–88.

McCraw, Thomas K., “Alfred Chandler: His Vision and Achievement,” Business History Review, 82 (Summer 2008), 207–26.

Neilson, Heather, “A Theatre of Politics: History’s Actors in Gore Vidal’s Empire,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 73–92.

Schäfer, Axel R., “German Historicism, Progressive Social Thought, and the Interventionist State in the U.S. since the 1880s,” in Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World, ed. Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann, 145–69. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 267 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-5210-4451-6.)

Stabile, Donald, “Automation, Workers, and Union Decline: Ben Seligman’s Contribution to the Institutional Economics of Labor,” Labor History, 49 (Aug. 2008), 275–95.

 

Baughn, Thomas M., “French Origins of American Constitutionalism” (Catholic University of America, 2008). Order No. DA3294691.

Buccola, Nicholas, “In Pursuit of Liberty: The Civic Liberalism of Frederick Douglass” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291819.

Das, Robin R., “The Place of Werner Stark in American Sociology: A Study in Marginality” (Fordham University, 2008). Order No. DA3301435.

Lasser, Ethan W., “Figures in the Grain: The Enlightenment of Anglo-American Furniture, 1660–1800” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293339.

Mayer, Danny, “Frontier Spaces of the 1960s” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298846.

Powers, Devon, “Rock Criticism and Intellectual History at the Village Voice, 1955–1972” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3295347.

 

Bubíková, Šárka, and Michael M. Kaylor, eds., Predzvesti, predchudci, precedenty: Pokracující vliv 19. století na moderní texty a kontexty (Precursors, predecessors, precedents: The continuing influence of the 19th century on modern texts and contexts). (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2002. 113 pp. isbn 80-7194-462-2.) In Czech and English.

Halliwell, Martin, and Catherine Morley, eds., American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. xii, 324 pp. Cloth, £75.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2601-4. Paper, £24.99, isbn 978-0-7486-2602-1.)

Manicas, Peter T., Rescuing Dewey: Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. xxviii, 323 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-7391-2515-1.)

Topping, Gary, Leonard J. Arrington: A Historian’s Life. (Norman: Arthur H. Clark, 2008. 251 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-87062-363-9.)

Interdisciplinary Theory/Studies

Bubíková, Šárka, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, eds., Problematika identity: Identita a globalizace (The issue of identity: Identity and globalization). (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2003. 145 pp. isbn 80-7194-590-0.) In Czech and English.

International Relations

 

Allerfeldt, Kristofer, “Rejecting the United States of the World: The Consequences of Woodrow Wilson’s New Diplomacy on the 1921 Immigration Act,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 145–65.

Bieluk, Halina, “Peace Corps: Misja ‘wielkiej integracji’ Johna F. Kennedy’ ego” (Peace Corps: A part of John F. Kennedy’s mission of the ‘great integration’), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 199–215. In Polish.

Bing, Albert, “Sjedinjene Americke Države I reintegracija hrvatskog Podunavlja” (The United States of America and the reintegration of the Croatian Danube Region), Scrinia Slavonica Godišnjak Podružnice za povijest Slavonije, Srijema I Baranje Hrvatskog instituta za povijest (Slavonski Brod), 8 (2008), 336–65. In Croatian.

Bruscino, Thomas A., Jr., “A Troubled Past: The Army and Security on the Mexican Border, 1915–1917,” Military Review, 88 (July–Aug. 2008), 31–44.

Cumming, Anthony J., “We’ll Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends: The Battle of Britain and the Pilot in Anglo-American Relations, 1940–45,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 1, 2007), 11–26.

Deocampo, Nick, “Cinema and Colonization: American Colonization and the Rise of Cinema in the Philippines,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 147–71.

Dominguez, Virginia R., “When the Enemy Is Unclear: U.S. Censuses and Photographs of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines from the Beginning of the 20th Century,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 173–203.

Flippen, J. Brooks, “Richard Nixon, Russell Train, and the Birth of Modern American Environmental Diplomacy,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 613–38.

Friedman, Max Paul, “Anti-Americanism and U.S. Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 497–514.

Harris, Susan K., “Kipling’s ‘The White Man’s Burden’ and the British Newspaper Context, 1898–1899,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Sept. 2007), 243–63.

Hilton, Sylvia L., “The World in Black and White: Spanish Federalists on U.S. Democracy and Imperialism in 1898,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 119–46.

Jang, Jun-Kab, “Kennedy Hangjeongbueui Daehan Jeongchak, 1961–1963: Gansub Inga Hyupruk Inga?” (The Kennedy Administration’s Korea policy, 1961–1963: Intervention or cooperation?), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 25 (May 2007), 133–57. In Korean.

Jang, Jun-Kab, “Migunjeongeui Jeju 4.3 Sagone Daehan Daeung: Pokrukgua Haksalui Jeonjugok” (U.S. military government in Korea’s action against Jeju 4.3 incident: Prelude to violence and genocide), Jeonbuk Sahak/The Jeonbuk Historical Journal (Chonju-si), 31 (Oct. 2007), 205–26. In Korean.

Jang, Jun-Kab, “Nixon Doctrinegua Migukeui Daehan Jeongchak” (Nixon Doctrine and Korean–American relations), Yoksahak Yongu (Gwangju), 34 (Oct. 2008), 229–49. In Korean.

Kim, Yuon-Jin, “Hangukgwa Migukui Mannam: Ijungjeok Mannamui Yeoksa” (Korea meets the United States: A history of duality), Sahakji/Korean Journal of History (Seoul), 39 (Aug. 2008), 105–33. In Korean.

Kochavi, Noam, “Joining the Conservative Brotherhood: Israel, President Nixon, and the Political Consolidation of the ‘Special Relationship’, 1969–73,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Nov. 2008), 449–80.

Laffey, Mark, and Jutta Weldes, “Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis,” International Studies Quarterly, 52 (Sept. 2008), 555–77.

Lansford, Tom, “Pragmatic Idealism: Truman’s Broader Middle East Policy,” in Israel and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Michael J. Devine, Robert P. Watson, and Robert J. Wolz, 28–41. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 121 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-80-2.)

Laville, Helen, “Protecting Difference or Promoting Equality? U.S. Government Approaches to Women’s Rights and the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, 1945–50,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Sept. 2007), 291–305.

Levey, Zach, “Anatomy of an Airlift: United States Military Assistance to Israel during the 1973 War,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Nov. 2008), 481–501.

Luconi, Stefano, “Presentazione: Stati Uniti, Canada, e Australia” (Preface: United States, Canada, and Australia), Altreitalie (Turin), 36–37 (Jan.–Dec. 2008), 267–74. In Italian.

Martínez, Oscar J., “Border Conflict, Border Fences, and the ‘Tortilla Curtain’ Incident of 1978–1979,” Journal of the Southwest, 50 (Autumn 2008), 263–78.

Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu, “What T. R. Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903–1937,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 680–721.

Mawdsley, Evan, “Anti-German Insurgency and Allied Grand Strategy,” Journal of Strategic Studies (London), 31 (Oct. 2008), 695–719.

Popp, Roland, “An Application of Modernization Theory during the Cold War? The Case of Pahlavi Iran,” International History Review (Burnaby), 30 (March 2008), 76–98.

Ramet, P. Sabrina, “Priznati ili ne priznati: Politika Sjedinjenih Americkih Država prema Hrvatskoj, 1990–1991” (To recognize or not: The policy of the United States toward Croatia, 1990–1991), Casopis za suvremenu povijest Hrvatski institut za povijest (Zagreb), 40 (no. 1, 2008), 141–59. In Croatian.

Rzepecka, Marta, “American Foreign Policy during the Cold War: From Moralism to Realism,” in U.S. Foreign Policy: Theory, Mechanisms, Practice, ed. Andrzej Mania, Pawel Laidler, and Lukasz Wordliczek, 319–30. (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2007. 565 pp. zl. 30.00, isbn 978-83-233-2485-0.)

Surwillo, Lisa, “Poetic Diplomacy: Carolina Coronado and the American Civil War,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 409–22.

Toong, Zi Jun, “Overthrown by the Press: The U.S. Media’s Role in the Fall of Diem,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 56–72.

Trani, Eugene P., and Donald E. Davis, “Roosevelt and the U.S. Role: Perception Makes Policy,” in The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies, ed. Steven Ericson and Allen Hockley, 62–74. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. x, 249 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-722-4.)

Yang, Hong-Seuk, “Gaehanggi Han-Mi Ganeal Chiaebergeun Sarae Bunseurk” (A case study about the American enforcement of extraterritoriality), The Donghark Youn Gu (Seoul), 24 (March 2008), 83–113. In Korean.

 

Asgarov, Asgar M., “Reporting from the Frontlines of the First Cold War: American Diplomatic Despatches about the Internal Conditions in the Soviet Union, 1917–1933” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297340.

Barreto, Norberto, “Imperial Thoughts: The U.S. Congress and the Philippine Questions, 1898–1934” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3299701.

Domber, Gregory F., “Supporting the Revolution: America, Democracy, and the End of the Cold War in Poland, 1981–1989” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3295049.

Fields, Jeffrey, “Adversaries and Statecraft: Explaining U.S. Foreign Policy toward Rogue States” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291883.

Hernández, José Angel, “Lost Mexico, Forgotten Mexico, and Mexico Beyond: A History of Mexican American Colonization, 1836–1892” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3300435.

Lepler, Jessica M., “1837: Anatomy of a Panic” (Brandeis University, 2007). Order No. DA3290956.

McCullough, Stephen, “Foreshadowing of Informal Empire: Ulysses S. Grant and Hamilton Fish’s Caribbean Policy, 1869–1877” (University of Alabama, 2007). Order No. DA3293003.

McGrath, Kevin, “Sheathing the Sword of Damocles: Assessing Al Qaeda and Devising a U.S. Response” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297316.

Mocnik, Josip, “United States–Yugoslav Relations, 1961–1980: The Twilight of Tito’s Era and the Role of Ambassadorial Diplomacy in the Making of America’s Yugoslav Policy” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3301774.

Phelps, Nicole Marie, “Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the New Liberal Order: U.S.-Habsburg Relations and the Transformation of International Politics, 1880–1924” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3302313.

Sheehan, Carrie C., “Securitizing the hiv/aids pandemic in U.S. Foreign Policy” (American University, 2008). Order No. DA3302229.

Sulaiman, Yohanes, “The Banteng and the Eagle: Indonesian Foreign Policy and the United States during the Era of Sukarno, 1945–1967” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3300124.

Wang, Doug, “From Enmity to Rapprochement: Grand Strategy, Power Politics, and U.S.-China Relations, 1961–1974” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3295737.

Zambrano Uzcategui, Nahirana Teresa, “Images of the Other, Narratives of the Self: Representations of Venezuela in the U.S. Printed Press, 1982–2002” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3291568.

Ali, S. Mahmud, U.S.-China Relations in the ”Asia-Pacific” Century. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xvi, 268 pp. $79.95, isbn 978-0-230-60455-1.)

Ara, Konomi, and Eiko Ikui, eds., Amerika kenkyu no ekkyo, vol. 6: Bunka no juyo to henbo (Transboundary American studies, vol.6: Reception and transformation of cultures). (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2007. 424 pp. ¥4410, isbn 4-6230-4945-5.) In Japanese.

Buhite, Russell D., Douglas MacArthur: Statecraft and Stagecraft in America’s East Asian Policy. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xiv, 189 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4425-3. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4426-0.)

Carr, Matthew, The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism from the Assassination of Tsar Alexander II to Al-Qaeda. (New York: New Press, 2008. 410 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-1-59558-179-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-59558-408-3.)

Dwyer, John J., The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiv, 387 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4295-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4309-7.)

Ericson, Steven, and Allen Hockley, eds., The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. x, 249 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-722-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Ghani, Ashraf, and Clare Lockhart, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 254 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-534269-7.)

Hanhimäki, Jussi M., The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 171 pp. Paper, $11.95, isbn 978-0-19-530437-4.)

Hitchcock, William I., The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe. (New York: Free Press, 2008. xii, 446 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-7432-7381-7.)

Kan, Hideki, Amerika no sekaisenryaku (Global strategy of the United States). (Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, 2008. 238 pp. ¥819, isbn 4-1210-1937-0.) In Japanese.

Kim, Youn-Jin, Syegyesokui Hanguk (Korea in the wider world). (Seoul: Dankook University Press, 2008. 375 pp. Paper, Won 12,000, isbn 978-89-7092-393-2.) In Korean.

Kisztelinska-Wegrzynska, Agnieszka, rfn w pogladach i dyplomacji Johna Fostera Dullesa, 1953–1959 (John Foster Dulles’s views on and diplomacy toward the Federal Republic of Germany, 1953–1959). (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2008. 257 pp. zl. 27.60, isbn 978-83-7441-905-5.) In Polish.

Kusama, Hidezaburo, Nichibei sogo imeji no hensen (Transition of mutual images between Japan and the United States). (Tokyo: Nanso sha, 2008. 200 pp. ¥1995, isbn 4-8165-0364-1.) In Japanese.

Mania, Andrzej, Pawel Laidler, and Lukasz Wordliczek, eds., U.S. Foreign Policy: Theory, Mechanisms, Practice. (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2007. 565 pp. zl. 30.00, isbn 978-83-233-2485-0.)

Marszalek-Kawka, J., and S. Wojciechowski, eds., Spotkania polsko-amerykanskie (Polish-American encounters). (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2008. 329 pp. zl. 34.50, isbn 978-83-744-1878-2.) In Polish.

Minohara, Toshihiro, Kariforuniashu no hainichi undo to nichibei kankei (The anti-Japanese movement in California and U.S.-Japan relations). (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2006. 204 pp. ¥4725, isbn 4-6411-9978-7.) In Japanese.

Miura, Nobutaka, and Yuko Matsumoto, eds., Gurobaruka to bunka no odan (Globalization and the crossing of cultures). (Tokyo: Chuo University Press, 2007. 400 pp. ¥4515, isbn 4-8057-6169-4.) In Japanese.

Nakatani, Yoshikazu, Gurobaruka to amerika no hegemoni (Globalization and hegemony of the U.S.A.). (Kyoto: Horitsubunkasha, 2008. 185 pp. ¥4200, isbn 4-0890-3093-1.) In Japanese.

Raczkiewicz, Marek, Doktryna Trumana: Aspekt grecki (The Greek angle on the Truman Doctrine). (Lódz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego, 2008. 144 pp. zl. 19.00, isbn 978-83-752-5142-5.) In Polish.

Rosen, Fred, ed., Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xviii, 263 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4255-7. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4278-6.)

Saiu, Liliana, ed., Stati Uniti e Italia nel Mediterraneo: Operazioni di pace e di guerra (The United States and Italy in the Mediterranean: Peace and war operations). (Milan: Angeli, 2008. 240 pp. €19.00, isbn 978-88-46492-87-6.) In Italian.

Seib, Philip, The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media Are Reshaping World Politics. (Dulles: Potomac, 2008. xii, 227 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-59797-200-0.)

Sugita, Yoneyuki, ed., Ajiataiheiyo chiiki ni okeru heiwakochiku (Constructing peace in the Asia-Pacific region). (Tokyo: Kyoiku shuppan, 2007. 263 pp. ¥2940, isbn 4-8873-0759-4.) In Japanese.

Sugita, Yoneyuki, ed., Amerika “teikoku” no ushinawareta haken (America’s lost hegemony). (Tokyo: Sanwa shoseki, 2007. 407 pp. ¥3675, isbn 4-8625-1022-8.) In Japanese.

Szlajfer, Henryk, Ku wielkiej zmianie: Korespondencja miedzy Ambasada prl w Waszyngtonie a Ministerstwem Spraw Zagranicznych, stycen-pazdziernik 1989 (On the way to a great change: The correspondence between the Embassy of the Polish People’s Republic in Washington, D.C. and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, January–October 1989). (Warszawa: Instytut Studiów Politycznych pan, 2008. 242 pp. zl. 20.00, isbn 978-83-60580-17-2.) In Polish.

Tablit, Ali, El asra El-American fi El Djazair (The American captives at Algiers, 1785–1797). (Algiers: Thala Editions, 2008. 326 pp. A.D.450, isbn 978-9961-905-99-9.) In Arabic.

Takahashi, Hiroko, Fuinsareta Hiroshima/ Nagasaki (Classified Hiroshima and Nagasaki). (Tokyo: Gaifusha, 2008. 285 pp. ¥3150, isbn 4-7736-3208-8.) In Japanese.

Takamitsu, Yoshie, Amerika to senkanki no higashi ajia (The United States and East Asia in the interwar years). (Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2008. 206 pp. ¥3570, isbn 4-7872-2026-4.) In Japanese.

Vantaggio, Valentina, La seduzione del pavone: Le origini dell’alleanza tra Stati Uniti e Iran (1941–1949) (The seduction of the peacock: The origins of the U.S.-Iran alliance, 1941–1949). (Lecce: Icaro Libreria, 2008. 272 pp. €18.00, isbn 88-9537-711-7.) In Italian.

Yamazumi, Toru, Amerika gaiko to senkanki no kokumushokanryo (U.S. diplomacy and bureaucracy of the Department of State in the interwar years). (Tokyo: Ashi shobo, 2007. 358 pp. ¥2625, isbn 4-7556-1213-8.) In Japanese.

 

Best, Antony, et al., eds., International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond. (New York: Routledge, 2008. xxiv, 613 pp. Cloth, $140.00, isbn 978-0-415-43895-7. Paper, $37.95, isbn 978-0-415-43896-4.) Second edition; revised and expanded.

Filkins, Dexter, The Forever War. (New York: Knopf, 2008. x, 368 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-307-26639-2.)

Gorbachevsky, Boris, Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier’s War on the Eastern Front, 1942–1945, trans. Stuart Britton. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxii, 453 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1605-3.)

Jewish

 

Berman, Lila Corwin, “Sociology, Jews, and Intermarriage in Twentieth-Century America,” Jewish Social Studies, 14 (Winter 2008), 32–60.

Hawkins, Richard, “Samuel Untermyer and the Zionist Project: An Attempt to Reconcile the American ‘Melting Pot’ with Zionism,” Australian Journal of Jewish Studies (Sydney), 21 (2007), 114–54.

Kita, Miyuki, “A Journey to Brown: American Jewish Organizations’ Fight against Segregated Education,” Kitakyushushiritudaigaku gaikokugogakubu kiyo (Kitakyushu), 117 (2006), 31–61.

Kita, Miyuki, “Amerika yudayajin no ‘byodo’ kan to ‘rutsubo’” (Quest for color-blind admission: A study of a founding process of a Jewish-sponsored secular university in the U.S.), Kitakyushushiritudaigaku gaikokugogakubu kiyo (Kitakyushu), 120 (2007), 47–84. In Japanese.

Krause, Allen, “Charleston Jewry, Black Civil Rights, and Rabbi Burton Padoll,” Southern Jewish History, 11 (2008), 65–122.

Polland, Annie, “‘May a Freethinker Help a Pious Man?’: The Shared World of the ‘Religious’ and the ‘Secular’ among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants to America,” American Jewish History, 93 (Dec. 2007), 375–407.

Puckett, Dan J., “In the Shadow of Hitler: Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El and Nazism,” Southern Jewish History, 11 (2008), 1–39.

 

Kessner, Carole S., Marie Syrkin: Values beyond the Self. (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2008. xiv, 479 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-451-3.)

Labor and Working Class

 

Anderson, David M., “‘Things Are Different Down Here’: The 1955 Perfect Circle Strike, Conservative Civic Identity, and the Roots of the New Right in the 1950s Industrial Heartland,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 101–23.

Cohen, Sheila, “The 1968–1974 Labor Upsurge in Britain and America: A Critical History, and a Look at What Might Have Been,” Labor History, 49 (Nov. 2008), 395–416.

Delfino, Susanna, “Acquiescence and Defiance in Antebellum Southern Manufactories,” in Conformism, Non-conformism, and Anti-conformism in the Culture of the Unites States, ed. Antones Mpalasopulos, 67–79. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2008. x, 330 pp. isbn 978-3-8253-5479-4.)

Derickson, Alan, “‘Asleep and Awake at the Same Time’: Sleep Denial among Pullman Porters,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Fall 2008), 13–44.

Dickey, Susan Karina, “Bishop James A. Griffin and the Coal Miners’ War,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Spring 2008), 22–34.

Dredge, Bart, “Contradictions of Corporate Benevolence: Industrial Libraries in the Southern Textile Industry, 1920–1945,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 3, 2008), 308–26.

Geraghty, Thomas M., and Thomas Wiseman, “Wage Strikes in 1880s America: A Test of the War of Attrition Model,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 303–26.

Hillard, Michael, and Jonathan P. Goldstein, “Cutting Off the Canadians: Nativism and the Fate of the Maine Woodman’s Association, 1970–1981,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Fall 2008), 67–89.

Krashinsky, Harry, “The Effect of Labor Market Institutions on Salaried and Self-Employed Less-Educated Men in the 1980s,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 62 (Oct. 2008), 73–91.

Logan, John, “Permanent Replacements and the End of Labor’s ‘Only True Weapon,’” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 171–92.

Olszowka, John, “The uaw and the Struggle to Organize Aircraft, 1937–1942,” Labor History, 49 (Aug. 2008), 297–317.

Seigel, Peggy, “Pushing the Color Line: Race and Employment in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1933–1963,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (Sept. 2008), 241–76.

Shelton, Robert S., “‘Built by the Irishman, the Negro, and the Mule’: Labor Militancy across the Color Line in Post-Reconstruction Texas,” East Texas Historical Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2008), 15–26.

Stabile, Donald, “Automation, Workers, and Union Decline: Ben Seligman’s Contribution to the Institutional Economics of Labor,” Labor History, 49 (Aug. 2008), 275–95.

Witwer, David, “The Racketeer Menace and Antiunionism in the Mid-Twentieth Century U.S.,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 124–47.

 

Almalki, Ali Hassan, “Labor Market Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality of Arab Immigrants in the United States: 1980–2000” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301519.

Nystrom, Eric Charles, “Learning to See: Visual Tools in American Mining Engineering, 1860–1920” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3295796.

Legal and Constitutional

 

Aiyetoro, Adjoa Artis, “Truth Matters: A Call for the American Bar Association to Acknowledge Its Past and Make Reparations to African Descendants,” George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal, 18 (Fall 2007), 51–105.

Alexander, James R., “Roth at Fifty: Reconsidering the Common Law Antecedents of American Obscenity Doctrine,” John Marshall Law Review, 41 (Winter 2008), 393–434.

Berg, Laura, “Let Them Do As They Have Promised,” University of California, Hastings College of Law West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 14 (Winter 2008), 311–29.

Bhagwat, Ashutosh, “Cooper v. Aaron and the Faces of Federalism,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1087–1115.

Blumenthal, Susanna L., “The Mind of a Moral Agent: Scottish Common Sense and the Problem of Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century American Law,” Law & History Review, 26 (Spring 2008), 99–160.

Blumrosen, Alfred W., “The Profound Influence in America of Lord Mansfield’s Decision in Somerset v. Stuart,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 13 (no. 2, 2007), 645–57.

Bobb-Semple, Colin, “English Common Law, Slavery, and Human Rights,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 13 (no. 2, 2007), 659–84.

Cho, Ji-Hyung, “Jeongdanghan Beopjeolcha, Sujeongjohang 5 Jo, Grigo Deaseoyang Saegaeeui Beopyeul Munwha” (Due process, the Fifth Amendment, and the legal culture of the Atlantic world), Saegae Hunbeop Yeogu/World Constitutional Law Review, 14 (July 2008), 283–314. In Korean.

Cho, Ji-Hyung, “Siljiljeok Jeongdanghan Beopjeolcha, Lochner Pallae ya ‘Ban-Gaehyuck’ Jeongchi” (Substantive due process, the Lochner case, and the politics of ‘anti-reform’), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 27 (May 2008), 37–77. In Korean.

Clark, Randall Baldwin, “Bleedings, Purges, and Vomits: Dr. Benjamin Rush’s Republican Medicine, the Bilious Remitting Yellow-Fever Epidemic of 1793, and the Non-Origin of the Law of Informed Consent,” Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy, 24 (Spring 2008), 209–50.

Cramer, Clayton E., and Joseph Edward Olson, “Pistols, Crime, and Public Safety in Early America,” Willamette Law Review, 44 (Summer 2008), 699–722.

Daniels, Brigham, “Revitalizing Zion: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and Today’s Urban Sprawl,” Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law, 28 (no. 2, 2008), 257–300.

Dorsey, Dana Thompson, “An Examination of the Legal Debate Regarding Race-Based Education Policies from 1849 to 1964,” Negro Educational Review, 59 (Spring–Summer 2008), 7–26.

Entin, Jonathan L., “Parents Involved and the Meaning of Brown: An Old Debate Renewed,” Seattle University Law Review, 31 (Summer 2008), 923–36.

Gillers, Stephen, “A Tendency to Deprave and Corrupt: The Transformation of American Obscenity Law from Hicklin to Ulysses II,” Washington University Law Review, 85 (no. 2, 2007), 215–96.

Goldstein, Joel K., “Assuming Responsibility: Thomas F. Eagleton, the Senate, and the Bombing of Cambodia,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Fall 2007), 151–85.

Gorczyca, Robert, “Sound and Fury: The Sedition Trial of Communist Steve Nelson,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Summer 2008), 44–55. Heavily illustrated.

Hansen, Zeynep K., and Marc T. Law, “The Political Economy of Truth-in-Advertising Regulation during the Progressive Era,” Journal of Law & Economics, 51 (May 2008), 251–70.

Harris, Cheryl I., “‘Too Pure an Air’: Somerset’s Legacy from Anti-Slavery to Colorblindness,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 13 (no. 2, 2007), 439–58.

Hart, John F., “Human Law, Higher Law, and Property Rights: Judicial Review in the Federal Courts, 1789–1835,” San Diego Law Review, 45 (Aug.–Sept. 2008), 823–62.

Hendrick, Veronica, “Codifying Humanity: The Legal Line between Slave and Servant,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 13 (no. 2, 2007), 685–97.

Herman, Shael, “The Louisiana Code of Practice (1825): A Civilian Essai among Anglo-American Sources,” Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, 23 (2008), 51–88.

Jaffa, Harry V., “Dred Scott Revisited,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Winter 2008), 197–217.

Klein, Diane J., “Naming and Framing the ‘Subject’ of Antebellum Slave Contracts: Introducing Julia, ‘a Certain Negro Slave,’ ‘a Man,’ Joseph, Eliza, and Albert,” Rutgers Race & the Law Review, 9 (no. 2, 2008), 243–84.

Lash, Kurt T., “The Original Meaning of an Omission: The Tenth Amendment, Popular Sovereignty, and ‘Expressly’ Delegated Power,” Notre Dame Law Review, 83 (July 2008), 1889–1957.

Lilley, Stephen, “The Hard Work of ‘Hard Work’: The Legal Elite’s Rhetoric of Diligence and the Professionalization of the Law, 1850–1920,” Widener Law Journal, 17 (no. 1, 2007), 145–75.

Maltz, Earl M., “Roe v. Wade and Dred Scott,” Widener Law Journal, 17 (no. 1, 2007), 55–71.

Mensel, Robert E., “Originalism and Ancestor Worship in the Post-Heroic Era: The Dred Scott Opinions,” Widener Law Journal, 17 (no. 1, 2007), 29–54.

Mickey, Robert W., “The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America: Smith v. Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South, 1944–1948,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (Sept. 2008), 143–82.

Muñoz, Vincent Phillip, “The Original Meaning of the Free Exercise Clause: The Evidence from the First Congress,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Summer 2008), 1083–1120.

Natelson, Robert G., “Paper Money and the Original Understanding of the Coinage Clause,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Summer 2008), 1017–82.

Powell, John P., and Stephen Menendian, “Little Rock and the Legacy of Dred Scott,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1153–90.

Purcell, Edward A., Jr., “The Class Action Fairness Act in Perspective: The Old and the New in Federal Jurisdictional Reform,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 156 (June 2008), 1823–1928.

Quester, Amanda, “Evolution before Revolution: Dynamism in Connecticut Landlord-Tenant Law Prior to the Late 1960s,” American Journal of Legal History, 48 (Oct. 2006), 408–52.

Quitt, Martin H., “Congressional (Partisan) Constitutionalism: The Apportionment Act Debates of 1842 and 1844,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Winter 2008), 627–51.

Rao, Gautham, “The Federal Posse Comitatus Doctrine: Slavery, Compulsion, and Statecraft in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America,” Law & History Review, 26 (Spring 2008), 1–56.

Ronner, Amy D., “The Crucible, Harvard’s Secret Court, and Homophobic Witch Hunts,” Brooklyn Law Review, 73 (Fall 2007), 217–98.

Roosevelt, Kermit, III, “Judicial Supremacy, Judicial Activism: Cooper v. Aaron and Parents Involved,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1191–1210.

Schmeiser, Susan R., “The Ungovernable Citizen: Psychopathy, Sexuality, and the Rise of Medico-Legal Reasoning,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 20 (Summer 2008), 163–240.

Schweigert, Benedict J., “‘Now For a Clean Sweep!’: Smiley v. Holm, Partisan Gerrymandering, and At-Large Congressional Elections,” Michigan Law Review, 107 (Oct. 2008), 133–88.

Scott, Rebecca J., “Public Rights, Social Equality, and the Conceptual Roots of the Plessy Challenge,” Michigan Law Review, 106 (March 2008), 777–804.

Strauss, David A., “Little Rock and the Legacy of Brown,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1065–86.

Terry, James P., “The Vietnam War in Perspective: Lessons Learned in the Law of Wars as Applied in Subsequent Conflict,” Naval Law Review, 54 (2007), 79–103.

Ziegler, Mary, “Reinventing Eugenics: Reproductive Choice and Law Reform After World War II,” Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender, 14 (Spring 2008), 319–50.

 

Coleman, Ellen, “Amicus Curiae Briefs and Their Effect on United States Supreme Court Decisions Involving Rape Convictions from 1950–1999” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296075.

Frederick, Douglas John, “Clash of the Titans: Taking a Long, Hard, Second Look at Conflicts between Copyright and the First Amendment” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301705.

Gonzalez Graf, Hector, “Regional Collective Bargaining in North America: An Alternative for Balancing Trade and Labor Prerogatives” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3302022.

Morrisroe, Darby A., “First Lawyer: The Institutionalization of the Office of White House Counsel, 1943–1989” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3300253.

Sauté, Robert, “For the Poor and Disenfranchised: An Institutional and Historical Analysis of Amerian Public Interest Law, 1876 to 1990” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3296951.

Toromanovic, Amna, “Ustav sad: Nastanak, karakter, i historijski znacaj” (The U.S. Constitution: Its origin, character, and historical significance) (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2008). In Bosnian.

 

Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L., Navigating Legal Issues in Archives. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2008. viii, 329 pp. Paper, $69.95, isbn 1-931666-28-8.)

Corwin, Edward S., The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2008. xiv, 92 pp. Paper, $10.00, isbn 978-0-86597-695-5.) Originally published in 1928.

Duncan, Joyce, Shapers of the Great Debate on Women’s Rights: A Biographical Dictionary. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xx, 232 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-313-33869-4.)

Fisher, Louis, The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America’s Freedoms. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 394 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1600-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1601-5.)

Forde, Kathy Roberts, Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xiv, 288 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-652-1. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-55849-653-8.)

Goldman, Robert M., One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xviii, 158 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1602-2. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1603-9.)

Hamburger, Philip, Law and Judicial Duty. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xviii, 686 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-03131-9.)

Hogge, Jeffery A., Norton Parker Chipman: A Biography of the Andersonville War Crimes Prosecutor. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. viii, 241 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3449-7.)

Mayhew, David R., Parties and Policies: How the American Government Works. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. vi, 401 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-300-13762-0.)

Neal, Bill, From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. xx, 364 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-637-6.)

 

Hanyok, Robert J., and David P. Mowry, West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy; A Documentary History. (Fort George G. Meade: National Security Agency, 2008. xxii, 327 pp. Paper.)

Latino/a

 

Avant-Mier, Roberto, “Latinos in the Garage: A Genealogical Examination of the Latino/a Presence and Influence in Garage Rock (And Rock and Pop Music),” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Dec. 2008), 555–74.

Carson, Scott Alan, “The Stature and Body Mass of Mexicans in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 39 (Autumn 2008), 211–32.

Correia, David, “‘Rousers of the Rabble’ in the New Mexico Land Grant War: La Alianza Federal De Mercedes and the Violence of the State,” Antipode, 40 (Sept. 2008), 561–83.

Davis, Roger P., “‘Service Not Power’: The Early Years of the Nebraska Commission on Mexican-Americans, 1971–1975,” Nebraska History, 89 (Summer 2008), 67–83.

De León, Arnoldo, “Mexican Americans in the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos Region, 1900–2000: A Demographic Study,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (Oct. 2008), 149–70.

Galán, Francis X., “The Chirino Boys: Spanish Soldier-Pioneers from Los Adaes on the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands,” East Texas Historical Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2008), 42–58.

Miura, Junko, “Tekisasu ni okeru mekishikan no soshikikatudo, 1910nen–1929nen” (Mexican political organizations in Texas, 1910–1929: The attempts of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to move beyond the dichotomous concept of ethnic identities), Hokudai-Shigaku (Sapporo), 47 (2007), 1–27. In Japanese.

Pilcher, Jeffrey M., “Who Chased Out the ‘Chili Queens’? Gender, Race, and Urban Reform in San Antonio, Texas, 1880–1943,” Food & Foodways, 16 (July 2008), 173–200.

Weise, Julie M., “Mexican Nationalisms, Southern Racisms: Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. South, 1908–1939,” American Quarterly, 60 (Sept. 2008), 749–77.

 

Buelna, Enrique Meza, “Resistance from the Margins: Mexican American Radical Activism in Los Angeles, 1930–1970” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3293070.

Contreras, Eduardo A., “The Politics of Community Development: Latinos, Their Neighbors, and the State in San Francisco, 1960s and 1970s” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3300427.

Rivera, Ruben, “Alberto Rembao (1895–1962): Mexican American Protestant for Internationalism and Christian Holism” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298673.

 

Navarro, Sharon A., Latina Legislator: Leticia van de Putte and the Road to Leadership. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. x, 178 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-062-2.)

Nevins, Francis M., and Gary D. Keller, The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots. (Tempe: Bilingual Press, 2008. xiv, 262 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-1-931010-48-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-931010-49-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark, ed., Latino America: A State-by-State Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1, Alabama–Missouri: xxiv, 473 pp. Vol. 2, Montana–Wyoming: viii, 484 pp. $175.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-34116-8/set.)

Ruiz, Vicki L., From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 258 pp. Cloth, $99.00, isbn 978-0-19-537478-0. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-19-537477-3.) Tenth anniversary edition.

Mass Communications

 

Cragg, Larry, “‘Never Accorded the Recognition He Deserved’: Al Freeman, Sands Hotel Publicist, 1952–1972,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Spring 2008), 25–55.

Fasce, Ferdinando, “Da Barton a Rove: Pubblicità e politica negli Stati Uniti del ‘secolo americano’” (From Barton to Rove: Advertising and politics in the ‘American century’), Ricerche di Storia Politica (Bologna) (no. 1, 2008), 3–20. In Italian.

Hansen, Zeynep K., and Marc T. Law, “The Political Economy of Truth-in-Advertising Regulation during the Progressive Era,” Journal of Law & Economics, 51 (May 2008), 251–70.

Heitner, Devorah, “The Good Side of the Ghetto: Visualizing Black Brooklyn, 1968–1971,” Velvet Light Trap, 62 (Fall 2008), 48–61.

Lauer, Josh, “Money as Mass Communication: U.S. Paper Currency and the Iconography of Nationalism,” Communication Review (Yverdon), 11 (April 2008), 109–32.

Lippman, Stephen, “Rationalization, Standardization, or Market Diversity? Station Networks and Market Structure in U.S. Broadcasting, 1927–1950,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 405–36.

Silva Aras, Silvina, “Los comics norteamericanos en la década de 1930: Un campo de lucha para la produccíon del discurso” (North American comics in the 1930s: A battlefield for the production of discourse), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007) In Spanish.

 

Arnold, John R., “The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Effects on Local Radio and Television Programming and the Public Interest” (Wayne State University, 2007). Order No. DA3295983.

Gottschall, William Peter, Jr., “Imaging Men, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Magazine Advertising: Ideological and Hegemonic Constructions of Masculinity and Fatherhood in Magazine Advertising (1960–2000)” (Carleton University, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR36787.

 

Arnold, Gordon B., Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television, and Politics. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. xii, 189 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-275-99462-4.)

Halliwell, Martin, and Catherine Morley, eds., American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. xii, 324 pp. Cloth, £75.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2601-4. Paper, £24.99, isbn 978-0-7486-2602-1.)

Rossini, Daniela, ed., La propaganda nella Grande Guerra tra nazionalismi e internazionalismi (Propaganda in World War I between nationalisms and internationalisms). (Milan: Unicopli, 2007. 228 pp. €14.00, isbn 978-88-400-1171-4.) In Italian.

Seib, Philip, The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media Are Reshaping World Politics. (Dulles: Potomac, 2008. xii, 227 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-59797-200-0.)

Seidman, Steven A., Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns around the World and through History. (New York: Lang, 2008. xxviii, 327 pp. Cloth, $109.95, isbn 978-0-8204-8617-8. Paper, $33.95, isbn 978-0-8204-8616-1.)

Material Culture and Architecture

 

Emlen, Robert P., “Slave Labor at the College Edifice: Building Brown University’s University Hall in 1770,” Rhode Island History, 66 (Summer 2008), 35–45.

Feathers, Anne Herbert, “Catfights and Coffins: Stories of Alabama Courthouses,” Alabama Review, 61 (July 2008), 163–89.

Hafertepe, Kenneth, “Restoration, Reconstruction, or Romance? The Case of the Spanish Governor’s Palace in Hispanic-Era San Antonio, Texas,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Sept. 2008), 412–33.

Hoover, David N., and Robert L. Hoover, “Mission San Antonio de Padua: A Chronology of Building,” Boletín, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 35–66.

Jones, Darrell E., “The St. George Temple Tower: Evolution of a Design,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Spring 2008), 113–29.

Rosengarten, Dale, “By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 104–21. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Rosengarten, Dale, “Missions and Markets: Sea Island Basketry and the Sweetgrass Revolution,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 128–71. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Schildkrout, Enid, and Dale Rosengarten, “African Origins: Ancestors and Analogues,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 20–77. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated.

 

Havenhand, Lucinda Kaukas, “Ideas as Interiors: Interior Design in the United States, 1930–1965” (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2007). Order No. DA3302980.

Lasser, Ethan W., “Figures in the Grain: The Enlightenment of Anglo-American Furniture, 1660–1800” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293339.

Nystrom, Eric Charles, “Learning to See: Visual Tools in American Mining Engineering, 1860–1920” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3295796.

White, Timothy R., “Building ‘Broadway’: Theatre Craft and Show Construction in New York City, 1890–1990” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3299304.

 

Baumler, Ellen, Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. x, 117 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4547-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Craven, Wayne, Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. (New York: Norton, 2008. 383 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-393-06754-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Cruse, J. Brett, Battles of the Red River War: Archeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xxii, 249 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-027-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Cunningham, Joseph, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xxii, 282 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-300-13909-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Golenbock, Peter, In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World. (New York: Morrow, 2008. xvi, 684 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-06-125381-2.)

Helfand, Jessica, Scrapbooks: An American History. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 190 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-300-12635-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Hines, Thomas S., Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xxviii, 445 pp. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-226-34172-9.) Originially published in 1974.

Keim, Charles J., Aghvook, White Eskimo: Otto Geist and Alaskan Archaeology. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. xx, 313 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-60223-036-1.) Originally published in 1969.

Linden, Blanche M. G., Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xxii, 373 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-1-55849-571-5.) Originally published in 1989; heavily illustrated.

Moss, Roger W., Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 338 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4106-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Peterson, Amy T., et al., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History: 1900 to the Present. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1, 1900–1949: xx, 392 pp. Vol. 2, 1950–Present: xx, 428 pp. $199.95/set, isbn 978-0-313-35855-5/set.)

Rosengarten, Dale, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Stott, Annette, Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxxiv, 370 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1608-2.)

Yamin, Rebecca, Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xvi, 240 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-300-10091-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Medicine

 

Brownlee, Peter John, “Ophthalmology, Popular Physiology, and the Market Revolution in Vision, 1800–1850,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Winter 2008), 597–626.

Casper, Stephen T., “Atlantic Conjunctures in Anglo-American Neurology: Lewis H. Weed and Johns Hopkins Neurology, 1917–1942,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Fall 2008), 646–71.

Clark, Randall Baldwin, “Bleedings, Purges, and Vomits: Dr. Benjamin Rush’s Republican Medicine, the Bilious Remitting Yellow-Fever Epidemic of 1793, and the Non-Origin of the Law of Informed Consent,” Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy, 24 (Spring 2008), 209–50.

Hamilton, Marsha J., “Mercury and Water: Two Civil War Surgeons of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Autumn 2008), 467–504.

Henderson, Metta Lou, and Margaret Wright, “Sister Pharmacists and Pharmacy Practice from the 1700s to the 1970s,” Pharmacy in History, 50 (no. 2, 2008), 70–81.

Mandleco, Barbara, and Carma Miller, “A History of Children’s Hospitals in Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Fall 2008), 338–56.

Marble, Sanders, “Professional Doctors but Amateur Soldiers: The U.S. Army’s Affiliated Hospitals Program, 1915–1955,” War & Society (Dunrooten), 27 (May 2008), 39–58.

McMillen, Christian W., “‘The Red Man and the White Plague’: Rethinking Race, Tuberculosis and American Indians, ca. 1890–1950,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Fall 2008), 608–45.

Schmeiser, Susan R., “The Ungovernable Citizen: Psychopathy, Sexuality, and the Rise of Medico-Legal Reasoning,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 20 (Summer 2008), 163–240.

Winsboro, Irvin D. S., and Donald K. Routh, “Utopia’s Healing Messiah: Dr. Cyrus R. Teed of Chicago and the National Mind-Cure Movement,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Summer 2008), 74–94.

 

Klein, Michael J., “The Rhetoric of Repugnance: Popular Culture and Unpopular Notions in the Human Cloning Debate” (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007). Order No. DA3300053.

Pierce, Gerald J., “Public and Private Voices: The Typhoid Fever Experience at Camp Thomas, 1898” (Georgia State University, 2007). Order No. DA3293833.

Sheehan, Carrie C., “Securitizing the hiv/aids pandemic in U.S. Foreign Policy” (American University, 2008). Order No. DA3302229.

Walloch, Karen L., “‘A Hot-Bed of Anti-Vaccine Heresy’: Opposition to Compulsory Vaccination in Boston and Cambridge, 1890–1905” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007). Order No. DA3294105.

 

Anderson, Warwick, The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 318 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8018-9040-6.)

Grob, Gerald N., Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875. (Piscataway: Transaction, 2009. xxiv, 458 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-4128-0850-7.) Originally published in 1973.

Numbers, Ronald L., Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xxxiv, 417 pp. Paper, $33.00, isbn 978-0-8028-0395-5.) Originally published in 1976.

Pettit, Dorothy A., and Janice Bailie, A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918–1920. (Murfreesboro: Timberlane Books, 2008. xviii, 323 pp. Cloth, $38.50, isbn 978-0-9715428-1-5. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-9715428-2-2.)

Migration/Migrant

 

Bonfield, Lynn A., “When Money Was Necessary to Make Dreams Come True: The Cost of the Trip from Vermont to California via Panama,” Vermont History, 76 (Summer–Fall 2008), 130–148.

Lee, Chulhee, “Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1880,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 862–99.

Price-Spratlen, Townsand, “Urban Destination Selection among African Americans during the 1950s Great Migration,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 437–69.

 

Johnson, Susan Allyn, “Industrial Voyagers: A Case Study of Appalachian Migration to Akron, Ohio, 1900–1940” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3301813.

Sternhell, Yael A., “Revolution in Motion: Human Mobility and the Transformation of the South, 1861–1865” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3299827.

 

Farmer, Alan, Access to History: Britain and the American Colonies, 1740–89. (London: Hodder Education, 2008. viii, 200 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-34-096596-2.)

Military

 

Bateman, Robert L., “The Army and Academic Culture,” Academic Questions, 21 (March 2008), 62–78.

Bland, Larry I., “Institutional Leadership: George C. Marshall,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 61–91. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Bruscino, Thomas A., Jr., “A Troubled Past: The Army and Security on the Mexican Border, 1915–1917,” Military Review, 88 (July–Aug. 2008), 31–44.

Cumming, Anthony J., “We’ll Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends: The Battle of Britain and the Pilot in Anglo-American Relations, 1940–45,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 1, 2007), 11–26.

Flis, Krzysztof, “Misja generala Lawtona Collinsa w swietle ‘Trybuny Ludu’” (General Lawton Collins’s mission from the perspective of the Trybuna Ludu newspaper), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 181–98. In Polish.

Hoffman, Jon T., “Charismatic Leadership: Lewis B. ‘Chesty’ Puller,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 125–53. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Irish, Kerry E., “Cross-Cultural Leadership: Dwight D. Eisenhower,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 93–124. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Le Roy, François, and Drew Perkins, “Visionary Leadership: Henry H. ‘Hap’ Arnold,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 155–77. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Levey, Zach, “Anatomy of an Airlift: United States Military Assistance to Israel during the 1973 War,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Nov. 2008), 481–501.

Linn, Brian McAllister, “The American Way of War,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Oct. 2008), 19–23.

MacKinnon, William P., “Buchanan’s Thrust from the Pacific: The Utah War’s Ill-Fated Second Front,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Fall 2008), 226–60.

Marble, Sanders, “Professional Doctors but Amateur Soldiers: The U.S. Army’s Affiliated Hospitals Program, 1915–1955,” War & Society (Dunrooten), 27 (May 2008), 39–58.

Matthews, Jeffrey J., “Exemplary Followership: Colin L. Powell,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 231–64. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Mawdsley, Evan, “Anti-German Insurgency and Allied Grand Strategy,” Journal of Strategic Studies (London), 31 (Oct. 2008), 695–719.

McMaster, H. R., “Adaptive Leadership: Harold G. ‘Hal’ Moore,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 209–29. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Moyar, Mark, “Vietnam: Historians at War,” Academic Questions, 21 (March 2008), 37–51.

Reardon, Carol, “View from the Ranks: Social and Cultural History of the American Armed Forces,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Oct. 2008), 11–16.

Rosen, Deborah A., “Wartime Prisoners and the Rule of Law: Andrew Jackson’s Military Tribunals during the First Seminole War,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Winter 2008), 559–95.

Terry, James P., “The Vietnam War in Perspective: Lessons Learned in the Law of Wars as Applied in Subsequent Conflict,” Naval Law Review, 54 (2007), 79–103.

Wetta, Frank J., and Martin A. Novelli, “Good Bombing, Bad Bombing: Hollywood, Air Warfare, and Morality in World War I and World War II,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Oct. 2008), 25–29.

 

Clark, Thaddeus J., “Perceptions of Sexual Harassment Training Received in the Military: An Exploratory Investigation of U.S. Army Reserve Attitudes” (Capella University, 2008). Order No. DA3297418.

Cox, Keith William, “Conflicts of Interest: Race, Class, Mexicanidad, and the Negotiation of Rule in U.S. Occupied Mexico, 1846–1848” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3298211.

Faith, Thomas Iain, “Under a Green Sea: The U.S. Chemical Warfare Service, 1917–1929” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3297069.

Froula, Anna Katherine, “Soldier Girls: Popular Representations of America’s Women in Uniform from World War II to the ‘War on Terror’” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298826.

Kane, Joshua, “Infrastructures of Aggression: Military Expenditure during the British Industrial and American Informational Mode of Development Shifts” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3303376.

LoFaro, Guy Anthony, “The Sword of St. Michael: The 82nd Airborne Division in World War II” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3302033.

Mercille, Julien, “The Radical Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of U.S. Military Spending: A Case Study of the John F. Kennedy Administration” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3302524.

Weller, Grant Thomas, “‘Come Hell, High Water, or Nazis’: The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Develops and Implements the First Motorized Logistics System, 1919–1945” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300383.

Yoshitani, Gail E. S., “National Power and Military Force: The Origins of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980–1984” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297728.

 

Allardice, Bruce S., Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 436 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1809-4.)

Bartlett, Merrill L., and Jack Sweetman, Leathernecks: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Marine Corps. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xxii, 479 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-1-59114-020-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Broadnax, Samuel L., Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv, 180 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1774-4.)

Buhite, Russell D., Douglas MacArthur: Statecraft and Stagecraft in America’s East Asian Policy. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xiv, 189 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4425-3. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4426-0.)

Colley, David P., Decision at Strasbourg: Ike’s Strategic Mistake to Halt the Sixth Army Group at the Rhine in 1944. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xiv, 251 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-59114-133-4.)

Ericson, Steven, and Allen Hockley, eds., The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. x, 249 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-722-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Ferrell, Robert H., The Question of MacArthur’s Reputation: Côte de Châtillon, October 14–16, 1918. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 111 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1830-8.)

Fisher, Louis, The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America’s Freedoms. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 394 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1600-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1601-5.)

Gole, Henry G., General William E. DePuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xviii, 364 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2500-8.)

Hogge, Jeffery A., Norton Parker Chipman: A Biography of the Andersonville War Crimes Prosecutor. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. viii, 241 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3449-7.)

Jamieson, Perry D., Khobar Towers: Tragedy and Response. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2008. xxii, 276 pp. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-16-080701-5.)

Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Danger’s Hour: The Story of theuss Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. xii, 515 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-7432-6080-0.)

Laver, Harry S., and Jeffrey J. Matthews, eds., The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Longley, Kyle, Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2008. xxii, 245 pp. Cloth, $64.95, isbn 978-0-7656-2285-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7656-2286-0.)

Michno, Gregory F., and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890. (Missoula: Mountain, 2008. xxviii, 384 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-87842-549-5.)

Oliver, Kendrick, The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory. (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 2006. 328 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7190-6890-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-7190-6891-1.)

Pullen, John J., The Twentieth Maine. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2008. xii, 338 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8117-3524-7.) Originally published in 1957.

Sears, David, At War with the Wind: The Epic Struggle with Japan’s World War II Suicide Bombers. (New York: Citadel, 2008. x, 502 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8065-2893-9.)

Simson, Jay W., Custer and the Front Royal Executions of 1864. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 204 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3973-7.)

Spring, Matthew H., With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxiv, 381 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3947-0.)

Sumida, Jon Tetsuro, Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to On War. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxii, 234 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1616-9.)

Toffey, John J., IV, Jack Toffey’s War: A Son’s Memoir. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. xx, 269 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2979-6.)

Wachowicz, Barbara, ‘Nazwe Cie Kosciuszko!’: Szlakiem bitewnym Naczelnika w Ameryce (‘Let me call you Kosciuszko!’: To follow his battle track in America). (Warszawa: Rytm, 2008. 520 pp. zl. 50.50, isbn 978-83-73992-65-8.) In Polish.

Yates, Lawrence A., The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management, June 1987–December 1989. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2008. xviii, 313 pp. Paper, $36.00, isbn 978-0-16-079419-3.)

 

Bilder, Michael C., and James G. Bilder, A Foot Soldier for Patton: The Story of a “Red Diamond” Infantryman with the U.S. Third Army. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2008. x, 294 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-1-932033-91-5.)

Bowers, William T., ed., The Line: Combat in Korea January–February 1951. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 324 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2508-4.)

Dinges, Bruce J., and Shirley A. Leckie, eds., A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xvi, 449 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2859-8.)

Gorbachevsky, Boris, Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier’s War on the Eastern Front, 1942–1945, trans. Stuart Britton. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxii, 453 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1605-3.)

Hanyok, Robert J., and David P. Mowry, West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy; A Documentary History. (Fort George G. Meade: National Security Agency, 2008. xxii, 327 pp. Paper.)

Miller, Richard F., In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. xiv, 424 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-731-6.)

Mulligan, Timothy P., comp., World War II: Guide to Records Relating to U.S. Military Participation, ed. Rebecca L. Collier. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2008. Vol. 1: xiv, 487 pp. Vol. 2: viii, 566 pp. $75.00/set, isbn 1-880875-09-8/set.)

Sloan, Kay, ed., Not Without Honor: The Nazi pow Journal of Steve Carano. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xxii, 159 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-55728-884-4.)

Sylvan, William C., and Francis G. Smith Jr., Normandy to Victory: The War Diary of General Courtney H. Hodges and the First U.S. Army, ed. John T. Greenwood. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 575 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2525-1.)

Trask, Roger R., and John P. Glennon, eds., The Department of Defense: Documents on Organization and Mission, 1978–2003. (Washington: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2008. x, 252 pp. $23.00, isbn 978-0-16-081032-9.)

Music

 

Avant-Mier, Roberto, “Latinos in the Garage: A Genealogical Examination of the Latino/a Presence and Influence in Garage Rock (And Rock and Pop Music),” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Dec. 2008), 555–74.

Bailey, Walter B., “‘Will Schoenberg Be a New York Fad?’: The 1914 American Premiere of Schoenberg’s String Quartet in D Minor,” American Music, 26 (Spring 2008), 37–73.

Berish, Andrew, “‘I Dream of Her and Avalon’: 1930s Sweet Jazz, Race, and Nostalgia at the Casino Ballroom,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 2 (Nov. 2008), 531–67.

Dadamo, Florencia, “Las voces del jazz: La melodía sincopada de la libertad” (The sounds of jazz: The syncopated melody of freedom), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007) In Spanish.

Fresne, Jeannette, “History of the Stamps Baxter Singing Schools and Normal School of Music,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 21–38.

Gibbons, William, “‘Yankee Doodle’ and Nationalism, 1780–1920,” American Music, 26 (Summer 2008), 246–74.

Hanson, Michael, “Suppose James Brown Read Fanon: The Black Arts Movement, Cultural Nationalism, and the Failure of Popular Musical Praxis,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 27 (Oct. 2008), 341–65.

Hash, Phillip M., “History of the Illinois School Band Association: 1924–1941,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 4–20.

Krikun, Andrew, “Popular Music and Jazz in the American Junior College Music Curriculum during the Swing Era (1935–1945),” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 39–49.

McGee, Kristin, “The Feminization of Mass Culture and the Novelty of All-Girl Bands: The Case of the Ingenues,” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Dec. 2008), 629–62.

Rapport, Evan, “Bill Finegan’s Gershwin Arrangements and the American Concept of Hybridity,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 2 (Nov. 2008), 507–30.

Spring, Katherine, “Pop Go the Warner Bros., et. al.: Marketing Film Songs during the Coming of Sound,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 68–89.

Stephens, Vincent, “Crooning on the Fault Lines: Theorizing Jazz and Pop Vocal Singing Discourse in the Rock Era, 1955–1978,” American Music, 26 (Summer 2008), 156–95.

Stratton, Jon, “The Beastie Boys: Jews in Whiteface,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 27 (Oct. 2008), 413–32.

Sutton, Matthew, “Little America: R.E.M., Howard Finster, and the Southern ‘Outsider Art’ Aesthetic,” Studies in Popular Culture, 30 (Spring 2008), 1–20.

Wise, Timothy, “Lullabies, Laments, and Ragtime Cowboys: Yodeling at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” American Music, 26 (Spring 2008), 13–36.

Woodard, Patricia, “‘Flee as a Bird’: Mary Dana Shindler’s Legacy,” American Music, 26 (Spring 2008), 74–103.

 

Choi, Jaehee, “They Do That Voodoo So Well: A Critical Examination of Selected Songs of the Founders of the American Standard Songbook” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291892.

Fountain, Richard Daniel, “Edward MacDowell and the Formation of an American Musical Culture” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3302728.

Gray, Justin, “Motivic Development in the Piano Music of Karl Weigl (1881–1949)” (University of North Texas, 2007). Order No. DA3300946.

Greenberg, Jonathan Ross, “Singing Up Close: Voice, Language, and Race in American Popular Music, 1925–1935” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3302595.

Hennessey, Patrick D., “Henry Berger: From Prussian Army Musician to ‘Father of Hawaiian Music,’ the Life and Legacy of Hawai‘i’s Bandmaster” (University of Hawai‘i, 2007). Order No. DA3302135.

Hopkinson, Natalie Adele, “Go-Go Live: Washington, D.C.’s Cultural Information Network, Drumming the News, Knitting Communities, and Guarding a Black Public Sphere” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297264.

Johnson, Earl Lee, “Style Characteristics of Selected American Hymn Arrangements for Piano, Published 1963–2003” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3300653.

Nicholas, Christopher J., “The Original Compositions and Arrangements of Paul Lavalle in the Band of America Archive at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301766.

Nicholsen, Michael D., “‘Auld Sod’ and the New Turf: Entertainment, Nationalism, and Identity in the Irish Traditional Music Community of Chicago, 1868–1999” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3295469.

Patterson, Gary Walter, “George W. Bragg Jr. and His Techniques for Training the Preadolescent Boy’s Voice as Demonstrated through the Texas Boys Choir: 1946–1975” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3301210.

Patterson, Karin Gaynell, “Expressions of Africa in Los Angeles Public Performance, 1781–1994” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3295731.

Pruett, Laura Moore, “Louis Moreau Gottschalk, John Sullivan Dwight, and the Development of Musical Culture in the United States, 1853–1865” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301584.

Purdy, Christopher C., “Edward Downes: A Life in Music and the Media” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3300145.

Rasmussen, Christopher, “Lonely Sounds: Popular Recorded Music and American Society, 1949–1979” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3297654.

Thompson, Daniel N., “The Role of Music in the Construction and Maintenance of Irish Identity among Musicians in New York City at the Turn of the Millennium” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299318.

Wolf, Mary Montgomery, “‘We Accept You, One of Us?’: Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974–1985” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289089.

 

Cantwell, Robert, If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xxviii, 282 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03362-9. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07566-7.)

Cohen, Ronald D., A History of Folk Music Festivals in the United States: Feasts of Musical Celebration. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2008. xvi, 155 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8108-6202-9.)

Everett, William, Rudolf Friml. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 132 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03381-0.)

Govenar, Alan, Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xxii, 599 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-58544-605-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Jones, Loyal, Country Music: Humorists and Comedians. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 427 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03369-8.)

Malone, Bill C., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 12: Music. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xx, 428 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3239-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-8078-5908-7.)

 

Tick, Judith, ed., Music in the usa: A Documentary Companion. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxxviii, 881 pp. Cloth, $149.95, isbn 978-0-19-513987-7. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-19-513988-4.)

Naval and Maritime

 

Foster, Thomas L. “Tim,” “Technology and Leadership: Hyman G. Rickover,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 179–208. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Neuschel, Fred, “From Michilimackinac to Green Bay in 1816: The Voyage of the Schooner George Washington,” Inland Seas, 64 (Summer 2008), 122–39.

Nicolosi, Anthony S., “Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce, U.S.N., and the Coming of the Navy to Narragansett Bay,” Rhode Island History, 66 (Summer 2008), 47–56.

 

Marin, Craig Thomas, “Coercion, Cooperation, and Conflict along the Charleston Waterfront, 1739–1785: Navigating the Social Waters of an Atlantic Port City” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300521.

 

Goldman, Kenneth H., Attack Transport: uss Charles Carroll in World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xxvi, 319 pp. $29.00, isbn 978-0-8130-3274-0.)

Sears, David, At War with the Wind: The Epic Struggle with Japan’s World War II Suicide Bombers. (New York: Citadel, 2008. x, 502 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8065-2893-9.)

 

Billy, George J., and Christine M. Billy, eds., Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. viii, 322 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8130-3246-7.)

Politics

 

Adams, Sean Patrick, “The Tao of John Quincy Adams: Or, New Institutionalism and the Early American Republic,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Alexander, Alba, and Kurt Jacobsen, “Counter-Reform in the American Welfare State: Ideas, Institutions, and Progressive Taxation,” New Political Science, 30 (Sept. 2008), 285–306.

Anderson, David M., “‘Things Are Different Down Here’: The 1955 Perfect Circle Strike, Conservative Civic Identity, and the Roots of the New Right in the 1950s Industrial Heartland,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 101–23.

Anderson, Kristen L., “German Americans, African Americans, and the Republican Party in St. Louis, 1865–1872,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 34–51.

Benson, Michael T., “Recognizing Israel: ‘A Little Touch of Harry in the Night,’” in Israel and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Michael J. Devine, Robert P. Watson, and Robert J. Wolz, 21–27. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 121 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-80-2.)

Berger, Alan L., “Harry S. Truman and Jewish Refugees,” in Israel and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Michael J. Devine, Robert P. Watson, and Robert J. Wolz, 3–10. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 121 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-80-2.)

Berliner, Jonathan, “Jack London’s Socialistic Social Darwinism,” American Literary Realism, 41 (Fall 2008), 52–78.

Bertonneau, Thomas F., “The Obliging Order: William F. Buckley’s War on Totalitarianism and Blandness,” Intercollegiate Review, 43 (Fall 2008), 25–33.

Brock, Ralph H., “William R. Scurry and the Withdrawal of the Texas Boundary Commission,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 79 (2006–2007), 21–34.

Browne, Stephen Howard, “Andrew Johnson and the Politics of Character,” in Before the Rhetorical Presidency, ed. Martin J. Medhurst, 194–212. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 356 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-60344-071-4.)

Burns, Nancy, et al., “Pockets of Expertise: Institutional Capacity in Twentieth-Century State Legislatures,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (Sept. 2008), 229–48.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, “James Knox Polk: The First Imperial President?” in Before the Rhetorical Presidency, ed. Martin J. Medhurst, 83–105. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 356 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-60344-071-4.)

Chen, Anthony S., Robert W. Mickey, and Robert P. Van Houweling, “Explaining the Contemporary Alignment of Race and Party: Evidence from California’s 1946 Ballot Initiative on Fair Employment,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (Sept. 2008), 204–28.

Colbert, Thomas Burnell, “‘The Lion of the Land’: James B. Weaver, Kansas, and the Oklahoma Lands, 1884–1890,” Kansas History, 31 (Autumn 2008), 176–93.

Costigliola, Frank, “Broken Circle: The Isolation of Franklin D. Roosevelt in World War II,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Nov. 2008), 677–718.

Cowie, Jefferson, and Nick Salvatore, “The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 3–32.

Crain, Patricia, “Potent Papers: Secret Lives of the Nineteenth-Century Ballot,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Cullen, Jim, “The Wright Stuff: Stephen Douglas, Frederick Douglass, and the Blackened Reputation of Abraham Lincoln,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Daszynska, Jolanta, “The Founding Fathers oczami wybranych Europejczyków” (Selected Europeans’ view on the Founding Fathers), in Spotkania polsko-amerykanskie (Polish-American encounters), ed. J. Marszalek-Kawka and S. Wojciechowski, 290–329. (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2008. 329 pp. zl. 34.50, isbn 978-83-744-1878-2.) In Polish.

Davis, Roger P., “‘Service Not Power’: The Early Years of the Nebraska Commission on Mexican-Americans, 1971–1975,” Nebraska History, 89 (Summer 2008), 67–83.

Debats, Don, “Who Votes? Who Voted? The 2008 American Elections: Contexts for Judging Participation and Partisanship,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 16–36.

Dochuck, Darren, “Christ and the cio: Blue–Collar Evangelicalism’s Crisis of Conscience and Political Turn in Early Cold-War California,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 76–100.

Domitrovic, Brian, “A Time for Action: William F. Buckley, National Review, and the Defeat of Stagflation,” Intercollegiate Review, 43 (Fall 2008), 34–43.

Duffield, James A., Irene M. Xiarchos, and Steve A. Halbrook, “Ethanol Policy: Past, Present, and Future,” South Dakota Law Review, 53 (no. 3, 2008), 425–53.

Estes, Todd, “The Voices of Publius and the Strategies of Persuasion in The Federalist,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Winter 2008), 523–58.

Faster, Karen, “A Cross to Bear: The Minnesota Centennial Emblem Debate,” Minnesota History, 61 (Fall 2008), 102–13. Heavily illustrated.

Gitelman, Lisa, “Voting Machines and the Voters They Represent: Technology and Democratic Intent,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

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Goluboff, Risa L., “Race, Labor, and the Thirteenth Amendment in the 1940s Department of Justice,” University of Toledo Law Review, 38 (Spring 2007), 883–94.

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Kuzma-Markowska, Sylwia, “Ku prawdziwej demokracji? Taktyka amerykanskiego ruchu sufrazystowskiego w czasach I wojny swiatowej” (Toward a real democracy? The American suffrage movement’s tactics in the World War I period), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 127–46. In Polish.

Lansford, Tom, “Pragmatic Idealism: Truman’s Broader Middle East Policy,” in Israel and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Michael J. Devine, Robert P. Watson, and Robert J. Wolz, 28–41. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 121 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-80-2.)

Leff, Michael, “Grover Cleveland and the Nonrhetorical Presidency,” in Before the Rhetorical Presidency, ed. Martin J. Medhurst, 289–306. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 356 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-60344-071-4.)

Madonna, G. Terry, and Michael Young, “Pennsylvania and the Presidency: A Twain that Seldom Meets,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (Oct. 2008), 403–416.

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Paulos, Michael Harold, “Under the Gun at the Smoot Hearings: Joseph F. Smith’s Testimony,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Fall 2008), 181–225.

Raphael, Ray, “Instructions: The People’s Voice in Revolutionary America,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Rice, Daniel, “Reinhold Niebuhr and Hans Morgenthau: A Friendship with Contrasting Shades of Realism,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Aug. 2008), 255–91.

Rosen, Deborah A., “Wartime Prisoners and the Rule of Law: Andrew Jackson’s Military Tribunals during the First Seminole War,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Winter 2008), 559–95.

Sassi, Jonathan D., “‘Great Questions of National Morality’: Lyman Beecher on Religion and Politics in America,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Schäfer, Axel R., “The Cold War State and the Resurgence of Evangelicalism: A Study of the Public Funding of Religion since 1945,” Radical History Review (no. 99, Fall 2007), 19–50.

Schweigert, Benedict J., “‘Now For a Clean Sweep!’: Smiley v. Holm, Partisan Gerrymandering, and At-Large Congressional Elections,” Michigan Law Review, 107 (Oct. 2008), 133–88.

Shields, David, “‘We Declare You Independent Whether You Wish It or Not’: The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 2, 2007), 233–60.

Slagell, Amy R., “The Challenges of Reunification: Rutherford B. Hayes on the Close Race and the Racial Divide,” in Before the Rhetorical Presidency, ed. Martin J. Medhurst, 243–66. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 356 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-60344-071-4.)

Smith, Daniel A., and Dustin Fridkin, “Delegating Direct Democracy: Interparty Legislative Competition and the Adoption of the Initiative in the American States,” American Political Science Review, 102 (Aug. 2008), 333–50.

Spencer, Thomas M., “‘Demand Nothing but What Is Strictly Right and Submit to Nothing That Is Wrong’: Governor Lilburn Boggs, Governor Robert Lucas, and the Honey War of 1839,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (Oct. 2008), 22–40.

Taranto, Stacie, “The Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act and Its Reception in Rhode Island,” Rhode Island History, 66 (Winter–Spring 2008), 3–21.

Taylor, Michael, “The Bicycle Boom and the Bicycle Bloc: Cycling and Politics in the 1890s,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (Sept. 2008), 213–40.

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Zaeske, Susan, “Little Magic: Martin van Buren and the Politics of Gender,” in Before the Rhetorical Presidency, ed. Martin J. Medhurst, 44–62. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 356 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-60344-071-4.)

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Appah, Frederick, “The Politics of Health Promotion: Analyzing Healthy Public Policy’s Impact on Tobacco Control in United States and South Africa” (West Virginia University, 2007). Order No. DA3298703.

Azari, Julia R., “Delivering the People’s Message: Presidential Mandate Claims from 1929 to 2005” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293286.

Barreto, Norberto, “Imperial Thoughts: The U.S. Congress and the Philippine Questions, 1898–1934” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3299701.

Boyd, Tim, “‘Out of the Shadows’: Southern Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of the New South, 1946–1976” (Vanderbilt University, 2007). Order No. DA3293862.

Buelna, Enrique Meza, “Resistance from the Margins: Mexican American Radical Activism in Los Angeles, 1930–1970” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3293070.

Collins, Julie, “Managing Transnational Problems for the National Good: U.S.-Mexico ‘Border Health,’ 1942–2002” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3303149.

Crouch, Jeffrey P., “The Presidential Pardon Power” (Catholic University of America, 2008). Order No. DA3294695.

Curtis, Finbarr, “Speaking of the Nation: William Jennings Bryan, Al Smith, and the Idioms of American Populism” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3296173.

Fields, Jeffrey, “Adversaries and Statecraft: Explaining U.S. Foreign Policy toward Rogue States” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291883.

Fulkerson, Randal C., “Reviving the Democracy: William Jennings Bryan and His Crusade to Save the Democratic Party” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2007). Order No. DA3293922.

Herian, Mitchel N., “Governors and the National Governors Association (nga): Examining the Federal Lobbying Impact of the nga” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3297756.

Howell, Buddy Wayne, “The Rhetoric of Presidential Summit Diplomacy: Ronald Reagan and the U.S.-Soviet Summits, 1985–1988” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3296402.

Hussey, Wesley Allen, “The Coalition of Extremes: Ends against the Middle in the United States Congress” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3302566.

LaPierre, Patrick, “The Disenchantment of American Liberalism: European Social Theory and the Travails of Mass Democracy, 1945–1962” (University of Rochester, 2008). Order No. DA3300600.

Lechtman, Zohar, “Gendering Chicago Politics: Institutionalization of Women in Positions of Power” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3300438.

Lee, Daniel J., “Life of the Party or Just a Third Wheel? Effects of Third Parties in U.S. House Elections” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297717.

Lee, So Young, “Information Heterogeneity and Voter Uncertainty in Spatial Voting: The U.S. Presidential Elections, 1992–2004” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3296988.

Lewis, Hyrum S., “Sacralizing the Right: William F. Buckley Jr., Whittaker Chambers, Will Herberg, and the Transformation of Intellectual Conservatism, 1945–1964” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291789.

Mack, Charles S., “When Parties Die: A Cross-National Analysis of Party Disalignment and Realignment” (Catholic University of America, 2008). Order No. DA3294701.

Mayer, Danny, “Frontier Spaces of the 1960s” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298846.

Mielnik, Tara Mitchell, “‘The Best Thing that Ever Happened’: The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolina’s State Park System” (Middle Tennessee State University, 2007). Order No. DA3293739.

Mortenson, Christopher Ryan, “Lew Wallace and the Civil War: Politics and Generalship” (Texas A&M University, 2007). Order No. DA3296484.

Ondercin, Heather Louise, “The Changing Social Definitions of Men and Women and Their Effect on the Partisan Gender Gap, 1953–2003” (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Order No. DA3299034.

Ono, Keiko, “Polarized Politics and Voter Participation: An Electoral Connection” (Georgetown University, 2005). Order No. DA3302092.

Phillips-Anderson, Michael Andrew, “A Theory of Rhetorical Humor in American Political Discourse” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297353.

Shafer, Karen, “Who Wants to Run for Office? Political Ambition among Women Activists” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3303254.

Smith, Thomas Langston Reeves, “Entertainers Who Lead: A Phenomenological Study of Leadership and Celebrity Politics” (Gonzaga University, 2007). Order No. DA3301271.

Sulaiman, Yohanes, “The Banteng and the Eagle: Indonesian Foreign Policy and the United States during the Era of Sukarno, 1945–1967” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3300124.

Walker, Daniel Breck, “‘Yesterday’s Answers’ or ‘Tomorrow’s Solutions’?: The Cold War Diplomacy of Cyrus Vance” (Vanderbilt University, 2007). Order No. DA3300696.

Walls, Stephanie Mora, “The Impact of Individualism on Political and Community Participation” (University of Cincinnati, 2008). Order No. DA3303120.

Wang, Doug, “From Enmity to Rapprochement: Grand Strategy, Power Politics, and U.S.-China Relations, 1961–1974” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3295737.

Werner, Tammy Marvin, “From Hillbillies to Welfare Queens: Representation of the Poor in the Poverty Wars” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298883.

 

Anusik, Zbigniew, ed., Spory o panstwo w dobie nowozytnej: Miedzy racja stanu a partykularyzmem (Modern history’s debates on a state: Between a reason of state and a particularism). (Lódz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego, 2007. 518 pp. zl. 30, isbn 978-83-7525-029-9.)

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Furuya, Jun, and Shiro Yamada, eds., Amerika kenkyu no ekkyo, vol.2: Kenryoku to boryoku (Transboundary American studies, vol.2: Authority and violence). (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2007. 332 pp. ¥3675, isbn 4-6230-4946-2.) In Japanese.

Ghani, Ashraf, and Clare Lockhart, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 254 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-534269-7.)

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Sioli, Marco, ed., La parabola di Ronald Reagan: Da Hollywood all’ascesa dei neoconservatori (The tragectory of Ronald Reagan: From Hollywood to the neoconservative ascent). (Verona: Ombrecorte, 2008. 238 pp. €19.50, isbn 978-8895-366241.) In Italian.

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Stonecash, Jeffrey M., Reassessing the Incumbency Effect. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 169 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-521-51551-1. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-73322-9.)

Vernetti, Michael, Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada: A Biography. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008. xii, 261 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-761-9.)

Zelden, Charles L., Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Hidden Crisis in American Democracy. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xviii, 390 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1593-3.)

 

Gould, Lewis L., ed., Bull Moose on the Stump: The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xii, 220 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1606-0.)

Hoth, David R., ed., The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, vol. 18; 1 September–31 December 1793. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xxxviii, 741 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2759-6.)

Lawson, Steven F., ed., One America in the 21st Century: The Report of President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xlvi, 121 pp. $20.00, isbn 978-0-300-11669-4.)

Lengel, Edward G. ed. , The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, vol. 18; 1 November 1778–14 January 1779, (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xxxviii, 712 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2721-3.)

Miller, Richard F., In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. xiv, 424 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-731-6.)

Trask, Roger R., and John P. Glennon, eds., The Department of Defense: Documents on Organization and Mission, 1978–2003. (Washington: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2008. x, 252 pp. $23.00, isbn 978-0-16-081032-9.)

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Bernier, Celeste-Marie, “‘Iron Arguments’: Spectacle, Rhetoric, and the Slave Body in New England and British Antislavery Oratory,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 1, 2007), 57–78.

Bubíková, Šárka, “American Literary Types: Unusable Past?” in New Interpretations of Cultural Phenomena, ed. Šárka Bubíková, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, 1–7. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2004. 72 pp. isbn 80-7194-710-5.)

Bubíková, Šárka, “At the Cultural Crossroads: Mixed-Bloods in Native American Fiction,” in Cultural Studies at the Turn of the Millennium, ed. Šárka Bubíková, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, 21–30. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2005. 123 pp. isbn 80-7194-816-0.)

Bubíková, Šárka, “Dogmatikou proti totalite? Život a dílo spisovatelky Ayn Randové” (Dogmatics against totalitarianism? Ayn Rand’s life and work), Tvar (Prague), 6 (2005), 7–8. In Czech.

Bubíková, Šárka, “Mezi poucením a zábavou: Promeny anglicky psané literatury pro deti” (Instruction or entertainment? Historical changes of children’s literature), Dejiny a soucasnost (Prague), 1 (2006), 40–43. In Czech.

Bubíková, Šárka, “Native American Continuity and Change in Louise Erdrich’s Work,” in Continuity and Change in Culture and Literature, ed. Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck, 57–66. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2006. 152 pp. isbn 80-7194-908-6.)

Bubíková, Šárka, “Otázka identity v americké literature” (The issue of identity in American literature), in Problematika identity: Identita a globalizace (The issue of identity: Identity and globalization), ed. Šárka Bubíková, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, 1–11. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2003. 145 pp. isbn 80-7194-590-0.) In Czech.

Bubíková, Šárka, “The Formation and Transformation of American Literary Canon,” in Theory and Practice in English Studies, ed. Pavel Drábek and Jan Chovanec, 25–28. (Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2004. isbn 80-210-3394-0.)

Cracroft, Richard H., “‘The Assault of Laughter’: The Comic Attack on Mormon Polygamy in Popular Literature,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 233–62.

Estes, Todd, “The Voices of Publius and the Strategies of Persuasion in The Federalist,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Winter 2008), 523–58.

Franklin, Wayne, “Financing America’s First Literary Boom,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 2, 2007), 351–78.

Freidenraij, Claudia, “Postales de una época: Las relaciones entre historia, cine, y literatura en Viñas de Ira de John Steinbeck” (Pictures of an era: The relationship between history, movies, and literature in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007) In Spanish.

Georgi, Karen L., “James Jackson Jarves’s Art Criticism: Aesthetic Classifications and Historiographic Consequences,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Aug. 2008), 215–35.

Grant, David, “‘Our Nation’s Hope Is She’: The Cult of Jessie Fremont in the Republican Campaign Poetry of 1856,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Aug. 2008), 187–213.

Haefeli, Evan, and Owen Stanwood, “Jesuits, Huguenots, and the Apocolypse: The Origins of America’s First French Book,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 1, 2006), 59–120.

Hagood, Taylor, “Taking ‘Money Right Out of an American’s Pockets’: Faulkner’s South and the International Cotton Market,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 2, 2007), 83–95.

Harris, Susan K., “Kipling’s ‘The White Man’s Burden’ and the British Newspaper Context, 1898–1899,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Sept. 2007), 243–63.

Hart, Naomi, “Exercising ‘Those Faculties Most Which They Desire in Their Offspring’: Enlisting Parents in the Crusade against Vice,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 37–55.

Hassel, Holly, “‘Intellectual Loves Rube!’: Class, Gender, and Alcohol in Jean Stafford’s ‘Children Are Bored on Sunday,’” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 815–32.

Jagodzinski, Cecile M., “The University Press in North America: A Brief History,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing (Toronto), 40 (Oct. 2008), 1–20.

Jones, Paul Christian, “‘I Put My Fingers around My Throat and Squeezed It, to Know How It Feels’: Antigallows Sentimentalism and E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand,” Legacy, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 41–61.

Keller, Kate Van Winkle, “Nathaniel Coverly and Son, Printers, 1767–1825,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 1, 2007), 211–52.

Kennedy-Nolle, Sharon, “Captain Nemo’s Questing after American Causes: Jules Verne’s Transatlantic Vision of Reconstruction,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 441–58.

Kim, Youn-Jin, “Chinmiwa Banmisaieseo: Hanguk Eonronreul Tonghae bon Migukui Imijiwa Damron” (Between pro- and anti-America: Images of America and Americanization discourses as revealed in Korean journalism), in Americanization: Haebang yihoo Hangukeseoeui migukwha (The Americanization of South Korean society after 1945), ed. Deok-Ho Kim and Yong-Jin Won, 258–88. (Seoul: Peureunyeoksa, 2008. 463 pp. Paper, Won 20,000, isbn 978-89-91510-67-8.) In Korean.

Metress, Christopher, “Truth Be Told: William Bradford Huie’s Emmett Till Cycle,” Southern Quarterly, 45 (Summer 2008), 48–75.

O’Leary, John, “‘Tribes of the Eagle, the Panther, and Wolf’: Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Verse in the United States and Beyond,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 30 (Sept. 2008), 261–74.

Pethers, Matthew, “Talking Books, Selling Selves: Rereading the Politics of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative,” American Studies, 48 (Spring 2007), 101–34.

Ratcliffe, Donald J., “Selling Captain Riley, 1816–1859: How Did His ‘Narrative’ Become So Well Known?,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 1, 2007), 177–210.

Ronner, Amy D., “The Crucible, Harvard’s Secret Court, and Homophobic Witch Hunts,” Brooklyn Law Review, 73 (Fall 2007), 217–98.

Rutkowski, Alice, “Leaving the Good Mother: Frances E. W. Harper, Lydia Maria Child, and the Literary Politics of Reconstruction,” Legacy, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 83–104.

Ryan, Michael, “‘The Puritans of Today’: The Anti-Whig Argument of The Scarlet Letter,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 38 (no. 2, 2008), 201–25.

Sakowicz, Joanna, “Zamach na prezydenta Johna F. Kennedy’ego na lamach prasy polskiej z lat 1963–1964” (The Polish press on President John F. Kenndy’s assassination, 1963–1964), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 217–28. In Polish.

Shields, David, “‘We Declare You Independent Whether You Wish It or Not’: The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 2, 2007), 233–60.

Slauter, Eric, “Written Constitutions and Unenumerated Rights,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 2, 2007), 277–98.

Sloan, De Villo, “The Ruins of Pompey: The Euro-American Invention of Native American Prehistory and the Gothic Mode in Joshua V. H. Clark’s Onondaga,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Aug. 2008), 237–54.

Stevenson, Louise, “The Transatlantic Travels of James Thomson’s ‘The Seasons’ and Its Baggage of Material Culture, 1730–1870,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 1, 2006), 121–65.

Stocka, Anna, “Zdobycie ‘Dzikiego Zachodu’ po wojnie secesyjnej w swietle Wedrowca” (The conquest of the ‘Wild West’ after the end of the Civil War from the perspective of the Wedrowiec magazine), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 103–26. In Polish.

Toong, Zi Jun, “Overthrown by the Press: The U.S. Media’s Role in the Fall of Diem,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 56–72.

Torgerson, Douglas, “The Image of the Maltese Falcon: Reconsidering an American Icon,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 199–215.

Wall, David, “Francis Parkman’s Grotesque Body: Disease, Disgust, and Desire in The Oregon Trail,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 27 (no. 1, 2008), 29–42.

Weglarz, Aldona, “Idealista czy pragmatyk? Woodrow Wilson i jego plany urzadzenia powojennego swiata e swietle ‘Czasu’ z 1919 r” (An idealist or a pragmatist? Woodrow Wilson and his plans to rule the postwar world from the perspective of the Czas newspaper, 1919), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 147–63. In Polish.

 

Babington, Stuart Carroll, “A Plurality of Voices? A Legal and Historical Study of Newspaper Competition in the United States, 1955–2005” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3300839.

Bond, Elson Frank, “Sentiment and Race in the Struggle for American Memory and Identity, 1879–1913” (Fordham University, 2008). Order No. DA3303009.

Boone, Nicholas S., “Truth and Method on Black Mountain: The Hermeneutic Stances of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3301871.

Bowie, Rian Elizabeth, “Is There a Woman in the Text? The Black Press and the Emergence of Organized Black Womanhood, 1827–1900” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298907.

Del Negro, Janice M., “A Trail of Stones and Breadcrumbs: Evaluating Folktales Published for Youth in the 20th Century, 1905–2000” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3301124.

Grunzke, Andrew Lawrence, “Exposing the Man behind the Curtain: Educational Aims and Latent Lessons in L. Frank Baum’s ‘Oz’ Books” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3300742.

Hall, Susan Lillian, “Seduction and Servitude: The Erotics of Women’s Captivity Narratives” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3300182.

Hellman, Caroline, “Sanctum Sanctorum: The Alternative Designs and Domesticities of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3298141.

Johnson, Lynn R., “Traumas of the Middle Passage: The Foundations of Narrative and Political Discourse in 19th-Century African American Literature” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300357.

Keith, Joseph, “Cold War Cosmopolitanisms: Radical Transnationalisms in the Shadow of U.S. Empire, 1945–1955” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299334.

Lucht, Tracy L., “Sylvia Porter: Gender, Ambition, and Personal Finance Journalism, 1935–1975” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297229.

McCallum-Bonar, Colleen, “Black Ashkenaz and the Almost Promised Land: Yiddish Literature and the Harlem Renaissance” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3302408.

Musgrave, Megan L., “Phenomenal Women: Magical Activism in Postmodern Feminist Fiction” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3295468.

Orange, Thomas Martin, “Clark Coolidge in Context: A New American Poetry, 1962–1978” (University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR36728.

Park, Grace Haekyung, “The Exotics of Representation in Twentieth-Century Korean American Literature” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3302582.

Powers, Nicholas, “The Undertow of Reason: Re-defining the Sublime through the Middle Passage” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3296999.

Smith, Sandra W., “Out of Her Separate Sphere: The Action-Adventure Heroine in American Literature, 1790–1900” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3296927.

Tomlinson, Niles, “Animal Crossings: Contagion and Immunologic in Gothic American Literature” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3297072.

Tweedy, Clarence William, III, “Trauma and Self-Narration: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Identity in African American Literature, 1840–1940” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298878.

Wuthrich, Bryan, “Mind Gueerrillas: The Beat Aesthetics of Subversion and Liberation” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2007). Order No. DA3291651.

Yeh, Grace I-chun, “Asian Fighters in U.S. Minority Literature: Iconology, Intimacy, and Other Imagined Communities” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3302527.

Zambrano Uzcategui, Nahirana Teresa, “Images of the Other, Narratives of the Self: Representations of Venezuela in the U.S. Printed Press, 1982–2002” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3291568.

 

Berloquin, Pierre, Hidden Codes & Grand Designs: Secret Languages from Ancient Times to Modern Day. (New York: Sterling, 2008. 375 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-4027-2833-4.)

Bubíková, Šárka, Literary Childhoods: Growing Up in British and American Literature. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice & Pavel Mervart, 2008. 176 pp. czk 220, isbn 978-80-7395-091-0.)

Bubíková, Šárka, Literatura v Americe, Amerika v literature: Pomeny amerického literárního kánonu (Literature in America, America in literature: Changes of American literary canon). (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice & Pavel Mervart, 2007. 240 pp. czk 200, isbn 978-80-7395-030-9.) In Czech.

Bubíková, Šárka, and Michael M. Kaylor, eds., Predzvesti, predchudci, precedenty: Pokracující vliv 19. století na moderní texty a kontexty (Precursors, predecessors, precedents: The continuing influence of the 19th century on modern texts and contexts). (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2002. 113 pp. isbn 80-7194-462-2.) In Czech and English.

Bubíková, Šárka, and Olga Roebuck, eds., Continuity and Change in Culture and Literature. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2006. 152 pp. isbn 80-7194-908-6.)

Dupont, Christian Y., and Peter S. Onuf, eds., Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America’s Founding Document. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xviii, 86 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-9799997-0-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Forde, Kathy Roberts, Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xiv, 288 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-652-1. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-55849-653-8.)

Goodman, Matthew, The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York. (New York: Basic, 2008. x, 350 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-465-00257-3.)

Kline, Mary-Jo, and Susan Holbrook Perdue, A Guide to Documentary Editing. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xvi, 329 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2726-8. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2727-5.) Third edition with new Web edition.

Levine, Robert S., Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 322 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3226-4. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5903-2.)

McCann, Sean, A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 248 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-13695-0.)

Miller, John E., Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 263 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1823-0.)

Schulman, Arthur, comp., Websterisms: A Collection of Words and Definitions Set Forth by the Founding Father of American English. (New York: Free Press, 2008. 291 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-4165-6136-1.)

Sollors, Werner, Ethnic Modernism. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. x, 324 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-674-03091-6.) Originally published in Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 6.

Whitt, Jan, Women in American Journalism: A New History. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xx, 189 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03354-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07556-8.)

 

Cummings, Amos Jay, A Remarkable Curiosity: Dispatches from a New York City Journalist’s 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West, ed. Jerald T. Milanich. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-87081-926-1.)

Davis, Cynthia, and Verner D. Mitchell, eds., Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxiv, 300 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8061-3956-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3975-3.)

Jack, Zachary Michael, ed., Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xviii, 261 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8014-4709-9.)

Jackson, William J., ed., The Wisdom of Generosity: A Reader in American Philanthropy. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 427 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-60258-059-6.)

Mickenberg, Julia L., and Philip Nel, eds., Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xii, 295 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8147-5720-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Tyler, Daniel, ed., Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxxiv, 210 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4534-9.)

Wiche, Glen N., ed., Dispatches from Bermuda: The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861–1888. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xviii, 251 pp. $32.00, isbn 978-0-87338-938-9.)

Public History and Memory

 

Bauer, Margaret D., “On Flags and Fraternities: Lessons on Cultural Memory and Historical Amnesia in Charles Chesnutt’s ‘Po’ Sandy,’” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Spring 2008), 70–86.

Bryans, Bill, “A Tale of Two Bills: Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Sensibilities of a Public Historian,” Public Historian, 30 (Aug. 2008), 11–25.

Carletta, David Mark, “The Triumph of American Spectacle: New York City’s 1892 Columbian Celebration,” Material Culture, 40 (Spring 2008), 19–40.

Denson, Andrew, “Remembering Cherokee Removal in Civil Rights–Era Georgia,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 85–101.

Giemza, Bryan, “The Strange Case of Sequoyah Redivivus: Achievement, Personage, and Perplexity,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Winter 2006–2007), 129–50.

Gordon, Tammy S., “Heritage, Commerce, and Museal Display: Toward a New Typology of Historical Exhibition in the United States,” Public Historian, 30 (Aug. 2008), 27–50.

Laffey, Mark, and Jutta Weldes, “Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis,” International Studies Quarterly, 52 (Sept. 2008), 555–77.

Moore, William D., “‘United We Commemorate’: The Kentucky Pioneer Memorial Association, James Isenberg, and Early Twentieth-Century Heritage Tourism,” Public Historian, 30 (Aug. 2008), 51–81.

Shadid, Kerri A., “‘An American Tragedy’: Oklahomans React to Martin Luther King’s Assassination,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Summer 2008), 212–32.

Smith, Timothy B., “The Forgotten Inhabitants of Shiloh: A Civilian-Government Relationship Case Study,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Spring 2008), 36–55.

Tell, Dave, “The ‘Shocking Story’ of Emmett Till and the Politics of Public Confession,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 94 (May 2008), 156–78.

 

Al Rabady, Rama Ibrahim, “Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism in Texas: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Heritage Management” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3296306.

Cook, Bettye Alexander, “A Chronological Study of Experiential Education in the American History Museum” (University of North Texas, 2007). Order No. DA3300938.

Johnson, James Clayton, “Flights Past: The Wright Brothers’ Legacy and Dayton, Ohio” (Western Michigan University, 2007). Order No. DA3293176.

Maskey, Vishakha, “Economic Analyses Explaining Historic Preservation: The Impact of Social and Economic Values” (West Virginia University, 2007). Order No. DA3300909.

 

Benson, Virginia O., and Richard Klein, Historic Preservation for Professionals. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. x, 242 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-87338-927-3.)

Linden, Blanche M. G., Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xxii, 373 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-1-55849-571-5.) Originally published in 1989; heavily illustrated.

Oliver, Kendrick, The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory. (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 2006. 328 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7190-6890-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-7190-6891-1.)

 

Billy, George J., and Christine M. Billy, eds., Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. viii, 322 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8130-3246-7.)

Race

 

Baldoz, Rick, “The Racial Vectors of Empire: Classification and Competing Master Narratives in the Colonial Philippines,” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 69–94.

Cho, Ji-Hyung, “Jeokkeukgeok Jochi ya ‘Yokchabyeol’ Jeongchi” (Affirmitive Action and the politics of ‘reverse discrimination’), Ewhasahak Yeongu/Ewha Historical Studies (Seoul), 36 (June 2008), 261–94. In Korean.

Garcia, Jay, “Race, Empire, and Humanism in the Work of Lillian Smith,” Radical History Review (no. 101, Spring 2008), 59–80.

Gordy, Sondra, “Through a Heroine’s Eyes: Elizabeth Huckaby and the ‘Lost Year,’” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 141–67.

Harris, Carmen V., “‘The Extension Service Is Not an Integration Agency’: The Idea of Race in the Cooperative Extension Service,” Agricultural History, 82 (Spring 2008), 193–219.

Johnson, Russell L., “Clara Bow in Free to Love (1925): Feature Films and Eugenics in the 1920s,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 1–15.

Oakley, Christopher Arris, “‘When Carolina Indians Went on the Warpath’: The Media, the Klan, and the Lumbees of North Carolina,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 55–84.

Osburn, Katherine M. B., “Mississippi Choctaws and Racial Politics,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 32–54.

Rapport, Evan, “Bill Finegan’s Gershwin Arrangements and the American Concept of Hybridity,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 2 (Nov. 2008), 507–30.

Rigal, Laura, “Black Work at the Polling Place: The Color Line in The County Election,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Steedman, Marek D., “How Was Race Constructed in the New South?,” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 49–67.

Strickland, Jeffery, “How the Germans Became White Southerners: German Immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860–1880,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 52–69.

 

Byfield, Natalie Patricia, “The Construction of the Central Park Jogger Story: Racial Consciousness in America at the Turn of the 21st Century” (Fordham University, 2008). Order No. DA3301432.

Draper, Timothy Dean, “‘‘A Little Kingdom of Mixed Nationalities’: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in a Western Urban Community; Rock Springs, Wyoming, 1869–1929” (Northern Illinois University, 2007). Order No. DA3301626.

Estrada, Vanesa, “Racial Inequality and Homeownership Transitions in the U.S., 1968–2003” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3299547.

Fox, Craig, “Everyday Klansfolk: White Protestant Life and the kkk in 1920s Michigan” (University of York, 2008).

Garcia, Desirée J., “There’s No Place Like Home: Race Cinema, Migration, and the Hollywood Musical, 1900–1950” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3296047.

Hazard, Anthony Quinzales, Jr., “Postwar Anti-Racism: The United States, unesco, and ‘Race,’ 1945–1968” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300355.

Ledward, Brandon C., “Inseparably Hapa: Making and Unmaking a Hawaiian Monolith” (University of Hawai‘i, 2007). Order No. DA3302146.

Logan, Cameron, “The Constituent Landscape: History, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C., 1950–1990” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3295055.

Nielsen, Chris Stewart, “Whiteness Imperiled: Anti-Asian Sentiment in California, 1900–1930” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3298244.

Poché, Justin D., “Religion, Race, and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938–1970” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299166.

Smith, Travis R., “Race and the Shifting Economy in California’s Northern Interior” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3296183.

Sohi, Seema, “Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Empire, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3303297.

Stevenson, Kathryn Kristyna, “Scarlet Equations: Representing Black Men, White Women, 1940–1964” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3298259.

Widell, Robert W., Jr., “‘To Stay and Fight’: Birmingham, Alabama, and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298932.

 

Brown, Nikki L. M., and Barry M. Stentiford, eds., The Jim Crow Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1, A–J: xxviii, 428 pp. Vol. 2, K–Z: 487 pp. $225.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-34181-6/set.)

Levine, Robert S., Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 322 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3226-4. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5903-2.)

Luconi, Stefano, La questione razziale negli Stati Uniti dalla Ricostruzione a Barack Obama (The race question in the United States from Reconstruction to Barack Obama). (Padua: Cleup, 2008. 259 pp. €16.00, isbn 88-6129-284-0.) In Italian.

Magarrell, Lisa, and Joya Wesley, Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xviii, 278 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4110-5.)

Newkirk, Vann R., Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865–1941. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. vi, 206 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3928-7.)

 

Johnson, Suzanne Stone, and Robert Allison Johnson, eds., Bitter Freedom: William Stone’s Record of Service in the Freedmen’s Bureau. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xxxii, 117 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-766-5.)

Lawson, Steven F., ed., One America in the 21st Century: The Report of President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xlvi, 121 pp. $20.00, isbn 978-0-300-11669-4.)

Zellner, Bob, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. (Montgomery: NewSouth, 2008. 351 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-1-58838-222-1.)

Religion

 

Alegranti, Joaquin, and Juan E. Bonin, “Cristianismo y nación: Relaciones entre pluralismo religioso y religión civil en los Estados Unidos” (Christianity and nation: The relationship between religious pluralism and civil religion in the United States), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007), 55–76. In Spanish.

Araki, Junko, “Tamashii no fuan/kokoro no itami” (Anxiety of the soul, pain in the body: Senses and religious experience in 17th century New England), Aoyama Gakuin Joshi Tankidaigaku Kiyo (Tokyo), 60 (2006), 1–14. In Japanese.

Baker, Thomas N., “Speculations on the Genealogy of Deism in New York, 1700–1850,” New York History, 89 (Winter 2008), 43–53.

Bonner, Jeremy, “The Pittsburgh Paradigm: The Rise of Confessional Anglicanism in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1950–2000,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 77 (Sept. 2008), 257–86.

Burns, Jeffrey M., “Priests in Revolt: The San Francisco Association of Priests, 1968–1971,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Summer 2008), 51–68.

Cartwright, Michael G., “The Founding of Indiana Central University: Another Chapter in the History of United Brethren Higher Education,” Methodist History, 46 (July 2008), 212–22.

Ciernick, Helen M., “A Matter of Conscience: The Selective Conscientious Objector, Catholic College Students, and the Vietnam War,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Summer 2008), 33–50.

Davis, Nancy M., “A Lutta Continua: Black Catholic Activism in Detroit, Michigan in the 1970s,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Summer 2008), 15–32.

DeLong, Amy, “Change from the Inside Out: The Contribution of Memphis Catholics in Civil Rights Activism, 1961–1968,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 125–46.

Deverell, William, “Thoughts from the Farther West: Mormons, California, and the Civil War,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Spring 2008), 1–19.

Fabi, M. Giulia, “White Lies: Amelia E. Johnson’s Sunday School Fiction and the Politics of Racelessness,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (March 2007), 7–35.

Fisher, Linford D., “‘I Believe They Are Papists!’: Natives, Moravians, and the Politics of Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 410–37.

Fluhman, J. Spencer, “An ‘American Mahomet’: Joseph Smith, Muhammad, and the Problem of Prophets in Antebellum America,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 23–45.

Haefeli, Evan, and Owen Stanwood, “Jesuits, Huguenots, and the Apocolypse: The Origins of America’s First French Book,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 1, 2006), 59–120.

Harper, Reid L., “Backcountry Missionaries in the Post-Bellum South: Thomas Ephraim Harper’s Experience,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 204–32.

Hayes, John, “Hard, Hard Religion: The Invisible Institution of the New South,” Journal of Southern Religion, 10 (2008), http://jsr.fsu.edu.

Hoffman, Ronald, “The Carroll Family of Maryland,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 2, 2007), 331–50.

Hoover, David N., and Robert L. Hoover, “Mission San Antonio de Padua: A Chronology of Building,” Boletín, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 35–66.

Hummon, David M., “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: Reconstructing the Ladder in African American Spirituals,” Journal of American Culture, 31 (June 2008), 164–74.

Lindberg, Richard L., “Clashing Covenanters: The East End Controversy in the Reformed Presbyterian Church,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Summer 2008), 34–43.

Lofton, Kathryn, “Queering Fundamentalism: John Balcom Shaw and the Sexuality of a Protestant Orthodoxy,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 17 (Sept. 2008), 439–68.

Maika, Dennis, “Commemoration and Context: The Flushing Remonstrance Then and Now,” New York History, 89 (Winter 2008), 29–42.

Marquardt, H. Michael, “Emily Dow Partridge Smith Young on the Witness Stand: Recollections of a Plural Wife,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 110–41.

Marty, Martin E., “Righteous Empire Revisited,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 1, 2007), 37–60.

Morimoto, Anri, “Nyu ingurando ni okeru ‘ayamareru ryoshin’ no kanyoron” (Tolerating the erroneous conscience: Revisiting the New England controversy between Roger Williams and John Cotton), Shakaikagaku Jyanaru (Tokyo), 61 (2007), 103–22. In Japanese.

Newell, Quincy D., “The Varieties of Religious Experience: Baptized Indians at Mission San Francisco de Asís, 1776–1821,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Fall 2008), 412–42.

O’Malley, J. Steven, “German-American Contributions to the Ongoing Search for American Evangelicalism, with Reference to the Radical United Brethren Secession of 1889,” Methodist History, 46 (July 2008), 196–211.

Pfabe, Jerrald K., “Was It Foretold?: Theodore Graebner, Millennialists and the World Wars,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 81 (Summer 2008), 98–110.

Ross, Richard J., “Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of ‘Intensity,’” American Historical Review, 113 (Oct. 2008), 975–1002.

Russell, William D., “The Last Smith Presidents and the Transformation of the rlds Church,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 46–84.

Sandos, James A., “Toypurina’s Revolt: Religious Conflict at Mission San Gabriel in 1785,” Boletín, 24 (no. 2, 2007), 4–14.

Schäfer, Axel R., “The Cold War State and the Resurgence of Evangelicalism: A Study of the Public Funding of Religion since 1945,” Radical History Review (no. 99, Fall 2007), 19–50.

Smith, Konden Rich, “Appropriating the Secular: Mormonism and the World Columbia Exposition of 1893,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Fall 2008), 153–80.

Sowinska, Alicja, “Ambiguous Women: Debates within American Evangelical Feminism,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 167–80.

Stapley, Jonathan A., and Kristine L. Wright, “‘They Shall Be Made Whole’: A History of Baptism for Health,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Fall 2008), 69–112.

Stokes, Claudia, “The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 438–61.

Stoll, Mark, “Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea,” Environmental History, 13 (April 2008), 237–74.

Turley, Kylie Nielson, “Yesharah: Society for lds Sister Missionaries,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 168–203.

 

Burkholder, Jared Scott, “Disenfranchised Awakeners: Anglo-Moravians, Religious Competition, and Evangelical Identity in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301686.

Cavazos, Mary K., “Queen’s Daughters: African American Women, Christian Mission and Racial Change, 1940–1960” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3294228.

Clatterbuck, Mark S., “Searching for Souls in a Twice-Foreign Land: An Analysis of Catholic Indian Missions through the Indian Sentinel (1902–1962)” (Catholic University of America, 2008). Order No. DA3294694.

Curtis, Finbarr, “Speaking of the Nation: William Jennings Bryan, Al Smith, and the Idioms of American Populism” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3296173.

Elliott, Kenneth Ray, “Anglican Church Policy, Eighteenth Century Conflict, and the American Episcopate” (Mississippi State University, 2007). Order No. DA3296205.

Emetuche, Damian Okwudiri, “An Analysis of Worldviews of West African Immigrants to Greater Cincinnati and Their Missiological Implications” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3300628.

Finn, Nathan A., “The Development of Baptist Fundamentalism in the South, 1940–1980” (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3293274.

Flinchum, Jessica Lee, “In Subjection: Church Discipline in the Early American South, 1760–1820” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298823.

Gloege, Timothy E. W., “Consumed: Reuben A. Torrey and the Construction of Corporate Fundamentalism” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299145.

Grube, Melinda E., “Burned-Over Thealogy Context and Process in Matilda Joslyn Gage’s Gynocentric History” (Union Institute & University, 2007). Order No. DA3293422.

Jiang, Lian, “Visiting Parents from China: Their Conversion Experiences in America and Contributions to Christianity at Home” (Texas Christian University, 2006). Order No. DA3240044.

Kendall, Anthony Barrett, “Changing American Minds: Performances of Evangelism in the Early Republic” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3302839.

Kraemer, Christine Hoff, “The Erotic Fringe: Sexual Minorities and Religion in Contemporary American Literature and Film” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3296017.

Lambert, David E., “Beyond World’s End: The Protestant International and the Huguenot Migration to Virginia” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3294599.

Lee, Soo-Young, “God’s Chosen People: Protestant Narratives of Korean Americans and American National Identity” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3296993.

Olson, Gregory Thomas, “Civilizing Men: Protestant Religion in Gold Rush San Francisco, 1848–1856” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296161.

Owens, A. Nevell, “Rhetoric of Identification: Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298922.

Poché, Justin D., “Religion, Race, and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938–1970” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299166.

Ragosta, John Andrew, “Fighting for Freedom: How Virginia’s Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Religious Liberty” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3302217.

Riggs, Lynette A., “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ Indian Student Placement Service: A History” (Utah State University, 2008). Order No. DA3297497.

Rivera, Ruben, “Alberto Rembao (1895–1962): Mexican American Protestant for Internationalism and Christian Holism” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298673.

Schlereth, Eric R., “Age of Infidelity: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early National United States” (Brandeis University, 2007). Order No. DA3290967.

Williams, Howell, “Homosexuality and the American Catholic Church: Reconfiguring the Silence, 1971–1999” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301609.

Wren, Charles Michael, Jr., “R. B. C. Howell and the Theological Foundation for Baptist Participation in the Benevolent Empire” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3300657.

 

Brinkman, Marie, Emerging Frontiers: Renewal in the Life of Women Religious; Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, 1955–2005. (Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist, 2008. xiv, 608 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8091-4540-9.)

Bruno, Robert Anthony, Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $54.95, isbn 978-0-8142-1095-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8142-5134-8. cd-rom, $9.95, isbn 978-0-8142-9175-7.)

Harper, Keith, ed., American Denominational History: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. x, 222 pp. Cloth, $52.50, isbn 978-0-8173-1632-7. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8173-5512-8.)

Hempton, David, Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 233 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-300-14067-5.)

Marsden, George M., A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xii, 152 pp. Paper, $15.00, isbn 978-0-8028-0220-0.)

Roberts, David, Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. 402 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3988-9.)

Seat, Karen K., “Providence Has Freed Our Hands”: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xx, 193 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3181-1.)

Sepkowski, Andrzej, Poczatki misji: Narodziny amerykanskiej ‘Religii obywatelskiej’ (The beginning of a mission: The rise of American ‘civic religion’). (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2008. 336 pp. zl. 31.30, isbn 978-83-61185-21-5.) In Polish.

Tobin, Gary A., and Dennis R. Ybarra, The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. viii, 209 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-7391-3093-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7391-3094-0.)

 

Hankins, Barry, ed., Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: A Documentary Reader. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. x, 241 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-3716-1. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-0-8147-3717-0.)

Lee, John D., Mormonism Unveiled: The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and the Complete Life of Brigham Young. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xiv, 405 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4567-7.) Originally published in 1891.

Thuesen, Peter J., ed., The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 26: Catalogues of Books. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 496 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-300-13394-3.)

Revolutionary and Early National

 

Chung, Kyung-Hee, “Migukheonbubeui Jejeonggwa Yeonbanggongwhagukeui Geonguk” (The making of the U.S. Constitution and the building of the federal republic), Yeoksahakbo/Korean Journal of History (Seoul), 195 (Sept. 2007), 255–83. In Korean.

Cox, Caroline, “Integrity and Leadership: George Washington,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 11–32. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Gustafson, Sandra M., “Daniel Webster and the Invention of Modern Liberty in the Atlantic World,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 2, 2007), 395–412.

Maass, John R., “‘The Cure for All Our Political Calamities’: Archibald Maclaine and the Politics of Moderation in Revolutionary North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (July 2008), 251–81.

Wang, Ta-Chen, “Paying Back to Borrow More: Reputation and Bank Credit Access in Early America,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 477–88.

 

Black, Jeremy, George III: America’s Last King. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xvi, 475 pp. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-300-13621-0.)

Dupont, Christian Y., and Peter S. Onuf, eds., Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America’s Founding Document. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xviii, 86 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-9799997-0-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Spring, Matthew H., With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxiv, 381 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3947-0.)

Rural

 

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn, “Thomas Minor’s World: Agrarian Life in Seventeenth-Century New England,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 496–518.

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn, “Thomas Minor’s World: Agrarian Life in Seventeenth-Century New England,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 496–518.

Clay, T. A., “A Call to Order: Law, Violence, and the Development of Montana’s Early Stockmen’s Organizations,” Montana, 58 (Autumn 2008), 48–63.

Darling, O. H., and Don C. Bragg, “The Early Mills, Railroads, and Logging Camps of the Crossett Lumber Company,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 107–40.

 

Filipelli, Deborah L., “Before Smokey Bear There Was Woodbridge Metcalf: Rural and Forest Fire Protection in the California Fire Department, 1926–1945” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3294591.

Science and Technology

 

Bergland, Renée L., “Urania’s Inversion: Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, and the Strange History of Women Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America,” Signs, 34 (Autumn 2008), 75–99.

Foster, Thomas L. “Tim,” “Technology and Leadership: Hyman G. Rickover,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 179–208. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)

Goldstein, Daniel, “Outposts of Science,” Isis, 99 (Sept. 2008), 519–46.

Liel, Abbie B., and David P. Billington, “Engineering Innovation at Bonneville Dam,” Technology and Culture, 49 (July 2008), 727–51.

Mouat, Jeremy, and Ian Phimister, “The Engineering of Herbert Hoover,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Nov. 2008), 553–84.

Rotenstein, David S., “Towers for Telegrams: The Western Union Telegraph Company and the Emergence of Microwave Telecommunications Infrastructure,” ia: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 32 (no. 2, 2006), 5–22.

 

Barnhart, Megan Kathleen, “‘To Secure the Benefits of Science to the General Welfare’: The Scientists’ Movement and the American Public during the Cold War, 1945–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3295739.

James, Jeremiah Lewis, “Naturalizing the Chemical Bond: Discipline and Creativity in the Pauling Program, 1927–1942” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3295923.

Klein, Michael J., “The Rhetoric of Repugnance: Popular Culture and Unpopular Notions in the Human Cloning Debate” (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007). Order No. DA3300053.

Panzaris, Georgios, “Machines and Romances: The Technical and Narrative Construction of Networked Computing as a General-Purpose Platform, 1960–1995” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3302856.

 

Hitt, David, Owen Garriott, and Joe Kerwin, Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxvi, 520 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2434-6.)

Nocks, Lisa, The Robot: The Life Story of a Technology. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xxx, 192 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8018-9071-0.)

 

Altitude Wind Tunnel at nasa Glenn Research Center: An Interactive History (cd-rom). 2008. (Windows, Mac) 1 cd-rom. (nasa Glenn Research Center, http://history.nasa.gov.)

Sexuality

 

Lofton, Kathryn, “Queering Fundamentalism: John Balcom Shaw and the Sexuality of a Protestant Orthodoxy,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 17 (Sept. 2008), 439–68.

 

Lewis, Carolyn Frances, “Coitus Perfectus: The Medicalization of Heterosexuality in the Cold War United States” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3291297.

Slavery

 

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, “‘Iron Arguments’: Spectacle, Rhetoric, and the Slave Body in New England and British Antislavery Oratory,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 1, 2007), 57–78.

Emlen, Robert P., “Slave Labor at the College Edifice: Building Brown University’s University Hall in 1770,” Rhode Island History, 66 (Summer 2008), 35–45.

Jaffa, Harry V., “Dred Scott Revisited,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Winter 2008), 197–217.

Keil, Hartmut, “Francis Lieber’s Attitudes on Race, Slavery, and Abolition,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 13–33.

Klein, Diane J., “Naming and Framing the ‘Subject’ of Antebellum Slave Contracts: Introducing Julia, ‘a Certain Negro Slave,’ ‘a Man,’ Joseph, Eliza, and Albert,” Rutgers Race & the Law Review, 9 (no. 2, 2008), 243–84.

Koo, Kathryn S., “Strangers in the House of God: Cotton Mather, Onesimus, and an Experiment in Christian Slaveholding,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 1, 2007), 143–76.

Mensel, Robert E., “Originalism and Ancestor Worship in the Post-Heroic Era: The Dred Scott Opinions,” Widener Law Journal, 17 (no. 1, 2007), 29–54.

Nishide, Keiichi, “Jojia ni okeru doreisei he no tenkann” (Transition to plantation slavery in colonial Georgia: Land granting and slave headrights), Ritsumeikan Bungaku (Kyoto), 597 (2007), 92–100. In Japanese.

Rao, Gautham, “The Federal Posse Comitatus Doctrine: Slavery, Compulsion, and Statecraft in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America,” Law & History Review, 26 (Spring 2008), 1–56.

Rosengarten, Dale, “By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 104–21. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated.

 

Bossy, Denise Ileana, “The ‘Noble Savage’ in Chains: Indian Slavery in Colonial South Carolina, 1670–1735” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293298.

Kyles, Perry L., “The Men behind the Market: Merchants, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Shaping of South Carolina Plantation Society, 1700–1756” (Florida International University, 2007). Order No. DA3298590.

Marin, Craig Thomas, “Coercion, Cooperation, and Conflict along the Charleston Waterfront, 1739–1785: Navigating the Social Waters of an Atlantic Port City” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300521.

 

Calarco, Tom, People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xxxii, 377 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-313-33924-0.)

Rosengarten, Dale, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Singer, Alan J., New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 166 pp. Cloth, $49.50, isbn 978-0-7914-7509-6. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7510-2.)

 

Yellin, Jean Fagan, ed., The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Vol 1: lxxxii, 396 pp. Vol. 2: xl, 533 pp. Cloth, $125.00/set, isbn 978-0-8078-3131-1/set.) Inlcudes cd.

Social and Cultural

 

Block, Adrienne Fried, “Matinee Mania, or the Regendering of Nineteenth-Century Audiences in New York City,” Nineteenth-Century Music, 31 (Spring 2008), 193–216.

Bubíková, Šárka, “Unity, Plurality, and Culture: Some Thoughts on Multiculturalism,” in Peaceful Multiculturalism or Culture Wars?, ed. Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck, 7–13. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2007. 157 pp. isbn 978-80-7395-017-0.)

Daniels, Caroline, “‘The Feminine Touch Has Not Been Wanting’: Women Librarians at Camp Zachary Taylor, 1917–1919,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 3, 2008), 286–307.

Dredge, Bart, “Contradictions of Corporate Benevolence: Industrial Libraries in the Southern Textile Industry, 1920–1945,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 3, 2008), 308–26.

Gibby, Robert E., and Michael J. Zickar, “A History of the Early Days of Personality Testing in American Industry: An Obsession with Adjustment,” History of Psychology, 11 (Aug. 2008), 164–84.

Green, Rayna, “Mother Corn and the Dixie Pig: Native Food in the Native South,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 114–26.

Hart, Naomi, “Exercising ‘Those Faculties Most Which They Desire in Their Offspring’: Enlisting Parents in the Crusade against Vice,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 37–55.

Howard, Vicki, “‘The Biggest Small-Town Store in America’: Independent Retailers and the Rise of Consumer Culture,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Sept. 2008), 457–86.

Lauer, Josh, “Money as Mass Communication: U.S. Paper Currency and the Iconography of Nationalism,” Communication Review (Yverdon), 11 (April 2008), 109–32.

Marrs, Aaron W., “Railroads and Time Consciousness in the Antebellum South,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Sept. 2008), 433–56.

Paziak, Ewa, “Stereotyp amerykanskiego zebraka” (A stereotype of the American beggar), Czlowiek I Spoleczenstwo (Warszawa), 27 (2007), 123–34. In Polish.

Strazdes, Diana, “Style, Symbols, and Persuasion: Leland Stanford’s Sacramento Ball of 1872,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, 15 (Spring–Summer 2008), 65–95.

Tinkler, Penny, and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, “Feminine Modernity in Interwar Britain and North America: Corsets, Cars, and Cigarettes,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 113–43.

 

Jones, Dalton Anthony, “Black Market: Louis Armstrong and the Primitive Accumulation of Desire” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293332.

McKenzie, Shelly, “Mass Movements: A Cultural History of Physical Fitness and Exercise, 1953–1989” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3295059.

Moeckli, Jane Kathleen, “‘Pamper Yourself to Protect the Earth’: Nature in Contemporary American Beauty Culture” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301731.

Smith, Thomas Langston Reeves, “Entertainers Who Lead: A Phenomenological Study of Leadership and Celebrity Politics” (Gonzaga University, 2007). Order No. DA3301271.

 

Bubíková, Šárka, and Olga Roebuck, eds., Peaceful Multiculturalism or Culture Wars? (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2007. 157 pp. isbn 978-80-7395-017-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online,” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Bubíková, Šárka, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, eds., New Interpretations of Cultural Phenomena. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2004. 72 pp. isbn 80-7194-710-5.)

Campbell, Ballard C., American Disasters: 201 Calamities That Shook the Nation. (New York: Checkmark, 2008. xviii, 461 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8160-7735-9.)

Eldridge, David, American Culture in the 1930s. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. xxviii, 259 pp. Cloth, £55.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2258-0. Paper, £17.99, isbn 978-0-7486-2259-7.)

Kobayashi, Kiyokazu, Amerikan nashonarizumu no keifu (American nationalism). (Kyoto: Showado, 2007. 394 pp. ¥5250, isbn 4-8122-0747-9.) In Japanese.

Kubo, Fumiaki, and Aruga Natsuki, eds., Amerika kenkyu no ekkyo, vol. 4: Kojin to kokka no aida (Transboundary American studies, vol. 4: Between the state and the individual). (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2007. 332 pp. ¥3675, isbn 4-6230-4947-9.) In Japanese.

Marling, Karal Ann, Ice: Great Moments in the History of Hard, Cold Water. (St. Paul: Borealis, 2008. 216 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-87351-628-0.)

Matsumoto, Yuko, Tsukurareru amerika-kokumin to “tasha” (Constructing the American nation: Boundaries of citizenship in the age of Americanization). (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2007. 352 pp. ¥5880, isbn 4-1302-6132-0.) In Japanese.

Meter, Jan R. Van, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 334 pp. $22.50, isbn 978-0-226-84968-3.)

Monteith, Sharon, American Culture in the 1960s. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. xxx, 242 pp. Cloth, £55.00, isbn 978-0-7486-1946-7. Paper, £17.99, isbn 978-0-7486-1947-4.)

Social Movements

 

Correia, David, “‘Rousers of the Rabble’ in the New Mexico Land Grant War: La Alianza Federal De Mercedes and the Violence of the State,” Antipode, 40 (Sept. 2008), 561–83.

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

Lawler, Peter Augustine, “1968 in Context: Scarcity and Decade Analysis,” Intercollegiate Review, 43 (Fall 2008), 14–24.

Lindberg, Richard L., “Clashing Covenanters: The East End Controversy in the Reformed Presbyterian Church,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Summer 2008), 34–43.

Michel, Gregg L., “It Even Happened Here: Student Activism at Furma University, 1967–1970,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 109 (Jan. 2008), 38–57.

Stepenoff, Bonnie, “St. Louis and the Sharecroppers: Urban Connections to a Rural Protest,” Agricultural History, 82 (Winter 2008), 78–96.

 

Reidt, Kelley Marie, “The Texas Cyclone: The Life of Educator-Activist Anna J. H. Pennybacker” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3298381.

Social Welfare and Public Health

 

Atto, William J., “Brooks Hays and the New Deal,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 168–86.

Gilbert, Jess, “Rural Sociology and Democratic Planning in the Third New Deal,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 421–38.

Gilbert, Jess, “Rural Sociology and Democratic Planning in the Third New Deal,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 421–38.

Osborne, Elizabeth, “A Nation in Need: Revelations and Disaster Relief in the Federal Theatre Project,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 49–64.

Rao, Gautham, “Sailors’ Health and National Wealth: Marine Hospitals in the Early Republic,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Turley, Kylie Nielson, “Yesharah: Society for lds Sister Missionaries,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 168–203.

 

Walloch, Karen L., “‘A Hot-Bed of Anti-Vaccine Heresy’: Opposition to Compulsory Vaccination in Boston and Cambridge, 1890–1905” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007). Order No. DA3294105.

 

Lawson, Russell M., and Benjamin A. Lawson, Poverty in America: An Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xxvi, 233 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-313-33398-9.)

 

Jackson, William J., ed., The Wisdom of Generosity: A Reader in American Philanthropy. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 427 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-60258-059-6.)

Johnson, Suzanne Stone, and Robert Allison Johnson, eds., Bitter Freedom: William Stone’s Record of Service in the Freedmen’s Bureau. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xxxii, 117 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-766-5.)

Sports and Recreation

 

Andrews, Vernon L., “Baseball, Cricket, Gridiron, and Rugby: Opposites Attract in Teaching American Sports Culture Abroad,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 104–14.

Chisholm, Ann, “Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women and Incorporations of Buoyancy: Contouring Femininity, Shaping Sex, and Regulating Middle-Class Consumption,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 84–112.

Clemmer, Richard, “The Leisure Class versus the Tourists: The Hidden Struggle in the Collecting of Pueblo Pottery at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” History and Anthropology (Chur), 19 (Sept. 2008), 187–207.

Fetter, Henry D., “Revising the Revisionists: Walter O’Malley, Robert Moses, and the End of the Brooklyn Dodgers,” New York History, 89 (Winter 2008), 55–74.

Graves, Jamie, Lori Scroggs, and Nina Collins, “They Played in Preoria: The aagpbl Redwings,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Spring 2008), 7–21.

 

Knowles, Coury Matthew, “Historical Comparison of Florida and National Title IX Compliance Trends in High School Sports from 1985–2005” (University of Central Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3302913.

La Croix, Rachel M., “‘You’ve Come Part of the Way, Baby’: The Status of Women and Women’s Sports in Intercollegiate Athletics 28 Years after Title IX” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301568.

Ng, Larson S. W. M., “Factors Influencing Japanese Tourism to Hawaii: A Macroeconomic Analysis (1980–2006)” (Capella University, 2008). Order No. DA3297735.

Runstedtler, Theresa E., “Journeyman: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293373.

 

McComb, David G., Spare Time in Texas: Recreation and History in the Lone Star State. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 290 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-292-71870-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-292-71889-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Surdam, David G., The Postwar Yankees: Baseball’s Golden Age Revisited. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 425 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1789-8.)

Zirin, Dave, A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play. (New York: New Press, 2008. xviii, 302 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-59558-100-6.)

Teaching, Surveys, and Textbooks

 

Blee, Lisa, et al., “Enagaging with Public Engagment: Public History and Graduate Pedagogy,” Radical History Review (no. 102, Fall 2008), 73–89.

Garcia, David G., “Transformations through Teatro: Culture Clash in a Chicana/o History Classroom,” Radical History Review (no. 102, Fall 2008), 111–30.

Moyar, Mark, “Vietnam: Historians at War,” Academic Questions, 21 (March 2008), 37–51.

Plotkin, Wendy, Stephanie Stegman, and Christopher Miller, “Americans on the Move: Geography and Society in the Post-World War II Period, 1950–2000,” Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 11 (Aug. 2008), http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/.

Sipress, Joel, and David J. Voelker, “From Learning History to Doing History: Beyond the Coverage Model,” in Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind, ed. Regan A. R. Gurung, Nancy L. Chick, and Aeron Haynie, 19–35. (Sterling: Stylus, 2008. 304 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-57922-307-6.)

 

Colby, Sherri Rae, “Students as Historians: The Historical Narrative Inquiry Model’s Impact on Historical Thinking and Historical Empathy” (University of North Texas, 2007). Order No. DA3300937.

 

Breidlid, Anders, et al., eds., American Culture: An Anthology. (New York: Routledge, 2008. xxiv, 434 pp. Cloth, $140.00, isbn 978-0-415-36092-0. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-415-36093-7.) Second edition with new chapters.

Brophy, Jere, Janet Alleman, and Barbara Knighton, Inside the Social Studies Classroom. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xii, 301 pp. Cloth, $135.00, isbn 978-0-8058-5571-5. Paper, $41.95, isbn 978-0-8058-5572-2.)

Campbell, Ballard C., American Disasters: 201 Calamities That Shook the Nation. (New York: Checkmark, 2008. xviii, 461 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8160-7735-9.)

Clements, Peter, Access to History: Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal. (London: Hodder Education, 2008. viii, 247 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-34-096588-7.) Fourth edition.

Coontz, Stephanie, Maya Parson, and Gabrielle Raley, eds., American Families: A Multicultural Reader. (New York: Routledge, 2008. viii, 475 pp. Cloth, $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-95820-2. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-415-95821-9.) Second edition; revised and expanded.

Farmer, Alan, Access to History: The American Civil War; Causes, Course, and Consequences, 1803–77. (London: Hodder Education, 2008. vi, 250 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-34-096587-0.) Fourth edition.

Guarneri, Carl, and James Davis, eds., Teaching American History in a Global Context. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2008. xvi, 334 pp. Cloth, $78.95, isbn 978-0-7656-2079-8. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-7656-2080-4.)

Kennedy, Frances H., ed., American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. xxvi, 335 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-395-63336-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Monteith, Sharon, American Culture in the 1960s. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. xxx, 242 pp. Cloth, £55.00, isbn 978-0-7486-1946-7. Paper, £17.99, isbn 978-0-7486-1947-4.)

Peterson, Amy T., et al., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History: 1900 to the Present. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1, 1900–1949: xx, 392 pp. Vol. 2, 1950–Present: xx, 428 pp. $199.95/set, isbn 978-0-313-35855-5/set.)

Sanders, Vivienne, Access to History: Civil Rights in the usa, 1945–68. (London: Hodder Education, 2008. vi, 178 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-34-096583-2.)

Tobin, Gary A., and Dennis R. Ybarra, The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. viii, 209 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-7391-3093-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7391-3094-0.)

 

Best, Antony, et al., eds., International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond. (New York: Routledge, 2008. xxiv, 613 pp. Cloth, $140.00, isbn 978-0-415-43895-7. Paper, $37.95, isbn 978-0-415-43896-4.) Second edition; revised and expanded.

Malsberger, John W., and James N. Marshall, eds., The American Economic History Reader: Documents and Readings. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 556 pp. Cloth, $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-96266-7. Paper, $54.95, isbn 978-0-415-96267-4.)

Transnational and Comparative

 

Go, Julian, “Global Fields and Imperial Forms: Field Theory and the British and American Empires,” Sociological Theory, 26 (Sept. 2008), 201–29.

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin, “Gods and Devils in the Details: Marine Pollution, Radioactive Waste, and an Environmental Regime circa 1972,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 539–60.

Mancini, J. M., and Graham Finlay, “‘Citizenship Matters’: Lessons from the Irish Citizenship Referendum,” American Quarterly, 60 (Sept. 2008), 575–99.

Wolff, David, “Riding Rough: Portsmouth, Regionalism, and the Birth of Anti-Americanism in Northeast Asia,” in The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies, ed. Steven Ericson and Allen Hockley, 125–41. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. x, 249 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-722-4.)

 

Appah, Frederick, “The Politics of Health Promotion: Analyzing Healthy Public Policy’s Impact on Tobacco Control in United States and South Africa” (West Virginia University, 2007). Order No. DA3298703.

Kwak, Nancy Haekyung, “A Citizen’s Right to Decent Shelter: Public Housing in New York, London, and Singapore, 1945 to 1970” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299322.

Murray, Joseph John, “‘One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin’: The Transnational Lives of Deaf Americans, 1870–1924” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3290674.

 

Black, Jeremy, George III: America’s Last King. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xvi, 475 pp. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-300-13621-0.)

Dwyer, John J., The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiv, 387 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4295-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4309-7.)

Ericson, Steven, and Allen Hockley, eds., The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. x, 249 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-722-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Farmer, Alan, Access to History: Britain and the American Colonies, 1740–89. (London: Hodder Education, 2008. viii, 200 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-34-096596-2.)

Gutzke, David W., ed., Britain and Transnational Progressivism. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 258 pp. $84.95, isbn 978-0-230-60580-0.)

Malamud, Margaret, Ancient Rome and Modern America. (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xii, 296 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-1-4051-3933-5. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-1-4051-3934-2.)

Sweeney, Fionnghuala, Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 256 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-8463-1078-2.)

Yates, Lawrence A., The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management, June 1987–December 1989. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2008. xviii, 313 pp. Paper, $36.00, isbn 978-0-16-079419-3.)

Theory and Methodology

 

Castillo, Susan, “Interesting Times: A Meditation on American Studies in Britain, 2007,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 27 (no. 1, 2008), 5–14.

Chung, Kyung-Hee, “Miguksaeui Hoegowa Jeonmang, 2005–2006” (Retrospect and prospect of American history, 2005–2006), Yeoksahakbo/Korean Journal of History (Seoul), 195 (Sept. 2007), 295–317. In Korean.

Hwang, Haesung, “Yeojonhee Alayahanun Nara: Miguk” (The study of U.S. history in Korea, 1945–present), Seoyangsaron/Korean Journal of Western History, 95 (Dec. 2007), 373–403. In Korean.

Lepofsky, Dana, “Deconstructing the McCallum Site,” bc Studies (Vancouver) (no. 158, Summer 2008), 3–31.

Newman, Simon P., “Losing the Faith: British Historians and the Last Best Hope,” Comparative American Studies (London), 6 (June 2008), 161–78.

Slauter, Eric, “Written Constitutions and Unenumerated Rights,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 2, 2007), 277–98.

 

Sinn, Donghee, “Records and the Understanding of Violent Events: Archival Documentation, Historical Perception, and the No Gun Ri Massacre in the Korean War” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300548.

 

Benson, Virginia O., and Richard Klein, Historic Preservation for Professionals. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. x, 242 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-87338-927-3.)

Drábek, Pavel, and Jan Chovanec, eds., Theory and Practice in English Studies. (Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2004. isbn 80-210-3394-0.)

Kline, Mary-Jo, and Susan Holbrook Perdue, A Guide to Documentary Editing. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xvi, 329 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2726-8. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2727-5.) Third edition with new Web edition.

Manicas, Peter T., Rescuing Dewey: Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. xxviii, 323 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-7391-2515-1.)

Stoler, Ann Laura, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xvi, 314 pp. Cloth, $59.50, isbn 978-0-691-01578-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-691-01577-4.)

Sumida, Jon Tetsuro, Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to On War. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxii, 234 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1616-9.)

Yang, Jae-Yul, Seoyangui Yeoksawha Munhwa Tamgu (The investigation of Western history and culture). (Daegu: S. M. Publishing Co., 2008. 323 pp. Paper, Won 12,000, isbn 978-89-90715-10-4.) In Korean.

Transportation, Travel, and Exploration

 

Bailey, Joe R., “Union Lifeline in Tennessee: A Military History of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 106–23. Heavily illustrated.

Flynt, Wayne, “The Cross-Florida Canal and the Politics of Interest-Group Democracy,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Summer 2008), 1–15.

Grinev, A. V., “Germans in the History of Russian America,” trans. Richard L. Bland, Journal of the West, 47 (Spring 2008), 32–43.

Kinbacher, Kurt E., and William G. Thomas III, “Shaping Nebraska: An Analysis of Railroad and Land Sales, 1870–1880,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Summer 2008), 191–207.

Lass, William E., “The Mythical Platte River Voyage of the Steamboat El Paso,” Nebraska History, 89 (Summer 2008), 54–66.

Lukens, Rob, “Samuel J. Entrikin and the Peary Greenland Expedition of 1893–1895: Gender, Race, and Society at the New American Frontier,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Autumn 2008), 505–26.

Marrs, Aaron W., “Railroads and Time Consciousness in the Antebellum South,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Sept. 2008), 433–56.

Millward, Robert, and Kathleen Millward, “Making History in the Wilderness: Christopher Gist’s Explorations into Western Pennsylvania,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Summer 2008), 22–33. Heavily illustrated.

Tennant, Brad, “After Lewis and Clark: Expedition Personalities and South Dakota History,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 40 (Fall–Winter 2007), 5–16.

 

Ingram, Tammy Leigh, “Dixie Highway: Private Enterprise and State Building in the South, 1900–1930” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293330.

Johnson, James Clayton, “Flights Past: The Wright Brothers’ Legacy and Dayton, Ohio” (Western Michigan University, 2007). Order No. DA3293176.

Weller, Grant Thomas, “‘Come Hell, High Water, or Nazis’: The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Develops and Implements the First Motorized Logistics System, 1919–1945” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300383.

 

Grant, H. Roger, Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv, 258 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-35216-3.)

McGoogan, Ken, Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane. (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008. xii, 380 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-58243-440-7.)

Remley, David A., Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. xx, 253 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-1-60223-037-8.) Originally published in 1976.

 

Cummings, Amos Jay, A Remarkable Curiosity: Dispatches from a New York City Journalist’s 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West, ed. Jerald T. Milanich. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-87081-926-1.)

van der Donck, Adriaen, A Description of New Netherland, ed. Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna, trans. Diederik Willem Goedhuys. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxiv, 176 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1088-2.) First published in 1655.

Urban and Suburban

 

Bauman, John F., and David Schuyler, “Urban Politics and the Vision of a Modern City: Philadelphia and Lancaster after World War II,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (Oct. 2008), 377–402.

Cleary, Patricia, “Drinking, Dying, and Lying to Priests: Community Bonds and Conflicts over Authority in Colonial St. Louis,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (Oct. 2008), 1–21.

Cornelius, Janet Duitsman, “Danville’s ‘Sin City’ and Reform, 1900–1920,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Summer 2008), 95–110.

Daniels, Brigham, “Revitalizing Zion: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and Today’s Urban Sprawl,” Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law, 28 (no. 2, 2008), 257–300.

Freeman, Damon, “Kenneth B. Clark and the Problem of Power,” Patterns of Prejudice (London), 42 (Sept. 2008), 413–37.

Lowe, Theodore M., “Racial Politics in Dallas in the Twentieth Century,” East Texas Historical Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2008), 27–41.

Robinson, Owen, “Truly Strange New Orleans: The Unstable City in George Washington Cable’s Strange True Stories of Louisiana,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 2, 2007), 97–108.

Shelton, Tamara Venit, “Unmaking Historic Spaces: Urban Progress and the San Francisco Cemetery Debate, 1895–1937,” California History, 85 (no. 3, 2008), 26–47.

 

Cowan, Aaron B., “A Nice Place to Visit: Tourism, Urban Revitalization, and the Transformation of Postwar American Cities” (University of Cincinnati, 2007). Order No. DA3302720.

Estrada, Vanesa, “Racial Inequality and Homeownership Transitions in the U.S., 1968–2003” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3299547.

Hae, Laam, “Zoning Out Dance Clubs in Manhattan: Gentrification and the Changing Landscapes of Alternative Cultures” (Syracuse University, 2007). Order No. DA3295522.

Hubbell, Jeremy Wayne, “Minneapolis: Urban-Environmental Change in the Upper Mississippi, 1824–1924” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3299729.

Kwak, Nancy Haekyung, “A Citizen’s Right to Decent Shelter: Public Housing in New York, London, and Singapore, 1945 to 1970” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299322.

Lindsey, Delario A., “Controlling the Spectacular World City: A Discursive Analysis of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Making of Giuliani’s New York” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3301799.

Logan, Cameron, “The Constituent Landscape: History, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C., 1950–1990” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3295055.

Valle, Carlos, “Urban Growth and Limited Prosperity: A History of Public Housing in Laredo, Texas—1938 to 2006” (University of New Orleans, 2007). Order No. DA3292306.

 

Birch, Eugenie L., and Susan M. Wachter, eds., Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xii, 392 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-2037-7.)

Golenbock, Peter, In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World. (New York: Morrow, 2008. xvi, 684 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-06-125381-2.)

Gumprecht, Blake, The American College Town. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xxii, 438 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-671-2.)

Hines, Thomas S., Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xxviii, 445 pp. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-226-34172-9.) Originially published in 1974.

Keim, Norman O., Our Movie Houses: A History of Film and Cinematic Innovation in Central New York. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xx, 181 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0896-7.)

Sharpe, William Chapman, New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxii, 402 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-13324-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Yamin, Rebecca, Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xvi, 240 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-300-10091-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Visual and Performing Arts

 

Brigham, David R., “Breaking the ‘Chain of Segregation’: The Pyramid Club Annual Exhibitions,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 1, 2008), 3–17.

Kolin, Philip C., “Sacred Vision and Dramatic Space: Voices, Time, and History in The Face of Emmett Till,” Southern Quarterly, 45 (Summer 2008), 76–100.

Lock, Graham, “Blues on the Brush: Rose Piper’s Blues and Negro Folk Songs Paintings of the 1940s,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 1, 2008), 18–29.

Macki, Adrienne C., “(Re)constructing Community and Identity: Harlem Experimental Theatre and Social Protest,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 107–39.

Rigal, Laura, “Black Work at the Polling Place: The Color Line in The County Election,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Stillman, Amy Ku’uleialoha, “The Hawaiian Hula and Legacies of Institutionalization,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 221–34.

Trainor, Sebastian, “‘It Sounds Too Much Like Comrade’: The Preservation of American Ideals in Room Service,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 29–48.

Vlach, John Michael, “Documentary Images and Devotional Acts: Plantation Painting as Propaganda,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 204–15. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Yamamori, Yumiko, “Japanese Arts in America, 1895–1920, and the A. A. Vantine and Yamanaka Companies,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, 15 (Spring–Summer 2008), 96–126.

 

Adams, Virginia, “Illusion and Disillusionment in the Works of Jeff Wall and Gerhard Richter: Picturing (Post)modern Life” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297284.

Michal, Eileen M., “Picture-Loving: Photomechanical Reproduction and Celebrity in America’s Gilded Age” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3300442.

Persinger, Cynthia L., “The Politics of Style: Meyer Schapiro and the Crisis of Meaning in Art History” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300533.

Rizzo, Laura Katz, “How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Awoke in Philadelphia: Classical Ballet in the Modern American Context, Historicizing the Canon of Classical Ballet” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300359.

Schwartz, Michael, “A Matter for Experts: Broadway, 1900–1920, and the Rise of the Professional Managerial Class” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300574.

Senf, Rebecca A., “Ansel Adams’s ‘Practical Modernism’: The Development of a Commercial Photographer, 1916–1936” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298676.

Steck, Stuart Y., “Veiling the Subject: Ellsworth Kelly and the Discourses of Modernism” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298698.

Szasz, Maria, “Philadelphia, Here He Came!: Brian Friel and America” (University of New Mexico, 2007). Order No. DA3298182.

White, Timothy R., “Building ‘Broadway’: Theatre Craft and Show Construction in New York City, 1890–1990” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3299304.

 

Albacete, M. J., Clyde Singer’s America. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xiv, 185 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-87338-921-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Foster, Kathleen A., Nanette Esseck Brewer, and Margaret Contompasis, Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. viii, 200 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-253-33760-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Gmelch, Sharon Bohn, The Tlingit Encounter with Photography. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2008. xiv, 210 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-934536-10-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Rutledge, Doug, with Abdi Roble, The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xiv, 188 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5457-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Women

 

Baritono, Raffaella, “An Ideology of Sisterhood? American Women’s Movements between Nationalism and Transnationalism,” Journal of Political Ideologies (London), 13 (no. 2, 2008), 181–99.

Bates, Irene M., “The Wives of the Patriarchs,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 85–109.

Block, Adrienne Fried, “Matinee Mania, or the Regendering of Nineteenth-Century Audiences in New York City,” Nineteenth-Century Music, 31 (Spring 2008), 193–216.

Daniels, Caroline, “‘The Feminine Touch Has Not Been Wanting’: Women Librarians at Camp Zachary Taylor, 1917–1919,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 3, 2008), 286–307.

Henderson, Metta Lou, and Margaret Wright, “Sister Pharmacists and Pharmacy Practice from the 1700s to the 1970s,” Pharmacy in History, 50 (no. 2, 2008), 70–81.

Hutchison, Coleman, “On the Move Again: Tracking the ‘Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez,’” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 423–40.

Laville, Helen, “Protecting Difference or Promoting Equality? U.S. Government Approaches to Women’s Rights and the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, 1945–50,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Sept. 2007), 291–305.

McDuffie, Erik S., “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War,” Radical History Review (no. 101, Spring 2008), 81–106.

Olson, Mary, “Wielding the Power of Popular Sentiment: Woman’s Agency in Courtship and the Love Letters of Anna Todd,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 790–814.

Pettit, Michael, “The New Woman as ‘Tied-up Dog’: Amy E. Tanner’s Situated Knowledges,” History of Psychology, 11 (Aug. 2008), 145–63.

Schweitzer, Marlis, “Singing Her Own Song: Writing the Female Press Agent Back Into History,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 87–106.

Slater, Thomas J., “June Mathis’s The Legion of Death (1918): Melodrama and the Realities of Women in World War I,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 833–44.

Voss, Kimberly Wilmot, and Lance Speere, “Way Past Deadline: The Women’s Fight to Integrate the Milwaukee Press Club,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Autumn 2008), 28–43. Heavily illustrated.

Walker, Susannah, “‘Independent Livings’ or ‘No Bed of Roses’? How Race and Class Shaped Beauty Culture as an Occupation for African American Women from the 1920s to the 1960s,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 60–83.

 

Bowie, Rian Elizabeth, “Is There a Woman in the Text? The Black Press and the Emergence of Organized Black Womanhood, 1827–1900” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298907.

Clark, Laurel A., “Taming the Territory: Women and Gender on the Florida Frontier” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3297145.

Froula, Anna Katherine, “Soldier Girls: Popular Representations of America’s Women in Uniform from World War II to the ‘War on Terror’” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298826.

Gerow, Peggy A., “‘To Do Much with Very Little’: New Mexico’s Farm Women and the Cooperative Extension Service, 1914–1929” (University of New Mexico, 2007). Order No. DA3298176.

Gleich-Anthony, Jeanne M., “Democratizing Women: American Women and the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945–1951” (Ohio University, 2007). Order No. DA3295439.

Hellman, Caroline, “Sanctum Sanctorum: The Alternative Designs and Domesticities of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3298141.

Jackson-Weaver, Karen, “Lift Every Voice: Black Women’s Invisible Leadership and Faith during the Civil Rights Era, 1955–1965” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299314.

Kia, Parandeh, “An Iranian Eden: Women Activists and the Emergence of an Iranian Immigrant Community in Southern California, 1979–1993” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296159.

La Croix, Rachel M., “‘You’ve Come Part of the Way, Baby’: The Status of Women and Women’s Sports in Intercollegiate Athletics 28 Years after Title IX” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301568.

Malin, Leelannee K., “Reel Women: Depictions of Females in the Sport Film Genre” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3299678.

Musgrave, Megan L., “Phenomenal Women: Magical Activism in Postmodern Feminist Fiction” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3295468.

Neuffer, Julie Debra, “Fascinating Womanhood: Helen Andelin and the Politics of Religion in the ‘Other’ Women’s Movement, 1963–2006” (Washington State University, 2007). Order No. DA3302707.

Randolph, Sherie M., “‘Alliance of the Alienated’: Florynce ‘Flo’ Kennedy and Black Feminist Politics in Post–World War II America” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296847.

Reidt, Kelley Marie, “The Texas Cyclone: The Life of Educator-Activist Anna J. H. Pennybacker” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3298381.

Shafer, Karen, “Who Wants to Run for Office? Political Ambition among Women Activists” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3303254.

Smith, Sandra W., “Out of Her Separate Sphere: The Action-Adventure Heroine in American Literature, 1790–1900” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3296927.

Taylor-Moore, Sandra, “Helen Young: Her Leadership Values, Style, and Contributions from 1957 to 1998” (Pepperdine University, 2007). Order No. DA3293111.

 

Brinkman, Marie, Emerging Frontiers: Renewal in the Life of Women Religious; Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, 1955–2005. (Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist, 2008. xiv, 608 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8091-4540-9.)

Coltelli, Laura, ed., Reading Leslie Marmon Silko: Critical Perspectives through Gardens in the Dunes. (Pisa: University of Pisa Press, 2008. 240 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-88-8492-432-2.)

Duffy, Jennifer O’Connor, Working-Class Students at Radcliffe College, 1940–1970: The Intersection of Gender, Social Class, and Historical Context. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. x, 205 pp. $109.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5098-1.)

Duncan, Joyce, Shapers of the Great Debate on Women’s Rights: A Biographical Dictionary. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xx, 232 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-313-33869-4.)

Eppinga, Jane, They Made Their Mark: An Illustrated History of the Society of Woman Geographers. (Guilford: Globe Pequot, 2008. xiv, 273 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7627-4597-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Hagemann, Karen, Sonya Michel, and Gunilla Budde, eds., Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. (New York: Berghahn, 2008. xii, 324 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-1-84545-437-1.)

Helfand, Jessica, Scrapbooks: An American History. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 190 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-300-12635-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Johnson, Thomas H., and Helen S. Johnson, Also Called Sacajawea: Chief Woman’s Stolen Identity. (Long Grove: Waveland, 2008. xii, 124 pp. Paper, $13.95, isbn 978-1-57766-534-2.)

Kessner, Carole S., Marie Syrkin: Values beyond the Self. (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2008. xiv, 479 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-451-3.)

Kraus, Natasha Kirsten, A New Type of Womanhood: Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xvi, 262 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4333-2. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4368-4.)

Miller, John E., Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 263 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1823-0.)

Navarro, Sharon A., Latina Legislator: Leticia van de Putte and the Road to Leadership. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. x, 178 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-062-2.)

Numbers, Ronald L., Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xxxiv, 417 pp. Paper, $33.00, isbn 978-0-8028-0395-5.) Originally published in 1976.

Rivera, Lorna, Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post–Welfare Era. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 176 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03351-3. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07555-1.)

Rossini, Daniela, ed., Le americane: Donne e immagini di donne tra Belle Époque e fascismo (American women: Women and images of women between the Belle Époque and fascism). (Rome: Biblink, 2008. 285 pp. €27.00, isbn 978-88-88071-93-0.) In Italian.

Ruiz, Vicki L., From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 258 pp. Cloth, $99.00, isbn 978-0-19-537478-0. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-19-537477-3.) Tenth anniversary edition.

Seat, Karen K., “Providence Has Freed Our Hands”: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xx, 193 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3181-1.)

Whitt, Jan, Women in American Journalism: A New History. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xx, 189 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03354-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07556-8.)

Wolferman, Kristie C., The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley: Pioneer of Women’s Education in Missouri. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 160 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1805-6.)

 

Abbott, Grace, The Grace Abbott Reader, ed. John Sorenson, collab. Judith Sealander. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxxviii, 132 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1590-0.)

World War I and Interwar (1914-1941)

 

Weglarz, Aldona, “Idealista czy pragmatyk? Woodrow Wilson i jego plany urzadzenia powojennego swiata e swietle ‘Czasu’ z 1919 r” (An idealist or a pragmatist? Woodrow Wilson and his plans to rule the postwar world from the perspective of the Czas newspaper, 1919), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 147–63. In Polish.

 

Mielnik, Tara Mitchell, “‘The Best Thing that Ever Happened’: The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolina’s State Park System” (Middle Tennessee State University, 2007). Order No. DA3293739.

 

Eldridge, David, American Culture in the 1930s. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. xxviii, 259 pp. Cloth, £55.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2258-0. Paper, £17.99, isbn 978-0-7486-2259-7.)

Ferrell, Robert H., The Question of MacArthur’s Reputation: Côte de Châtillon, October 14–16, 1918. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 111 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1830-8.)

East

Sharpe, William Chapman, New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxii, 402 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-13324-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Midwest

 

Hash, Phillip M., “History of the Illinois School Band Association: 1924–1941,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 4–20.

 

Daubenmier, Judith M., The Meskwaki and Anthropologists: Action Anthropology Reconsidered. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv, 416 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1732-4.)

South

 

Daszynska, Jolanta, “Poludniowa Karolina wobec Unii w latach 1816–1831” (South Carolina and the Union in the years 1816–1831), in Spory o panstwo w dobie nowozytnej: Miedzy racja stanu a partykularyzmem (Modern history’s debates on a state: Between a reason of state and a particularism), ed. Zbigniew Anusik, 483–504. (Lódz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego, 2007. 518 pp. zl. 30, isbn 978-83-7525-029-9.) In Polish.

 

Kyles, Perry L., “The Men behind the Market: Merchants, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Shaping of South Carolina Plantation Society, 1700–1756” (Florida International University, 2007). Order No. DA3298590.

Werner, Tammy Marvin, “From Hillbillies to Welfare Queens: Representation of the Poor in the Poverty Wars” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298883.

 

Walker, Melissa, and James C. Cobb, eds., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 11: Agriculture and Industry. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xviii, 354 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3240-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5909-4.)

West

 

Draper, Timothy Dean, “‘‘A Little Kingdom of Mixed Nationalities’: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in a Western Urban Community; Rock Springs, Wyoming, 1869–1929” (Northern Illinois University, 2007). Order No. DA3301626.

Kido, Pamela S., “Becoming Local: Social Movement and Literary Production in Late-Twentieth Cenetury Hawai‘I” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3301335.

 

Cole, Dermot, Fairbanks: A Gold Rush Town That Beat the Odds. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. 224 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-60223-030-9.)

McComb, David G., Spare Time in Texas: Recreation and History in the Lone Star State. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 290 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-292-71870-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-292-71889-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Roberts, David, Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. 402 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3988-9.)

Rottenberg, Dan, Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, the West’s Most Elusive Legend. (Yardley: Westholme, 2008. xiv, 520 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59416-070-7.)

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