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Aamidor, Abraham, “‘Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are’: The Parallel Views of Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald on the Road to Equality,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Spring–Summer 2006), 46–61.

Aiello, Thomas, “The Fading of the Greys: Black Baseball and Historical Memory in Little Rock,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 360–84.

Ali, Omar H., “Standing Guard at the Door of Liberty: Black Populism in South Carolina, 1886–1895,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107 (July 2006), 190–203.

Bagby, George F., “Hollis F. Price: Apprenticeship at Tuskegee Institute, 1933–1940,” Alabama Review, 60 (Jan. 2007), 29–52.

Brill, Andrew, “Brown in Fayetteville: Peaceful Southern School Desegregation in 1954,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 337–59.

Butchart, Ronald E., “Remapping Racial Boundaries: Teachers as Border Police and Boundary Transgressors in Post-Emancipation Black Education, usa, 1861–1876,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 43 (Feb. 2007), 61–78.

Daniel, Pete, “African American Farmers and Civil Rights,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Feb. 2007), 3–38.

Edwards, Laura F., “Status without Rights: African Americans and the Tangled History of Law and Governance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South,” American Historical Review, 112 (April 2007), 365–93.

Fikes, Robert, Jr., “African American Popular and Scholarly Interest in Central and South America, 1960 to 2005,” Western Journal of Black Studies, 29 (Summer 2005), 580–91.

Fikes, Robert, Jr., “U.S. Blacks’ Perceptions, Experiences, and Scholarship Regarding Central and South America—1822 to 1959,” Negro Educational Review, 57 (Fall–Winter 2006), 171–87.

Gomez, Michael A., “A Harvest for the People : P. Sterling Stuckey, Activist and Scholar,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 374–84.

Harris, Jennifer, “Black Like? The Strange Case of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 401–19.

Hill, Robert A., ed., “P. Sterling Stuckey: In Praise of an Intellectual Legacy,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 367–443. Special issue.

Hostetter, David, “‘An International Alliance of People of All Nations against Racism’: Nonviolence and Solidarity in the Antiapartheid Activism of the American Committee on Africa, 1952–1965,” Peace & Change, 32 (April 2007), 134–52.

Jeter, Marvin D., and Mark Cervenka, “H. J. Lewis, Free Man and Freeman Artist: The First African American Political Cartoonist,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Jones-Branch, Cherisse, “‘To Speak When and Where I Can’: African American Women’s Political Activism in South Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107 (July 2006), 204–24.

Leahy, Stephen M., “Polish American Reaction to Civil Rights in Milwaukee, 1963–1965,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Spring 2006), 35–56.

Lindfors, Bernth, “Ira Aldridge’s Relatives in New York City,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 81–89.

Lorensen, Jutta, “Between Image and Word, Color and Time: Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 571–86.

Melamed, Jodi, “W. E. B. Du Bois’s UnAmerican End,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 533–50.

Messmer, David, “‘If Not in the Word, In the Sound’: Frederick Douglass’s Mediation of Literacy through Song,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 21 (March 2007), 5–21.

Ntloedibe, France, “A Question of Origins: The Social and Cultural Roots of African American Cultures,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 401–12.

Rocksborough-Smith, Ian, “‘Filling the Gap’: Intergenerational Black Radicalism and the Popular Front Ideals of Freedomways Magazine’s Early Years, 1961–1965,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 7–42.

Sassi, Jonathan D., “Africans in the Quaker Image: Anthony Benezet, African Travel Narratives, and Revolutionary-Era Antislavery,” in Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe: Travel Accounts and Their Audiences, ed. Peter Mancall, 95–130. (Leiden: Brill, 2006. 168 pp. $98.00, isbn 978-90-04-15403-2.)

Shelton, Robert S., “On Empire’s Shore: Free and Unfree Workers in Galveston, Texas, 1840–1860,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Spring 2007), 717–30.

Spencer, Suzette, “Historical Memory, Romantic Narrative, and Sally Hemmings,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 507–31.

Strub, Whitney, “Black and White and Banned All Over: Race, Censorship, and Obscenity in Postwar Memphis,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Spring 2007), 685–715.

Stuckey, P. Sterling, “Reflections on the Scholarship of African Orgins and Influence in American Slavery,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 425–43.

Taketani, Etsuko, “The Cartography of the Black Pacific: James Weldon Johnson’s Along This Way,” American Quarterly, 59 (March 2007), 79–106.

Valone, Stephen J., “William Henry Seward, the Virginia Controversy, and the Anti-slavery Movement, 1839–1841,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 65–80.

Warren, Wendy Anne, “‘The Cause of Her Grief’: The Rape of a Slave in Early New England,” Journal of American History, 93 (March 2007), 1031–49.

Williams-Myers, A. J., “Out of the Shadows: African Descendants-Revolutionary Combatants in the Hudson River Valley; A Preliminary Historical Sketch,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 91–111.

Wilson, Jamie J., “Individual and Organizational Responses to Health Conditions in Harlem, New York, during the Interwar Period,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 43–63.

Winter, Kari, “Bordering Freedom but Unable to Cross into the Promised Land: Africans in Early Vermont,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 32 (Fall 2006), 473–92.

Wintory, Blake J., “African-American Legislators in the Arkansas General Assembly, 1868–1893,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 385–434.

Woodrum, Robert H., “The Rebirth of the umwa and Racial Anxiety in Alabama, 1933–1942,” Alabama Review, 58 (Oct. 2005), 243–81.

Wright, Josephine, “Songs of Remembrance,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 413–24.

Cabral, Linda Britton, “Letters from Four Antebellum Black Women Educators to the American Missionary Association, 1863–1870” (University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2006). Order No. DA3221373.

Chapman, John K., “Black Freedom and the University of North Carolina, 1793–1960” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219109.

Favors, Jelani Manu-Gowon, “Shelter in a Time of Storm: Black Colleges and the Rise of Student Activism in Jackson, Mississippi” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226519.

Fishman, Darwin Ben, “Shadow Politics in the Rich Light of Day: Black Youth, Political Socialization, and One Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area High School” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222333.

Friedel, Tania, “‘The Story of Americans’: Cosmopolitanism and Racial Discourse in Twentieth-Century African American Letters” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221949.

Galle, Jillian Elizabeth, “Strategic Consumption: Archaeological Evidence for Costly Signaling among Enslaved Men and Women in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3220488.

Herbison, Chauncey C., “B(l)ack to the World: Explorations of Race, Trauma Illness, and Healing in Selected Vietnam War Films” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222180.

Hilliard, Kathleen Mary, “Spending in Black and White: Race, Slavery, and Consumer Values in the Antebellum South” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224439.

King, Shannon, “Home to Harlem: Community, Gender, and Working Class Politics in Harlem, 1916–1928” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3220358.

LaCroix, David D., “Words for the Hour: Temporality and Agency in African American Literature” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222962.

Muller, Jennifer Lynn, “Trauma as a Biological Consequence of Inequality: A Biocultural Analysis of the Skeletal Remains of Washington, D.C.’s African American Poor” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3226897.

Purnell, Brian, “A Movement Grows in Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (core) and the Northern Civil Rights Movement during the Early 1960s” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221991.

Sandy-Bailey, Julia L., “The ‘Negro Market’ and the Black Freedom Movement in New York City, 1930–1965” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3216961.

Wahaltere, Sidra Smith, “Novel Identities: Black Female Self-Authorization in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century African American Fiction” (Tufts University, 2006). Order No. DA3217074.

Wheeler, Lorna Raven, “From Righteous to Roguish: Queer Desire in Black Women’s Writings, 1850–1940” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006). Order No. DA3219203.

Williams, Andreá N., “Our Kind of People: Social Status and Class Awareness in Post-Reconstruction African American Fiction” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219107.

Yagyu, Tomoko, “Slave Traders and Planters in the Expanding South: Enterpreneurial Strategies, Business Networks, and Western Migration in the Atlantic World, 1787–1859” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3221816.

Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff, Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, ‘Coon Songs,’ and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. viii, 461 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-57806-901-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Billingsley, Andrew, Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxvi, 253 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57003-686-6.)

Engerman, Stanley L., Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xii, 114 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3236-4.)

Foner, Eric, and Manning Marable, eds., Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxiv, 270 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03029-1.)

Frost, Karolyn Smardz, I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. xxvi, 450 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-374-16481-2.)

Grady-Willis, Winston A., Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxiv, 288 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 0-8223-3778-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8223-3791-6.)

Hayes, Eileen M., and Linda F. Williams, eds., Black Women and Music: More than the Blues. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 261 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03184-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07426-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Kersten, Andrew E., A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xiv, 169 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4897-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4898-5.)

Levine, Lawrence W., Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xxxiv, 522 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-19-530569-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-19-530568-5.) 30th Anniversary Edition.

Maltz, Earl M., Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 182 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1502-5. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1503-2.)

Mitchell, Thomas G., Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. vi, 289 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-99168-5.)

Moreno, Paul D., Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiv, 334 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8071-3094-X.)

Robinson, Edward J., To Save My Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii, 212 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1555-9.)

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xxii, 210 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-3976-8. Paper, $68.00, isbn 978-0-8135-3977-5.)

St. Clair, William, The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. (New York: BlueBridge, 2007. 282 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-933346-05-2.)

Tidwell, John Edgar, and Cheryl R. Ragar, eds., Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xx, 351 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1716-5.)

Whitman, T. Stephen, Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775–1865. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007. xvi, 301 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 0-938420-96-8.)

Carson, Clayborne, et al., eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr., vol. 6: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948–March 1963. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xxxiv, 720 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-520-24874-8.)

Dworkin, Ira, ed., Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xlvi, 406 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8135-3961-4.)

Keeling, John, ed., “A Fourierist’s Observations of the Antebellum Attakapas,” Louisiana History, 48 (Winter 2007), 69–82.

Lewis, Pamela, “Black Sheep,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 43 (Spring 2006), 5–21.

Lyne, Judy, comp., “Logan County Emancipations, 1792–1865,” Kentucky Ancestors, 41 (Summer 2006), 182–99.

McKay, Claude, A Long Way from Home, ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xl, 270 pp. Cloth, $68.00, isbn 978-0-8135-3967-6. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8135-3968-3.) Originally published in 1937.

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Agricultural and Rural

Marshall, Nicholas, “Rural Experience and the Development of the Middle Class: The Power of Culture and Tangible Improvements,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (March 2007), 1–25.

McLaughlin, Charles C., “Young Olmstead in England,” Nineteenth Century, 26 (Fall 2006), 19–28.

Nelson, M. Reneé Albers, and Laval M. Verhalen, “J. A. Webb, Early-Day Cotton Breeder from Union City, Oklahoma,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 464–91.

Wurst, LouAnn, “Fixing Farms: Pondering Farm Scenes from the Vanity Press,” Historical Archaeology, 41 (no. 1, 2007), 69–91. Heavily illustrated.

Geurink, Jean, “The Rural Isolation Myth: Historical Changes in the Roles of Wisconsin Farm Women” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222914.

Percy, Thomas Cleary, “A History of the Kansas State Fair, 1863–2006” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3223028.

Dary, David, True Tales of the Prairies and Plains. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 248 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1518-6.)

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American Indian

Byrd, Jodi A., “‘Living My Native Life Deadly’: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 311–32.

DeJong, David H., “‘Unless They Are Kept Alive’: Federal Indian Schools and Student Health, 1878–1918,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 256–82.

DeLay, Brian, “Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War,” American Historical Review, 112 (Feb. 2007), 35–68.

Delay, Brian, “The Wider World of the Handsome Man: Southern Plains Indians Invade Mexico, 1830–1848,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Spring 2007), 83–113.

Denson, Andrew, “A Few Unreasonable Proposals: Some Rejected Ideas from the Cherokee Allotment Negotiations,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 426–43.

Dixon, Mary, “Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz: Historiography, a Philosophy for Reconstruction,” Great Plains Quarterly, 27 (Winter 2007), 39–54.

Doherty, Robert, “Old-Time Origins of Modern Sovereignty: State-Building among the Keweenaw Bay Ojibway, 1832–1854,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 165–87.

Freedman, Eric, “Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land: Religion and Alliances in the Mato Tipila-Devils Tower Litigation,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 1–22.

Fulton, Ann, “The Restoration of ilkák’mana: A Chief Called Multnomah,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 110–28.

Herring, Joseph B., “Selling the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843–1845,” Kansas History, 29 (Winter 2006), 226–45. Heavily illustrated.

Lambert, Valerie, “Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism: The Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination Crisis of 1959–1970,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 283–309.

Loudbear, Richard, “Indian Country Politics: Theories of Operation and Strategy for the Nonviolent Seizure of Political Power,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 66–86.

Lyman, Edward Leo, “Caught In Between: Jacob Hamblin and the Southern Paiutes during the Black Hawk–Navajo Wars of the Late 1860s,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Winter 2007), 22–43.

Mann, Rob, “‘True Portraitures of the Indians, and of Their Own Peculiar Conceits of Dress’: Discourses of Dress and Identity in the Great Lakes, 1830–1850,” Historical Archaeology, 41 (no. 1, 2007), 37–52. Heavily illustrated.

McConnell, Les, “The Treaty Rights of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Fall 2006), 190–201.

Mohl, Allan S., “The Rise and Fall of the Iroquois Confederacy: Its Influence on Early American History,” Journal of Psychohistory, 34 (Spring 2007), 347–61.

Muller, Kathryn V., “The Two ‘Mystery’ Belts of Grand River: A Biography of the Two Row Wampum and the Friendship Belt,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 129–64.

Thee, Christopher J., “Massachusetts Nipmucs and the Long Shadow of John Milton Earle,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Dec. 2006), 636–54.

Weaver, Jace, “More Light Than Heat: The Current State of Native American Studies,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 233–55.

Whitaker, Kathleen, and Shannon Glydon Parker, “Bound to Its Origins: The Past and Present of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American Research,” American Indian Art Magazine, 32 (Spring 2007), 72–85. Heavily illustrated.

Witmer, Richard, and Frederick J. Boehmke, “American Indian Political Incorporation in the Post–Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Era,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 127–45.

Black, Jason Edward, “U.S. Governmental and Native Voices in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric in the Removal and Allotment of American Indians” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222453.

Dial, Heather Kimberly, “Struggling for Voice in a Black and White World: Lumbee Indians’ Segregated Educational Experience in North Carolina” (North Carolina State University, 2006). Order No. DA3223127.

Donaldson, Lisa Weber, “‘Indian rolling’: White Violence against Native Americans in Farmington, New Mexico” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220935.

Firtha, Christie Time, “Stories Passed/Histories Present: A Literary History of Native American Autobiography, 1768–2004” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226538.

Gilbert, Matthew Thomas, “Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Student Involvement at Sherman Institute, 1902–1929” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226542.

Hanks, Richard Alan, “‘This war is for a whole life’: The Culture of Resistance among Southern California Indians, 1850–1966” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226547.

Jarvis, Brad Devin Edward, “Preserving the Brothertown Nation of Indians: Exploring Relationships amongst Land, Sovereignty, and Identity, 1740–1840” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3225747.

Kim, Wooyoung, “The Economic Impacts of American Indian Casinos” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222607.

Lopenzina, Drew, “Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period” (University of New Hampshire, 2006). Order No. DA3217431.

Muntz, Lori Lynn, “Representing Indians: The Melodrama of Native Citizenship in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1920s” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225654.

Wynn, Kerry K., “The Embodiment of Citizenship: Sovereignty and Colonialism in the Cherokee Nation, 1880–1920” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006). Order No. DA3223753.

Abler, Thomas S., Cornplanter: Chief Warrior of the Allegany Senecas. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xvi, 238 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8156-3114-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3138-5.)

Childs, Craig, House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization across the American Southwest. (New York: Little, Brown, 2006. xiv, 496 pp. $24.99, isbn 978-0-316-60817-6.)

Field, Ron, U.S. Infantry in the Indian Wars, 1865–91. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 48 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-84176-905-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Forbes, Jack D., The American Discovery of Europe. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 250 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-252-03152-6.)

Giordano, Fedora, ed., Gli indiani d’America e l’Italia (American Indians and Italy). (Allesandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2007. 178 pp. €16.00, isbn 88-7694-938-0.) In Italian.

Goerke, Betty, Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2007. xviii, 292 pp. $21.95, isbn 978-1-59714-053-9.)

Harkin, Michael E., and David Rich Lewis, eds., Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxxvi, 367 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-7361-0.)

Michno, Gregory, and Susan Michno, A Fate Worse than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830–1885. (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 2007. xvi, 527 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-87004-451-9.)

Wishart, David J., ed., Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. x, 252 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-9862-0.)

Zontek, Ken, Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi, 249 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8032-9922-1.)

Nicolar, Joseph, The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, ed. Annette Kolodny. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. xvi, 222 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4009-6. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4028-7.) Originally published in 1893.

Oehler, Gottlieb F., and David Z. Smith, “A Visit to the Pawnee,” ed. Richard E. Jensen, Nebraska History, 87 (Winter 2006), 142–72. Heavily illustrated.

Oskison, John Milton, The Singing Bird: A Cherokee Novel. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xlviii, 185 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3818-3.) Originally written in 1920s. Published posthumously.

Seaburg, William R., ed., Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xviii, 309 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8032-4333-0.)

Williams, Ted, Big Medicine from Six Nations. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xx, 343 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0863-9.)

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Antebellum

Blinka, Daniel D., “The Roots of the Modern Trial: Greenleaf’s Testimony to the Harmony of Christianity, Science, and Law in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Summer 2007), 293–334.

Pryor, Elizabeth Brown, “Rediscovered: Robert E. Lee’s Earliest-Known Letter,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 115 (no. 1, 2007), 108–21.

Tate, Adam L., “From Humor to History: Joseph Glover Baldwin and Party Leaders,” Alabama Review, 60 (April 2007), 83–110.

Norman, Matthew David, “Revolutions in the Republican Imagination: American Perceptions of the 1848–1849 Revolutions in Europe” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006). Order No. DA3223682.

Plaag, Eric William, “Strangers in a Strange Land: Northern Travelers and the Coming of the American Civil War” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224470.

Root, Erik S., “All Honor to Jefferson? The Virginia Debates over Slavery and the Development of the Positive Good Thesis” (Claremont Graduate University, 2006). Order No. DA3224959.

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Asian American

Austin, Allan W., “Eastward Pioneers: Japanese American Resettlement during World War II and the Contested Meaning of Exile and Incarceration,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 26 (Winter 2007), 58–84.

Madsen, Deborah L., “Chinese American Writers of the Real and the Fake: Authenticity and the Twin Traditions of Life Writing,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 36 (no. 3, 2006), 257–71.

Murphy, Deirdre, “‘Like standing on the edge of the world and looking away into heaven’: Picturing Chinese Labor and Industrial Velocity in the Gilded Age,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Nomura, Shiori, “The Japanese Immigrant Media and Women in the Early 20th Century,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 19, Autumn 2006), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

Rast, Raymond W., “The Cultural Politics of Tourism in San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1882–1917,” Pacific Historical Review, 76 (Feb. 2007), 29–60.

Wang, Chih-ming, “Thinking and Feeling Asian America in Taiwan,” American Quarterly, 59 (March 2007), 135–55.

Ward, Jason Morgan, “‘No Jap Crow’: Japanese Americans Encounter the World War II South,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Feb. 2007), 75–104.

Cho, David S., “Alternative Visions of the Korean American Subject: Narrative, National, and Historical ‘Disidentifications’ in the 20th Century Korean American Novel” (University of Washington, 2006).

Tsu, Cecilia, “Grown in the ‘Garden of the World’: Race, Gender, and Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley, 1880–1940” (Stanford University, 2006). Order No. DA3219399.

McNaughton, James C., Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II. (Washington: Department of the Army, 2006. xvi, 514 pp. Paper, $29.00, isbn 0-16-072957-2.)

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Archives and Bibliography

Irwin, Raymond D., Books on Early American History and Culture, 1961–1970: An Annotated Biliography. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. x, 324 pp. $89.95, isbn 978-0-313-31432-2.)

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Business and Economics

Andersen, Rebecca, “The Baron Woolen Mills: A Utah Legend,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 116–33.

Ford, Lacy K., and R. Phillip Stone, “Economic Development and Globalization in South Carolina,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Spring 2007), 18–50.

Lichtenstein, Nelson, “Supply Chains, Workers’ Chains, and the New World of Retail Supremacy,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Spring 2007), 17–31.

Lichtenstein, Nelson, et al., “Supply Chains, Workers’ Chains, and the New World of Retail Supremacy,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Spring 2007), 17–63. Roundtable.

Lowitt, Richard, “Forty Feet Under: Kaw City and the Kaw Project on the Arkansas River, 1957–1976,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 388–425.

Lozar, Steve, “1,000,000 Glasses a Day: Butte’s Beer History on Tap,” Montana, 56 (Winter 2006), 46–55, 100. Heavily illustrated.

Martin, Cathie Jo, “Sectional Parties, Divided Business,” Studies in American Political Development, 20 (Oct. 2006), 160–84.

McFerrin, Randy, and Douglas Wills, “High Noon on the Western Range: A Property Rights Analysis of the Johnson County War,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (March 2007), 69–92.

McGlashan, Zena Beth, “Caring for the Dead: The Development of the Funeral Business in Butte,” Montana, 56 (Winter 2006), 32–45, 98–100.

Raupp, Jason T., “Fish On: Pensacola’s Red Snapper Fishery,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Winter 2007), 324–41.

Swedin, Eric G., “Thiokol in Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Winter 2007), 63–77.

Winder, Gordon M., “A Trans-national Machine on the World Stage: Representing McCormick’s Reaper through World’s Fairs, 1851–1902,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (April 2007), 352–76.

Young, Kimball L., “Utah Public Debt History,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Winter 2007), 4–21.

Barrett, Jason M., “The Market’s Virtue: Law and Political Economy in Jeffersonian Virginia; Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William Counties, 1740–1830” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224815.

Gart, Jason Howard, “Electronics and Aerospace Industry in Cold War Arizona, 1945–1968: Motorola, Hughes Aircraft, Goodyear Aircraft” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220301.

Hartline, Todd A., “The Development and Identity of a Small Town Department Store: The Garver Bros. Co., Strasburg, Ohio, 1866–1970” (Kent State University, 2006). Order No. DA3227424.

Hempson, Donald Allen, III, “The Lion with Two Tales: Czechoslovak Economic and Foreign Policymaking and Its Impact on U.S. Relations, 1919–1929” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226444.

Kim, Wooyoung, “The Economic Impacts of American Indian Casinos” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222607.

Pond, Ann Janine Jurgens, “The Ritualized Construction of Status: The Men Who Made Mardi Gras, 1830–1900” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3225229.

Rosha, Rehka, “In the Counting-House of Language: Accounting, Capitalism, and American Identity, 1782–2000” (Brandeis University, 2006). Order No. DA3221424.

Theisen, Joseph Charles, “Strategic Struggle for World Oil: Standard Oil of New Jersey and Hidden Elitelore in Mexico’s 1938 Expropriation” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3226078.

Bragg, C. L., et al., Never for Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xviii, 318 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-1-57003-657-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Fishback, Price, et al., Government and the American Economy: A New History. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xx, 613 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-226-25127-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-25128-8.)

Galbraith, John Kenneth, The New Industrial State. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. lviii, 518 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-13141-2.) Originally published in 1967.

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Civil War and Reconstruction

Cronin, Mary M., “Dear Swinton,” Journalism History, 32 (Winter 2007), 213–22.

Goree, John A., “Mapping Fort Holmes: A Search for Confederate Ruins at Bald Head,” North Carolina Historical Review, 83 (Oct. 2006), 411–46. Heavily illustrated.

Jones, Robert B., “The Press in the Election: Ending Tennessee’s Reconstruction,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006–2007), 320–41. Heavily illustrated.

Kohl, Rhonda M., “The Hard Lessons of War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry at Helena, Arkansas,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Fall–Winter 2006–2007), 185–210.

Mendelsohn, Adam, “‘A Struggle Which Has Ended So Beneficently’: A Century of Jewish Historical Writing about the American Civil War,” American Jewish History, 92 (Dec. 2004), 437–54.

Porter, Scott A., “‘Bashi-Bazouks’ and Rebels Too: Action at Camden Point, July 13, 1864,” Missouri Historical Review, 101 (Jan. 2007), 99–114.

Potter, Dennis L., “Desperate Courage: An Account of the Texas Lancer Charge at the Battle of Valverde, New Mexico,” Military History of the West, 36 (2006), 1–33.

Powell, Lawrence, “Centralization and Its Discontents in Reconstruction Louisiana,” Studies in American Political Development, 20 (Oct. 2006), 105–31.

Rogers, William Warren, Jr., “‘The Prospect before Us’: A Massachusetts Congregationalist in Reconstruction Alabama,” Alabama Review, 60 (Jan. 2007), 3–28.

Fleche, Andre Michel, “The Revolution of 1861: The Legacy of the European Revolutions of 1848 and the American Civil War” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3218465.

Horner, Jennifer Ruth, “Blood and Ballots: Military Voting and Political Communication in the Union Army during the United States Civil War, 1861–1865” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225474.

Johnson, Steven Kirkham, “Re-enacting the Civil War: Genre and American Memory” (University of Washington, 2006). Order No. DA3224240.

Burkhardt, George S., Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xiv, 338 pp. $37.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2743-0.)

Burton, Brian K., The Peninsula and Seven Days: A Battlefield Guide. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xviii, 168 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-6246-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Fitzgerald, Michael W., Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. xiv, 234 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-56663-734-3.)

Huntington, Tom, Pennsylvania Civil War Trails: The Guide to Battle Sites, Monuments, Museums, and Towns. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2007. viii, 150 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8117-3379-3.)

Melton, Brian C., Sherman’s Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xiv, 292 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1739-4.)

Mueller, Doris Land, M. Jeff Thompson: Missouri’s Swamp Fox of the Confederacy. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xiv, 121 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1724-0.)

Robinson, Warren C., Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xviii, 198 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1101-8.)

Smith, David, Sherman’s March to the Sea, 1864: Atlanta to Savannah. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 96 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-84603-035-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Cooke, Chauncey H., A Badger Boy in Blue: The Civil War Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke, ed. William H. Mulligan Jr. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. xiv, 128 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8143-3343-3.)

Dee, Christine, ed., Ohio’s War: The Civil War in Documents. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xviii, 244 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1683-9.)

Maryniak, Benedict R., and John Wesley Brinsfield Jr., eds., The Spirit Divided: Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains; The Union. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2007. xxxvi, 269 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-86554-996-8.)

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Colonial

Bellin, Joshua David, “John Eliot’s Playing Indian,” Early American Literature, 42 (March 2007), 1–30.

Ford, Lisa, “Empire and Order on the Colonial Frontiers of Georgia and New South Wales,” Itinerario (Leiden), 30 (no. 3, 2006), 95–113.

Longmore, Paul K., “‘Good English without Idiom or Tone’: The Colonial Origins of American Speech,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Spring 2007), 513–42.

Martín Rodríguez, Manuel, “La Historia de la Nueva Mexico de Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá: recepción crítica (con nuevos datos biográficos de su autor)” (The history of New Mexico by Caspar Perez de Villagra: Its critical reception [with new biographical data on its author]), in El humanismo español, su proyección en América y Canarias en la época del humanismo (Spanish humanism, its projection in America and the Canary Islands in the era of humanism), ed. Antonio María Martín Rodríguez and Germán Santana Henríquez, 189–253. (Las Palmas: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2006. isbn 8-496-71835-2.) In Spanish.

Parmenter, Jon, and Mark Power Robison, “The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empire: Iroquois and Acadians between the French and British in North America, 1744–1760,” Diplomatic History, 31 (April 2007), 167–206.

Rasmussen, Barbara, “Anarchy and Enterprise on the Imperial Frontier: Washington, Dunmore, Logan, and Land in the Eighteenth-Century Ohio Valley,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Winter 2006), 1–26. Heavily illustrated.

Sweet, Julie Anne, “The British Sailors’ Advocate: James Oglethorpe’s First Philanthropic Venture,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2007), 1–27.

Warren, Wendy Anne, “‘The Cause of Her Grief’: The Rape of a Slave in Early New England,” Journal of American History, 93 (March 2007), 1031–49.

Eden, Jason Edward, “Negotiating a New Religious World: English Missionaries and American Indians in Colonial Southeastern Massachusetts” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3219990.

Spady, James O’Neil, “‘Like the spider from the rose’: Colonial Knowledge Competition and the Origins of Non-Elite Education in Georgia and South Carolina, 1700s–1820s” (College of William and Mary, 2006). Order No. DA3222150.

Weglian, Emily Jane, “Colonial Transformations of Death and Burial: Mortuary Analysis in North American Colonial Contexts” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220049.

Castex, Jean-Claude, Dictionnaire des batailles terrestres franco-anglaises de la Guerre de Sept Ans (Dictionary of the French-British land battles of the Seven-Years War). (Paris: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2006. 624 pp. $55.00, isbn 2-763-78334-1.) In French.

Codignola, Luca, Colombo e altri navigatori (Columbus and other navigators). (Genoa: Fratelli Frilli Editori, 2007. 223 pp. €14.00, isbn 978-88-7563-266-3.) In Italian.

Harland-Jacobs, Jessica L., Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717–1927. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 384 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3088-8.)

Kelly, James C., and Barbara Clark Smith, Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings. (Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2007. 191 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-58834-241-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Marchand, Philip, Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. xx, 459 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-99417-4.)

Martín Rodríguez, Antonio María, and Germán Santana Henríquez, eds., El humanismo español, su proyección en América y Canarias en la época del humanismo (Spanish humanism, its projection in America and the Canary Islands in the era of humanism). (Las Palmas: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2006. isbn 8-496-71835-2.) In Spanish.

McCartney, Martha W., Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607–1635: A Biographical Dictionary. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007. 833 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8063-1774-8.)

Sloan, Kim, A New World: England’s First View of America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 256 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3125-0. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5825-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Woolley, Benjamin, Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America. (New York: HarperCollins, 2007. xx, 469 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-06-009056-2.)

Cooper, James F., and Kenneth P. Minkema, eds., The Colonial Church Records of the First Church of Reading (Wakefield) and the First Church of Rumney Marsh (Revere). (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2006. 371 pp. $49.50, isbn 978-0-9620737-7-9.)

Hariot, Thomas, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: The 1590 Theodor de Bry Latin Edition. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xviii, 189 pp. Cloth, $200.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2604-9. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2605-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Philbrick, Nathaniel, and Thomas Philbrick, eds., The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New England. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xx, 312 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-310498-8.)

Thompson, John M., ed., The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography. (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2007. xxiv, 229 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-1-4262-0055-7.)

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Crime and Violence

Blue, Ethan, “Gordian Knots and Recent Work on the American Prison Complex,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 25 (Dec. 2006), 92–102.

Brownrigg, Coya Paz, “Linchocracia: Performing ‘America’ in El Clamor Público,” California History, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 40–53. Heavily illustrated.

Burchfield, Christopher, “Death at Caborca: The Massacre of the Crabb Expedition,” California Territorial Quarterly (Winter 2006), 12–25. Heavily illustrated.

Hinton, Paula K., “‘Just Like One of the Family’: An Immigrant Murderess in Turn-of-the-Century America,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Winter 2006), 27–47. Heavily illustrated.

Hunter, Mark C., “Changing the Flag: The Cloak of Newfoundland Registry for American Rum-Running, 1924–1934,” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies (St. John), 21 (2006), 41–70.

McKnight, Roger, “Night Buckets and Trick-or-Treaters: Notes on Swedish-American Inmates at Minnesota State Prison, 1858–1914,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 58 (Jan. 2007), 3–60.

van Onselen, Charles, “Jewish Police Informers in the Atlantic World, 1880–1914,” Historical Journal (Cambridge), 50 (March 2007), 119–44.

Stewart, Bruce E., “‘This Country Improves in Cultivation, Wickedness, Mills, and Still’: Distilling and Drinking in Antebellum Western North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 83 (Oct. 2006), 447–78. Heavily illustrated.

Berrey, Stephen Andrew, “Against the Law: Violence, Crime, State Repression, and Black Resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3221349.

Hanna, Mark Gillies, “The Pirate Nest: The Impact of Piracy on Newport, Rhode Island and Charles Town, South Carolina, 1670–1730” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3217752.

Keaton, Angela Frye, “Unholstered and Unquestioned: The Rise of Post–World War II American Gun Cultures” (University of Tennessee, 2006). Order No. DA3220757.

Legault, Richard Laurent, “An Analysis of Trends and Measurements of Household Gun Ownership in the General Social Surveys, 1976–2000: A Logistic Time Series Approach” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221093.

Myers, Jami L., “‘The war on terror begins at home’: The Impact of Domestic Violence Policy on Homicide Rates in the United States” (West Virginia University, 2006). Order No. DA3225381.

Ostermeier, Eric Jon, “Crime Views without the Ballyhoo: Public Opinion on Crime in a New Era of Influential Media Elites and Unresponsive Policymakers” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220020.

Pearson-Nelson, Benjamin J., “Inter-City Variation in Homicide Trends: The Diffusion of the Homicide Epidemic of the Late 1980s and the Early 1990s” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221108.

Ren, Ling, “Rethinking the Crime Drop in the United States during the 1990s: An Examination of Competing Theoretical Perspectives” (University of Nebraska, Omaha, 2006). Order No. DA3220667.

Ayton, Mel, The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. xii, 335 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59797-079-2.)

Batvinis, Raymond J., The Origins of fbi Counterintelligence. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 332 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1495-0.)

Buckley, Jay H., “A Postmortem Trial Concerning Meriwether Lewis’s Controversial Death,” in By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, ed. John D. W. Guice, 106–39. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxii, 178 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3851-0.)

Cairns, Kathleen A., The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xii, 295 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1141-4.)

Cliff, Nigel, The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America. (New York: Random House, 2007. xxii, 312 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-345-48694-3.)

Davis, Mike, Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb. (New York: Verso, 2007. xii, 228 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-1-84467-132-8.)

Guice, John D.W., “‘It Seems to Be More Probable…’: Why Not Homicide?” in By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, ed. John D. W. Guice, 73–105. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxii, 178 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3851-0.)

Holmberg, James J., “‘I Fear the Waight of His Mind has Over Come Him’: The Case for Suicide,” in By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, ed. John D. W. Guice, 17–72. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxii, 178 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3851-0.)

Jenkinson, Clay S., “Meriwether Lewis’s Mysterious Death on the Natchez Trace,” in By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, ed. John D. W. Guice, 3–16. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxii, 178 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3851-0.)

Zimring, Franklin E., The Great American Crime Decline. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv, 258 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-19-518115-9.)

Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, ed., Writing for Their Lives: Death Row U.S.A.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xxii, 309 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-252-02793-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-252-07099-0.)

Sides, Hampton, “The Trial of General Homma,” American Heritage, 58 (Feb.–March 2007), 34–47. Heavily illustrated.

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Demography

Camarillo, Albert M., “Cities of Color: The New Racial Frontier in California’s Minority-Majority Cities,” Pacific Historical Review, 76 (Feb. 2007), 1–28.

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Education

Brady, Kevin M., “A University at War: The Impact of World War II on Baylor University,” Military History of the West, 36 (2006), 35–53.

Brill, Andrew, “Brown in Fayetteville: Peaceful Southern School Desegregation in 1954,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 337–59.

DeJong, David H., “‘Unless They Are Kept Alive’: Federal Indian Schools and Student Health, 1878–1918,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 256–82.

Flanders, E. Lorene, Myron House, and Jan Ruskell, “Georgia History in Pictures,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2007), 70–82. Heavily illustrated.

Fuchs, Eckhardt, “The Creation of New International Networks in Education: The League of Nations and Educational Organizations in the 1920s,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 43 (April 2007), 199–209.

Glenna, Leland L., Margaret A. Gollnick, and Stephen S. Jones, “Eugenic Opportunity Structures: Teaching Genetic Engineering at U.S. Land-Grant Universities since 1911,” Social Studies of Science, 37 (April 2007), 281–96.

Green, Jennifer R., “Networks of Military Educators: Middle-Class Stability and Professionalization in the Late Antebellum South,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Feb. 2007), 39–74.

Grose, Andrew, “Voices of Southern Protest during the Vietnam War Era: The University of South Carolina as a Case Study,” Peace & Change, 32 (April 2007), 153–67.

Haviland, Margaret Morris, “Westtown’s Integration: ‘A Natural and Fruitful Enlargement of Our Lives,’” Quaker History, 95 (Fall 2006), 19–33.

Igwebuike, John G., “Legal and Policy Implications for Faculty Diversification in Higher Education,” Negro Educational Review, 57 (Fall–Winter 2006), 189–201.

Kantor, Harvey, and Robert Lowe, “From New Deal to No Deal: No Child Left Behind and the Devolution of Responsibility for Equal Opportunity,” Harvard Educational Review, 76 (Winter 2006), 474–502.

Krasner, Jonathan, “Jewish Chautauqua, Jewish History, and a Jewish Correspondence School: A Failed Experiment in Jewish Education,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 57–93.

Leffler, Phyllis, “Mr. Jefferson’s University: Women in the Village!,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 115 (no. 1, 2007), 56–107.

Nawrotzki, Kristen D., “‘Like sending coals to Newcastle’: Impressions from and of the Anglo-American Kindergarten Movements,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 43 (April 2007), 223–33.

Parson, Robert, “‘Leftward March’: 1930s Student Liberalism at the Utah State Agricultural College,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 164–82.

Ravitch, Diane, “History’s Struggle to Survive in the Schools,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 28–34.

Reuben, Julie A., “Going National: American History Instruction in Colleges and Universities,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 33–38.

Stacy, Jason, “‘I do not think we can keep universities open with bayonets’: The May 1970 Riots at Southern Illinois University,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Winter 2006), 283–306.

Stole, Inger L., and Rebecca Livesay, “Consumer Activism, Commercialism, and Curriculum Choices: Advertising in Schools in the 1930s,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 68–80.

Vaisey, Stephen, “Education and Its Discontents: Overqualification in America, 1972–2002,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 835–64.

Walker, Christopher J., “The History of School Trust Lands in Nevada: The No Child Left Behind Act of 1864,” Nevada Law Journal, 7 (Fall 2006), 110–50.

Yokotsuka, Yuko, “Life Adjustment, Women’s Science, and Training for Low-Paid Jobs: Goals of Home Economics Education in Secondary Schools from 1950 to 1972,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 28 (2006), 43–62.

Bennison, Sarah, “Education for ‘Civilization’: Denominational Consensus and Missionary Education on the Rosebud Reservation, 1870–1920” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3215477.

Bird, Mary Dickinson, “Dame Bug and Her Students: The Science and Environmental Teaching of Edith Marion Patch” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3221584.

Causey, Evelyn Douglas, “The Character of a Gentleman: Deportment, Piety, and Morality in Southern Colleges and Universities, 1820–1860” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3220636.

Clarke, Gary Lee, “Even the Books Were Separate: Court-Mandated Desegregation and Educators’ Professional Lives during the Caddo Crossover of 1969–1970” (Stephen P. Austin State University, 2006). Order No. DA3221725.

Collins, Christina, “‘Ethnically qualified’: A History of New York City Public School Teachers, 1920–1980” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225443.

Cross, Godfrey Oliver, “Desegregation of Miami-Dade County Public Schools: 1954–1959” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3225216.

Duffy, Jennifer O’Connor, “Radcliffe College, 1940–1970: The Intersection of Gender, Social Class, and Historical Context” (Boston College, 2006). Order No. DA3221262.

Favors, Jelani Manu-Gowon, “Shelter in a Time of Storm: Black Colleges and the Rise of Student Activism in Jackson, Mississippi” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226519.

Fuisz, Lisbeth Strimple, “Contested Narratives of Nation Building: Schools and the Construction of a Unified Citizenry in Twentieth Century U.S. Culture” (George Washington University, 2006). Order No. DA3217547.

Gilbert, Matthew Thomas, “Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Student Involvement at Sherman Institute, 1902–1929” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226542.

Gombach, Marlene, “The Educational Experiences of Slovenian Women in Cleveland Public and Parochial Schools, 1920–1940” (Cleveland State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216296.

Jones, Bayinaah R., “The Tinsley Case Decision” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219083.

Kidder, Ralph D., “The Evolution of Research Mission in Urban State Universities in Post–World War II America: A Comparative Case Study” (University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2006). Order No. DA3221371.

Kota Rossi, Jeanne, “Children of Czech Immigrants: Education and Acculturation in Cleveland, Ohio, 1920–1940” (Cleveland State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216303.

Ray, Jeffrey David, “The Education of Robert Lewis Dabney” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3225230.

Robinson, David W., “Machine in the Ghost: The Industrialization of American Higher Education, 1865–1920” (George Fox University, 2006). Order No. DA3222534.

Benson, Lee, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett, Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. xiv, 149 pp. Cloth, $59.50, isbn 978-1-59213-591-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-59213-592-9.)

Chodes, John, Destroying the Republic: Jabez Curry and the Re-Education of the Old South. (New York: Algora, 2005. xii, 332 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 0-87586-402-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 0-87586-401-5.)

Douglass, John Aubrey, The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xvi, 332 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8047-5558-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8047-5559-7.)

Frye, Ellen, ed., Knowledge with Know-How: Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2007. xx, 193 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-58465-650-0.)

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Environment and Natural Resources

Aiello, Thomas, “The Ouachita River Flood in Monroe, Louisiana, 1932,” Louisiana History, 48 (Winter 2007), 25–54.

Deloria, Philip J., “Drain the Lake! Tear Down the Butte! Build Paradise! The Environmental Dimensions of Social and Economic Power in Boulder, Colorado, and Benzie, Michigan,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Spring 2007), 65–88.

Dörries, Matthias, “In the Public Eye: Volcanology and Climate Change Studies in the 20th Century,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 37 (no. 1, 2006), 87–125.

Downey, Liam, “Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 771–96.

Gumprecht, Blake, “The Campus as a Public Space in the American College Town,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (Jan. 2007), 72–103.

Hoffman, Abraham, and Teena Stern, “The Zanjas and the Pioneer Water Systems for Los Angeles,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Spring 2007), 1–22.

Ingram, David, “‘Go to the forest and move’: 1960’s American Rock Music as Electronic Pastoral,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 20, Winter 2006–2007), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

McBeath, Jerry, and Carl Edward Shepro, “The Effects of Environmental Change on an Arctic Native Community: Evaluation Using Local Cultural Perceptions,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 44–65.

Mittlefehldt, Sarah, “The Origins of Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail: Ray Zillmer’s Path to Protect the Past,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Spring 2007), 2–14. Heavily illustrated.

Poole, Leslie Kemp, “The Women of the Early Florida Audubon Society: Agents of History in the Fight to Save State Birds,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Winter 2007), 297–323.

Saikku, Mikko, “Faulkner and the ‘Doomed Wilderness’ of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta,” Mississippi Quarterly, 58 (Summer–Fall 2005), 529–57.

Andrei, Mary Anne, “Nature’s Mirror: How the Taxidermists of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment Transformed Wildlife Display in American Natural History Museums and Fought to Save Endangered Species” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3219971.

Bryant, William Harold, “Whole System, Whole Earth: The Convergence of Technology and Ecology in Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225584.

Campbell, Robert Wellman, “A Landscape History of the Black Hills” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222175.

Kolb, Carolyn Goldsby, “At the Confluence of Science and Power: Water Struggles of New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century” (University of New Orleans, 2006). Order No. DA3226956.

Marafiote, Tracy, “Gender, Race, and Nature: A Cultural History of the Wilderness Society and the Wilderness Act of 1964” (University of Utah, 2006). Order No. DA3226988.

Payne, Brian Joseph, “Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818–1910” (University of Maine, 2006). Order No. DA3220697.

Poe, Cynthia R., “Reconstructing the Levees: The Politics of Flooding in Nineteenth Century Louisiana” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222881.

Schulte, Terrianne K., “Grassroots at the Water’s Edge: The League of Women Voters and the Struggle to Save Lake Erie, 1956–1970” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3226676.

Wintory, Blake J., “Environmental and Social Change in Lee County, Arkansas, and the St. Francis River Basin, 1865–1905” (University of Arkansas, 2005). Order No. DA3223283.

Layman, William D., ed., River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. 168 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-774-81303-7.)

Murchison, Kenneth M., The Snail Darter Case: tva versus the Endangered Species Act. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 234 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1504-9. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1505-6.)

Sternberg, Mary Ann, Winding through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xiv, 158 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3253-1.)

Wellock, Thomas R., Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements, 1870–2000. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2007. xii, 308 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-88295-254-3.)

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Ethnicity

Elliott, Emory, “Diversity in the United States and Abroad: What Does It Mean When American Studies Is Transnational?,” American Quarterly, 59 (March 2007), 1–22.

Feldman, Keith, “The (Il)legible Arab Body and the Fantasy of National Democracy,” Melus, 31 (Winter 2006), 33–53.

Kinbacher, Kurt E., “Life in the Russian Bottoms: Community Building and Identity Transformation among Germans from Russia in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1876–1926,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 26 (Winter 2007), 27–57.

Luconi, Stefano, “Fascist Antisemitism and Jewish-Italian Relations in the United States,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 151–77.

Wien, Thomas, Cècile Vidal, and Yves Frenette, eds., De Québec à l’Amérique française. Histoire et mémoire (From Québec to French America. History and memory). (Quebec: Editions de l’iqrs and les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2006. 414 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-27-6378-473-1.) In French. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

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Family

Armitage, Kevin C., “‘The Child Is Born a Naturalist’: Nature Study, Woodcraft Indians, and the Theory of Recapitulation,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (Jan. 2007), 43–70.

Balcom, Karen, et al., “Roundtable: Babies across Borders: Problems for Women’s History in the Study of Transborder Adoption,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (no. 1, 2007), 105–50.

Edgell, Penny, and Danielle Docka, “Beyond the Nuclear Family? Familism and Gender Ideology in Diverse Religious Communities,” Sociological Forum, 22 (March 2007), 26–51.

Hare, Alison, “Searching for Greens at the Time of Peter Robinson,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 95 (March 2007), 5–16.

Hayden, Richard A., “Resolving the Inexplicable: The Marriage Bond of Archibald Young and Lettice Morgan,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 95 (March 2007), 5–16.

Krasner, Jonathan B., “The Interwar Family and American Jewish Identity in Clifford Odet’s Awake and Sing!,” Jewish Social Studies, 13 (Fall 2006), 2–30.

Martinez, Katharine, “The Dickinsons of Amherst Collect: Pictures and Their Meanings in a Victorian Home,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

McKanan, Dan, “Inventing the Catholic Worker Family,” Church History, 76 (March 2007), 84–113.

Mills, Nancy Patton, “Portraits through the Lens of Historicity: The American Family as Portrayed in Ladies’ Home Journal, 1950–1959” (Duquesne University, 2006). Order No. DA3220866.

Smith, Sarah Frances, “‘She moves the hands that move the world’: Antebellum Childrearing. Images of Mother and Child in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals for Mothers” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA33225774.

Levi, Linda, “Growing Up as a ‘Newmark’ in Los Angeles, 1935–1950,” Western States Jewish History, 39 (Spring 2007), 236–73.

Milewski, Melissa Lambert, ed., Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. xiv, 639 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87421-644-8.)

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Film

Binggeli, Elizabeth, “Burbanking Bigger and Bette the Bitch,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 475–92.

Brégent-Heald, Dominique, “Primitive Encounters: Film and Tourism in the North American West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 38 (Spring 2007), 47–67.

Damousi, Joy, “‘The Filthy American Twang’: Elocution, the Advent of American ‘Talkies’, and Australian Cultural Identity,” American Historical Review, 112 (April 2007), 394–416.

Eldridge, David, “Hollywood Censors History,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 20, Winter 2006–2007), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

Lederer, Susan E., “Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 94–115.

León Aguinaga, Pablo, “El comercio cinematográfico como instrumento de la acción norteamericana en España durante la segunda guerra mundial” (The film industry as an instrument of U.S. action in Spain during World War II), Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea (Madrid), 28 (2006), 303–23. In Spanish.

McGehee, Margaret T., “Disturbing the Peace: Lost Boundaries, Pinky, and Censorship in Atlanta, Georgia, 1949–1952,” Cinema Journal, 46 (Fall 2006), 23–51.

Nathan, Daniel A., Peter Berg, and Erin Klemyk, “‘The Truth Wrapped in a Package of Lies’: Hollywood, History, and Martin Scorcese’s Gangs of New York,” in Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film, ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky, 91–111. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.)

Nichols, John, “Countering Censorship: Edgar Dale and the Film Appreciation Movement,” Cinema Journal, 46 (Fall 2006), 3–22.

Ohmer, Susan, “Speaking for the Audience: Double Features, Public Opinion, and the Struggle for Control in 1930s Hollywood,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24 (March 2007), 143–69.

Pingree, Geoff, “History Is What Remains: Cinema’s Challenge to Ideas about the Past,” in Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film, ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky, 31–51. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.)

Rosenstone, Robert, “In Praise of the Biopic,” in Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film, ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky, 11–29. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.)

Toplin, Robert Brent, “In Defense of the Filmmakers,” in Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film, ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky, 113–35. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.)

Whitney, Allison, “Race, Class, and the Pressure to Pass in the American Maternal Melodrama: The Case of Stella Dallas,” Journal of Film and Video, 59 (Spring 2007), 3–18.

Duncan, Lauren K., “3-D and the Era of Immersion (1985–2005): The Historic Implications of Modern Stereo Film Technology on Content and Presentation” (Regent University, 2006). Order No. DA3227763.

Herbison, Chauncey C., “B(l)ack to the World: Explorations of Race, Trauma Illness, and Healing in Selected Vietnam War Films” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222180.

Ramoutar, Nadia A., “The Color of Love on the Big Screen: The Portrayal of Women in Hollywood Films in Interracial Relationships from 1967 to 2005” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3224611.

Serna, Laura Isabel, “‘We’re going Yankee’: American Movies, Mexican Nationalism, Transnational Cinema, 1917–1935” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3217875.

Stearns, Thomas, “Camels in the Ukraine and Other Stories of Hollywood’s Pro-Soviet Interlude, 1943–1945” (University of Arkansas, 2005). Order No. DA3223279.

Wiebe, Carolyn, “Form, Function, and Change in the Romantic Comedy Film, 1940–2005” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3215499.

Francaviglia, Richard, and Jerry Rodnitzky, eds., Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Polan, Dana, Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. x, 406 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-520-24962-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-24963-9.)

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Gay and Lesbian

Green, Adam Isaiah, “Queer Theory and Sociology: Locating the Subject and the Self in Sexuality Studies,” Sociological Theory, 25 (March 2007), 26–45.

Loftin, Craig M., “Unnacceptable Mannerisms: Gender Anxieties, Homosexual Activism, and Swish in the United States, 1945–1965,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Spring 2007), 577–96.

Bell, Matt, “Arresting Developments: Counter-Narratives of Gay Liberation” (Tufts University, 2006). Order No. DA3222168.

Eisenbach, David, “Gay Power: An American Revolution” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3215539.

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Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity

Bowles, John P., “‘Acting Like a Man’: Adrian Piper’s Mythic Being and Black Feminism in the 1970s,” Signs, 32 (Spring 2007), 621–48.

Khattak, Saba Gul, et al., “Gender and Spirituality,” Signs, 32 (Spring 2007), 575–793.

Leffler, Phyllis, “Mr. Jefferson’s University: Women in the Village!,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 115 (no. 1, 2007), 56–107.

Looby, Christopher, “Republican Bachelorhood: Sex and Citizenship in the Early United States,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 33 (Spring 2007), 89–100.

McCall, Madhavi, and Michael A. McCall, “How Far Does the Gender Gap Extend? Decision Making on State Supreme Courts in Fourth Amendment Cases, 1980–2000,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 67–82.

Nossiff, Rosemary, “Gendered Citizenship: Women, Equality, and Abortion Policy,” New Political Science, 29 (March 2007), 61–76.

Orr, Brooke Speer, “Mary Elizabeth Lease: Gendered Discourse and Populist Party Politics in Gilded Age America,” Kansas History, 29 (Winter 2006), 246–65. Heavily illustrated.

Prescott, Cynthia Culver, “‘Why she didn’t marry him’: Love, Power, and Marital Choice on the Far Western Frontier,” Western Historical Quarterly, 38 (Spring 2007), 25–45.

Causey, Evelyn Douglas, “The Character of a Gentleman: Deportment, Piety, and Morality in Southern Colleges and Universities, 1820–1860” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3220636.

Deitreich, Kenneth A., “Honor, Patriarcy, and Disunion: Masculinity and the Coming of the American Civil War” (West Virginia University, 2006). Order No. DA3225360.

Elmwood, Victoria A., “Playing Defense: Countercultural American Men’s Autobiography between the Atomic Bomb and the Reagan Era” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3219893.

Imsande, Jennifer Lynn, “The Perils of Protection: Gender and the Recasting of Rights in a Nation at War, 1860–1898” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225626.

Knaff, Donna B., “‘This girl in slacks’: Female Masculinity in the Popular Graphic Art of World War II” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220922.

Rensing, Susan Marie, “Feminist Eugenics in America: From Free Love to Birth Control, 1880–1930” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220029.

Thomson, Shawn, “Fortress of American Solitude: The Crusoe Topos in Nineteenth-Century America (1846–1885)” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222186.

Valcour, Francinne D., “Manipulating the Messenger: Wonder Woman as an American Female Icon” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220339.

Wood, Gregory John, “The Problem of the Old Man: Manhood, Class, and Retirement in the United States, 1910s–1950s” (University of Pittsburgh, 2006). Order No. DA3224065.

Kessler-Harris, Alice, Gendering Labor History. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 374 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03149-6. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07393-9.)

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Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Lindgren, Eric A., “Understanding the Effects of Progressive Era Electoral Reforms on City Elections: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Races” (University of Oregon, 2006). Order No. DA3224101.

Sandy-Bailey, Lonce H., “Ideological Dissention in the Progressive Era: Uncovering the Challengers to Direct Democracy Reforms” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3216962.

Sims, Kimberly Joyce, “Blacks, Italians, and the Progressive Interest in New York City Crime, 1900–1930” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3217880.

Hagedorn, Ann, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. xiv, 543 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-7432-4371-1.)

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Immigration and Migration

Aguila, Jaime R., “Mexican/U.S. Immigration Policy prior to the Great Depression,” Diplomatic History, 31 (April 2007), 207–25.

Alonso Fernández, Bieito, “Migración y sindicalismo. Marineros y anarquistas españoles en Nueva York” (Migration and sindicalism. Spanish sailors and anarchists in New York), Historia Social (Valencia) (no. 54, 2006), 113–35. In Spanish.

Alroey, Gur, “Galveston and Palestine: Immigration and Ideology in the Early Twentieth Century,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 128–50.

Coleman, Mathew, “Immigration Geopolitics beyond the Mexico–U.S. Border,” Antipode, 39 (Feb. 2007), 54–76.

Cortina, Jerónimo, “La unitalla no les queda a todos: la opinión pública con respecto a la inmigración” (One size does not fit all: Public opinion with respect to immigration), istor: Revista de Historia Internacional (Mexico City), 7 (Summer 2007), 9–21. In Spanish.

Friedman, Max Paul, “Beyond ‘Voting with Their Feet’: Toward a Conceptual History of ‘America’ in European Migrant Sending Communities, 1860s to 1914,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Spring 2007), 557–75.

Gabaccia, Donna R., “Inventing ‘Little Italy,’” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (Jan. 2007), 7–41.

García, Rogelio, “La fe en la raya: el papel de las organizaciones civiles y la religión en la lucha por los derechos de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos; pasado, presente y futuro” (A ray of hope: The papers of the civil and religious organizations in the fight for the rights of immigrants in the United States; past, present, future), istor: Revista de Historia Internacional (Mexico City), 7 (Summer 2007), 34–47. In Spanish.

García-Acevedo, María Rosa, “En los resquicios del sistema: acciones y retos de los grupos de interés latinos en Estados Unidos” (Through the cracks of the system: Actions and challenges of Latino interest groups in the United States), istor: Revista de Historia Internacional (Mexico City), 7 (Summer 2007), 22–33. In Spanish.

Garza, James A., “The Long History of Mexican Immigration to the Rural Midwest,” Journal of the West, 45 (Fall 2006), 57–64.

Gromada, Thaddeus V., “Haiman and Halecki in Light of the Polish Institue of Arts & Sciences of America Archives,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Autumn 2006), 79–92.

Kahn, Ava F., and Ellen Eisenberg, “Western Reality: Jewish Diversity during the ‘German’ Period,” American Jewish History, 92 (Dec. 2004), 455–479.

Lucero, Brian Luna, “Old Towns Challenged by the Boom Town: The Villages of the Middle Rio Grande Valley and the Albuquerque Tricentennial,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Winter 2007), 37–69.

Luconi, Stefano, “Italian Americans and the Invasion of Sicily in World War II,” Italian Americana, 25 (2007), 5–22.

Murphy, Angela F., “Daniel O’Connell and the ‘American Eagle’ in 1845: Slavery, Diplomacy, Nativism, and the Collapse of America’s First Irish Nationalist Movement,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 26 (Winter 2007), 3–26.

Radzilowski, John, “Wojciechowo: Polish Immigrants in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1875 to 1925,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Autumn 2006), 23–57.

Rose, Susan, “From Migrant Work to Community Transformation: Families Forming Transnational Communities in Peribán and Pennsylvania,” Oral History Review, 34 (Winter–Spring 2007), 95–142.

Sanfilipo, Matteo, “Il Vaticano e l’emigrazione nelle Americhe” (The Vatican and emigration to the Americas), in Per le strade del mondo. Laiche e religiose fra Otto e Novecento (On the roads of the world. Lay and religious life in the eighteenth and nineteenth century), ed. Stefania Bartoloni, 339–63. (Bologna: Mulino, 2007. 456 pp. €33.00, isbn 978-88-15-11431-0.) In Italian.

Schlemper, M. B., “From the Rhenish Prussian Eifel to the Wisconsin Holyland: Immigration, Identity, and Acculturation at the Regional Scale,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (April 2007), 377–402.

Van Hook, Jennifer V. W., Susan K. Brown, and Frank D. Bean, “For Love or Money? Welfare Reform and Immigrant Naturalization,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 643–66.

Velasco, Jesús, “En defensa de la patria: derecha radical y conservadores contrarios a la inmigración” (In defense of the nation: The radical right and conservative opponents of immigration), istor: Revista de Historia Internacional (Mexico City), 7 (Summer 2007), 50–82. In Spanish.

Waldinger, Roger, “The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners into Americans in Twenty-First Century L.A.,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 30 (May 2007), 341–74.

Moscaliuc, Mihaela Diana, “Translating Eastern European Identities into the American National Narrative” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222323.

Taylor, Melissa Jane, “‘Experts in misery?’ American Consuls in Austria, Jewish Refugees, and Restrictionist Immigration Policy, 1938–1941” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224480.

Ahmad, Diana L., The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007. xvi, 132 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-698-8.)

Foley, Michael W., and Dean R. Hoge, Religion and the New Immigrants: How Faith Communities Form Our Newest Citizens. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x, 265 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-19-518870-7.)

Verhagen, Frans, The American way: wat Nederland kan leren van het meest succesvolle immigratieland (The American way: What the Netherlands can learn from the world’s most successful immigration country). (Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam, 2006. 280 pp. €18.50, isbn 978-90-468-0101-7.) In Dutch.

Farrell, James T., A World I Never Made. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. lx, 374 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03173-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07423-3.) Originally published in 1936.

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Intellectual

Avallone, Charlene, “Catharine Sedgwick and the Circles of New York,” Legacy, 23 (no. 2, 2006), 115–31.

Bahr, Howard M., “Thomas F. O’Dea, the Harvard Values Project, and the Mormons: Early Lessons on Ethnography among the Literate,” Human Organization, 65 (Winter 2006), 343–52.

Dewey, Donald O., “Professor Dorothy Parker,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Spring 2007), 89–123.

Fernández-Albertos, I., “Dividir lo imposible. Separación de poderes y soberanía popular en James Madison” (Dividing the impossible. Separation of powers and popular sovereignty in James Madison), Revista de Estudios Políticos (Madrid) (no. 128, April–June 2005), 293–316. In Spanish.

Findlay, John M., “Something in the Soil? Literature and Regional Identity in the 20th-Century Pacific Northwest,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Fall 2006), 179–89.

Foletta, Marshall, “‘The dearest sacrifice’: Catharine Maria Sedgwick and the Celibate Life,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (March 2007), 51–79.

Herreros Vázquez, Francisco, “La confianza política en la tradición republicana desde Cicerón hasta Madison” (Political trust in the republican tradition from Cicero to Madison), Revista de Estudios Políticos (Madrid) (no. 125, July–Sept. 2004), 325–47. In Spanish.

Hoeller, Hildegard, “Race, Modernism, and Plagiarism: The Case of Nella Larsen’s ‘Sanctuary,’” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 421–37.

Hollinger, David A., “American Intellectual History, 1907–2007,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 14–17.

Koch, Benjamin, “The French Quarter Apprentice: William Faulkner’s Modernist Evolution,” Louisiana History, 48 (Winter 2007), 55–68.

Kornblith, Gary J., and Carol Lasser, “More than Great White Men: A Century of Scholarship on American Social History,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 8–13.

Messmer, David, “‘If Not in the Word, In the Sound’: Frederick Douglass’s Mediation of Literacy through Song,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 21 (March 2007), 5–21.

Ousley, Laurie, “The Business of Housekeeping: The Mistress, the Domestic Worker, and the Construction of Class,” Legacy, 23 (no. 2, 2006), 132–47.

Parchesky, Jennifer, “Adapting Stella Dallas: Class Boundaries, Consumerism, and Hierarchies of Taste,” Legacy, 23 (no. 2, 2006), 178–98.

Pastor Martínez, Manuel, “Alexander Hamilton, los orígenes del nacionalismo político contemporáneo” (Alexander Hamilton: The origins of contemporary political nationalism), Revista de Estudios Políticos (Madrid) (no. 127, Jan.–March 2005), 25–55. In Spanish.

Pollard, Finn, “From beyond the Grave and across the Ocean: Washington Irving and the Problem of Being a Questioning American, 1809–20,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (March 2007), 81–101.

Rhode, Robert T., “The Persistence of Place: Alice Cary’s Authentic Rural Settings,” Ohio Valley History, 7 (Spring 2007), 47–59.

Rosenberg, Emily S., “America and the World: From National to Global,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 18–22.

Ryan, Melissa, “The Indian Problem as a Woman’s Question: S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 21 (March 2007), 23–45.

Saikku, Mikko, “Faulkner and the ‘Doomed Wilderness’ of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta,” Mississippi Quarterly, 58 (Summer–Fall 2005), 529–57.

Salska, Agnieszka, “From National to Supranational Conception of Literature: The Case of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (Dec. 2006), 611–28.

Voeller, Carey, “‘I have not told half we suffered’: Overland Trail Women’s Narratives and the Genre of Suppressed Textual Mourning,” Legacy, 23 (no. 2, 2006), 148–62.

White, Tom, “From McCook to Whispering Smith,” Nebraska History, 87 (Fall 2006), 98–119. Heavily illustrated.

Wilentz, Sean, “American Political Histories,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 23–27.

Willis, Lloyd, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, United States National Literature, and the Canonical Erasure of Material Nature,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (Dec. 2006), 629–46.

Biehn, Kersten Jacobson, “Improving Mankind: Philanthropic Foundations and the Development of American University Research between the World Wars” (Rice University, 2006). Order No. DA3216676.

Comeford, AmiJo, “‘Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War’: Melville’s Vision of Race, Reconciliation, and America’s Tragic Knowledge” (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2006). Order No. DA3226611.

Fairhead, Elizabeth S. C., “Essential Nature: Bartman’s Garden and Natural History in Philadelphia, 1790–1825” (Michigan State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216128.

Germana, Michael Joseph, “Standards of Value: U.S. Monetary Policy and the Negotiation of Racial Difference in American Literature, 1834–1952” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225610.

Graham, Susan H., “‘Call me a female politician, I glory in the name!’: Women Dorrites and Rhode Island’s 1842 Suffrage Crisis” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220002.

Mathes, Virgil I., “Pistols at High Noon: The Code Duello in Western Literature” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220919.

Murison, Justine Summerhayes, “States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780–1860” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225510.

Parmelee, Stephen F., “Trouble in Paradise: Nine Southern California Novels, 1927–1940” (Claremont Graduate University, 2006). Order No. DA3223791.

Slagle, Jefferson D., “In the Flesh: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Performance on the American Frontier, 1860–1925” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226353.

Weaver, James A., “‘What a place to live’: Home and Wilderness in Domesteic American Travel Literature, 1835–1883” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226342.

Williams, Edward M., Jr., “The Color of Sympathy: Biology, Race, and Feeling in Republican and Antebellum Culture” (University of Rhode Island, 2006). Order No. DA3225332.

Williams, Kelly Diane, “‘Home of all nations’: Race, Place, and Domesticity in American Literature, 1877–1919” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224786.

Wolff, Katherine Frances, “The Culture Club: A Study of the Boston Athenaeum, 1807–1860” (Boston University, 2006). Order No. DA3218569.

Cartosi, Bruno, New York e il moderno. Società, arte e architettura nella metropoli americana (1876–1917) (New York and the modern. Society, art, and architecture in the American metropolis [1876–1917]). (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2007. 368 pp. €25.00, isbn 978-88-07-10417-6.) In Italian.

Cavitch, Max, American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. viii, 352 pp. Cloth, $67.50, isbn 978-0-8166-4892-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-8166-4893-1.)

DuBois, Ellen Carol, and Richard Cándida Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. viii, 328 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-1981-7. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-8147-1982-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Onuf, Peter S., The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. x, 281 pp. Cloth, $49.50, isbn 978-0-8139-2578-3. Paper, $19.50, isbn 978-0-8139-2611-7.)

Tilman, Rick, Thorstein Veblen and the Enrichment of Evolutionary Naturalism. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xxiv, 344 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1714-1.)

Aaron, Daniel, The Americanist. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 199 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-472-11577-8.)

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International Relations

Aguila, Jaime R., “Mexican/U.S. Immigration Policy prior to the Great Depression,” Diplomatic History, 31 (April 2007), 207–25.

Bradley, Mark Philip, “Making Sense of the French War: The Postcolonial Moment and the First Vietnam War, 1945–1954,” in The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, ed. Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, 16–40. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 374 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02371-0. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-674-02392-5.)

Brown, Archie, “Perestroika and the End of the Cold War,” Cold War History (London), 7 (Feb. 2007), 1–17.

Cullather, Nick, “The Foreign Policy of the Calorie,” American Historical Review, 112 (April 2007), 337–64.

Damousi, Joy, “‘The Filthy American Twang’: Elocution, the Advent of American ‘Talkies’, and Australian Cultural Identity,” American Historical Review, 112 (April 2007), 394–416.

Del Pero, Mario, “Gli Stati Uniti e il dilemma italiano” (The United States and the Italian dilemma), in Le istituzioni repubblicane dal centrismo al centro-sinistra (1953–1968) (The Republican institutions from centrism to the center-left [1953–1968]), ed. Pier Luigi Ballini, Sandro Guerrieri, and Antonio Varsori, 212–26. (Rome: Carocci, 2006. €29.20, isbn 88-430-3675-0.) In Italian.

Del Pero, Mario, “L’Italia e gli Stati Uniti: un legame rinnovato?” (Italy and the United States: A renewed connection?), in Nazione, Interdipendenza, Integrazione. Le relazioni internazionali dell’Italia (1917–1989) (Nation, interdependence, integration. Italy’s foreign relations [1917–1989]), ed. Federico Romero and Antonio Varsori, 301–15. (Rome: Carocci, 2006. 384 pp. €27.00, isbn 88-430-3810-9.) In Italian.

Embry, Jessie L., “The Church Follows the Flag: U.S. Foreign Aid, Utah Universities, the lds Church, and Iran, 1950–64,” Journal of Mormon History, 32 (Fall 2006), 141–79.

Fernández-Kelly, Patricia, “Borders for Whom? The Role of nafta in Mexico-U.S. Migration,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 610 (March 2007), 98–118.

Gray, William Glenn, “Floating the System: Germany, the United States, and the Breakdown of Bretton Woods, 1969–1973,” Diplomatic History, 31 (April 2007), 295–323.

Hoelbling, Walter W., “‘Divided We Stand’: U. S. Rhetoric of Defense and Defensive European Politics,” in The United States and Europe: Beyond the Neo-Conservative Divide?, ed. John Baylis and Jon Roper, 216–28. (London: Routledge, 2006. isbn 0-415-36999-1.)

Isserman, Maurice, “Highest Adventure,” American Heritage, 58 (Feb.–March 2007), 58–70. Heavily illustrated.

Kaiser, David, “The Physics of Spin: Sputnik Politics and American Physicists in the 1950s,” Social Research, 73 (Winter 2006), 1225–52.

Keliher, Macabe, “Anglo-American Rivalry and the Origins of U.S. China Policy,” Diplomatic History, 31 (April 2007), 227–57.

Kennedy, Dane, “On the American Empire from a British Imperial Perspective,” International History Review (Burnaby), 29 (March 2007), 83–108.

Lake, Marilyn, “‘The Brightness of Eyes and Quiet Assurance Which Seem to Say American’: Alfred Deakin’s Identification with Republican Manhood,” Australian Historical Studies (Parkville), 38 (April 2007), 32–51.

Lumbers, Michael, “‘Staying Out of This Chinese Muddle’: The Johnson Administration’s Response to the Cultural Revolution,” Diplomatic History, 31 (April 2007), 259–94.

Malleck, Dan, “An Innovation from Across the Line: The American Drinker and Liquor Regulation in Two Ontario Border Communities, 1927–1944,” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes (Peterborough), 41 (Winter 2007), 151–71.

Nawrotzki, Kristen D., “‘Like sending coals to Newcastle’: Impressions from and of the Anglo-American Kindergarten Movements,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 43 (April 2007), 223–33.

Peters, Christabelle, “‘Cuba no es el Congo’: The Impact of the October 1962 Missile Crisis on Cuban International Identity,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 18, Summer 2006), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

Prados, John, “Assessing Dien Bien Phu,” in The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, ed. Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, 215–39. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 374 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02371-0. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-674-02392-5.)

Puig Raposo, Nuria, and Adoración Alvaro Moya, “La guerra fría y los empresarios españoles: la articulación de los intereses económicos de los Estados Unidos en España, 1950–1975” (The Cold War and Spanish entrepreneurs: The articulation of U.S. economic interests in Spain, 1950–1975), Revista de Historia Económica (Madrid), 22 (no.2, 2004), 388–424. In Spanish.

Romero, Federico, “La scelta atlantica e Americana” (The Atlantic and American choice), in Nazione, Interdipendenza, Integrazione. Le relazioni internazionali dell’Italia (1917–1989) (Nation, interdependence, integration. Italy’s foreign relations [1917–1989]), ed. Federico Romero and Antonio Varsori, 155–72. (Rome: Carocci, 2006. 384 pp. €27.00, isbn 88-430-3810-9.) In Italian.

Rotter, Andrew J., “Chronicle of a War Foretold: The United States and Vietnam, 1945–1954,” in The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, ed. Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, 282–306. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 374 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02371-0. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-674-02392-5.)

Segev, Zohar, “The Jewish State in Abba Hillel Silver’s Overall World View,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 94–127.

Seigel, Michael T., “Japan’s Peace Constitution and the Security Dilemma,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 28 (2006), 13–30.

Sewell, Bevan, “A Global Policy in a Regional Setting: The Eisenhower Administration & Latin America, 1953–54,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 18, Summer 2006), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

Sherman, Matthew C., “‘The Most Serious Senator’: A Reconsideration of Forrest C. Donnell of Missouri and the North Atlantic Treaty,” Missouri Historical Review, 101 (Jan. 2007), 78–98.

Souva, Mark, and David Rohde, “Elite Opinion Differences and Partisanship in Congressional Foreign Policy, 1975–1996,” Political Research Quarterly, 60 (March 2007), 113–23.

Spokes, Mark, “A Shining Example for All the World: U.S. Hemisphere Policy and Global Strategy,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 18, Summer 2006), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

Sundberg, Juanita, “Reconfiguring North-South Solidarity: Critical Reflections on Experiences of Transnational Resistance,” Antipode, 39 (Feb. 2007), 144–66.

Walker, Richard P., “The Swastika and the Lone Star: Nazi Activity in Texas pow Camps,” Military History of the West, 36 (2006), 55–88.

Young, Marilyn B., “‘The Same Struggle for Liberty’: Korea and Vietnam,” in The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, ed. Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, 196–214. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 374 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02371-0. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-674-02392-5.)

Zimm, John, “On to Montezuma’s Halls: The Story of Alexander Conze,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Spring 2007), 28–41. Heavily illustrated.

Bakich, Spencer Dean, “Information, Diplomacy, and Strategy: Balancing Avoidance in Limited Warfare” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3225061.

Bouchard, Carl, “Projets citoyens pour une paix durable, en France, en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis (1914–1924)” (Citizen projects for a lasting peace in France, Great Britain, and the United States [1914–1924]) (University of Montreal, Canada, 2005). In French.

Dahl, Elizabeth S., “Navigating Crises in Sino-American Relations: Apology, Nationalism, and Historical Memory” (American University, 2006). Order No. DA3222262.

Donoghue, Michael E., “Imperial Sunset: Race, Identity, and Gender in the Panama Canal Zone, 1939–1979” (University of Connecticut, 2006). Order No. DA3221536.

García, Emily, “Intra-imperialisms: Reading the Revolutionary Subject in American Literature and Political Discourse, 1776–1787” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3224538.

Lefèvre, Marine, “Les États-Unis face à la Francophonie: Les Stratégies américaines en Afrique Francophone, 1960–1970” (The United States’ Response to the francophonie: American Strategies in French-Speaking Africa, 1960–1970) (Université de Montréal, Canada, 2005). Order No. DANR14452. In French.

Leonhard, Robert R., “Enlightened Defense: The National Security Policy of Thomas Jefferson” (West Virginia University, 2006). Order No. DA3225373.

Magnúsdóttir, Rósa, “Keeping Up Appearances: How the Soviet State Failed to Control Popular Attitudes toward the United States of America, 1945–1959” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3221815.

Payne, Brian Joseph, “Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818–1910” (University of Maine, 2006). Order No. DA3220697.

Ballini, Pier Luigi, Sandro Guerrieri, and Antonio Varsori, eds., Le istituzioni repubblicane dal centrismo al centro-sinistra (1953–1968) (The Republican institutions from centrism to the center-left [1953–1968]). (Rome: Carocci, 2006. €29.20, isbn 88-430-3675-0.) In Italian.

Baylis, John, and Jon Roper, eds., The United States and Europe: Beyond the Neo-Conservative Divide? (London: Routledge, 2006. isbn 0-415-36999-1.)

Beck, Alfred M., Hitler’s Ambivalent Attaché: Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933–1941. (Dulles: Potomac, 2006. xvi, 323 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 1-57488-877-3.)

Berman, Larry, Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent. (Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2007. 328 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-06-088838-1.)

Beschloss, Michael, Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789–1989. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. xvi, 430 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-684-85705-3.)

Campbell, Kenneth J., A Tale of Two Quagmires: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Hard Lessons of War. (Boulder: Paradigm, 2007. xxiv, 136 pp. Cloth, $62.00, isbn 978-1-59451-351-0. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-59451-352-7.)

Carroll, Peter N., and James D. Fernandez, eds., Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. 223 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8147-1681-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Chanda, Nayan, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xviii, 391 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-300-11201-6.)

Conrad, Sebastian, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds., Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s–1930s. (New York: Palgrave, 2007. x, 266 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-1-4039-7988-9.)

Cross, Coy F., II, Lincoln’s Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. x, 180 pp. $28.95, isbn 978-0-87580-373-9.)

Cueto, Marcos, The Value of Health: A History of the Pan American Health Organization. (Washington: Pan American Health Organization, 2007. x, 239 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 1-58046-263-4.) Published in Spanish in 2004.

Del Pero, Mario, and Frederico Romero, eds., Le Crisi Transatlantiche: Continuità a Trasformazioni (Transatlantic crises: Continuity and change). (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007. 142 pp. €18.00, isbn 978-88-8498-357-2.) In Italian.

Fabbrini, Sergio, ed., The United States Contested. American Unilateralism and European Discontent. (London: Routledge, 2006. 234 pp. €36.00, isbn 0-415-39090-7.)

Farber, David, ed., What They Think of Us: International Perceptions of the United States since 9/11. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xviii, 187 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-13025-5.)

Kroll, C. Douglas, “Friends in Peace and War”: The Russian Navy’s Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. xvi, 188 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-1-59797-054-9.)

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, and Fredrik Logevall, eds., The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 374 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02371-0. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-674-02392-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Lorenzini, Sara, L’ Italia e il trattato di pace del 1947 (Italy and the peace treaty of 1947). (Bologna: Mulino, 2007. 218 pp. €12.00, isbn 88-15115218.) In Italian.

Mayers, David, Dissenting Voices in America’s Rise to Power. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii, 446 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-87255-3. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-69418-6.)

Möller, Frank, Thinking Peaceful Change: Baltic Security Policies and Security Community Building. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xviii, 379 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3108-8.)

Petersen, Tore T., ed., Controlling the Uncontrollable? The Great Powers in the Middle East. (Trondheim: Tapir Academic Press, 2007. xii, 114 pp. Paper, $54.00, isbn 978-82-519-2190-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Pizzorusso, Giovanni, Oliver Poncet, and Matteo Sanfilippo, eds., Gli archivi della Santa Sede e la storia della Francia (The archives of the Holy See and the history of France). (Viterbo: Edizioni Sette Città, 2006. €18.00, isbn 978-88-7853-069-0.) In Italian.

Randall, Stephen J., For Profits and Security: United States Foreign Oil Policy since World War I. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. 416 pp. $42.95, isbn 0-773-52922-5.)

Reid, Stuart, The Secret War for Texas. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xii, 235 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-565-3.)

Romero, Federico, and Antonio Varsori, eds., Nazione, Interdipendenza, Integrazione. Le relazioni internazionali dell’Italia (1917–1989) (Nation, interdependence, integration. Italy’s foreign relations [1917–1989]). (Rome: Carocci, 2006. 384 pp. €27.00, isbn 88-430-3810-9.) In Italian. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Russell, Harold S., Time to Become Barbarian: The Extraordinary Life of General Horace Capron. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. xii, 263 pp. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-7618-3641-4.)

Sluga, Glenda, The Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870–1919. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. xii, 216 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-0-230-00717-8.)

St. Clair, William, The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. (New York: BlueBridge, 2007. 282 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-933346-05-2.)

Stone, David, War Summits: The Meetings That Shaped World War II and the Postwar World. (Dulles: Potomac, 2006. xiv, 304 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-57488-901-X.)

Styles, John, and Amanda Vickery, eds., Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. x, 358 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-300-11659-5.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Humphrey, David C., ed., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 2: Organization and Management of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1969–1972. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2006. xxx, 878 pp. $67.00, isbn 0-16-072510-0.)

Sides, Hampton, “The Trial of General Homma,” American Heritage, 58 (Feb.–March 2007), 34–47. Heavily illustrated.

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Labor and Working Class

Abel, Joseph, “Opening the Closed Shop: The Galveston Longshoremen’s Strike of 1920–1921,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Jan. 2007), 317–47.

Glisson, Susan M., “Lucy Randolph Mason: ‘The Rest of Us,’” in The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement, ed. Susan M. Glisson, 97–125. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xvi, 350 pp. Cloth, $72.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4408-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4409-3.)

Johnson, Val Marie, “‘The Rest Can Go to the Devil’: Macy’s Workers Negotiate Gender, Sex, and Class in the Progressive Era,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (no. 1, 2007), 32–57.

Lloyd, Jane Dale, “La sotolería, el canto y la lectura en voz alta: espacios y formas de socialización de una ideología radical, 1905–1911” (La Sotolería, singing, and reading out loud: Spaces and forms of socialization of a radical ideology, 1905–1911), Historia y Grafía (Mexico City) (no. 27, 2006), 75–105. In Spanish.

Markwell, David, “A Turning Point: The Lasting Impact of the 1898 Virden Mine Riot,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Fall–Winter 2006–2007), 211–27.

McCartin, James P., and Joseph A. McCartin, “Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Spring 2007), 99–100.

Palmer, Bryan D., “Fin-de-Siecle Labour History in Canada and the United States: A Case for Tradition,” in Global Labour History: A State of the Art, ed. Jan Lucassen, 195–226. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. 790 pp. isbn 0-820-47567-X.)

Shackel, Paul A., and Matthew M. Palus, “The Gilded Age and Working-Class Industrial Communities,” American Anthropologist, 108 (Dec. 2006), 828–41.

Upham-Bornstein, Linda, “‘Men of Families’: The Intersection of Labor Conflict and Race in the Norfolk Dry Dock Affair, 1829–1831,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Spring 2007), 65–97.

Grider, John Taylor, “‘And I can live without going to sea’: Pacific Maritime Labor Identity, 1840–1890” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006). Order No. DA3219021.

Morse, Peter Harwood, “Wobbly Identities: Race, Gender, and Radical Industrial Unionists in the United States, 1900–1920” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3220356.

Pastrano, José Guillermo, “Industrial Agriculture in the Peripheral South: State, Race, and the Politics of Migrant Labor in Texas, 1890–1930” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006). Order No. DA3226273.

Solano, Martin C., “The Life Stresses of Poverty: Skeletal and Historical Indicators of Activity Patterns in the Albany County Almshouse Skeletal Collection, 1825–1925” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221109.

Cartosi, Bruno, ed., Wobbly! L’Industrial Workers of the World e il suo tempo (Wobblies! The Industrial Workers of the World and their times). (Milan: Shake, 2007. 268 pp. €17.00, isbn 978-88-88865-24-9.) In Italian.

Kessler-Harris, Alice, Gendering Labor History. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 374 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03149-6. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07393-9.)

Kumar, Deepa, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the ups Strike. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xviii, 237 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03172-4.)

Lucassen, Jan, ed., Global Labour History: A State of the Art. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. 790 pp. isbn 0-820-47567-X.)

Matkosky, Greg, and Thomas M. Currà, Stories from the Mines. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 82 pp. $25.00, isbn 1-58966-051-X.) Heavily illustrated.

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Legal and Constitutional

Baier, Paul R., “100 Years of lsu Law, 1906–2006: A Centennial Gloss,” Louisiana Law Review, 67 (Winter 2007), 289–306.

Balmer, Thomas A., “‘Present Appreciation and Future Advantage’: A Note on the Influence of Hobbes on Holmes,” American Journal of Legal History, 47 (Oct. 2005), 412–34.

Barry, Peter J., “‘I’ll keep them in prison awhile . . .’: Abraham Lincoln and David Davis on Civil Liberties in Wartime,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 28 (Winter 2007), 20–29.

Birdsong, Leonard, “Felony Murder: A Historical Perspective by Which to Understand Today’s Modern Felony Murder Rule Statutes,” Thurgood Marshall Law Review, 32 (Fall 2006), 1–26.

Churchill, Robert H., “Gun Regulation, the Police Power, and the Right to Keep Arms in Early America: The Legal Context of the Second Amendment,” University of Illinois Law and History Review, 25 (Spring 2007), 139–75.

Churchill, Robert H., et al., “Forum: Rethinking the Second Amendment,” University of Illinois Law and History Review, 25 (Spring 2007), 139–204.

Cole, Christina, “Women and the fda: Remedying the Past and Preserving the Future,” Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy, 7 (Fall 2006), 127–50.

Cornell, Saul, “Early American Gun Regulation and the Second Amendment: A Closer Look at the Evidence,” University of Illinois Law and History Review, 25 (Spring 2007), 197–204.

Crain, Andrew Downer, “Ford, Carter, and Deregulation in the 1970s,” Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law, 5 (Winter 2007), 413–47.

Friedman, Lawrence M., Christopher J. Walker, and Ben Hernandez-Stern, “The Inheritance Process in San Bernardino County, California, 1964: A Research Note,” Houston Law Review, 43 (Spring 2007), 1445–73.

Gutoff, Jonathan M., “Fugitive Slaves and Ship-Jumping Sailors: The Enforcement and Survival of Coerced Labor,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, 9 (Fall 2006), 87–116.

Hall, Mark David, “Jeffersonian Walls and Madisonian Lines: The Supreme Court’s Use of History in Religion Cases,” Oregon Law Review, 85 (no. 2, 2006), 563–609.

Hetherington, Marc J., and Joseph L. Smith, “Issue Preferences and Evaluations of the U.S. Supreme Court,” Public Opinion Quarterly, 71 (Spring 2007), 40–66.

Igwebuike, John G., “Legal and Policy Implications for Faculty Diversification in Higher Education,” Negro Educational Review, 57 (Fall–Winter 2006), 189–201.

Kissam, Philip C., “Alexis de Tocqueville and American Constitutional Law: On Democracy, the Majority Will, Individual Rights, Federalism, Religion, Civic Associations, and Originalist Constitutional Theory,” Maine Law Review, 59 (no. 1, 2007), 35–74.

Lindquist, Stefanie A., and Rorie Spill Solberg, “Judicial Review by the Burger and Rehnquist Courts: Explaining Justices’ Responses to Constitutional Challenges,” Political Research Quarterly, 60 (March 2007), 71–90.

Lombardi, Clark B., “Nineteenth-Century Free Exercise Jurisprudence and the Challenge of Polygamy: The Relevance of Nineteenth-Century Cases and Commentaries for Contemporary Debates about Free Exercise Exemptions,” Oregon Law Review, 85 (no. 2, 2006), 369–442.

Merkel, William G., “Mandatory Gun Ownership, the Militia Census of 1806, and Background Assumptions Concerning the Early American Right to Arms: A Cautious Response to Robert Churchill,” University of Illinois Law and History Review, 25 (Spring 2007), 187–96.

Ravenell, William H., and Bobby Davis, “Government Acquisition of Private Property for Public Use: An Analysis of United States Supreme Court Decisions,” Negro Educational Review, 57 (Fall–Winter 2006), 203–13.

Riedel, Durwood “Derry,” “The U.S. War Crimes Tribunals at the Former Dachau Concentration Camp: Lessons for Today?,” Berkeley Journal of International Law, 24 (no. 2, 2006), 554–608.

Sanson, Jerry P., “‘Scour[ing] at the Mortar of the Constitution’: Louisiana and the Fundamental Law of the United States,” Louisiana History, 48 (Winter 2007), 5–24.

Sharfstein, Daniel J., “Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860,” Minnesota Law Review, 91 (Feb. 2007), 592–655.

Smith, Bridget K., “Race as Fiction: How Film and Literary Fictions of ‘Mulatto’ Identity Have Both Fostered and Challenged Social and Legal Fictions Regarding Race in America,” Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law, 16 (no. 1, 2006), 44–129.

Vining, Richard L., Christopher Zorn, and Susan Navarro Smelcer, “Judicial Tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1790–1868: Frustration, Resignation, and Expiration on the Bench,” Studies in American Political Development, 20 (Oct. 2006), 198–210.

Wardle, Lynn D., “Lessons from the Bill of Rights about Constitutional Protection for Marriage,” Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal, 38 (Winter 2007), 279–320.

Bartels, Brandon L., “Heterogeneity in Supreme Court Decision Making: How Situational Factors Shape Preference-Based Behavior” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220960.

Brown, Elizabeth, “Crime, Culture, and the City: Political Geographies of Juvenile Justice” (University of Washington, 2006).

Cusick, Roger J., “The Ideas of Roscoe Pound: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Polylegalism” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221092.

Fisher, James Daniel, “The Supreme Court, the Fetus, and the Constitutional Person” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222818.

Hilbink, Thomas Miguel, “Constructing Cause Lawyering: Professionalism, Politics, and Social Change in 1960s America” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221960.

Lansing, Sharon E., “A Method for Identifying Case Volume Effects on Upper Court Conviction and Prison Rates: Kings County (Brooklyn) Felony Drug Arrests, 1978–2001” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221107.

O’Rourke, Gerald Thomas, “Juvenile Justice, 1955–2005: A Minnesota Case Study of the Red Wing Correctional Facility” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220019.

Threlkeld, Howard L., “An Empirical Investigation of Attorney Trial Ethics and a Historical Investigation of the Legal Disciplinary System in the State of Georgia from 1964 through 2005” (Capella University, 2006). Order No. DA3226204.

Watson, John C., “The First Amendment as License and Limitation: The Supreme Court Addresses Principles of Journalism Ethics (1947–2005)” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219687.

Ahmad, Diana L., The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007. xvi, 132 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-698-8.)

Anastaplo, George, Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xviii, 320 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2424-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8131-9173-7.)

Curry, Lynne, The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 164 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1496-7. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1497-4.)

Dierenfield, Bruce J., The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 263 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1525-4. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1526-1.)

Farber, Daniel A., Retained by the People: The “Silent” Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don’t Know They Have. (New York: Basic, 2007. xiv, 236 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-465-02298-4.)

Gross, Norman, ed., Noble Purposes: Nine Champions of the Rule of Law. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xii, 144 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1731-7.)

Magliocca, Gerard N., Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 186 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1509-4.)

Maltz, Earl M., Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 182 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1502-5. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1503-2.)

Pestritto, Ronald J., and Thomas G. West, eds., Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding. (Lanham: Lexington, 2007. xiv, 339 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1416-2. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7391-1417-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Ross, William G., The Chief Justiceship of Charles Evans Hughes, 1930–1941. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxii, 275 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-679-8.)

Scheiber, Harry N., ed., Earl Warren and the Warren Court: The Legacy in American and Foreign Law. (Lanham: Lexington, 2007. xii, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1634-0. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1635-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Stewart, David O., The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. xiv, 349 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-7432-8692-3.)

Walsh, Jennifer E., Three Strikes Laws. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xviii, 185 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-33708-6.)

White, G. Edward, History and the Constitution: Collected Essays. (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2007. xii, 503 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-59460-281-8.)

Whittington, Keith E., Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii, 303 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-09640-7.)

Marcus, Maeva, ed., The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1800, vol. 8: Cases: 1798–1800. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xlii, 605 pp. $150.00, isbn 978-0-231-13976-2.)

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Latino/a

Hernandez, Ester, “Confronting Exclusion in the Latino Metropolis: Central American Transnational Communities in the Los Angeles Area, 1980s–2006,” Journal of the West, 45 (Fall 2006), 48–56.

Macias, Vanessa, “‘En Unidad, Hay Poder’: Community Activism and Ethnicity in South Martineztown, 1930–1974,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Winter 2007), 71–96.

Martinez, Ana Luisa, “Pablo Cruz and El Regidor: The Emergence of a Bicultural Identity in San Antonio, 1888–1910,” Journal of the West, 45 (Fall 2006), 21–28.

Montoya, Fawn-Amber, “From Mexicans to Citizens: Colorado Fuel and Iron’s Representation of Nuevo Mexicans, 1901–1919,” Journal of the West, 45 (Fall 2006), 29–35.

Tatman, Arthur T., “La Camara, 1939: A ‘Mexican’ Chamber of Commerce Forms in Dallas,” Journal of the West, 45 (Fall 2006), 36–47.

Martinez, Stephen C., “Civic Ideals in New Mexico: The Sacred Quest for Citizenship” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220904.

Vivancos Pérez, Ricardo F., “Internal Diversity in Contemporary Chicana Literature: The ‘Other Within’ in the Works of Cherríe Moraga and Sandra Cisneros” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006). Order No. DA3218829.

Alamillo, José M., Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880–1960. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xiv, 220 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03081-9. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07325-0.)

Figueredo, D. H., Latino Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xiv, 154 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-313-34154-0.)

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Mass Communications

Baham, Nicholas L., III, “Radio Free Coltrane: Free Jazz Radio as Revolutionary Practice,” Americana, 5 (Fall 2006), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.

Hoebling, Walter W., “‘The Unspeakable Other’: American ‘Braves’ and the Discourse of Indian Captivity Narratives,” in America: Home of the Brave, ed. Michal Peprník and Matthew Sweeney, 35–50. (Olomouc: vup, 2005. isbn 80-244-1064-8.)

Mullen, Megan, “Cable Television’s Forgotten Pioneer,” Media History (Abingdon), 13 (April 2007), 61–78.

Petrucci, Peter R., and Michael Head, “Hurricane Katrina’s Lexical Storm: The Use of Refugee as a Label for American Citizens,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 25 (Dec. 2006), 23–39.

Stoneman, Timothy H. B., “Preparing the Soil for Global Revival: Station hcjb’s Radio Circle, 1949–59,” Church History, 76 (March 2007), 114–55.

Lynch, Theresa Catherine, “Attica: ‘A monstrous credibility gap’” (University of New Hampshire, 2006). Order No. DA3217432.

Parry, Sarah, “Caedmon Records the Cold War, and the Scene of the American Postmodern” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2006).

Stamm, Michael, “Mixed Media: Newspaper Ownership of Radio in American Politics and Culture, 1920–1952” (University of Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3219589.

Welch, James Robert, “Watching America: Global Television and the Forging of New Zealand National Identity in the Post–WWII Era” (University of Southern California, 2005). Order No. DA3219852.

Kumar, Deepa, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the ups Strike. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xviii, 237 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03172-4.)

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Material Culture and Architecture

Cleary, Richard, “Texas Gothic, French Accent: The Architecture of the Roman Catholic Church in Antebellum Texas,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65 (March 2007), 60–83.

Haddad, John R., “Imagined Journeys to Distant Cathay: Constructing China with Ceramics, 1780–1920,” Winterthur Portfolio, 41 (Spring 2007), 53–80.

Harmon, Mella Rothwell, “The Extraordinary Career of Frederic J. DeLongchamps,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 49 (Fall 2006), 183–220.

Martinez, Katharine, “The Dickinsons of Amherst Collect: Pictures and Their Meanings in a Victorian Home,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Nunamaker, Erika, “Lincoln’s Pursuit of ‘Egalitarian Refinement’: Evidence from His Mahogany Sofa,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 28 (Winter 2007), 30–51.

Rohan, Timothy M., “Challenging the Curtain Wall: Paul Rudolph’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Building,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65 (March 2007), 84–109.

Schuetz-Miller, Mardith K., “Pre-Euclidian Geometry in the Design of Mission Churches of the Spanish Borderlands,” Journal of the Southwest, 48 (Winter 2006), 331–591. Special issue.

Simpson, Pamela H., “Butter Cows and Butter Buildings: A History of an Unconventional Sculptural Medium,” Winterthur Portfolio, 41 (Spring 2007), 1–19. Heavily illustrated.

Tharp, Bruce M., “Valued Amish Possessions: Expanding Material Culture and Consumption,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 38–53.

Grubiak, Margaret Mary, “Preserving Religion in the Campus: Religious Architecture in the Modern American University, 1890–1955” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3218413.

Hodge, Christina J., “A Middling Gentility: Taste, Status, and Material Culture at the Eighteenth-Century Wood Lot, Wanton-Lyman-Hazard Site, Newport, Rhode Island” (Boston University, 2007). Order No. DA3218543.

Jacobs, James Andrew, “‘You can’t dream yourself a house’: The Evolving Postwar Dwelling and its Preeminent Position within a Renewed Consumer World, 1945–1970” (George Washington University, 2005). Order No. DA3217557.

Shales, Ezra, “John Cotton Dana and the Business of Enlightening Newark: Applied Art at the Newark Public Library and Museum, 1902–1929” (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2007). Order No. DA3222573.

Smith, Jeffrey Allen, “Made Beings: Cahuilla and Chemehuevi Material Culture as Seen through the Cary Collection” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226568.

Vermeer, Andrea C., “Making the West: Approaches to the Archaeology of Prostitution on the 19th-Century Mining Frontier” (University of Arizona, 2006). Order No. DA3219738.

Walden, Lisa Riggin, “The Spanish Missions: The Death and Resurrection of a California Institution” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226573.

Wortham, Brooke D., “Mythologies of an American Everyday Landscape: Henry Ford at the Wayside Inn” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006).

Birchfield, James D., Clay Lancaster’s Kentucky: Architectural Photographs of a Preservation Pioneer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xiv, 130 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2421-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Parmal, Pamela A., et al., Textile and Fashion Arts. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2006. 208 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-87846-699-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Upton, Dell, “Understanding New Orleans’s Architectural Ecology,” in Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, ed. Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, 275–87. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii, 375 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-1980-7.)

Tedesco, Paul H., and James B. Tedesco, Portable and Prefabricated Houses of the Thirties: The E. F. Hodgson Company 1935 and 1939 Catalogs; An Unabridged Reprint. (Lake Forest, Ill.: JBT Publishing, 2007. xliv, 114 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-9792059-1-0.)

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Medicine

Cantor, David, “Uncertain Enthusiasm: The American Cancer Society, Public Education, and the Problems of the Movie, 1921–1960,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 39–69.

Colgrove, James Keith, “Reform and Its Discontents: Public Health in New York City during the Great Society,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 3–28.

Harkness, Jon M., “The U.S. Public Health Service and Smoking in the 1950s: The Tale of Two More Statements,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 62 (April 2007), 171–212.

Keating, Peter, and Alberto Cambrosio, “Cancer Clinical Trials: The Emergence and Development of a New Style of Practice,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 197–223.

Krueger, Gretchen Marie, “‘For Jimmy and the Boys and Girls of America’: Publicizing Childhood Cancers in Twentieth-Century America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 70–93.

Kushner, Howard I., “The Other War on Drugs: The Pharmaceutical Industry, Evidence-Based Medicine, and Clinical Practice,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 49–70.

Lederer, Susan E., “Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 94–115.

Lerner, Barron H., “Ill Patient, Public Activist: Rose Kushner’s Attack on Breast Cancer Chemotherapy,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 224–40.

Mohr, James, ed., “Special Issue: New Perspectives on Public Health Policy,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 1–144.

Nathanson, Constance A., “The Contingent Power of Experts: Public Health Policy in the United States, Britain, and France,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 71–94.

Necochea, Raul, “From Cancer Families to hnpcc: Henry Lynch and the Transformations of Hereditary Cancer, 1975–1999,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 267–85.

Pickstone, John V., “Contested Cumulations: Configurations of Cancer Treatments through the Twentieth Century,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 164–96.

Pollack, Harold, “Learning to Walk Slow: America’s Partial Policy Success in the Arena of Intellectual Disability,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no.1, 2007), 95–112.

Praglin, Laura J., “Ida Cannon, Ethel Cohen, and Early Medical Social Work in Boston: The Foundations of a Model of Culturally Competent Social Service,” Social Service Review, 81 (March 2007), 27–45.

Reber, Vera Blinn, “The Sanatorium Age: Pennsylvania and Argentina,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Autumn 2006), 412–45.

Stern, Alexandra Minna, “‘We Cannot Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear’: Eugenics in the Hoosier Heartland,” Indiana Magazine of History, 103 (March 2007), 3–38.

Teigen, Philip M., “Legislating Fear and the Public Health in Gilded Age Massachusetts,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 62 (April 2007), 141–70.

Wickham, Parnel, “Idiocy in Virginia, 1616–1860,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 80 (Winter 2006), 677–701.

Anroman, Gilda Marie, “Infectious Disease in Philadelphia, 1690–1807: An Ecological Perspective” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222311.

folk, Holly, “Vertebral Vitalism: American Metaphysics and the Birth of Chiropractic” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3223040.

Harris, Lisa Hope, “Challenging Conception: A Clinical and Cultural History of In Vitro Fertilization in the United States” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224897.

Marinski, Deborah R., “Unfortunate Minds: Mental Insanity in Ohio, 1883–1909” (University of Toledo, 2006). Order No. DA3218760.

Morales, Michele Elaine, “Persistent Pathologies: The Odd Coupling of Alcoholism and Homosexuality in the Discourses of Twentieth Century Science” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224705.

Nelson, Katherine H., “The Temperance Physicians: Developing Concepts of Addiction” (American University, 2006). Order No. DA3227753.

Hoffman, Beatrix, “Sympathy and Exclusion: Access to Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants in the United States,” in A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citzenship, ed. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, 237–54. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 378 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3059-8. Paper, $21.50, isbn 978-0-8078-5773-1.)

Lederer, Susan E., “Tucker’s Heart: Racial Politics and Heart Transplantation in America,” in A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citzenship, ed. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, 142–57. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 378 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3059-8. Paper, $21.50, isbn 978-0-8078-5773-1.)

Lerner, Barron H., “From Libby Zion to Jesica Santillan: Many Truths,” in A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citzenship, ed. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, 82–94. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 378 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3059-8. Paper, $21.50, isbn 978-0-8078-5773-1.)

Culpeper, Nicholas, The English Physician, ed. Michael A. Flannery. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii, 113 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1558-0.) Originally published in 1708.

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Military

Andrade, Dale, and James H. Willbanks, “cords/Phoenix: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam for the Future,” Military Review, 86 (Oct. Supplement 2006), 77–91.

Biddle, Tami Davis, “Military History, Democracy, and the Role of the Academy,” Journal of American History, 93 (March 2007), 1143–45.

Bronfeld, Saul, “Fighting Outnumbered: The Impact of the Yom Kippur War on the U.S. Army,” Journal of Military History, 71 (April 2007), 465–98.

Fasce, Ferdinando, “Gli Stati Uniti e la guerra” (The United States and the war), in La prima guerra mondiale (The first world war), ed. Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Jean-Jacques Becker, and Antonio Gibelli, 551–65. (Turin: Einaudi, 2007. 592 pp. €75.00, isbn 88-06-17588-7.) In Italian.

Glenn, Myra C., “Forging Manhood and Nationhood Together: American Sailors’ Accounts of Their Exploits, Sufferings, and Resistance in the Antebellum United States,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (March 2007), 27–49.

Green, Jennifer R., “Networks of Military Educators: Middle-Class Stability and Professionalization in the Late Antebellum South,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Feb. 2007), 39–74.

Habib, Douglas F., “Chastity, Masculinity, and Military Efficiency: The United States Army in Germany, 1918–1923,” International History Review (Burnaby), 28 (Dec. 2006), 737–57.

Jackson, Andrea V., and Montgomery McFate, “The Object beyond War: Counterinsurgency and the Four Tools of Political Competition,” Military Review, 86 (Oct. Supplement 2006), 56–69.

MacKinnon, William P., “Loose in the Stacks: A Half-Century with the Utah War and Its Legacy,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 40 (Spring 2007), 43–81.

Moyar, Mark, “The Current State of Military History,” Historical Journal (Cambridge), 50 (March 2007), 225–40.

Rowland, John Kenneth, “General Thomas Cage, the Eighteenth-Century Literature of Military Intelligence, and the Transition from Peace to Revolutionary War, 1774 to 1775,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 32 (Fall 2006), 503–21.

Sanfilippo, Matteo, “Fuggitivi e avventurieri: volontari nord-americani tra Garibaldi e Pio IX. Una proposta di ricerca” (Fugitives and adventurers: North American volunteers between Garibaldi and Pious IX. A research proposal), Ricerche di Storia Politica (Bologna), 10 (2007), 67–77. In Italian.

Szytniewski, Szymon, “Teofil Starzynski’s Activities to Recruit Polish Soldiers in Canada during the Second World War,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Autumn 2006), 59–77.

Thornton, Tamara Plakins, “The ‘Intelligent Mariner’: Nathaniel Bowditch, the Science of Navigation, and the Art of Upward Mobility in the Maritime World,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Dec. 2006), 609–35.

Williamson, James F., “With Unshaken Firmness: Colonel Thomas Williamson,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006–2007), 298–318. Heavily illustrated.

Anderson, K. Douglas, “Don’t Rub Your Eyes: A Memoir of the Vietnam War and the Nineteen Sixties” (University of Connecticut, 2006). Order No. DA3221527.

Bright, Christopher John, “‘A portent of flaming doom’: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms, Continental Defense, and the Eisenhower Era” (George Washington University, 2006). Order No. DA3217542.

Hanson, Thomas E., “America’s First Cold War Army: Combat Readiness in the Eighth U.S. Army, 1949–1950” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226301.

Hendrix, Scott N., “The Spirit of the Corps: The British Army and the Pre-national Pan-European Military World and the Origins of American Martial Culture, 1754–1783” (University of Pittsburgh, 2005). Order No. DA3223976.

Knight, Peter G., “‘MacArthur’s Eyes’: Reassessing Military Intelligence Operations in the Forgotten War, June 1950–April 1951” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226313.

Lowther, Adam B., “America’s Experience with Asymmetric Warfare: Past, Present, and Future” (University of Alabama, 2006). Order No. DA3223313.

Mundey, Lisa M., “Images of the Armed Forces in American Popular Culture, 1945–1970” (Kansas State University, 2006). Order No. DA3223385.

Obermiller, David John, “The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa: Politicisizing and Contesting Okinawan Identity, 1945–1955” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225658.

Schaefer, James J., “The Whole Duty of Man: Charles Lee and the Politics of Reputation, Masculinity, and Identity during the Revolutionary War, 1755–1783” (University of Toledo, 2006). Order No. DA3218764.

Smisek, James J., “The United States Army Band ‘Pershing’s Own’: A Chronicle of the Commanders/Conductors from 1946 to 2000” (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2006). Order No. DA3227707.

Springer, Paul Joseph, “American Prisoners of War Policy and Practices from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3219187.

Audoin-Rouzeau, Stéphane, Jean-Jacques Becker, and Antonio Gibelli, eds., La prima guerra mondiale (The first world war). (Turin: Einaudi, 2007. 592 pp. €75.00, isbn 88-06-17588-7.) In Italian.

Axelrod, Alan, Blooding at Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle that Shaped the Man. (Philadelphia: Running, 2007. 270 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-7624-2769-7.)

Ballard, Jack Stokes, War Bird Ace: The Great War Exploits of Capt. Field E. Kindley. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xvi, 208 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-554-7.)

Bissell, Tom, The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam. (New York: Pantheon, 2007. xvi, 407 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-375-42265-2.)

de Quesada, Alejandro, The Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898–1902. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 48 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-84603-124-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Estes, Kenneth W., U.S. Army Soldier: Baghdad, 2003–04. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 64 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-84603-063-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Ferrell, Robert H., America’s Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne, 1918. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 195 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1499-8.)

Field, Ron, U.S. Infantry in the Indian Wars, 1865–91. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 48 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-84176-905-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Ford, Ken, The Rhine Crossings, 1945. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 96 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-84603-026-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Gawne, Jonathan, Finding Your Father’s War: A Practical Guide to Researching and Understanding Service in the World War II U.S. Army. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2006. x, 341 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 1-932033-14-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Head, William P., Shadow and Stinger: Developing the AC-119G/K Gunships in the Vietnam War. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xii, 340 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-577-6.)

Hogan, Martin J., The Shamrock Battalion in the Great War. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. x, 132 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1710-3.)

Holzimmer, Kevin C., General Walter Krueger: Unsung Hero of the Pacific War. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 329 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1500-1.)

Isby, David, C-47/R4D Skytrain Units of the Pacific and cbi. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 96 pp. Paper, $20.95, isbn 978-1-84603-046-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Kort, Michael, The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xvi, 435 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-231-13016-5.)

Lacey, Jim, Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division’s Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2007. xvi, 267 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59114-458-8.)

Maddox, Robert James, ed., Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. viii, 215 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1732-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

McManus, John C., Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2007. xxxvi, 296 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-471-73905-0.)

Mersky, Peter, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 112 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-1-84603-181-6.)

de Quesada, Alejandro, The Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898–1902. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 48 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-84603-124-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Rich, Doris L., Jackie Cochran: Pilot in the Fastest Lane. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xii, 279 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3043-2.)

Rottman, Gordon L., Vietnam Airmobile Warfare Tactics. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 64 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-84603-136-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Sayen, John, U.S. Army Infantry Divisions, 1944–45. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 96 pp. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-84603-119-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Stanaway, John, 475th Fighter Group. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 128 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-84603-043-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Stephenson, Michael, Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought. (New York: HarperCollins, 2007. xxvi, 421 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-06-073261-5.)

Winton, Harold R., Corps Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xxiv, 504 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1508-7.)

Baker, Horace L., Argonne Days in World War I, ed. Robert H. Ferrell. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xvi, 157 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1708-0.)

Burns, Dwayne, and Leland Burns, Jump into the Valley of the Shadow: The War Memories of Dwayne Burns, Communications Sergeant, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2006. 233 pp. $32.95, isbn 1-932033-49-1.)

Goldstein, Donald M., and Katherine V. Dillon, eds., The Pacific War Papers: Japanese Documents of World War II. (Dulles: Potomac, 2006. xiv, 336 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-57488-633-7.)

Lubbeck, William, and David Hurt, At Leningrad’s Gates: The Story of a Soldier with Army Group North. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2006. xiv, 256 pp. $32.95, isbn 1-932033-55-6.)

Malkoski, Paul A., ed., This Soldier Life: The Diaries of Romine H. Ostrander, 1863 and 1865, in Colorado Territory. (Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 2006. xii, 130 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-942576-51-1.)

van Orman, Edward William, “A Very High Road: A B-36 Gunner’s Story,” Air Power History, 54 (Spring 2007), 4–15.

Topping, Gary, ed., If I Get Out Alive: World War II Letters and Diaries of William H. McDougall Jr. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2007. xviii, 318 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-87480-891-9.)

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Music

Baham, Nicholas L., III, “Radio Free Coltrane: Free Jazz Radio as Revolutionary Practice,” Americana, 5 (Fall 2006), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.

Gottschalk, Stan, “Pete Seeger, the 5-String Banjo, and American Culture,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 25 (Dec. 2006), 12–22.

Hamann, Keitha Lucas, “Operetta Performance at Ramsey Junior High in Minneapolis: 1932–1966,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 28 (Oct. 2006), 3–20.

Hoffbeck, Steven R., “Instamatic Memories: The Beatles in Minnesota,” Minnesota History, 60 (Spring 2007), 190–201. Heavily illustrated.

Isbell, Daniel, “The Steamboat Springs High School Ski Band, 1935–2005,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 28 (Oct. 2006), 21–37.

Janzen, Rod, “Paul Tschetter’s ‘Chicago Fire’ Hymn,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 81 (April 2007), 261–71.

Kukla, Jon, ed., “A Louisvillian Abroad: Daniel Chapman Banks’s 1822 Visit to New Orleans and Congo Square,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Winter 2006), 48–59. Heavily illustrated.

Muller, Carol A., “American Musical Surrogacy: A View from Post–World War II South Africa,” Safundi (no. 23, July 2006), http://www.safundi.com.

Robinson, Suzanne, “‘A Ping, Qualified by a Thud’: Music Criticism in Manhattan and the Case of Cage (1943–58),” Journal of the Society for American Music, 1 (Feb. 2007), 79–139.

Von Glahn, Denise, and Michael Broyles, “Musical Modernism before It Began: Leo Ornstein and a Case for Revisionist History,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 1 (Feb. 2007), 29–55.

Wagnleitner, Reinhold, “Jazz—The Classical Music of Globalization,” in Satchmo Meets Amadeus, ed. Reinhold Wagnleitner, 280–322. (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2006. 328 pp. Paper, €33.90, isbn 978-3-7065-4150-3.)

Chin, Brian S., “The Music of Daniel Bukvich: A Biography, Analysis of Selected Works, and Annotated Guide to the Complete Works, 1978–2005” (University of Washington, 2006). Order No. DA3224200.

Feder, J. Lester, “‘Song of the South’: Country Music, Race, Region, and the Politics of Culture, 1920–1974” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3226073.

Lubach, Kaye Leora, “Tradition, Ideology, and the History of Hindustani Music in the United States in the 20th Century” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3226044.

Mitchell, Gillian Anna Margaret, “The Nation and National Identity in the Folk Music Revival Movement of Canada and the United States” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2004). Order No. DANR15980.

Vecchiola, Carla, “Detroit’s Rhythmic Resistance: Electronic Music and Community Pride” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224776.

Castagneto, Pierangelo, ed., L’oceano dei suoni. Migrazioni, musica e razze nella formazione delle società euroatlantiche (Ocean of sounds. Migrations, music, and race in the making of the Euro-Atlantic societies). (Turin: Otto, 2007. 239 pp. €18.00, isbn 88-95285-08-5.) In Italian.

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Politics

Cheathem, Mark R., “‘The High Minded Honourable Man’: Honor, Kinship, and Conflict in the Life of Andrew Jackson Donelson,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Summer 2007), 265–92.

Crowe, Justin, “The Forging of Judicial Autonomy: Political Entrepreneurship and the Reforms of William Howard Taft,” Journal of Politics, 69 (Feb. 2007), 73–87.

Dickinson, Matthew J., and Matthew J. Lebo, “Reexamining the Growth of the Institutional Presidency, 1940–2000,” Journal of Politics, 69 (Feb. 2007), 206–19.

Fasce, Ferdinando, “Dentro il labirinto euroamericano. Wilson, Mazzini e i percorsi atlantici della tradizione democratica” (Inside the Euro-American maze. Wilson, Mazzini, and the Atlantic routes of the democratic tradition), in Il pensiero e la forma europea della politica (The thought and shape of European politics), ed. Giuliana Laschi, 53–70. (Bologna: clueb, 2007. 139 pp. €12.00, isbn 978-88-491-2789-8.) In Italian.

Fuller, Robert L., “Mr. Halleck’s New Deal: Congressman Charles Halleck and the Limits to Reform,” Indiana Magazine of History, 103 (March 2007), 66–92.

Garry, Patrick M., “A Turning Point for Modern Conservatism,” Modern Age, 49 (Winter 2007), 24–36.

Hardt, Michael, “Jefferson and Democracy,” American Quarterly, 59 (March 2007), 41–78.

Harris, Marc, “Pennsylvania’s Border at Lake Champlain: Borders and Contexts in Colonial North America,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 32 (Fall 2006), 493–501.

Hinojosa, Victor J., and Aníbal S. Pérez-Liñán, “Presidential Survival and the Impeachment Process: The United States and Colombia,” Political Science Quarterly, 121 (Winter 2006–2007), 653–75.

Hirano, Shigeo, and James M. Snyder, “The Decline of Third-Party Voting in the United States,” Journal of Politics, 69 (Feb. 2007), 1–16. Heavily illustrated.

Hoelbling, Walter W., “America - The City on the Hill Forever under Siege: A European Perspective,” in America in the Course of Human Events: Presentations and Interpretations, ed. Josef Jarab, Marcel Arbeit, and Jenel Virden, 143–58. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2006. 306 pp. Paper, €39.50, isbn 90-5383-9925.)

Holmgren, David, “Iowa’s Governors in Cartoons,” Iowa Heritage Illustrated, 87 (Fall 2006), 126–43. Heavily illustrated.

Hoople, Robin P., “Great Stone Faces: Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Quest for American Authenticity,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 36 (no. 3, 2006), 345–62.

Horner, Jennifer Ruth, and Mark Brewin, “The Salt River Ticket, Democratic Discourse, and Nineteenth-Century American Politics,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24 (March 2007), 1–20.

Jortner, Adam, “Cholera, Christ, and Jackson: The Epidemic of 1832 and the Origins of Christian Politics in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Summer 2007), 233–64.

Kerber, Linda K., “The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other: A View from the United States,” American Historical Review, 112 (Feb. 2007), 1–34.

Leahy, Mary Lee, “The 1970 Illinois Constitution: The Realization of Equal Protection under the Law for Women,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Summer 2006), 111–23.

Lee, Michael J., “The Populist Chameleon: The People’s Party, Huey Long, George Wallace, and the Populist Argumentative Frame,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 92 (Nov. 2006), 335–78.

Mitchell, Robert B., “Untamed Greenbacker: James Baird Weaver,” Iowa Heritage Illustrated, 87 (Fall 2006), 106–19. Heavily illustrated.

Nagel, Jack H., “The Burr Dilemma in Approval Voting,” Journal of Politics, 69 (Feb. 2007), 43–58.

Nathanson, Iric, “The Oppenheimer Affair: Red Scare in Minnesota,” Minnesota History, 60 (Spring 2007), 172–86. Heavily illustrated.

Neem, Johan N., “Beyond the Wall: Reinterpreting Jefferson’s Danbury Address,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Spring 2007), 139–54.

Nugent, Walter, “The American Habit of Empire, and the Cases of Polk and Bush,” Western Historical Quarterly, 38 (Spring 2007), 5–24.

Paulos, Michael Harold, “. . . I am not and never have been a polygamist’: Reed Smoot’s Speech before the United States Senate, February 19, 1907,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 100–115.

Pospisek, Patrick A., “Springfield’s Acquisition of the Illinois Seat of Government, 1833–1845,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Spring–Summer 2006), 8–18.

Raphael, Tim, “Mo(u)rning in America: Hamlet, Reagan, and the Rights of Memory,” Theatre Journal, 59 (March 2007), 1–20.

Schiller, Wendy J., “Building Careers and Courting Constituents: U.S. Senate Representation, 1889–1924,” Studies in American Political Development, 20 (Oct. 2006), 185–97.

Scott, Rebecca J., “Grados de libertad: democracia y antidemocracia en Cuba y Luisiana, 1898–1900” (Degrees of liberty: Democracy and antidemocracy in Cuba and Louisiana, 1898–1900), Historia Social (Valencia) (no. 54, 2006), 19–50. In Spanish.

Stagg, J. C. A., “George Mathews and John McKee: Revolutionizing East Florida, Mobile, and Pensacola in 1812,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Winter 2007), 269–96.

Wiegand, Wayne A., and Shirley A. Wiegand, “Sooner State Civil Liberties in Perilous Times, 1940–1941, Part 1: The Oklahoma Federation for Constitutional Rights,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 444–63.

Wirls, Daniel, “‘The Only Mode of Avoiding Everlasting Debate’: The Overlooked Senate Gag Rule for Antislavery Petitions,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Spring 2007), 115–38.

Wise, Norton M., “Thoughts on the Politicization of Science through Commercialization,” Social Research, 73 (Winter 2006), 1253–72.

Wolensky, Robert P., Thomas J. Baldino, and John V. Hepp IV, “Remaking Municipal Government? Charter Reform in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1968–2001,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Autumn 2006), 446–79.

Wulf, Naomi, “The Politics of Past and Progress in Jacksonian Democracy,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (Dec. 2006), 647–58.

Young, Kimball L., “Utah Public Debt History,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Winter 2007), 4–21.

Ahmed, Amel F., “Constituting the Electorate: Voting System Reform and Working Class Incorporation in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1867–1913” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225423.

Baar, K. Kevyne, “Investigating Broadway: The House Committee on Un-American Activities Meets Members of the New York Theatre Community at the Foley Square Courthouse, August 15–18, 1955” (Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, 2006). Order No. DA3221146.

Bowen, Michael D., “Fight for the Right: The Quest for Republican Identity in the Post–War Period” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3228685.

Clark, Rikki A., “The Fabricating American: Shaping a National Identity through Folk Ideas in Literature” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2006). Order No. DA3220060.

Davis, Michael A., “Politics as Usual: Franklin Roosevelt, Thomas Dewey, and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944” (University of Arkansas, 2005). Order No. DA3223249.

Den Hartog, Jonathan J., “‘Patriotism and piety’: Orthodox Religion and Federalist Political Culture” (University of Notre Dame, 2006). Order No. DA3221319.

Donoghue, John, “Radical Republicanism in England, America, and the Imperial Atlantic, 1624–1661” (University of Pittsburgh, 2006). Order No. DA3223958.

Downs, Gregory Patterson, “Declaration of Dependence: Popular Politics in North Carolina from Reconstruction to the New Deal” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225450.

Esh, Christian R., “‘The Sacred Cause of State Rights’: Theories of Union and Sovereignty in the Antebellum North” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222597.

French, Peter Murray, “Liberal and Republican Ideas in the Early Histories of America and the American Revolution: Loyalist, Federalist, and Republican” (University of New Brunswick, Canada, 2004). Order No. DANR15163.

Gifford, Laura Jane, “The Center Cannot Hold: The 1960 Presidential Election and the Rise of Modern Conservatism” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3224331.

Grant, Jimmy Randall, “Louis Francis Budenz: The Origins of a Professional Ex-Communist” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224434.

Haberman, Aaron Louis, “Civil Rights on the Right: The Modern Christian Right and the Crusade for School Prayer, 1962–1996” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224435.

Irwin, Jacqueline Anne, “Peace Signs: A Generic Analysis of American Protest Posters” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3223026.

Kim, Jinah, “U.S. Racial Imaginaries” (University of California, San Diego, 2006). Order No. DA3221813.

Leonard, Lynnette Grace, “A Rebel in Conservative Clothes: The Rhetorical Theory and Practice of Lydia Sigourney” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222185.

Michelmore, Mary C., “Taxing State/Welfare State: How the Politics of Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the Federal Income Tax Shaped Modern America, 1960–1980” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224699.

Parry, Sarah, “Caedmon Records, the Cold War, and the Scene of the American Postmodern” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR14024.

Purcell, Aaron D., “White Collar Radicals: New Deal Labor and Red Scare Communists in the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1935–1955” (University of Tennessee, 2006). Order No. DA3220763.

Santos, Gabriel A., “Oh, When the State Comes Marching In: The Theopolitics of Disaster in Sociological Perspective” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3220644.

Schill, Daniel Kenneth, “Stagecraft and Statecraft: The Role of Advance and Media Events in the Reagan Administration” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222178.

Skillen, James R., “The Bureau of Land Management, 1946–2001: From Livestock and Mines to Landscapes and Monuments?” (Cornell University, 2006). Order No. DA3227136.

Zygmont, Bryan John, “Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790–1825: Stuart, Vanderlyn, Trumbull, and Jarvis” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222458.

Archer, J. Clark, et al., Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1788–2004. (Washington: cq, 2006. xii, 164 pp. $150.00, isbn 978-1-56802-955-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Belko, W. Stephen, The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xii, 483 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-8262-1647-1.)

Cockburn, Andrew, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. (New York: Scribner, 2007. viii, 247 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3574-4.)

Cullen, Jim, Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph. (New York: Palgrave, 2007. xiv, 234 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-4039-7513-3.)

Foner, Eric, and Manning Marable, eds., Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxiv, 270 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03029-1.)

Laschi, Giuliana, ed., Il pensiero e la forma europea della politica (The thought and shape of European politics). (Bologna: clueb, 2007. 139 pp. €12.00, isbn 978-88-491-2789-8.) In Italian.

Lewis, Catherine M., “Don’t Ask What I Shot”: How Eisenhower’s Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950s America. (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2007. xvi, 304 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-07-148570-8.)

Magliocca, Gerard N., Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 186 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1509-4.)

Mitchell, Thomas G., Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. vi, 289 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-99168-5.)

Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Women in Congress, 1917–2006. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2006. viii, 1,008 pp. $59.00, isbn 0-16-076753-9.)

Pallitto, Robert M., and William G. Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii, 261 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8582-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8583-9.)

Pomper, Gerald M., On Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy. (Boulder: Paradigm, 2007. xxiv, 304 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-59451-391-6.)

Preston, Andrew, The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, The nsc, and Vietnam. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv, 320 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-674-02198-3.)

Shirley, Craig, Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All. (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2005. xxx, 417 pp. $25.99, isbn 0-7852-6049-8.)

Starr, Paul, Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism. (New York: Basic, 2007. xii, 276 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-465-08186-8.)

Williams, Patrick G., Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 234 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-573-8.)

Burlingame, Michael, ed., Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xii, 174 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2738-6.)

Goldwater, Barry M., The Conscience of a Conservative, ed. C. C. Goldwater. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxvi, 144 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-691-13117-7.) Originally published in 1960.

Hammond, Scott J., Kevin R. Hardwick, and Howard L. Lubert, eds., Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought, Vol. 1: Origins through the Civil War, xxxii, 1,193 pp. Vol. 2: Reconstruction to the Present, xiv, 964 pp. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007. Cloth, $124.00/set, isbn 978-0-87220-787-5/set. Paper, $65.00/set, isbn 978-0-87220-786-8/set.)

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Print Culture

Balliet, Barbara J., “‘Let Them Study as Men and Work as Women’: Georgina Davis, New Women, and Illustrated Papers,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Carabas, Teodora, “‘Tales Calculated to Drive You mad’: The Debunking of Spies, Superheroes, and Cold War Rhetoric in Mad Magazine’s ‘spy vs spy,’” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (Feb. 2007), 4–24.

Cohen, Naomi W., “The Ark: An Early Twentieth-Century Periodical,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 1–35.

Cronin, Mary M., “Dear Swinton,” Journalism History, 32 (Winter 2007), 213–22.

García, Ángel, “La prensa y los conflictos bélicos: la guerra hispanoamericana a través de un diario de provincias” (The press and armed conflicts: The Spanish-American war in a provincial newspaper), Anales de Historia Contemporánea (Murcia) (no. 21, 2005), 427–43. In Spanish.

Garvey, Ellen Gruber, “Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Appropriation: Scrapbooks and Extra-illustration,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Gertzman, Jay A., “The Jack Woodford Press: Bestsellers at the Army Base, the Drug Store, and the Tourist Bookstore, 1946–1959,” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (Feb. 2007), 25–48.

Gray, Paul Bryan, “Francisco P. Ramírez: A Short Biography,” California History, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 20–39. Heavily illustrated.

Hessell, Nikki, “‘Desultory Fragments’ or ‘Printed Works’? Coleridge’s Changing Attitude to Newspaper Journalism,” Papers on Language and Literature, 43 (Winter 2007), 24–44.

Holley, Val, “Leo Haefeli, Utah’s Chameleon Journalist,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 149–63.

Hudson, Berkley, “‘The Mississippi Negro Farmer,’ His Mule, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” Journalism History, 32 (Winter 2007), 201–12.

Hutter, Liz, “‘Ho for Salt River!’ Politics, Loss, and Satire,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Kanellos, Nicolás, “El Clamor Público: Resisting the American Empire,” California History, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 10–19. Heavily illustrated.

Kelly, Catherine E., “Face Value: George Washington and Portrait Prints,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Lawrence, N. R., “Mimeo Fever: Sixties Small Press within a Global Context,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 19, Autumn 2006), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

Lemelin, Bernard, “An Isolationist Newspaper in an Internationalist Era: The Chicago Tribune and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945–1960,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Winter 2006), 234–64.

Moss, Richard, “Racial Anxiety on the Comics Page: Harry Hershfield’s ‘Abie the Agent,’ 1914–1940,” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (Feb. 2007), 90–108.

Newell, Dianne, and Jenéa Tallentire, “For the Extended Family and the Universe: Judith Merril and Science Fiction Autobiography,” Biography, 30 (Winter 2007), 1–21.

Rainey, Sue, “Picturesque California: How Westerners Portrayed the West in the Age of John Muir,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Reaves, Wendy Wick, “‘Reading’ Portrait Prints: New Ways of Seeing Old Faces,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Richardson, Todd H., “Publishing the Cause of Suffrage: The Woman’s Journal’s Appropriation of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Postbellum America,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Dec. 2006), 578–608.

Scott, Cord, “Written in Red, White, and Blue: A Comparison of Comic Book Propaganda from World War II and September 11,” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (April 2007), 325–43.

Underwood, Doug, “Depression, Drink, and Dissipation,” Journalism History, 32 (Winter 2007), 186–200.

Watt, Ronald G., “The Beginning of The Journal of Discourses: A Confrontation between George D. Watt and Willard Richards,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 134–48.

Anderson, Christopher Todd, “Nothing Lowly: The Anti-picturesque in American Nature Poetry” (University of Connecticut, 2006). Order No. DA3221526.

Blake, Matthew Dower, “Woody Sez: Woody Guthrie in the People’s World Newspaper” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3228683.

Boo, Kyung-Sook, “I, Too, Sing America: Individualism and Transnational Constructions of American Identity in Korean American Literature” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221931.

Connolly-Lane, Karen, “Politics and the Private Eye: Ideology and Aesthetics in the Hardboiled Tradition” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3225725.

Davis, David A., “World War I, Literary Modernism, and the U.S. South” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219444.

Deines, Timothy J., “Figuring the Political in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures: A Conceptual Inquiry” (Michigan State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216126.

Den Hartog, Jacqueline M., “A ‘Wild and Ambiguous Medium’: Letters and Epistolary Fictions in Early America, 1780–1830” (University of Notre Dame, 2006). Order No. DA3221318.

Flota, Brian Christopher, “Flight to San Francisco: Bay Area Literature and Multiculturalism, 1955–1979” (George Washington University, 2006). Order No. DA3217546.

Friedel, Tania, “‘The Story of Americans’: Cosmopolitanism and Racial Discourse in Twentieth-Century African American Letters” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221949.

Gailey, Amanda A., “Editing Whitman and Dickinson: Print and Digital Representations” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006). Order No. DA3221293.

Garza, José, “Social Turbulence as Reflected in Alejandro Morales’ Novelistic Techniques” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3220176.

Green, Adam J., “Images of Americans: The United States in Canadian Newspapers during the 1960s” (University of Ottawa, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR15023.

Griffith, Johnny Ray, “Writing After the Wreck: Post-Modern Ethics and Spirituality in Fictions by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, and Leslie Marmon Silko” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3216950.

Howland, David, “Good Press, Bad Press: A 25-Year Comparison of Arguments and Trends in American News Coverage of Climate Change and the Ozone Hole” (University of New Hampshire, 2006). Order No. DA3217424.

Hoyt, Heather Marie, “An ‘I’ for Intimacy: Rhetorical Appeal in Arab American Women’s Literature” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220303.

Johns, John Adam, “Leviathan and Automaton: Technology and Teleology in American Literature” (University of Pittsburgh, 2006). Order No. DA3223986.

Kuhlman, Keely Susan, “Transatlantic Travel and Cultural Exchange in the Early Colonial Era: The Hybrid American Female and Her New World Colony” (Washington State University, 2006). Order No. DA3221799.

LaCroix, David D., “Words for the Hour: Temporality and Agency in African American Literature” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222962.

Lees, Cynthia C., “Border Spaces and la survivance: The Evolution of the Franco-American Novel of New England (1875–2004)” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3224574.

Luongo, Jennifer R., “Memory, History, and the Journey West in the Twentieth-Century Novel” (Fordham University, 2006). Order No. DA3216919.

Meaney, Shealeen Anne, “‘Skirts must be girded high’: Spaces of Subjectivity and Transgression in Post-Suffrage American Women’s Travel Writing” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221097.

Mehta, Parvinder, “Alter/Native Identities: Negotiations in Immigrant and Transcultural Discourse” (Wayne State University, 2006). Order No. DA3211002.

Mills, Nancy Patton, “Portraits through the Lens of Historicity: The American Family as Portrayed in Ladies’ Home Journal, 1950–1959” (Duquesne University, 2006). Order No. DA3220866.

Morgan, Lawrence E., “Where Science Writing and Nature Writing Converge: The Writing of John Gierach” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220920.

Nicks, Robin Jean Gray, “Fairy Tales and Necrophilia: A New Cultural Context for Antebellum American Sensationalism” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3224594.

Obourn, Megan, “Critical Distances: Liberal Multiculturalism, U.S. Citizenship, and Contemporary American Literature” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221983.

Parmiter, Tara K., “Home Away from Home: The Summer Place in Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century American Women’s Literature” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221987.

Scales, Laura Thiemann, “Speaking in Tongues: Mediumship and American Narrative Voice” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3217867.

Schell, Jennifer Hope, “‘Us lone wand’ring whaling-men’: Cross-Cutting Fantasies of Work and Nation in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Whaling Narratives” (University of Pittsburgh, 2006). Order No. DA3224040.

Sheehy, Michael W., “From Watergate to Lewinsky: Unnamed Sources in the ‘Washington Post,’ 1970–2000” (Ohio University, 2006). Order No. DA3220619.

Shoop, Tiffany Jane, “Madam President: A Content Analysis and Media Effects Approach to Investigating News Media Coverage of Female Presidential Primary Candidates” (University of Tennessee, 2006). Order No. DA3220766.

Sinche, Bryan Charles, “‘The test of salt water’: Literature of the Sea and Social Class in Antebellum America” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219097.

Thomson, Shawn, “Fortress of American Solitude: The Crusoe Topos in Nineteenth-Century America (1846–1885)” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222186.

Vials, Christopher R., “‘We’re the People’: Realism, Mass Culture, and Popular Front Pluralism, 1935–1946” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3216967.

White-Stanley, Debra, “Foreign Bodies: Military Medicine, Modernism, and Melodrama” (University of Arizona, 2006). Order No. DA3218235.

Eddy, Jacalyn, Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children’s Book Publishing, 1919–1939. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. x, 211 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-299-21794-5.)

LaBarre, Delia, ed., The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn: Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. lii, 175 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3243-2.)

Lewis, Nghana Tamu, Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women’s Writing, 1920–1945. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xvi, 208 pp. $37.95, isbn 978-58729-529-4.)

Tidwell, John Edgar, and Cheryl R. Ragar, eds., Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xx, 351 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1716-5.)

Basso, Matthew, ed., “Another Look at Burke’s Butte: The Great Depression and William Allen Burke’s ‘Greenhorn Miner,’” Montana, 56 (Winter 2006), 18–31, 97–98. Heavily illustrated.

Hoffman, Abraham, ed., “‘Boiler Plate’ Jewish Articles in the Frontier Press,” Western States Jewish History, 39 (Spring 2007), 274–82.

Powers, Paul S., Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street, ed. Laurie Powers. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 274 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8032-5984-3.)

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Public History and Memory

Hein, Laura, and Takenaka Akiko, “Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States since 1995,” Pacific Historical Review, 76 (Feb. 2007), 61–94.

Sobol, Joseph Daniel, “‘Whistlin’ Towards the Devil’s House’: Poetic Transformations and Natural Metaphysics in an Appalachian Folktale Performance,” Oral Tradition, 21 (March 2006), 3–43.

Johnson, Steven Kirkham, “Re-enacting the Civil War: Genre and American Memory” (University of Washington, 2006). Order No. DA3224240.

Yates, Joanne M., “The Rhetorical Terrain of Nevada’s Historic Markers” (University of Nevada, Reno, 2006). Order No. DA3221883.

Stier, Oren Baruch, and J. Shawn Landres, eds., Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xiv, 280 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-34799-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-21864-3.)

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Race

Benavides, José Luis, “‘Californios! Whom Do You Support?’: El Clamor Público’s Contradictory Role in the Racial Formation Process in Early California,” California History, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 54–68. Heavily illustrated.

Camarillo, Albert M., “Cities of Color: The New Racial Frontier in California’s Minority-Majority Cities,” Pacific Historical Review, 76 (Feb. 2007), 1–28.

Downey, Liam, “Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 771–96.

Meehan, Kevin, and Paul B. Miller, “Martí, Schomburg, y la cuestión racial en las Américas” (Martí, Schomburg, and the race question in the Americas), Afro-Hispanic Review, 25 (Fall 2006), 73–88. In Spanish.

Ostrowski, Carl, “Slavery, Labor Reform, and Intertextuality in Antebellum Print Culture: The Slave Narrative and the City-Mysteries Novel,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 493–506.

Berrey, Stephen Andrew, “Against the Law: Violence, Crime, State Repression, and Black Resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3221349.

Donaldson, Lisa Weber, “‘Indian rolling’: White Violence against Native Americans in Farmington, New Mexico” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220935.

Fernheimer, Janice Wendi, “The Rhetoric of Black Jewish Identity Construction in America and Israel: 1964–1972” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3225418.

Jerng, Mark Chia-Yon, “Claiming Others: Imagining Transracial Adoption in American Literature” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3217774.

Jurkiewicz, Theodore C., “Citadels in the Suburbs: White Resistance to Black Neighbors in Metropolitan Detroit from 1950–1970” (Wayne State University, 2006). Order No. DA3211008.

Kearly, Peter R., “Lost in Chinatown: Representations of White Alienation in American Fiction and Film” (Wayne State University, 2006). Order No. DA3211004.

Methot, Greta, “The Horror of Looking: Lynching and the Empathetic Eye” (University of Rhode Island, 2006). Order No. DA3225322.

Riedl, John M., “Language and the Making of Race in the United States, 1827–1900” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3225902.

Rogers, Jaye Lee, “‘Ye are all one’: Missionaries in the Congo and the Dynamics of Race and Gender, 1890–1925” (Union Institute & University, 2006). Order No. DA3224996.

White, John W., “Managed Compliance: White Resistance and Desegregation in South Carolina, 1950–1970” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3224648.

Williams, Edward M., Jr., “The Color of Sympathy: Biology, Race, and Feeling in Republican and Antebellum Culture” (University of Rhode Island, 2006). Order No. DA3225332.

Williams, Kelly Diane, “‘Home of all nations’: Race, Place, and Domesticity in American Literature, 1877–1919” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224786.

Jaspin, Elliott, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America. (New York: Basic, 2007. x, 341 pp. $26.96, isbn 978-0-465-03636-3.)

Koehlinger, Amy L., The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 304 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02473-1.)

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Religion

Braun, Mark, “The Black Geneva Piety of the Wisconsin Synod: An Analysis of the Changing View of the Relationship of Doctrine and Liturgy within the wels: Part Two,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Winter 2006), 206–34.

Connerly, Jennifer, “Fighting Quakers: A Jet Black Whiteness,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Autumn 2006), 373–441.

Crow, Paul A., Jr., “From cocu to cuic: The Struggle for Reconciliation and Faithfulness,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Fall–Winter 2006), 123–38.

Dekar, Paul R., “The ‘Good War’ and Baptists Who Refused to Fight It,” Peace & Change, 32 (April 2007), 186–202.

Embry, Jessie L., “The Church Follows the Flag: U.S. Foreign Aid, Utah Universities, the lds Church, and Iran, 1950–64,” Journal of Mormon History, 32 (Fall 2006), 141–79.

Findlay, James F., Jr., “Glimpses of Recent History: The National Council of Churches, 1974–2004,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Fall–Winter 2006), 152–69.

Harder, Tom, “The Dichotomy between Faithfulness and Effectiveness in the Peace Theology of John Howard Yoder,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 81 (April 2007), 227–42.

Hartweg, Rhonda D., “All in Raptures: The Spirituality of Sarah Anderson Jones,” Methodist History, 45 (April 2007), 166–79.

Jortner, Adam, “Cholera, Christ, and Jackson: The Epidemic of 1832 and the Origins of Christian Politics in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Summer 2007), 233–64.

Kimbrough, S. T., Jr., “Charles Wesley in Boston,” Methodist History, 45 (Jan. 2007), 111–33.

Kimbrough, S. T., Jr., “Charles Wesley in Georgia,” Methodist History, 45 (Jan. 2007), 77–110.

Kurien, Prema A., “Multiculturalism and ‘American’ Religion: The Case of Hindu Indian Americans,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 723–41.

Lantzer, Jason S., “The Origin of Indiana’s Dry Leader: The Revered Edward S. Shumaker and Midwestern Dry Culture,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (Jan. 2007), 71–98.

McKanan, Dan, “Inventing the Catholic Worker Family,” Church History, 76 (March 2007), 84–113.

Meyer, Carl S., “‘Poverty Its Birthright’: The Beginnings of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Winter 2006), 235–57.

Paulos, Michael Harold, “. . .I am not and never have been a polygamist’: Reed Smoot’s Speech before the United States Senate, February 19, 1907,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 100–115.

Portier, William L., “Pascendi’s Reception in the United States: The Case of Joseph McSorley,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Winter 2007), 13–30.

Radzilowski, John, “Miracle: American Polonia, Karol Wojtyla, and the Election of Pope John Paul II,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Spring 2006), 79–87.

Robinson, David M., “‘The New Epoch of Belief’: The Radical and Religious Transformation in Nineteenth-Century New England,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Dec. 2006), 557–77.

Scheve, Kenneth, and David Stasavage, “The Political Economy of Religion and Social Insurance in the United States, 1910–1939,” Studies in American Political Development, 20 (Oct. 2006), 132–59.

Schneider, Robert A., “The Federal Council of Churches and American Presbyterians, 1900–1950,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Fall–Winter 2006), 103–22.

Sharkey, Heather J., “American Mission, Egyptian Church: The Making of a Coptic Evangelical Presbyterian Community,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Fall–Winter 2006), 170–80.

Stoneman, Timothy H. B., “Preparing the Soil for Global Revival: Station hcjb’s Radio Circle, 1949–59,” Church History, 76 (March 2007), 114–55.

Straker, Ian B., “Social Status in Early American Methodism: The Case of Freeborn Garrettson,” Methodist History, 45 (April 2007), 155–65.

Taylor, Judith M., “Cantor Reuben Rinder of San Francisco, 1887–1966,” Western States Jewish History, 39 (Spring 2007), 223–35.

Thomas, Norman E., “United Methodist History of Mission Series,” Methodist History, 45 (April 2007), 140–54.

Weiner, Hollace Ava, and Lauraine Miller, “Little Synagogues across Texas,” Western States Jewish History, 39 (Spring 2007), 195–221.

Wilczynski, Marek, “Lumen Obscurum: Coleridge and the Conservative Romantic Theology in New England,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (Dec. 2006), 599–610.

Yick, Joseph K. S., “Methodist-Chinese Friendship: Mr. & Mrs. John A. Pilley in Pre-1949 China,” Methodist History, 45 (April 2007), 180–89.

Anderson, Christopher J., “The World Is Our Parish: Displaying Home and Foreign Missions at the 1919 Methodist World’s Fair” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222201.

Bates, David Keith, Jr., “Moving Fundamentalism toward the Mainstream: John R. Rice and the Reengagement of America’s Religious and Political Cultures” (Kansas State University, 2006). Order No. DA3223365.

Bauer, John Thomas, “Stability and Change in United States Religious Regions, 1980–2000” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222183.

Blosser, Jacob M., “Pursuing Happiness: Cultural Discourse and Popular Religion in Anglican Virginia, 1700–1770” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224413.

Branstetter, Christopher J., “Purity, Power, and Pentecostal Light: The Revivalist Doctrine and Means of Aaron Merritt Hills” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222202.

Carpenter, Mark Allen, “An Interpretive Analysis of the Layman’s Prayer Revival of 1857–1858” (Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006). Order No. DA3216386.

Den Hartog, Jonathan J., “‘Patriotism and piety’: Orthodox Religion and Federalist Political Culture” (University of Notre Dame, 2006). Order No. DA3221319.

Eden, Jason Edward, “Negotiating a New Religious World: English Missionaries and American Indians in Colonial Southeastern Massachusetts” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3219990.

Fenton, Elizabeth, “Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in U.S. Literature and Culture, 1774–1889” (Rice University, 2006). Order No. DA3216704.

Fernheimer, Janice Wendi, “The Rhetoric of Black Jewish Identity Construction in America and Israel: 1964–1972” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3225418.

Fluhman, J. Spencer, “Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Antebellum America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222819.

Haberman, Aaron Louis, “Civil Rights on the Right: The Modern Christian Right and the Crusade for School Prayer, 1962–1996” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224435.

Hessel-Robinson, Timothy, “‘Be thou my onely well belov’d’: Exegesis and the Spirituality of Desire in Edward Taylor’s ‘Preparatory Meditations’ on the Song of Songs” (Graduate Theological Union, 2006). Order No. DA3220861.

Johnson, Robert A., Jr., “Full Moon over Washington: Charles Ferguson and the Religion of Democracy” (Union Theological Seminary, 2006). Order No. DA3222199.

Messer, Glen Alton, II, “Restless for Zion: New England Methodism, Holiness, and the Abolitionist Struggle, Circa 1789–1845” (Boston University School of Theology, 2006). Order No. DA3217955.

Nicastro, R. Vito, Jr., “From Division to Christian Unity: Factors Contributing to Full Communion between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church” (Boston College, 2006). Order No. DA3221273.

Rogers, Jaye Lee, “‘Ye are all one’: Missionaries in the Congo and the Dynamics of Race and Gender, 1890–1925” (Union Institute & University, 2006). Order No. DA3224996.

Slade, Peter Gordon, “Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3225066.

Yoon, Young-Hoon, “What Would Jesus Do? Charles Sheldon’s Legacy and American Evangelicalism” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222213.

Bartoloni, Stefania, ed., Per le strade del mondo. Laiche e religiose fra Otto e Novecento (On the roads of the world. Lay and religious life in the eighteenth and nineteenth century). (Bologna: Mulino, 2007. 456 pp. €33.00, isbn 978-88-15-11431-0.) In Italian.

Koehlinger, Amy L., The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 304 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02473-1.)

Murray, David, Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 213 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-8122-3996-6.)

Robinson, Edward J., To Save My Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii, 212 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1555-9.)

Salvatore, Nick, ed., Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x, 196 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03143-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07382-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Slawson, Douglas J., Ambition and Arrogance: Cardinal William O’Connell of Boston and the American Catholic Church. (San Diego: Cobalt, 2007. xiv, 232 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-9787855-0-5.)

Wilson, Charles Reagan, Southern Missions: The Religion of the American South in Global Perspective. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2006. vi, 53 pp. Paper, $13.95, isbn 978-1-932792-67-6.)

Clark, Emily, ed., Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727–1760. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xii, 138 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3237-1.)

Frear, Sara S., ed., “‘You My Brother Will Be Glad With Me’: The Letters of Augusta Jane Evans to Walter Clopton Harriss, January 29, 1856, to October 29, 185[8?],” Alabama Review, 60 (April 2007), 111–41.

Huber, Patrick, “Father Oscar Huber, the Kennedy Assassination, and the News Leak Controversy: A Research Note,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Jan. 2007), 381–93.

Judson, Dan, “The Mercies of a Benign Judge: A Letter from Gershom Seixas to Hannah Adams, 1810,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 179–89.

Oehler, Gottlieb F., and David Z. Smith, “A Visit to the Pawnee,” ed. Richard E. Jensen, Nebraska History, 87 (Winter 2006), 142–72. Heavily illustrated.

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Revolutionary and Early National

Codignola, Luca, “La presenza francese in Nord America, 1763–1846” (The French presence in North America, 1763–1846), in Gli archivi della Santa Sede e la storia della Francia (The archives of the Holy See and the history of France), ed. Giovanni Pizzorusso, Oliver Poncet, and Matteo Sanfilippo, 191–209. (Viterbo: Edizioni Sette Città, 2006. €18.00, isbn 978-88-7853-069-0.) In Italian.

Farrell, James M., “The Writs of Assistance and Public Memory: John Adams and the Legacy of James Otis,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Dec. 2006), 533–56.

Little, J. I., “American Sinner/Canadian Saint? The Further Adventures of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs, 1799–1840,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Summer 2007), 203–31.

Mohl, Allan S., “The Rise and Fall of the Iroquois Confederacy: Its Influence on Early American History,” Journal of Psychohistory, 34 (Spring 2007), 347–61.

Taylor, Alan, “The Late Loyalists: Northern Reflections of the Early American Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Spring 2007), 1–34.

Woloson, Wendy A., “In Hock: Pawning in Early America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Spring 2007), 35–81.

Leonhard, Robert R., “Enlightened Defense: The National Security Policy of Thomas Jefferson” (West Virginia University, 2006). Order No. DA3225373.

Lien, Scott Gregory, “Contested Solidarities: Philanthropy, Justice, and the Reconstitution of Public Authority in the United States, 1790–1860” (University of Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3219549.

Miller, Sarah E., “An Ohio River Boundary? The Contested Ohio Country, 1783–1795” (University of Toledo, 2006). Order No. DA3218763.

Polt, John Dewey, “The Road from Bennington: John Stark’s Contribution to the American Revolution” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222216.

Goudie, Sean X., Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 275 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8122-3930-X.)

Middlekauff, Robert, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv, 736 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-516247-9.) Revised and expanded edition.

Neimeyer, Charles P., The Revolutionary War. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xxvi, 200 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-313-33228-9.)

Nellis, Eric, The Long Road to Change America’s Revolution, 1750–1820. (Peterborough: Broadview, 2007. 324 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-551-11110-0.)

Hogan, Margaret A., et al., eds., Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 8: March 1787–December 1789. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007. lviii, 529 pp. $90.00, isbn 978-0-674-02278-2.)

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Science and Technology

Fleming, James Rodger, “The Pathological History of Weather and Climate Modification: Three Cycles of Promise and Hype,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 37 (no. 1, 2006), 3–25.

Freeze, Karen Johnson, “Innovation and Technology Transfer during the Cold War: The Case of the Open-End Spinning Machine from Communist Czechoslovakia,” Technology and Culture, 48 (April 2007), 249–85.

Kaiser, David, “The Physics of Spin: Sputnik Politics and American Physicists in the 1950s,” Social Research, 73 (Winter 2006), 1225–52.

Mathewson, Kent, “Alexander von Humboldt’s Image and Influence in North American Geography, 1804–2004,” Geographical Review, 96 (July 2006), 416–38.

McCray, Patrick W., “Amateur Scientists, the International Geophysical Year, and the Ambitions of Fred Whipple,” Isis, 97 (Dec. 2006), 634–58.

Nichols, Sandra, “Why Was Humboldt Forgotten in the United States?,” Geographical Review, 96 (July 2006), 399–415.

Nordlund, Christer, “Endocrinology and Expectations in 1930s America: Louis Berman’s Ideas on New Creations in Human Beings,” British Journal for the History of Science (London), 40 (March 2007), 83–104.

Oliver, Marc, “George Eastman’s Modern Stone-Age Family: Snapshot Photography and the Brownie,” Technology and Culture, 48 (Jan. 2007), 1–19.

Scharlott, Bradford W., and Mary Carmen Cupito, “Proto-Broadcasting in Cincinnati, 1847–1875: The Flow of Telegraph News to Merchants and the Press,” Ohio Valley History, 7 (Spring 2007), 32–46.

Walker, J. Samuel, “An ‘Atomic Garbage Dump’ for Kansas,” Kansas History, 29 (Winter 2006), 266–85. Heavily illustrated.

Westwick, Peter J., “Reengineering Engineers: Management Philosophies at jpl in the 1990s,” Technology and Culture, 48 (Jan. 2007), 67–91.

Wise, Norton M., “Thoughts on the Politicization of Science through Commercialization,” Social Research, 73 (Winter 2006), 1253–72.

Wood, David Lyle, “‘The Dearest Laborers’: Pilgrims on the Lightning Road to Zion,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Winter 2007), 44–62.

Asner, Glen Ross, “The Cold War and American Industrial Research” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2006). Order No. DA3226868.

Bills, Emily, “The Telephone Shapes Los Angeles: Communications and Built Space, 1880–1950” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221929.

Bryant, William Harold, “Whole System, Whole Earth: The Convergence of Technology and Ecology in Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225584.

Gart, Jason Howard, “Electronics and Aerospace Industry in Cold War Arizona, 1945–1968: Motorola, Hughes Aircraft, Goodyear Aircraft” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220301.

Kalic, Sean N., “U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946–1967: ‘We believe in the peaceful use of space’” (Kansas State University, 2006). Order No. DA3223375.

November, Joseph Adam, “Digitizing Life: The Introduction of Computers to Biology and Medicine” (Princeton University, 2006). Order No. DA3223838.

Schloegel, Judith Johns, “Intimate Biology: Herbert Spencer Jennings, Tracy Sonneborn, and the Career of American Protozoan Genetics” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3223050.

Bowles, Mark D., Science in Flux: nasa’s Nuclear Program at Plum Brook Station, 1955–2005. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006. xxx, 335 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4317.)

French, Francis, and Colin Burgess, Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxx, 397 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1146-9.)

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Sexuality

Hajo, Cathy Moran, “What Every Woman Should Know: Birth Control Clinics in the United States, 1916–1940” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221956.

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Social and Cultural

Benson, Susan Porter, “What Goes ‘Round Comes ‘Round: Secondhand Clothing, Furniture, and Tools in Working-Class Lives in the Interwar United States,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (no. 1, 2007), 17–31.

Brady, Kevin M., “A University at War: The Impact of World War II on Baylor University,” Military History of the West, 36 (2006), 35–53.

Cinotto, Simone, “Il mondo nel piatto: globalizzazione e cucine nazionali tra passato e presente” (The World on a plate: Globalization and national cuisines between past and present), Quaderni storici (Bologna), 16 (2006), 609–38. In Italian.

Ernst, John, and Yvonne Baldwin, “The Not So Silent Minority: Louisville’s Antiwar Movement, 1966–1975,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Feb. 2007), 105–142.

Faye, Cathy, “Governing the Grapevine: The Study of Rumor during World War II,” History of Psychology, 10 (Feb. 2007), 1–21.

Friedman, Monroe, ed., “Consumer Culture,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 1–109. Special issue.

Godfrey, Audrey M., “‘The Queen of Inventions’: The Sewing Machine Comes to Utah,” Journal of Mormon History, 32 (Fall 2006), 82–103.

Green, Thomas, “Tricksters and the Marketing of Breakfast Cereals,” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (Feb. 2007), 49–68.

Hayes-Bautista, David E., and Cynthia L. Chamberlin, “Cinco de Mayo’s First Seventy-Five Years in Alta California: From Spontaneous Behavior to Sedimented Memory, 1862 to 1937,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Spring 2007), 23–64.

Kerber, Stephen, “The Mississippi River Festival at Edwardsville, 1969–1980,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Fall–Winter 2006–2007), 263–85.

Le Beau, Bryan F., “Art in the Parlor: Consumer Culture and Currier and Ives,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 18–37. Heavily illustrated.

LeCain, Timothy J., “‘See America the Bountiful’: Butte’s Berkeley Pit and the American Culture of Consumption,” Montana, 56 (Winter 2006), 5–17, 97. Heavily illustrated.

Matt, Susan J., “A Hunger for Home: Homesickness and Food in a Global Consumer Society,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 6–17.

Moss, Richard, “Creating a Jewish American Identity in Indianapolis: The Jewish Welfare Federation and the Regulation of Leisure, 1920–1934,” Indiana Magazine of History, 103 (March 2007), 39–65.

Pettit, Michael, “‘The Joy in Believing’: The Cardiff Giant, Commercial Deceptions, and Styles of Observation in Gilded Age America,” Isis, 97 (Dec. 2006), 659–77.

Pollak, Oliver, “Nebraska’s Libraries at War, 1917–1919,” Nebraska History, 87 (Fall 2006), 120–32. Heavily illustrated.

Renouard, Joe, “The Predicaments of Plenty: Interwar Intellectuals and American Consumerism,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 54–67.

Rosen, Judith Friedman, “Earlier American Jewish Anniversary Celebrations: 1905 and 1954,” American Jewish History, 92 (Dec. 2004), 481–497.

Stole, Inger L., and Rebecca Livesay, “Consumer Activism, Commercialism, and Curriculum Choices: Advertising in Schools in the 1930s,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 68–80.

Banda, Anne E., “A Tale of Two Cities: Public Library Development in Milwaukee and Montreal” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2006). Order No. DA3222393.

Buerglener, Robert, “Creating the American Automobile Driver, 1898–1918” (University of Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3219495.

Flemma, Thomas James, “Taming the ‘Chaos of a mighty world’: Contesting California Culture, 1846–1856” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3218468.

Hilliard, Kathleen Mary, “Spending in Black and White: Race, Slavery, and Consumer Values in the Antebellum South” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224439.

Mack, Adam, “‘Good things to eat in suburbia’: Supermarkets and American Consumer Culture, 1930–1970” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224456.

McKinnon, Andrew M., “Jesus, the American Advertising Man: Bruce Barton, ‘The Man Nobody Knows,’ and Faith in Consumer Capitalism” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR15952.

Smock, Thomas Maynard, “From Myth to Identity: Oral History, Popular Culture, and the Making of the Greatest Generation” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222219.

Calvo Buezas, Tomás, ed., El gigante dormido: El poder hispano en los Estados Unidos (The sleeping giant: Hispanic power in the United States). (Madrid: sgel, 2006. 176 pp. isbn 8-483-19284-5.) In Spanish.

Calvo Buezas, Tomás, ed., Hispanos en Estados Unidos, inmigrantes en España: ¿amenaza o nueva civilización? (Hispanics in the United States, immigrants in Spain: threat or new civilization?). (Madrid: sgel, 2006. 416 pp. isbn 8-483-19280-2.) In Spanish.

Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xxx, 248 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-313-33526-6.)

Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America: From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xxx, 182 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-313-33534-1.)

Hoelbling, Walter W., Klaus Rieser, and Susanne Rieser, eds., U.S. Icons and Iconicity. (Münster: lit, 2006. 304 pp. €29.90, isbn 3-825-88669-7.)

Malcolm, Cheryl A., and Jopi Nyman, Eros. usa: Essays on the Culture and Literature of Desire. (Gdansk: Gdansk University Press, 2005. 221 pp. isbn 8-373-26282-2.)

Rosenberg, Chaim M., Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-579-1. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-55849-580-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Young, William H., and Nancy K. Young, The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. Vol. 1, A–M: xxviii, 344 pp. Vol. 2, N–Z: xviii, 323 pp. $175.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-33520-4/set.)

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Social Welfare and Public Health

Feldman, Sarah Y., “Books behind Bars: The Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth, 1956–1964,” Rhode Island History, 64 (Fall 2006), 63–81.

Galush, William, “The Unremembered Movement: Abstinence among Polish Americans,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Autumn 2006), 13–22.

Masutti, Christophe, “Frederic Clements, Climatology, and Conservation in the 1930s,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 37 (no. 1, 2006), 27–48.

Shapiro, Edward, “The Jewish Vocational Service of Newark, New Jersey, 1950–1980,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 37–56.

Van Hook, Jennifer V. W., Susan K. Brown, and Frank D. Bean, “For Love or Money? Welfare Reform and Immigrant Naturalization,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 643–66.

Eastman, Martha Anne, “‘All for health for All’: The Local Dynamics of Rural Public Health in Maine, 1885–1950” (University of Maine, 2006). Order No. DA3220688.

Henry, Mary Ellen, “Refuge from Want? Virginia’s Almshouses, 1870–1930” (American University, 2006). Order No. DA3218576.

Nickel, Dawn Dorothy, “Dying in the West: Health Care Policies and Caregiving Practices in Montana and Alberta, 1880–1950” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2005).

Ruswick, Brent J., “Almost Progressive: The American Scientific Charity Movement’s Reconsiderations of Pauperism” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222810.

Green, Elna C., ed., Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women’s Letters during the Great Depression. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 243 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-658-3.)

Nellis, Eric, and Anne Decker Cecere, eds., The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor. (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2007. 1,041 pp. $85.50, isbn 978-0-9620737-4-8.)

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Sports and Recreation

Aiello, Thomas, “The Fading of the Greys: Black Baseball and Historical Memory in Little Rock,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 360–84.

Carriere, Michael H., “‘A Diamond Is a Boy’s Best Friend’: The Rise of Little League Baseball, 1939–1964,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Fall 2005), 351–37.

Galily, Yair, and Michael Bar-Eli, “From Tal Brody to European Champions: Early Americanization and the ‘Golden Age’ of Israeli Basketball, 1965–1979,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Fall 2005), 303–27.

Holman, Andrew C., “Stops and Starts: Ideology, Commercialism, and the Fall of American Women’s Hockey in the 1920s,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Fall 2005), 328–50.

Isserman, Maurice, “Highest Adventure,” American Heritage, 58 (Feb.–March 2007), 58–70. Heavily illustrated.

Laun, Peter, “Burning Up the Lake: Racing on Elkhart Lake’s Historic Road Circuit,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Spring 2007), 16–26. Heavily illustrated.

Pomrenke, Jacob, “Bringing Home the Bacon: How the Chicago ‘Black Sox’ Got Back into Baseball and Gave Bragging Rights to One Illinois Town’s Team,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Winter 2006), 265–82.

Fury, Frank P., “Sporting Traditions, Southern Traditions, and the National Mythmaking of Modern America in Selected Works of William Faulkner” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222205.

Gonzales, Nathan Daniel, “‘Visit yesterday, today’: Ethno-tourism and Southern California, 1884–1955” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226543.

Pond, Ann Janine Jurgens, “The Ritualized Construction of Status: The Men Who Made Mardi Gras, 1830–1900” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3225229.

Richey, Edward Duke, “Living It Up in Aspen: Post-War America, Ski Town Culture, and the New Western Dream, 1945–1975” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006). Order No. DA3227359.

Lewis, Catherine M., “Don’t Ask What I Shot”: How Eisenhower’s Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950s America. (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2007. xvi, 304 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-07-148570-8.)

Morris, Peter, Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii, 184 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1110-0.)

Weiss, Stuart L., The Curt Flood Story: The Man behind the Myth. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xvi, 251 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1740-0.)

Deaver, Philip F., ed., Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxviii, 327 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-5991-1.)

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Teaching, Surveys, and Textbooks

Kornblith, Gary J., and Carol Lasser, “More than Great White Men: A Century of Scholarship on American Social History,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 8–13.

Ragland, Rachel G., “Changing Secondary Teachers’ Views of Teaching American History,” History Teacher, 40 (Feb. 2007), 219–46.

Rosenberg, Emily S., “America and the World: From National to Global,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 18–22.

Wilentz, Sean, “American Political Histories,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 23–27.

Bilhartz, Terry D., and Alan C. Elliott, Currents in American History: A Brief History of the United States. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2007. xxiv, 335 pp. Paper, $37.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1821-4.)

Egerton, Douglas R., et al., The Atlantic World: A History, 1400–1888. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2007. x, 530 pp. $42.95, isbn 978-0-88295-245-1.)

Patterson, James T., Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 448 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-19-512216-9.)

Sagert, Kelly Boyer, The 1970s. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xx, 261 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-33919-6.)

Sagredo Santos, Antonia, and María Luz Arroyo Vázquez, History and Culture of the United States. (Madrid: uned, 2007. isbn 978-8-436-25452-5.)

Donaldson, Gary, ed., Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation since 1945. (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. xiv, 346 pp. Cloth, $72.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1537-4. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1538-1.)

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Theory and Methodology

Dening, Greg, “Performing Cross-Culturally,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 25 (Dec. 2006), 1–11.

Green, Adam Isaiah, “Queer Theory and Sociology: Locating the Subject and the Self in Sexuality Studies,” Sociological Theory, 25 (March 2007), 26–45.

Gustafson, Sandra M., “Histories of Democracy and Empire,” American Quarterly, 59 (March 2007), 107–33.

Melish, Joanne Pope, “Reconsidering Rhode Island History,” Rhode Island History, 64 (Summer 2006), 49–60.

Moyar, Mark, “The Current State of Military History,” Historical Journal (Cambridge), 50 (March 2007), 225–40.

Tarter, Brent, “Making History in Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 115 (no. 1, 2007), 2–55.

Baer, M. Teresa, and Geneil Breeze, eds., Finding Indiana Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Research. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2007. xii, 289 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-87195-203-5.) Heavily illustrated.

White, G. Edward, History and the Constitution: Collected Essays. (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2007. xii, 503 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-59460-281-8.)

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Transportation, Travel, and Exploration

Clubbe, John, “The Forging of a Writer: Lafcadio Hearn in Cincinnati,” Ohio Valley History, 7 (Spring 2007), 1–31.

Grant, H. Roger, “The Georgia & Florida Railroad and Wiregrass Agriculture,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2007), 28–48.

Raitz, Karl, and Nancy O’Malley, “Local-Scale Turnpike Roads in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (Jan. 2007), 1–23.

Rubiés, Joan-Pau, “Travel Writing and Humanistic Culture: A Blunted Impact?” in Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe: Travel Accounts and Their Audiences, ed. Peter Mancall, 131–68. (Leiden: Brill, 2006. 168 pp. $98.00, isbn 978-90-04-15403-2.)

Waff, Craig B., “‘Go to the Moon instead of Just Going into Orbit,’” Air Power History, 54 (Spring 2007), 22–37.

Cartwright, Bradley Jay, “Pacific Passages: American Encounters with the Pacific and its People, 1815–1955” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006). Order No. DA3219035.

Marrs, Aaron Wagner, “The Iron Horse Turns South: A History of Antebellum Southern Railroads” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224457.

Bezilla, Michael, and Jack Rudnicki, Rails to Penn State: The Story of the Bellefonte Central. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2007. x, 310 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8117-0231-7.)

Dedek, Peter B., Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. x, 169 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4194-5.)

Whittlesey, Lee H., Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xiv, 377 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4117-4.)

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Urban and Suburban

Birch, Eugenie L., “Learning from Past Disasters,” in Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, ed. Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, 132–48. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii, 375 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-1980-7.)

Ehrenfeucht, Renia, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, “Constructing the Sidewalks: Municipal Government and the Production of Public Space in Los Angeles, California, 1880–1920,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (Jan. 2007), 104–24.

Murphy, Mary Smith, “Growing Up in the Bronx,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 43 (Spring 2006), 22–34.

Nijman, Jan, “Place-Particularity and ‘Deep Analogies’: A Comparative Essay on Miami’s Rise as a World City,” Urban Geography, 28 (Jan.–Feb. 2007), 92–107.

Norton, Peter D., “Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street,” Technology and Culture, 48 (April 2007), 331–59.

Prude, Jonathan, “Engaging Urban Panoramas: City Views of the Antebellum North,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Thale, Christopher, “Changing Addresses: Social Conflict, Civic Culture, and the Politics of House Numbering Reform in Milwaukee, 1913–1931,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (Jan. 2007), 125–43.

Wheeler, Stephen M., and Wade Patterson, “The Rise of the Regional City: Spatial Development of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Winter 2007), 1–36. Heavily illustrated.

Ehrenfeucht, Renia, “Constructing the Public in Urban Space: Streets, Sidewalks, and Municipal Regulation in Los Angeles, 1880–1940” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3226054.

Momchedjikova, Blagovesta, “The Miniature Meteropolis as Memory Palace” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221977.

Osborne, Kristen J., “Graphic Dissent: The Editorial Cartoon View of Urban Conflict, 1992–2001” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3220790.

Berg, Scott W., Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C. (New York: Pantheon, 2007. xiv, 336 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-375-42280-5.)

Murphy, Mary Smith, “Growing Up in the Bronx,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 43 (Spring 2006), 22–34.

Beveridge, Charles E., Carolyn F. Hoffman, and Kenneth Hawkins, eds., The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, vol. 7: Parks, Politics, and Patronage, 1874–1882. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xxvi, 756 pp. $85.00, isbn 0-8018-8336-9.)

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Visual and Performing Arts

DeVereaux, Constance, “Any Way the Wind Blows: Changing Dynamics in American Arts Policy,” Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 36 (Fall 2006), 168–80.

Dryer, Joel S., “The First Art Exhibition in Chicago,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Spring–Summer 2006), 28–45.

Gerland, Oliver, “From Playhouse to P2P Network: The History and Theory of Performance under Copyright Law in the United States,” Theatre Journal, 59 (March 2007), 75–95.

Goodwin, Lorinda B. R., “The Archaeological Gaze: Surveying the Landscape of Social Power in Portraiture in Colonial New England,” Historical Archaeology, 41 (no. 1, 2007), 53–68. Heavily illustrated.

Hassrick, Peter H., “William Ranney’s Hunting Wild Horses,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Jan. 2007), 348–60.

Krasner, Jonathan B., “The Interwar Family and American Jewish Identity in Clifford Odet’s Awake and Sing!,” Jewish Social Studies, 13 (Fall 2006), 2–30.

Lorensen, Jutta, “Between Image and Word, Color and Time: Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 571–86.

Mazow, Leo G., “John Covert, Tetraphilia, and the Game of Time,” Winterthur Portfolio, 41 (Spring 2007), 21–42. Heavily illustrated.

Musso, Joseph, “A Reevaluation of ‘The Face behind the Knife,’” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Jan. 2007), 362–78.

Orcutt, Kimberly, “H. H. Moore’s Almeh and the Politics of the Centennial Exhibition,” American Art, 21 (Spring 2007), 50–73. Heavily illustrated.

Pappas, Andrea, “Invisible Points of Departure: Reading Rothko’s Christological Imagery,” American Jewish History, 92 (Dec. 2004), 401–36.

Rainey, Sue, “Picturesque California: How Westerners Portrayed the West in the Age of John Muir,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Reaves, Wendy Wick, “‘Reading’ Portrait Prints: New Ways of Seeing Old Faces,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Rice, Stephen P., “Photography in Engraving on Wood: On the Road to the Halftone Revolution,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Trochimczyk, Maja, “The Impact of Mazowsze and Slask on Polish Folk Dancing in California,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Spring 2006), 5–34.

Berkowitz, Ellie Patricia, “Innovation through Appropriation as an Alternative to Separatism: The Use of Commercial Imagery by Chicano Artists, 1960–1990” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3221361.

Edwards, Katie Robinson, “Jackson Pollock in the Cultural Context of America, 1943–1956: Class, ‘Mess,’ and UnAmerican Activities” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3223005.

Korenic, Lynette Marie, “The Decorative Fire of Susan S. Frackelton: China Painting, Art Pottery, and Book Illumination” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006). Order No. DA3226267.

Swedberg, Anne Kristin, “Take It Outside: Community-Based Theater and Maryat Lee, 1949–1989” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222901.

VanArragon, Elizabeth Jane, “The Photo League: Views of Urban Experience in the 1930s and 1940s” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225681.

Wang, Shi-Pu, “Becoming American? Asian Identity Negotiated thrugh the Art of Yasuo Kuniyoshi” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006). Order No. DA3226281.

Zygmont, Bryan John, “Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790–1825: Stuart, Vanderlyn, Trumbull, and Jarvis” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222458.

Doris, Sara, Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii, 304 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-83658-6.)

Schanke, Robert A., ed., Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xvi, 314 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8093-2747-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Sokalski, J.A., Pictorial Illusionism: The Theatre of Steele MacKaye. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. 336 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-773-53204-8.)

Ward, Gerald W. R., et al., American Decorative Arts and Sculpture. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2006. 224 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87846-698-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Kierner, Cynthia A., The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. x, 147 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8147-4792-6. Paper, $17.00, isbn 978-0-8147-4793-3.) First published in 1790.

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Women

Baer, Judith A., “Women’s Rights and the Constitution,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 57–66.

Balcom, Karen, et al., “Roundtable: Babies across Borders: Problems for Women’s History in the Study of Transborder Adoption,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (no. 1, 2007), 105–50.

Bunker, Gary L., “The Art of Condescension: Postbellum Caricature and Woman Suffrage,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

Clinton, Catherine, “Wife versus Widow: Clashing Perspectives on Mary Lincoln’s Legacy,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 28 (Winter 2007), 1–19.

Davis, Rebecca, “Overcoming the ‘Defect of Sex’: Georgia Women’s Fight for Access to Jury Service,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2007), 49–69.

Hoff, Joan, “American Women and the Lingering Implications of Coverture,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 41–55.

Ikard, Robert W., “The Cultivation of Higher Ideals: The Centennial Club of Nashville,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006–2007), 342–69. Heavily illustrated.

Poole, Leslie Kemp, “The Women of the Early Florida Audubon Society: Agents of History in the Fight to Save State Birds,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Winter 2007), 297–323.

Schnittker, Jason, “Working More and Feeling Better: Women’s Health, Employment, and Family Life, 1974–2004,” American Sociological Review, 72 (April 2007), 221–38.

Scott, Anne Firor, “Gertrude Weil and Her Times,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Spring 2007), 87–102.

Snider, Christy Jo, “Planning for Peace: Virginia Gildersleeve at the United Nations Conference on International Organization,” Peace & Change, 32 (April 2007), 168–85.

Tong, Rosemarie, “Feminist Thought in Transition: Never a Dull Moment,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 23–39.

Tong, Rosemarie, et al., “Special Collection: Issues in Women’s Studies,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 23–97.

Whitney, Allison, “Race, Class, and the Pressure to Pass in the American Maternal Melodrama: The Case of Stella Dallas,” Journal of Film and Video, 59 (Spring 2007), 3–18.

Alexander, Nancy Payne, “‘Keeping house’: The Hidden Economy of Maine Coastal Women, 1850–1900” (University of Maine, 2006). Order No. DA3220682.

Brautbar, Shirli, “‘Not just ladies that lunch’: Hadassah and the Formation of American Jewish Identity” (University of Southern California, 2005). Order No. DA3220087.

Geurink, Jean, “The Rural Isolation Myth: Historical Changes in the Roles of Wisconsin Farm Women” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222914.

Graham, Susan H., “‘Call me a female politician, I glory in the name!’: Women Dorrites and Rhode Island’s 1842 Suffrage Crisis” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220002.

Leonard, Lynnette Grace, “A Rebel in Conservative Clothes: The Rhetorical Theory and Practice of Lydia Sigourney” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222185.

Smith, Steven L., “The Reluctant Sorority: Stories of American Wives of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, 1965–1973. Lessons in Exercising Leadership in the Absence of Power” (University of San Diego, 2006). Order No. DA3218197.

Tencza, Elizabeth Jane, “Serving Two Masters: The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and the Slander Campaign of 1943” (George Washington University, 2006). Order No. DA3217555.

Clayton, John, The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xii, 321 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-5990-4.)

Eickhoff, Diane, Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women’s Rights. (Kansas City, Kans.: Quindaro, 2006. 277 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 0-9764434-4-9.)

Hoy, Suellen, Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago’s Past. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvi, 242 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 0-252-03057-5. Paper, $22.00, isbn 0-252-07301-0.)

Ware, Carolyn E., Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03138-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07377-9.)

Milewski, Melissa Lambert, ed., Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. xiv, 639 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87421-644-8.)

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East

Hornsby, Stephen J., and John G. Reid, eds., New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006. 424 pp. $80.00, isbn 0-773-52865-2.)

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Midwest

Nicholls, Andrew D., and Guy Johnstone, “Twice a Pioneer: Orville Wright on Georgian Bay, 1916–1941,” Inland Seas, 62 (Winter 2006), 274–86. Heavily illustrated.

Whipple, Hank, “The Wreck of the SS Wisconsin,” Inland Seas, 62 (Winter 2006), 305–17.

Warnes, Kathleen Covert, “River Town, River World: The History of Ecorse, the Oldest Downriver Community” (University of Toledo, 2006). Order No. DA3218761.

Farmer, Claude E., “Great Lakes Memories: Working on the Great Lakes, 1928–1938,” Inland Seas, 62 (Winter 2006), 287–99.

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South

Wood, Spencer D., “The Roots of Black Power: Land, Civil Society, and the State in the Mississippi Delta, 1935–1968” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222885.

Gannon, Michael, Michael Gannon’s History of Florida in 40 Minutes. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. 73 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3068-5.) Heavily illustrated. Includes audio CD.

O’Brien, Michael, Placing the South. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. xii, 275 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-57806-934-7.)

Wallenstein, Peter, Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xviii, 476 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1507-0.)

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West

Dean, David R., “Soldiers and Scientists: The Politics of Exploring the American West, 1803–1879” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220292.

Berwanger, Eugene H., The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861–76. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 205 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03122-9.)

Higham, Carol, and Robert Thacker, eds., One West, Two Myths: Volume II, Essays on Comparison. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006. 220 pp. $34.95, isbn 1-552-38204-4.)

Hine, Robert V., and John Mack Faragher, Frontiers: A Short History of the American West. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. viii, 248 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-300-11710-3.)

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Asian American

Archives and Bibliography

Business and Economics

Civil War and Reconstruction

Colonial

Crime and Violence

Demography

Education

Environment and Natural Resources

Ethnicity

Family

Film

Gay and Lesbian

Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity

Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Immigration and Migration

Intellectual

International Relations

Labor and Working Class

Legal and Constitutional

Latino/a

Mass Communications

Material Culture and Architecture

Medicine

Military

Music

Politics

Print Culture

Public History and Memory

Race

Religion

Revolutionary and Early National

Science and Technology

Sexuality

Social and Cultural

Social Welfare and Public Health

Sports and Recreation

Teaching, Surveys, and Textbooks

Theory and Methodology

Transportation, Travel, and Exploration

Urban and Suburban

Visual and Performing Arts

Women

East

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South

West

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