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June 2001, Vol. 88, No. 1

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Alphabetical by Book Author's Last Name

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Adams and Butler, Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric, by David E. Nye

Aguayo, trans. by Brody, Myths and [Mis] Perceptions: Changing U.S. Elite Visions of Mexico, by Andrés Reséndez

Allyn, Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History, by Jane Gerhard

Almaráz, Knight without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, 1896-1958, by Charlotte M. Gradie

Amory and Hall, eds., A History of the Book in America, vol. 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, by Jane Kamensky

Antler, The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century, by Sydney Stahl Weinberg

Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, by Alfred F. Young

Babson, The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-Present, by Steven K. Ashby

Bailey, Sex in the Heartland, by Susan Cahn

Baldwin, Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930, by Sharon E. Wood

Barney, Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930, by Steven Noll

Bazerman, The Languages of Edison's Light, by David Hochfelder

Beatty, Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837-1900, by Michael Shirley

Boris and Chaudhuri, eds., Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, the Political, the Professional, by Bonnie G. Smith

Boyd, The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874, by Daniel L. Boxberger

Bush, American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History, by Christopher Castiglia

Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776, by Edward Countryman

Calderón, Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930, by Philip Mellinger

Capper and Wright, eds., Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts, by James Perrin Warren

Carson, Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal, by Véronique Pépin

Cartosio, Da New York a Santa Fe: Terra, culture native, artisti, e scrittori nel sudovest (1846-1930) (From New York to Santa Fe: Land, native culture, artists, and writers in the Southwest, 1846-1930), by John Wetenhall

Clarke, Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, by Nancy F. Koehn

Cobb, Radical Education in the Rural South: Commonwealth College, 1922-1940, by John M. Glen

Coclanis and Bruchey, eds., Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements: The United States Experience since 1800, by James Green

Colbert, A Measure of Perfection: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America, by Shirley Teresa Wajda

Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630-1800, by Cynthia A. Kierner

Curry, Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930, by Lana Ruegamer

Danese, Claude Pepper and Ed Ball: Politics, Purpose, and Power, by Tracy Campbell

Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Day, Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890-1943, by Elaine S. Abelson

DeGroot, A Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War, by David L. Anderson

Deloria, Playing Indian; and Vickers, Native American Identities: From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature, by Melissa L. Meyer

Deslippe, "Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80, by Maurine W. Greenwald

Doss, Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, & Image, by Charles F. McGovern

Duberman, Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion/Essays/1964-1999, by John D'Emilio

Dubofsky, Hard Work: The Making of Labor History, by Michael Kazin

DuBois, Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights, by Louise M. Newman

Duus, trans. by Cary, The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920, by Franklin Ng

Edwards, Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 1945-1955, by Lorenzo Delgado

Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey; and Robertson, Denmark Vesey, by Woody Holton

Faiman-Silva, Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region, by James Taylor Carson

Fertig, Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert (Local life, Atlantic world: The decision for emigration from the Rhine to North America in the eighteenth century), by Marianne S. Wokeck

Finzsch and Schirmer, eds., Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States, by Charles M. Barber

Fousek, To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War; and Lucas, Freedom's War: The American Crusade against the Soviet Union, by Ellen Schrecker

Frantz, Indian Reservations in the United States: Territory, Sovereignty, and Socioeconomic Change, by John R. Wunder

Fujita and Igarashi, eds., Amerika kenkoku no rinen to Nichi-bei kankei (The founding ideals of the United States and Japanese-American relations); Miyazato, ed., Gaiko seiji sutairu to Nichi-bei kankei (Diplomatic and political styles and the Japanese-American relationship); and Aruga, ed., Nichi-bei kankei ni okeru esunishiti no yoso (The ethnic factor in the Japanese-American relationship), by Roger Dingman

Fuke, Imperfect Equality: African Americans and the Confines of White Racial Attitudes in Post-Emancipation Maryland, by Roberta Alexander

Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition, by J. Matthew Gallman

Glazer, Cincinnati in 1840: The Social and Functional Organization of an Urban Community during the Pre-Civil War Period; and Contosta, Lancaster, Ohio, 1800-2000: Frontier Town to Edge City, by Timothy R. Mahoney

Goldberg, An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas, by Karen J. Blair

Gonz´lez, Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American Southwest, by Zaragosa Vargas

Gottschild, Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era, by Robert W. Snyder

Graham, Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall, by Melvin Yazawa

Griffiths and Cervantes, eds., Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America, by Charles Cutter

Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History, by Steven Mintz

Henry, Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other?; and Krenn, Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-1969, by David H. Anthony

Higuchi, Amerika kokujin to hokubu sangyo: Senkanki ni okeru jinshu ishiki no keisei (Black Americans and northern industry: The shaping of racial consciousness during the interwar period), by Yasuhide Kawashima

Hilton and Ickringill, eds., European Perceptions of the Spanish-American War of 1898, by John L. Offner

Hoffman with Mason, Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782, by Thomas Bartlett

Holt, Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865-1900, by Steven Hahn

Ivey, Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894-1930, by David Morgan

Jackson, The Piikani Blackfeet: A Culture under Siege, by John Fahey

Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, by Elizabeth Jameson

Johnston, William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors, by Alice Goldfarb Marquis

Katz and Sugrue, eds., W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy, by David Levering Lewis

Keillor, Cooperative Commonwealth: Co-ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939, by Allan G. Bogue

Keller and Melnick, eds., Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century, by Ellis W. Hawley

Kennedy, Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character, by Jacob E. Cooke

Kennedy, Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion during World War I, by Cynthia Farr Brown

Kerr-Ritchie, Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900, by Leslie A. Schwalm

Kilpatrick, Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film, by Peter C. Rollins

Kimeldorf, Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement, by Catherine Collomp

King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy, by Norbert Finzsch

Klein, The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman, by K. Austin Kerr

Kliebard, Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946, by William H. Mulligan Jr.

Koeppel, Water for Gotham: A History, by Sarah S. Elkind

Krech, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, by Dan Flores

Kugel, To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825-1898, by Susan Sleeper-Smith

Lainsbury, Once upon an American Dream: The Story of Euro Disneyland, by Rob Kroes

Langum, William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America, by Andrew Hunt

Laslett, Colliers across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924, by Mary H. Blewett

Lawes, Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860, by Lee Chambers-Schiller

Lee, For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fanny Lou Hamer, by Timothy B. Tyson

Lehmann and Wellenreuther, eds., German and American Nationalism: A Comparative Perspective, by Geoff Eley

Lehuu, Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America, by Amy Gilman Srebnick

LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992, by Stephen M. Streeter

Levine, Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement, by Steven F. Lawson

Levy, Origins of the Bill of Rights, by Whitman H. Ridgway

Limerick, Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West, by Anne F. Hyde

Löfgren and Shima, eds., After Consensus: Critical Challenge and Social Change in America, by David W. Stowe

Lohmann, ed. and trans., Radical Passion: Ottilie Assing's Reports from America and Letters to Frederick Douglass, by Jennifer Fleischner

Lorence, The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America, by Nancy Gabin

Matusow, Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes, by Nigel Bowles

Maxwell, New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars; and Smethurst, The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946, by Donald B. Gibson

May, The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way, by Michael Rogin

McConnell, Arsenic under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven, by Ellen Dwyer

McKivigan and Harrold, eds., Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America, by Ronald G. Walters

McPherson, Morgan, and Forestell, eds., Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada, by Laura McCall

Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered, by David Brody

Mink, ed., Whose Welfare?, by Jane Lewis

Moore, To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963, by Charles Pete Banner-Haley

Moran, Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century, by Julian Carter

Morgan, Protestants & Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production, by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe

Morton, Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America, by William Kenney

Murray, Kennedy, Macmillan, and Nuclear Weapons, by Martin H. Folly

Myllyntaus and Saikku, eds., Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History, by Thomas R. Cox

Nasaw, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Henkin

Neiberg, Making Citizen-Soldiers: rotc and the Ideology of American Military Service, by John Pettegrew

Oberdeck, The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914, by Eugene McCarraher

Oikarinen, The Middle East in the American Quest for World Order: Ideas of Power, Economics, and Social Development in United States Foreign Policy, 1953-1961, by N. Rassekh

Pagedas, Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960-1963: A Troubled Partnership, by Ritchie Ovendale

Pérez, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History, by Edwina Barvosa-Carter

Phillips, AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45, by Nick Salvatore

Philp, Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination, 1933-1953, by Raymond Wilson

Piston and Hatcher, Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It, by Brian Dirck

Polenberg, The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process, by Michael E. Parrish

Powell, Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana, by Hasia R. Diner

Pritchard, Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature, by Richard Grusin

Raider, The Emergence of American Zionism, by Edward S. Shapiro

Rehder, Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape, by Thomas N. Ingersoll

Reynolds, There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa, by William A. Link

Ricard, ed., états-Unis d'hier, états-Unis d'aujourd'hui: Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean-Pierre Martin (The United States of yesterday, the United States of today: Essays in honor of Jean-Pierre Martin), by Peter N. Stearns

Riley, The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest, by Oakah L. Jones

Riley, The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-keeping from 1831 to 1965, by Stephen Tuck

Roberts and Turner, The Sacred and the Secular University, by Bradley Longfield

Samuels, Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape, by Brian Donahue

Schieber and Shoven, The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security; and Moss, Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy, by Raymond Richards

Schofield, "To Do & to Be": Portraits of Four Women Activists, 1893-1986, by Annelise Orleck

Shattuck, Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights, by Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Smith, Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, by Michael Bertrand

Somerville, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture, by Scott Bravmann

Spencer, The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power on Parade, 1877-1995, by H. V. Nelles

Splitter, Pastors, People, Politics: German Lutherans in Pennsylvania, 1740-1790, by Aaron Fogleman

Terry, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society, by Diana E. Long

Todd, Authority Vested: A Story of Identity and Change in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, by Lois A. Boyd

Tsujiuchi, Amerika no doreisei to jiyshugi (Liberalism and American slavery), by Aaron Forsberg

Vaught, Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920, by Carlos A. Schwantes

Vincent, Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900, by Graham Russell Hodges

Wadelington and Knapp, Charlotte Hawkins Brown & Palmer Memorial Institute: What One African American Woman Could Do, by Adam Fairclough

Wagnleitner and May, eds., "Here, There, and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture, by Walter Hixson

Walsh, Echoes among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program, by Martin J. Collins

Weiss, To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change, by Lynn Y. Weiner

Weitz, A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War, by Kevin Conley Ruffner

Wilson, Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England, by Karin Wulf

Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia, by Sharon V. Salinger

Yalof, Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees; Pratt, The Supreme Court under Edward Douglass White, 1910-1921; and Purcell, Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America, by Mark Tushnet

Yoo, Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49, by Eileen H. Tamura

Young, Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War, by Jeanie Attie

Youngs, The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74: Transforming an American Environment, by Robert W. Rydell

Zeiger, In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919, by Amy Swerdlow

Zelizer, Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975, by Edwin Amenta

Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975, by James J. Wirtz