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March 2003, Vol. 89, No. 4
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[Table of Contents]
Alphabetical by the last name of the book's first author or editor
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Adams, Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination, by Robert W. Rydell
Alexander, Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era, by Robert F. Burk
Anbinder, Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum, by Howard P. Chudacoff
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Bae, Labor in Retreat: Class and Community among Men’s Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871–1929, by Xiaolan Bao
Baptist, Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War, by Christopher Waldrep
Barbas, Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity, by George Potamianos
Barnes, Standing on a Volcano: The Life and Times of David Rowland Francis, by William Thomas Allison
Beattie, Obligation and Opportunity: Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1870–1930, by Laurie Mercier
Bigott, From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869–1929, by Margaret Garb
Bindas, Swing, That Modern Sound, by David G. Borgo
Black, ed., Modern American Queer History, by Jane Gerhard
Bloom, Joseph Jefferson: Dean of the American Theatre, by Roger A. Hall
Bouvier, ed., Whose America? The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation, by Molly M. Wood
Boyer Lewis, Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790–1860, by Catherine Allgor
Braunstein and Doyle, eds., Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s, by Jon Wiener
Bucki, Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915–36, by Gerald Zahavi
Burton, Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles, by Stephen D. Engle
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Cashin and Eskew, eds., Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia, by James M. Russell
Castronovo, Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by Molly McGarry
Clark, Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat, by William G. Thomas
Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America, by Robert L. Brandfon
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Daniels, Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester “Pres” Young, by Kathy Ogren
Davidson, America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood, by Ritchie Ovendale
Davis, Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater, by Manisha Sinha
Davis, An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government, by Brian R. Dirck
Davis, Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America, by Paul D. Escott
Dawes, The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II, by Lyde Cullen Sizer
Druks, The Uncertain Alliance: The U.S. and Israel from Kennedy to the Peace Process, by Antonio Donno
Duncan, Rickover: The Struggle for Excellence, by Rodney Carlisle
Durden, Electrifying the Piedmont Carolinas: The Duke Power Company, 1904–1997, by William J. Hausman
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Eick, Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954–72, by Adam Fairclough
Ely, Railroads and American Law, by John E. Semonche
Eskridge and Noll, eds., More Money, More Ministry: Money and Evangelicals in Recent North American History, by Douglas Carl Abrams
Ethridge and Hudson, eds., The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540–1760, by Nancy Shoemaker
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Fabre and Feith, eds., Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance, by Cary D. Wintz
Farrell-Beck and Gau, Uplift: The Bra in America, by Gayle V. Fischer
Finzsch and Wellenreuther, eds., Visions of the Future in Germany and America, by Michael D. Clark
Fiorentino, Le
tribú devono sparire: La politica di assimilazione degli
indiani negli Stati Uniti d’America (The tribes must disappear:
The politics of assimilation of the Indians in the United States
of America), by Louise K. Barnett
Fischer, Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina, by C. Dallett Hemphill
Foletta, Coming to Terms with Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of an American Culture, by Jonathan A. Glickstein
Fredirickson, Racism:
A Short History, by Jonathan Zimmerman
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Gabaccia and Ottanelli, eds., Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States, by Vincent DiGirolamo
Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717, by Claudio Saunt
Gambone, Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961–1972, by Darlene Rivas
Garcia, A
World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater
Los Angeles, 1900–1970, by Rodolfo F. Acuña
Gibian, Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation, by James Perrin Warren
Gilmore, The Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood, by Mark Bauerlein
Goebel, A Government by the People: Direct Democracy in America, 1890–1940, by Jeffrey Ostler
Goff, Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel, by Randall Balmer
Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History, by Jim Cullen
Greenbaum, Men against Myths: The Progressive Response, by LeRoy Ashby
Greene, Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance, by I. A. Newby
Gregg, Inside Out, Outside In: Essays in Comparative History, by Ian Tyrrell
Griffin, The
People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s
Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764,
by Warren R. Hofstra
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Hall, Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties, by George Lipsitz
Hamm, Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948–1974, by Scott Christianson
Harris, Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation, by Sarah Judson
Hayes, South Carolina and the New Deal, by Paul E. Mertz
Healy, James G. Blaine and Latin America, by Joyce S. Goldberg
Hewitt, Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s, by Priscilla Murolo
Higginbotham, Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration, by Robert A. Pratt
Hoffman, Florida’s Frontiers, by John T. McGrath
Howard, Publishing the Family, by Glenn Hendler
Hurley, Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in the Postwar Consumer Culture, by Dominick Cavallo
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Jackson, Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America, by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Janzen, The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia, by Robert S. Fogarty
Jeffreys-Jones, Cloak
and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence, by
Katherine A. S. Sibley
Jurca, White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel, by Allan Hepburn
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Kars, Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina, by T. H. Breen
Kent, From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era, by Peter W. Williams
Kline, Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom, by Gregory Michael Dorr
Knack, Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775–1995, by Robert L. Bee
Knepper, Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal, by Christopher Silver
Knott, Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, by Stuart Leibiger
Knupfer, Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America’s First Juvenile Court, by Michael Willrich
Kochavi, Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States, & Jewish Refugees, 1945–1948, by Peter L. Hahn
Kollin, Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier, by Andrew Kirk
Kotlowski, Nixon’s Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy, by Harvard Sitkoff
Kreneck, Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur & Civic Leader, 1905–1965, by Mario T. García
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Lamb and Tarling, From Versailles to Pearl Harbor: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, by Russell D. Buhite
Leepson, Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built, by Carl Lounsbury
Lenner, The Federal Principle in American Politics, 1790–1833, by M. N. S. Sellers
Lepore, A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States, by Lawrence Buell
Lindman and Tarter, eds., A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America, by Marilyn J. Westerkamp
Livingston, Swallowed by Globalism: John M. Vorys and American Foreign Policy, by David M. Esposito
Livingston, Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History, by Andrew Feffer
Loeb, Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers’ Subdivisions in the 1920s, by Richard Harris
Lorenz, Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy, by David Stebenne
Lowe, Sir Walter and Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, and the Rise of American Golf, by Stephen Hardy
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Mandell, The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890–1930, by Linda Gordon
Marlett, Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America, 1920–1960, by Michael F. Funchion
Martin, The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640–1800, by Charles E. Clark
May, Golden State, Golden Youth: The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955–1966, by Dana Polan
McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945–2000, by Nathan Godfried
McFarland, Cold War Strategist: Stuart Symington and the Search for National Security, by Travis Beal Jacobs
McGrath, Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890–1960, by Peter J. Kuznick
Mendoza, Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana & Chicano History, by Gregory S. Rodriguez
Meriwether, Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935–1961, by Renee Romano
Moitt, Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848, by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Motsch, Lafitau
et l’émergence du discours ethnographique (Lafitau
and the emergence of ethnographic discourse), by Harry Liebersohn
Mulcahy, A Social Contract for the Coal Fields: The Rise and Fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund, by James Whiteside
Mulder, A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South, by James O. Farmer
Muller, Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II, by Greg Robinson
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Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory, by Richard Stott
Nealon, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, by Christopher Castiglia
Newman, Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945–1995, by David Stricklin
Newman, The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic, by Daniel Feller
Norris, After “the Year Eighty”: The Demise of Franciscan Power in Spanish New Mexico, by Sylvia L. Hilton
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O’Brien, Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace, by Deborah Stone
O’Connell, Edward Sorin, by Gerald McKevitt
Obadele-Starks, Black Unionism in the Industrial South, by Walter Howard
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Porter, To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker, by James B. LaGrand
Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists, by Harry A. Reed
Pritchett, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto, by Raymond A. Mohl
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Rable, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!, by Mary A. DeCredico
Ramold, Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy, by Donald R. Shaffer
Rangaswamy, Namasté
America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis, by
Johanna Lessinger
Raphael, The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord, by Colin Nicolson
Rivas, Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela, by Eric Paul Roorda
Rokicky, James Monroe: Oberlin’s Christian Statesman & Reformer, 1821–1898, by Hugh Davis
Rothman, lbj’s
Texas White House: "Our Heart’s Home," by
Melvin Small
Rottenberg, The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance, by Howard Bodenhorn
Rubertone, Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians, by Michael Leroy Oberg
Ryden, Landscape with Figures: Nature & Culture in New England, by Philip G. Terrie
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Sassi, A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy, by Joseph Conforti
Schain, ed., The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After, by Federico Romero
Schloesser, The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic, by Jane E. Dabel
Scott-Smith, The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the cia, and Post-War American Hegemony, by Michael J. Hogan
Scribner, Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929–1979, by David Goldfield
Silver-Isenstadt, Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols, by Nancy J. Tomes
Sioli, Le città della rivoluzione: Alle origini delle metropolis americane (The cities of the Revolution: To the origins of the American metropolises), by David Thomas Konig
Sivulka, Stronger than Dirt: A Cultural History of Advertising Personal Hygiene in America, 1875 to 1940, by Ian Gordon
Skeel, Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America, by Charles Zelden
Sterngass, First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, & Coney Island, by Cindy S. Aron
Suchoples, Finland and the United States, 1917–1919: Early Years of Mutual Relations, by T. Michael Ruddy
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Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630–1680, by Len Travers
Thompson, Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City, by Nick Salvatore
Tuck, Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940–1980, by Clayborne Carson
Tucker, Worthington Chauncey Ford: Scholar and Adventurer, by Robert Cummings
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Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, by Jan Lewis
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Walton, Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey, by Eugene P. Moehring
Wang, Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890–1970, by S. F. Chung
Weaver-Zercher, The Amish in the American Imagination, by Theron F. Schlabach
Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920, by Herbert Hovenkamp
Whiteside, Colorado: A Sports History, by Michael A. Amundson
Wiethoff, The Insolent Slave, by Dickson D. Bruce Jr.
Williams, Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II, by Ruth Howes
Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past, by James M. Banner Jr.
Winship, Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636–1641, by Stephen J. Stein
Wrobel and Long, eds., Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West, by Steven Hoelscher
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Zhang, Economic
Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance,
1949–1963, by David M. Lampton
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