Book Reviews
Dec. 2003, Vol. 90 No. 3

[Table of Contents]

Alphabetical by the last name of the book's first author or editor

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

Alanis Enciso, ed., La emigración de San Luis Potosí a Estados Unidos: Pasado y presente (Immigration from San Luis Potosí to the United States: Past and present), by Gilberto M. Hinojosa

Amundson, Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West, by Ralph Mann

Anzilotti, In the Affairs of the World: Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina, by Linda Sturtz

Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Lawrence G. Coates

Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, by Michael A. McDonnell

Banner, The Death Penalty: An American History, by Stephen Hartnett

Bergera, Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith, by Lawrence G. Coates

Block, A Nation of Agents: The American Path to a Modern Self and Society, by Michael Zuckerman

Bonner, Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning, by John S. Haller Jr.

Bonner, Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South, by George C. Rable

Boylan, The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797–1840, by Mary Kelley

Brady and McCubbins, eds., Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress: New Perspectives on the History of Congress, by Julian Zelizer

Brosnan, Uniting Mountain & Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range, by Mark S. Foster

Brown, Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America, by John B. Jentz

Brown, Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War, by Maurine Weiner Greenwald

Brown, Jonathan Edwards and the Bible, by William Breitenbach

Buckley, The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion, by Richard H. Chused

Butters, Black Manhood on the Silent Screen, by Daniel Bernardi

Calhoun, Price, and Timmer, eds., Understanding September 11, by Emily S. Rosenberg

Cashin, ed., The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War, by Paul A. Cimbala

Chávez, "Mi Raza Primero!" (My People First!): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978, by Douglas Monroy

Coffey, Soldier Princess: The Life & Legend of Agnes Salm-Salm in North America, 1861–1867, by Elizabeth D. Leonard

Collins, Otto Kahn: Art, Money, & Modern Time, by William B. Scott

Cooper, By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action, by Robert M. Goldman

Cooper, Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations, by David Steigerwald

Crane, Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell, by Terri L. Snyder

Dal Lago and Halpern, eds., The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History, by Don H. Doyle

Dale, Debating--and Creating--Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629–1649, by Darren Staloff

Daly, When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War, by Randy J. Sparks

Davis, Land!: Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas, by Dennis C. Rousey

Davis, The Circus Age: Culture & Society under the American Big Top, by Don B. Wilmeth

Davis and Trani, The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations, by David W. McFadden

De Wolfe, Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815–1867, by Carolyn J. Lawes

Delfino and Gillespie, eds., Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, by Christie Ann Farnham

Delton, Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, by Peter Rachleff

Dennis, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar, by April Schultz

Dodge, "Whores and Thieves of the Worst Kind”: A Study of Women, Crime, and Prisons, 1835-2000, by Mary Welek Atwell

Doig, Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority, by Barbara Blumberg

Dolan, In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension, by Patrick Allitt

Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City, by Ronald G. Walters

Dowd, War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, & the British Empire, by Jon Parmenter

Downey, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950, by William S. Pretzer

Dreisbach, Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State, by Richard W. Pointer

Ekberg, François Vallé and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark, by Patricia Cleary

Engs and Miller, eds., The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation, by William C. Harris

Evans, The Hidden Campaign: fdr's Health and the 1944 Election, by Howard W. Allen

Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000, by Robert Cook

Ferguson, Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta, by Stephen Tuck

Fine-Dare, Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and nagpra, by Jonathan Elmer

Gilbert, ed., Why the North Won the Vietnam War, by Dale Andradé

Gordon, Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881, by Mary H. Blewett

Grimsley, And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864, by Michael B. Ballard

Gruenwald, River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850, by Patrick Griffin

Hanson, Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos, by Brett Mizelle

Harvey, A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968-1976, by Clarence L. Mohr

Hauptman and McLester III, Chief Daniel Bread and the Oneida Nation of Indians of Wisconsin, by David R. M. Beck

Haynes, Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery, by Randy J. Sparks

Hershberg and Moore, eds., Critical Views of September 11: Analyses from around the World, by Emily S. Rosenberg

Hietala, The Fight of the Century: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

Hindman, Child Labor: An American History, by Bonnie Stepenoff

Hoermann, Cadwallader Colden: A Figure of the American Enlightenment, by James Delbourgo

Horowitz, Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America, by Steven Mintz

Hyslop, Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806-1848, by Charles R. Cutter

Illick, American Childhoods, by Ruth Wallis Herndon

Isenberg and Burstein, eds., Mortal Remains: Death in Early America, by Erik R. Seeman

Iverson, Diné: A History of the Navajos, by Richard O. Clemmer

Jaher, The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France, by Robert Rockaway

Jones, Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South, by Claudia Drieling

Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by Dean E. Robinson

Kelly, James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life, by John Ehrman

Kilde, When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America, by Paul Eli Ivey

Kindsvatter, American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam, by Edward J. Drea

Kirchner, Der Central Park in New York und der Einfluß der deutschen Gartentheorie und praxis auf seine Gestaltung (Central Park in New York and the influence of German garden theory and practice on its creation), by Dorothee Schneider

Knight, Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film, by William J. Mahar

Kornweibel, "Investigate Everything": Federal Efforts to Compel Black Loyalty during World War I, by Mark Robert Schneider

Korr, The End of Baseball as We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81, by Warren Goldstein

Lemire, "Miscegenation": Making Race in America, by Joanne Pope Melish

Lindenauer, Piety and Power: Gender and Religious Culture in the American Colonies, 1630-1700, by Gerald F. Moran

Longenecker, Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865, by Daniel B. Thorp

Lowitt, Fred Harris: His Journey from Liberalism to Populism, by Patrick L. Cox

Maga, America Attacks Japan: The Invasion That Never Was, by Grant K. Goodman

Mann, Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969, by Marguerite J. Moritz

Marra and Schanke, eds., Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History, by David Van Leer

Mattingly, Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community, by James Borchert

May, Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America, by Robert L. Paquette

McBride, Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World, by Margaret Humphreys

McCool, Native Waters: Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty Era, by Donald J. Pisani

McKanna, Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California, by Harold Brackman

McPherson, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, by Edward G. Longacre

Merrill, Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them, by R. McGreggor Cawley

Metcalf, Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah, by David Rich Lewis

Mires, Independence Hall in American Memory, by Robert E. Cray Jr.

Monhollon, "This is America?": The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, by Edward P. Morgan

Moore, Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power, by Ben Keppel

Moore, Acts of Faith: The Catholic Church in Texas, 1900-1950, by John W. Storey

Morgan, Nixon, by John Robert Greene

Morgan, Benjamin Franklin, by Owen S. Ireland

Morley, Irish Opinion and the American Revolution, 1760-1783, by Colin Bonwick

Morrow, Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860, by Albert J. Raboteau

Moss, When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, by Warren J. Samuels

Mullin, The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell, by Howard A. Barnes

Nevins, Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary, by Neil Foley

Nolt, Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic, by Liam Riordan

O'Brien, Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830, by Arthur H. DeRosier Jr.

O'Toole, Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920, by Gerald Horne

Olmsted, Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Olson, Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, & History, by Barbara Clow

Ownby, ed., The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South, by Paul V. Murphy

Palmer, Children's Voices from the Trail: Narratives of the Platte River Road, by Ruth B. Moynihan

Paton-Walsh, Our War Too: American Women against the Axis, by Judy Barrett Litoff

Pease and Wiegman, eds., The Futures of American Studies, by Ann Fabian

Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago, by Perry R. Duis

Perdue, "Mixed Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South, by Jane T. Merritt

Polletta, Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements, by Stewart Burns

Ponce de Leon, Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890--1940, by John Nerone

Purcell, Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America, by Sarah Knott

Regosin, Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation, by Cheryll Ann Cody

Reiß, "Die Schwarzen waren unsere Freunde": Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in der amerikanischen Gesellschaft, 1942-1946 ("The blacks were our friends--German prisoners of war in American society, 1942-1946), by Dennis E. Showalter

Remini, Andrew Jackson & His Indian Wars, by Ronald N. Satz

Rhea, Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864, by Michael B. Ballard

Rorabaugh, Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties, by Alexander Bloom

Rotella, Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt, by John J. Bukowczyk

Rotskoff, Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America, by Beth Bailey

Rubenstein, Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry, by David Gartman

Rudolph, Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education, by Ronald Lora

Salmond, The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama, by Clifford M. Kuhn

Sayre, Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital, by Adam M. Sowards

Schrijvers, The gi War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II, by Edward J. Drea

Schultz, The Romance of Small-Town Chautauquas, by Russell L. Johnson

Sernett, North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom, by Thomas J. Davis

Shackel, ed., Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape, by Kym S. Rice

Shaw and Francia, eds., Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999, by Nick Cullather

Siemers, Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time, by Andrew Shankman

Smant, Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement, by John Ehrman

Smith, Henry M. Teller: Colorado's Grand Old Man, by John D. W. Guice

Solinger, Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States, by Janet Farrell Brodie

Stueck, Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History, by Burton I. Kaufman

Taylor, The Veiled Garvey: The Life & Times of Amy Jacques Garvey, by Emory Joel Tolbert

Taylor, Young Charles Sumner and the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851, by Peter S. Field

Taylor, Strange Sounds: Music, Technology, & Culture, by David Sanjek

Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933, by David Morton

Toplin, Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood, by John E. O'Connor

Tucker, The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund, by Daniel J. Kevles

Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York, by Wayne Bodle

Veeser, A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power, by Luis Martínez-Fern"ndez

Vlach, The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings, by John Davis

Walbert, Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America, by John A. Jakle

Ward, Between the Lines: Banditti of the American Revolution, by Wayne E. Lee

Weisberger, McLeod, and Morris, eds., Freemasonry on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Essays Concerning the Craft in the British Isles, Europe, the United States, and Mexico, by Jeanne Halgren Kilde

Winch, A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten, by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel

Winterer, The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910, by Thomas L. Pangle

Wolcott, Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit, by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Wrobel, Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West, by Glen Gendzel

Yuh, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America, by Mary Anne Schofield

Zhang, America Perceived: The Making of Chinese Images of the United States, 1945-1953, by Warren I. Cohen

Zhang, The Origins of the African American Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1956, by Karen Ferguson

Zimmerman, Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools, by Herbert M. Kliebard

Zimmermann, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power, by Frank Ninkovich

Zunz, Schoppa, and Hiwatari, eds., Social Contracts under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century, by Sven Beckert