Book Reviews
June 2004, Vol. 91 No. 1

[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 |

Aarim-Heriot, Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848–82, by Benson Tong

Addis, Jefferson’s Vision for Education, 1760–1845, by David W. Robson

Ash, A Year in the South: Four Lives in 1865, by Mark Grimsley

Atkins, Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging, by Marc Stein

Bach, Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata, by Timothy Miller

Bays and Wacker, eds., The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History, by Paul William Harris

Berg Sobré, San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals, by Walter L. Buenger

Bernard, The Cajuns: Americanization of a People, by Michael L. Kurtz

Bingham, Mordecai: An Early American Family, by Mark S. Schantz

Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City, by Kevin Mumford

Bloom and Willard, eds., Sports Matters: Race, Recreation, and Culture, by Daniel A. Nathan

Blue, Words at War: World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist, by David Culbert

Boag, Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest, by William B. Turner

Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War, by Michael P. Gabriel

Bolkhovitinov, ed., Amerikanskaia tsivilizatsiia kak istoricheskii fenomen: Vospriiatie SShA v amerikanskoi, zapadnoevropeiskoi, i russkoi obshchestvennoi mysli (American civilization as a historical phenomenon: Perception of the United States in American, west European, and Russian social thought), by David C. Engerman

Boyd, Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965, by William B. Turner

Branham and Hartnett, Sweet Freedom’s Song: “My Country ’Tis of Thee” and Democracy in America, by Ronald D. Cohen

Brett, The U.S. Catholic Press on Central America: From Cold War Anticommunism to Social Justice, by Stephen G. Rabe

Brisbin, A Strike like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989–1990, by Richard P. Mulcahy

Brown and Brown, The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America, by C. Dallett Hemphill

Bruce, A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War, by David M. Esposito

Burns and Orsi, eds., Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California, by Mark A. Eifler

Busch, All the Way with jfk? Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War, by Mitchell B. Lerner

Campbell-Kelly, From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry, by Colin B. Burke

Cantu and Warren, Teaching History in the Digital Classroom, by David S. Trask

Carafano, Waltzing into the Cold War: The Struggle for Occupied Austria, by Siegfried Beer

Carp, ed., Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives, by Rickie Solinger

Carroll, Felix Longoria’s Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism, by Vernon Carl Allsup

Chafe, ed., The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies, by Robert C. Lieberman

Chet, Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast, by James D. Drake

Crane, Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature, by Jared Gardner

Dawley, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution, by Mark Pittenger

De León, Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 1848–1890, by Benson Tong

DeCaro, “Fire from the Midst of You”: A Religious Life of John Brown, by Stanley Harrold

Denenberg, Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America, by Harvey Green

DeRogatis, Moral Geography: Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier, by Gregory Nobles

Dinerstein, Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars, by Burton W. Peretti

Dobak and Phillips, The Black Regulars, 1866–1898, by Geoffrey Hunt

Douthit, Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon, 1820s to 1860s, by Robert Carriker

Dowbiggin, A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America, by Thomas R. Cole

Durr, Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940–1980, by Eric Arnesen

Evans, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End, by Jane Gerhard

Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, by Edward Countryman

Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations, by James O. Breeden

Findlay and Coates, eds., Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies, by Robert Bothwell

Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South, by Gregg Andrews

Fisher, Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal and American Law, by Philippa Strum

Fitzgerald, Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890, by Eric Anderson

Fitzgerald, Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture, by Lorraine Garkovich

Foster, The Captors’ Narrative: Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier, by Emerson W. Baker

Foulkes, Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey, by Anya Peterson Royce

Friedman and McGarvie, eds., Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History, by John C. Schneider

Gennaro Lerda and Maccarini, eds., Canadian and American Women: Moving from Private to Public Experiences in the Atlantic World, by Nancy Janovicek

Goff and Wacker, eds., Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders, by Richard Kyle

Gordon and Gordon, Literacy in America: Historic Journey and Contemporary Solutions, by E. Jennifer Monaghan

Gordon, Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism, by Wilson J. Moses

Gould, The Modern American Presidency, by Louis W. Liebovich

Grant, Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929–1945, by Catherine McNicol Stock

Greenspan, Creating Colonial Williamsburg, by Johanna Miller Lewis

Hacker, The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, by Bruce S. Jansson

Hagedorn, Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad, by Matthew Pinsker

Haney López, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice, by Rodolfo F. Acuña

Hanson, Mary McLeod Bethune & Black Women’s Political Activism, by Barbara Bair

Hardwick, Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America’s Third Coast, by James C. Maroney

Hearden, Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II, by R. Craig Nation

Hendrickson, Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding, by Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Hirsch, After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman, by Victoria Bissell Brown

Hoeveler, Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges, by Melvin Yazawa

Hoffer, The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Horn, Lewis, and Onuf, eds., The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic, by John P. Kaminski

Horten, Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II, by Thomas Doherty

Hudson, The Making of “Mammy Pleasant”: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco, by Barbara Bair

Hunt, Marion Butler and American Populism, by Gene Clanton

Hyde, ed., Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866–2000, by Gregg L. Michel

Ivy, No Saloon in the Valley: The Southern Strategy of Texas Prohibitionists in the 1880s, by Richard F. Hamm

Jackson, with Burtniak and Stein, The Mighty Niagara: One River—Two Frontiers, by Peter C. Mancall

Jeffries, Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist, by John T. McCartney

Jensen, Davidann, and Sugita, eds., Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century, by Barbara Bennett Peterson

Jones, Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America, by G. Terry Sharrer

Jones, Toward a Just World: The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice, by Michael Dunne

Kennedy, Mr. Jefferson’s Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase, by Michael A. Morrison

Kirsch, Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War, by Steven A. Riess

Kolchin, A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective, by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South, by Peter B. Levy

Kukla, A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America, by Michael A. Morrison

Kupel, Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona’s Urban Environment, by Daniel McCool

LaGrand, Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945–75, by Dominic A. Pacyga

Laville, Cold War Women: The International Activities of American Women’s Organisations, by Mary L. Dudziak

Le Beau, The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O’Hair, by Bruce J. Dierenfield

Lebsock, A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial, by Jane Dailey

Lee, Lim, and Matsukawa, eds., Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History, by John Cheng

Leonard, Lynching in Colorado, 1859–1919, by Philip Mellinger

Lewis, Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church, by Michael D. McNally

Majewski, Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939, by Adam Walaszek

Marshall, “Lord, We’re Just Trying to Save Your Water”: Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South, by Jack E. Davis

Martin, The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance, and Illusion, by Betty Houchin Winfield

McBee, Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States, by Hasia R. Diner

McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History, by Charles H. Lippy

McKanan, Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States, by Leo P. Hirrel

McLaren, Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History, by Stephen Robertson

McMillian and Buhle, eds., The New Left Revisited, by Michael Kazin

Melosh, Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption, by Rickie Solinger

Meltzer, A History of the Federal Reserve, vol. 1: 1913–1951, by Hugh Rockoff

Menchaca, Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans, by Ernesto Chávez

Merritt, At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763, by Nancy L. Hagedorn

Meyers, Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland, by Margaret Susan Thompson

Miller, South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South, by Robert E. Bonner

Miller, Emergency Broadcasting and 1930s American Radio, by Thomas Doherty

Minchin, Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the basf Lockout, by Jack E. Davis

Monroe, The Republican Vision of John Tyler, by Lex Renda

Montrie, To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia, by Paul H. Rakes

Needleman, Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism, by Peter B. Levy

Nelson, Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri “Sex Questionnaire” Scandal in the Jazz Age, by Miriam Reumann

Neuhaus, Manly Meals and Mom’s Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America, by Glenna Matthews

Norton, In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, by Neal Salisbury

Oberg, Uncas: First of the Mohegans, by William B. Hart

Oren, Our Enemies and Us: America’s Rivalries and the Making of Political Science, by Terence Ball

Ozersky, Archie Bunker’s America: tv in an Era of Change, 1968–1978, by Michael Curtin

Pagan, Anne Orthwood’s Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia, by John Gilman Kolp

Passet, Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women’s Equality, by John C. Spurlock

Perciaccante, Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in Jefferson County, New York, 1800–1840, by Mark A. Noll

Peterson del Mar, Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West, by Philip Mellinger

Piott, Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America, by Worth Robert Miller

Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans, by Martha Menchaca

Prados, Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of cia Director William Colby, by Kathryn S. Olmsted

Rasmussen and Tilton, Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Ratner and Teeter, Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War, by Menahem Blondheim

Roberts, Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization, by Benjamin Franklin Cooling

Roberts, A Penny for the Governor, a Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington, by W. Elliot Brownlee

Roberts, The Confederate Belle, by Anya Jabour

Romano, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America, by Rachel F. Moran

Rothman, Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787–1861, by Joan R. Gundersen

Sacher, A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861, by Samuel C. Hyde Jr.

Sacks, Understanding Emerson: “The American Scholar” and His Struggle for Self-Reliance, by Russell B. Goodman

Schafer, Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner, by Virginia Gould

Schroeder, Slave to the Body: Black Bodies, White No-Bodies, and the Regulative Dualism of Body-Politics in the Old South, by Michael Sappol

Seelye, War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism, by Thomas Schoonover

Shammas, A History of Household Government in America, by Jane Turner Censer

Skocpol, Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, by Peter Dobkin Hall

Sloane and Sloane, Medicine Moves to the Mall, by Nancy Tomes

Smith, American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, by Peter F. Coogan

Smith, God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War, by Gregory D. Black

Smith, Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia, by Gaines M. Foster

Sorin, Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent, by Jeffrey W. Coker

Staley, Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past, by David S. Trask

Stearns, Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America, by Julia Grant

Sterba, Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants during the First World War, by Michael M. Topp

Sterne, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, by Gregory J. Downey

Stokes, ed., The State of U.S. History, by Lewis Perry

Swann-Wright, A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South, by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

Tallant, Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky, by James M. Prichard

Traverso, Welfare Politics in Boston, 1910–1940, by Edward D. Berkowitz

Tyler, Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts, by Daniel McCool

Vale, Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods, by Robert B. Fairbanks

van Minnen and Hilton, eds., Nation on the Move: Mobility in U.S. History, by Donald Parkerson

Wallenstein, Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law—An American History, by Rachel F. Moran

Walls, Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth, by Russell B. Goodman

Watson and Eksterowicz, eds., The Presidential Companion: Readings on the First Ladies, by Betty Houchin Winfield

Weeks, Gettysburg: Memory, Market, and an American Shrine, by Richard D. Starnes

Westwick, The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947–1974, by Roger D. Launius

Wiebe, Who We Are: A History of Popular Nationalism, by Stuart McConnell

Williamson, Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, by Douglas Deal

Wilson, The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955–2000, by John Dinan

Wolff, Richard Caton Woodville: American Painter, Artful Dodger, by Joshua Brown

Woods, ed., Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of Dissent, by Melvin Small

Zahniser, Then Came Disaster: France and the United States, 1918–1940, by David M. Esposito

Zakai, Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment, by George M. Marsden