Book Reviews
March 2005, Vol. 91 No. 4

[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 |

Abbott, ed. by Quist, For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South, by Carl R. Osthaus

Allitt, Religion in America since 1945: A History, by Eugene McCarraher

Augst, The Clerk’s Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America, by Timothy B. Spears

Barnard, American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935–1970, by Stephen Amberg

Bernstein, Thomas Jefferson, by Lance Banning

Black, Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867, by Melody Webb

Boyd, Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press, by James Edward Smethurst

Bradley, Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963–1975, by Susan M. Hartmann

Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, by David Waldstreicher

Brown, The Education of Jane Addams, by Linda Schott

Brown, The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880, by Richard D. Brown

Brundage, ed., Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up from Slavery 100 Years Later, by Cary D. Wintz

Burns and Dunn, George Washington, by Paul K. Longmore

Calloway and Salisbury, eds., Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, by Jack Campisi

Cannistraro and Meyer, eds., The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism: Politics, Labor, and Culture, by Stefano Luconi

Carp, Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58, by Sandra Patton-Imani

Carwardine, Lincoln, by Rodney O. Davis

Censer, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895, by Peter W. Bardaglio

Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, by Lewis V. Baldwin

Clayton and Salmond, eds., “Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph”: Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities, by Angela Boswell

Clegg, The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia, by Amos J. Beyan

Cobble, The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America, by Susan Eleanor Hirsch

Cole and Parker, eds., Beyond Black & White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest, by Carlos Kevin Blanton

Connolly, Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England, by Christopher Clark

Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882, by K. Scott Wong

Davis, Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946–61, by Pablo A. Pozzi

Dessens, Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies, by B. W. Higman

Donohue, Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer, by Alan Lawson

Dorr, White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900–1960, by Matthew Pratt Guterl

Edling, A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State, by Michael P. Zuckert

Edsall, Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World, by David K. Johnson

Ellis, A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains, by Peter Iverson

Engerman, Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development, by Alan Wald

Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era, by Michael J. Birkner

Ethridge, Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, by Mary E. Young

Faulkner, Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement, by Christine Bolt

Fish, Black and White Women’s Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations, by Etsuko Taketani

Flake, The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle, by John L. Brooke

Foote, Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform, by Thomas J. Brown

Fouché, Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, & Shelby J. Davidson, by W. Sherman Jackson

French, The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory, by Mary Kemp Davis

Gardner, Blood & Irony: Southern White Women’s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861–1937, by Karen L. Cox

Gavin, Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958–1971, by Alfred E. Eckes

Gedge, Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture, by Debby Applegate

Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, by B. R. Burg

Gilman, Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America, by Nick Cullather

Gold, Making the Bible Modern: Children’s Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America, by Beth S. Wenger

Goldstein, William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience, by Gary Dorrien

Greene, Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867–1869, by John H. Monnett

Griffler, Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley, by Catherine Clinton

Grosfoguel, Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective, by Laura Briggs

Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Kirt H. Wilson

Gunnell, Imagining the American Polity: Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy, by Philip Abbott

Gutfreund, Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape, by Mark S. Foster

Hahn, Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945–1961, by Steven Z. Freiberger

Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, by Ronald D. Eller

Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, by Herman Belz

Harrold, The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves, by Hugh Davis

Hatfield, Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century, by Larry Gragg

Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000, by Jon C. Teaford

Heneghan, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination, by Neil Kamil

Higginbotham, George Washington: Uniting a Nation, by Paul K. Longmore

Hill, The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement, by William L. Van Deburg

Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, by Richard J. Carwardine

Howe, Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America, by Peter S. Onuf

Huelfer, The “Casualty Issue” in American Military Practice: The Impact of World War I, by Peter S. Kindsvatter

Hunter, How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood, by Carol Lasser

Jacobs, Novak, and Zelizer, eds., The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, by Ronald P. Formisano

Jakle and Sculle, Signs in America’s Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place, by Karal Ann Marling

Jarvis, The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II, by Robert Dean

Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, by Leila J. Rupp

Johnson, Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans, by Cynthia E. Orozco

Johnson, Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City, by J. Matthew Gallman

Johnston, Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907, by James Taylor Carson

Johnston, ed., The Politics of Healing: Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America, by Robert C. Fuller

Jordan, ed., Slavery and the American South, by Timothy J. Lockley

Kessner, Capital City: New York City and the Men behind America’s Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900, by Walter A. Friedman

Kling and Sweeney, eds., Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons, by William Breitenbach

Knouff, The Soldiers’ Revolution: Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity, by John Resch

Konkle, Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863, by Hilary E. Wyss

Kraig, Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman, by Kendrick A. Clements

Kuyk, African Voices in the African American Heritage, by James L. Conyers Jr.

La Vere, The Texas Indians, by Andrew R. Graybill

Lakwete, Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America, by Joseph P. Reidy

Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage, by Norma Basch

Langa, Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York, by Paul Buhle

Lash, A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, by Steven E. Woodworth

Long, Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, by Susan Wells

Long, The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865–1920, by Joshua D. Rothman

Lykins, From Total War to Total Diplomacy: The Advertising Council and the Construction of the Cold War Consensus, by Shawn J. Parry-Giles

Mahoney, Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University, by Roger L. Geiger

Martin, Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South, by Robert H. Gudmestad

Mathes and Lowitt, The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform, by John M. Coward

McArthur and Smith, Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist’s Life in Politics, by Megan Seaholm

McGuire, To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution, by Robert E. Wright

McMahon, Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown, by Kenneth O’Reilly

Mead, How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914, by Ann D. Gordon

Mendel, “A Broad and Ennobling Spirit”: Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886–1898, by Brian Greenberg

Mohl, with Graff and Zoloth, South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945–1960, by Debra L. Schultz

Moore, Sinisi, and White, eds., Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, by John B. Boles

Morgan, Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930–1953, by David Krasner

Mouw and Noll, eds., Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology, by Candy Gunther Brown

Nate, Amerikanische Träume: Die Kultur der Vereinigten Staaten in der Zeit des New Deal (American dreams: The culture of the United States in the time of the New Deal), by Silvano A. Wueschner

Newfield, Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980, by John R. Thelin

Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, by Charlotte Brooks

Nickles, Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy, by Walter LaFeber

Nielsen, The Radical Lives of Helen Keller, by Catherine J. Kudlick

Odo, No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i during World War II, by Eileen H. Tamura

Ojserkis, Beginnings of the Cold War Arms Race: The Truman Administration and the U.S. Arms Build-Up, by Wesley T. Wooley

Olson, Stuart Symington: A Life, by John Bledsoe Bonds

Ousterhout, The Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, by Susan E. Klepp

Parker, Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History, by C. Edward Skeen

Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South, by J. William Harris

Peskin, Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms, by James M. McCaffrey

Peskin, Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry, by David Jaffee

Pinsker, Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home, by Herman Belz

Polishuk, Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila, by Dennis A. Deslippe

Poole, Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry, by Charles J. Holden

Quigley, Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy, by Ena L. Farley

Radano, Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music, by Eric Porter

Rath, How Early America Sounded, by Alan H. Levy

Reid, Controlling the Law: Legal Politics in Early National New Hampshire, by M. N. S. Sellers

Richardson, Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley, by Russ Castronovo

Rosenberg, A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory, by Naoko Shibusawa

Rossignol, trans. by Parrott, The Nationalist Ferment: The Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1789–1812, by J. C. A. Stagg

Rothman, The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism, by Carl Abbott

Samet, Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898, by Holly A. Mayer

Sandbrook, Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism, by David Steigerwald

Sarna, American Judaism: A History, by Henry L. Feingold

Sawaya, Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890–1950, by Susan Albertine

Schneiders, Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone & Upper Missouri, by Byron E. Pearson

Schwartzberg, Democracy and U.S. Policy in Latin America during the Truman Years, by Paul J. Dosal

Sehlinger, Kentucky’s Last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816–1887, by Lowell H. Harrison

Shankman, Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, by Seth Cotlar

Sinisi, Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861–1880, by David Brian Robertson

Small, Beauty & Convenience: Architecture and Order in the New Republic, by Lee Baldwin Dalzell

Smith, ed., Down and Out in Early America, by Robert E. Cray Jr.

Starr, The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications, by John Nerone

Sterne, Ballots & Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence, by James Connolly

Stiles, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, by Michael Fellman

Sundiata, Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940, by Claude A. Clegg III

Sutton, Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Religious Communities, 1732–2000, by Carl J. Guarneri

Sutton, Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Secular Communities, 1824–2000, by Carl J. Guarneri

Tarr, ed., Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region, by John T. Cumbler

Tebeau, Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950, by Amy S. Greenberg

Testi, Stelle e strisce: Storia di una bandiera (Stars and stripes: A history of a flag), by David G. Orr

Trees, The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character, by Stuart Leibiger

Tyack, Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society, by Barry M. Franklin

Wachtel, Street of Dreams—Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street’s First Century, by Howard Bodenhorn

Ward and Rogers, Alabama’s Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829–1865, by Anne M. Butler

West, Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina, by Cheryll Ann Cody

White, Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889–1895, by Kathleen Dalton

Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century, by Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East, by Steven Z. Freiberger

Young, Building San Francisco’s Parks, 1850–1930, by Carl Abbott

Zakim, Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860, by Thomas Augst

Zeidel, Immigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics: The Dillingham Commission, 1900–1927, by William H. Katerberg