Book Reviews
Sept. 2005, Vol. 92 No. 2

[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 |

Achenbach, The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West, by Bruce A. Ragsdale

Anderson and Hill, The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier, by Lynne Pierson Doti

Andrews, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy, by Charles W. Eagles

Angevine, The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America, by Steven W. Usselman

Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles, by Scott H. Tang

Baritono, Frezza, Lorini, Vaudagna, and Vezzosi, eds., Public and Private in American History: State, Family, Subjectivity in the Twentieth Century, by Fabrizio Tonello

Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America, by Bruce C. Daniels

Bennett, Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War, by Robert J. Schneller Jr.

Bennett, Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915–1963, by Jo Ann O. Robinson

Bensel, The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by William G. Shade

Binkiewicz, Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965–1980, by Alice Goldfarb Marquis

Blackwell, No Peace without Freedom: Race and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915–1975, by Jo Ann O. Robinson

Blanton, The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836–1981, by Gareth Davies

Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, by Alfred L. Brophy

Breitman, Goda, Naftali, and Wolfe, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, by Betty A. Dessants

Broyles, Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music, by Gavin James Campbell

Casdorph, Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee’s Hesitant Commander, by Edward G. Longacre

Chalmers, Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement, by David Cunningham

Cherny, Issel, and Taylor, eds., American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, by John Barnard

Citino, From Arab Nationalism to opec: Eisenhower, King Sa‘ud, and the Making of U.S.-Saudi Relations, by Irvine H. Anderson

Cohen and Zelnik, eds., The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, by Terry H. Anderson

Cole, A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy, by John M. Belohlavek

Conn, History’s Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century, by Scott L. Pratt

Cox, A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington’s Army, by William B. Skelton

Cutler, Labor’s Time: Shorter Hours, the uaw, and the Struggle for American Unionism, by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

Daily, Battle for the bia: G. E. E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier, by Kenneth R. Philp

Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places, by Gretchen M. Bataille

Dennis, Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights, by Charles Pete Banner-Haley

DeVault, United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism, by S. J. Kleinberg

Diner, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000, by Jonathan D. Sarna

Duus, trans. by Duus, The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders, by Terry Smith

Earle, Jacksonian Antislavery & the Politics of Free Soil, 1824–1854, by Vernon L. Volpe

Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington, by Philander D. Chase

Ellis, Britain, America, and the Vietnam War, by Fredrik Logevall

Eltis, Lewis, and Sokoloff, eds., Slavery in the Development of the Americas, by Kenneth Morgan

Elvins, Sales & Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920–1940, by David Blanke

Fahs and Waugh, eds., The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture, by Jim Cullen

Ferren, Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge, by Michael E. Parrish

Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A, by David Gartman

Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, by Timothy J. Shannon

Foner and Fredrickson, eds., Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, by Thomas A. Guglielmo

Friend and Glover, eds., Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South, by Cara Anzilotti

Gershenhorn, Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge, by Jane I. Guyer

Glass, Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880–1980, by Ronald Weber

Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, by Alan McPherson

Grant, “Follow the Flag”: A History of the Wabash Railroad Company, by Maury Klein

Greene, A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830–1930, by Alan M. Kraut

Gudis, Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape, by Carol Ahlgren

Hahn, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763, by Robbie Ethridge

Hayashi, Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment, by Arthur A. Hansen

Heffernan, Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968, by David Sanjek

Hing, Defining America through Immigration Policy, by Daniel J. Tichenor

Hitchcock, The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, vol. 1: The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses, by Shawn Francis Peters

Hitchcock, The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, vol. 2: From “Higher Law” to “Sectarian Scruples”, by Shawn Francis Peters

Hoffert, Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815–1884, by Martha Solomon Watson

Hughes, with Moretti and Browne, Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest’s Fighting Lieutenant, by James A. Ramage

Humphrey, Land and Liberty: Hudson Valley Riots in the Age of Revolution, by David Sloan

Hyde, ed., A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1699–2000, by Edward F. Haas

Isenberg, Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It, by James Borchert

Jackson, Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age, by Suzanne E. Smith

Jansen, Individuelle Bewährung im Krieg: Amerikaner in Europa, 1914–1917 (Individual volunteers in the war: Americans in Europe, 1914–1917), by M. B. B. Biskupski

Janssens and Kroes, eds., Post–Cold War Europe, Post–Cold War America, by Roberto Rabel

Joyner, From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South, by Robert M. Buchanan

Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America, by Allison Varzally

Kaye, The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity, by Amy Bass

Kelley, The Foundations of Texan Philanthropy, by Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Ketcham, The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era, by John G. Gunnell

Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Mary Frances Berry

Klein, A Population History of the United States, by Richard H. Steckel

Laliotou, Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism between Greece and America, by Dan Georgakas

Landers, The Weekly War: Newsmagazines and Vietnam, by Edward P. Morgan

Lange, Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music’s Struggle for Respectability, 1939–1954, by Kristine M. McCusker

Lewis, The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945–1965, by Gerald Horne

Lewis, ed., Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe, by David R. Contosta

Longley, Senator Albert Gore Sr.: Tennessee Maverick, by Randy Sanders

Lumsden, Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland, by Elizabeth York Enstam

Lynn-Sherow, Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory, by William L. Hewitt

Martinez, Life and Death in Civil War Prisons: The Parallel Torments of Corporal John Wesley Minnich, C.S.A., and Sergeant Warren Lee Goss, U.S.A., by Michael P. Gray

Mason, From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831–1995, by Joseph A. Pratt

Matthews, Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney, by Archie Vernon Huff Jr.

McKinney, Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader, by William L. Barney

McMillin, The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783–1810, by Thomas N. Ingersoll

McTavish, Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America, by Nancy D. Campbell

Moses, Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey, by Jonathan M. Hansen

Mullis, Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas, by Nicole Etcheson

Nesbitt, Race for Sanctions: African Americans against Apartheid, 1946–1994, by Robert Vinson

Neville, Twentieth-Century Cause Célèbre: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the Press, 1920–1927, by Robert Hariman

Nord, Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America, by Meredith L. McGill

O’Donnell, Ohio’s First Peoples, by Stephen Warren

O’Toole, ed., Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America, by James P. McCartin

Ochiai, Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina, by Robert Tracy McKenzie

Olson, Benjamin Franklin’s Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology, by David T. Morgan

Ostler, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee, by John W. Bailey

Otterness, Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York, by A. G. Roeber

Pace, Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South, by Jennifer R. Green

Pencak and Richter, eds., Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania, by Jon Parmenter

Penney and Livingston, A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women’s Rights, by Sylvia D. Hoffert

Pfeifer, Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947, by Walter T. Howard

Pfister, Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern, by Joy Porter

Pieroth, Seattle’s Women Teachers of the Interwar Years: Shapers of a Livable City, by John L. Rury

Pike, New Age and Neopagan Religions in America, by Philip Jenkins

Piker, Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America, by William L. Ramsey

Pope, Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century, by Geoffrey Plank

Price, Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the fbi’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists, by Nils Gilman

Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age, by James Pritchard

Rhodes, John James Audubon: The Making of an American, by Ron C. Tyler

Rollings, Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion (1673–1906); a Cultural Victory, by W. David Baird

San Miguel, Contested Policy: The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960–2001, by Gareth Davies

Savage, jfk, lbj, and the Democratic Party, by James R. Sweeney

Schackel, ed., Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, by Cherisse R. Jones

Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804, by Margaret C. Jacob

Schultz, Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America, by LeeAnn Whites

Schwartz, ed., Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680, by Selwyn H. H. Carrington

Schweber, The Creation of American Common Law, 1850–1880: Technology, Politics, and the Construction of Citizenship, by William G. Thomas III

Shaffer, After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans, by William Seraile

Shortridge, Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas, by Timothy R. Mahoney

Silva, Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism, by Mansel G. Blackford

Siminoff, Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island, by Jessica Kross

Simon, Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America, by Martin Paulsson

Simpson, Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880–1940, by Maureen A. Flanagan

Slezkine, The Jewish Century, by Marc Dollinger

Slide, American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon, by Daniel Bernardi

Smith, Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940–1960, by Joseph M. Hawes

Smith, Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture, by Amy Wood

Smith, Keeping the Republic: Ideology and Early American Diplomacy, by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler

Starnes, ed., Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South, by James Kessenides

Starr, Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990–2003, by Andrew Rolle

Thelin, A History of American Higher Education, by John M. Heffron

Tinkler, James Hamilton of South Carolina, by Daniel W. Crofts

Tomblin, With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945, by Jeffrey G. Barlow

Troesken, Water, Race, and Disease, by Susan L. Smith

Turk, Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women’s Fraternities, 1870–1920, by Karen J. Blair

Ulrich, ed., Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History, by Linda Eisenmann

Upchurch, Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow, by Robert M. Goldman

Vogel, ReWriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America, by Bridget T. Heneghan

Wallner, Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire’s Favorite Son, by Larry Gara

Ward, Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South, by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

Watkins, Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy, by Andrew S. Trees

Weil, trans. by Gladding, A History of New York, by Eric Homberger

Weiner, Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste, by Mark V. Tushnet

Weissman, Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust, by Michael E. Staub

Wells, The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800–1861, by Kirsten E. Wood

Wilkins, The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945, by William M. McClenahan Jr.

Willbanks, Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War, by Marc Jason Gilbert

Williams, The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality, by John F. Bauman

Wolters, Du Bois and His Rivals, by Sarah E. Gardner

Wong, Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon, by Alfred Yee

Wood, This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775, by Donna J. Spindel

Woods, The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era, by Patrick W. Carey

Woodworth-Ney, Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, 1805–1902, by Rodney Frey

Young, Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, by W. Dirk Raat

Zeman and Amundson, eds., Atomic Culture: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, by Jerome F. Shapiro

Zukin, Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture, by Kathleen G. Donohue