Book Reviews
June 2007, Vol. 94 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 |

Abrams, Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West, by William Toll

Allison, Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War, by James J. Weingartner

Amenta, When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security, by Raymond Richards

Anderson, Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines, by Philippa Levine

Apple, Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America, by Jessica Weiss

Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Kenneth T. Andrews

Axtell, The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present, by J. Gregory Behle

Barton, Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas, by R. Douglas Brackenridge

Bauman and Muller, Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889–1943, by John N. Ingham

Beers, For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States, by Susan J. Pearson

Bellows, A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition, by Betty Brandon

Belohlavek, Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union, by Michael A. Morrison

Bender, A Nation among Nations: America’s Place in World History, by Charles S. Maier

Block, Rape and Sexual Power in Early America, by Clare A. Lyons

Blum and Poole, eds., Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction, by William Gravely

Bold, Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The wpa Writers’ Project in Massachusetts, by Martha H. Swain

Boman, Lincoln’s Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri’s Civil War Governor, by Marshall DeRosa

Bradley and Dahlen, From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin, by Brian S. Wills

Brown, Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South, by Eric H. Walther

Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, by Neil Jumonville

Bruce, The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America, by Daniel A. Cohen

Brückner, The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity, by Gregory Nobles

Buescher, The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator for the Spirit Land, by John J. Kucich

Burnett, The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth of the Mobile Register, by Michael B. Chesson

Buscombe, ‘Injuns!’ Native Americans in the Movies, by Charles L. P. Silet

Byler, Civil-Military Relations on the Frontier and Beyond, 1865–1917, by Robert G. Angevine

Calhoun, Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869–1900, by Edward Frantz

Campbell, Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005, by Tunde R. Adeleke

Carso, “Whom Can We Trust Now?” The Meaning of Treason in the United States, from the Revolution through the Civil War, by Peter C. Messer

Cave, Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America, by Joel W. Martin

Cogliano, Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy, by Gene Allen Smith

Cohrs, The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain, and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919–1932, by Stephen A. Schuker

Colgrove, State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America, by Lynne Curry

Collado Herrera, Dwight W. Morrow: Reencuentro y revolución en las relaciones entre México y Estados Unidos, 1927–1930 (Dwight W. Morrow: Encounter and revolution in diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States, 1927–1930), by Helen Delpar

Creech, Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution, by Peter H. Argersinger

Curtis, Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960–1975, by Louis A. DeCaro Jr.

Cushner, Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America, by Luca Codignola

Czaja, Die usa und ihr Aufstieg zur Weltmacht um die Jahrhundertwende: Die Amerikaperzeption der Parteien im Kaiserreich (The United States and its rise at the turn of the century: The perception of America by the parties in the Reich), by Nancy Mitchell

Daniels, The Fourth Revolution: Transformations in American Society from the Sixties to the Present, by Andrew Hunt

Davis, Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville: Essays on the Secret Social Histories of America’s Deadliest Prison, by J. Michael Martinez

Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America, by Susan Scott Parrish

DeRosa, Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War, by Susan Canedy

Downs and Manion, eds., Taking Back the Academy! History of Activism, History as Activism, by John R. Thelin

Doyle, Pioneer Spirit: Catherine Spalding, Sister of Charity of Nazareth, by Margaret Susan Thompson

DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent, by Greg O’Brien

Ettinger, Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession, by Deborah Kuhn McGregor

Farber, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America’s First Encounter with Radical Islam, by Nur Bilge Criss

Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950, by Edward P. Johanningsmeier

Flippen, Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism, by Jack E. Davis

Forret, Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside, by Mark V. Wetherington

Foster, Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, by Lisa Wilson

Frankel, States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States, by Ronald J. Zboray

Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life, by Lynne Pierson Doti

Gelfand, Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949–2000, by Robert J. Schneller Jr.

Gilfoyle, A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York, by Stephen Duncombe

Gillespie, Weapons of Choice: The Development of Precision Guided Munitions, by Conrad C. Crane

Goldsby, A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature, by Amy Wood

Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life, by Leslie Butler

Gottschalk, The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, by Scott Christianson

Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America, by Robert Justin Goldstein

Gross, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910, by Shawn Leigh Alexander

Hampf and Lehmkuhl, eds., Radio Welten. Politische, soziale und kulturelle Aspekte atlantischer Mediengeschichte vor und während des Zweiten Weltkriegs (Radio worlds. Political, social, and cultural aspects of transatlantic media history before and during World War II), by David Culbert

Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, by Ralph B. Levering

Heinze, Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century, by Eric L. Goldstein

Hickey, Don’t Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812, by C. Edward Skeen

Hoig, White Man’s Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains, by Raymond J. DeMallie Jr.

Holloway, Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945, by William B. Turner

Hornstein, A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class, by Burton J. Bledstein

Howard, Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition, by Elizabeth H. Pleck

Hurtado, John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier, by Michael F. Magliari

James, The Conspiracy of the Good: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Community in Two American Cities, 1875–2000, by Raymond Wolters

Jolly, Black Liberation in the Midwest: The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964–1970, by Jeanne Theoharis

Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, by Cindy Hahamovitch

Karp, Missed Opportunities: U.S. Diplomatic Failures and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–1967, by Salim Yaqub

Katz and Stern, One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming, by Richard P. Horwitz

Kazin and McCartin, eds., Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, by Paul T. McCartney

Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic, by Louise (Lucy) Wilby Knight

Kercher, Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America, by Ethan Thompson

Kersten, Labor’s Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II, by Grace Palladino

Kirschmann, A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy, by Hans A. Baer

Kitch, Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines, by Matthew L. Schneirov

Kutulas, The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930–1960, by Jonathan Bell

Layne, The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present, by David F. Schmitz

Lee, Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880–1950, by Ena L. Farley

Lightner, Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War, by Robert H. Gudmestad

Long, Helen Foster Snow: An American Woman in Revolutionary China, by Barbara Bennett Peterson

Long, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau, by Louis J. Kern

Lovoll, Norwegians on the Prairie: Ethnicity and the Development of the Country Town, by Orm øverland

Marietta and Rowe, Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800, by Peter Okun

Mariscal, Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965–1975, by Carlos Kevin Blanton

Marr, The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism, by Iftikhar Malik

Martínez, Sea la Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829–1900, by R. Douglas Brackenridge

McGovern, Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945, by Inger L. Stole

Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland, by James Homer Williams

Miller, The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution, by Adrienne D. Hood

Millett, The War for Korea, 1945–1950: A House Burning, by Gary R. Hess

Morley, Historic Preservation and the Imagined West: Albuquerque, Denver, and Seattle, by Glen Gendzel

Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965, by Seth Jacobs

Myers, Black, White, and Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement, by Alan M. Osur

Nemec, Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State, by Roger L. Geiger

Noll and Blumhofer, eds., Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America, by David W. Stowe

O’Neill, Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control, by Todd Shallat

Olegario, A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business, by Edward Balleisen

Onuf and Onuf, Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War, by Robert Cook

Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, by Harold L. Burstyn

Poole, The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State, by Deborah E. Ward

Prados, Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the cia, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Raymond, From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics, by Kevin J. Smant

Robinson, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, by Kelly L. Lankford

Romano and Raiford, eds., The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory, by Sarah E. Gardner

Ryan, Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States, by Carolyn Vellenga Berman

Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Keith R. Benson

Salvatore, Imágenes de un imperio: Estados Unidos y las formas de representación de América Latina (Images of an empire: The United States and the forms of representation of Latin America), by Stephen G. Rabe

Sarris, A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South, by Brian D. McKnight

Schmitz, The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965–1989, by Alan P. Dobson

Schultz, The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow, by Debra Reid

Schwabe, Weltmacht und Weltordnung. Amerikanische Auenpolitik von 1898 bis zur Gegenwart. Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte (World power and world order. American foreign policy, 1898 to the present. A history of the 20th century), by Peter F. Coogan

Silver, First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection; Halutzim from America during the Palestine Mandate, by Irvine H. Anderson

Simpson, 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration, by Jay Winter

Smith, No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North, by Vernon L. Volpe

Smith, ed., Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post–Civil Rights America, by James Findlay

Smith, Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783–1820, by Douglas McCalla

Smyth, Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, by Raymond J. Haberski Jr.

Souther, New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City, by Char Miller

Sparks, Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850–1920, by B. Zorina Khan

Sparks, Raccoon John Smith: Frontier Kentucky’s Most Famous Preacher, by Charles Hambrick-Stowe

Sparrow, The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire, by Serge Ricard

Speek, “God Has Made Us a Kingdom”: James Strang and the Midwest Mormons, by W. Michael Ashcraft

Stanonis, Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945, by Richard D. Starnes

Staples, The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945–1965, by Robert C. Hilderbrand

Stebenne, Modern Republican: Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years, by Chris Tudda

Stowe, How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans, by James R. Goff Jr.

Sundquist, Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post–Holocaust America, by Tony Martin

Teaford, The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America, by John D. Fairfield

Thompson, Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman, by Edward G. Longacre

Trafton, Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania, by Bruce Dain

Treviño, The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston, by Mary E. Odem

Van Ruymbeke, From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina, by Neil Kamil

Vettel, Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry, by Daniel Lee Kleinman

Wadsworth, In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America, by Barbara Ryan

Waldrep, Vicksburg’s Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance, by Anne Sarah Rubin

Walther, William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War, by William A. Link

Waselkov, A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814, by Julie Anne Sweet

Watts, In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780–1860, by Jean Lamarre

Wells, Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861–1865, by Jane E. Schultz

Wilkinson, Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations, by Larry Burt

Wills, Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon, by Robert W. Righter

Wright, Slavery and American Economic Development, by Tom Downey

Yuill, Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equity in an Era of Limits, by Terry H. Anderson

Zboray and Zboray, Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders, by Leon Jackson

Zeiler, Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire, by Allen Guttmann