Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977
Articles
The Historian and the Federal Government
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 5–23, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888271
Slaves as Fixed Capital: Slave Labor and Southern Economic Development
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 24–46, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888272
Businessmen and the Political Economy: The Railroad Rate Controversy of 1905
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 47–66, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888273
American Friendship for China and the Shantung Question at the Washington Conference
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 67–86, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888274
What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942–1945
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 87–105, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888275
Book Reviews
The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788–1790. Vol. I. Ed. by Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. xxxi + 896 pp. Maps, tables, notes, short title list of sources cited, and index. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 106–107, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888276
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. Vol. XXII: July 1798–March 1799. Ed. by Harold C. Syrett, Barbara A. Chernow, Joseph G. Henrich, and Patricia Syrett. New York and The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. Vol. XXIII: April 1799–October 1799. Ed. by Harold C. Syrett, Barbara A. Chernow, Joseph G. Henrich, and Patricia Syrett. New York
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 107–109, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888277
The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Vol. 4: 1860–1861. Ed. by Leroy P. Graf, Ralph W. Haskins, and Patricia P. Clark. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976. xlvii + 745 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, and index. $20.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 109–110, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888278
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 20: 1910. Ed. by Arthur S. Link, David W. Hirst, John E. Little, John M. Mulder, Sylvia Elvin Fontijn, and M. Halsey Thomas. Princeton and The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 21: 1910. Ed. by Arthur S. Link, David W. Hirst, John E. Little, John M. Mulder, Sylvia Elvin Fontijn, and M. Halsey Thomas. Princeton
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 110–111, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888279
Dynamics of Ascent: A History of the American Economy. By W. Elliot Brownlee. (New York: Knopf, 1974. xvii + 381 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, suggested readings, and index. $11.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 112, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888280
Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays. Ed. by Berenice A. Carroll. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. xiv + 434 pp. Tables and notes. Cloth, $14.95; paper, $5.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 113–114, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888281
Social science and the ignoble savage. By Ronald L. Meek. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 249 pp. Notes and index. $17.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 114–115, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888282
Ácoma: Pueblo in the Sky. By Ward Alan Minge. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. xii + 180 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, about the bibliography, and index. $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 115–116, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888283
Spanish Colonial Tucson: A Demographic History. By Henry F. Dobyns. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1976. x + 246 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $11.50; paper, $5.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 117–118, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888284
A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England. By Howard S. Russell. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1976. xvi + 672 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $18.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 118–119, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888285
Colonial Pennsylvania: A History. By Joseph E. Illick. (New York: Scribner's, 1976. xix + 359 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $15.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 119–120, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888286
Eighteenth-Century Florida: Life on the Frontier. Ed. by Samuel Proctor. (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1976. xi + 110 pp. Illustrations and notes. $6.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 120–121, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888287
America's First Hospital: The Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751–1841. By William H. Williams. (Wayne, Pa.: Haverford House, 1976. 186 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, selective bibliography, and index. $12.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 121–122, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888288
American Medical Education: The Formative Years, 1765–1910. By Martin Kaufman. (Westport: Greenwood, 1976. x + 208 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 122, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888289
The Royal Navy and North America: The Warren Papers, 1736–1752. Ed. by Julian Gwyn. (London: Navy Records Society, 1973. xlv + 463 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and list of documents and sources.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 123, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888290
Sir William Johnson: Colonial American, 1715–1763. By Milton W. Hamilton. (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1976. xiv + 402 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $17.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 123–124, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888291
The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents, 1766–1770. Ed. by John Parker. (Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Society, 1976. x + 244 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 125, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888292
The Correspondence of William Nelson as Acting Governor of Virginia, 1770–1771. Ed. by John C. Van Horne. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975. xxxi + 176 pp. Illustration, tables, notes, and index. $12.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 125–126, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888293
Stamford from Puritan to Patriot: The Shaping of a Connecticut Community, 1641–1774. By Estelle F. Feinstein. (Stamford: Stamford Bicentennial Corporation, 1976. iii + 236 pp. Map, illustrations, chart, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $5.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 126–127, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888294
Laughter in the Wilderness: Early American Humor to 1783. Ed. by W. Howland Kenney. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1976. ix + 236 pp. Notes. $12.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 127–128, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888295
The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776: A Survey of Census Data. By Robert V. Wells. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. xii + 342 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $18.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 128–129, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888296
The Human Dimensions of Nation Making: Essays on Colonial and Revolutionary America. Ed. by James Kirby Martin. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976. viii + 370 pp. Charts, tables, and notes. $15.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 129–130, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888297
A Cultural History of the American Revolution: Painting, Music, Literature, and the Theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763–1789. By Kenneth Silverman. (New York: Crowell, 1976. xvii + 699 pp. Illustrations, notes, sources, and index. $17.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 130–131, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888298
The Revolutionary War Memoir and Selected Correspondence of Philip Van Cortlandt. Comp. and ed. by Jacob Judd. (Tarrytown: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1976. xxiii + 181 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 132, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888299
The Making of a Scapegoat: Washington and Lee at Monmouth. By Theodore Thayer. (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1976. viii + 124 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $9.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 132–133, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888300
The Natchez District and the American Revolution. By Robert V. Haynes. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. viii + 191 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, essay on sources, and index. $6.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 133–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888301
Spain: Forgotten Ally of the American Revolution. By Buchanan Parker Thomson. (North Quincy, Mass.: Christopher, 1976. 251 pp. Maps, illustration, and notes. $9.75.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 134–135, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888302
Contrast and Connection: Bicentennial Essays in Anglo-American History. Ed. by H. C. Allen and Roger Thompson. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976. ix + 373 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $16.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 135–136, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888303
Union County, Pennsylvania: A Bicentennial History. By Charles M. Snyder, John W. Downie, Elizabeth L. Hitchcock, and Lois S. Kalp. (Lewisburg, Pa.: Colonial, 1976. x + 324 pp. Map, illustrations, appendix, notes, and index. $10.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 136–137, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888304
The New Haven Green and The American Bicentennial. By Rollin G. Osterweis. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1976. x + 129 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $10.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 137–138, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888305
Florida: A Bicentennial History. By Gloria Jahoda. (New York: Norton, 1976. xi + 210 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. $8.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 138–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888306
West Virginia: A Bicentennial History. By John Alexander Williams. (New York: Norton, 1976. xi + 212 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. $8.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 139–140, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888307
Az Egyesült Államok A 200. Évforduló Elött [The United States Before the Bicentennial]. By Mihaly Simai. (Budapest: Kossuth Publishing, 1974. 367 pp. Tables and notes.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 140–141, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888308
The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. By Forrest McDonald. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1976. xi + 201 pp. Illustration, notes, note on the sources, and index. $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 142–143, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888309
Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication. By James C. Curtis. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. xi + 194 pp. Note on sources and index. $7.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 143–144, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888310
Frontier Musicians on the Connoquenessing, Wabash, and Ohio: A History of the Music and Musicians of George Rapp's Harmony Society (1805–1906). By Richard D. Wetzel. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976. xi + 294 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, and sound sheet. $16.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 144–145, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888311
The Irish Diaspora in America. By Lawrence J. McCaffrey. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. x +214 pp. Notes, recommended reading, and index. $8.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 145–146, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888312
The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820–1870. By Leon A. Jick. (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1976. xi + 247 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 146–147, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888313
Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836–1860: Accommodation and Community in a Frontier City. By Kathleen Neils Conzen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 300 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $16.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 147–148, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888314
We Were 49ers! Chilean Accounts of the California Gold Rush. Trans. and ed. by Edwin A. Beilharz and Carlos U. López. (Pasadena: Ward Ritchie, 1976. xx + 230 pp. Illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $9.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888315
This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South. By Leslie Howard Owens. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. 291 pp. Notes, manuscript sources, and index. $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888316
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. By Paul A. David, Herbert G. Gutman, Richard Sutch, Peter Temin, and Gavin Wright. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. xvi + 398 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical references, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $4.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 150–151, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888317
The Journals of Thomas Hubbard Hobbs: A Contemporary Record of an Aristocrat from Athens, Alabama, Written between 1840, When the Diarist was Fourteen Years Old, and 1862, When He Died Serving the Confederate States of America. Ed. by Faye Acton Axford. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1976. x + 272 pp.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 152, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888318
A Georgian at Princeton. By Robert Manson Myers. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. 365 pp. $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 153–154, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888319
Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820–1860: A Quantitative History. By Claudia Dale Goldin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xvi + 168 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888320
George Walton Williams: The Life of a Southern Merchant and Banker 1820–1903. By E. Merton Coulter. (Athens, Ga.: Hibriten, 1976. ix + 320 pp. Map, illustrations, chart, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 155–156, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888321
Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves. Ed. by Charles L. Perdue, Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976. xlv + 405 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, annotated bibliography, and index. $20.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 156–157, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888322
History of Jefferson County. By Jerrell H. Shofner. (Tallahassee: Sentry, 1976. xi + 630 pp. Map, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 157–158, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888323
Pines and Pioneers: A History of Lowndes County, Georgia, 1825–1900. By Jane Twitty Shelton. (Atlanta: Cherokee, 1976. vii + 306 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 158–159, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888324
Desperate Diplomacy: William H. Seward's Foreign Policy, 1861. By Norman B. Ferris. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976. ix + 265 pp. Notes, sources, and index. $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 159–160, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888325
Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia. By James Pickett Jones. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1976. xiv + 256 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, critical essay on sources, bibliography, and index. $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 160–161, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888326
General Stephen D. Lee. By Herman Hattaway. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. xi + 283 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 161–162, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888327
The Army and the Navaho. By Gerald Thompson. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1976. xii + 196 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $8.50; paper, $4.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 162–163, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888328
Arkansas and Reconstruction: The Influence of Geography, Economics, and Personality. By George H. Thompson. (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1976. xii + 296 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 163–164, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888329
Black Legislators in Louisiana During Reconstruction. By Charles Vincent. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. xv + 262 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888330
Josiah Walls: Florida's Black Congressman of Reconstruction. By Peter D. Klingman. (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1976. xi + 157 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 165–166, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888331
Adapt or Perish: The Life of General Roger A. Pryor, C.S.A. By Robert S. Holzman. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1976. 209 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $13.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 166–167, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888332
“Good Time Coming?” Black Nevadans in the Nineteenth Century. By Elmer R. Rusco. (Westport: Greenwood, 1975. xix + 230 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $13.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 167–168, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888333
The Transformation of American Foreign Relations, 1865–1900. By Charles S. Campbell. (New York: Harper & Row, 1976. xviii + 393 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $15.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 168–169, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888334
An American Teacher in Early Meiji Japan. By Edward R. Beauchamp. (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976. xv + 154 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, and bibliography. Paper.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888335
Scottish Capital on the American Credit Frontier. By W. G. Kerr. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1976. xvi + 246 pp. Illustrations, table, notes, bibliography, and index. $13.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 170–171, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888336
From Sweden to America: A History of the Migration. Ed. by Harald Runblom and Hans Norman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press and University of Uppsala, 1976. 391 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 171–172, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888337
Ethnie Families in America: Patterns and Variations. Ed. by Charles H. Mindel and Robert W. Habenstein. (New York: Elsevier, 1976. xiii + 429 pp. Tables, notes, and references.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 173, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888338
The Melting of the Ethnics: Education of the Immigrants, 1880–1914. By Mark Krug. (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1976. v + 123 pp. Selected bibliography and index. Paper, $5.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 174, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888339
Success in America: The Yeoman Dream and the Industrial Revolution. By Rex Burns. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976. x + 212 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $10.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 174–175, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888340
The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform in Changing America. By Ronald C. White, Jr., and C. Howard Hopkins. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976. xix + 306 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $6.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 176, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888341
No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought. By Charles E. Rosenberg. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. xiii + 273 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $13.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 177, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888342
The Urban Threshold: Growth and Change in a Nineteenth-Century American Community. By Stuart M. Blumin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xiv + 298 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 178–179, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888343
Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White. By Ronald L. Numbers. (New York: Harper & Row, 1976. xiv + 271 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, note on sources, and index. $10.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 179–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888344
Eugene V. Debs. By Harold W. Currie. (Boston: Twayne, 1976. 157 pp. Illustration, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $7.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 180–181, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888345
How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed. By H. G. Rickover. (Washington: Department of the Navy, 1976. xv + 173 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, notes, note on sources, and index. $5.70.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888346
Popular Uprisings in the Philippines, 1840–1940. By David R. Sturtevant. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976. 317 pp. Maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 182–183, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888347
Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900. By William Ivy Hair. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. xvi + 216 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $8.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 183–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888348
Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company. By Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976. xvii + 327 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888349
The United States and the Second Hague Peace Conference: American Diplomacy and International Organization, 1899–1914. By Calvin DeArmond Davis. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1975. ix + 398 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.75.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 185–187, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888350
Appointment at Armageddon: Muckraking and progressivism in the American tradition. By Louis Filler. (Westport: Greenwood, 1976. xiii + 476 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $15.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 187, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888351
American Welfare Capitalism, 1880–1940. By Stuart D. Brandes. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. ix + 210 pp. Notes, essay on sources, and index. $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 188–189, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888352
The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice. By Charles H. Martin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. xv + 234 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $10.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 189–190, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888353
La Grande Dépression: Les États-Unis en crise (1929–1933). By Jean Heffer. (Paris: Gallimard/Julliard, 1976. 219 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and bibliography.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 190, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888354
Der Unteilbare Weltmarkt: Das ökonomische Interesse in der Aussenpolitik der USA, 1933–1941. By Detlef Junker. (Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, 1975. 307 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 191–192, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888355
The Social Philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr: An Historical Introduction. By Michael Link. (Chicago: Adams, 1975. iii + 143 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Paper.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 192, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888356
Poland and the Coming of the Second World War: The Diplomatic Papers of A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., United States Ambassador to Poland, 1937–1939. Ed. by Philip V. Cannistraro, Edward D. Wynot, Jr., and Theodore P. Kovaleff. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1976. xvi + 358 pp. Map, illustrations, table, notes, and index. $17.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 193, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888357
The Afro-American and the Second World War. By Neil A. Wynn. (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1976. viii + 183 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $18.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 194–195, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888358
Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps. By Michi Weglyn. (New York: Morrow, 1976. 351 pp. Map, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 195–196, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888359
America's Cultural Experiment in China, 1942–1949. By Wilma Fairbank. (Washington: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs/Department of State, 1976. xvii + 233 pp. Map, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $5.10.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 196–197, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888360
Micronesia: Trust Betrayed: Altruism vs Self Interest in American Foreign Policy. By Donald F. McHenry. (New York: Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, 1975. xiii + 260 pp. Map, appendixes, notes, bibliographical notes, and index. Cloth, $10.00; paper, $4.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888361
American Farm Policy, 1948–1973. By Willard W. Cochrane and Mary E. Ryan. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976. xiv + 431 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $18.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 198–199, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888362
Southern Governors and Civil Rights: Racial Segregation as a Campaign Issue in the Second Reconstruction. By Earl Black. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. xiv + 408 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $16.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 199–200, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888363
The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Consequence Since 1945. By Jack Bass and Walter DeVries. (New York: Basic, 1976. xi + 527 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $15.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888364
Blacks in Power: A Comparative Study of Black and White Elected Officials. By Leonard A. Cole. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. xiv + 267 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $13.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888365
Red, Black, and Green: Black Nationalism in the United States. By Alphonso Pinkney. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1976. xii + 258 pp. Notes and index. $13.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 202–203, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888366
The Sorting Machine: National Educational Policy Since 1945. By Joel Spring. (New York: McKay, 1976. vi + 309 pp. Notes and index. Paper, $4.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 203–204, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888367
The Kefauver Committee and the Politics of Crime, 1950–1952. By William Howard Moore. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974. xii + 269 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 205, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888368
Stars of Country Music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez. Ed. by Bill C. Malone and Judith McCulloh. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975. xii + 476 pp. Illustrations, notes, further readings, and index. $10.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 206–207, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888369
History of Public Works in the United States, 1776–1976. Ed. by Ellis L. Armstrong, Michael C. Robinson, and Suellen M. Hoy. (Chicago: American Public Works Association, 1976. xv + 736 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, suggested readings, and index. $20.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 207–208, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888370
The Modern Corporate State: Private Governments and the American Constitution. By Arthur Selwyn Miller. (Westport: Greenwood, 1976. xvi + 269 pp. Notes and index. $15.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 208–209, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888371
Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture. By Stuart Ewen. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. x + 261 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 210, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888372
A Good Man: The Life of Sam J. Ervin. By Dick Dabney. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. x + 356 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, and index. $12.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 211–212, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888373
Walter Prescott Webb: His Life and Impact. By Necah Stewart Furman. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. xiv + 222 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888374
The Making of a History: Walter Prescott Webb and The Great Plains. By Gregory M. Tobin. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976. xix + 184 pp. Map, illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 213–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888375
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Book Notes
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 215–227, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888376
Historical News and Comments
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 228–243, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/64.1.228
Communications
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 244, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/64.1.244
Recent Articles
Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 245–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/64.1.245
Recent Dissertations
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