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Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988
Articles
Spanish Texas and Borderlands Historiography in Transition: Implications for United States History
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 393–416, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887864
A Revolution Foiled: Queens County, New York, 1775–1776
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 417–444, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887865
“We Dwell in Safety and Pursue Our Honest Callings”: Free Blacks in New York City, 1783–1810
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 445–470, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887866
Conjugal Bonds and Wage Labor: Rights of Contract in the Age of Emancipation
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 471–500, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887867
The New Frontier on the Nile: JFK, Nasser, and Arab NationaHsm
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 501–527, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887868
Whose New Left?
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 528–545, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887869
Oral History
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 546–547, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887870
Oral History of Science: A Mushrooming Cloud?
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 548–559, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887871
Oral History and Business History
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 560–566, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887872
Oral History and the History of the Civil Rights Movement
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 567–576, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887873
Book Reviews
The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is. By William H. Rehnquist. (New York: Morrow, 1987. 338 pp. $18.93.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 577–578, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887874
Nature in the New World: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernándes de Oviedo. By Antonello Gerbi. Trans, by Jeremy Moyle. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. xvii + 462 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 578–579, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887875
Chief Justice: Leadership and the Supreme Court. By Robert J. Steamer. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1986. xiv + 321 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 579, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887876
Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System: Studies of the Principal Institutions and Processes of Law. Ed. by Robert J. Janosik. (New York: Scribner's, 1987. Vol. I. xv + 432 pp. Vol. II. ix + 491 pp. Vol. III. viii + 497 pp. $225.00/set.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 580–582, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887877
Libel and the First Amendment: Legal History and Practice in Print and Broadcasting. By Richard Labunski. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1987. vii + 251 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 582–583, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887878
Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans. By R. Laurence Moore. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xix + 243 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 583–584, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887879
Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America. By James L. Machor. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xvi + 272 pp. Cloth $45.00; paper, $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 584–585, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887880
The American Perception of Class. By Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. xix + 363 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 585–586, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887881
New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1730 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time. By Thomas Bender. (New York: Knopf, 1987. xix + 422 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 586–587, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887882
Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present. By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. (New York: Knopf, 1987. xviii + 330 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 587, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887883
The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art. Ed. by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xiii + 281 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 587–588, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887884
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1185–1954. By David Tyack, Thomas James, and Aaron Benavot. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xi + 259 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 588–589, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887885
Shared Symbols, Contested Meanings: Gros Ventre Culture and History, 1778–1984. By Loretta Fowler. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. XV + 301 pp. Cloth, $38.50; paper, $16.45.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 589–590, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887886
Evolution of the Onondaga Iroquois: Accommodating Change, 1500–1635. By James W. Bradley. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. xvii + 252 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 590–591, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887887
Outposts on the Gulf: Saint George Island and Apalachicola from Early Exploration to World War II. By William Warren Rogers. (Pensacola: University of West Florida Press, 1986. xxvii + 297 pp. $28.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 591, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887888
The Diary, and Life, of William By rd II of Virginia, 1674–1744. By Kenneth A. Lockridge. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xiv + 201 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 591–592, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887889
Spirit Possession and Popular Religion: From the Camisards to the Shakers. By Clarke Garrett. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. viii + 294 pp. $29.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 592–593, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887890
The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1763–1805. By Carl A. Brasseaux. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xvii + 229 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 593–594, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887891
Jonathan Edwards, the Valley and Nature: An Interpretive Essay. By Clyde A. Holbrook. (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1987. 151 pp. $24.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 594, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887892
The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder In New York City, 1763–1834. By Paul A. Gilje. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xvii + 315 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $9.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 594–595, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887893
In Search of the Republic: Public Virtue and the Roots of American Government. By Richard Vetterli and Gary Bryner. (Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. xiii + 269pp. Cloth, $32.95; paper, $14.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 595–596, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887894
A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Foundation of the American Presidency, 1700–1800. By Michael P. Riccards. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xv + 227 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 596–597, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887895
Robert Rogers of the Rangers. By John R. Cuneo. (New York: Richardson & Steirman, 1987. xii + 308 pp. $16.95.) Reprint.
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 597, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887896
King and Congress: The Transfer of Political Legitimacy, 1774–1776. By Jerrilyn Greene Marston. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xiii + 462 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 597–598, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887897
Entangling Alliances with None: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson. By Lawrence S. Kaplan. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1987. xvii + 230 pp. Cloth, $24.00; paper, $14.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 598–599, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887898
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. Vol. XXVII: Additional Letters 1777–1802, Addenda and Errata, Cumulative Index Volumes I–XXVII. Ed. by Harold C. Syrett. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xvii + 685 pp. $70.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 599–600, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887899
Liberty and Property: Political Economy and Policymaking in the New Nation, 1789–1812. By John R. Nelson, Jr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xvii + 221 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 600–601, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887900
The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of liberal America, 1790–1820. By Steven Watts. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xxv + 378 pp. $29.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 601–602, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887901
The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters. By Paul C. Nagel. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. x + 309 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 602–603, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887902
The Man Who Burned the White House: Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1772–1833. By James Pack. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987. 288 pp. $21.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 603, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887903
From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Peter Wallenstein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xii + 284 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 603–604, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887904
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801–1885. By Judith A. McGaw. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xvii + 439 pp. $40.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 604–605, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887905
Law and Community on the Mexican California frontier: Anglo-American Expatriates and the Clash of Legal Traditions, 1821–1846. By David J. Langum. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. xii + 308 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 605–606, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887906
American Immigrant Leaders, 1800–1910: Marginality and Identity. By Victor R. Greene. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xiii + 181 pp. $22.50).
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 606–607, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887907
The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri. By Walter D. Kamphoefner. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xiv + 213 pp: $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 607–608, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887908
St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Diaster-Prone Industry. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. (New York: Knopf, 1987. xvii + 519 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 608–609, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887909
Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made. By Robert F. Dalzeli Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. xviii + 298 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 609–610, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887910
Charles Grandison Finney, 1792–1875: Revivalist and Reformer. By Keith J. Hardman. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. xvii + 521 pp. $45.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 610, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887911
The 1858 Mormon War in Missouri. By Stephen C. LeSueur. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. ix + 286 pp. $24.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 610–611, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887912
Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier. By Newell G. Bringhurst. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1986. xvii + 246 pp. $16.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 611–612, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887913
Creeks & Seminoles: The Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People. By J. Leitch Wright, Jr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. xv + 383 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 612–613, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887914
The State and the Non-Public School, 1823–1925. By Lloyd P. Jorgenson. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. xi + 235 pp. $29.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 613, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887915
Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health. By Susan E. Cayleff. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. xi + 247 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 613–614, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887916
Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850–1945. By Susan M. Reverby. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiv + 286 pp. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 614–615, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887917
H. H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society. By James F. O'Gorman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. xv + 171 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 615–616, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887918
Henry William Ravenel, 1814–1887: South Carolina Scientist in the Civil War Era. By Tamara Miner Haygood. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987. xiii + 204 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 616, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887919
Melville's Confidence Men and American Politics in the 1850s. By Helen P. Trimpi. (Hamden: Archon, 1987. xviii + 339 pp. $39.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 616–617, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887920
Southern Emancipator: Moncure Conway, the American Years, 1832–1863. By John d'Entremont. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xiv + 282 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 617–618, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887921
Friends and Sisters: Letters between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846–93. Ed. by Carol Lasser and Marlene Deahl Merrill. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xxx + 278 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 618–619, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887922
The Anglo-American Crisis of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Timts and America, 1830–1862. By Martin Crawford. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. x + 179 pp. $24.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 619–620, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887923
Clara Barton: Professional Angel. By Elizabeth Brown Pryof. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. xv + AAA pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 620–621, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887924
Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier. By Robert Wooster. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xv + 240 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 621, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887925
A Shield and Hiding Place: The Religious Life of the Civil War Armies. By Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1987. x + 161 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 621–622, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887926
Class and Tennessee's Confederate Generation. By Fred Arthur Bailey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. x + 205 pp. $21.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 622–623, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887927
“Fiction Distorting Fact”: The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis. By Edward K. Eckert. (Macon and The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause. By Mark E. Neely, Jr., Harold Holzer, and Gabor S. Boritt. (Chapel Hill
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 623–624, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887928
From Ladies to Women: The Organized Struggle for Woman's Rights in the Reconstruction Era. By Israel Kugler. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xvii + 221 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 624–625, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887929
Charles N. Hunter and Race Relations in North Carolina. By John Haley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xiii + 352 pp. Paper, $17.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 625–626, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887930
The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois. By Robert L. McCaul. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. xi + 193 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 626, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887931
The John E Slater Fund: A Nineteenth Century Affirmative Action for Negro Education. By John E. Fisher. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1986. xix + 166 pp. $19.75.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 626–627, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887932
Marcus Thrane: A Norwegian Radical in America. By Terje I. Leiren. (Northfield: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1987. xi + 167 pp. $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 627–628, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887933
A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. By Shelton Stromquist. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xix + 353 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 628, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887934
Arbeitszeitverkürzung und sozialer Wandel: Der Kampf um die Achtstundenschicht in der deutschen und amerikanischen Eisen- und Stahlindustrie, 1880–1929. By Irmgard Steinisch. (Berlin: Historischen Kommission, 1986. xv + 640 pp. DM 138.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 628–629, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887935
Women Doctors in Gilded-Age Washington: Race, Gender and Professionalization. By Gloria Moldow. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xiii + 246 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 629–630, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887936
The Organic City: Urban Definition and Community Organization, 1880–1920. By Patricia Mooney Melvin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. xii + 227 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 630–631, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887937
Town Building on the Colorado Frontier. By Kathleen Underwood. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. xxii + 181 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 631–632, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887938
High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier. By Robert M. Utley. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. xiii + 265 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 632, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887939
Distant Justice: Policing the Alaskan Frontier. By William R. Hunt. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. xiii + 375 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 632–633, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887940
The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison. By Homer E. Socolofsky and Allan B. Spetter. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987. xi + 261 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 634, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887941
The Irish in Chicago. By Lawrence J. McCaffrey, Ellen Skerrett, Michael E Funchion, and Charles Fanning. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xii + 171 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 634–635, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887942
Our Lady, the Common Law: An Anglo-American Legal Community, 1870–1930. By Richard A. Cosgrove. (New York: New York University Press, 1987. x + 330 pp. $40.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 635–636, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887943
The Just Polity: Populism, Law, and Human Welfare. By Norman Pollack. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xi + 376 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 636–637, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887944
Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers, 1886 to the Present. By Judith Ann Trolander. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xi + 300 pp. $37.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 637, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887945
Socialism in the Heartland: The Midwestern Experience, 1900–1925. Ed. by Donald T. Critchlow. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. viii + 221 pp. $21.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 638, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887946
The South Is Another Land: Essays on the Twentieth-Century South. Ed. by Bruce Clayton and John A. Salmond. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xiv + 214 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 638–639, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887947
Progressivism and the World of Reform: New Zealand and the Origins of the American Welfare State. By Peter J. Coleman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987. xv + 247 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 639–640, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887948
Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped. By Edward D. Berkowitz. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 280 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 640–641, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887949
Lucy Sprague Mitchell: The Making of a Modern Woman. By Joyce Antler. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xx + 436 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 641–642, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887950
Continuity and Change in Electoral Politics, 1893–1928. By Paul Kleppner. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xvii + 263 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 642–643, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887951
The Progressive Yankees: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire, 1906–1916. By James Wright. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1987. xxiv + 263 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 643, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887952
Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. By Michael Kazin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xiv + 319 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 643–644, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887953
Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber Company. By Keith C. Petersen. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1987. XX + 284 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $15.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 644–645, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887954
The I.W.W. and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. By Anne Huber Tripp. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xiv + 317 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 645–646, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887955
Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. By Fred Howard. (New York: Knopf, 1987. xi + 530 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 646–647, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887956
Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers. By Bruce E. Seely. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. xv + 315 pp. $32.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 647, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887957
The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan. By Richard W. Turk. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. viii + 183 pp. $32.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 647–648, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887958
Arrogant Diplomacy: U.S. Policy toward Colombia, 1903–1922. By Richard L. Lael. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1987. xix + 194 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 648–649, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887959
Reconstructing American Education. By Michael B. Katz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. xi + 212 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 649–650, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887960
“'Let All of Them Take Heed”: Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910–1981. By Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. (Austin: University of Texas, 1987. xxii + 256 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 650, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887961
Aίµιλγíα—Γεώργιoζ: Emily—George. By Helen Papanikolas. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987. xiv + 327 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 650–651, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887962
Ethnic Studies at Chicago, 1903–45. By Stow Persons. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. V + 159 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 651, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887963
U.S. National Economic Policy, 1917–1983. By Anthony S. Campagna. (New York: Praeger, 1987. xix + 642 pp. $55.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 652, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887964
To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America. By John Whiteclay Chambers II. (New York: Free Press, 1987. xi + 386 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 652–653, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887965
Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. By Gloria T. Hull. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. xiv + 240 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $10.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 653–654, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887966
The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940–1985. By Diana Crane. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. ix + 194 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 654–655, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887967
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. By Russell Jacoby. (New York: Basic, 1987. xiv + 290 pp. $18.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 655, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887968
The Arts at Black Mountain College. By Mary Emma Harris. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987. xxiv + 315 pp. $50.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 656, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887969
The Politics of Miseducation: The Booker Washington Institute of Liberia, 1929–1984. By Donald Spivey. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. xii + 177 pp. $18.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 656–657, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887970
The Putney School: A Progressive Experiment. By Susan Mcintosh Lloyd. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xv + 276 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 657–658, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887971
Lister Hill: Statesman from the South. By Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xv + 375 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 658–659, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887972
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media: A Public Quest for Self-Fulfillment. By Maurine H. Beasley. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xi + 240 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 659–660, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887973
Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics. By Susan Ware. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xix + 327 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 660–661, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887974
Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: The Politics of Provincial Independence. By Steven J. Keillor. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1987. xii + 342 pp. $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 661, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887975
Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History. By Hans Schmidt. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. x + 292 pp. $28.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 661–662, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887976
Will Herberg: From Right to Right: By Harry J. Ausmus. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xix + 275 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 662–663, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887977
The Year America Discovered Texas: Centennial '36. By Kenneth B. Ragsdale. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xxi + 325 pp. $18.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 663–664, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887978
George S. Messersmith, Diplomat of Democracy. By Jesse H. Stiller. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. XV + 346 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887979
Economic History of Puerto Rico: Institutional Change and Capitalist Development. By James L. Dietz. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xxiii + 337 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $20.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 665, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887980
Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II. By Robert Leckie. (New York: Harper & Row, 1987. xix + 998 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 665–666, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887981
The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. By Michael S. Sherry. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xv + 435 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 666–667, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887982
The Dragon's Tail: Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project, 1942–1946. By Barton C. Hacker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. x + 258 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 667–668, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887983
The United States' Emergence as a Southeast Asian Power, 1940–1950. By Gary R. Hess. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xiii + 448 pp. $45.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 668–669, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887984
Individualism and Public Life: A Modern Dilemma. By Ralph Ketcham. (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. xiv + 241 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 669, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887985
Love in America: Gender and Self-Development. By Francesca M. Cancian. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ix + 210 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 669–670, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887986
A Life in Peace and War. By Brian Urquhart. (New York: Harper & Row, 1987. ix + 390 pp. ' $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 670–671, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887987
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War. By John Lewis Gaddis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xi + 332 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 671–672, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887988
The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1941–1952. By Michael J. Hogan. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiv + 482 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 672, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887989
Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy. By Robert Chadwell Williams. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. ix + 267 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 673, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887990
Keeper of the Rules: Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia. By Bruce J. Dierenfield. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987. xiii + 306 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 673–674, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887991
Madwives: Schizophrenic Women in the 1950s. By Carol A. B. Warren. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xii + 283 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 674–675, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887992
Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South. By Michal R. Belknap. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xvii + 387 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 675, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887993
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice. By Derrick Bell. (New York: Basic, 1987. xii + 288 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 675–676, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887994
The Supreme Court and the American Family: Ideology and Issues. By Eva R. Rubin. (Westport: Greenwood, 1986. vii + 251 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 676–677, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887995
Disinformation, Misinformation, and the “Conspiracy” to Kill JFK Exposed. By Armand Moss. (Hamden: Archon, 1987. viii + 219 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 677–678, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887996
The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. By George Katsiaficas. (Boston: South End, 1987. xv + 323 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $11.00.) and Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Report. By Hans Koning. (New York: Norton, 1987. 194 pp. $15.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 678–679, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887997
The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA. By Jonathan Kwitny. (New York: Norton, 1987. 424 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 679–680, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887998
Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua. By Robert A. Pastor. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xvi + 392 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 680–681, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887999
Why ERA Failed- Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution. By Mary Frances Berry. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. xi + 147 pp. $17.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 681–682, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888000
The End of the Conservative Era: Liberalism after Reagan. By Robert S. McElvaine. (New York: Arbor House, 1987. y^ii + 338 pp. $18.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 682–683, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888001
Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust. By Robert D. Builard. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xiv + 160 pp. Cloth, $28.50; paper, $11.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 683, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888002
Editor's Annual Report, 1987–1988
Editor's Annual Report, 1987–1988
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 684–687, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/75.2.684
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 688–694, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/75.2.688
Announcements
Announcements
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Recent Scholarship
Recent Scholarship
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Book Notes
Book Notes
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