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Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988
Presidential Address, 1988
The Strange Birth and Unlikely History of Constitutional Equality
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 747–762, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901528
Articles
“We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters”: Class and Domesticity in the Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840–1850
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 763–785, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901529
Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 786–811, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901530
United States Cold War Strategy in South Asia: Making a Military Commitment to Pakistan, 1947–1954
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 812–840, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901531
Perspectives: The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Introduction
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 841, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901532
More Than the Woodward Thesis: Assessing The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 842–856, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901533
Strange Career Critics: Long May They Persevere
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 857–868, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901534
Book Reviews
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. By Allan Bloom, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. By E. D. Hirsch, Jr. and What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature. By Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 869–874, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901535
The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs. By Trumbull Higgins, Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection. By Leslie Cockburn and Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981–1987. By Bob Woodward
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 874–878, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901536
Sex and Power: The Rise of Women in America, Russia, Sweden, and Italy. By Donald Meyer. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. xxvi + 721 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 878–879, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901537
Hidden Aspects of Women's Work. Ed. by Christine Bose, Roslyn Feldberg, and Natalie Sokoloff with the Women and Work Research Group. (Westport: Praeger, 1987. x + 380 pp. $35.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 879, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901538
Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. By Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg. (New York: Free Press, 1988. xx + 316 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 879–880, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901539
Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on Women's History. By Glenda Riley. (Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, 1987. ix + 285 pp. Paper, $16.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 880–881, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901540
Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. By Hazel V. Carby. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. ix + 223 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 881–882, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901541
Women and American Foreign Policy: Lobbyists, Critics, and Insiders. Ed. by Edward P. Crapol. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xv + 200 pp. $32.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 882–883, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901542
Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy. By Michael H. Hunt. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xiv + 237 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 883, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901543
Mother Earth: An American Story. By Sam D. Gill. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. x + 196 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 884, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901544
The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy. By John Opie. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. xxi + 231 pp. $25.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 884–885, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901545
Water in New Mexico: A History of Its Management and Use. By Ira G. Clark. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. xviii + 839 pp. $50.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 885–886, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901546
Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present. By R. Douglas Hurt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987. xiii + 290 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 886–887, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901547
Peyote Religion: A History. By Omer C. Stewart. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. xvii + 454 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 887, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901548
American Indian Policy and American Reform: Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians. By Christine Bolt. (London: Allen & Unwin, 1987. x + 437 pp. $37.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 887–888, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901549
The American Historical Romance. By George Dekker. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. viii + 376 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 888–889, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901550
Manhattan Water-Bound: Planning and Developing Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. By Ann L. Buttenwieser. (New York: New York University Press, 1987. xxiii + 243 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 889, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901551
American Urbanism: A Historiographical Review. Ed. by Howard Gillette, Jr., and Zane L. Miller. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. vii + 328 pp. $45.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 890, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901552
A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences. By Peter T. Manicas. (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. viii + 345 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 890–891, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901553
Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century. By David Cressy. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 324 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $10.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 891–892, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901554
“To serve well and faithfully”: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800. By Sharon V. Salinger. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiv + 192 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 892–893, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901555
Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut. By Bruce H. Mann. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xiii + 202 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 893, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901556
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. By Carol F. Karlsen. (New York: Norton, 1987. xix + 360 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 893–894, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901557
Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening, 1625–1160. By Marilyn J. Westerkamp. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xi + 266 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 894–895, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901558
The Hidden Balance: Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew. By John Corrigan. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiv + 161 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 895–896, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901559
Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious Diversity. By Richard W. Pointer. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. xvii + 205 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 896, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901560
The Coldest Harbour of the Land: Simon Stock and Lord Baltimore's Colony in Newfoundland, 1621–1649. By Luca Codignola. Trans, by Anita Weston. (Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. xxvi + 229 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 896–897, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901561
Land, Settlement, and Politics on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island. By J. M. Bumsted. (Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987. xiii + 238 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 897–898, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901562
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750. By Marcus Rediker. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvi + 322 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 898–899, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901563
The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. By Mechal Sobel. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xii + 364 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 899–900, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901564
The Reluctant Welfare State: A History of American Social Welfare Policies. By Bruce S. Jansson. (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1988. xvii + 278 pp. $27.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 900–901, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901565
Elections American Style. Ed. by A. James Reichley. (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1987. xii + 291 pp. Cloth, $32.95; paper, $11.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 901, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901566
Leadership and Innovation: A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs in Government. Ed. by Jameson W. Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xii + 459 pp. $39.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 902, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901567
America as a Model: The Impact of American Democracy in the World. By Klaus von Beyme. (New York: St. Martin's, 1987. vi + 137 pp. $32.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 903, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901568
Regions: The Economics and Politics of Territory. By Ann Markusen. (Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1987. xv + 304 pp. $37.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 903–904, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901569
Religion and Society in the American West: Historical Essays. Ed. by Carl Guarneri and David Alvarez. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1987. xvi + 491 pp. Cloth, $36.50; paper, $23.75.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 904–905, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901570
Avenues to Adulthood: The Origins of the High School and Social Mobility in an American Suburb. By Reed Ueda. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ix + 306 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 905, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901571
American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History. By William G. Rothstein. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xii + 408 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 906, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901572
Inheritance in America: From Colonial Times to the Present. By Carole Shammas, Marylynn Salmon, and Michel Dahlin. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xiii + 320 pp. Cloth, $32.00; paper, $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 906–907, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901573
Columbia Literary History of the United States. Ed. by Emory Elliott, Martha Banta, Terence Martin, David Minter, Marjorie Perloff, and Daniel B. Shea. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xxviii + 1263 pp. $59.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 907–908, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901574
The New History and the Old. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. x + 209 pp. $20.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 908–909, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901575
Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of San ford W. Higginbotham. Ed. by John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xi + 624 pp. $45.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 909–910, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901576
The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America. By Brian M. Fagan. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987. 288 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 910–911, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901577
Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Ed. by Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xi + 290 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 911–912, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901578
Alonso de Zorita: Royal Judge and Christian Humanist, 1512–1585. By Ralph H. Vigil. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. xiii + 382 pp. $28.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 912–913, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901579
Les indiens blancs: Français et indians en Amérique du Nord (XVIe–XVIIIe siècle). By Philippe Jacquin. (Paris: Payot, 1987. 310 pp. Paper, Fr.160.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 913–914, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901580
The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present. By Fred B. Kniffen, Hiram F. Gregory, and George A. Stokes. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xvii + 324 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 914, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901581
Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600–1800. Ed. by Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. xiv + 211 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 914–915, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901582
The Economy of British West Florida, 1763–1783. By Robin E A. Fabel. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988. xii + 296 pp. $26.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 915–916, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901583
The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits. Ed. by Jack P. Greene. (New York: New York University Press, 1987. x + 422 pp. $50.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 916–917, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901584
The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution. By John Phillip Reid. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. viii + 224 pp. $25.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 917–918, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901585
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. By A.J. Langguth. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. 637 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 918, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901586
Citizen of the World: Essays on Thomas Paine. Ed. by Ian Dyck. (New York: St. Martin's, 1988. viii + 152 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 918–919, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901587
South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution. By Robert Stansbury Lambert. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987. x + 352 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 919–920, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901588
The Townshend Duties Crisis: The Second Phase of the American Revolution, 1767–1773. By Peter D. G. Thomas. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987. vii + 282 pp. $52.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 920, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901589
The British Navy and the American Revolution. By John A. Tilley. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987. xviii + 332 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 920–921, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901590
Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority to Tax. By John Phillip Reid. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. x + 419 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 921–922, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901591
The United States Constitution: Personalities, Principles, and Issues. By Walter B. Mead. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987. x + 226 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 922, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901592
Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding. Ed. by Charles R. Kesler. (New York: Free Press, 1987. xi + 334 pp. $29.95.) and A Workable Government? The Constitution after 200 Years. Ed. by Burke Marshall. (New York: Norton, 1987. x + 262 pp. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $9.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 923–924, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901593
Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Journalism. By Jeffery A. Smith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xi + 233 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 924, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901594
Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780–1980. By Ronald L. Lewis. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. xv + 239 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 925, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901595
“To Toil the Livelong Day”: America's Women at Work, 1780–1980. Ed. by Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. xi + 312 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $9.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 925–926, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901596
The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social Order in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791–1830. By Randolph A. Roth. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. x + 399 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 926–927, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901597
The Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology. By Jane Errington. (Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987. xi + 272 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 927–928, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901598
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: A Bicentennial History. By Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. (Canton: Science History Publications, 1987. ix + 326 pp. $40.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 928, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901599
Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. By David Eltis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xiv + 418 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 928–929, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901600
Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions. By Robert Shulman. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. xv + 326 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 929–930, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901601
Mr. Jefferson's Army: Political and Social Reform of the Military Establishment, 1801–1809. By Theodore J. Crackel. (New York: New York University Press, 1987. xiii + 250 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 930–931, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901602
The Miller Heresy, Millennialism, and American Culture. By Ruth Alden Doan. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. xi + 286 pp. $34.95.) and The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Ronald L. Numbers and Jonathan M. Butler. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. xxv + 235 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 931–932, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901603
Visions of Harmony: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Millenarianism. By Anne Taylor. (New York: Clarendon, 1987. x + 285 pp. $46.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 932–933, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901604
The Centennial History of the Indiana General Assembly, 1816–1978. By Justin E. Walsh. (Indianapolis: Select Committee on the Centennial History of the Indiana General Assembly/Indiana Historical Bureau, 1987. xxviii + 832 pp. $20.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 933–934, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901605
Irish Migrants in the Canadas: A New Approach. By Bruce S. Elliott. (Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. xxviii + 371 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 934–935, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901606
The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821–61. By Brian C. Mitchell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 247 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 935, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901607
Maria W. Stewart: America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches. Ed. by Marilyn Richardson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. xxi + 136 pp. Cloth, $22.50; paper, $8.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 935–936, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901608
The Black Abolitionist Papers. Vol. II: Canada, 1830–1863. Ed. by C. Peter Ripley and Roy E. Finkenbine. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xxviii + 560 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 936–937, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901609
Abie-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston. By Martha H. Verbrugge. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ix + 297 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 937–938, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901610
On Their Own: Widows and Widowhood in the American Southwest, 1848–1939. Ed. by Arlene Scadron. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xx + 324 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 938–939, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901611
Banking in the American South: From the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. By Larry Schweikart. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xv + 367 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 939–940, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901612
The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve. Ed. by Ward W. Briggs, Jr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xxxi + 407 pp. $49.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 940–941, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901613
The Humor of H. E. Taliaferro. Ed. by Raymond C. Craig. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. xii + 257 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 941, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901614
The Baltimore Sun, 1837–1987. By Harold A. Williams. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xi + 418 pp. $29.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 941–942, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901615
Papers concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas. Vol. XIII: January 15 through March 17, 1836: The Convention at Washington-on-the Brazos. Comp. and ed. by Malcolm D. McLean. (Arlington: University of Texas, 1987. 792 pp. $40.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 942, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901616
Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) & the Mississauga Indians. By Donald B. Smith. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. xix + 372 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 943, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901617
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986. By David Montejano. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. xiii + 383 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 943–944, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901618
Gringo Justice. By Alfredo Mirandeé. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987. xii + 261 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 944–945, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901619
Entrepreneurs vs. the State. By Burton W. Folsom, Jr. (Reston: Young America's Foundation, 1987. xiv + 144 pp. $16.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 945–946, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901620
The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington. By Robert E. Ficken. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. xviii + 324 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 946, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901621
Dining in America, 1830–1900. Ed. by Kathryn Grover. (Amherst/Rochester: University of Massachusetts Press/Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, 1987. ix + 217 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 946–947, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901622
Kinship and Neighborhood in a Southern Community: Orange County, North Carolina, 1849–1881. By Robert C. Kenzer. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. xv + 251 pp. $28.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 947–948, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901623
The Plundering Generation: Corruption and the Crisis of the Union, 1849–1861. By Mark W. Summers. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xv + 362 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 948–949, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901624
The Great Triumvirate: Wehster, Clay, and Calhoun. By Merrill D. Peterson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. x + 573 pp. $27.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 949–951, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901625
The Papers of Daniel Webster: Diplomatic Papers. Vol. II: 1850–1852. Ed. by Kenneth E. Shewmaker and Kenneth R. Stevens, The Papers of Daniel Webster: Speeches and Formal Writings. Vol. I: 1800–1833. Ed. by Charles M. Wiltse and The Papers of Daniel Webster: Speeches and Formal Writings. Vol. II: 1834–1832. Ed. by Charles M. Wiltse
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 951–952, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901626
Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics. By Frederick J. Blue. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1987. xiii + 420 pp. $28.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 952–953, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901627
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography. By Jean H. Baker. (New York: Norton, 1987. xv + 429 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 953, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901628
William Woods Holden: Firebrand of North Carolina Politics. By William C. Harris. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xviii + 332 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 953–954, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901629
Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. By Gerald F. Linderman. (New York: Free Press, 1987. x + 357 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 954–955, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901630
Gettysburg: The Second Day. By Harry W. Pfanz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xxi + 601 pp. $34.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 955–956, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901631
The Generals: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. By Nancy Scott Anderson and Dwight Anderson. (New York: Knopf, 1988. x + 523 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 956, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901632
Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History. By William Garrett Piston. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xvii + 252 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 956–957, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901633
Rebels from West Point. By Gerard A. Patterson. (New York: Doubleday, 1987. xix + 194 pp. $16.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 957–958, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901634
War So Terrible: Sherman and Atlanta. By James Lee McDonough and James Pickett Jones. (New York: Norton, 1987. xx + 385 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 958, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901635
Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments. By William L Burton. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. x + 282 pp. $26.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 958–959, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901636
Judah E Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate. By Eli N. Evans. (New York: Free Press, 1988. xxi + 469 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 959–960, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901637
Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland. By Benjamin Franklin Cooling. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. xiv + 354 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 960–961, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901638
Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi. By Lawrence Lee Hewitt. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xvii + 221 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 961, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901639
The Elusive Eden: Frank McMullan's Confederate Colony in Brazil. By William Clark Griggs. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. xi + 218 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $9.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 961–962, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901640
The Army in Texas during Reconstruction, 1863–1870. By William L. Richter. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xiv + 265 pp. $28.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 962, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901641
O Freedom! Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations. By William H. Wiggins, Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. xxiii + 207 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 963, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901642
The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Vol. VI: 1862–1864. Ed. by Leroy P. Graf, Ralph W. Haskins, and Patricia P. Clark. (Knoxville and The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Vol. VII: 1864–1863. Ed. by Leroy P. Graf and Patricia P. Clark. (Knoxville
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 963–964, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901643
Those Terrible Carpetbaggers. By Richard Nelson Current. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xii + 475 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 964–965, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901644
The Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860–1920: A History of a German-American Enterprise. By Anita Rapone. (New York University Press, 1987. xv + 209 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 965–966, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901645
Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862–1893. By Maury Klein. (Garden City: Doubleday, 1987. xvii + 685 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 966–967, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901646
Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire. By Daniel A. Cornford. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. xi + 276 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 967–968, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901647
Ethiopianism and Afro-Americans in Southern Africa, 1885–1916. By J. Mutero Chirenje. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xv + 231 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 968, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901648
Before Freud: Neurasthenia and the American Medical Community, 1870–1910. By F. G. Gosling. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xviii + 192 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 968–969, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901649
No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1863–1900. By Paula Petrik. (Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1987. xix + 206 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 969–970, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901650
No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier in the American Southwest, 1880–1940. By Sarah Deutsch. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. ix + 356 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 970–971, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901651
Italian Immigrants in Rural and Small Town America. Ed. by Rudolph J. Vecoli. (New York: American Italian Historical Association, 1987. vi + 204 pp. Paper, $9.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 971–972, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901652
The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880–1920: A Comparative Study of Canadian and U.S. Indian Policy. By Hana Samek. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. xii + 236 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 972, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901653
The Jews of North America. Ed. by Moses Rischin. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987. 279 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 972–973, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901654
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. By Robert Higgs. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xxi + 350 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 973–974, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901655
Populism in the Mountain West. By Robert W. Larson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986. x + 210 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 974–975, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901656
Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. by Arthur Wrobel. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. vii + 245 pp. $24.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 975–976, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901657
How Superstition Won and Science Lost: Popularizing Science and Health in the United States. By John C. Burnham. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xi + 369 pp. Cloth, $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 976–977, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901658
The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. By James T. Patterson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. xv + 380 pp. $25.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 977, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901659
Walter B. Cannon: The Life and Times of a Young Scientist. By Saul Benison, A. Clifford Barger, and Elin L. Wolfe. (Cambridge: Belknap, 1987. xv + 520 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 978, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901660
Like All the Nations? The Life and Legacy of Judah L Magnes. Ed. by William M. Brinner and Moses Rischin. (Albany and A Clash of Heroes: Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism. By Ben Halpern. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. x + 301 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 978–980, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901661
Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900–1945. By Sanford M. Jacoby. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xi + 377 pp. Cloth, $37.50; paper, $14.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 980–981, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901662
American Automobile Workers, 1900–1933. By Joyce Shaw Peterson. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. xiv + 231 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 981–982, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901663
‘Big Bill’ Haywood. By Melvyn Dubofsky. (New York: St. Martin's, 1987. viii + 184 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 982, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901664
From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. By Louise Lamphere. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. xx + 390 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 982–983, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901665
The Grounding of Modern Feminism. By Nancy F. Cott. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xiii + 372 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 983–984, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901666
Late Nineteenth-Century American Diary Literature. By Steven E. Kagle. (Boston: Twayne, 1988. xviii + 177 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 984–985, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901667
Irving Babbitt. By Stephen C. Brennan and Stephen R. Yarbrough. (Boston: Twayne, 1987. xvi + 166 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 985, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901668
The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. By Marc A. Weiss. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xiii + 228 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 986, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901669
Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt. By David C.Jones. (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1987. xiv + 316 pp. Cloth. $24.95: paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901670
Old-Time Music Makers of New York State. By Simon J. Bronner. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. xix + 252 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 987, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901671
The Testing of M. Falk Gjertsen. By Nina Draxten. (Northfield: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1988. ix + 134 pp. $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 987–988, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901672
The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. By Robert Seitz Frey and Nancy Thompson-Frey. (Lanham: Madison, 1988. xxi + 248 pp. $15.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 988–989, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901673
Double Eagle and Rising Sun: The Russians and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905. By Raymond A. Esthus. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988. x + 265 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 989, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901674
Guardians of the Sea: History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present. By Robert Erwin Johnson. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987. xi + 412 pp. $23.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 990, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901675
Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman. By Kendrick A. Clements. (Boston: Twayne, 1987. xiii + 272 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $10.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 990–991, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901676
Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective. By Lloyd E. Ambrosius. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvii + 323 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 991–992, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901677
