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Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989
Articles
Memory and American History
David Thelen
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1117–1129, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908632
American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography
Michael Frisch
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1130–1155, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908633
“For Something beyond the Battlefield”: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War
David W. Blight
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1156–1178, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908634
Rescripting a Troubled Past: John Brown's Family and the Harpers Ferry Conspiracy
Robert E. McGlone
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1179–1200, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908635
Power and Memory in Oral History: Workers and Managers at Studebaker
John Bodnar
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1201–1221, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908636
Remembering the Discovery of the Watergate Tapes
Introduction
David Thelen
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1222–1227, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908637
Watergate Reminiscences
Donald G. Sanders
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1228–1233, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/75.4.1228
Friday the Thirteenth
Scott Armstrong
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1234–1244, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908638
Conversations between Alexander P. Butterfield and David Thelen about the Discovery of the Watergate Tapes: Introduction
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1245–1247, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908639
Conversations
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1248–1262, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/75.4.1248
The Timeless Past: Some Anglo-American Historical Preconceptions
David Lowenthal
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1263–1280, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908640
Book Reviews
Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. By Sterling Stuckey. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xi + 425 pp. $27.50.)
Margaret Washington Creel
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1281–1283, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908641
Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America. By Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boy te. (New York: Harper & Row, 1986. xii + 228 pp. $16.95.)
Ernest Allen
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1283–1284, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908642
Quests for Spices and New Worlds. By Bertha S. Dodge. (Hamden: Archon, 1988. viii + 236 pp. $25.00.)
Sidney W. Mintz
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1284–1285, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908643
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. By Paul Kennedy. (New York: Random, 1987. xxv + 677 pp. $24.95.)
Michael H. Hunt
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1285–1286, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908644
Authority and Inequality under Capitalism and Socialism. By Barrington Moore, Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. x + 142 pp. $28.00.)
Robert Allen Skotheim
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1286–1287, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908645
The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan. By Mansel G. Blackford. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. xiii + 176 pp. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $8.95.)
Steven Tolliday
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1287–1288, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908646
The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America. By Darwin H. Stapleton. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1987. xi + 215 pp. $18.00.)
Stephen H. Cutcliffe
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1288, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908647
American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492. By Russell Thornton. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. xx + 292 pp. $29.95.)
Brian W. Dippie
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1288–1289, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908648
Black Folk Here and There: An Essay in History and Anthropology. Vol. I. By St. Clair Drake. (Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, 1987. xxviii 387 pp. Cloth, $38.95; paper, $22.95.)
Sterling Stuckey
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1289–1290, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908649
Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South. By Grady McWhiney. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988. xliii + 290 pp. $25.95.)
Elliott J. Gorn
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1290–1291, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908650
We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity. By James Paul Allen and Eugene James Turner. (New York: Macmillan, 1988. xii + 315 pp. $85.00.)
Bryan Thompson
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1291–1292, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908651
Heartland: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States. Ed. by James H, Madison. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. ix + 308 pp. $29.95.)
Charles W. Calhoun
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1292–1293, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908652
Literacy, Law, and Social Orden. By Edward W. Stevens, Jr. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1988. xiii + 278 pp. $28.50.)
Sidney L. Harring
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1293, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908653
Paths into American Culture: Psychology, Medicine, and Morals. By John C. Burnham. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. x + 317 pp. $34.95.)
Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1293–1294, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908654
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. By John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988. xx + 428 pp. $24.95.)
Thomas L. Altherr
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1294–1295, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908655
Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease. By Joan Jacobs Brumberg. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. x + 366 pp. $25.00.)
Harvey A. Levenstein
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1295–1296, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908656
Presidential Wives. By Paul F. Boiler, Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 533 pp. $19.95.)
Charles W. Akers
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1296, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908657
Distant Neighbors: A Comparative History of Seattle & Vancouver. By Norbert MacDonald. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. xxii + 259 pp. $27.95.)
Daniel E. Turbeville
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1296–1297, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908658
British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams. Ed. by Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. x + 345 pp. $29.95.)
Roderick A. McDonald
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1297–1298, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908659
New Views of Mormon History: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington. Ed. by Davis Bitton and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987. xix + 480 pp. $19.95.)
Mario S. De Pillis
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1298–1299, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908660
Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America. By Edmund S. Morgan. (New York: Norton, 1988. 318 pp. $18.95.)
Joyce Appleby
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1299–1300, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908661
Everyday Life in Early America. By David Freeman Hawke. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988. xii + 195 pp. Cloth, $16.95; paper, $7.95.)
William Howland Kenney
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1300–1301, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908662
Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632–1715. By David W. Jordan. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. x + 256 pp. $29.95.)
Robert J. Brugger
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1301, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908663
Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701–1840. By Larry E. Tise. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xix + 501 pp. $40.00.)
Larry Gara
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1301–1302, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908664
Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1773. By A. Roger Ekirch. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvii + 277 pp. $45.00.)
Ian K. Steele
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1302–1303, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908665
Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience. Ed. by Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. viii + 298 pp. $29.95.)
Suzanne B. Geissler
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1303, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908666
Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America. By Francis Jennings. (New York: Norton, 1988. xxiv + 520 pp. $27.50.)
Bruce C. Daniels
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1303–1304, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908667
Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England. By Donald Weber. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Yin + 207 pp. $22.50.)
Meivin Yazawa
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1304–1305, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908668
The Economy of Early America: The Revolutionary Period, 1763–1790. Ed. by Ronald Hoffman, John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard, and Peter J. Albert. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1988. xvi + 334 pp. $30.00.)
Kenneth Morgan
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1305–1306, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908669
The Making of a Strike: Mexican Silver Workers' Struggles in Real del Monte, 1766–1773. By Doris M. Ladd. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. x + 205 pp. $21.95.)
Ray F. Broussard
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1306–1307, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908670
Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and “Lower Sort” during the American Revolution, 1773–1783. By Steven Rosswurm. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xv + 373 pp. $40.00.)
Jonathan M. Chu
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1307–1308, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908671
The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776–1830. By Rosemarie Zagarri. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. xi + 165 pp. $23.50.)
Van Beck Hall
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1308, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908672
A State Divided: Opposition in Pennsylvania to the American Revolution. By Anne M. Ousterhout. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xiii + 348 pp. $39.95.)
Owen S. Ireland
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1309, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908673
Essays on the Economy of the Old Northwest. Ed. by David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987. xii + 318 pp. $32.95.)
John Haeger
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1309–1310, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908674
Indian Agent and Wilderness Scholar: The Life of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. By Richard G. Bremer. (Mount Pleasant: Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, 1987. x + 445 pp. $30.00.)
James M. McClurken
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1310–1311, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908675
Philadelphia's Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787–1848. By Julie Winch. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. xi + 240 pp. $34.95.)
Larry A. Greene
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1311–1312, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908676
Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and Antagonist, 1791–1831. By F. L. M. Pattison. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987. xvi + 284 pp. $24.95.)
Robert I. Goler
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1312, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908677
The Papers of John Marshall. Vol. IV: Correspondence and Papers, January 1799–October 1800. Ed. by Charles T. Cullen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. and The Papers of John Marshall. Vol. V: Selected Law Cases, 1784–1800. Ed. by Charles F. Hob son and Fredrika J. Teute. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987
R. Kent Newmyer
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1313–1314, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908678
Legal Papers of Andrew Jackson. Ed. by James W. Ely, Jr., and Theodore Brown, Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. lxvi + 420 pp. $43.00.)
Elbert B. Smith
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1314–1315, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908679
Tales of the Phelps-Dodge Family: A Chronicle of Five Generations. By Phyllis B. Dodge. (New York: New-York Historical Society, 1987. xx + 370 pp. $00.00.)
Mansel Blackford
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1315, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908680
The Trade Card in Nineteenth-Century America. By Robert Jay. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. viii + 112 pp. $30.00.) and Tippecanoe and Trinkets Too: The Material Culture of American Presidential Campaigns, 1828–1984. By Roger A. Fischer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. x + 322 pp. $34.95.)
Roland Marchand
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1315–1317, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908681
Newark: The Nation's Unhealthiest City, 1832–1893. By Stuart GalishofF. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. xii + 260 pp. $38.00.)
Jo Ann Carrigan
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1317–1318, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908682
Morality & Utility in American Antislavery Reform. By Louis S. Gerteis. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xvi + 263 pp. $27.50.)
William H. Pease
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1318–1319, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908683
Sarah Grimké: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays. Ed. by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xiii + 174 pp. $21.50.)
Lori D. Ginzberg
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1319–1320, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908684
Mourning, Gender, and Creativity in the Art of Herman Melville. By Neal L. Tolchin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xviii + 234 pp. $23.50.)
Douglas A. Noverr
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1320, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908685
Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective. Ed. by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher and Lavina Fielding Anderson. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xxi + 281 pp. $21.95.)
Larry E. Hunt
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1320–1321, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908686
Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, 1836–1873. Vol. I: Resonances, 1856–1830. By Vera Brodsky Lawrence. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. lvi + 686 pp. $85.00.)
Alan Howard Levy
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1322, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908687
Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America. By Michael Denning. (London: Verso, 1987. xi + 259 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $13.95.)
John H. M. Laslett
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1322–1323, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908688
Trading Post to Metropolis: Milwaukee Country's First 150 Years. Ed. by Ralph M. Adermann. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1987. x + 419 pp. $12.00.)
Clay McShane
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1323–1324, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908689
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846–1832: “And Should We Die …” By Richard E. Bennett. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. xii + 347 pp. $24.95.)
Valeen T. Avery
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1324, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908690
The American Catholic Farish: A History from 1830 to the Present. Ed. by Jay P. Dolan. (New York: Paulist, 1987. Vol. I: Northeast, Southeast, South Central. v + 359 pp. Vol. II: Pacific States, Intermountain West, Midwest. v + 423 pp. $24.95/each.)
James Hennesey
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1325–1326, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908691
The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840–1873. By Elliott Ashkenazi. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988. xii + 219 pp. $22.95.)
Jason H. Silverman
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1326–1327, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908692
The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1830–1910. By John Alfred Heitmann. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xiii + 298 pp. $35.00.)
Fred Bateman
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1327, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908693
Céline: Remembering Louisiana, 1830–1871. By Céline Frémaux Garcia. Ed. by Patrick J. Geary. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xxxix + 277 pp. $25.00.)
Carl A. Brasseaux
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1327–1328, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908694
Elites in Conflict: The Antebellum Clash over the Dudley Observatory. By Mary Ann James. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xvii + 301 pp. $30.00.)
Deborah Jean Warner
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1328–1329, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908695
The Heavens Are Weeping: The Diaries of George Richard Browder, 1832–1886. Ed. by Richard L. Troutman. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987. 575 pp. $19.95.)
Robert Hartje
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1329–1330, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908696
Henry Shaw: His Life and Legacies. By William Barnaby Faherty. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. xi + 228 pp. $29.00.)
Ronald Tobey
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1330–1331, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908697
American Worlds since Emerson. By David Marr. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. x + 234 pp. $22.50.)
Lawrence Buell
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1331, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908698
The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition, 1839–1900. By Rodman W. Paul. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988. xvii + 381 pp. $24.95.)
Wilbur R. Jacobs
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1331–1332, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908699
A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848–1863. By Richard H. Sewell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xiii + 223 pp. Cloth, $29.50: paper, $9.95.)
William J. Cooper
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1332–1333, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908700
The Panic of 1837 and the Coming of the Civil War. By James L. Huston. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1987. xix + 315 pp. $32.50.)
Glenn Porter
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1333, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908701
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. By James M. McPherson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xix + 904 pp. $30.00.)
Dudley T. Cornish
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1333–1334, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908702
Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860–1870: War and Peace in the Upper South. By Stephen V. Ash. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. xvii + 299 pp. $32.50.)
William C. Harris
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1334–1335, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908703
The Military and United States Indian Policy, 1863–1903. By Robert Wooster. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xiii + 268 pp. $22.50.)
Robert M. Utley
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1335–1336, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908704
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. By Eric Foner. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988. xxix + 690 pp. $29.95.)
Michael Les Benedict
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1336–1337, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908705
White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery. By Herbert Shapiro. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. xvi + 565 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $14.95.)
Thomas J. Davis
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1337–1338, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908706
The Last Crusade: The War on Consumption, 1862–1954. By Mark Caldwell. (New York: Atheneum, 1988. xii + 336 pp. $22.50.)
James H. Cassedy
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1338–1339, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908707
America through Russian Eyes, 1874–1926. By Olga Peters Hasty and Susanne Fusso. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xi + 226 pp. $23.00.)
Allison Blakely
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1339, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908708
We Ask Only a Fair Trial: A History of the Black Community of Evansville, Indiana. By Darrel E. Bigham. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. xv + 286 pp. $20.00.)
Joe W. Trotter
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1339–1340, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908709
American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876–1980. By Lawrence A. Cremin. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988. xv + 781 pp. $35.00.)
Thomas James
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1340–1341, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908710
Political Education in the Southern Farmers' Alliance, 1887–1900. By Theodore R. Mitchell. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xiv + 242 pp. Cloth, $39–50; paper, $16.50.)
William F. Holmes
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1341–1342, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908711
Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron. By Edward N. Akin. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1988. xiii + 305 pp. $24.00.)
Peter d'A. Jones
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1342, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908712
Gilded Age Cato: The Life of Walter Q. Gresham. By Charles W. Calhoun. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. viii + 280 pp. $28.00.)
Ralph D. Gray
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1342–1343, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908713
Central State University: The First One Hundred Years, 1887–1987. By Lathardus Goggins. (Wilberforce: Central State University, 1987. xii + 181 pp. $30.00.)
Mildred G. Gallot
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1343–1344, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908714
Closing the Frontier: Radical Response in Oklahoma, 1889–1923. By John Thompson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. xiii + 262 pp. $18.95.)
Gene Clanton
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1344–1345, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908715
Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People's Party in the Oklahoma Territory. By Worth Robert Miller. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. xiii + 280 pp. $22.50.)
Carlos A. Schwantes
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1345, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908716
Shaping Political Consciousness: The Language of Politics in America from McKinley to Reagan. By David Green. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. xiii + 277 pp. $29.95.)
Marcus Cunliffe
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1345–1346, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908717
Religious Diversity and Social Change: American Cities, 1890–1906. By Kevin J. Christiano. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvii + 239 pp. $34.50.)
Jacob H. Dorn
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1346–1347, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908718
Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892–1918. By Mary Jo Deegan. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1988. xv + 352 pp. $34.95.)
Paula Baker
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1347, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908719
Police Administration and Progressive Reform: Theodore Roosevelt as Police Commissioner of New York. By Jay Stuart Berman. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xvi + 151 pp. $32.95.)
Kathleen M. Dalton
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1348, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908720
When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. By Carolyn Marvin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ix + 269 pp. $34.50.)
Richard H. Rudolph
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1348–1349, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908721
The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: U.S. Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. By Louis Galambos and Joseph Pratt. (New York: Basic Books, 1988. xv + 286 pp. $19.95.)
James Oliver Robertson
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1349–1350, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908722
Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigrants in North America. By Joan M. Jensen. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xi + 350 pp. $32.50.)
Gary R. Hess
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1350–1351, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908723
Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890–1930. By Rima D. Apple. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. XV + 261 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $16.25.)
Sylvia D. Hoffert
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1351, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908724
In the Way of Our Grandmothers: A Cultural View of Twentieth-Century Midwifery in Florida. By Debra Anne Susie. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. xi + 254 pp. $25.00.)
Carol A. B. Warren
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1352, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908725
Health Policies, Health Politics: The British and American Experience, 1911–1963. By Daniel M. Fox. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xi + 234 pp. $25.00.)
John H. Ellis
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1352–1353, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908726
Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City. By Margaret Ripley Wolfe. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. xii + 259 pp. $24.00.)
Harold L. Platt
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1353, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908727
American Foreign and National Security Policies, 1914–1943. By Thomas H. Buckley and Edwin B. Strong, Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. xiii + 210 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $12.95.)
Lester H. Brune
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1354, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908728
The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1959. By Michael A. Bernstein. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvii + 269 pp. $29.95.) and War, Prosperity and Depression: The U.S. Economy 1917–43. By Peter Fearon. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987. x + 294 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $17.95.)
Jordan A. Schwarz
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1354–1356, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908729
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 56: March 17–April 4, 1919. Ed. by Arthur S. Link, David W. Hirst, John E. Little and The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 57: April 5–22, 1919. Ed. by Arthur S. Link, David W. Hirst, John E. Little; The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 58: April 23–May 9, 1919. Ed. by Arthur S. Link, David W. Hirst, John E. Little
Dewey W. Grantham
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1356–1357, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908730
The Rhetorical Presidency. By Jeffrey K. Tulis. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. x + 209 pp. $19.93.)
Randall W. Bland
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1357–1358, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908731
The Crusader. Ed. by Cyril V. Briggs. (New York: Garland, 1987. Vol. I: September 1918–August 1919. lxxiii + 432 pp. Vol. II: September 1919–August 1920. iv + 392 pp. Vols. III–VI: September 1920–February 1922. iv + 571 pp. $300.00/set.)
William Eric Perkins
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1358–1359, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908732
The World of Our Mothers: The Lives of Jewish Immigrant Women. By Sydney Stahl Weinberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. xxvi + 325 pp. $22.95.)
Elisabeth Israels Perry
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1359–1360, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908733
Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media. By James L. Baughman. (Boston: Twayne, 1987. x + 264 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $10.95.)
George Juergens
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1360–1361, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908734
The Modern Presidency: From Roosevelt to Reagan. Ed. by Malcolm Shaw. (New York: Harper & Row, 1987. xiii + 317 pp. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $16.93.)
Richard M. Dalfiume
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1361–1362, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908735
John L. Lewis: Labor Leader. By Robert H. Zieger. (Boston: Twayne, 1988. xviii + 220 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $10.95.)
John Barnard
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1362–1363, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908736
A New Deal for Workers' Education: The Workers' Service Program, 1933–1942. By Joyce L. Kornbluh. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xii + 175 pp. $24.95.)
David Rosner
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1363, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908737
The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State. By Jill Quadagno. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xiii + 253 pp. $27.50.)
Thomas R. Cole
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1363–1364, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908738
Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940. By James S. Olson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. xi + 246 pp. $30.00.)
Mark H. Leff
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1364–1365, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908739
The Censorship Papers: Movie Censorship Letters from the Hays Office, 1934 to 1968. By Gerald Gardner. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987. xxiv + 226 pp. $18.95.)
Randall M. Miller
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1365–1366, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908740
Washington Goes to War. By David Brinkley. (New York: Knopf, 1988. xvi + 286 pp. $18.93.)
Allan M. Winkler
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1366, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908741
Roosevelt and de Gaulle: Allies in Conflict: A Personal Memoir. By Raoul Aglion. (New York: Free Press, 1988. xiii + 237 pp. $22.50.)
Robert Dallek
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1366–1367, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908742
The Navy V-12 Program: Leadership for a Lifetime. By James G. Schneider. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. xii + 596 pp. $29.95.)
Paolo E. Coletta
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1367–1368, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908743
The Long Wait: The Vorging of the Anglo-American Nuclear Alliance, 1945–1938. By Timothy J. Botti. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xi + 274 pp. $39.95.)
Donald W. White
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1368–1369, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908744
The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations. By James A. Bill. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xiii + 520 pp. $25.00.)
Richard Pfau
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1369, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908745
Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan. By Thomas G. Paterson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xiv +317 pp. $24.95.)
H. W. Brands
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1369–1370, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908746
Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942–1943. By Thomas James. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. xi + 212 pp. $25.00.)
Gary Y. Okihiro
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1370–1371, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908747
Don't Call Me Boss: David L. Lawrence, Pittsburgh's Renaissance Mayor. By Michael P. Weber. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. xxii + 440 pp. Cloth, $32.95; paper, $16.95.)
Ari Hoogenboom
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1371–1372, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908748
The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943–1979. By Gilbert J. Gall. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xv + 244 pp. $39.95.)
Dave Roediger
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1372–1373, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908749
The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO. By Barbara S. Griffith. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. xvi + 239 pp. $29.95.)
Gary M. Fink
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1373, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908750
The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia. By Andrew J. Rotter. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. xiv + 278 pp. $29.95.)
Terry Dietz
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1374, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908751
A Time of Change: A Reporter's Tale of Our Time. By Harrison E. Salisbury. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988. xiii + 352 pp. $19.95.)
James L. Baughman
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1374–1375, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908752
Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism. By Stephen G. Rabe. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. ix + 237 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $9.95.)
Frederick W. Marks
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1375–1376, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908753
To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. By Adam Fairclough. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xii + 504 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $17.95.)
Ralph E. Luker
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1376, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908754
The Conservative Movement. By Paul Gottfried and Thomas Fleming. (Boston: Twayne, 1988. xv + 140 pp. Cloth, $18.95; paper, $7.95.)
David De Leon
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1376–1377, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908755
Women, Households, and the Economy. Ed. by Lourdes Benería and Catharine R. Stimpson. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xxv + 339 pp. Cloth, $32.00; paper, $12.00.)
Susan Porter Benson
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1377–1378, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908756
Stemming the Tide: Arms Control in the Johnson Years. By Glenn T. Seaborg with Benjamin S. Loeb. (Lexington: Heath, 1987. xxi + 495 pp. $24.95.)
Dan Caldwell
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1378–1379, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908757
Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment. By Lewis L. Gould. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988. xv + 312 pp. $29.95.)
Richard Allan Baker
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1379, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908758
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. By Todd Gitlin. (New York: Bantam, 1987. xi + 513 pp. $19.95.)
James Gilbert
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1379–1380, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908759
Democracy in Kingston: A Social Movement in Urban Politics, 1963–1970. By Richard Harris. (Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. xvii + 203 pp. $29–95.)
Robert Fisher
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1380–1381, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908760
The Year of the Barricades: A Journey through 1968. By David Caute. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988. xiv + 514 pp. $24.95.)
David Farber
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1381–1382, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908761
History in Sherman Park: An American Family and the Reagan-Mondale Election. By Jonathan Schell. (New York, Knopf, 1987. viii + 133 pp. $15.95.)
Michael Frisch
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1382–1383, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908762
Microform Reviews
Introduction
Alberto Herrera
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1384, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/75.4.1384
American Legal Manuscripts from the Harvard Law School Library. The Felix Frankfurter Papers. Part I: Supreme Court of the United States Case Files of Opinions and Memoranda, OctoherTerms, 1958–1952. 74 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $5,900. Part II: Supreme Court of the United States Case Files of Opinions and Memoranda, October
Dennis J. Hutchinson
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1384–1385, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908764
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files. Cuba: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1943–1954. and Argentina: Internal Affairs, 1945–1949. Part I: Political, Government, and National Defense Affairs. 28 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $1,850. Part II: Social, Economic, and Industrial Affairs. 19 reels with printed guide. 35 mm
Harold Dana Sims
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1385–1386, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908765
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files. Cuba: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1943–1954. and Cuba Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1954. 29 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $1,900. Cuba: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1950–1954. 39 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $2,600. Frederick, Md.:
Harold Dana Sims
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1386–1387, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908766
Confidential U.S. State Department Central files. Lebanon: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1954. and Lebanon: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1949. 5 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $350. (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1987)
James L. Gormly
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1387–1388, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908767
Research and Reference Tools: Reviews
Introduction
John D. Buenker
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1389, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/75.4.1389
Nevada Biographicaland Genealogical Sketch Index. and American Vital Re cords from the Gentleman's Magazine: 1731–1868.; Index to Marriages and Deaths in the New York Herald: 1853–1833.; PERiodical Source Index: 1986 Annual Volume.; Index to Richmond County History: Volumes 1–15.; Manuscript Sources for Railroad History at Carol M. Newman
Carol Kammen
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1389–1392, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908769
A Guide to the San Diego Historical Society Public Records Collection. By Richard W. Crawford. (San Diego: San Diego Historical Society, 1987. 86 pp. Paper, $9.95.) and The California Missions: Bibliography. Comp, and ed. by Francis J. Weber. (Los Angeles: Weber, 1987. x + 161 pp. $20.00.)
Florence C. Shipek
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1392–1393, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908770
Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.C. for Cartography and Remote Sensing Imagery (Maps, Charts, Aerial Photographs, Satellite Images, Cartographic Literature and Geographic Information Systems). By Ralph E. Ehrenberg. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. xx + 384 pp. Cloth, $29–95; paper, $15.00.)
Ronald M. Johnson
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1393–1394, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908771
American Community Organizations: A Historical Dictionary. Ed. by Patricia Mooney Melvin. (Westport: Greenwood, 1986. xvii + 236 pp. $45.00.)
Howard Gillette
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1394–1395, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908772
The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West. Ed. by Howard R. Lamar. (New York: Harper & Row, 1977 [1986]. xi + 1306 pp. $29.95.)
Fred R. Gowans
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1395, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908773
The Industrial Belt: An Annotated Bibliography. By Thomas J. Schlereth. (New York: Garland, 1987. ix + 256 pp. $40.00.)
David D. Van Tassel
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1395–1396, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908774
Dictionary of Asian American History. Ed. by Hyung-Chan Kim. (Westport: Greenwood, 1986. xvii + 627 pp. $65.00.)
Lucie Cheng
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1396–1397, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908775
The Immigrant Lahor Press in North America, 1840s–1970s: An Annotated Bibliography. Vol. I: Migrants from Northern Europe. Ed. by Dirk Hoerder. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. ix + 278 pp. $39.95.)
J. R. Christianson
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1397–1398, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908776
The Dutch Language Press in America: Two Centuries of Printing, Publishing and Bookselling. By Hendrik Edelman. (Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1986. vii + 201 pp. ƒ 95.00.)
Gerald F. De Jong
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1398, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908777
Index to Puerto Rican Collective Biography. Comp, by Fay Fowlie-Flores. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xxi + 214 pp. $39.95.)
Clara E. Rodriguez
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1399, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908778
The New American Immigration: Evolving Patterns of Legal and Illegal Immigration: A Bibliography of Selected References. By Francesco Cordasco. (New York: Garland, 1987. xxviii + 418 pp. $54.00.)
David M. Reimers
Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1399–1400, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908779
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