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Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989
Articles
The Rise of the Independent Merchant in the Chesapeake: Baltimore County, 1660–1769
Charles G. Steffen
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 9–33, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908342
Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? Some Preliminary Demographic Speculations
Maris A. Vinovskis
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 34–58, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908343
The Value of the Vote: Political Representation in the Gilded Age
Peter H. Argersinger
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 59–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908344
Captives of Law: Judicial Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws, 1891–1905
Lucy Salyer
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 91–117, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908345
Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seatde Debate on Married Women's Right to Work, 1914–1920
Maurine Weiner Greenwald
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 118–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908346
The Originality Trap: Richard Hofstadter on Populism
Robert M. Collins
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 150–167, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908347
Archives and Manuscripts
Introduction
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 168, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/76.1.168
Thomas A. Dooley Papers (Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Universtity of Missouri, St. Louis)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 169, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908349
Theodore Draper Research Files (Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 169, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908350
Florida Education Association Records (Florida State Archives, Tallahassee)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 169, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908351
Julia Butler Hansen Papers (University of Washington Library, Seattle)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 169, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908352
Robert Hayden Papers (National Bahá'í Archives, Wilmette, Illinois)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908353
Edward J. Logue Papers (Sterling Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908354
Clarence Manion Papers (Chicago Historical Society)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908355
Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Papers (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Masschusetts)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908356
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Papers (Library of Congress)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 171, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908357
Socialist Workers Party Collection (Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 171, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908358
J. Russell Wiggins Papers (Folger Library, University of Maine, Orono)
Susan M. Hartmann and David Wigdor
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 171, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908359
The View from Eagle Butte: National Archives Field Branches and the Writing of American Indian History
Frederick E. Hoxie
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 172–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908360
Private Organizations, Public Purposes: Nonprofits and Their Archives
David C. Hammack
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 181–191, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908361
Museum Exhibition Reviews
Introduction
Thomas J. Schlereth
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 192–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/76.1.192
“In Prayer & Protest: Old South Meeting House Remembers.” Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St., Boston, MA 02108
Barbara Franco
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 196–198, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908363
“We the People: Creating a New Nation, 1765–1820.” Chicago Historical Society, Clark St. at North Ave., Chicago, IL 60614
Barbara Clark Smith
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 198–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908364
“In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia, 1790–1860” Valentine Museum, 1015 E. Clay St., Richmond, VA 23219
Lonnie G. Bunch
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 202–207, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908365
“You Gotta Know the Territory.” State Historical Society of Iowa, State of Iowa Historical Building, Capitol Complex, Des Moines, IA 50319
Peter T. Harstad
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 207–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908366
“Culture and Comfort: People, Parlors, and Upholstery, 1850–1930.” Strong Museum, 1 Manhattan Sq., Rochester, NY 14607
Adrienne D. Hood
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 211–215, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908367
“Visions of Home: Elmhurst as Place, Community, and Suburb.” Elmhurst Historical Museum, 120 E. Park Ave., Elmhurst, IL 60126
Gerald A. Danzer
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 215–217, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908368
“Chicago Architecture, 1872–1922: Birth of a Metropohs.” Art Institute of Chicago, Michigan Ave. and Adams St., Chicago, IL 60603
David M. Sokol
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 217–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908369
“The Automobile in American Life.” Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48121
Joseph J. Corn
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 224, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908370
“Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915–1940.” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Constitution Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20560
James Borchert
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 224–228, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908371
Book Reviews
Liberty under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life. By William M. Wiecek. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xiii + 226 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $10.95.)
Robert J. Steamer
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 229, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908372
Constitutional Faith. By Sanford Levinson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. xii + 250 pp. $19.95.)
John E. Semonche
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 230, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908373
The Constitution under Pressure: A Time for Change. By Marcia Lynn Whicker, Ruth Ann Strickland, and Raymond A. Moore. (New York: Praeger, 1987. xii + 223 pp. Cloth, $38.95; paper, $14.95.)
Adolph H. Grundman
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 230–231, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908374
Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? Ed. by Jean Heffer and Jeanine Rovet. (Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1988. 318 pp. Paper, Fr 150.)
Frank A. Warren
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 231–232, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908375
Critical Elections and Congressional Policy Making. By David W. Brady. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. xv + 212 pp. $27.50.)
James T. Currie
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 232, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908376
The Evolution of Southern Culture. Ed. by Numan V. Bartley. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. xv + 148 pp. Cloth, $20.00; paper, $9.00.)
Hugh Davis Graham
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908377
A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports. By Allen Guttmann. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. X + 233 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $10.95.)
Randy Roberts
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 233–234, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908378
Ed School: A Brief for Professional Education. By Geraldine Jonçich Clifford and James W. Guthrie. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xii + 413 pp. $24.95.)
William J. Reese
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 234–235, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908379
The Myth of the Common School. By Charles Leslie Glenn, Jr. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. xi + 369 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $13.95.)
Frederick M. Binder
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 235–236, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908380
Democracy and Punishment: Disciplinary Origins of the United States. By Thomas L. Dumm. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. X + 195 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $15.75.)
Paul W. Keve
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 236, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908381
Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism. By Michael A. Meyer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xvi + 494 pp. $39.95.)
Myron Berman
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 236–237, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908382
The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed. Ed. by Jack Wertheimer. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xviii + 433 pp. $34.50.)
Gerald Sorin
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 237–238, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908383
Apalachee: The Land between the Rivers. By John H. Hann. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1988. xiii + 450 pp. $36.00.)
John Jay TePaske
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908384
The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather, 1659–1723. By Michael G. Hall. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. XV + 438 pp. $35.00.)
James F. Cooper
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 239–240, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908385
Essays on the History of North American Discovery and Exploration. Ed. by Stanley H. Palmer and Dennis Reinhartz. (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1988. xiii + 140 pp. $17.50.)
John T. Juricek
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908386
The Book Culture of a Colonial American City: Philadelphia Books, Bookmen, and Booksellers. By Edwin Wolf II. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. xii + 227 pp. $35.00.)
Wayne A. Wiegand
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 241–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908387
Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700–1830. By Robert E. Cray, Jr. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. xii + 269 pp. $34.95.)
Priscilla Ferguson Clement
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 242, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908388
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. By William D. Piersen. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. xii + 237 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $11.95.)
James Oliver Horton
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 242–243, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908389
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720–1840. By Gary B. Nash. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. xiii + 354 pp. $28.95.)
Jane H. Pease
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 243–244, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908390
Charles Scott and the “Spirit of 76:” By Harry M. Ward. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988. xiii + 262 pp. $24.95.)
Emory G. Evans
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 244–245, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908391
The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770–1860. By John Hebron Moore. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. xii + 323 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95.)
Daniel C. Littlefield
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 245, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908392
The Inspectors General of the United States Army, 1777–1905. By David A. Clary and Joseph W. A. Whitehorne. (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1987. xviii + 465 pp. $18.00.)
Russell F. Weigley
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 245–246, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908393
Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910. By Mary H. Blewett. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xxii + 444 pp. $29.95.)
Gary Kulik
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 246–247, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908394
André and François André Michaux. By Henry Savage Jr., and Elizabeth J. Savage. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. ix + 435 pp. $27.50.)
Ronald L. Stuckey
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 247–248, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908395
The Papers of James Madison. Vol. XV: 24 March 1793–20 April 1795.; The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. Vol. I: 4 March–31 July 1801. Ed. by Robert J. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes and The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series. Vol. I: 1 March–30 September 1809. Ed. by Robert A. Rutland, Thomas A. Mason
James M. Banner
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 248–249, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908396
Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of US. Naval Officers, 1798–1883. By David F. Long. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988. xix + 502 pp. $29.95.)
Stanley J. Underdal
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 249–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908397
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder. By Jack McLaughlin. (New York: Holt, 1988. ix + 481 pp. $29.95.)
Geoffrey Blodgett
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 250, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908398
The Decline of Authority: Public Economic Policy and Political Development in New York, 1800–1860. By L. Ray Gunn. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xv + 284 pp. $29.95.)
Diane Lindstrom
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 251, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908399
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series: Jefferson's Parliamentary Writings: “Parliamentary Pocket-Book” and A Manual of Parliamentary Practice. Ed. by Wilbur Samuel Howell. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. xxix + 454 pp. $55.00.)
Joyce Appleby
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 251–252, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908400
Aspects of American Printmaking, 1800–1950. Ed. by James F. O'Gorman. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1988. x + 245 pp. $34.95.)
George H. Roeder
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 252–253, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908401
King of Beaver Island: The Life and Assassination of James Jesse Strang. By Roger Van Noord. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 335 pp. $24.95.)
Stanley B. Kimball
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 253–254, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908402
Millennial Desire and the Apocalyptic Vision of Washington Allston. By David Bjelajac. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. xiv + 226 pp. $35.00.)
H. Wayne Morgan
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 254, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908403
The Legacy of Andrew Jackson: Essays on Democracy, Indian Removal, and Slavery. By Robert V. Remini. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. xiii + 117 pp. $20.00.)
Richard B. Latner
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 254–255, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908404
From Open Door to Dutch Door: An Analysis of U.S. Immigration Policy since 1820. By Michael C. LeMay. (New York: Praeger, 1987. xix + 183 pp. Cloth, $36.95; paper, $12.95.)
Jon Gjerde
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 255–256, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908405
The Age and Stage of George L. Fox, 1823–1877. By Laurence Senelick. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1988. xvii + 286 pp. $30.00.)
Walter J. Meserve
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 256–257, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908406
The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Mends, 1800–1907. By Thomas D. Hamm. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. xix + 261 pp. $23.00.)
Jean R. Soderlund
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 257, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908407
Towards a Christian Republic: Antimasonry and the Great Transition in New England, 1826–1836. By Paul Goodman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xiii + 328 pp. $34.50.)
William Preston Vaughn
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 257–258, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908408
The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838–1939. By David F. Labaree. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xiv + 208 pp. $30.00.)
V. P. Franklin
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 258–259, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908409
Photographing Medicine: Images and Power in Britain and America since 1840. By Daniel M. Fox and Christopher Lawrence. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. ix + 357 pp. $49.95.)
John S. Haller
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 259–260, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908410
U.S. Labor Movement and Latin America: A History of Workers' Response to Intervention. Vol. I: 1846–1919. By Philip S. Foner. (South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey, 1988. x + 228 pp. $39.95.)
Thomas M. Leonard
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 260, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908411
The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beech er Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere. By Jeanne Boydston, Mary Kelley, and Anne Margolis. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. xxv + 369 pp. Cloth, $32.00; paper, $12.95.)
Rosalind Rosenberg
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 261, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908412
If Not Literature: Letters of Elinor Mead Howells. Ed. by Ginette de B. Merrill and George Arms. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988. xlv + 329 pp. $45.00.)
Louis J. Budd
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 261–262, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908413
The United States and China. By Arnold Xiangze Jiang. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xiii + 200 pp. $22.00.)
Michael Schaller
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 262–263, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908414
Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1830–1913. By Michael L. Smith. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xi + 243 pp. $26.50.)
Samuel P. Hays
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 263, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908415
The Great Northern Railway: A History. By Ralph W. Hidy, Muriel E. Hidy, and Roy V. Scott, with Don L. Hofsommer. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1988. xvi + 360 pp. $49.95.)
Daniel E. Turbeville
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 263–264, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908416
Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1839–1900. By Jon H. Roberts. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. xviii + 339 pp. $26.75.)
Cynthia Russett
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 264–265, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908417
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography. By Thomas E. Schott. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. xxi + 552 pp. $37.50.)
John R. Brumgardt
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 265–266, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908418
Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers. By Maxine Turner. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988. xv + 357 pp. $24.95.)
Kenneth J. Blume
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 266–267, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908419
Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Changes in Appalachia, 1860–1900. By Altina L. Waller. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. XX + 313 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $12.50.)
Henry D. Shapiro
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 267, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908420
A Great & Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad. By John Hoyt Williams. (New York: Times, 1988. ix + 341 pp. $22.50.)
John F. Stover
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 267–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908421
The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Kansas Fopulism, 1863–1900. By Scott G. McNall. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xviii + 334 pp. Cloth, $49–95; paper, $19.95.)
Walter Nugent
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908422
Badge and Buckshot: Lawlessness in Old California. By John Boessenecker. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. xiii + 333 pp. $22.95.)
Robert M. Senkewicz
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 269–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908423
Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880–1960. By Linda Gordon. (New York: Viking, 1988. xv + 383 pp. $24.95.)
Sylvia D. Hoffert
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 270, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908424
Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880–1913. By Cathy L. McHugh. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 144 pp. $24.95.)
Bess Beatty
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 270–271, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908425
Textiles in Transition: Technology, Wages, and Industry Relocation in the U.S. Textile Industry, 1880–1930. By Nancy Frances Kane. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiii + 190pp. $37.95.)
Pamela J. Nickless
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 271–272, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908426
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher B. Daly. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xxxiii + 468 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $12.95.)
Orville Vernon Burton
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 272–273, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908427
The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890–1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics. By Martin J. Sklar. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiv + 484 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $13.95.)
Donald J. Pisani
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 273–274, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908428
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Man, the Myth, the Era, 1882–1943. Ed. by Herbert D. Rosenbaum and Elizabeth Bartelme. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. xvii + 411 pp. $49.95.)
Otis L. Graham
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 274, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908429
Medical Science and Medical Industry: The Formation of the American Pharmaceutical Industry. By Jonathan Liebenau. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. ix + 207 pp. $35.00.)
Gregory J. Higby
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 274–275, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908430
Private Philanthropy and Public Education: Pierre S. du Pont and the Delaware Schools, 1890–1940. By Robert J. Taggart. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988. 257 pp. $34.50.)
David F. Labaree
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 275–276, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908431
Talkin' Socialism: J. A. Way land and the Role ofthe Press in American Radicalism, 1890–1912. By Elliott Shore. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988. xi + 280 pp. $25.00.)
David C. Duke
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 276, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908432
Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of EndicottJohnson, 1890–1930. By Gerald Zahavi. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 261 pp. $24.95.)
James R. Barrett
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 277, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908433
New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism, 1892–1923. By Daniel Rosenberg. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. x + 233 pp. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.)
Dennis C. Dickerson
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 277–278, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908434
Protestant Missionaries in the Philippines, 1898–1916: An Inquiry into the American Colonial Mentality. By Kenton J. Clymer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. xiv + 267 pp. $28.95.)
Valentin H. Rabe
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 278–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908435
Saving America's Wildlife. By Thomas R. Dunlap. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. xvi + 222 pp. $24.95.)
Robin W. Doughty
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 280, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908436
Women, Work, and Fertility, 1900–1986. By Susan Householder Van Horn. (New York: New York University Press, 1988. xiv + 232 pp. $35.00.)
Ellen Fitzpatrick
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 280, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908437
The Positive Image: Women Photographers in Turn of the Century America. By C. Jane Gover. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. xix + 191 pp. Cloth, $44.50; paper $14.95.)
Sally Stein
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 280–281, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908438
The Tuberculosis Movement: A Public Health Campaign in the Progressive Era. By Michael E. Teller. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiii + 182 pp. $37.95.)
Suellen Hoy
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 281–282, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908439
The Learned Presidency: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson. By David H. Burton. (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988. 225 pp. $29.50.) and The Good Ruler: From Herbert Hoover to Richard Nixon. By Bruce Kuklick. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. xiii + 202 pp. $17.95.)
Martin L. Fausold
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908440
An Ocean Apart: The Relationship between Britain and America in the Twentieth Century. By David Dimbleby and David Reynolds. (New York: Random House, 1988. xv + 415 pp. $24.95.)
Lloyd C. Gardner
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 283–284, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908441
From the Ground Up: The Autobiography of an Aeronautical Engineer. By Fred E. Weick and James R. Hansen. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. xvi + 447 pp. $39–95.)
Richard P. Hallion
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 284–285, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908442
Academic Scientists and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Cooperative Research in Twentieth-Century America. By John P. Swann. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xiii + 249 pp. $32.50.)
C. Fred Williams
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 285–286, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908443
The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913. By Steve Golin. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. ix + 305 pp. $34.95.)
Melvyn Dubofsky
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 286–287, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908444
Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations. By H. M. Gitelman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. xvii + 335 pp. $29–95.)
George G. Suggs
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 287, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908445
Elia Kazan: A Life. By Elia Kazan. (New York: Knopf, 1988. vi + 848 pp. $24.95.)
Erik S. Lunde
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 288, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908446
Farm Families & Change in Twentieth-Century America. By Mark Friedberger. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. x + 282 pp. $28.00.)
William L. Bowers
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908447
From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. By Beth L. Bailey. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xi + 181 pp. $18.95.)
John D'Emilio
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908448
Harvey and Jessie: A Couple of Radicals. By Jessie Lloyd O'Connor, Harvey O'Connor, and Susan M. Bowler. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. xxi + 259 pp. $24.95.)
William L. O'Neill
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 290, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908449
Work without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work. By Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. xi + 404 pp. $34.95.)
David Roediger
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 290–291, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908450
The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada. By Marlene Shore. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. xviii + 340 pp. Cloth, $37.50; paper, $16.95.)
Beverly Stadum
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 291–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908451
The United States and Fascist Italy, 1922–1940. By David F. Schmitz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. xi + 273 pp. $29.93.)
Manfred Jonas
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 292–293, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908452
The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1923–1950. By Mark V. Tushnet. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987, XV +222 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper $9.95.)
August Meier
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 293, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908453
The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition. By Athan G. Theoharis and John Stuart Cox. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. xvi + 489 pp. $27.95.)
Ellen W. Schrecker
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 293–294, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908454
Business and Religion in the American 1920s. By Rolf Lundén. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. XV + 204 pp. $37.95.)
Susan Curtis Mernitz
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 294–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908455
Hoover Dam: An American Adventure. By Joseph E. Stevens. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988, ix + 326 pp. $24.95.)
Martin Reuss
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 295–296, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908456
Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World. By Alexander Bloom. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xii + 461 pp. $11.95.)
James Hoopes
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 296–297, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908457
Miss Lucy of the CIO: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolph Mason, 1882–1939. By John A. Salmond. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. xv + 227 pp. $24.00)
Ann Schofield
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 297, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908458
Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. (Chapel Hill: University of North CaroUna Press, 1988, xix + 284 pp. $29.95.)
Roger W. Lotchin
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 297–298, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908459
Leadership in the Modern Presidency. Ed. by Fred I. Greenstein. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. ix + 430 pp. $29.95.)
Jim F. Heath
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 298–299, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908460
The Lindbergh Case. By Jim Fisher. (New Bmnswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. vii + 480 pp. $22.95.)
James H. Lesar
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 299–300, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908461
Before the Civil Rights Revolution: The Old Court and Individual Rights. By John Braeman. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xi + 216 pp. $37.95.)
Fred D. Ragan
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 300, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908462
Austria in World War II: An Anglo-American Dilemma. By Robert H. Keyserlingk. (Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. xix + 305 pp. $29.93.)
Keith Eubank
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 301, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908463
War, Cooperation, and Conflict: The European Possessions in the Caribbean, 1939–1943. By Fitzroy André Baptiste. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. XV + 351 pp. $39.93.)
Fred E. Pollock
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 301–302, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908464
Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939–1961. By Robin W. Winks. (New York: Morrow, 1987. 607 pp. $22.95.)
Sallie Pisani
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 302–303, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908465
The General and the Bomb: A Biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project. By William Lawren. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1988. xii + 324 pp. $21.95.)
Lloyd J. Graybar
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 303–304, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908466
He, Too, Spoke for Democracy: Judge Hastie, World War II, and the Black Soldier. By Phillip McGuire. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xvii + 154 pp. $35.95.)
John B. Kirby
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 304, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908467
We Shall Return! MacArthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942–1943. Ed. by William M. Leary. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. xiv + 305 pp. $25.00.)
Larry I. Bland
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 304–305, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908468
Fletcher's Gang: A B-17 Crew in Europe, 1944–1945. By Eugene Fletcher. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. xv + 267 pp. $19.95.) and Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator. By Samuel Hynes. (New York/Annapolis: Beil/NavallnstitutePress, 1988. 270 pp. $16.95.)
Kenneth P. Werrell
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 305–306, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908469
My Roosevelt Years. By Norman M. Littell. Ed. by Jonathan Dembo. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. xxi + 422 pp. $35.00.)
Thomas R. Cox
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 306–307, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908470
Between East and West: Trieste, the United States, and the Cold War, 1941–1934. By Roberto G. Rabel. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988. xvii + 222 pp. $32.50.)
Robert James Maddox
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 307–308, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908471
The Cold War Begins in Asia: American East Asian Policy and the Fall of the Japanese Empire. By Marc S. Gallicchio. (New York: Colum bia University Press, 1988. xvii + 188 pp. $25.00.) and U.S. China Policy: From the Missionary Days to Reagan. By Vladilen Vorontsov. (Moscow: Progress, 1986. 264 pp. Ir. 45k.)
John J. Stephan
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 308–309, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908472
Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1943. By Leon V. Sigal. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xiii + 335 pp. $39–95.)
Mark A. Stoler
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908473
Sheathing the Sword: The Demilitarization of Japan. By Meirion and Susie Harries. (New York: Macmillan, 1987. xxxiv + 364 pp. $24.95.)
Thomas H. Buckley
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 310–311, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908474
John Fairbank and the American Understanding of Modern China. By Paul M. Evans. (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. xvi + 366 pp. $24.95)
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 311–312, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908475
NATO and the United States: The Enduring Alliance. By Lawrence S. Kaplan. (Boston: Twayne, 1988. xvi + 237 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $10.95.) and Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question since 1945. By Frank Ninkovich. (Boston: Twayne, 1988. xv + 201 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $10.95.)
Hans L. Trefousse
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 312–313, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908476
The Geopolitics of Super Power. By Colin S. Gray. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. ix + 274 pp. $26.00.)
Russell D. Buhite
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 313–314, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908477
Alternatives to Anarchy: American Supranationalism since World War II. By Wesley T. Wooley. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. xi + 244 pp. $25.00.)
Charles Chatfield
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 314, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908478
For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer. By Archie Roosevelt. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1988. xvii + 500 pp. $24.95.)
William M. Leary
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 314–315, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908479
The Irony of Victory: World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts. By Marc Scott Miller. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xi + 233 pp. $24.95.)
Martin Glaberman
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 315–316, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908480
The Men and Women of Yeshiva: Higher Education, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism. By Jeffreys. Gurock. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xv + 302 pp. $35.00.)
Selma Berrol
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908481
The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II. By Robert Wuthnow. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. xiv + 374 pp. $25.00.)
John W. Storey
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 317–318, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908482
The Collapse of the Middle Way: Senate Republicans and the Bipartisan Foreign Policy, 1948–1952. By David R. Kepley. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiii + 197 pp. $37.95.)
James I. Matray
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 318, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908483
Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths. By Uene Philipson. (New York: Watts, 1988. ix + 390 pp. $18.95.)
Leslie Fishbein
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 318–319, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908484
Recollections of a Life. By Alger Hiss. (New York: Holt, 1988. xi + 240 pp. $19.95.)
Andrew J. Dunar
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 319–320, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908485
Cold Warriors: Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy. By H. W. Brands, Jr. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xii + 252 pp. $30.00.)
Justus D. Doenecke
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 320–321, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908486
Approaching Vietnam: From World War II through Dienbienphu, 1941–1934. By Lloyd C. Gardner. (New York: Norton, 1988. 440 pp. $22.50.)
Robert A. Divine
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 321–322, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908487
Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves. By Melvin Small. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. xv + 319 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $12.00.)
Andrew J. Rotter
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 322, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908488
Peace & Revolution: The Moral Crisis of American Pacifism. By Guenter Lewy. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988. x + 283 pp. $19.95.)
Charles F. Howlett
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908489
The Foreign and Domestic Dimensions of Modern Warfare: Vietnam, Central America, and Nuclear Strategy. Ed. by Howard Jones. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988. xi + 209 pp. $23.95.)
John P. Lovell
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 323–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908490
Courthouse over White House: Chicago and the Presidential Election of 1960. By Edmund F. Kallina, Jr. (Orlando: University of Central Florida Press, 1988. viii + 301 pp. $25.00.)
Bruce J. Dierenfield
Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 324–325, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908491
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