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Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991
Articles
Early Native North American Responses to European Contact: Romantic versus Rationalistic Interpretations
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1195–1215, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078259
The Evangelical Movement and Political Culture in the North during the Second Party System
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1216–1239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078260
“About to Meet Her Maker”: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867–1940
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1240–1264, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078261
“The Pride of the Race Had Been Touched”: The 1925 Notse-American Immigrarion Centennial and Ethnic Identity
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1265–1295, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078262
The Politics of Sacrifice on the American Home Front in Worid War II
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1296–1318, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078263
Book Reviews
Historical Literacy: The Case for History in American Education. Ed. by Paul Gagnon and The Bradley Commission on History in Schools. (New York: Macmillan, 1989. xiv + 338 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1319–1320, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078264
Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History. By Bryan D. Palmer. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. xviii + 289 pp. $34.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1320, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078265
The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. By Arnold Krupat. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. x + ^ 259 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $9.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1320–1321, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078266
Making American Tradition: Visions and Revisions from Ben Franklin to Alice Walker. By Gushing Strout. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. xii + 252 pp. Cloth, $38.00; paper, $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1321–1322, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078267
Black Odyssey: The Seafaring Traditions of Afro-Americans. By James Barker Farr. (New York: Lang, 1989. x + 310 pp. $42.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1322–1323, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078268
Population and Community in Rural America. By Lorraine Garkovich. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xviii + 235 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1323–1324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078269
Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War. By Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch. (New York: Free Press, 1990. viii + 296 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1324–1325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078270
Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography. By Michael Williams. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xxii + 599 pp. $49.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078271
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. By Carolyn Merchant. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xviii + 379 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $13.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1326, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078272
Conquest of the Sierra: Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Oaxaca. By John K. Chance. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. xviii + 233 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1326–1327, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078273
Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period. By Leigh Eric Schmidt. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. xiv + 277 pp. $32.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1327–1328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078274
Colonel Parke of Virginia: “The Greatest Hector in the Town.” By Helen Hill Miller. (Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1989. xxii + 232 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1328–1329, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078275
Two Mather Biographies: Life and Death and Parentator. Ed. by William J. Scheick. (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1989. 241 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1329, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078276
The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood. By William E. Foley. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989. xxii + 367 pp. Cloth, $32.00; paper, $17.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1329–1330, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078277
The Law in America, 1607–1861. Ed. by William Pencak and Wythe W. Holt, Jr. (New York: New-York Historical Society, 1989. xiv + 317 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1330–1331, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078278
Slave Law in the Americas. By Alan Watson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. xviii + 179 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1331–1332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078279
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. By Jon Butler. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. xiv + 360 pp. $29.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078280
Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic. By James Hoopes. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. x + 294 pp. $36.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1333, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078281
News in the Mail: The Press, Post Office, and Public Information, 1700–1860s. By Richard B. Kielbowicz. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xii + 209 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1333–1334, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078282
The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Alan Gallay. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. xxii + 282 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1334–1335, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078283
A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition. By Thomas Pinney. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. xviii + 553 pp. $45.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1335–1336, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078284
A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America. By Cathy D. Matson and Peter S. Onuf. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. x + 237 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1336, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078285
The World Turned Up side Down: Essex County During America's Turbulent Years, 1763–1790. By Ronald N. Tagney. (West Newbury, Mass.: Essex County History, 1989. viii + 504 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1336–1337, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078286
Revolution to Secession: Constitution Making in the Old Dominion. By Robert P. Sutton. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. xiv + 284 pp. $39.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1337–1338, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078287
The Unfinished Revolution: Education and Politics in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson. By Harold Hellenbrand. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990. 207 pp. $32.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1338–1339, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078288
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812. By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. (New York: Knopf, 1990. xii + 444 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1339–1340, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078289
Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic. By Chandos Michael Brown. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. xvi + 377 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1340, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078290
The Coast Guard Under Sail: The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, 1789'1865. By Irving H. King. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989. xii + 233 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1340–1341, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078291
Rewriting the History of the Judiciary Act of 1789: Exposing Myths, Challenging Premises, and Using New Evidence. By Wilfred J. Ritz. Ed. by Wythe Holt and L. H. LaRue. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. xiv + 264 pp. $27.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1341–1342, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078292
Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798. by Lee Soltow. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. xx + 328 pp. $49.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1342–1343, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078293
Winter Friends: Women Growing Old in the New Republic, 1783–1853. By Terri L. Premo. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xiv + 199 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1343–1344, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078294
The American General Hospital: Communities and Social Contexts. Ed. by Diana Elizabeth Long and Janet Golden. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. xvi + 217 pp. Cloth, $31.50; paper, $9.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1344–1345, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078295
Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville. By Robert S. Levine. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. x + 302 pp. $37.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1345, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078296
Journalistic Standards in Nineteenth-Century America. By Hazel Dicken-Garcia. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. x + 342 pp. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $14.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1345–1346, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078297
Jealousy: The Evolution of an Emotion in American History. By Peter N. Stearns. (New York: New Y)rk University Press, 1989. xiv + 225 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1346–1347, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078298
Philanthropic Giving: Studies in Varieties and Goals. Ed. by Richard Magat. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xvi + 360 pp. $49.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1347–1348, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078299
America's Armories: Architecture, Society, and Public Order. By Robert M. Fogelson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. xx + 268 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1348–1349, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078300
The Transformation of Criminal Justice: Philadelphia, 1800–1880. By Allen Steinberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. x + 326 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1349–1350, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078301
Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800–1845. By Mary Kupiec Cayton. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xiv + 307 pp. $32.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1350–1351, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078302
The Federal Road through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and Alabama, 1806–1836. By Henry deLeon Southeriand, Jr., and Jerry Elijah Brown. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. xiv + 198 pp. $24.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1351, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078303
The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. By Donald R. Hickey. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xvi + 457 pp. $32.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1351–1352, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078304
State Parties and National Politics: North Carolina, 1813–1861. By Thomas E. Jeffrey. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. xvi + 422 pp. $45.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1352–1353, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078305
Fortress America: The Corps of Engineers, Hampton Roads, and United States Coastal Defense. By David A. Clary. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. xiv + 222 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1353–1354, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078306
John Marshall's Achievement: Law, Politics, and Constitutional Interpretations. Ed. by Thomas C. Shevory. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xii + 232 pp. $42.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1354, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078307
Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825–1880. By Mary P. Ryan. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xii + 202 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1354–1355, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078308
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Vail of American Slavery. By Robert William Fogel. (New York: Norton, 1989. 539 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1355–1356, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078309
Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South. By Don E. Fehrenbacher. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. xvi + 115 pp. $16.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1356–1357, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078310
Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. By Michael Tadman. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. xviii + 317 pp. $27.75.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1357–1358, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078311
Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South. By David F. Allmendinger, Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xiv + 274 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1358–1359, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078312
Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing. By Sally G. McMillcn. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xvi + 237 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1359, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078313
Joshua Leavitt: Evangelical Abolitionist. By Hugh Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xvi + 328 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1359–1360, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078314
Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse. By Lawrence B. Goodheart. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1990. xiv + 282 pp. $27.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1360–1361, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078315
Women & Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. Byjean Fagan Yellin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xxii + 226 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1361–1362, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078316
Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. By Blanche Linden-Ward. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989. xii + 403 pp. $49.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1362–1363, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078317
Boston's Wayward Children: Social Services for Homeless Children, 1830–1930. By Peter C. HoUoran. (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989. 330 pp. $49.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1363, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078318
Fitness in American Culture: Images of Health, Sport, and the Body, 1830–1940. Ed. by Kathryn Grover. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, 1989. viii + 178 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1363–1364, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078319
Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City. By Richard B. Stott. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xvi + 300 pp. $34.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1364–1365, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078320
Land Without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present. Trans, and ed. by R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. xviii + 309 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1365–1366, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078321
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. By Ann Braude. (Boston: Beacon, 1989. xiv + 268 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1366–1367, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078322
The Search for Self Sovereignty: The Oratory of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. By Beth M. Waggenspack. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xviii + 204 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1367–1368, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078323
Soldiers and Settlers: Military Supply in the Southwest, 1861–1885. By Darlis A. Miller. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. XX + 506 pp. $45.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1368–1369, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078324
Tennessee's Forgotten Warriors: Frank Cheatham and His Confederate Division. By Christopher Losson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. xvi + 352 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1369, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078325
A Long March: The Lives of Frank and Alice Baldwin. By Robert H. Steinbach. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. xx + 223 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1369–1370, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078326
New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860–1910. By Don H. Doyle. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xxii + 369 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1370–1371, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078327
Developing Dixie: Modernization in a Traditional Society. Ed. by Winfred B. Moore, Jr., Joseph E Tripp, and Lyon G. Tyler, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xxiii + 357 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1371–1372, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078328
Race, Class, and Politics in Southern History: Essays in Honor of Robert E Durden. Ed. by Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escort, and Charles L. Flynn Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. xiv + 297 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1372–1373, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078329
Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meij Japan. By Robert A. Rosenstone. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. xvi + 315 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1373, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078330
George Kennan and the American-Russian Relationship, 1865–1924. By Frederick F. Travis. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1990. xx + 433 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1373–1374, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078331
City at the Point: Essays on the Social History of Pittsburgh. Ed. by Samuel P. Hays. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. xvi + 473 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1374–1375, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078332
The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877–1920. By Kenneth Lipartito. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. xviii + 283 pp. $29.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1375–1376, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078333
Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878–1923. By Stephen H. Norwood. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xii + 340 pp. $32.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1376–1377, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078334
The View from Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians. By Sherry L. Smith. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990. xxiv + 263 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1377, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078335
The Militarization of the Western World. Ed. by John R. Gillis. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989. xii + 216 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $12.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1377–1378, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078336
Urban Texas: Politics and Development. Ed. by Char Miller and Heywood T. Sanders. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990. xvi + 208 pp. Paper, $15.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1378–1379, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078337
Iowa Pharmacy, 1880–1905: An Experiment in Professionalism. By Lee Anderson. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989. xii + 178 pp. $22.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1379–1380, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078338
Better Than Second Best: Love and Work in the Life of Helen Magill. By Glenn C. Altschuler. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xii + 175 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1380–1381, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078339
When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store. By Elaine S. Abelson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xii + 292 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1381, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078340
The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West. By Lesley Poling-Kempes. (New York: Paragon House, 1989. xx + 252 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1381–1382, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078341
Ourselves Alone: Women's Emigration from Ireland, 1885–1920. By Janet A. Nolan. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. xiv + 133 pp. $16.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1382–1383, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078342
Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, 1885–1985. By Andrew GuUiford. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1989. xviii + 302 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1383–1384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078343
America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform, and Social Change. By Peter J. Ling. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. vi + 202 pp. $59.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078344
Atlanta Life Insurance Company: Guardian of Black Economic Dignity. By Alexa Benson Henderson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990. xviii + 251 pp. $31.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1384–1385, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078345
The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution: An Empire of Liberty in an Age of National Liberation. By Jules R. Benjamin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xii + 234 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1385–1386, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078346
Discoursing Sweet Music: Town Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania. By Kenneth Kreitner. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xvi + 205 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1386, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078347
William James, Public Philosopher. By George Cotkin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv + 218 pp. $32.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1386–1387, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078348
Fire and Grace: The Life of Rose Pastor Stokes. By Arthur Zipser and Pearl Zipser. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. xvi + 348 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1387–1388, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078349
Up from Washington: William Pickens and the Negro Struggle for Equality, 1900–1954. By Sheldon Avery. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989. 245 pp. $36.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1388–1389, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078350
In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU. By Samuel Walker. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xiv + 479 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1389–1390, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078351
Norway and the United States, 1905–1955: Two Democracies in Peace and War. By Wayne S. Cole. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989. xii + 221 pp. $27.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1390–1391, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078352
Children of the Mill: Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, 1906–1960. By Ronald D. Cohen. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xvi + 280 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1391–1392, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078353
Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906. By James Harvey Young. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. xiv + 312 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1392, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078354
The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy. By Ellen CondlifFe Lagemann. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. xvi + 347 pp. $30.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1392–1393, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078355
The Roots of Community Organizing, 1917–1939. By Neil Betten and Michael J. Austin. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. viii + 230 pp. $27.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1393–1394, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078356
The MildReservationists and the League of Nations Controversy in the Senate. By Herbert F. Margulies. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989. xvi + 300 pp. $39.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1394–1395, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078357
In the Public Interest: The League of Women Voters, 1920–1970. By Louise M. Young. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xvi + 199pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1395–1396, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078358
Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920–1945. By Phyllis Palmer. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. xviii + 214 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1396, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078359
The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s. By Leonard J. Leflf and Jerold L. Simmons. (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990. xiv + 350 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1397, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078360
Black Diamonds: Life in the Negro Leagues from the Men Who Lived It. By John B. Holway. (Westport: Meckler, 1989. xiv + 189 pp. $32.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1397–1398, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078361
“The Mayor Who Cleaned Up Chicago”: A Political Biography of William E. Dever. By John R. Schmidt. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989. xvi + 239 pp. $28.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1398–1399, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078362
The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925–1940. By Robert F. Burk. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. xiv + 359 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1399, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078363
Working with Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History: A Diary, 1928–1930. By Lorenzo J. Greene. Ed. by Arvarh E. Strickland. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. xxxii + 487 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1400–1401, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078364
TVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo. By Nancy L. Grant. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. xxxii + 207 pp. $34.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1401–1402, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078365
Brandeis and America. Ed. by Nelson L. Dawson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. viii + 163 pp. $20.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1402, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078366
The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933–1962. By James Terence Fisher. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xviii + 305 pp. $32.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1403, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078367
In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–1966. By Joshua B. Freeman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. x + 434 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1403–1404, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078368
Management and Higher Education since 1940: The Influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain, and France. By Robert R. Locke. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiv + 328 pp. $59.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1404–1405, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078369
Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present. By David R. Goldfield. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xx + 321 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1405–1406, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078370
Soviet-U.S. Relations, 1933–1942. Ed. by G. N. Sevostianov and Warren E Kimball. Trans, by Kim Pilarski. (Moscow: Progress, 1989. 316 pp. $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1406–1407, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078371
Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War. Ed. by Hilary Conroy and Harry Wray. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. xxii + 200 pp. $22.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1407–1408, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078372
Roosevelt & Hitler: Prelude to War. By Robert Edwin Herzstein. (New York: Paragon House, 1989. xxii + 500 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1408, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078373
The O.S.S. in Italy, 1942–1945: A Personal Memoir. By Max Corvo. (New York: Praeger, 1990. x + 324 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1408–1409, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078374
One Woman's War: Letters Home from the Women's Army Corps, 1944–1946. By Anne Bosanko Green. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1989. xxiv + 308 pp. $22.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1409–1410, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078375
Reflections on American Foreign Policy Since 1945. By Christopher Coker. (New York: St. Martin's, 1989. x + 179 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1410–1411, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078376
Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth. By David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. viii + 330 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1411, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078377
The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program. By Peter J. T. Morris. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xii + 191 pp. $34.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1411–1412, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078378
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry. By Richard F. Hirsh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiv + 274 pp. $37.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1412–1413, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078379
Suburbia Re-examined. Ed. by Barbara M. Kelly. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xviii + 240 pp. $37.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1413–1414, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078380
Popular Education and Its Discontents. By Lawrence A. Cremin. (New %rk: Harper & Row, 1990. x + 134 pp. $17.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1414, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078381
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent. By Robert A. Caro. (New York: Knopf, 1990. xliv + 506 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1415, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078382
Richard Nixon: Rhetorical Strategist. By Hal W. Bochin. (Westport: Greenwood, 1990. xiv + 223 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1415–1416, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078383
John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War. Ed. by Richard H. Immcrman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xiv + 297 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1416–1417, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078384
Escaping the Trap: The US Army X Corps in Northeast Korea, 1950. By Roy E. Appleman. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990. xvi + 411 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1417–1418, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078385
Dien Bien Phu and the Crisis of Franco-American Relations, 1954–1955. Ed. by Lawrence S. Kaplan, Denise Artaud, and Mark R. Rubin. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1990. xvi + 286 pp. $40.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1418–1419, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078386
Looking the Tigerin the Eye: Confronting the Nuclear Threat. By Carl B. Feldbaum and Ronald J. Bee., Atoms for Peace and War, 1935–1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission. By Richard G. Hewlett and Jack M. Holl. and War and Peace in the Nuclear Age. By John Newhouse.
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1419–1420, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078387
Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective. By Richard M. Fried. (New Yotk: Oxford University Press, 1990. xii + 243 pp. $22.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1420–1421, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078388
At Liberty: The Story of a Community and a Generation. The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, High School Class of 1952. By Joseph E. Illick. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. xviii + 359 pp. $38.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1421–1422, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078389
Eisenhower & Landrum-Griffin: A Study in Labor-Management Politics. By R. Alton Lee. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. xii + 202 pp. $2L00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1422–1423, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078390
Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics. By Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.xviii + 312 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1423, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078391
The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. By Michael Davidson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xvi + 248 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1424, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078392
Whitney M. Young, Jr, and the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Nanqr J. Weiss. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. xvi + 286 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1424–1425, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078393
Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement. By Carlos Munoz, Jr. (London: Verso, 1989. xvi + 216 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $17.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1425–1426, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078394
Daring to he Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975. By Alice Echols. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. xx + 416 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1426–1427, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078395
Toward a History of the New Left: Essays from within the Movement. Ed. by R. David Myers. (Brooklyn: Carlson, 1989. viii + 201 pp. $50.00.), History and the New Left: Madison, Wisconsin, 1950–1970. Ed. by Paul Buhle. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. xii + 295 pp. $34.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1427–1429, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078396
Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961–1969. By Ruth Leacock. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1990. xiv + 317 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1429–1430, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078397
Intervention in the Caribbean: The Dominican Crisis of 1965. By Bruce Palmer, Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. xii + 226 pp. $23.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1430, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078398
Intergovernmental Relations in the American Administrative State: The Johnson Presidency. By David M. Welbom and Jesse Burkhead. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. xii + 324 pp. $40.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1430–1431, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078399
Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964–1987. By David McKay. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xii + 223 pp. $34.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1431–1432, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078400
Gerald K. Ford's Date With Destiny: A Political Biography. By Edward L. Schapsmeier and Frederick H. Schapsmeier. (New York: Lang, 1989. xxii + 351 pp. $49.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1432–1433, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078401
The Nixon-Kissinger Years: Reshaping America's Foreign Policy. By Richard C. Thornton. (New York: Paragon House, 1989. xxxii + 427 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1433, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078402
The Suicide of an Elite: American Internationalists and Vietnam. By Patrick Lloyd Hatcher. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xvi + 429 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1434, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078403
Steeples and Stacks: Religion and Steel Crisis in Youngstown. By Thomas G. Fuechtmann. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. x + 308 pp. $39.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1434–1435, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078404
Shake-out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s. By Mark Friedberger. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. xiv + 199 pp. $22.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1435–1436, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078405
Feminism and Black Activism in Contemporary America: An Ideological Assessment. By Irvin D. Solomon. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 186 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1436–1437, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078406
Good Work at the Video Display Terminal: A Feminist Ethical Analysis of Changes in Clerical Work. By Barbara Hilkcrt Andolsen. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. x + 213 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1437, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078407
Transforming Faith: The Sacred and Secular in Modern American History. Ed. by M. L. Bradbury and James B. Gilbert. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 197 pp. $39.95.)
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