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Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992
Articles
Republicanism: the Career of a Concept
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 11–38, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078466
“Separate Interests” and the Nation-State: The Washington Administration and the Origins of Regionalism in the Trans-Appalachian West
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 39–67, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078467
“Nous Autres”: Reading, Passion, and the Creation of M. Carey Thomas
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 68–95, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078468
“Closing Ranks” and “Seeking Honors”: W. E. B. Du Bois in World War I
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 96–124, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078469
Reading the Judicial Canon: Alexander Bickel and the Book of Brandeis
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 125–151, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078470
Research Note
Aliens in the WASP Nest: Ethnocultural Diversity in the Antebellum Urban South
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 152–164, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078471
Archives and Manuscripts
Provenance as Text: Reading the Silences around Sexuality in Manuscript Collections
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 165–178, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078472
The Archivist's Balancing Act: Helping Researchers While Protecting Individual Privacy
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 179–189, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078473
Exhibition Reviews
“First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492–1570.” Florida Museum of Natural History, Museum Road, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2035
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 190–193, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078474
“Fevers, Agues, and Cures: Medical Life in Old Virginia.” Virginia Historical Society, 428 North Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 193–197, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078475
“Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew Jackson.” National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, F Street at 8th NW, Washington, DC 20560; and Tennessee State Museum, 505 Deaderick St., Nashville, TN 37219
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 197–199, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078476
“The West As America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920.” National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and G Sts. NW, Washington, DC 20560
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 199–208, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078477
“Washington: Symbol and City.” National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 208–212, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078478
“Work in the Woods: Logging the Adirondacks.” Adirondack Museum, Routes 28N & 30, Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 213–216, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078479
“The Delicate Balance: Human Values and Iowa's Natural Resources.” State Historical Society of Iowa, State Historical Building, East Sixth and Locust, Des Moines, IA 50319
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 216–219, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078480
“Information Age: People, Information and Technology.” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 14th and Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 219–225, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078481
Book Reviews
We the People. Vol. 1: Foundations. By Bruce Ackcrman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. x + 369 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-94840-8.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 226–227, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078482
American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. by Paul John Eakin. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. vi + 292 pp. Cloth, $42.50. Paper, $15.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 227–229, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078483
A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature. By Douglas Anderson. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x + 236 pp. $34.50, ISBN 0-521-38287-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 229, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078484
Born in the U.S.A.: The Myth of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present. By Timothy E. Schourer. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. xii + 280 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-87805-496-0. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-87805-497-9.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 229–230, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078485
The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History. By David Charles Sloane. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xxvi + 293 pp. $35.95, ISBN 0-8018-4068-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 230–231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078486
The American Family: Historical Perspectives. Ed. by Jean E. Hunter and Paul T. Mason. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1991. xxiv + 211 pp. $44.50, ISBN 0-8207-0219-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 231–232, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078487
Women's Sports: A History. By Allen Guttmann. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. xiii + 339 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-231-06956-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078488
The American Speakership: The Office in Historical Perspective. By Ronald M. Peters, Jr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv + 354 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8018-3955-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 233–234, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078489
The Transformation of Early American History: Society, Authority, and Ideology. Ed. by James A. Henretta, Michael Kammen, and Stanley N. Katz. (New York: Knopf, 1991. viii + 340 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 234, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078490
The Last Conquistador: Juan de Oñate and the Settling of the Far Southwest. By Marc Simmons. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. xvi + 208 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 235, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078491
Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America. By Edwin S. Gaustad. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991. and Soul Liberty: The Baptists' Struggle in New England, 1630–1833. By William G. McLoughlin. Hanover: Brown University Press and University Press of New England, 1991
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 235–236, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078492
Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. By Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xxii + 362 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-1985-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4341-5.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 236–237, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078493
Virginia's Viceroy. Their Majesties' Governor General: Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham. By Warren M. Billings. (Fairfax: George Mason University Press, 1991. x + 152 pp. $29.75, ISBN 0-913969-28-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 237–238, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078494
Indian Revolts in Northern New Spain: A Synthesis of Resistance (1680–1786). By Roberto Mario Salmón. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1991. x + 145 pp. Cloth, $47.75, ISBN 0-8191-7982-5. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-8191-7983-3.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078495
Seasons of Grace: Colonial New England's Revival Tradition in Its British Context. By Michael J. Crawford. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 354 pp. $39.95, ISBN 049-506393-7.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078496
Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700–1800. By Peter C. Mancall. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xviii + 253 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2503-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 240, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078497
Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio. Ed. by Gerald E. Poyo and Gilberte M. Hinojosa. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. xxiv + 198 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-292-71138-7.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078498
The Old Dominion at War: Society, Politics, and Warfare in Late Colonial Virginia. By James Titus. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. xiv + 213 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87249-724-0.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 241–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078499
Enter the Physician: The Transformation of Domestic Medicine, 1760—1860. By Lamar Riley Murphy. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991. xxiv + 312 pp. $38.95, ISBN 0-8173-0514-9.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 242–243, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078500
Distant Friends: The United States and Russia, 1763–1867. By Norman E. Saul. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. xvi + 448 pp. $40.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 243, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078501
Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, 1768–1788. By Patricia C. Griffin. (Jacksonville: University of North Florida Press and St. Augustine Historical Society, 1991. x + 219 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-1074-8. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8130-1093-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 244, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078502
To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1773–1991. By Stephen Howarth. (New York: Random House, 1991. xviii + 620 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 244–245, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078503
A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion, and the American Founding. By Ellis Sandoz. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xvi + 259 pp. $37.50.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 245–246, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078504
A Quest for Glory: Major General Robert Howe and the American Revolution. By Charles E. Bennett and Donald R. Lennon. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xiv + 205 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-1982-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 246–247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078505
Logistics of Liberty: American Services of Supply in the Revolutionary War and After. By James A. Huston. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1991. 373 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-87413-381-5.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078506
Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. By Sylvia R. Frey. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xii + 376 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-04784-7.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 248, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078507
David Humphreys' “Life of General Washington” with George Washington's “Remarks.” Ed. by Rosemarie Zagarri. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. lviii + 129 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-1293-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 248–249, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078508
Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778–1815. By Mark A. Lause. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991. x + 261 pp. $28.00, ISBN 1-55728-185-8.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 249–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078509
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. III: The Transmission of Power. By Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryant. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. xxvi + 596 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-262-08198-9.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 250–251, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078510
Transformations in American Medicine: From Benjamin Rush to William Osler. By Lester S. King. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. viii + 268 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-8018-4057-0.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 251–252, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078511
Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Philadelphia Aurora. By James Tagg. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xiv + 431 pp. $38.95, ISBN 0-8122-8255-8.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 252, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078512
Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790–1796. A Narrative History of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio. By Walter T. Durham. (Piney Flats: Rocky Mount Historical Association, 1990. xii + 297 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 252–253, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078513
To Western Woods: The Breckinridge Family Moves to Kentucky in 1793. By Hazel Dicken-Garcia. (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. 250 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8386-3342-0.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 253–254, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078514
Florida's Peace River Frontier. By Canter Brown, Jr. (Orlando: University of Central Florida Press, 1991. xviii + 483 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-1037-3.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 254–255, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078515
Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Nancy Grey Osterud. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xii + 303 pp. Cloth, $42.50. Paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 255–256, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078516
Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. By Jeanne Boydston. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xxii + 222 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-506009-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 256–257, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078517
Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America: Origins and Legacy. By Kenneth Allen De Ville. (New York: New York University Press, 1990. xvi + 319 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8147-1832-9.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 257, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078518
Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents. By Donald A. Ritchie. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. xvi + 293 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 257–258, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078519
United States-Latin American Relations, 1800–1850: The Formative Generations. Ed. by T. Ray Shurbutt. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991. x + 333 pp. $39.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 258–259, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078520
War on the Great Lakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. Ed. by William Jeffrey Welsh and David Curtis Skaggs. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1991. vi + 154 pp. Cloth, $29.00, ISBN 0-87338-424-5. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-87338-425-3.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 259–260, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078521
Jesse Chisholm: Ambassador of the Plains. By Stan Hoig. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1991. xiv + 226 pp. $28.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 260–261, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078522
Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas. By E. Stanly Godbold, Jr., and Mattie U. Russell. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. xvi + 205 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 261–262, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078523
Cherokee Removal: Before and After. Ed. by William L. Anderson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xviii + 157 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8023-1254-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 262, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078524
Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South. Ed. by Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr., with Kym S. Rice. (Richmond: Museum of the Confederacy and Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. xvi + 219 pp. Paper, $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 262–263, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078525
“When I Can Read My Title Clear”: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South. By Janet Duitsman Cornelius. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. xvi + 215 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87249-737-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 263–264, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078526
Hanging by a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles. Ed. By Jeffrey Leiter, Michael D. Schulman, and Rhonda Zingraff. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1991. viii + 248 pp. Cloth, $32.00. Paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 264–265, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078527
Washing “The Great Unwashed”: Public Baths in Urban America, 1840–1920. By Marilyn Thornton Williams. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. xiv + 190 pp. $40.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 265–266, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078528
Dancing in Chains: The Youth of William Dean Howells. By Rodney D. Olsen. (New York: New York University Press, 1991. xxiv + 344 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-6172-0.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 266–267, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078529
Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797–1871. By Donald Yacovone. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xii + 262 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87722-760-8.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 267–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078530
A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840–1910. Ed. by Martha M. Solomon. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991. x + 233 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-8173-0526-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078531
Bridging Three Worlds: Hungarian-Jewish Americans, 1848–1914. By Robert Perlman. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991. xii + 302 pp. $39-95, ISBN 0-87023-468-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078532
United States Perceptions of Latin America, 1830–1930: A ‘New West’ South of Capricorn? By J. Valerie Fifer. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. viii + 203 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-7190-2845-0.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 269–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078533
Practicing Law in Frontier California. By Gordon Morris Bakken. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991 and Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851–1891. By Christian G. Fritz. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 270–271, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078534
Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community. By Stuart A. Marks. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xviii + 327 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-691-09452-7.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 271–272, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078535
To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Policy Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal By Richard C. Lindberg. (New York: Praeger, 1991. xvi + 366 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-275-93415-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 272–273, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078536
The Presidency of Franklin Pierce. By Larry Gara. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. xiv + 218 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0494-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 273–294, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078537
Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia, 1856–70. By Richard Lowe. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. x + 261 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 274–275, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078538
Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief. By Edwin R. Sweeney. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. xxiv + 501 pp. $27.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 275, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078539
Without Quarter: The Wichita Expedition and the Fight on Crooked Creek. By William Y. Chalfant. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. xiv + 170 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-8061-2367-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 275–276, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078540
Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1839–1877. By Richard Franklin Bensel. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii + 452 pp. Cloth, $59.90, ISBN 0-521-39136-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-521-39817-7.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 276–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078541
Housing the North American City. By Michael Doucet and John Weaver. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. xviii + 572 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-7735-0825-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 277–278, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078542
The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education: George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement By Roger L. Williams. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. xii + 272 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-271-00730-3.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 278, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078543
Henry M. Porter: Rocky Mountain Empire Builder. By Mark S. Foster. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1991. xvi + 184 pp. $19.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 279, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078544
Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War. By Jacquelyn S. Nelson. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1991. xviii + 303 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-87195-064-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 279–280, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078545
Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History. By Alan T. Nolan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xii + 231 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-1956-5.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 280–281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078546
The Confederate Regular Army. By Richard P. Weinert, Jr. (Shippensburg: White Mane, 1991. viii + 135 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-942597-21-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078547
Assassin on Stage: Brutus, Hamlet, and the Death of Lincoln. By Albert Furtwangler. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. xii + 168 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 282, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078548
James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader. By Gary R. Kremer. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991. xiv + 245 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-0780-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078549
New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866–1900. By Monroe Lee Billington. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1991. xviii + 258 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87081-233-5.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 283–284, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078550
Talladega College: The First Century. By Maxine D. Jones and Joe M. Richardson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990. xiv + 340 pp. $32.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 284, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078551
Revenuers & Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1863–1900. By Wilbur R. Miller. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xii + 251 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Paper, $12.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 285, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078552
Cane Vires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii 1865–1945. By Gary Y. Okihiro. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xviii + 330 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87722-799-3.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 285–286, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078553
Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture. By Robert C. Allen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xviii + 350 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-1960-3. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8078-4316-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 286–287, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078554
Racism and Anti-Racism in American Popular Culture: Portrayals of African-Americans in Fiction and Film. By Catherine Silk and John Silk. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. X + 186 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-7190-3070-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 287–288, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078555
Victorian West: Class and Culture in Kansas Cattle Towns. By C. Robert Haywood. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. xiv + 325 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0477-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078556
Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed. By John S. Gray. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. xviii + 446 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8032-2138-X.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 289, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078557
Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880–1930. By Ian Tyrrell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xviii + 381 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-1950-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 290, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078558
Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880–1960. By Crandall A. Shifflett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. xx + 259 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-87049-678-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 290–291, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078559
The Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887–1954. By Janet A. McDonnell. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. xii + 163 pp. $20.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 291–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078560
William Merritt Chase: A Genteel Bohemian. By Keith L. Bryant, Jr. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991. xvi + 325 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8262-0759-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 292–293, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078561
Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880–1915. By Jane Maienschein. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xii + 366 pp. $48.00, ISBN 0-8018-4126-7.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 293, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078562
The Estate of Social Knowledge. Ed. by JoAnne Brown and David K. van Keuren. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xxviii + 266 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-4060-0.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 294, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078563
Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America. By Neil Harris. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. vii + 453 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-226-31757-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-226-31758-7.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 294–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078564
Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1895. By James Gilbert. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xiv + 279 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-29317-3.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 295–296, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078565
The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills. By Judith A. Adams. (Boston: Twayne, 1991. xvi + 225 pp. Cloth, $27.95, ISBN0-8057-9821-8. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8057-9822-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 296–297, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078566
John Dewey and American Democracy. By Robert B. Westbrook. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xxii + 570 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2560-3.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 297, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078567
The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes. By Liva Baker. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991. xiv + 783 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 297–298, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078568
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. By Daniel Yergin. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 877 + xxxii pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 298–299, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078569
In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia. By Earl Lewis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 270 pp. $34.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 299–300, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078570
From TB to AIDS: Epidemics among Urban Blacks since 1900. By David McBride. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. x + 234 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-7914-0528-1. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7914-0529-X.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 300, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078571
The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States. By Philip R. Reilly. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xviii + 190 pp. $19-95, ISBN 0-8018-9096-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 300–301, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078572
Adapting to America: Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century. By William P. Leahy. (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1991. xiv + 187 pp. $25.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 301–302, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078573
Toward an Entangling Alliance: American Isolationism, Internationalism, and Europe, 1901–1950. By Ronald E. Powaski. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. xxiv + 288 pp. $45.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 302–303, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078574
The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849–1923. By R. B. Fleming. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991. xxii + 301 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7748-0382-7.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 303–304, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078575
To Myself a Stranger: A Biography of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. By Patricia Dunlavy Valenti. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. xxiv + 192 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-1612-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 304, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078576
Zig-Zag-and-Swirl: Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness. By Lyell D. Henry, Jr. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991. xx + 336 pp. $29.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 305, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078577
Church History in an Age of Uncertainty: Historiographical Patterns in the United States, 1906–1990. By Henry Warner Bowden. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991 and Modern American Religion. Vol. 2: The Noise of Conflict, 1919–1941. By Martin E. Marty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 305–307, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078578
Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer, 1909. Ed. by Richard Lowitt and Judith Fabry. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. xii + 228 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8061-2332-X.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 307–308, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078579
The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Chicago, 1910–1940. Ed. by Sue Ann Prince. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. xxiv + 280 pp. $35.00.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 308–309, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078580
Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found. By G. William Jones. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1991. vi + 242 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-929398-26-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078581
Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice. The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer. By Diane Kirkby. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxvi + 254 pp. $44.50, ISBN 0-521-39102-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 310, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078582
Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman's Party, 1912–1920. By Linda G. Ford. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1991. xii + 299 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-8191-8205-2. Paper, $24.50, ISBN 0-8191-8206-0.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 310–311, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078583
Community of Suffering & Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945. By Elizabeth Faue. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xx + 295 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 311–312, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078584
Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution: The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Magón in the United States. By Colin M. MacLachlan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xviii + 185 pp. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $11.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 312–313, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078585
Edward I. Doheny: Petroleum, Power, and Politics in the United States and Mexico. By Dan La Botz. (New York: Praeger, 1991. xx + 202 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-275-93599-X.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 313–314, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078586
Into the Breach: American Woman Overseas in World War I. By Dorothy Schneider and Carl J. Schneider. (New York: Viking, 1991. xvi + 368 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-670-83936-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 314, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078587
Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918–1961. By H. W. Brands, Counsel to the President: A Memoir. By Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke and Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush. By John Prados
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 314–316, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078588
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 62: July 26–September 5, 1919, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 63: September 4–November 5, 1919 and The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 64: November 6, 1919–February 27, 1920.
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 316–318, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078589
“A Policy Calculated to Benefit China”: The United States and the China Arms Embargo, 1919–1929. By Stephen J. Valone. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. xxiv + 155 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-313-27621-8.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 318, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078590
The Wars of Peggy Hull: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent. By Wilda M. Smith and Eleanor A. Bogart. (El Paso: Texas Western, 1991. xvi + 305 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87404-215-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 318–319, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078591
Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America. by Lyle W. Dorsett. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991. xii + 212 pp. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8028-0151-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 319–320, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078592
God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism. By William Vance Trollingcr, Jr. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. x + 233 pp. Cloth, $37.50. Paper, $14.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 320–321, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078593
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. By Kathleen M. Blee. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. viii + 228 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-520-07263-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 321–322, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078594
Frank Lawrence Owsley: Historian of the Old South, A Memoir with Letters and Writings of Frank Owsley. By Harriet Chappell Owsley. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1990. xviii + 223 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8265-1242-9. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8265-1243-7.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078595
Samuel Eliot Morison's Historical World: In Quest of a New Parkman. By Gregory M. Pfitzer. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991. xxii + 367 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55553-101-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 323, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078596
The Adventures of Amos ‘n’ Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon. By Melvin Patrick Ely. (New York: Free Press, 1991. xiv + 322 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-02-909502-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078597
Roosevelt: The Party Leader, 1932–1945. By Sean J. Savage. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. viii + 232 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8131-1755-0.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 324–325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078598
Appeasement in Europe: A Reassessment of U.S. Policies. Ed. by David F. Schmitz and Richard D. Chaliener. (Westport: Greenwood, 1990. xxvi + 166 pp. $37.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 325–326, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078599
Howard Kester and the Struggle for Social Justice in the South, 1904–77. By Robert F. Martin. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. xvi + 200 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8139-1294-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 326–327, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078600
Chronicles of Faith: The Autobiography of Frederick D. Patterson. Ed. by Martia Graham Goodson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991. xvi + 220 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8173-0459-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 327–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078601
The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall. By Harold Paulk Henderson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xiv + 345 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8203-1306-8.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 328–329, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078602
Howard Hughes and TWA. By Robert W. Rummel. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. x + 431 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56098-017-6.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 329, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078603
The Papers of George Catlett Marshall. Vol. 3: “The Right Man for the Job,” December 7, 1941–May 31, 1943. Ed. by Larry I. Bland and Sharon Ritenour Stevens. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xxxii + 772 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-2967-4.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 329–330, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078604
OSS against the Reich: The World War II Diaries of Colonel David K. E. Bruce. Ed. by Nelson Douglas Lankford. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1991. xiv + 257 pp. $28.50, ISBN 0-87338-427-X.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 330–331, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078605
The Voice of America: Propaganda and Democracy, 1941–1945. By Holly Cowan Shulman. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. x + 282 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-299-12620-X. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-299-12624-2.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078606
Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero. By Karal Ann Marling and John Wetcnhall. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. x + 300 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-46980-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 332–333, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078607
Arming the Free World: The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program, 1945–1950. By Chester J. Pach, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. x + 322 pp. $34.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 333, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078608
Bernard Brodie and the Foundations of American Nuclear Strategy. By Barry H. Steiner. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. xvi + 367 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-7006-0441-3.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 333–334, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078609
Righteous Realists: Political Realism, Responsible Power, and American Culture in the Nuclear Age. By Joel H. Rosenthal. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. xxiv + 191 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-1649-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 334–335, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078610
The Culture of the Cold War. By Stephen J. Whitfield. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. x + 261 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-4081-2. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8018-4082-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 335–336, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078611
Coming of Age in Buffalo: Youth and Authority in the Postwar Era. By William Graebner. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. x + 153 pp. $24.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 336–337, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078612
From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America. By Gerald N. Grob. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xviii + 406 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-04790-1.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 337, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078613
The Political Failure of Employment Policy, 1945–1982. By Gary Mucciaroni. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. xii + 317 pp. $34.95.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Page 338, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078614
Richard Nixon and His America. By Herbert S. Parmet. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. xii + 755 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-316-69232-8.)
Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 338–339, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078615
