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Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999
Articles
Mobilizing Women, Anticipating Abolition: The Struggle against Indian Removal in the 1830s
Mary Hershberger
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 15–40, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567405
Immigrants, Labor Markets, and the State, a Comparative Approach: France and the United States, 1880–1930
Catherine Collomp
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 41–66, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567406
The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924
Mae M. Ngai
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 67–92, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567407
Round Table: Alternatives to the Party System in the “Party Period,” 1830–1890
The “Party Period” Revisited
Ronald P. Formisano
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 93–120, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567408
The “Third Party Tradition” Reconsidered: Third Parties and American Public Life, 1830–1900
Mark Voss-Hubbard
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 121–150, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567409
The Primacy of Party Reasserted
Michael F. Holt
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 151–157, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567410
The Midlife Crisis of the New Political History
Paula Baker
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 158–166, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567411
Exhibition Reviews
“1811—Year of Wonders in the Mississippi Territory.” Old Capitol Museum, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 100 S. State St., Jackson, MS 39205
John D. W. Guice
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 167–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567412
“Amistad: A True Story of Freedom.” Connecticut Historical Society, 1 Elizabeth St., Hartford, CT 06105
Susan D. Pennybacker
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 170–173, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567413
“Thomas Moran.” National Gallery of Art, 4th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Kenneth Myers
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 173–179, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567414
“Americas Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War.” Organized by the Virginia Historical Society, 428 N. Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220, and the Valentine Museum, 1015 E. Clay St., Richmond, VA 23219. Traveled by the South Carolina State Museum, 301 Gervais St., Columbia, SC 29202
David A. Zonderman
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 179–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567415
Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum, 1300 Ninth Ave., Altoona, PA 16672
Curtis Miner
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 182–186, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567416
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820–Present.” National Museum of American History, 14th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560
Richard Stott
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 186–191, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567417
“Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn.” Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10128
DeAnna E. Beachley
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 191–194, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567418
Book Reviews
Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order. By Timothy Keegan. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia and Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil. By Anthony W. Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press
Bill Nasson
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 195–196, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567419
1898: The Birth of the American Century. By David Traxel. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xiv, 365 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-679-45467-5.)
Alan Trachtenberg
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567420
Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973. By Robert Dallek. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv, 754 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-505465-2.)
Gil Troy
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 198–199, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567421
The Degradation of American History. By David Harlan. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxxiv, 289 pp. Cloth, $41.00, ISBN 0-226-31616-5. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-31617-3.)
Casey N. Blake
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567422
The Truth of History. By C. Behan McCullagh. (New York: Routledge, 1998. viii, 327 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-415-17110-5. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 0-415-17111-3.)
Wilfred M. McClay
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567423
Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. By Hugh Prince. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv, 395 pp. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-226-68283-8.)
Michael C. Steiner
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 202–203, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567424
Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History. By Bonnie J. McCay. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xxii, 246 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8165-1804-1.)
John R. Wennersten
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 203, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567425
Snow in America. By Bernard Mergen. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xxii, 321 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-56098-780-4.)
Frieda Knobloch
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 203–204, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567426
Indian Slavery, Labor, Evangelization, and Captivity in the Americas: An Annotated Bibliography. By Russell M. Magnaghi. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 1998. xiv, 557 pp. $110.00, ISBN 0-8108-3355-7.)
Michael C. Coleman
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 204–205, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567427
The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition. Ed. by Bruce Elliott Johansen. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xii, 410 pp. $95.00, ISBN 0-313-30167-0.)
Vine Deloria
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 205–206, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567428
Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765–1997. By Donald C. Swift, New Directions in American Religious History. Ed. by Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart and Religious Diversity and American Religious History: Studies in Traditions and Cultures. Ed. by Walter H. Conser Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss
Alexis McCrossen
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 206–208, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567429
With Us Always: A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare. Ed. by Donald T. Critchlow and Charles H. Parker. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. vi, 270 pp. Cloth, $56.00, ISBN 0-8476-8969-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8476-8970-0.)
Susan Grigg
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 208–209, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567430
Print Culture in a Diverse America. Ed. by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii, 291 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02398-6. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-252-06699-5.)
Leon Jackson
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 209–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567431
Women's History: A Guide to Sources at Hagley Museum and Library. By Lynn Ann Catanese. (Westport: Greenwood, 1997. x, 338 pp. $75.00, ISBN 0-313-30270-7.)
Nancy Page Fernandez
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 210–211, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567432
Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women's History. Ed. by Janet L. Coryell, et al. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xii, 224 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1172-0. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8262-1173-9.)
Victoria E. Bynum
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 211–212, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567433
The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island from Earliest Times to 1700. By John A. Strong. (Interlaken, N.Y.: Empire State Books, 1997. 368 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-55787-148-5.)
Daniel R. Mandell
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567434
El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536–1860. By John Miller Morris. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1997. x, 414 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87611-154-1.)
Gilberto M. Hinojosa
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 213–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567435
From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 1680–1760. By Ned C. Landsman. (New York: Twayne, 1997. xvi, 223 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8057-1626-2.)
Jack P. Greene
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567436
Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley. By Elizabeth A. Perkins. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 253 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2400-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4703-8.)
Brendan McConville
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 215, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567437
Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. By Michael A. Gomez. Chapel Hill and Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. By Philip D. Morgan. Chapel Hill
Winthrop D. Jordan
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 215–217, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567438
Masters, Slaves, & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790. By Robert Olwell. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xviii, 294 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8014-3488-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8014-8491-X.)
Christopher Morris
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 217–218, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567439
To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751–1776. Ed. by Laura J. Murray. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xx, 324 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-55849-126-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-55849-127-9.)
J. R. Miller
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567440
The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy. By William N. Fenton. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xxii, 786 pp. $70.00, ISBN 0-8061-3003-2.)
Olive Patricia Dickason
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 219–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567441
Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy. By Robert Griffin and Donald A. Grinde Jr. (Quebec: Presses de L'Université Laval, 1997. 271 pp. Paper, $26.00, ISBN 2-7637-7449-0.) In French and English
Laurence M. Hauptman
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567442
We the People. Vol. 2: Transformations. By Bruce Ackerman. (Cambridge: Belknap, 1998. xii, 515 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-94847-5.)
Kermit L. Hall
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 221, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567443
A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics. By Mark E. Kann. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 238 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-4713-2. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8147-4714-0.)
Mary Beth Norton
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 221–222, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567444
Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic. By Peter McNamara. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press and Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt. By John Steele Gordon. New York: Penguin
Cathy Matson
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 222–224, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567445
Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765–1900. By James L. Huston. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xxiv, 482 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-8071-2206-8.)
Lawrence B. Glickman
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 224–225, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567446
The First Impeachment: The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount. By Buckner F. Melton Jr. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998. xxiv, 344 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-86554-597-9.)
R. B. Bernstein
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 225, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567447
The Papers of George Washington: Retirement Series. Vol. I: March–December 1797. Ed. by W. W. Abbot. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. xxviii, 566 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-1737-9.)
Gene A. Smith
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 225–226, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567448
United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic. By David A. Wilson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii, 223 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-3175-1.)
Martin J. Burke
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 226–227, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567449
Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 269 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-19-510452-8.)
E. Brooks Holifield
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 227–228, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567450
Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries. By Amanda Porterfield. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 179 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-511301-2.)
Susan M. Yohn
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 228–229, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567451
Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. By Roger Lundin. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. xiv, 305 pp. Cloth, $24.00, ISBN 0-8028-3857-X. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8028-0157-9.)
Martha Ackmann
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 229–230, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567452
The Book of Nature: Natural History in the United States, 1825–1875. By Margaret Welch. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xiv, 289 pp. $50.00, ISBN 1-55553-342-6.)
Wayne Franklin
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 230–231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567453
Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836–1911. By John S. Haller Jr. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. xvi, 207 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87338-577-2.)
Michael G. Kenny
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567454
Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine. By John Harley Warner. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xii, 459 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-691-01203-2.)
Howard I. Kushner
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 231–232, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567455
When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America. By Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. xviii, 292 pp. $37.50, ISBN 1-56098-843-6.)
Susan D. Jones
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567456
From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500–1900. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xx, 324 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-292-72503-5.)
Kevin J. Crisman
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 233–234, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567457
Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture. By Lorman A. Ratner. (Westport: Greenwood, 1997. xii, 122 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-313-29958-7.) and Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire. By David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1996. x, 308 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8117-0113-1.)
Lawrence Frederick Kohl
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 234–235, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567458
The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina. Vol. 1: 1514–1861. By Lawrence S. Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press and Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story. By James Everett Kibler. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press
Laylon Wayne Jordan
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 235–237, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567459
Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South. Ed. by Carol Bleser. Athens, The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848–1879. Ed. by Christine Jacobson Carter. Athens and Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia. Ed. by Elizabeth R. Baer. Athens
Marli F. Weiner
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 237–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567460
Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South. By Douglas Ambrose. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xvi, 226 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8071-2080-4.)
Susan-Mary Grant
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 239–240, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567461
River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley. By Joe William Trotter Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xvi, 200 pp. Cloth, $29.00, ISBN 0-8131-2065-9. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 0-8131-0950-7.)
Kenneth L. Kusmer
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567462
New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier: The Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio. By Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. xii, 356 pp. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-586-1.)
Tamara G. Miller
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 241–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567463
Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860. By Joanne Pope Melish. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xx, 296 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3413-0.)
Walter Johnson
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 242, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567464
Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818–1845. By Gregory P. Lampe. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. xvi, 350 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-87013-485-X. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-87013-480-9.)
John Louis Lucaites
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 242–243, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567465
The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston. By Albert J. Von Frank. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xxii, 409 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-03954-8.)
Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 243–244, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567466
American Mobbing, 1828–1861: Toward Civil War. By David Grimsted. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx, 372 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-19-511707-7.)
Leonard L. Richards
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 244–245, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567467
Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War. By Wallace Ohrt. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xii, 190 pp. ISBN 0-89096-778-4.)
Ana R. Suárez
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 245–246, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567468
Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative. By William E. Parrish. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xviii, 318 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1156-9.)
Hans L. Trefousse
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 246–247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567469
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. By Douglas L. Wilson. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xi, 383 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-40788-X.)
Allen C. Guelzo
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567470
Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. By Herman Belz. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. xii, 265 pp. Cloth, $32.00, ISBN 0-8232-1768-X. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8232-1769-8.)
Roberta Sue Alexander
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 247–248, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567471
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861–1862. By Joseph L. Harsh. Kent: Kent State University Press and Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War. By Bruce Tap. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas
Daniel E. Sutherland
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 248–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567472
Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865–1915. By Robert C. Kenzer. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xvi, 178 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8139-1733-6.)
Juliet E. K. Walker
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 250–251, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567473
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. By Juliet E. K. Walker. (New York: Twayne, 1998. xxvi, 482 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8057-1650-5.)
John N. Ingham
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 251–252, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567474
Who Killed John Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861–1893. By Kenneth C. Barnes. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. xii, 203 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-2058-4.)
George B. Tindall
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 252, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567475
A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910–1948. By Bryant Simon. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 345 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2401-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4704-6.)
Robert H. Zieger
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 252–253, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567476
Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I. By Jeffrey Haydu. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02289-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06628-6.)
Christopher Tomlins
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 253–254, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567477
The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution. By Daniel D. Stid. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii, 231 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0884-2.)
Michal R. Belknap
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 254–255, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567478
The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment: American Economic Expansion in the Hemisphere, 1865–1900. By David M. Pletcher. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xii, 458 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1127-5.)
Joyce S. Goldberg
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 255–256, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567479
Silver and Gold: The Political Economy of International Monetary Conferences, 1867–1892. By Steven P. Reti. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. x, 214 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-30409-2.)
Alfred E. Eckes
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 256–257, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567480
The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920–1970. By Perry G. Mehrling. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xvi, 283 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-58430-9.)
Elmus Wicker
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 257–258, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567481
Same Bed, Different Dreams: A History of the Chinese American Bank of Commerce, 1919–1937. By Noel H. Pugach. (University of Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, 1997. xii, 376 pp. HK $160.00, ISBN 962-8269-06-2.)
David K. Linnan
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 258–259, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567482
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado. By Elliott West. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xxiv, 422 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-0891-5.)
William H. Goetzmann
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 259, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567483
Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887–1934. By Katherine M. B. Osburn. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xiv, 165 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8263-1862-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8263-1863-0.)
Clara Sue Kidwell
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 259–260, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567484
The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History. By Christopher Bracken. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-06986-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-226-06987-7.)
Leland Donald
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 260–261, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567485
Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down. By Allan G. Bogue. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xviii, 557 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3039-3.)
Judith A. Allen
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 261–262, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567486
Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire. By Katherine G. Morrissey. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. x, 220 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3250-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8326-3.)
Steven Hoelscher
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 262–263, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567487
Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science, and Regulation. By Richard A. Rajala. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998. xxiv, 286 pp. $75.00 ISBN 0-7748-0590-0.)
Char Miller
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 263–264, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567488
Perserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. By Richard West Sellars. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xiv, 380 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06931-6.)
Robin W. Winks
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 264, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567489
Lawman: The Life and Times of Harry Morse, 1835–1912. By John Boessenecker. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xviii, 366 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3011-3.)
Kenneth N. Owens
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 264–265, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567490
Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. By Karen Holliday Tanner. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xxx, 338 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8061-3036-9.)
Richard Hogan
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 265–266, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567491
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. By Kevin Kenny. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii, 336 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-510664-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-511631-3.)
David Montgomery
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 266–267, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567492
Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration. By Richard N. Juliani. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xxiv, 398 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-271-01731-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-271-01732-5.)
Salvatore J. LaGumina
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 267–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567493
Vom Zarenreich in den amerikanischen Westen: Deutsche in Rußland und Rußlanddeutsche in den USA (1871–1928): Die politsche, soziöokonomische und kulturelle Adaption einer ethnischen Gruppe im Kontext zweier Staaten From the tsar's empire to the American West: Germans in Russia and Russian Germans in the USA [1871-1928]
Frederik Ohles
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567494
Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900–1932. By Juan R. García. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. xii, 292 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8165-1560-3.)
Abraham Hoffman
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 269, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567495
Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era. Ed. by K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 1-56639-575-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-56639-576-3.)
Xiaolan Bao
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 269–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567496
A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship. By Candice Lewis Bredbenner. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii, 294 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-520-20650-9.)
Norma Basch
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 270–271, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567497
Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of Violet Blair. By Virginia Jeans Laas. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. xiv, 169 pp. Cloth, $32.00, ISBN 1-55728-505-5. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 1-55728-506-3.)
Megan McClintock
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 271–272, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567498
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. By Barbara Goldsmith. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xvi, 531 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-394-55536-8.)
Ann Braude
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 272–273, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567499
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850–1920. By Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xiv, 192 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33378-4. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-253-21176-X.)
Jane Rhodes
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 273, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567500
Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. By Ellen Carol DuBois. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. x, 353 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06562-0.)
Maurine W. Greenwald
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 273–274, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567501
Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell. By Joan Waugh. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii, 296 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-93036-3.)
Julia Grant
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 274–275, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567502
The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare. By Dorothy M. Brown and Elizabeth McKeown. Cambridge: Harvard University Press and Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America. By Timothy A. Hasci. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Susan L. Porter
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 275–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567503
Hoosier Schools: Past and Present. Ed. by William J. Reese. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xviii, 226 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33362-8. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-253-21154-9.)
Carol K. Coburn
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 277–278, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567504
Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture. By Simon J. Bronner. (Logan: Utah State University Press and The McGuffey Readers: Selections from the 1879 Edition. Ed. by Elliott J. Gorn. Boston: Bedford
Karal Ann Marling
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 278–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567505
Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers. By Julia Grant. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. x, 309 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07214-7.)
Molly Ladd-Taylor
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 279–280, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567506
Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States. By Alan Wallach. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xiv, 152 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-55849-117-1. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-55849-118-X.)
Victoria Alexander
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 280–281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567507
The Museum in America: Innovators and Pioneers. By Edward P. Alexander. (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira, 1997. 224 pp. Cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-7619-8946-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7619-8947-1.)
Christine Kleinegger
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 281–282, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567508
The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America. By Daniel Wickberg. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii, 267 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3078-X.)
Peter N. Stearns
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567509
The American Marathon. By Pamela Cooper. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. xviii, 217 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-0520-X.)
Murray Sperber
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567510
We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans. Donna R. Gabaccia. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. x, 278 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-94860-2.)
Susan Levine
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 284, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567511
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. By Kathy Peiss. (New York: Metropolitan, 1998. xii, 334 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8050-5550-9.)
Angel Kwolek-Folland
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 284–285, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567512
Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. By Michele H. Bogart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography. By Patricia Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press
Pamela Walker Laird
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 285–287, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567513
Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image. By Douglas Bukowski. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02365-X. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06668-5.)
Jon C. Teaford
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 287–288, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567514
Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920–1950. By Craig Miner. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii, 225 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0874-5.)
Charles Coate
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 288, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567515
Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America. By Laura Browder. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. x, 217 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55849-125-2.)
Colette A. Hyman
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567516
Cardozo. By Andrew L. Kaufman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 731 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-674-09645-2.)
Robert Jerome Glennon
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567517
Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy. By Suzanne Mettler. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xvi, 239 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8014-3329-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8546-0.)
Cynthia Harrison
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 290–291, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567518
Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890–1940. By Mercedes Steedman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 333 pp. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-541308-3.)
Eileen Boris
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 291–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567519
A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education. By Leslie Gale Parr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. x, 250 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-1932-5.)
Elizabeth York Enstam
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 292, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567520
Tairitsu to dakyo (Conflicts and compromises). Ed. by Kazuo Ueyama and Yasuo Sakata. (Tokyo: Daiichihoki Shuppan, 1995. x, 408 pp. ¥3,398, ISBN 4-474-00395-0.) In Japanese
Fred Dickinson
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 292–293, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567521
Mobilizing America: Robert P. Patterson and the War Effort, 1940–1945. By Keith E. Eiler. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xviii, 588 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-2276-0.)
Benjamin L. Alpers
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 293–294, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567522
World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront. Robert G. Spinney. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xvi, 209 pp. $32.00, ISBN 1-57233-004-X.)
James A. Burran
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 294–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567523
Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944–May 7, 1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. New York: Simon & Schuster and The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II. By Gerald F. Linderman. New York: Free
Eric T. Dean
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 295–296, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567524
MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign. By Stephen R. Taaffe. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xiv, 312 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0870-2.)
Richard Meixsel
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 296–297, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567525
Ghost of War: The Sinking of the Awa maru and Japanese-American Relations, 1945–1995. By Roger Dingman. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. xviii, 373 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-55750-159-9.)
Timothy Maga
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 297–298, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567526
Peace & War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science. By Robert Serber and Robert P. Crease. New York: Columbia University Press and The Myths of August: A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair with the Atom. By Stewart L. Udall. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
Lawrence S. Wittner
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 298–299, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567527
Rethinking the Cold War. Ed. by Allen Hunter. Philadelphia: Temple University Press and Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy. By Peter Trubowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Walter L. Hixson
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 299–301, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567528
Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers. By Amos Perlmutter. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xviii, 194 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2365-1.)
David Steigerwald
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 301, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567529
Quellen zu den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, 1917–1963 (Documents on German-American relations, 1917–1963). Ed. by Reiner Pommerin and Michael Frölich. (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1996. lii, 283 pp. DM 118.00. ISBN 3-534-12471-5.) In German
Manfred Jonas
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 302, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567530
The United States and Iran: In the Shadow of Musaddiq. By James F. Goode. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. xiv, 235 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-312-17272-9.)
Fiona Venn
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 302–303, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567531
A Culture of Secrecy: The Government versus the People's Right to Know. Ed. by Athan G. Theoharis. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. viii, 245 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0880-X.)
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 303–304, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567532
Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism. By Joseph Allen Boone. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 513 pp. Cloth, $54.00, ISBN 0-226-06466-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-226-06467-0.)
David Van Leer
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 304–305, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567533
The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America's Cultural and Legal Struggles over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art. By Rochelle Gurstein. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. x, 357 pp. Cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-8090-8069-9. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8090-1612-5.)
Jessica Weiss
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 305–306, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567534
The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America. By Daniel Belgrad. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii, 343 pp. $29.00, ISBN 0-226-04188-3.)
Michael Leja
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 306, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567535
William Styron, a Life. By James L. W. West III. (New York: Random House, 1998. xiv, 506 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-41054-6.)
Richard Gray
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 306–307, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567536
Harry Partch: A Biography. By Bob Gilmore. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xii, 468 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06521-3.)
John Dizikes
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 307–308, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567537
California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West. Ed. by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and Eddie S. Meadows. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. x, 507 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-520-20627-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-520-20628-2.)
Waldo E. Martin
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 308–309, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567538
My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin. Ed. by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xxx, 288 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2213-0.)
Gregory Mixon
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567539
The Children. By David Halberstam. (New York: Random House, 1998. vii, 783 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-679-41561-0.)
Stewart Burns
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 310, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567540
Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George Edwards. By Mary M. Stolberg. Detroit: Wayne State University Press and Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky
Richard J. Meister
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 310–312, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567541
The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s. Ed. by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press and Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States. Ed. by Jack Salzman and Cornel West. New York: Oxford University Press
Frederick M. Binder
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 312–314, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567542
The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign. By Gerald D. McKnight. (Boulder: Westview, 1998. viii, 192 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8133-3384-9.)
Adam Fairclough
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 314–315, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567543
Vietnam: The Early Decisions. Ed. by Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. x, 228 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-292-72800-X.) and My Lai: A Brief History with Documents. By James S. Olson and Randy Roberts. (Boston: Bedford, 1998. xvi, 222 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-312-17767-4. Paper, $7.50, ISBN 0-312-14227-7.)
Dennis Mills
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 315–316, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567544
Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command. By Lewis Sorley. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. x, 364 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-0886-9.)
William Head
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567545
Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. By Jorge G. Castañeda. Trans, by Marina Castañeda. New York: Knopf and The Fall of Che Guevara: A Story of Soldiers, Spies, and Diplomats. By Henry Butterfield Ryan. New York: Oxford University Press
Rafael Hernandez and Juan Marinello
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 317–319, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567546
A Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in U.S. Military History. By Robert C. Doyle. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. xxvi, 372 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-55750-180-7.)
Frank L. Byrne
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 319, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567547
The Cost of War: Australians Return. By Stephen Garton. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii, 298 pp. ISBN 0-19-553967-2.)
Robert J. McMahon
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 319–320, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567548
The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films. By Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xiv, 322 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-313-30183-2.)
Sumiko Higashi
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 320–321, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567549
The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War. By Keith Beattie. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 230 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8147-1326-2.)
Anne L. Foster
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 321–322, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567550
A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency. By William Bundy. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xx, 647 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8090-9151-8.)
Melvin Small
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567551
Who Speaks for the President? The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton. By W. Dale Nelson. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press and At the President's Side: The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Timothy Walch. Columbia: University of Missouri Press
Robert Maranto
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 323–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567552
The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime, and American Culture. By James W. Clarke. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1998. xviii, 339 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-56000-358-8.)
Claire Potter
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 324–325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567553
Abundance and Anxiety: America, 1945–1960. By Gary A. Donaldson. (Westport: Praeger, 1997. xiv, 191 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-95773-X.) and Blues for America: A Critique, a Lament, and Some Memories. By Doug Dowd. (New York: Monthly Review, 1997. xii, 377 pp. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-85345-981-9. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-85345-982-7.)
Michael L. Kurtz
Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 325–327, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567554
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