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Contents
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Vol. 92, No. 3
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December 2005
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Presidential Address
Articles
Exhibition Reviews
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| "Brooklyn Works: Four Hundred Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn," by Kathleen Hulser |
921 |
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| "Rio Grande: The Storied River," by Don B. Graham |
924 |
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| "Old Montréal in a New Light," by Ronald Rudin |
925 |
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| National Hansen's Disease Museum, by Roy Lechtreck |
927 |
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| "Freedom and Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories," by Mark Case |
929 |
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| "A. K. A. Houdini," by John Baumann |
931 |
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| Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, by John R. Decker |
934 |
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| Mill City Museum, by Andrew Urban |
938 |
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| "Beyond the Cleavers: Life in the 1950s," by Steven T. Sheehan |
942 |
Book Reviews
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| Mintz, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood, by Judith Sealander |
945 |
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| Rubin and Rubin, Hating America: A History, by Paul Hollander |
946 |
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| Spickard and Daniel, eds., Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence, by Alex Lubin |
947 |
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| Finzsch and Lehmkuhl, eds., Atlantic Communications: The Media in American and German History from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, by James Schwoch |
948 |
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| Townsend, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, by Michael Leroy Oberg |
949 |
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| Billings, Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia, by Elizabeth Mancke |
949 |
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| Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire, by Herbert A. Johnson |
950 |
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| Pestana, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661, by Francis J. Bremer |
951 |
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| Hornsby, British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America, by Alison Games |
952 |
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| Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, by Brian Donahue |
593 |
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| Coleman, Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, by Karen R. Jones |
954 |
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| Lightfoot, Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers, by Lisbeth Haas |
955 |
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| McConnell, Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758–1775, by Daniel P. Barr |
956 |
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| Flavell and Conway, eds., Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America, 1754–1815, by Paul David Nelson |
956 |
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| Carr, After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 1775–1800, by John W. Tyler |
957 |
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| Borch, Conciliation—Compulsion—Conversion: British Attitudes towards Indigenous Peoples, 1763–1814, by Troy O. Bickham |
958 |
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| Muldoon, ed., The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas, by Charles L. Cohen |
959 |
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| Stabile, Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America, by Gayle R. Davis |
960 |
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| McNamara, From Tavern to Courthouse: Architecture & Ritual in American Law, 1658–1860, by Elizabeth Brand Monroe |
961 |
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| Lanier, The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity, by David Steven Cohen |
962 |
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| Newman, Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution, by Terry Bouton |
963 |
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| Miller, Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris & the French Revolution, by Jack Fruchtman Jr. |
963 |
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| Kastor, The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America, by Kathleen DuVal |
964 |
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| Slaughter, Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness, by John Logan Allen |
965 |
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| McGarvie, One Nation under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State, by Charles E. Clark |
966 |
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| Pasley, Robertson, and Waldstreicher, eds., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic, by Daniel Feller |
967 |
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| Buel, America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic, by Donald R. Hickey |
968 |
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| Martin, ed., Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789–1860, by A. Kristen Foster |
969 |
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| Rice, Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America, by David E. Nye |
970 |
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| Gervais, Les origines de la révolution industrielle aux États-Unis: Entre économie marchande et capitalisme industriel, 1800–1850 (The origins of the industrial revolution in the United States: Between merchant economy and industrial capitalism, 1800–1850), by Douglas McCalla |
971 |
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| Adams, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America, by Edward J. Davies II |
972 |
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| Schweiger and Mathews, eds., Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture, by Scott M. Stephan |
972 |
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| Sommerville, Rape & Race in the Nineteenth-Century South, by Edward E. Baptist |
974 |
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| Gaspar and Hine, eds., Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas, by Victoria E. Bynum |
974 |
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| Stowe, Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by Anthony Cavender |
976 |
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| Wood, Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War, by Sally G. McMillen |
976 |
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| Buchanan, Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World, by Mark M. Smith |
977 |
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| Ely, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War, by Christopher Phillips |
978 |
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| Higgins, A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas; and Billingsley, Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier, by Ellen Eslinger |
980 |
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| Reséndez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa |
981 |
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| Justus, Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain, by Johanna Nicol Shields |
982 |
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| Lupold and French, Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King, by Lawrence C. Allin |
983 |
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| Forsberg, Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture, by Grant Underwood |
983 |
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| McClymond, ed., Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American Revivalism, by Bruce J. Evensen |
984 |
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| Carey, Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane, by James Emmett Ryan |
985 |
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| Buell, Emerson, by Robert E. Burkholder |
986 |
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| Shaw, City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City, by John D. Fairfield |
987 |
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| Robinson, Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism, by Stephen Germic |
988 |
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| Raimon, The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction, by Susan M. Ryan |
988 |
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| Wellman, The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention, by Sherry H. Penney |
989 |
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| Piepmeier, Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America, by Angela M. Howard |
990 |
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| Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778–1928, by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy |
991 |
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| Dunkelman, Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment, by Kevin Conley Ruffner |
992 |
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| Carmichael, ed., Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee, by Richard B. McCaslin |
993 |
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| Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck, by Paul D. Casdorph |
994 |
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| Furgurson, Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War, by William C. Harris |
994 |
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| Mackey, The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865, by Ethan S. Rafuse |
995 |
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| McDonough, Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble, by William B. Feis |
996 |
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| Robinson, Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865, by Richard E. Beringer |
997 |
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| Tsesis, The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History, by Roberta Sue Alexander |
998 |
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| Best, The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession, by Steven Wilf |
999 |
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| Brown and Rivers, For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864–1905, by Dennis C. Dickerson |
1000 |
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| Thompson, The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy after the Civil War, by John C. Rodrigue |
1001 |
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| Blair, Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865–1914, by Alan K. Lamm |
1002 |
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| Tutorow, The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, a California Colossus, by William Deverell |
1002 |
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| Boyd, Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America, by Martha Saxton |
1003 |
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| Guth, Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan, by F. G. Notehelfer |
1004 |
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| Leja, Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp, by Bryan J. Wolf |
1005 |
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| Cisco, Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman, by William J. Cooper Jr. |
1006 |
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| Gould, Alexander Watkins Terrell: Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat, by Walter L. Buenger |
1007 |
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| Trachtenberg, Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930, by Frank Van Nuys |
1008 |
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| Reyhner and Eder, American Indian Education: A History, by Brenda J. Child |
1008 |
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| Denson, Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900, by Walter H. Conser Jr. |
1009 |
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| Love, Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865–1900, by Michael J. Devine |
1010 |
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| Morgan, Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism, by Carrie Tirado Bramen |
1011 |
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| Mohr, Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown, by Susan Craddock |
1012 |
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| Kinney, The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America, by Ed Duggan |
1013 |
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| Nolan, Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America, by JoEllen McNergney Vinyard |
1014 |
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| Ling, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community, by Marie Rose Wong |
1015 |
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| Page and Mason, eds., Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States, by Richard Striner |
1015 |
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| Brøndal, Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890–1914, by John E. Miller |
1016 |
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| Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature, by Barbara L. Allen |
1017 |
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| Rosenberg, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think about Sex and Politics, by Rebecca Aanerud |
1018 |
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| Hoffman, Race, Class, and Power in the Building of Richmond, 1870–1920, by Michael B. Chesson |
1019 |
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| Johnson, Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890–1930, by Jane Turner Censer |
1020 |
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| Apel, Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob, by Dominic J. Capeci Jr. |
1021 |
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| Edgerton, Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, & the Penitentiary, by Marilyn D. McShane |
1021 |
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| Carrigan, The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916, by Michael J. Pfeifer |
1022 |
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| Harris and Sadler, The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920, by Charles M. Robinson III |
1023 |
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| Truett and Young, eds., Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, by Martha Menchaca |
1024 |
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| Bremer, Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio, by Char Miller |
1025 |
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| Keith, Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War, by G. Kurt Piehler |
1026 |
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| Luconi, The Italian-American Vote in Providence, Rhode Island, 1916–1948, by Evelyn Savidge Sterne |
1027 |
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| Matthews, Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era, by David F. Schmitz |
1027 |
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| Heinrich and Batchelor, Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business, by Vincent Vinikas |
1028 |
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| Shank, A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture, by Cele C. Otnes |
1029 |
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| Courtwright, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire, by Tom D. Crouch |
1030 |
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| Saab, For the Millions: American Art and Culture between the Wars, by Helen Langa |
1031 |
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| Augspurger, An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America, by Donald W. Whisenhunt |
1032 |
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| Lye, America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893–1945, by Mari Yoshihara |
1032 |
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| Theoharis and Woodard, eds., Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America, by Martha Biondi |
1033 |
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| Nadell, Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture, by Cheryl Greenberg |
1034 |
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| Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South, by Matthew D. Lassiter |
1035 |
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| Kashima, Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II, by Brian Masaru Hayashi |
1036 |
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| Parmar, Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939–1945, by Anna K. Nelson |
1037 |
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| Ellerbrock, "Healing Democracy"—Demokratie als Heilmittel: Gesundheit, Krankheit, und Politik in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone, 1945–1949 ("Healing Democracy"—democracy as remedy: Health, illness, and politics in the American occupation zone, 1945–1949), by Andreas W. Daum |
1038 |
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| Bogle, The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind: The Early Cold War, by Michael E. Latham |
1039 |
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| Ybarra, Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt; and Kille, Academic Freedom Imperiled: The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada, by Charles H. McCormick |
1040 |
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| Sibley, Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones |
1041 |
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| Hunner, Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community; and Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by Michael J. Yavenditti |
1042 |
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| O'Mara, Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley, by Daniel Lee Kleinman |
1043 |
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| Baratta, The Politics of World Federation, by Gary B. Ostrower |
1044 |
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| Amadae, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism, by Frank Annunziata |
1045 |
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| Mattson, When America Was Great: The Fighting Faith of Postwar Liberalism, by Larry G. Gerber |
1046 |
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| Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, by Nichole T. Rustin |
1047 |
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| Levenstein, We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930, by Jacques Portes |
1048 |
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| Knapp, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, by Andrea Most |
1049 |
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| Weitekamp, Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program, by Deborah G. Douglas |
1050 |
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| Whitehead, Completing the Union: Alaska, Hawai'i, and the Battle for Statehood, by Roger Bell |
1050 |
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| Cotter, ed., Sidney Hook Reconsidered, by George Cotkin |
1051 |
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| King, Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940–1970, by R. Fred Wacker |
1052 |
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| Tentler, Catholics and Contraception: An American History, by Stephen Lassonde |
1053 |
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| Schmiesing, Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II, by Craig R. Prentiss |
1054 |
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| Hart, The Lost Soul of American Protestantism, by Louis B. Weeks |
1055 |
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| Smith and Cohen, eds., Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies, by Michael O'Brien |
1056 |
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| Willis, All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945–1970, by Paul Harvey |
1057 |
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| Brooks, Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition, by Steven F. Lawson |
1058 |
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| Jonas, Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle against Racism in America, 1909–1969, by Merline Pitre |
1058 |
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| Moye, Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945–1986, by Mark Newman |
1059 |
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| Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, by John Salmond |
1060 |
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| Carty, A Catholic in the White House?: Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign, by Godfrey Hodgson |
1061 |
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| Preble, John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap, by Philip Nash |
1062 |
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| Wilensky, Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War, by Graham A. Cosmas |
1063 |
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| Martin, The Theater Is in the Street: Politics and Performance in Sixties America, by Wini Breines |
1064 |
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| Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity, by Judson L. Jeffries |
1065 |
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| Anderson, The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action, by Howard Ball |
1066 |
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| Nadasen, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States, by Jeanne Theoharis |
1066 |
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| Feeney, Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief, by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes |
1067 |
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| Mason, Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority, by David Greenberg |
1068 |
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| Wooten, The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974: A Political History, by Edward D. Berkowitz |
1069 |
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| Coleman, Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies, by Thomas J. Noel |
1070 |
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| Van Deburg, Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life, by Gerald R. Butters Jr. |
1071 |
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| Keizer, Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery, by Keith E. Byerman |
1071 |
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| Quinn, Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar |
1072 |
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| Hapke, Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea, by Carmen Teresa Whalen |
1073 |
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| Vargas, Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America, by Rodolfo F. Acuña |
1074 |
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| Hosmer and O'Neill, eds., Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Bee |
1075 |
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| Hoffer, Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud—American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin, by Ellen Fitzpatrick |
1076 |
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| Robbins, Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000, by Thomas R. Cox |
1077 |
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| Buell, From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century, by J. Brooks Flippen |
1078 |
Movie Reviews
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| Reel Report 2004–2005 |
| Robert Brent Toplin |
1080 |
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| Transforming America: U.S. History since 1877, by Laura Witten-Keller |
1082 |
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| Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, by Douglas R. Egerton |
1084 |
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| Young Lincoln: The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1816–1830, by Dan Monroe |
1085 |
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| The Alamo, by Stanley Corkin |
1086 |
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| The Great Transatlantic Cable, by David Hochfelder |
1088 |
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| Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge, by Lesley J. Gordon |
1089 |
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| Phantom of the Operator (Le fantôme de l'opératrice), by Sharon Hartman Strom |
1090 |
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| Emma Goldman, by Judith Smith |
1091 |
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| The Aviator, by David T. Courtwright |
1092 |
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| The Massie Affair, by Franklin Ng |
1094 |
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| Cinderella Man, by Thomas Doherty |
1095 |
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| The Fight, by Jack E. Davis |
1097 |
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| Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, by Robert H. Abzug |
1099 |
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| Building the Alaska Highway, by William R. Morrison |
1100 |
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| Victory in the Pacific, by Hal Friedman |
1101 |
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| The Great Raid, by Alan R. Millett |
1101 |
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| Kinsey (dir. and prod. by Barak Goodman and John Maggio); and Kinsey (dir. by Bill Condon), by Leisa D. Meyer |
1103 |
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| Broadway: The American Musical, by David Sanjek |
1106 |
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| Tupperware!, by Lynn Y. Weiner |
1107 |
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| Fidel Castro, by Thomas M. Leonard |
1108 |
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| February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four, by Robert A. Pratt |
1110 |
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| Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, by Ron Briley |
1111 |
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| RFK, by Gregory Bush |
1112 |
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| Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, by Walter L. Hixson |
1113 |
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| The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, by Benjamin T. Harrison |
1115 |
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| With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America, by D. G. Hart |
1116 |
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