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Contents
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Vol. 94, No. 3
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December 2007
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Articles
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Through the Eye of Katrina: The Past as Prologue?
A Special Issue |
| Guest Editors: Lawrence N. Powell and Clarence L. Mohr |
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| An Introduction |
| Clarence L. Mohr and Lawrence N. Powell |
693 |
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| Boundary Issues: Clarifying New Orleans's Murky Edges |
| Ari Kelman |
695 |
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| An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans |
| Richard Campanella |
704 |
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| New Orleans Architecture: Building Renewal |
| Karen Kingsley |
716 |
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| The Atlantic World and the Road to Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Rebecca J. Scott |
726 |
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| The Political Construction of a Natural Disaster: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853 |
| Henry M. McKiven Jr. |
734 |
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| The Politics of Poverty and History: Racial Inequality and the Long Prelude to Katrina |
| Kent B. Germany |
743 |
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| Fade to Black: Hurricane Katrina and the Disappearance of Creole New Orleans |
| Arnold R. Hirsch |
752 |
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| Water in Sacred Places: Rebuilding New Orleans Black Churches as Sites of Community Empowerment |
| Donald E. DeVore |
762 |
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| Resilient History and the Rebuilding of a Community: The Vietnamese American Community in New Orleans East |
| Karen J. Leong, Christopher A. Airriess, Wei Li, Angela Chia-Chen Chen, and Verna M. Keith |
770 |
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| The Post-Katrina, Semiseparate World of Gender Politics |
| Pamela Tyler |
780 |
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| Carnival and Katrina |
| Reid Mitchell |
789 |
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| Poverty Is the New Prostitution: Race, Poverty, and Public Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans |
| Alecia P. Long |
795 |
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| The Disneyfication of New Orleans: The French Quarter as Facade in a Divided City |
| J. Mark Souther |
804 |
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| "They're Tryin' to Wash Us Away": New Orleans Musicians Surviving Katrina |
| Bruce Boyd Raeburn |
812 |
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| Reflections of an Authentic Jazz Life in Pre-Katrina New Orleans |
| Michael G. White |
820 |
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| The Mourning After: Languages of Loss and Grief in Post-Katrina New Orleans |
| Marline Otte |
828 |
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| "The Forgotten People of New Orleans": Community, Vulnerability, and the Lower Ninth Ward |
| Juliette Landphair |
837 |
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| Constructing New Orleans, Constructing Race: A Population History of New Orleans |
| Elizabeth Fussell |
846 |
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| After the Storms: Tradition and Change in Bayou La Batre |
| Frye Gaillard |
856 |
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| What Does American History Tell Us about Katrina and Vice Versa? |
| Lawrence N. Powell |
863 |
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Exhibition Reviews
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| "Tribal Paths: Colorado American Indians, 1500 to the Present," by Cindy Ott |
877 |
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| Ford Orientation Center and Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center, by Steve Frank |
881 |
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| "Inhuman Traffic: The Business of the Slave Trade"; "Portraits, People, and Abolition"; and "Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design"; and "Traces of the Trade: Discovery Trails Exploring the Links between Art, Design, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade," by Lynn M. Hudson |
886 |
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| "Recovering Their Story: African Americans on the Davis Plantation, 1850–1925," by Heather Bailey |
891 |
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| "In the Cause of Liberty," by Andrew J. Torget |
894 |
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| The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, by Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis |
896 |
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| "History Is All Around Us," by Douglas E. Evelyn |
901 |
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| "Open House: If These Walls Could Talk," by Kristin Hass |
904 |
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Book Reviews
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| Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors, by Anthony Pagden |
908 |
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| MacMillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576–1640, by Herbert A. Johnson |
909 |
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| Mancall, Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America, by Eliga H. Gould |
910 |
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| Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, by Susan Sleeper-Smith |
911 |
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| Gronim, Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York, by Walter W. Woodward |
912 |
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| Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness, by Steven Noll |
913 |
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| Brekus, ed., The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past, by Martha Tomhave Blauvelt |
913 |
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| Beneke, Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism, by John D. Krugler |
914 |
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| Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History, by Alan R. Gibson |
915 |
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| Moore, World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750–1805, by S. Scott Rohrer |
916 |
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| Hatzenbuehler, "I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry, by Franklin Kalinowski |
917 |
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| McDonnell, The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia, by Albert H. Tillson Jr. |
918 |
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| Lloyd, Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, by Michael R. Stamm |
919 |
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| Wolf, Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion, by Stephen Howard Browne |
919 |
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| Nelson, Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780–1880, by Randolph B. Campbell |
920 |
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| Ferris and Greenberg, eds., Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History, by Deborah R. Weiner |
921 |
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| Dye, Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy, by Michael J. Bennett |
922 |
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| Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years, by Andrew Burstein |
923 |
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| Burstein, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving, by Elizabeth Hewitt |
924 |
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| Blauvelt, The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830, by Leslie J. Lindenauer |
924 |
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| Jabour, Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South, by Christine Jacobson Carter |
925 |
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| Hodes, The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century, by Virginia Meacham Gould |
926 |
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| Sullivan, Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ann D. Gordon |
927 |
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| Ferguson, The Trial in American Life, by John W. Johnson |
928 |
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| DeLombard, Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture, by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis |
928 |
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| Mason, Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic, by Harold D. Tallant |
929 |
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| Wiethoff, Crafting the Overseer's Image, by James David Miller |
930 |
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| Wilson, The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans, by Scott Hancock |
931 |
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| Diouf, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, by Elizabeth Regosin |
932 |
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| Silbey, Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War, by Michael William Pfau |
932 |
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Dirck, ed., Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, by Michael T. Smith |
933 |
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Sheehan-Dean, ed., The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers, by Michael Barton |
934 |
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| Hamilton, The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, by Michael Les Benedict |
935 |
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| Confer, The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, by Scott L. Stabler |
936 |
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| Vaught, After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley, by James J. Rawls |
937 |
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| Reeve, Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes, by Anne F. Hyde |
938 |
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| Green, Rubin, and Smethurst, eds., Radicalism in the South since Reconstruction, by Jeanne Perreault |
939 |
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| Cresswell, Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917, by Eric Anderson |
940 |
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| Fairclough, A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South, by Wayne J. Urban |
941 |
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| Evans, Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History, by Amy Thompson McCandless |
941 |
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| Ackerman, Wade Hampton III, by Daniel W. Crofts |
942 |
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| Dean, Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall, by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |
943 |
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| Johnson, Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877–1929, by William R. Childs |
944 |
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| Lewis, Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880–1951, by H. Roger Grant |
945 |
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| Castellanos, Encuentro en 1898: Tres pueblos y cuatro hombres; España-Cuba-Estados Unidos; Cervera-Roosevelt-Calixto García-Juan Gualberto Gómez (Encounter in 1898: Three towns and four men; Spain, Cuba, United States; Cervera-Roosevelt-Calixto García-Juan Gualberto Gómez), by Francisca Lopez Civeira |
946 |
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| Hild, Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South, by James M. Beeby |
947 |
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| Juliani, Priest, Parish, and People: Saving the Faith in Philadelphia's "Little Italy," by Evelyn Savidge Sterne |
947 |
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| Snow, Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924, by Lisa Joy Pruitt |
948 |
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| Motomura, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, by Robert F. Zeidel |
949 |
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| Lovett, Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890–1938, by Susan Currell |
950 |
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| Vaudagna, ed., The Place of Europe in American History: Twentieth-Century Perspectives, by Fraser J. Harbutt |
951 |
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| Zacharasiewicz, Images of Germany in American Literature, by Ethan J. Kytle |
952 |
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| Rubin, Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America, by Jeffrey G. Gundy |
953 |
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| Rosenbaum, Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity, by Thomas J. Brown |
954 |
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| Warren, Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab, by Jonathan Rees |
954 |
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| Brandt, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, by Caroline Jean Acker |
955 |
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| Sabin, Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940, by Brian C. Black |
956 |
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| Warren, Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking, by Eric J. Morser |
957 |
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| Lipin, Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30, by Kathryn Morse |
958 |
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| Brick, Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought, by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen |
959 |
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| Utley, Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers, by Charles M. Robinson III |
959 |
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| Lerner, Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City, by Joseph F. Spillane |
960 |
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| Peretti, Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan, by Angela M. Blake |
961 |
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| Procter, William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911–1951, by Rodney Carlisle |
962 |
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| Wurtzler, Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media, by Jody Pennington |
963 |
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| Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Michael D. Gordin |
964 |
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| Cahn, Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age, by Gail S. Murray |
964 |
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| Berry, My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations, by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua |
965 |
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| Kirschke, Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory, by Anne Elizabeth Carroll |
966 |
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| Walker, Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975, by Julia Kirk Blackwelder |
967 |
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| Slotkin, Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality, by Marvin Fletcher |
968 |
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| Brown, Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal, by Anne Meis Knupfer |
969 |
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| Woodrum, "Everybody Was Black Down There": Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields, by Walter T. Howard |
969 |
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| Duck, The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism, by Keith E. Byerman |
970 |
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| Jones, James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-day Adventists, by Peter C. Murray |
971 |
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| Horne, The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States, by Scott Beekman |
972 |
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| Ruotsila, John Spargo and American Socialism, by Mark Pittenger |
973 |
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| Mazzari, Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War, by Thomas A. Underwood |
974 |
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| Badillo, Latinos and the New Immigrant Church, by Alberto López Pulido |
974 |
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| Burgos, Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, by Rob Ruck |
975 |
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| Eby, Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, by Robert A. Rosenstone |
976 |
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| Armus, French Anti-Americanism, 1930–1948: Critical Moments in a Complex History, by Christopher Endy |
977 |
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| La Chapelle, Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California, by Howard A. DeWitt |
978 |
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| Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America, by Katherine G. Aiken |
979 |
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| Jarvis, Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It, by Polly Welts Kaufman |
979 |
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| Reinhardt, Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the ira to Wounded Knee, by David Wilkins |
980 |
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| McMillen, Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory, by Byron E. Pearson |
981 |
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| Friedman, From the Battlefront to the Bridal Suite: Media Coverage of British War Brides, 1942–1946, by Vicki Howard |
982 |
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| Alvah, Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946–1965, by Sylvia Ellis |
983 |
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| Priest, The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America, by George D. E. Philip |
984 |
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| Peck, Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism, by Marc Gallicchio |
984 |
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| Engel, Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy, by Marc Dierikx |
985 |
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| Statler and Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, by Cary Fraser |
986 |
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| Larres and Osgood, eds., The Cold War after Stalin's Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace?, by Donald E. Davis |
987 |
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| Gurock, Judaism's Encounter with American Sports, by Stephen H. Norwood |
988 |
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| Kraut and Kraut, Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America, by Allison L. Hepler |
989 |
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| Antler, You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother, by Maxine Schwartz Seller |
990 |
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| Peretz, Le combat pour les Juifs soviétiques. Washington-Moscou-Jérusalem, 1953–1989 (The battle over the Soviet Jews: Washington-Moscow-Jerusalem, 1953–1989), by R. Craig Nation |
991 |
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| Moore, The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945–1970, by James M. Woods |
992 |
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| Fotsch, Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America, by Peter Norton |
992 |
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| Wiltse, Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America, by Ed Krzemienski |
993 |
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| Jacoway, Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation, by Barbara J. Shircliffe |
994 |
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| Baker, On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America, by Tom Zaniello |
995 |
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| Haberski, Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture, by Gregory D. Black |
996 |
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| Mahar, Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood, by Kathleen Feeley |
996 |
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| McGee, From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western, by Michael Welsh |
997 |
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| McLaren, Impotence: A Cultural History, by Thomas A. Foster |
998 |
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| Watkins, The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America, by Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer |
999 |
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| Fields, An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality, by Jane Farrell-Beck |
1000 |
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| Janda, Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller, by Janis L. King |
1000 |
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| Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation, by Scott Peller |
1001 |
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| Jumonville and Mattson, eds., Liberalism for a New Century, by John G. Gunnell |
1002 |
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| Zietlow, Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights, by Michal R. Belknap |
1003 |
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| Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, by Michael B. Stoff |
1004 |
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| Smith, Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush, by Bruce J. Dierenfield |
1005 |
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| Shepard, Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South, by Alice O'Connor |
1006 |
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| Austin, Up against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party, by Robyn Ceanne Spencer |
1007 |
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| Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: sncc's Dream for a New America, by Cheryl Greenberg |
1007 |
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| Simon, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, by William Howard Moore |
1008 |
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| Zaretsky, No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968–1980, by Daniel Horowitz |
1009 |
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| Germany, New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society, by Michael K. Brown |
1010 |
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| Gaffney, Teachers United: The Rise of New York State United Teachers, by Joseph E. Slater |
1011 |
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| Dick and Launius, eds., Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, by Rip Bulkeley |
1012 |
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| McGurty, Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, pcbs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice, by Amy Hay |
1012 |
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| Hays, Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America, by James Morton Turner |
1013 |
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| Byerman, Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction, by James Edward Smethurst |
1014 |
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| Stanton, The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City, by Joseph Heathcott |
1015 |
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| Cantrell and Turner, eds., Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, by James D. Ivy |
1016 |
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| Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice, by Ellen Fitzpatrick |
1017 |
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| Hunt, The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance, by Christopher Layne |
1018 |
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| McClay, ed., Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, by Martin Halliwell |
1018 |
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Movie Reviews
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Reel Report, 2006–2007
Robert Brent Toplin |
1020 |
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| The New World, by John d'Entremont |
1023 |
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| The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy, by Andrew Denson |
1026 |
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| Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad, by Loren Schweninger |
1027 |
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| The Gold Rush, by David A. Wolff |
1027 |
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| The Mormons, by Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. |
1028 |
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| The Great Fever, by Michael A. Flannery |
1030 |
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| Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I, by Peter L. Hahn |
1032 |
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| Flags of Our Fathers; and Letters from Iwo Jima, by Justin Hart |
1032 |
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| The Berlin Airlift, by Ronald J. Granieri |
1034 |
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| The Good Sheperd, by Richard Powers |
1036 |
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| Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change, by R. Bentley Anderson |
1037 |
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| Summer of Love, by Elana Levine |
1038 |
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| The Astronaut Farmer, by Margaret A. Weitekamp |
1039 |
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| Eugene J. McCarthy: Muses and Mementos, by Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen |
1040 |
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| Bobby, by Ron Briley |
1041 |
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| Sisters of '77, by Robyn Muncy |
1042 |
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| Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, by Sean McCloud |
1043 |
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Web Site Reviews
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| Travel, Tourism, and Urban Growth in Greater Miami: A Digial Archive, by Gary R. Mormino |
1045 |
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| Temperance and Prohibition; and Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition, by Elaine Frantz Parsons |
1046 |
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| America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894–1915, by Alison Landsberg |
1047 |
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| Conservation and Environment, by Char Miller |
1048 |
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| Presidential Recordings Program, by David Greenberg |
1049
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