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Contents
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Vol. 96, No. 1
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June 2009
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Articles
Exhibition Reviews
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| "Introduction," by Benjamin Filene and Brian Horrigan |
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| "In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn's Vietnam Veterans," by Amy Starecheski |
150 |
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| "Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era," by Michael J. Kramer |
153 |
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| National Museum of the Marine Corp, Triangle, Va., by Clay Lewis |
156 |
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| "What's Going On? Newark and the Legacy of the Sixties," by Mark Krasovic |
162 |
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| "Black Thursday Remembered: Race, Politics, and Campus Unrest in Northeast Wisconsin during the Late 1960s," by Andrew E. Kersten and Jerald Podair |
166 |
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| "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe," by Howard P. Segal |
169 |
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| Muhammad Ali Center, by Randy Roberts |
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Book Reviews
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| Nichols, Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to The Passion of the Christ, by Howard Miller |
178 |
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| Sharlet, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, by Jason C. Bivins |
179 |
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| Gaither, Homeschool: An American History, by David I. Macleod |
179 |
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| McWilliams, American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT, by John H. Perkins |
180 |
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| Van Zandt, Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580–1660, by Thomas S. Abler |
181 |
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| Glover and Smith, The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, by James Pritchard |
182 |
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| Voss, The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco, by Diane Miller Sommerville |
183 |
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| Allen and Clubb, Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History, by Jürgen Martschukat |
184 |
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| Rogers, Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachussetts, by Howard W. Allen |
184 |
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| Dawdy, Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans, by John T. McGrath |
185 |
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| Roeber, ed., Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America, by Craig D. Atwood |
186 |
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| Wheeler, To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast, by Mark A. Nicholas |
187 |
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| Brown, Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America, by Michael A. Lofaro |
188 |
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| Johnston, Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade, by Reginald C. Stuart |
189 |
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| Bric, Ireland, Philadelphia, and the Re-invention of America, 1760–1800, by Seth Cotlar |
190 |
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| Fraser, Wall Street: America's Dream Palace, by Wyatt C. Wells |
191 |
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| Dantas, Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges |
191 |
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| Hayes, The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson, by R. B. Bernstein |
192 |
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| Nash and Hodges, Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull; A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation, by François Furstenberg |
193 |
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| Gutzman, Virginia's American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776–1840, by Stuart Leibiger |
194 |
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| Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation, by Angelo Angelis |
195 |
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| Willig, Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783–1815, by John P. Bowes |
195 |
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| Kermes, Creating an American Identity: New England, 1789–1825, by Paul E. Teed |
196 |
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| Waterman, Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature, by Robert D. Habich |
197 |
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| Spangler, Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century, by Frederick A. Bode |
198 |
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| Baer, The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism, and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790 to 1830, by Marianne S. Wokeck |
199 |
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| Ellis, Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic, by Keith Whittington |
200 |
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| Martin, Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-Class Ideology, 1800–1860, by Ruth M. Alexander |
200 |
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| Davenport, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815–1860, by Candy Gunther Brown |
201 |
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| Barnes, Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820–1865, by Richard Oestreicher |
202 |
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| Renoff, The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820–1930, by Don B. Wilmeth |
203 |
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| Keller, Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It, by Barton C. Hacker |
204 |
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| Kammen, Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture, by Harriet Senie |
205 |
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| Obadele-Starks, Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808; and Robertson, The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors, by Jay Coughtry |
205 |
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| Stewart, ed., William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: History, Legacy, and Memory, by William E. Cain |
207 |
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| Young, Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery; and Obi, Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Art Traditions in the Atlantic World, by Loren Schweninger |
208 |
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| Mintz and Stauffer, eds., The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform, by John C. Inscoe |
209 |
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| McKivigan, Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America, by Carl J. Guarneri |
210 |
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| Miskolcze, Women and Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity; and Blum, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives, by Robert Lawson-Peebles |
211 |
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| Davis, The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions, by Ann D. Gordon |
213 |
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| Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire, by Daniel J. Gelo |
214 |
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| McGarry, Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America, by Robert S. Cox |
214 |
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| Tamarkin, Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America, by Peter W. Williams |
215 |
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| Campbell, Unlikely Allies: Britain, America, and the Victorian Origins of the Special Relationship, by Brian Jenkins |
216 |
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| Coker, Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, by Thomas H. Appleton Jr. |
217 |
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| Eelman, Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845–1880, by John M. Giggie |
218 |
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| West, From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915, by Ted Ownby |
219 |
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| Grampp, From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America's Home Grounds, by Richard Harris |
220 |
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| Blake, Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity, by Peter Gibian |
220 |
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| Cohen and Boyer, eds., Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America, by Barbara E. Lacey |
221 |
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| Lehrman, Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point, by Daniel W. Stowell |
222 |
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| Davis and Wilson, eds., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, by Michael P. Johnson |
223 |
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| Richards, Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture, by Daniel J. Opler |
224 |
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| Marten and Foster, eds., More Than a Contest between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era, by Lyde Cullen Sizer |
225 |
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| Myers, Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations, by Kenneth J. Blume |
226 |
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| Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death, by John J. Kucich |
227 |
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| Marvel, Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862, by John Cimprich |
228 |
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| Dabel, A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19thCentury New York, by Ena L. Farley |
228 |
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| Caudill and Ashdown, Sherman's March in Myth and Memory, by James C. Klotter |
229 |
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| Andrew, Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer, by Charles J. Holden |
230 |
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| Ott, Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War, by Jeffrey W. McClurken |
231 |
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| Larson, The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln, by Judith Ann Giesberg |
232 |
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| Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, by Jessica Millward |
233 |
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| Richardson, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War, by Brooks D. Simpson |
233 |
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| Goldberg, Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare, by Rhonda Y. Williams |
234 |
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| Johnson, Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875–1915, by Andrea Hamilton |
235 |
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| Van Cleve, ed., The Deaf History Reader, by Elisabeth Gitter |
236 |
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| Wallach, "Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact": Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage |
237 |
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| Evans, Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950, by David B. Danbom |
238 |
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| Fein, Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880–1956, by David Blanke |
239 |
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| Isserman and Weaver, Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, by Mark Harvey |
240 |
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| Streible, Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema, by Stephen Vaughn |
241 |
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| Beeby, Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890–1901, by Barton C. Shaw |
241 |
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| Fear-Segal, White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation, by John Sheridan Milloy |
242 |
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| Pearson, The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival, by Christopher L. Miller |
243 |
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| Murphy, The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories, by Stephanie Fitzgerald |
244 |
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| Chiang, Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast, by Lawrence Culver |
245 |
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| Goldin and Katz, The Race between Education and Technology, by Colin Burke |
246 |
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| Knupfer and Woyshner, eds., The Educational Work of Women's Organizations, 1890–1960, by Mary Ann Dzuback |
246 |
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| Melnick, Senda Berenson: The Unlikely Founder of Women's Basketball, by Linda J. Borish |
247 |
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| Dossett, Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896–1935, by Rebecca Wanzo |
248 |
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| Fellman, Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture, by Ronald Weber |
249 |
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| Lorini, L'Impero della libertà e l'isola strategica: Gli Stati Uniti e Cuba tra otto e Novecento (The empire of liberty and the strategic island: The United States and Cuba at the turn of the century), by Daniel Gaido |
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| Maynard, Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency, by Robert C. Hilderbrand |
251 |
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| Magee, What the World Should Be: Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy, by George H. Skau |
252 |
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| McDermott, Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making, by Hugh E. Evans |
252 |
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| Zacher, The Scripps Newspapers Go to War, 1914–18, by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus |
253 |
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| Stuart, Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America, by Douglas Ross |
254 |
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| Burke, From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's, by Martha A. Sandweiss |
255 |
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| Voogd, Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919, by Marilynn S. Johnson |
256 |
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| Murphy, Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform, by Jay Hatheway |
257 |
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| Lee, Bureaus of Efficiency: Reforming Local Government in the Progressive Era, by Thomas R. Pegram |
258 |
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| Luconi, La faglia dell'antisemitismo: Italiani ed ebrei negli Stati Uniti, 1920–1941 (The fault of antisemitism: Italians and Jews in the United States, 1920–1941), by Enzo Traverso |
259 |
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| Cinotto, Terra soffice uva nera: Vitivinicoltori piemontesi in California prima e dopo il Proibizionismo (Soft earth black grape: Piedmontese winegrowers in California before and after Prohibition), by Andrew Rolle |
259 |
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| Baatz, For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago, by Elizabeth Dale |
260 |
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| Selig, Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement, by Rob Kroes |
261 |
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| Topping, Lincoln's Lost Legacy: The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928–1952, by Jennifer E. Brooks |
262 |
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| Conkin, A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929, by Shane Hamilton |
263 |
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| Caponi-Tabery, Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America, by Douglas Henry Daniels |
263 |
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| Burke, Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street, by Susan Curtis |
264 |
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| Clark, God—or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age, by George E. Webb |
265 |
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| Wall, Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement, by Keith W. Olson |
266 |
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| Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism, by Catherine Maddison |
267 |
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| Crawley, Somoza and Roosevelt: Good Neighbour Diplomacy in Nicaragua, 1933–1945, by Thomas Alan Schwartz |
268 |
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| Sloan, FDR and Reagan: Transformative Presidents with Clashing Visions, by Mary E. Stuckey |
268 |
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| Theoharis, The Quest for Absolute Security: The Failed Relations among U.S. Intelligence Agencies, by Betty A. Dessants |
269 |
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| Norton, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, by Richard O. Davies |
270 |
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| Erenberg, The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling, by Barbara Keys |
271 |
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| Jackson, Child of the Sit-Downs: The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger, by Kevin Boyle |
272 |
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| Coleman, Colombia and the United States: The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939–1960, by Max Paul Friedman |
273 |
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| Feingold, Jewish Power in America: Myth and Reality, by Stephen J. Whitfield |
274 |
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| Ryan, Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind, by Barbara Ryan |
274 |
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| Gallagher, Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War, by Jesse Thomas Moore Jr. |
275 |
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| Rollins and O'Connor, eds., Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History, by Blaine T. Browne |
276 |
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| Alvarez, The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II, by Eduardo Obregón Pagán |
277 |
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| Tucker, The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science, by Jon M. Harkness |
278 |
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| Malloy, Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan, by Monroe H. Little |
279 |
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| Koikari, Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, by Karen Garner |
280 |
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| Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, by Stephen Robertson |
281 |
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| Bloom, Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, by John F. Bauman |
282 |
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| Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism, by Laura E. Ettinger |
282 |
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| Gilmore, ed., Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, by Rosalyn Baxandall |
283 |
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| Cull, The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945–1989, by Allan M. Winkler |
285 |
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| Grow, U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War, by Stephen G. Rabe |
285 |
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| Rugh, Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations, by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz |
286 |
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| Taylor, A President, a Church, and Trails West: Competing Histories in Independence, Missouri, by Timothy R. Mahoney |
287 |
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| Wang, In Sputnik's Shadow: The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America, by Kim McQuaid |
288 |
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| Belmonte, Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War, by Kenneth A. Osgood |
289 |
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| Trauschweizer, The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War, by Edgar F. Raines Jr. |
290 |
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| Bradley and Young, eds., Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspective, by Patrick Hagopian |
291 |
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| Frankum, Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954–1955, by Andrew Wiest |
292 |
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| Carter, Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954–1968, by Robert J. McMahon |
292 |
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| Sherwood, Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era, by Lori Lyn Bogle |
293 |
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| Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, by Philip Nash |
294 |
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| Leckie and Parezo, eds., Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-visioning the American West, by Michael J. Lansing |
295 |
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| Arnold, The Fisherman's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska, by Arthur F. McEvoy |
296 |
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| Kroll, America's Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration, by Phillip Drennon Thomas |
297 |
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| Jones, The Bay of Pigs, by William O. Walker III |
298 |
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| Graff, The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City, by Alan H. Lessoff |
298 |
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| Daugherity and Bolton, eds., With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education, by Christopher W. Schmidt |
299 |
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| Dudziak, Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey, by Leland Ware |
300 |
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| Hyra, The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville, by Richard J. Meister |
301 |
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| Ashmore, Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964–1972, by Clarence L. Mohr |
302 |
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| Turner, Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America, by Charles A. Israel |
303 |
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| Hankins, American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement, by Kurt W. Peterson |
304 |
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| Lewis-Colman, Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit, by James Wolfinger |
305 |
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| Rojas, From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline, by Richard H. King |
306 |
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| Iton, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era, by Ben Keppel |
306 |
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| Scherer, Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, and Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart, by Mark A. Graber |
307 |
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| Kaufman, Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration, by John Dumbrell |
308 |
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| Masur, The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America, by Jeanne Theoharis |
309 |
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| Clymer, Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right, by Christopher A. Preble |
310 |
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| Blum, Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism, by David Rosner |
311 |
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| Watts, ed., White Masculinity in the Recent South, by Carol Mason |
312 |
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| Strain, Burning Faith: Church Arson in the American South, by Mark Newman |
313 |
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