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Structuring Museums Usefully Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Samuel J. Redman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Structuring Museums Usefully Samuel J. Redman (bio) Reed Gochberg. Useful Objects: Museums, Science, & Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 272 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. During the mid-nineteenth century, traveling to Europe was an essential component in finishing an American’s elite
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Settler Answers to Settler Problems: Centering Settler Colonialism in Environmental History Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Kaitlin Reed
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Settler Answers to Settler Problems: Centering Settler Colonialism in Environmental History Kaitlin Reed (bio) Traci Brynne Voyles, The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xiv + 382pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00. What do salt,
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Railroaded: How Trains Made Mass Immigrant Expulsion Possible Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Elliott Young
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Railroaded: How Trains Made Mass Immigrant Expulsion Possible Elliott Young (bio) Ethan Blue, The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. xiii + 448 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography and index. $39.95. “Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos
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Escaping the Education Trap Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2024-01-10 William D. Goldsmith
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Escaping the Education Trap William D. Goldsmith (bio) Cristina Viviana Groeger, The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 384 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, and index. $36.00. Daniel S. Moak, From the New Deal to the War on Schools: Race, Inequality, and the Rise of
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Queer History and Domestic Possibilities Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Rebecca L. Davis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Queer History and Domestic Possibilities Rebecca L. Davis (bio) Stephen Vider, The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 300 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.00. Stephen Vider’s poignant addition to the history of sexuality in
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Liberal Technocrats and the Economic Ideology of Efficiency Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Laura Phillips-Sawyer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Liberal Technocrats and the Economic Ideology of Efficiency Laura Phillips-Sawyer (bio) Elizabeth Popp Berman, Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. Princeton University Press, 2022. x + 334 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $37.00 Thinking like an Economist opens with a familiar lament: that
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When History Is Not History Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Brian Steele
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: When History Is Not History Brian Steele (bio) Jason Steinhauer, History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2022. vii + 160pp. Notes and index. It’s possible to argue that more history is more widely available than ever before in human… well, history, but Jason
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The Reform Not Traveled: Reconsidering Alan Brinkley's The End of Reform Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Aaron Freedman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Reform Not Traveled: Reconsidering Alan Brinkley’s The End of Reform Aaron Freedman (bio) Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York: Vintage, 1996. x + 384 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $17.95. In 1985, Alan Brinkley, then still a relatively young scholar whose first book had only
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Reimagining The Far Right Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Alex McPhee-Browne
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reimagining The Far Right Alex McPhee-Browne (bio) Leo P. Ribuffo’s The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. xix + 274 pp. Notes and Index. All historical work is, at least implicitly, revisionist. All historical work seeks to alter our perception
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Revisiting the New Deal in the Shadow of a Double Pandemic Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sharon Ann Musher
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Revisiting the New Deal in the Shadow of a Double Pandemic Sharon Ann Musher (bio) Scott Borchert, Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America. NY: Macmillan Publishers, 2021. 385 pp. Notes and index. $30. Mary Ann Calo, African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs. University Park: Penn State
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Ray, George, and Mabel: Friendship, Politics, and the Tragedies of American Liberalism Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Thomas G. Andrews
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ray, George, and Mabel:Friendship, Politics, and the Tragedies of American Liberalism Thomas G. Andrews (bio) Historians simultaneously react to and build upon the work of other scholars. At some point in our training—possibly as undergraduates but at least in the first year or two of graduate school—we should begin to treat the study
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The Museum in Crisis Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Reed Gochberg
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Museum in Crisis Reed Gochberg (bio) Samuel J. Redman, The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 232 pp. Notes and index. $24.95. On April 8, 2020, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History announced a Rapid Response Collecting Task Force in response to the COVID-19
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Telling California Stories Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 David Igler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Telling California Stories David Igler (bio) John Mack Faragher, California: An American History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. ix + 466 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $28.50. Assembling a history of California presents the narrative challenge of an overabundance of stories. Forget Hollywood with its longtime
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Seduced and Avenged Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Christine Leigh Heyrman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Seduced and Avenged Christine Leigh Heyrman (bio) John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2022. 365 pp. Figures, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.99 Tales can be true or false, factual narratives or sheer fictions. John Wood
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Whither Revivalism and Reform Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Raymond James Krohn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Whither Revivalism and Reform Raymond James Krohn (bio) Ryan C. McIlhenny, To Preach Deliverance to the Captives: Freedom and Slavery in the Protestant Mind of George Bourne, 1780–1845. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. ix + 257pp. Acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. Ben Wright, Bonds of Salvation:
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Rehabilitating the Beast Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Douglas R. Egerton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Rehabilitating the Beast Douglas R. Egerton (bio) Elizabeth D. Leonard, Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xix + 365 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $36.00. General, congressman, and governor Benjamin Franklin Butler remains one of the more mercurial figures of the
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Pioneers, Parricides, and the Spectre of Violence in Settler-Colonial Homes and Histories Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Katrina Jagodinsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Pioneers, Parricides, and the Spectre of Violence in Settler-Colonial Homes and Histories Katrina Jagodinsky (bio) Peter Boag, Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon. Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, 2022. xii + 298 pp. Figures, maps
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It's the Union Leaders, Stupid: Organized Labor's Failures in the South Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Chad Pearson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: It's the Union Leaders, Stupid:Organized Labor's Failures in the South Chad Pearson (bio) Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Race, Class, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. ix + 416pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index $49.95. Labor historians have debated questions relating to race, place
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American Fitness: Gender, Wellness, and the New Body Politic Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sarah Schrank
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: American Fitness:Gender, Wellness, and the New Body Politic Sarah Schrank (bio) Bill Hayes, Sweat: A History of Exercise. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 246 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $28.00 Danielle Friedman, Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2022. xxiii
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The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, & the World They Made and Lost by Marilyn J. Westerkamp (review) Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Sarah Crabtree
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, & the World They Made and Lostby Marilyn J. Westerkamp Sarah Crabtree (bio) Marilyn J. Westerkamp, The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, & the World They Made and Lost. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America by Louis P. Masur (review) Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Michael S. Green
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America by Louis P. Masur Michael S. Green (bio) Louis P. Masur, The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, xvii + 366 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. The longtime CBS News commentator Eric Sevareid used to lament
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A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review) Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Alice L. Baumgartner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge Alice L. Baumgartner (bio) Daniel J. Burge, A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. xvii + 246 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00. Perhaps
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The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900 by Jon K. Lauck (review) Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Timothy Messer-Kruse
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900 by Jon K. Lauck Timothy Messer-Kruse (bio) Jon K. Lauck, The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. xii + 350 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95. I am a Midwesterner through and through. I
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Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds (review) Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Brian P. Luskey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds Brian P. Luskey (bio) David S. Reynolds, Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times. New York: Penguin Press, 2020. xx + 1066 pp. Notes and index. $45.00. Biographies are “founded,” historian Jill Lepore has written, “on a belief in the singularity and significance of an individual’s
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A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement by Jane Berger (review) Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Frederick W. Gooding Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement by Jane Berger Frederick W. Gooding Jr. (bio) Jane Berger, A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. viii + 303 pp. Notes and index
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Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism by Daniel S. Chard (review) Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Camilo E. Lund-Montaño
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Nixon’s War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism by Daniel S. Chard Camilo E. Lund-Montaño (bio) Daniel S. Chard, Nixon’s War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 374 pp. Notes, bibliography, and
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong (review) Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Peter A. Coclanis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong Peter A. Coclanis (bio) J. Bradford DeLong. Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2022, viii + 605 pp., notes and index. $35.00. In 2004 I served as a member of the program committee
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Whither the Radicals? Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Cecily N. Zander
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Whither the Radicals? Cecily N. Zander (bio) For those inured to its charms, the American Civil War represents something of a black hole at the center of American historiography. What came before pointed only to the sundering of the Union so carefully constructed by the founders. What came after was the result of an effort to reconstruct
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The Black Hole Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Richard Bell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Black Hole Richard Bell (bio) Joshua D. Rothman,The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. New York: Basic Books, 2021, 512 pp. Figures, notes, index. $35.00. 1315 Duke Street is about two blocks down from the UPS store in Alexandria, Virginia, on a stretch of sidewalk studded with attorneys’ offices and massage
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Nativist Nation Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Lucy E. Salyer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Nativist Nation Lucy E. Salyer (bio) Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2019. 432 pp. Images, Notes, and index. $32.00. Amanda Frost, You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021. 248 pp. Images, notes, bibliography
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Who Must Go?: Drawing the Borders of White Supremacy in the Early Republic Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Jeffrey Ostler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Who Must Go?: Drawing the Borders of White Supremacy in the Early Republic Jeffrey Ostler (bio) Samantha Seeley, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States. Williamsburg, Va.: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. xi +
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Concerning Science Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-05-19 David K. Hecht
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Concerning Science David K. Hecht (bio) Andrew Jewett,Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. 356 pp. Notes and index. $42.00 Science matters. In his impressive Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America, Andrew Jewett skillfully
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Social Science and Its Frontiers Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Myron P. Gutmann
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Social Science and Its Frontiers Myron P. Gutmann (bio) Mark Solovey,Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2020. X+ 398pp. Figures, notes, index. $50.00. Americans often date the emergence of a strong commitment to government
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Ow! Bam! Good Grief!: Comics and Politics Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Lori Clune
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ow! Bam! Good Grief!: Comics and Politics Lori Clune (bio) Blake Scott Ball, Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 256 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. Paul S. Hirsch, Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism. Chicago: University of Chicago
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Reinventing the Blues Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Gregory P. Downs
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reinventing the Blues Gregory P. Downs (bio) B. Brian Foster, I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 206 pp. Figures, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00. In 1941, three Fisk University scholars—musician John Wesley Work, sociologist
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State of the Field: A New Historiography for the Old South? Slavery and Capitalism, White Elites and Enslaved Blacks Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Lacy Ford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: State of the Field: A New Historiography for the Old South?Slavery and Capitalism, White Elites and Enslaved Blacks Lacy Ford (bio) For roughly a decade, historians’ understanding of the antebellum American South has been increasingly influenced by a new burst of scholarship collectively labelled “The New History of Capitalism.” Scholars
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Author-Title-Reviewer Index for Volume 50 (2022) Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-05-19
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Author-Title-Reviewer Index for Volume 50 (2022) No. 1 (March): 1–122 No. 2 (June): 123–248 No. 3 (September): 249–360 No. 4 (December): 361–467 Abrams, Jeanne E., 123 Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497–1662, 7 After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands
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Does Whiggish Founderism Work for Black or Cultural History? Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 David Waldstreicher
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Does Whiggish Founderism Work for Black or Cultural History? David Waldstreicher (bio) David Hackett Fischer, African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022. xii + 944 pp. Figures, maps, tables, and index. $40.00 In 2007, Richard S. Newman introduced a group of essays in the William and
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The Huguenot Global Diaspora Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Rebecca K. McCoy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Huguenot Global Diaspora Rebecca K. McCoy (bio) Owen Stanwood, The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xii + 300 pp. Notes and index. $40.95. Owen Stanwood's examination of the Huguenot refuge follows the historiographical trend of placing events, once viewed mainly as European, in
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The New Old-School American Revolution Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Francis Russo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The New Old-School American Revolution Francis Russo (bio) Woody Holton, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021. 800 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50. When it came to self-immolations, Richard Wagner could stomach exactly one: the heroine
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Antebellum Tech Bro Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 James Delbourgo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Antebellum Tech Bro James Delbourgo (bio) John Tresch, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2021. 434 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $30.00 You pick up one of those glossy technology magazines, the kind that "bring you the future." There's a feature
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Word and Bond in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Timothy L. Wesley
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Word and Bond in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras Timothy L. Wesley (bio) Ben Wright, Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited Abolitionism. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2020. 280 pp. Acknowledgements, introduction and conclusion, notes, and index. $45.00. James P. Byrd, A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the
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The Ordeal of Reunion: Magnanimous Peace or Prelude to Violence at Appomattox? Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Erik J. Chaput
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Ordeal of Reunion:Magnanimous Peace or Prelude to Violence at Appomattox? Erik J. Chaput (bio) Caroline E. Janney, Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 344 pp. notes, bibliography, index. $30.00 William A. Blair, The Record of Murders and Outrages:
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The South's Legacy of White Supremacy Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Shae Smith Cox
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The South's Legacy of White Supremacy Shae Smith Cox (bio) Karen L. Cox, No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 224 pp. Figures, notes, index. $24.00. Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and
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Leveraging Whiteness in Settler Colonial Oregon Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Lissa K. Wadewitz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Leveraging Whiteness in Settler Colonial Oregon Lissa K. Wadewitz (bio) Jacki Hedlund Tyler, Leveraging an Empire: Settler Colonialism and the Legalities of Citizenship in the Pacific Northwest. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xxx + 382 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00. Until recently,
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Robert Putnam's Irving Kristol Turn Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Haimo Li
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Robert Putnam's Irving Kristol Turn Haimo Li (bio) Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020. 465 pp. Notes and index. $32.50 This genuinely insightful book traces four curves in the development of American society from the
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"As characteristic an institution in America as the church was three hundred years ago": New Perspectives on Higher Education's Past and Present Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "As characteristic an institution in America as the church was three hundred years ago":New Perspectives on Higher Education's Past and Present Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (bio) Adam Harris, The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—and How to Set Them Right. New York: Harper Collins, 2021. 272 pp. Notes and index
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Theology, Tragedy, and Farce: Protestants and Conservatism from the Puritans to the Proud Boys Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Paul Harvey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Theology, Tragedy, and Farce:Protestants and Conservatism from the Puritans to the Proud Boys Paul Harvey (bio) J. Russell Hawkins, The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 210 pp. Notes and index. $29.95. Gillis J. Harp, Protestants and American
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Ex-Wives and the Welfare State Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Lauren Jae Gutterman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ex-Wives and the Welfare State Lauren Jae Gutterman (bio) Suzanne Kahn, Divorce, American Style: Fighting for Women's Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021, 344 pp, Figures notes, and index. $55.00. In June 2022, in the days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade,
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The Trials, Travels, and Triumphs of the ADAMS Family Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Lindsay M. Chervinsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Trials, Travels, and Triumphs of the ADAMS Family Lindsay M. Chervinsky (bio) Jeanne E. Abrams, A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95. R. B. Bernstein, The Education of John Adams. Oxford: Oxford University
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Colonization and U.S. Imperial Racial Republicanism Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Jeannette Eileen Jones
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Colonization and U.S. Imperial Racial Republicanism Jeannette Eileen Jones (bio) Brandon Mills, The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 288 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $45.00. In The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early
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"Community of Thieves": Blood, Violence, and Land in Narratives of the American West Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Edward C. Rafferty
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Community of Thieves":Blood, Violence, and Land in Narratives of the American West Edward C. Rafferty (bio) Anne F. Hyde, Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2022. xix + 442 pp. Maps, notes, index. $40.00. Margaret D. Jacobs, After One Hundred Winters:
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Border History is Indigenous History Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Ryan Hall
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Border History is Indigenous History Ryan Hall (bio) Benjamin Hoy, A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Notes and index. xv + 322pp. $35.00. In the desperate final months of 1862, some two thousand Dakota Sioux people trekked north through the
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Black Freedom, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Reconstruction Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Kyle T. Mays
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Black Freedom, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Reconstruction Kyle T. Mays (bio) Alaina E. Roberts, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. i + 224 pp. Notes and index. $34.95. Belonging, dispossession, and migration—forced or otherwise—as exhibited in the processes
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Objects and Rituals of Time in the Nineteenth-Century United States Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Justin T. Clark
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Objects and Rituals of Time in the Nineteenth-Century United States Justin T. Clark (bio) Alexis McCrossen, Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvi + 271 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.00. David M. Henkin, The Week: A History of
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Having It All Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Flannery Burke
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Having It All Flannery Burke (bio) Damon R. Bach, The American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural Dissidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. vii + 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Sherry L. Smith, Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America. Berkeley: Heyday
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High Infidelity Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Christine Leigh Heyrman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: High Infidelity Christine Leigh Heyrman (bio) Leigh Eric Schmidt, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021. xi + 260 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $27.95. He was a daring fellow, they all agreed. A damned daring infidel, old Tom Paine. Of course
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On Which Rock?: Churches, Empires, and the American Revolution Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Adam Jortner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On Which Rock?:Churches, Empires, and the American Revolution Adam Jortner (bio) Katherine Carté, Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. xix + 394 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $49.95 Andrew Porwancher, The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton. Princeton: Princeton
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Race and the Cultures of Transcendental Reform Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-04-28 David Faflik
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Race and the Cultures of Transcendental Reform David Faflik (bio) Peter Wirzbicki, Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 325 pp. Figures, acknowledgements, and index. $39.95. From the time of its emergence in New England in the early 1830s
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He Has "Travelled Much in Concord" Reviews in American History Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Philip F. Gura
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: He Has "Travelled Much in Concord" Philip F. Gura (bio) Robert A. Gross, The Transcendentalists and Their World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. xx, + 836 pp. Notes and illustrations. $40.00. When Robert Gross's The Transcendentalists and Their World arrived in my mailbox, I recalled a haunting passage in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick