Current Issue - 2011

Article

From Apprentice to Master:: Christopher Lasch, Richard Hofstadter, and the Making of History as Social Criticism by Jeff Ludwig from University of Rochester
“A bloody war or a sickly season”:: The remains of a middling British imperialist in early colonial Sierra Leone by Padraic Xavier Scanlan from Princeton University
“I wish I could forget myself...":: Mary Todd Lincoln and the Pursuit of True Womanhood, 1818-1882 by Lauren MacIvor Thompson from Georgia State University

Review

America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation by Meredith May from Texas Christian University
An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America by Jeffrey O'Leary from Kent State University
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Thomas Majdanski from Princeton University
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East by Michael Moore from University of Memphis
Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Andrew Behrendt from University of Pittsburgh
Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson by Paul J. Zwirecki from University at Buffalo
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Thomas Perez from Stony Brook University
Deathly Deception: the Real Story of Operation Mincemeat by Brian MacDowall from York University
Digging up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials by Miun Gleeson from University of Missouri-Kansas City
Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda by Bartow Elmore from University of Virginia
Enemyship: Democracy and Counter-Revolution in the Early Republic by Chad Lower from Kent State University
Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow by Bonnie A. Lucero from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design by Henry Trim from University of British Columbia
Gallatin: America’s Swiss Founding Father by Jeffrey Roquen from Lehigh University
God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War by William B. Kurtz from University of Virginia
Henry Clay: The Essential American by Lauren MacIvor Thompson from Georgia State University
Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews by Jason Tingler from Drew University
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783 by James Patrick Ambuske from University of Virginia
In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History by Paul J. Axel from Brandeis University
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan by Martin Bastarache from University of Ottawa
Making Catfish Bait Out of Government Boys: The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South by J. Blake Perkins from West Virginia University
Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country by Lindsay Hiltunen from George Mason University
Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War by Casey P. Cater from Georgia State University
New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era by Amanda Bresie from Texas Christian University
On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 by Robert C. Poister from University of Georgia
Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks by Nabeel Siddiqui from George Mason University
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Richard Hall from Columbus State University
Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861 by Angela M. Riotto from University of Southern Mississippi
Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson by Lauren Acker from University of California, Los Angeles
Sojourner Truth’s America by Keisha Blain from Princeton University
Sovereignty at Sea: U.S. Merchant Ships and American Entry into World War I by Corbin Williamson from Texas Tech University
Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim by Kristen McCabe Lashua from University of Virginia
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Jeffrey Thomas Perry from Purdue University
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Thomas Sheppard from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise by Kevin Impellizeri from University of Delaware
The Origins of the First World War by Drew Flanagan from Brandeis University
The Secret History of MI6 by Michael W. Cheek from Macquarie University
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece by Elizabeth LaFray from Central Michigan University
This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity by Joshua Jeffers from Purdue University
Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada by Anne M.E. Millar from University of Ottawa
Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 by Oliver Lee Bateman from University of Pittsburgh
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Randall Williams from The University of Montana
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War by Sarah Bischoff from Rice University

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