Current Issue - 2012

Article

(Big and) Black is Beautiful: Body Image and Expanded Beauty Ideals in the African American Community, 1945-1968 by Elizabeth Matelski from Loyola University Chicago
Blood, Bones, and Soil: Virginian Identity and the Attempted Desecration of George Washington by Matt Costello from Marquette University
Making Bacon: Death, Mechanization, and the Ecology of Pig Breeding in the United States, 1900-1960 by Neil Oatsvall from University of Kansas
Theologies of Failure: Islamic Conversion in Early Modern Rome by Rosemary Lee from University of Virginia

Review

1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America by Michael Holm from Boston University
A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain’s Convicts after the American Revolution by Scott Craig from Florida State University
A Wilder West: Rodeo in Western Canada by Michael Commito from McMaster University
All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management by Jennifer A. Martin from University of Wisconsin-Madison
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era by Frank J. Cirillo from University of Virginia
American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution by Amber Surmiller from Texas Christian University
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance- A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Zachary Wakefield from Auburn University
Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States by Micah Wright from Texas A&M University
Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in British North America by Michael D. Hattem from Yale University
Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution by Jeremiah J. Bauer from University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 by Steven J. Peach from University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Immigrants to the Pure Land: the Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941 by Aihua Uppnor from University of Iowa
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Shannon E. Mohan from American University
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Benjamin M. Guyer from University of Kansas
Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border by Sean P. Harvey from Utah State University
Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America by John Laaman from Auburn University
The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920-1921. by Stefanie A. Babb from Florida Gulf Coast University
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body by Jamalin Harp from Texas Christian University
The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present by Matt Jacobs from Ohio University
The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations During the Civil Rights Era by Cecilia Marquez from University of Virginia
The Thousand Year Flood: the Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937 by Paul Gibson from University of Maryland
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914 – 1918 by Kevin Peng from Independent Affiliation
Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City During the Revolution. by James Patrick Ambuske from University of Virginia

History Today

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Quarterly Reviews

Making the New Right From Above and Below

Featured Reviews

Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933