The Americas

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Books reviewed:Melvyn Stokes (ed), The State of U.S. HistoryCornelius A. van Minnen and Sylvia L. Hilton (eds), Nation on the Move. Mobility in U.S. HistoryPaul S. Boyer (ed), The Oxford Companion to United States HistoryNancy A. Hewitt (ed), A Companion to American Women’s HistoryGeoff Ward, The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the PresentAmanda Porterfield (ed), American Religious HistoryNancy Cott, Public Vows. A History of Marriage and the NationGerald N. Grob, The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in AmericaDaniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early AmericaSally Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the CarolinasJon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776Mechal Sobel, Teach me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary EraStephen Brumwell, Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755–1763Judith L. Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New YorkLeonard L. Richards, Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final BattleJoanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New RepublicAnthony F. C. Wallace, Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First AmericansNorman K. Risjord, Representative Americans: The RomanticsJulie Winch, A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James FortenMartin Crawford, Ashe County’s Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian SouthJames Tackach, Lincoln’s Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural AddressMark E. Neely, Jr., The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War NorthGary W. Gallagher, Lee and his Army in Confederate HistoryJames M. McPherson, Crossroads of Freedom: AntietamIlana D. Miller, Reports from America: William Howard Russell and the Civil WarSherri Broder, Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Late Nineteenth‐Century PhiladelphiaClifford Putney, Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan AbductionBruce A. Elleman, Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong QuestionMaury Klein, Rainbow’s End. The Crash of 1929Linda Williams, Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. SimpsonSteven Alan Carr, Hollywood and Anti‐Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War IIEvelyn Nakano Glenn, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and LaborGary Gerstle, Working‐Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914–1960Brian Regal, Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of ManMatthew Pratt Guterl, The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940Robert C. Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare StateUla Yvette Taylor, The Veiled Garvey: The Life & Times of Amy Jacques GarveyMichele Brattain, The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern SouthGreg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese AmericansTinsley E. Yarbrough, A Passion for Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil RightsThomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global ArenaW. J. Rorabaugh, Kennedy and the Promise of the SixtiesDean J. Kotlowski, Nixon’s Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and PolicyAlan M. Wald, Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid‐twentieth‐Century Literary LeftMax Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and CheBill Osgerby, Playboys in Paradise. Masculinity, Youth and Leisure‐style in Modern AmericaHoward B. Rock and Deborah Dash Moore, with the assistance of David Lobenstine, Cityscapes: A History of New York in ImagesJoseph Smith, with Francisco Vinhosa, A History of Brazil, 1500–2000: Politics, Economy, Society, DiplomacyMaría Elena Díaz, The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El CobreIván Jaksić, Andrés Bello. Scholarship and Nation‐Building in Nineteenth‐Century Latin AmericaJean Franco, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City. Latin America in the Cold War