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Reviews in American History is a journal of ideas that offers anyone interested in American history a way to stay current with the discipline. Each issue presents in-depth review essays about the latest books in American history. Retrospective essays examining landmark works written by leading historians are also regularly featured. The journal covers all areas of American history, including cutting-edge and more traditional sub-fields.
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Contents
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Strout, Cushing.
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A Kinder and Gentler Edmund Wilson
Subjects:- Aaron, Daniel, 1912-. American notes.
- American literature -- History and criticism.
- United States -- Civilization.
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Basch, Norma.
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Family Values in Colonial New York
Subjects:- Narrett, David E., 1951-. Inheritance and family life in colonial New York City.
- Inheritance and succession -- New York (N.Y.) -- History.
- Wills -- New York (N.Y.) -- History.
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Cayton, Andrew R. L. (Andrew Robert Lee), 1954-.
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Gone With the Wind
Subjects:- Lee, Jean Butenhoff. Price of nationhood.
- Charles County (Md.) -- History.
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
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Pease, Jane H.
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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called "Lady Scribblers"
Subjects:- Karcher, Carolyn L., 1945-. First woman in the republic.
- Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880.
- Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Huston, Reeve.
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The Nineteenth-Century Political Nation: A Tale of Two Syntheses
Subjects:- Sellers, Charles Grier. Market revolution.
- Silbey, Joel H. American political nation, 1838-1893.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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Harvey, Paul.
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Thoroughly Centered: The Reformed Tradition and American Religious
History
Subjects:- Conkin, Paul Keith. Uneasy center.
- Protestant churches -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Church history.
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Stewart, James Brewer.
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Rewelding the Historical Framework of Evangelical Reform
Subjects:- Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos crumbling.
- Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Allitt, Patrick.
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Swamis and Fundamentalists
Subjects:- Seager, Richard Hughes. World's parliament of religions.
- Hart, D. G. (Darryl G.) Defending the faith.
- United States -- Religion.
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John, Richard R., 1959-.
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Like Father, Like Son: The Not-So-Strange Career of John C. Calhoun
Subjects:- Bartlett, Irving H. John C. Calhoun.
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850.
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
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Grimsley, Mark.
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Perfecting the Work of the Founders
Subjects:- Davis, William C., 1946-. Government of our own.
- Rable, George C. Confederate republic.
- Confederate States of America -- Politics and government.
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Simpson, Brooks D.
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Fighting for Home and Family: Northern Soldiers and Civilians
Subjects:- Garner, Stanton. Civil War world of Herman Melville.
- Mitchell, Reid. Vacant chair.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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Crofts, Daniel W.
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From Slavery to Sharecropping
Subjects:- Royce, Edward Cary. Origins of southern sharecropping.
- Saville, Julie. Work of Reconstruction.
- Labor -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Woodman, Harold D.
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Independence, Dependency, and Economic Change
Subjects:- Kulikoff, Allan. Agrarian origins of American capitalism.
- Persky, Joseph. Burden of dependency.
- Bolton, Charles C. Poor whites of the antebellum South.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.
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Daniels, Roger.
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Ah Sin and his Lawyers
Subjects:- McClain, Charles J. In search of equality.
- Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
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Leonard, Thomas C., 1944-.
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The Conquest of Time, Space, and Political Opponents
Subjects:- Blondheim, Menahem, 1954-. News over the wires.
- Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren), 1951-. Press gang.
- Journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Rosenberg, Norman L., 1942-.
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More than just a Judge: The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Subjects:- White, G. Edward. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935.
- Judges -- United States -- Biography.
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Nore, Ellen, 1942-.
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A "Tangled History": Modernism in Europe and the United States
Subjects:- Modernist impulses in the human sciences, 1870-1930.
- Social sciences -- United States -- History.
- Social sciences -- Europe -- History.
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Karl, Barry Dean.
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Funding Science: An Adventure in Public History
Subjects:- Morin, Alexander J., 1920-. Science policy and politics.
- Science and state -- United States.
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Ernst, Daniel R.
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Picking up the Pieces
Subjects:- Dubofsky, Melvyn, 1934-. State and labor in modern America.
- Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Trade-unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Brogan, Hugh.
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Hitler's War on the World
Subjects:- Weinberg, Gerhard L. World at arms.
- World War, 1939-1945.
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Zhai, Qiang, 1958-.
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Great Power Conflict and the Chinese Civil War
Subjects:- Westad, Odd Arne. Cold war and revolution.
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949.
- China -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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Schulten, Susan.
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The Perils of Reading National Geographic
Subjects:- Lutz, Catherine. Reading National geographic.
- National geographic.
- American periodicals -- History -- 20th century.
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Koppes, Clayton R., 1945-.
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The Power, the Glitter, the Muscles: Movie Masculinities in the Age of
Reagan
Subjects:- Jeffords, Susan, 1953-. Hard bodies.
- Vaughn, Stephen, 1947-. Ronald Reagan in Hollywood.
- Motion picture industry -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Chalmers, David Mark.
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"A Tremor in the Middle of the Iceberg--From a Stone that the Builders
Rejected": Black and
White in Mississippi
Subjects:- Mills, Nicolaus. Like a holy crusade.
- Dittmer, John, 1939-. Local people.
- Payne, Charles M. I've got the light of freedom.
- Burner, Eric. And gently he shall lead them.
- Mills, Kay. This little light of mine.
- Cagin, Seth. We are not afraid.
- Nelson, Jack, 1929 Oct. 11-. Terror in the night.
- Nossiter, Adam. Of long memory.
- McAdam, Doug. Freedom summer.
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
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Adams, Willi Paul, 1940-.
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Canadian and U.S. Constitutions: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Nationbuilding
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Nationmaintaining
Subjects:- Canadian and American constitutions in comparative perspective.
- Canada -- Constitutional law.
- United States -- Constitutional law.
In Retrospect
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Guarneri, Carl J.
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Reconsidering C. Vann Woodward's The Comparative Approach
to American
History
Subjects:- Comparative approach to American history.
- United States -- History.
Correspondence
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Scott, Peter Dale
- Correspondence
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