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  1. Editor’s Note
  2. Sherrie Tucker, Randal Maurice Jelks
  3. p. 1
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0006
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  1. Boy Scouts, the National Rifle Association, and the Domestication of Rifle Shooting
  2. Jay Mechling
  3. pp. 5-25
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0025
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  1. Ethnography as Ethics and Epistemology: Why American Studies Should Embrace Fieldwork, and Why it Hasn’t
  2. Jane Desmond
  3. pp. 27-56
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0034
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  1. Journey to a Land of Cotton: A Slave Plantation in Brooklyn, 1895
  2. Lori L. Brooks
  3. pp. 57-78
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0043
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  1. Robert S. Duncanson, Race, and Auguste Comte’s Positivism in Cincinnati
  2. Wendy J. Katz
  3. pp. 79-115
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0052
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  1. Claiming Panama: Genre and Gender in Antebellum U.S. Isthmiana
  2. Jake Mattox
  3. pp. 117-147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0002
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  1. Tulip Time and the Invention of a New Dutch American Ethnic Identity
  2. Michael Douma
  3. pp. 149-167
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0012
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  1. American Yoga: The Shaping of Modern Body Culture in the United States
  2. Sarah Schrank
  3. pp. 169-181
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0021
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  1. Utopias West: Or the Trouble with Perfection
  2. Michael C. Steiner
  3. pp. 183-193
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0030
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  1. Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution by Dennis Deslippe, and: Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash against Affirmative Action by Jennifer L. Pierce (review)
  2. Katherine Turk
  3. pp. 199-201
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0039
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  1. Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song by Edward P. Comentale (review)
  2. Ulrich Adelt
  3. pp. 201-202
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0048
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  1. The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ’n’ Roll by Preston Lauderbach (review)
  2. Michael A. Antonucci
  3. pp. 202-204
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0057
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  1. Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse by Kimberly Snyder Manganelli (review)
  2. Rasa Baločkaitė
  3. pp. 204-205
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0008
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  1. Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus by Susan Nance (review)
  2. Laura Barraclough
  3. pp. 205-206
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0018
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  1. Beginning to see the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll by Ellen Willis (review)
  2. Dawson Barrett
  3. pp. 206-207
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0027
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  1. Heart and Soul of Florida: Sacred Sites and Historic Architecture by Elsbeth Gordon (review)
  2. Roger Chapman
  3. pp. 207-208
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0036
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  1. Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939 by Thomas Doherty (review)
  2. Bernard F. Dick
  3. pp. 208-209
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0045
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  1. The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand (review)
  2. Bernard F. Dick
  3. pp. 209-210
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0054
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  1. Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942 by John Mckiernan-González (review)
  2. Misun Dokko
  3. pp. 210-211
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0004
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  1. The Sentimental Touch: The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism by Aaron Ritzenberg (review)
  2. Douglas Dowland
  3. pp. 211-213
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0014
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  1. Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy by Carrie Pitzulo (review)
  2. John Gennari
  3. pp. 213-214
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0023
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  1. From America to Norway: Norwegian-American Immigrant Letters 1838–1914, Volume I: 1838–1870 Edited and translated by Orm Øverland (review)
  2. Emily Godbey
  3. pp. 214-215
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0032
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  1. The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest by Scott M. Gelber (review)
  2. Adam Golub
  3. pp. 215-216
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0041
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  1. Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era by Brian Russell Roberts (review)
  2. Z. Hall
  3. pp. 216-217
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0050
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  1. All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry Edited by Peter P. Hinks and Stephen Kantrowitz (review)
  2. Matthew Hetrick
  3. pp. 217-218
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0000
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  1. Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World by Edward E. Andrews (review)
  2. Zach Hutchins
  3. pp. 218-219
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0010
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  1. You’ll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band by Bob Gluck (review)
  2. Aaron J. Johnson
  3. pp. 219-220
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0020
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  1. The New Mind of the South by Tracy Thompson (review)
  2. Evangelia Kindinger
  3. p. 221
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0029
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  1. Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms by Wen Jin (review)
  2. Belinda Kong
  3. pp. 222-223
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0038
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  1. Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions by Jason E. Shelton and Michael O. Emerson (review)
  2. Bryan F. Le Beau
  3. pp. 223-224
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0047
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  1. The Iconic Obama, 2007–2009: Essays on Media Representations of the Candidate and New President Edited by Nicholas A. Yanes and Derrais Carter (review)
  2. Stephanie Li
  3. pp. 224-225
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0056
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  1. Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity by Lauren Rabinovitz (review)
  2. Jennifer Leigh Lieberman
  3. pp. 225-226
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0007
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  1. New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America by John Lynch (review)
  2. Daniel R. Miller
  3. pp. 226-227
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0017
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  1. Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization by Ryan Poll (review)
  2. Robin O’Sullivan
  3. pp. 227-228
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0026
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  1. Faith and Race in American Political Life Edited by Robin Dale Jacobson and Nancy D. Wadsworth (review)
  2. Joshua Paddison
  3. pp. 228-229
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0035
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  1. Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps by Aaron B. O’Connell (review)
  2. Kai Chen
  3. pp. 229-230
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0044
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  1. President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty by Edward R. Schmitt (review)
  2. Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani
  3. pp. 230-231
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0053
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  1. Bending Toword Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy by Gary May (review)
  2. Mark Oromaner
  3. pp. 231-232
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0003
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  1. Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War by Andrew Jewett (review)
  2. Mark Oromaner
  3. pp. 233-234
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0013
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  1. Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel by Philip F. Gura (review)
  2. Justine M. Pas
  3. pp. 234-235
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0022
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  1. The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture by Jared Gardner (review)
  2. Richard K. Popp
  3. pp. 235-236
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0031
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  1. The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic by Patrick Weil (review)
  2. Ross Pudaloff
  3. pp. 236-237
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0040
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  1. Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America by Diane Harris (review)
  2. Elizabeth Hoffman Ransford
  3. pp. 237-238
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0049
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  1. The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880–1930 by Robert Prouter (review)
  2. Jason Reid
  3. pp. 238-239
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0058
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  1. Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America by Karen Weyler (review)
  2. Gina Rivera
  3. pp. 239-240
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0009
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  1. Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology by Rebecca Cawood McIntyre (review)
  2. Mary Rizzo
  3. pp. 240-241
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0019
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  1. Julia Child’s The French Chef by Dana Polan (review)
  2. Mary Rizzo
  3. pp. 241-242
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0028
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  1. Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640–1868 by Courtney Weikle-Mills (review)
  2. Kathleen Rooney
  3. pp. 242-243
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0037
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  1. America’s Assembly Line by David Nye (review)
  2. Julia Sattler
  3. pp. 243-244
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0046
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  1. Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination by May Joseph (review)
  2. Sean Singer
  3. pp. 244-245
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0055
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  1. The New Death: American Modernism and World War I by Pearl James (review)
  2. Aristi Trendel
  3. pp. 245-246
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0005
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  1. Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture by R. A. R. Edwards (review)
  2. James W. Trent Jr.
  3. pp. 246-247
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0015
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  1. Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience by Michelle Murphy (review)
  2. Tanfer Emin Tunc
  3. pp. 248-249
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0024
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  1. Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early American Narrative by Cristobal Silva (review)
  2. William Van Arragon
  3. pp. 249-250
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0033
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  1. Making Art Panamerican: Cultural Policy and the Cold War by Claire F. Fox (review)
  2. Sharon R. Vriend-Robinette
  3. pp. 250-251
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0042
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  1. Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen by Greg Olson (review)
  2. Robert E. Walls
  3. pp. 251-252
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0051
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  1. Taken for Grantedness: The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society by Rich Ling (review)
  2. Paula L. Webb
  3. pp. 252-253
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0001
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  1. Gay Rights at the Ballot Box by Amy L. Stone (review)
  2. Heather E. Yates
  3. pp. 253-254
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0011
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  3. pp. 4-255
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0016
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