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Table of Contents

  1. errata
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0145
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  1. Editor's Note
  2. Randal Maurice Jelks, Sherrie Tucker, Alex Stucky, Chris Kaluzienski, Hannah Bailey, Melissa Foree
  3. p. 5
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0140
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  1. Notes on Contributors
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0103
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Review Essays

  1. Confronting Trauma and Toxins, Rejecting Closure: Three Recent Investigations of America’s War on Vietnam
  2. Ray Mizumura-Pence
  3. pp. 7-20
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0109
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  1. “A Hall of Mirrors”: Two Recent Works in Mormon Studies
  2. Sara M. Patterson
  3. pp. 21-29
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0117
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  1. “No Backward Step”: Slavery and Freedom in Multiple Contexts
  2. Sharita Jacobs Thompson
  3. pp. 31-41
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0124
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  1. From Quarantine to Mainstream: The Literary and Historical Journey of American Mixed-Race Heroines
  2. Beverly Tomek
  3. pp. 43-52
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0112
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  1. Food, Diet Reform, and Obesity Politics in the American Imagination
  2. Rachel A. Vaughn
  3. pp. 53-64
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0119
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  1. New Directions for the History of Aviation
  2. Dominick A. Pisano
  3. pp. 65-74
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0126
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  1. AMSJ Editorial Board Photos
  3. pp. 75-80
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0133
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Reviews Index

  1. A NOBLE FIGHT: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America by Corey D. B. Walker (review)
  2. Jacob Dorman
  3. pp. 83-86
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0107
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  1. DOROTHY WEST’S PARADISE: A Biography of Class and Color by Cherene M. Sherrard-Johnson (review)
  2. Zakiya R. Adair
  3. pp. 86-87
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0116
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  1. INVENTING THE EGGHEAD: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture by Aaron Lecklider (review)
  2. Lynne Adrian
  3. pp. 87-88
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0123
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  1. FLYOVER LIVES: A Memoir by Diane Johnson (review)
  2. Ferdâ Asya
  3. pp. 88-89
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0130
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  1. THE CHILDREN’S TABLE: Childhood Studies and the Humanities ed. by Anna Mae Duane (review)
  2. Meredith A. Bak
  3. pp. 90-91
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0137
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  1. IT’S ALL A KIND OF MAGIC: The Young Ken Kese by Rick Dodgson (review)
  2. Dawson Barrett
  3. pp. 91-92
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0144
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  1. LIVING FAITH: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty by Susan Crawford Sullivan (review)
  2. Rebecca Barrett-Fox
  3. pp. 92-93
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0114
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  1. COMIC BOOK CRIME: Truth, Justice, and the American Way by Nickie D. Phillips and Staci Strobl (review)
  2. Sarah Boslaugh
  3. pp. 93-94
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0121
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  1. WHY WE LEFT: Untold Stories and Songs of America’s First Immigrants by Joanna Brooks (review)
  2. James I. Deutsch
  3. pp. 94-95
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0128
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  1. RED APPLE: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York by Phillip Deery (review)
  2. Bernard F. Dick
  3. pp. 95-96
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0135
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  1. OUR AESTHETIC CATEGORIES: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai (review)
  2. Douglas Dowland
  3. pp. 96-97
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0142
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  1. AMERICA’S FIRST ADVENTURE IN CHINA: Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation by John R. Haddad (review)
  2. Joe Eaton
  3. pp. 97-98
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0105
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  1. MEN’S COLLEGE ATHLETICS AND THE POLITICS OF RACIAL EQUALITY: Five Pioneer Stories of Black Manliness, White Citizenship, and American Democracy by Gregory J. Kaliss (review)
  2. Anthony O. Edmonds
  3. pp. 98-99
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0111
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  1. KATHERINE AND R. J. REYNOLDS: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South by Michele Gillespie (review)
  2. Glenn Feldman
  3. pp. 99-100
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0118
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  1. HIDDEN CHICANO CINEMA: Film Dramas in the Borderlands by A. Gabriel Meléndez (review)
  2. Crescencio López González
  3. pp. 100-101
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0125
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  1. THEN SINGS MY SOUL: The Culture of Southern Gospel Singing by Douglas Harrison (review)
  2. Jared Griffin
  3. pp. 101-103
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0132
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  1. THE RED LAND TO THE SOUTH: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico by James H. Cox (review)
  2. Geoff Hamilton
  3. pp. 103-104
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0139
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  1. MAD MEN, MAD WORLD: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s ed. by Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, and Robert A. Rushing (review)
  2. Rebecca Hill
  3. pp. 104-105
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0102
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  1. Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory by Penny Lewis (review)
  2. Richard L. Hughes
  3. pp. 105-106
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0108
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  1. Geronimo by Robert M. Utley (review)
  2. Sarah Keyes
  3. pp. 106-107
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0115
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  1. CHASING NEWSROOM DIVERSITY: From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action by Gwyneth Mellinger (review)
  2. Hellen S. Lee
  3. pp. 107-108
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0122
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  1. ESLANDA: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson by Barbara Ransby (review)
  2. Jared Leighton
  3. pp. 108-109
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0129
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  1. Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism by Laura Portwood-Stacer (review)
  2. John Lennon
  3. pp. 109-110
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0136
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  1. WAR, GENOCIDE, AND JUSTICE: Cambodian American Memory Work by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (review)
  2. Jeehyun Lim
  3. pp. 110-111
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0143
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  1. SOUNDING LIKE A NO-NO: Queer Sounds & Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era by Francesca T. Royster (review)
  2. Fiona I. B. Ngô
  3. pp. 111-112
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0106
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  1. THE SIGNIFYING EYE: Seeing Faulkner’s Art by Candace Waid (review)
  2. Travis Nygard
  3. pp. 112-113
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0113
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  1. PURO ARTE: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire by Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns (review)
  2. Emmanuel Raymundo
  3. pp. 113-114
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0120
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  1. ON-DEMAND CULTURE: Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies by Chuck Tryon (review)
  2. Chris Richardson
  3. pp. 115-116
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0127
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  1. BRIGHT LIGHT CITY: Las Vegas in Popular Culture by Larry Gragg (review)
  2. Mary Rizzo
  3. pp. 116-117
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0134
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  1. UNFINISHED STORIES: The Narrative Photography of Hansel Mieth and Marion Palfi by Janet Zandy (review)
  2. Sean Singer
  3. pp. 117-118
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0141
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  1. CELIBACIES: American Modernism and Sexual Life by Benjamin Kahan (review)
  2. Aristi Trendel
  3. pp. 118-119
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0104
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  1. “BUILDING LIKE MOSES WITH JACOBS IN MIND”: Contemporary Planning in New York City by Scott Larson (review)
  2. Andrew Wasserman
  3. pp. 119-120
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0110
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  1. THEATRICAL LIBERALISM: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America by Andrea Most (review)
  2. Megan E. Williams
  3. pp. 120-121
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0131
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  1. REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN WAR: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.–Mexican War by Michael Scott Van Wagenen (review)
  2. J. A. Zumoff
  3. pp. 121-122
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0138
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