In this Issue

Table of Contents

One Nation Over Coals: Cold War Nationalism and the Barbecue

Kristin L. Matthews
pp. 5-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0053
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When Modernism Was Still Radical: The Design Laboratory and the Cultural Politics of Depression-Era America

Shannan Clark
pp. 35-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0047
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What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
pp. 63-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0057
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Howard Fast's American Revolution

Neil L. York
pp. 85-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0035
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Black Presidents, Gay Marriages, and Hawaiian Sovereignty: Reimagining Citizenship in the Age of Obama

Judy Rohrer
pp. 107-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0044
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Into The Black: J.P.L. and the American Space Program, 1976-2004, and: A History of the Kennedy Space Center (review)

Kim McQuaid
pp. 135-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0008
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One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic (review)

David A. Hoekema
pp. 137-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0002
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Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture (review)

Betty Houchin Winfield
pp. 138-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0017
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The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman (review)

Laura L. Mielke
pp. 139-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0029
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Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (review)

Douglas A. Howard
pp. 140-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0038
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The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War, and: The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspective (review)

Michael Scheibach
pp. 141-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0026
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Baseball in America & America in Baseball (review)

Donald J. Mrozek
pp. 143-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0011
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Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age (review)

Aaron K. Ketchell
pp. 144-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0020
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Cold War Exiles in Mexico: U.S. Dissidents and the Culture of Resistance (review)

James D. Fernández
pp. 145-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0042
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The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America (review)

Marjorie N. Feld
pp. 146-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0024
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Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction (review)

Wendy Kline
pp. 147-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0006
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Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (review)

Elizabeth Losh
pp. 148-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0051
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How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America (review)

Margaret Garb
pp. 150-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0015
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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post Civil-Rights Era (review)

Herman Gray
pp. 151-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0009
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Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity (review)

James Loeffler
pp. 152-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0045
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Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angles: The Women of Barn Dance Radio (review)

Richard A. Peterson
pp. 153-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0036
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Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History (review)

Andrew E. Kersten
pp. 154-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0055
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Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity (review)

James Gilbert
pp. 155-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0040
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Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (review)

Ruben Flores
pp. 156-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0049
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Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal (review)

John A. Jakle
pp. 158-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0027
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (review)

Rochelle Johnson
pp. 159-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0018
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Race and Education: 1954-2007 (review)

Stephen Steinberg
pp. 160-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0000
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The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam (review)

Carlos A. Schwantes
pp. 161-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0022
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Red Chicago (review)

Michael Antonucci
pp. 162-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0003
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Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century (review)

George Lipsitz
pp. 163-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0031
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194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front (review)

Barbara M. Kelly
pp. 164-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0043
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American Beauty (review)

Jo Barraclough Paoletti
p. 165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0013
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American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics (review)

Dominic J. Capeci Jr.
p. 166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0016
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Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (review)

Bruce Michelson
pp. 167-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0034
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The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology (review)

Hamilton Cravens
pp. 169-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0052
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Edgar Allan Poe, Critical Theory: The Major Documents (review)

Lois Vines
pp. 170-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0025
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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (review)

Aram Goudsouzian
p. 171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0037
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Health and Medicine on Display: International Expositions in the United States, 1876-1904 (review)

Carolyn de la Peña
pp. 172-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0056
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The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 (review)

Max McElwain
pp. 174-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0007
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Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (review)

Wilma King
pp. 175-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0028
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Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration (review)

Eric J. Sandeen
pp. 177-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0046
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New Deal Art in Arizona (review)

Erika Doss
pp. 178-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0012
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The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics (review)

Joel Olson
pp. 179-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0039
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Runaway Romances: Hollywood's Postwar Tour of Europe (review)

William Graebner
pp. 180-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0048
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Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the Veil of Black (review)

Sarah Meer
pp. 181-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0021
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Spiritual Weapons: The Cold War and the Forging of an American National Religion (review)

Mark Hulsether
pp. 182-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0019
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To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (review)

Jeannette Eileen Jones
pp. 183-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0030
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What Virtue There is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose, and: Lynching and Specatcle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (review)

Brent M. S. Campney
pp. 184-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0001
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Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women=s Activism in the Beauty Industry (review)

Julia Kirk Blackwelder
pp. 186-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0041
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Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (review)

Kristin L. Matthews
pp. 187-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0050
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Common Bondage: Slavery as Metaphor in Revolutionary America (review)

John P. Kaminski
pp. 188-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0032
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Filibustering: A Political History of Obstructionism in the House and Senate (review)

Burdett Loomis
pp. 189-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0023
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For Home and Country: World War One Propaganda on the Home Front (review)

Mark Whalan
pp. 190-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0010
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The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It (review)

Richard P. Horwitz
pp. 191-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0014
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Integrating the Gridiron: Black Civil Rights and American College Football (review)

Aram Goudsouzian
pp. 193-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0054
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The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good (review)

Christopher Clark
pp. 194-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0005
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Notes on Contributors

p. 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0004
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The Great Depression & The New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (review)

Peter Fearon
pp. 149-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2009.0033
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