Articles
Introduction: Constructing the Carceral State
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson
Journal of American History 2015 102: 18–24
African American Women, Mass Incarceration, and the Politics of Protection
Kali Nicole Gross
Journal of American History 2015 102: 25–33
Less Crime, More Punishment: Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice in Early Twentieth-Century America
Jeffrey S. Adler
Journal of American History 2015 102: 34–46
Youth of Color and California's Carceral State: The Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility
Miroslava Chávez-García
Journal of American History 2015 102: 47–60
Queer Law and Order: Sex, Criminality, and Policing in the Late Twentieth-Century United States
Timothy Stewart-Winter
Journal of American History 2015 102: 61–72
We Are Not Slaves: Rethinking the Rise of Carceral States through the Lens of the Prisoners' Rights Movement
Robert T. Chase
Journal of American History 2015 102: 73–86
Guns and Butter: The Welfare State, the Carceral State, and the Politics of Exclusion in the Postwar United States
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Journal of American History 2015 102: 87–99
“A War within Our Own Boundaries”: Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Rise of the Carceral State
Elizabeth Hinton
Journal of American History 2015 102: 100–112
Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration: Toward a New Political Economy of the Postwar Carceral State
Alex Lichtenstein
Journal of American History 2015 102: 113–125
Impossible Criminals: The Suburban Imperatives of America's War on Drugs
Matthew D. Lassiter
Journal of American History 2015 102: 126–140
Deportability and the Carceral State
Torrie Hester
Journal of American History 2015 102: 141–151
Objects of Police History
Micol Seigel
Journal of American History 2015 102: 152–161
Crack in Los Angeles: Crisis, Militarization, and Black Response to the Late Twentieth-Century War on Drugs
Donna Murch
Journal of American History 2015 102: 162–173
The Unintended Consequences of the Carceral State: Chicana/o Political Mobilization in Post–World War II America
Edward J. Escobar
Journal of American History 2015 102: 174–184
Exhibition Reviews
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
Journal of American History 2015 102: 185–188
Woodrow Wilson Family Home: A Museum of Reconstruction in Columbia and Richland County
Journal of American History 2015 102: 188–193
Women in Military Service for America Memorial
Journal of American History 2015 102: 193–198
Broken Bodies, Suffering Spirits: Injury, Death, and Healing in Civil War Philadelphia
Journal of American History 2015 102: 198–200
Book Reviews
The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927
Journal of American History 2015 102: 201–202
Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature
Journal of American History 2015 102: 202–204
Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present
Journal of American History 2015 102: 204–205
Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past
Journal of American History 2015 102: 205–207
Crafting Preservation Criteria: The National Register of Historic Places and American Historic Preservation
Journal of American History 2015 102: 207–208
Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
Journal of American History 2015 102: 208–209
Zen and the Art of Local History
Journal of American History 2015 102: 208
A New History of Mississippi
Journal of American History 2015 102: 209–210
Rethinking the American City: An International Dialogue
Journal of American History 2015 102: 210–211
Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England
Journal of American History 2015 102: 211–212
The Global Republic: America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power
Journal of American History 2015 102: 212
Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century
Journal of American History 2015 102: 213–214
Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 213
Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism
Journal of American History 2015 102: 214–215
America's Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community
Journal of American History 2015 102: 215–216
Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection
Journal of American History 2015 102: 216–217
Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 217–218
Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
Journal of American History 2015 102: 218
Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Journal of American History 2015 102: 219
Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
Journal of American History 2015 102: 219–220
Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Journal of American History 2015 102: 220–221
Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540–1859
Journal of American History 2015 102: 221–222
Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France
Journal of American History 2015 102: 222–223
Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country
Journal of American History 2015 102: 223–224
The Ocean Is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688–1856
Journal of American History 2015 102: 224
Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
Journal of American History 2015 102: 225–226
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women: Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts
Journal of American History 2015 102: 225
Papist Devils: Catholics in British America, 1574–1783
Journal of American History 2015 102: 226–227
Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic
Journal of American History 2015 102: 227–228
The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson, vol. 1: 1740–1766
Journal of American History 2015 102: 228–229
A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 229–230
The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley
Journal of American History 2015 102: 230–231
The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent
Journal of American History 2015 102: 232–233
Inventing Ethan Allen
Journal of American History 2015 102: 232
The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
Journal of American History 2015 102: 233–234
Warrior Nations: The United States and Indian Peoples
Journal of American History 2015 102: 234–235
Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
Journal of American History 2015 102: 235–236
Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress: The Morality of a Slaveholder
Journal of American History 2015 102: 236
Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment; Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson
Journal of American History 2015 102: 237–238
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Journal of American History 2015 102: 238–239
Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic
Journal of American History 2015 102: 239–240
That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture
Journal of American History 2015 102: 240–241
When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
Journal of American History 2015 102: 241–242
Collegiate Republic: Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 242–243
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 243–244
Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 244
Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel
Journal of American History 2015 102: 245
Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850
Journal of American History 2015 102: 245–246
DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York
Journal of American History 2015 102: 246–247
A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
Journal of American History 2015 102: 247–248
Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom were Made at the Racetrack
Journal of American History 2015 102: 248–249
African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800–1860
Journal of American History 2015 102: 249
Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner
Journal of American History 2015 102: 250
Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
Journal of American History 2015 102: 251–252
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 251
Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio
Journal of American History 2015 102: 252–253
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
Journal of American History 2015 102: 253–254
The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War
Journal of American History 2015 102: 254–255
A Companion to the U.S. Civil War, vols. 1–2
Journal of American History 2015 102: 255–256
The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
Journal of American History 2015 102: 256–257
Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South
Journal of American History 2015 102: 257–258
Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Field
Journal of American History 2015 102: 258
Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath
Journal of American History 2015 102: 259
Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830–1977
Journal of American History 2015 102: 259–260
Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012
Journal of American History 2015 102: 260–261
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, vol. 5: May 23, 1881–August 26, 1881
Journal of American History 2015 102: 261–262
America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace
Journal of American History 2015 102: 262–263
The Struggle for America's Promise: Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
Journal of American History 2015 102: 263–264
The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism: An International History, 1878–1934
Journal of American History 2015 102: 264–265
Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
Journal of American History 2015 102: 265–266
From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 266
William James and the Transatlantic Conversation: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Philosophy of Religion
Journal of American History 2015 102: 267
Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State
Journal of American History 2015 102: 268–269
Statebuilding from the Margins: Between Reconstruction and the New Deal
Journal of American History 2015 102: 268
Making Rocky Mountain National Park: The Environmental History of an American Treasure
Journal of American History 2015 102: 269–270
Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage
Journal of American History 2015 102: 270–271
Feminism as Life's Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars
Journal of American History 2015 102: 271–272
The Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State
Journal of American History 2015 102: 272–273
The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880–1941
Journal of American History 2015 102: 273
Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style
Journal of American History 2015 102: 273–274
Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 274–275
Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino
Journal of American History 2015 102: 275–276
Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
Journal of American History 2015 102: 276–277
Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age
Journal of American History 2015 102: 277–278
Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking
Journal of American History 2015 102: 278–279
A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 279–280
The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900–1967
Journal of American History 2015 102: 280
Ain't Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left
Journal of American History 2015 102: 281–282
Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
Journal of American History 2015 102: 281
Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left: A Northwest Writer Reworks American Fiction
Journal of American History 2015 102: 282–283
Trouble in Goshen: Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South
Journal of American History 2015 102: 283–284
States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System
Journal of American History 2015 102: 284–285
The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe, 1940–1945
Journal of American History 2015 102: 285–286
Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II
Journal of American History 2015 102: 286–287
A History of U.S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945–1963
Journal of American History 2015 102: 287
Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now
Journal of American History 2015 102: 288–289
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Journal of American History 2015 102: 288
American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century
Journal of American History 2015 102: 289–290
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
Journal of American History 2015 102: 290–291
The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972
Journal of American History 2015 102: 291–292
Little “Red Scares”: Anti-Communism and Political Repression in the United States, 1921–1946
Journal of American History 2015 102: 292–293
A Very Principled Boy: The Life of Duncan Lee, Red Spy and Cold Warrior
Journal of American History 2015 102: 293
Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
Journal of American History 2015 102: 293–294
Name, Rank, and Serial Number: Exploiting Korean War pows at Home and Abroad
Journal of American History 2015 102: 294–295
Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba, and the Mafia; 1933 to 1966
Journal of American History 2015 102: 295–296
From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era
Journal of American History 2015 102: 296–297
Israel and the Cold War from the War of Independence to the Six Days War: The United States, the Soviet Union, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and the Question of Soviet Jewry
Journal of American History 2015 102: 297–298
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954–1965
Journal of American History 2015 102: 298–299
Equal Security: Europe and the salt Process, 1969–1976
Journal of American History 2015 102: 299
No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture
Journal of American History 2015 102: 299–300
The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
Journal of American History 2015 102: 300–301
River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865–1954
Journal of American History 2015 102: 301–302
The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937–1955
Journal of American History 2015 102: 302–303
In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle
Journal of American History 2015 102: 303–304
A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
Journal of American History 2015 102: 304
The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: Urban Rebellion in America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 304–305
Detroit: Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide
Journal of American History 2015 102: 305–306
Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990
Journal of American History 2015 102: 306–307
Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago
Journal of American History 2015 102: 307–308
Revisiting the Sixties: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade
Journal of American History 2015 102: 308–309
Aztlán Arizona: Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968–1978
Journal of American History 2015 102: 309
Failing Our Veterans: The G. I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation
Journal of American History 2015 102: 310
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 310–311
Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk
Journal of American History 2015 102: 311–312
American Energy Policy in the 1970s
Journal of American History 2015 102: 312–313
Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century
Journal of American History 2015 102: 313–314
Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State
Journal of American History 2015 102: 314–315
Preserving South Street Seaport: The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District
Journal of American History 2015 102: 315
How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America
Journal of American History 2015 102: 315–316
Movie Reviews
Unbroken; Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese pow in World War II; Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Journal of American History 2015 102: 317–321
Selma
Journal of American History 2015 102: 321–322
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation
Journal of American History 2015 102: 323–325
The 50 Year Argument; Regarding Susan Sontag
Journal of American History 2015 102: 325–328
A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times
Journal of American History 2015 102: 328–329
Digital History Reviews
Lowcountry Digital Library; Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
Journal of American History 2015 102: 330–331
Early American Crime: An Exploration of Crime, Criminals, and Punishments from America's Past
Journal of American History 2015 102: 331–332
History through Deaf Eyes
Journal of American History 2015 102: 332–333
Crossroads of War: Maryland and the Border in the Civil War
Journal of American History 2015 102: 332
African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
Journal of American History 2015 102: 333–334
Announcements
Announcements
Journal of American History 2015 102: 335–336