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Preview Journal of American History 2012 99: 722-723
Presidential Address
Capitalism, Democracy, and the Emancipation of Belief Alice Kessler-Harris Journal of American History 2012 99: 725-740
Articles
Moving beyond “Rags to Riches”: New York's Irish Famine Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts Tyler Anbinder Journal of American History 2012 99: 741-770
On a Temporary Basis: Immigration, Labor Unions, and the American Entertainment Industry, 1880s–1930s Krystyn R. Moon Journal of American History 2012 99: 771-792
Round Table
The Big Tent of U.S. Women's and Gender History: A State of the Field Cornelia H. Dayton and Lisa Levenstein Journal of American History 2012 99: 793-817
Can We Have a Total American History? A Comment on the Achievements of Women's and Gender History Natsuki Aruga Journal of American History 2012 99: 818-821
The Impact of Racial and Sexual Politics on Women's History Crystal N. Feimster Journal of American History 2012 99: 822-826
Gender Identity and the Gendered Process Alice Kessler-Harris Journal of American History 2012 99: 827-829
Seeing Ourselves and for Ourselves: The Infinite Potential of Women's and Gender History Ana Elizabeth Rosas Journal of American History 2012 99: 830-834
Gender, Generations, Leadership Elisabetta Vezzosi Journal of American History 2012 99: 835-838
Exhibition Reviews
Editor's note Brian Horrigan and Kathleen Franz Journal of American History 2012 99: 839-840
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site Matthew G. Stewart Journal of American History 2012 99: 840-843
War in Our Back Yards: Discovering Atlanta, 1861–1865 Laura T. McCarty Journal of American History 2012 99: 844-846
The Jennie Wade House Museum Jennifer M. Murray Journal of American History 2012 99: 846-851
House and Home Laura Burd Schiavo Journal of American History 2012 99: 852-855
Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates Joan Fragaszy Troyano Journal of American History 2012 99: 855-859
Harley-Davidson Museum. Milwaukee, Wisc. http://www.harley-davidson.com. Daryl A. Webb Journal of American History 2012 99: 859-863
Book Reviews
Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India Joseph Kip Kosek Journal of American History 2012 99: 864-865
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States James Morton Turner Journal of American History 2012 99: 865-867
Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America Leslie J. Reagan Journal of American History 2012 99: 867-868
The Global Lincoln Matthew Pinsker Journal of American History 2012 99: 868-870
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War Brian R. Dirck Journal of American History 2012 99: 870-872
Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial Allen C. Guelzo Journal of American History 2012 99: 872-873
The Development of American Finance Julia Cathleen Ott Journal of American History 2012 99: 873-874
The Archaeology of American Capitalism Samantha A. Rebovich Journal of American History 2012 99: 874-875
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present Jay Sexton Journal of American History 2012 99: 875-876
Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama Michael E. Latham Journal of American History 2012 99: 876
Guantánamo: An American History Josef Opatrný Journal of American History 2012 99: 876-877
Istoricheskii Opyt SShA (Historical experience of the usa) Norman E. Saul Journal of American History 2012 99: 877-878
Native American Freemasonry: Associationalism and Performance in America R. William Weisberger Journal of American History 2012 99: 878-879
Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race Mary C. Kelly Journal of American History 2012 99: 879-880
Heaven in the American Imagination Kathryn Gin Lum Journal of American History 2012 99: 880
Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders' Eighth Amendment Helen J. Knowles Journal of American History 2012 99: 881
Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience Lawrence Richards Journal of American History 2012 99: 881-882
The Makers of American Wine: A Record of Two Hundred Years Robert C. Fuller Journal of American History 2012 99: 882-883
Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age Orville Vernon Burton Journal of American History 2012 99: 883-884
Enacting History Cathy Stanton Journal of American History 2012 99: 884-885
New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast Greg O'Brien Journal of American History 2012 99: 885-886
Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative Walter W. Woodward Journal of American History 2012 99: 886-887
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty Adrian Chastain Weimer Journal of American History 2012 99: 887
Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America Ellen Holmes Pearson Journal of American History 2012 99: 887-888
Indians and British Outposts in Eighteenth-Century America Daniel P. Barr Journal of American History 2012 99: 888-889
Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity Antoinette Sutto Journal of American History 2012 99: 889-890
Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior, vol. 4; The Law Reports, Part One (1761–1765)
Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior, vol. 5; The Law Reports, Part Two (1765–1772) David Thomas Konig Journal of American History 2012 99: 890-892
The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series Caroline Cox Journal of American History 2012 99: 892-893
Patrick Henry: First among Patriots Eric R. Schlereth Journal of American History 2012 99: 893
The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America Terry Bouton Journal of American History 2012 99: 893-894
Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation Stephanie Kermes Journal of American History 2012 99: 894-895
The Nation's Nature: How Continental Presumptions Gave Rise to the United States of America Edward Watts Journal of American History 2012 99: 895-896
Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility Lisa Wilson Journal of American History 2012 99: 896-897
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 36: 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802 Terence Ball Journal of American History 2012 99: 897-898
Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Peter J. Kastor Journal of American History 2012 99: 898-899
Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes Susan E. Gray Journal of American History 2012 99: 899
The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier Gregory E. Smoak Journal of American History 2012 99: 899-900
Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759–1823 Gerald E. Poyo Journal of American History 2012 99: 900-901
Chiricahua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680–1880 Robert C. Galgano Journal of American History 2012 99: 901-902
Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic Carolyn Eastman Journal of American History 2012 99: 902-903
Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature Gordon M. Sayre Journal of American History 2012 99: 903-904
Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy Eva Sheppard Wolf Journal of American History 2012 99: 904-905
Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania Julie Winch Journal of American History 2012 99: 905
Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston Cynthia M. Kennedy Journal of American History 2012 99: 905-906
Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation Edward E. Baptist Journal of American History 2012 99: 906-907
Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South Richard Follett Journal of American History 2012 99: 907-908
Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790–1860 Timothy R. Buckner Journal of American History 2012 99: 908-909
The Old South's Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress Kathleen M. Hilliard Journal of American History 2012 99: 909-910
Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government, 1791–1861 Matthew Mason Journal of American History 2012 99: 910-911
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Michael F. Magliari Journal of American History 2012 99: 911-912
The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century Jane Turner Censer Journal of American History 2012 99: 912-913
Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790–1860 Ted Maris-Wolf Journal of American History 2012 99: 913-914
Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade Elisa Tamarkin Journal of American History 2012 99: 914-915
Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South Kathryn B. McKee Journal of American History 2012 99: 915
Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America Michael Anesko Journal of American History 2012 99: 916
The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography Tiffany K. Wayne Journal of American History 2012 99: 916-917
Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States Christopher Capozzola Journal of American History 2012 99: 917-918
Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929 A. K. Sandoval-Strausz Journal of American History 2012 99: 918-919
An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World Christianity Paul William Harris Journal of American History 2012 99: 919-920
Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussions of Mass Media, Moby-Dick, Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and Sex with the New Motive Power Janet Moore Lindman Journal of American History 2012 99: 920-921
Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America Robert Emmett Curran Journal of American History 2012 99: 921
Cultivating Regionalism: Higher Education and the Making of the American Midwest Scott M. Gelber Journal of American History 2012 99: 922
Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr. Journal of American History 2012 99: 922-923
The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict Paul Quigley Journal of American History 2012 99: 924
Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War Ann Ostendorf Journal of American History 2012 99: 924-925
War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North Cheryl A. Wells Journal of American History 2012 99: 925-926
A Secret Society History of the Civil War Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch Journal of American History 2012 99: 926-927
Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South Kara Dixon Vuic Journal of American History 2012 99: 927-928
The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America Robert G. Angevine Journal of American History 2012 99: 928-929
The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus Eric M. Freedman Journal of American History 2012 99: 929-930
The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom John Cimprich Journal of American History 2012 99: 930-931
Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867 Keith P. Wilson Journal of American History 2012 99: 931-932
The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi Stephen D. Engle Journal of American History 2012 99: 932-933
The Confederate Heartland: Military and Civilian Morale in the Western Confederacy Kevin Adams Journal of American History 2012 99: 933-934
Virginia at War, 1865 Jason M. Frawley Journal of American History 2012 99: 934-935
The Struggle for Equality: Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction William L. Barney Journal of American History 2012 99: 935-936
Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Journal of American History 2012 99: 936-937
The Governor's Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870–1873 Timothy Bowman Journal of American History 2012 99: 937
Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology Caroline E. Janney Journal of American History 2012 99: 937-938
The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Postemancipation Life Whitney Battle-Baptiste Journal of American History 2012 99: 938-939
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Amy Louise Wood Journal of American History 2012 99: 939-940
Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era Gavin James Campbell Journal of American History 2012 99: 940-941
In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City Douglas Henry Daniels Journal of American History 2012 99: 941-942
Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum Michael Broyles Journal of American History 2012 99: 942
Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840–1914 Paul Lukacs Journal of American History 2012 99: 942-943
The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America Thomas Schoonover Journal of American History 2012 99: 943-944
From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898 Paul T. McCartney Journal of American History 2012 99: 944-945
Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art Patricia Smith Scanlan Journal of American History 2012 99: 945
Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley: Making the Modern Old West Thomas G. Andrews Journal of American History 2012 99: 945-946
Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America, 1886–1965 Terry A. Barnhart Journal of American History 2012 99: 946-947
Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era Victoria M. Grieve Journal of American History 2012 99: 947-948
The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest Kenneth H. Wheeler Journal of American History 2012 99: 948-949
The New Southern University: Academic Freedom and Liberalism at unc Amy Thompson McCandless Journal of American History 2012 99: 949-950
Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century Hani Morgan Journal of American History 2012 99: 950-951
The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 Nancy Isenberg Journal of American History 2012 99: 951
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont: Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights Sue Davis Journal of American History 2012 99: 952
Saving San Francisco: Relief and Recovery after the 1906 Disaster Kevin L. Rozario Journal of American History 2012 99: 952-953
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic N. Pieter M. O'Leary Journal of American History 2012 99: 953-954
Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War Rebecca Jo Plant Journal of American History 2012 99: 954-955
Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition Marc Dollinger Journal of American History 2012 99: 955-956
Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars J. Gerald Kennedy Journal of American History 2012 99: 956-957
A Band of Noble Women: Racial Politics in the Women's Peace Movement Robbie Lieberman Journal of American History 2012 99: 957
In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939 Brenda Gayle Plummer Journal of American History 2012 99: 958
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 Amanda Frisken Journal of American History 2012 99: 958-959
Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s Koritha Mitchell Journal of American History 2012 99: 959-960
The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis Randal Maurice Jelks Journal of American History 2012 99: 960-961
Born along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement Manfred Berg Journal of American History 2012 99: 961-962
Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights Cynthia Taylor Journal of American History 2012 99: 962
Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Gavin P. Wright Journal of American History 2012 99: 962-963
Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937 Russell R. Menard Journal of American History 2012 99: 963-964
Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management Jack E. Davis Journal of American History 2012 99: 964-965
The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937 Karen M. O'Neill Journal of American History 2012 99: 965-966
Highway under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel Michael R. Fein Journal of American History 2012 99: 966-967
Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons Dan Berger Journal of American History 2012 99: 967-968
Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan Thomas W. Zeiler Journal of American History 2012 99: 968-969
A People's History of Baseball Neil Lanctot Journal of American History 2012 99: 969-970
Unlocking V. O. Key Jr.: Southern Politics for the Twenty-First Century J. Morgan Kousser Journal of American History 2012 99: 970-971
Congress vs. the Bureaucracy: Muzzling Agency Public Relations Robert J. Spitzer Journal of American History 2012 99: 971-972
Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II Kornel S. Chang Journal of American History 2012 99: 972-973
After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics Ellen D. Wu Journal of American History 2012 99: 973-974
No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor Sara Abraham Journal of American History 2012 99: 974
Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement Neil A. Wynn Journal of American History 2012 99: 975-976
Reinventing Childhood after World War II Nicholas Sammond Journal of American History 2012 99: 976-977
The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930–1972 Barbara Yngvesson Journal of American History 2012 99: 977-978
Retiring Men: Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900–1960 Brian Gratton Journal of American History 2012 99: 978-979
Advertising in the Age of Persuasion: Building Brand America, 1941–1961 Daniel L. Lykins Journal of American History 2012 99: 979-980
Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition Karen Miller Russell Journal of American History 2012 99: 980
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis Whitney Walton Journal of American History 2012 99: 981
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal Thomas L. Jeffers Journal of American History 2012 99: 981-982
A Catholic Brain Trust: The History of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, 1945–1965 Kathleen Sprows Cummings Journal of American History 2012 99: 982-983
Making Sense of American Liberalism Margaret O'Mara Journal of American History 2012 99: 983-984
In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa W. J. Rorabaugh Journal of American History 2012 99: 984-985
The Short American Century: A Postmortem William H. Chafe Journal of American History 2012 99: 985-986
Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia Nick Cullather Journal of American History 2012 99: 986-987
Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam Edmund F. Wehrle Journal of American History 2012 99: 987-988
The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era James C. Landers Journal of American History 2012 99: 988-989
Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War Andrew J. Huebner Journal of American History 2012 99: 989-990
Embattled Ecumenism: The National Council of Churches, the Vietnam War, and the Trials of the Protestant Left Patricia Appelbaum Journal of American History 2012 99: 990-991
Democratic Narrative, History, and Memory Bernard von Bothmer Journal of American History 2012 99: 991-992
The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era Max Krochmal Journal of American History 2012 99: 992-993
Showdown: jfk and the Integration of the Washington Redskins Charles H. Martin Journal of American History 2012 99: 993-994
Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor Thomas F. Jackson Journal of American History 2012 99: 994-995
The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964–1980 Alice O'Connor Journal of American History 2012 99: 995-996
The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality David Farber Journal of American History 2012 99: 996-997
The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s Tracy Elaine K'Meyer Journal of American History 2012 99: 997-998
The Crisis in Energy Policy Paul Chastko Journal of American History 2012 99: 998-999
We Are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing Liesl Miller Orenic Journal of American History 2012 99: 999
The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control Marilynn S. Johnson Journal of American History 2012 99: 1000
Why Don't American Cities Burn? Robert Bauman Journal of American History 2012 99: 1001
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition Peniel E. Joseph Journal of American History 2012 99: 1001-1002
Movie Reviews Clinton William L. O'Neill Journal of American History 2012 99: 1003-1005
Game Change Kathy M. Newman Journal of American History 2012 99: 1005-1008
41 James I. Deutsch Journal of American History 2012 99: 1008-1009
Paul Goodman Changed My Life Stephen J. Whitfield Journal of American History 2012 99: 1009-1011
Jesse Owens Daniel A. Nathan Journal of American History 2012 99: 1011-1013
Caught on Camera: Combat Douglas A. Cunningham Journal of American History 2012 99: 1013-1015
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
Steve Jobs—One Last Thing Thomas Streeter Journal of American History 2012 99: 1015-1018
Web Site Reviews
The Walt Whitman Archive Michael Robertson Journal of American History 2012 99: 1019-1020
The Civil War Day by Day Daniel E. Sutherland Journal of American History 2012 99: 1020-1021
Digital Archive Collections at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Library Jennifer Fish Kashay Journal of American History 2012 99: 1021-1022
Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court Jonathan M. Chu Journal of American History 2012 99: 1022-1023
iCivics Anthony Pellegrino and Collin Ray Journal of American History 2012 99: 1023-1024
Announcements
Announcements Journal of American History 2012 99: 1025-1026
Recent Scholarship
Recent Scholarship Journal of American History 2012 99: 1027