Review Index
Volume 9, Number 4.5: September, 2009
Review by Amanda Bowie Moniz
The Unwanted Rise of America's Voluntary Tradition
Johann N. Neem, Creating a Nation of Joiners
Review by Corey Capers
Visualizing Freedom
Michael A. Chaney, Fugitive Vision
Review by April Rose Haynes
Counterproductions
Donna Dennis, Licentious Gotham
Volume 9, Number 4: July, 2009
Review by Honor Sachs
A Lost Cause
Kevin T. Barksdale, The Lost State of Franklin
Spencer Snow
Diasporic to Hegemonic
Leonard Tennenhouse, The Importance of Feeling English
Review by Serena Zabin
Capitalism at the Kitchen Table
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, The Ties That Buy
Volume 9, Number 3.5: June, 2009
Review by Wim Klooster
Acquiring a Taste for Defiance
Thomas M. Truxes, Defying Empire
Review by W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz
Reaping the Bounty of Death
Vincent Brown, The Reaper's Garden
Review by Mark Schmeller
Newspapers and the Cant of Civility
Marcus Daniel, Scandal and Civility
Volume 9, Number 3: April, 2009
Review by Thomas Augst
The Asylum as a Literary Institution
Benjamin Reiss, Theaters of Madness
Review by David Greven
Emotional Labors
Martha Tomhave Blauvelt, The Work of the Heart
Review by Robb K. Haberman
Poetry over Politics
Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan, Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Review by Martha Elena Rojas
Reading the Ocean with a Mariner's Eye
Hester Blum, The View from the Masthead
Volume 9, Number 2: January, 2009
Review by Gordon Sayre
A French-Canadian View of North American Cartography
Litalien, Palomino, and Vaugeois, eds. Mapping a Continent
Review by Erik J. Chaput
Reform and Reaction: Populism in Early America
Ronald P. Formisano, For the People
Review by Elizabeth Kelly Gray
The Deep and Deeper South
Matthew Pratt Guterl, American Mediterranean
Review by Meredith Neuman
Puritan History in the Present Tense
Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
Review by Robert G. Parkinson
On Print and Polemics
Trish Loughran, The Republic in Print
Volume 9, Number 1: October, 2008
(no reviews)
Volume 8, Number 4: July, 2008
Review by Erik J. Chaput
Sibling Rivalry in Early America
Charles Rappleye, Sons of Providence
Review by Mark A. Nicholas
A Whale of a Book
Eric Jay Dolin. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Review by Michael Leroy Oberg
The Jamestown Project
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, The Jamestown Project
Review by J. M. Opal
Freedom from High Federalism
Edward J. Larson, A Magnificent Catastrophe
Review by Herbert Sloan
Aaron Burr Redivivus
Nancy Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
Volume 8, Number 3: April, 2008
Review by Erik J. Chaput
Sibling Rivalry in Early America
Charles Rappleye, Sons of Providence
Review by Mark A. Nicholas
A Whale of a Book
Eric Jay Dolin. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Review by Michael Leroy Oberg
The Jamestown Project
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, The Jamestown Project
Review by J. M. Opal
Freedom from High Federalism
Edward J. Larson, A Magnificent Catastrophe
Review by Herbert Sloan
Aaron Burr Redivivus
Nancy Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
Volume 8, Number 2: January, 2008
Review by Thomas J. Humphrey
Race, Class, and Upheaval in Revolutionary Virginia
Michael A. McDonnell, The Politics of War
Review by J. I. Little
Resisting State Authority on Passamaquoddy Bay
Joshua M. Smith, Borderland Smuggling
Review by Sharon Ann Murphy
Bread and Butter Activism
Joshua R. Greenberg, Advocating the Man
Review by Richard Newman
Print the (New) Legend!
Jeannine Marie DeLombard, Slavery on Trial
Review by Carl J. Richard
Early American Women and the Classics
Caroline Winterer, The Mirror of Antiquity
Review by Manisha Sinha
The Inhumanity of Slavery
David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage
Volume 8, Number 1: October, 2007
Review by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Searching for Love and Security across the Color Line
Martha Hodes, The Sea Captain’s Wife
Review by Peter C. Mancall
Jamestown ®
William M. Kelso, Jamestown: The Buried Truth
Review by Carla Gardina Pestana
The Obsessive Richard Hakluyt
Peter C. Mancall, Hakluyt’s Promise
Review by John Howard Smith
"Can Two Walk Together, Except They Be Agreed?"
Chris Beneke, Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism
Review by Lynda Yankaskas
The Female Reader as Civic Actor
Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak
Review by Michael Zakim
Leather Steaks and Indigestible Pies
Wendy Gamber, The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth Century America
Volume 7, Number 4: July, 2007
Review by Elizabeth Urban Alexander
"He said I must": Rape, Race, and Social Class in Early America
Sharon Block, Rape & Sexual Power in Early America
Review by Richard R. John
Where in the World is the United States?
Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations
Review by Robert E. Wright
Finally, a New Paradigm
Saul Cornell, A Well-Regulated Militia
Volume 7, Number 3: April, 2007
(no reviews)
Volume 7, Number 2: January, 2007
Review by April Lee Hatfield
Quapaw Diplomacy and Osage Empire
Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground
Review by Sean Patrick Adams
Taxing the House Divided
Robin L. Einhorn, American Taxation
Review by Christian J. Koot
Another Revolution in Need of Revising
Russell R. Menard, Sweet Negotiations
Review by Hilary Moss
Enslaved Bodies, Enslaved Selves
Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Birthing a Slave
Review by Brian Phillips Murphy
Before the Apple Ripened
Robert E. Wright, The First Wall Street
Review by Jeffrey Robert Young
Listening to the Evidence of the African American Slave Experience
Shane White and Graham White, The Sounds of Slavery
Volume 7, Number 1: October, 2006
Review by Douglas R. Egerton
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
Jill Lepore, New York Burning
Review by Christa Dierksheide
Undermining an Empire
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains
Review by James Fichter
Capitalism and Econometrics in Early American Economic History
Cathy Matson, ed., The Economy of Early America
Review by Watson Jennison
The Life of Prince Mortimer (in Brief)
Denis R. Caron, A Century in Captivity
Volume 6, Number 4: July, 2006
Review by Peter C. Baldwin
When Night was Dark
A. Roger Ekirch, At Day’s Close
Review by Warren R. Hofstra
Old Wealth, Common Wealth
Sean Patrick Adams, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth
Review by Jeff Broadwater
Whose Failure?
Bruce Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers
Review by Matthew Pinsker
Imperialists in Denial
Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton, The Dominion of War
Volume 6, Number 3: April, 2006
(no reviews)
Volume 6, Number 2: January, 2006
Review by Wendy Bellion
Exhuming Peale
David C. Ward, Charles Willson Peale
Review by Peter Charles Hoffer
Swift but Uncertain Justice
Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown, The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler
Review by Leslie Choquette
Sometimes a Chair is Only a Chair
Neil Kamil, Fortress of the Soul
Review by Andrew Shankman
The Revolution Heard Round the World
Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf, eds. Empire and Nation
Volume 6, Number 1: October, 2005
Review by Kathleen Curtin
Beyond Baked Beans
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald, America’s Founding Food
Review by Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor
Enduring Independence
Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers
Review by Gregory Nobles
Bovine Invaders, Porcine Imperialists
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Creatures of Empire
Review by Akela Reason
"They Had Faces Then"
Margaretta M. Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution
Volume 5, Number 4: July, 2005
Review by Gretchen A. Adams
Hunting Witches . . . Responsibly
Richard Godbeer, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
Review by Joshua R. Greenberg
Mechanized Language and Class Formation
Stephen P. Rice, Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America
Review by Kim M. Gruenwald
Along the Beaten Path in Early Kentucky
Craig Thompson Friend, Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West
Review by Suzanne Cooper Guasco
The Not-So-Unfamiliar Jefferson
Andrew Burstein, Jefferson’s Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello
Volume 5, Number 3: April, 2005
Review by Michael LaCombe
The Atlantic World Turned Upside Down
Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661
Review by Johann N. Neem
Looking for Politics in All the Right Places
Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher, eds., Beyond the Founders
Review by Michael Hoeflich
Legal History and Material Culture of the Law
Martha J. McNamara, From Tavern to Courthouse: Architecture & Ritual in American Law, 1685-1860
Review by Kathleen W. Jones
Childhood Then and Now
Steven Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood
Volume 5, Number 2: January, 2005
(no reviews)
Volume 5, Number 1: October, 2004
Review by Thomas J. Brown
The Simple Life?
Sterling Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia
Review by Matt D. Childs
Captors to Captives to Christians to Calabar
Randy J. Sparks, The Two Princes of Calabar
Review by Catherine Molineux
Race and Citizenship in Early New England
John Wood Sweet, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830
Review by Margaretta M. Lovell
Adding Food to Business History and Urban History
Helen Tangires, Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Volume 4, Number 4: July, 2004
Stephen Mihm Accept No Imitations
Tom Rea The Pathfinder’s Lost Instruments
Joanna Brooks Samson Occom at the Mohegan Sun
For columns and reviews see the table of contents for this issue
Volume 4, Number 3: April, 2004
Review by David D. Hall
Re-reading William Bradford
Douglas Anderson, William Bradford’s Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word
Review by Brendan McConville
Meanings Foul . . . and Fair
Anthony S. Parent Jr., Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
Review by Laura Rigal
Local Haunts
Judith Richardson, Possessions, The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley
Review by John Howard Smith
One Great Conversation
E. Brooks Holifield, Theology in America
Review by Daniel Usner
Their Stories Are Our Story
Colin G. Calloway, One Vast Winter Count
Volume 4, Number 2: January, 2004
(no reviews)
Volume 4, Number 1: October, 2003
Brian Cowan
Coffee and the Baroque Noir Novel
Review of The Coffee Trader by David Liss
John E. Crowley
Alcoholic License
Review of Taverns and Drinking in Early America by Sharon V. Salinger
Cornelia Hughes Dayton
Getting Beyond "Who Done It"
Review of Killed Strangely by Elaine Forman Crane
Daniel W. Howe
The Enduring Emerson
Review of Emerson by Lawrence Buell
James E. Lewis Jr.
A Story So Immense
Review of A Wilderness So Immense by Jon Kukla
David Waldstreicher
Redressing Early America
Review of What Clothes Reveal by Linda Baumgarten
Volume 3, Number 4: July, 2003
Peter C. Baldwin
Engendering the City
Review of Reforming Men and Women by Bruce Dorsey
Andrew R. L. Cayton
Olympia’s Gaze
Review of Amsterdam by Geert Mak and Paris by Patrice Higonnet
Paul A. Gilje
Gangs, the Five Points, and the American Public
Review of Gangs of New York, Gangs of Chicago, and Barbary Coast by Herbert Asbury and Five Points by Tyler Anbinder
Volume 3, Number 3: April, 2003
Jennifer Baker
An American Dunciad
Review of The Devil and Doctor Dwight by Colin Wells
Allan Kulikoff
Farmers, Tenants, and Capitalists
Review of Farm, Shop, Landing by Martin Bruegel
Michael Leroy Oberg
The View from Indian Country
Review of Facing East from Indian Country by Daniel K. Richter
Benjamin Reiss
Black Shakespeareans in Old New York
Review of Stories of Freedom in Black New York by Shane White
Timothy J. Shannon
A Redesigned Pontiac for the Twenty-First Century
Review of War under Heaven by Gregory Evans Dowd
Volume 3, Number 2: January, 2003
Carol Karlsen
Devils in the Shape of Good Men
Review essay: In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton and a Half-Century of Writing on New England Witchcraft
Amy S. Greenberg
Hearing History
Review of Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark Smith
William Pencak
When Did the American Revolution Begin?
Review of The First American Revolution by Ray Raphael
Jennifer M. Spear
Borderlands Bondage
Review of Captives and Cousins by James F. Brooks
Volume 3, Number 1: October, 2002
Stephen Aron
Continental Visions
Review of American Colonies by Alan Taylor
Joseph Hall
The Great Indian Slave Caper
Review of The Indian Slave Trade by Alan Gallay
Susan E. Klepp
Sex and the Sources
Review of Sexual Revolution in Early America by Richard Godbeer
Brendan McConville
Bad Guys and Good Guys
Review of Breaking Loose Together by Marjoleine Kars
Richard Newman
A Founder of Color
Review of A Gentleman of Color by Julie Winch
Volume 2, Number 4: July, 2002
Woody Holton
Lionizing the Beard
Re-reading of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Charles A. Beard
John P. Kaminski
Madison's Gift
Review of Notes of Debates on the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison
John W. Quist
Slavery's Contingent Conclusion
Review of Final Freedom by Michael Vorenberg
Herbert Sloan
Fragments of the True Cross
Re-reading of The Founders' Constitution, edited by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner
Keith E. Whittington
"The Constitution Must Be Looked into by the Judges"
Review of John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court by R. Kent Newmyer
Volume 2, Number 3: April, 2002
Joyce E. Chaplin
Habeas Corpus?
Review of A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America, Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter, eds.
Jim Egan
Who's the Real Indian?
Review of Writing Indians by Hilary E. Wyss
Matthew Rainbow Hale
Taking it Personally
Review of Affairs of Honor by Joanne B. Freeman
Daniel Richter
The Imperial Virus
Review of Pox Americana by Elizabeth Fenn
Volume 2, Number 2: January, 2002
Gordon Sayre
Explorers and Travelers
Review of Return Passages by Larzer Ziff and The La Salle Expedition to Texas ed. by William C. Foster
Eric Hinderaker
Still Life with Empire
Review of Peoples and Empires by Anthony Pagden, Empire and Order by James Muldoon, and The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage
Albrecht Koschnik
Sense and Sympathy
Review of American Sympathy by Caleb Crain
Volume 2, Number 1: October, 2001
Ann Marie Plane
Searching for Self
Review of Teach Me Dreams by Mechal Sobel
James Kessenides
The Visible Public
Review of City Reading by David M. Henkin
Mark M. Smith
Investigating Patrollers
Review of Slave Patrols by Sally E. Hadden
Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
Midwife Tales
Review of The Dumb Shall Sing, The Blind in Darkness, and The Sea Hath Spoken by Stephen Lewis
Volume 1, Number 4: July, 2001
Kathleen Brown
Americans on the James
Re-reading American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
Walter Johnson
A Nettlesome Classic Turns
Twenty-Five
Re-reading Roll, Jordan, Roll by Eugene D. Genovese
Judith Jackson Fossett
Slaves You Have Never Seen
Review of Slaves on Screen by Natalie Zemon Davis
Sally Hadden
Searching for Identities in the New Orleans Slave Market
Review of Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson
Volume 1, Number 3: March, 2001
Josh Brown
The Past Impaneled
Review of The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor, and Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Kristina Bross
Hannibal the Cannibal
Review of Hannibal, the book by Thomas Harris and the movie by Ridley Scott
Philip Morgan
To Market, To Market . . .
Review of From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers by Allan Kulikoff
Edward Countryman
A Gothic Tale of Revolutionary Amerika
Review of Martha Peake by Patrick McGrath
Graham Russell Hodges
Lumpen-Proletarians of the Atlantic World, Unite!
Review of The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Volume 1, Number 2: January, 2001
Nancy Shoemaker
Knowing the Other
Review of Indians and English by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Jeffrey L. Pasley
Off the Pedestal and Between the Sheets
Review of Scandalmonger by William Safire
Richard J. Bell
Captives and Audiences
Review of Cartographies of Desire by Rebecca Blevins Faery
Christopher Grasso
Supernatural Sounds and Enlightenment Silence
Review of Hearing Things by Leigh Eric Schmidt
Volume 1, Number 1: September, 2000
Remembering--and Inventing--the Alamo
Review of The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Cynthia Van Zandt
Donna Merwick's New World
Review of Death of a Notary by Donna Merwick
James T. Kloppenberg
Describing America
Review of Becoming America by Jon Butler
David Waldstreicher
Appleby's Liberal America
Review of Inheriting the Revolution by Joyce Appleby
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