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THE CLACKAMAS , by Jana Harris WASHINGTON CYCLE , by Les Whitten WALKING AWAY , by H. R. Coursen AMERICAN POLITICS: THE PROMISE OF DISHARMONY . Samuel P. Huntington AMERICA NOW . Marvin Harris POETRY AND THE SOCIOLOGICAL IDEA . J. P. Ward, BLACK ENGLISH AND THE MASS MEDIA . Walter M. Brasch MANLIKE MONSTERS ON TRIAL: EARLY RECORDS AND MODERN EVIDENCE , ed. by Majorie M. Halpin and Michael M. Ames CAVORTING ON THE DEVILS FORK: THE PETE WHETSTONE LETTERS OF C.F.M. NOLAND . Leonard Williams, ed. IMAGES OF THE MEXICAN AMERICAN IN FICTION AND FILM . By Arthur G. Pettit BENJAMIN LEE WHORF: LOST GENERATION THEORIES OF MIND, LANGUAGE, AND RELIGION . By Peter C. Rollins THE FEMALE HERO IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH LITERATURE . By Carol Pearson and Katherine Pope BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEAN: A BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY ADAMS AND HIS FIRST LIFE 1838–1862 . By Edward Chalfant MESMERISM AND THE AMERICAN CURE OF SOULS . By Robert C. Fuller, THE SELF-MADE MAN IN MEJI JAPANESE THOUGHT: FROM SAMURAI TO SALARY MAN . By Earl H. Kinmonth, THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE ELEPHANT MAN . By Michael Howell and Peter Ford THE NECESSITY FOR RUINS . By John B. Jackson AN EMPIRE FOR THE MASSES . By William H. Schneider NOBODY SPEAKS FOR ME: SELFPORTRAITS OF AMERICAN WORKING CLASS WOMEN By Nancy Seifer ANATOMY OF AN ILLNESS AS PERCEIVED BY THE PATIENT . By Norman Cousins CONFESSIONS OF A CONSERVATIVE . By Garry Wills     

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DIME NOVELS: ESCAPE FICTION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN POPULAR STAGE MUSIC 1860–1880. By Deane L. Root PENNY THEATRES OF VICTORIAN LONDON. By Paul Sheridan STONEY KNOWS HOW LIFE AS A TATTOO ARTIST. by Leonard L. St. Clair and Alan B. Govenar THE HALF BLOOD: A CULTURAL SYMBOL IN 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION. By William J. Scheick AMERICAN TONGUE AND CHEEK: A POPULIST GUIDE TO OUR LANGUAGE , by Jim Quinn     

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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition. Stuart A. Vyse Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture. P. David Marshall The Scientific Revolution. Steven Shapin Reconstructing America. James W. Ceaser Isn't Justice Always Unfair?: The Detective in Southern Literature. J. K. Van Dover and John F. Jebb Suffering Mothers in Mid-Victorian Novels. Natalie J. McKnight Images of Elvis Presley in American Culture, 1977–1997: The Mystery Terrain. George Plasketes Goldmine British Invasion Record Price Guide. Compiled by Tim Neely and Dave Thompson Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture. Richard Aquila, ed Officers in Flightsuits: The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War. John Darrell Sherwood Conversations with Pauline Kael. Will Brantley, ed Exploring Media Culture. Michael R. Real Narratives in Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life. Arthur Asa Berger Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism: Anger Is an Energy. Neil Nehring The Soldiers Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War. Samuel Hynes Harlem at War: The Black Experience in World War II. Nat Brandt The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Dolores Hayden Women Behind the Camera: Conversations With Camerawomen. Alexis Krasilovsky What a Character: 20th Century American Advertising Icons. Warren Dotz and Jim Morton Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North 1870–1930. Hal S. Barron Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum. Michael O. Riley Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA. Reebee Garofalo Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen. Ira B. Nadel Messengers of the Wind: Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories. Jane Katz, ed Resurgent Evangelicalism in the United States: Mapping Cultural Change Since 1970. Mark Shibley Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance. Joachim Fest Days of Our Lives: The Complete Family Album. Lorraine Zenka Seeking Pleasure in the Old West. David Dary Getting Sense: The Osages and Their Missionaries. James D. White Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta. Ronald H. Bayor     

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Hooker: An Authentic Wrestler's Adventures Inside the Bizarre World of Pro Wrestling. Lou Thesz, with Kit Bauman Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America. Andrea Stulman Dennett Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV and Video. Lee Clark Mitchell Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor, eds A Companion to Poe Studies. Eric W. Carlson, ed Carolyn G. Heilbrun. Julia B. Boken Creating Literature Out of Life: The Making of Four Masterpieces. Doris Alexander National Television Violence Study. Vol. I . Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey & the Last Great Showbiz Party. Shawn Levy Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film. Lee Clark Mitchell Updating the Literary West. Western Literature Association et al Les Haut et Les Bas de L'Imaginaire Western Dans La Culture Mediatique. Paul Bleton and Richard Saint-Germain, eds Manhood in America: A Cultural History. Michael Kimmel Darwinian Myths: The Legends and Misuses of a Theory. Edward Caudill The World According to Hollywood: 1918–1939. Ruth Vasey Hazardous Duty. David H. Hackworth Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life. Jennifer Terry and Melodie Calvert, eds Aesthetic Ideology. Paul de Man. Introduction by Andrzej Warminski, ed Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier. Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith     

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M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America. H. Bruce Franklin The Alabama Angels. Mary Barwick The Alabama Angels in Anywhere, L.A. (Lower Alabama). Mary Barwick The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. James C. Cobb Pioneering on the Yukon 1892–1917. Anna DeGraf. Roger S. Brown, ed Sea Changes: British Emigration & American Literature. Stephen Fender Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940. John M. Findlay The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s. Robert L. Gale Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment. John A. Jakle and David A. Wilson Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer and Steven D. Lavine Sports Collectors Digest Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards. Third Edition. Edited by Jeff Kurowski In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778–1860. Lillian B. Miller Mark Twain: Protagonist for the Popular Culture. Marlene Boyd Vallin Civilization Past and Present: Golden Anniversary Edition. T. Walter Wallbank, Alasair M. Taylor, Nels M. Bailkey, George F. Jewsbury, Clyde J. Lewis, Neil J. Hackett World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Peter N. Stearns, Michael Adas, Stuart B. Schwarta Civilizations of the West: The Human Adventure. Richard L. Greaves, Robert Zaller, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society. Gary B. Nash, John R. Howe, Allen F. Davis, Julie Roy Jeffrey, Peter J. Frederick, Allan M. Winkler A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. Ronald J. Zboray Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tradition and Revolution. Charles Swann Common Whites: Class and Ctrliure in Antebellum North Carolina. Bill Cecil-Fronsman Crime and Punishment in Canada: A History. D. Owen Carrigan Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior and Swearing in American History. John C. Burnham Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America. Steven Seidman When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Paul Boyer Culture, Language, Text: Culture Studies within the Study of English as a Foreign Language. Fredrik Chr. Brogger Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Robert Muccigrosso The Image of Older Adults in the Media: An Annotated Bibliography. Frank Nuessel American Fiction in the Cold War. Thomas Hill Schaub Place, Modernity and the Comurner's World. Robert David Sack     

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Books reviewed in this article: Joan Hawkins, Cutting Edge: Art–Horror and the Horrific Avant–Garde James Lastra, Sound Technology and the American Cinema Jeffrey Alan Melton, Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement Richard P. Harmond and Thomas J. Curran (eds.), A History of Memorial Day: Unity, Discord and the Pursuit of Happiness Charlene Mires, Independence Hall In American Memory John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett, The Myth of the American Superhero Justin Lewis and Toby Miller (eds.), Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader Janet M. Davis, The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under The American Big Top Steve Turner, Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song Timothy Shary, Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema Matthew Dennis, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar William Solomon, Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression     

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Books reviewed: Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller (eds.), An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front David Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History James McPherson, Antietam: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Civil War Mark Meister and Phyllis M. Japp (eds.), Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture Avrom Fleishman, New Class Culture: How an Emergent Class Is Transforming America's Culture Richard E. Bales, The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O’Leary's Cow W. H. New (ed.), Encyclopedia of Literature In Canada Archie Green, Tin Men David M. Wrobel, Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West William H. Young and Nancy K. Young, American Popular Culture Through History: The 1930s Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman (eds.), The Futures of American Studies W. J. Rorabaugh, Kennedy and The Promise of the Sixties Robert Cohen (ed.), Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: The Letters From Children of the Great Depression Sally G. McMillen, To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865‐1915 James A. Von Schilling, The Magic Window: American Television, 1939‐1953 Albert Borowitz, Blood & Ink: An International Guide To Fact‐Based Crime Literature DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War     

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Jack Santino. Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters Timothy E. Scheurer. Born in the U.S.A.: The Myth of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present Frederick K. Grittner. White Slavery: Myth, Ideology, and American Law Hall, Alvin L., Editor. Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (1989) H.F. Moorhouse. Driving Ambitions: A Social Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm Christopher Mulvey and John Simons, editors. New York: City as Text Karen S. Johnson-Cartee and Gary A. Copeland. Negative Political Advertising: Coming of Age Lesley Poling-Kempes. The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West Charles Reagan Wilson, editor. Cultural Perspective on the American South: Volume 5: Religion Francis J. Puig and Michael Conforti, editors. The American Craftsman and the European Tradition 1620–1820 A.C. Greene, Introduction; Symour V. Conner, Biography. Buffalo Guns and Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts by Don Hampton Biggers Kamal A. Rostom, editor. Arab-Canadian Writing Stories, Memoirs, and Reminiscences Walte Hart, Dianne. Thank God and the Revolution: The Oral History of a Nicaraguan Family     

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THE VIEW FROM SUNSET BOULEVARD: AMERICA AS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE TELEVISION , by Ben Stein NATIVE AMERICANS ON FILM AND VIDEO , by Elizabeth Weatherford, ed. AMERICANS ON THE ROAD: FROM AUTO CAMP TO MOTE, 1910-1945 , by Warren James Belasco. HENRY FORD AND THE JEWS , by Albert Lee. THE MOUNTAIN, THE MINER, AND THE LORD, AND OTHER TALES FROM A COUNTRY LAW OFFICE , by Harry M. Caudill. THE POPULAR MOOD OF PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA , by Lewis O. Saum. ALLEY LIFE IN WASHINGTON: FAMILY COMMUNITY, RELIGION, AND FOLKLIFE IN THE CITY, 1850-1870 , by James Borchert. JOCK: SPORTS & MALE IDENTITY , by Donald F. Sabo, Jr. and Ross Runfola. CHARLES MARION RUSSELL , by Robert L. Gale. FOLKLORIST OF THE COAL FIELDS: GEORGE KORSON'S LIFE AND WORK , by Angus K. Gillespie. PAPERBACK, USA: A GRAPHIC HISTORY, 1939-1959 , by Piet Schreuders.     

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Michael Kammen. The Machine That Would Go Of Itself: The Constitution In American Culture Ronald B. Flowers. Religion In Strange Times: The 1960s and 1970s Eugene C. Murdock. Ban Johnson: Czar Of Baseball David Quentin Voigt. Foreword by Clifford Kachline. American Baseball William Innes Homer. Alfred Stieglitz And The Photo-Secession Robert E. Haines. The Inner Eye Of Alfred Stieglitz F. Richard Thomas. Literary Admirers Of Alfred Stieglitz     

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THE FIFTIES: THE WAY WE REALLY WERE. By Douglas T. Miller and Marion Nowak. THE OVERHEATED DECADE . By Herbert I. London. CHILDREN OF FANTASY: THE FIRST REBELS OF GREENWICH VILLAGE . By Robert E. Humphrey. ON BECOMING AMERICAN . By Ted Morgan. RACE RELATIONS IN CHICAGO, SECOND SURVEY 1976 . By George Surgeon, Judith Mayo and Donald J. Bogue. BLACK CULTURE AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS: AFRO-AMERICAN FOLK THOUGHT FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM . THE DEVIL FINDS WORK . By James Baldwin.     

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Crow Indian Photographer: The Work of Richard Throssel. Peggy Albright, foreword by Joanna Cohan Scherer. Readings in African Popular Culture. Ed. Karin Barber. The Good War's Greatest Hits: World War II and American Remembering. Philip D. Beidler. Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s: Philip D. Beidler. When We Were Good: The Folk Revival. Robert Cantwell. American Sacred Space. Ed. David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal. “Shook over Hell”: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War. Eric T. Dean, Jr. Digging for Dotlars: American Archaeology and the New Deal. Paul Fagette. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counter-culture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. Thomas Frank. Games and Empires: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism. Allen Guttmann. The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. Christopher Hitchens. The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. J. Gordon Melton. Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life. Richard Meryman. Skinheads Shaved for Battle: A Cultural History of American Skinheads. Jack B. Moore. Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858. Paul Thomas Murphy. Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Sherry B. Ortner. Strategy, Security, and Spies: Mexico and the U.S. as Allies in World War II. Maria Emilia Paz. Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920. Every Woman I've Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers. Ed. Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias. Pinocchio's Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama. Harold B. Segel.     

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When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture. Richard K. Sherwin Billboard's American Rock ‘N’ ROLL in Review. Jay Warner Billy Murray: The Phonograph Industry's First Great Recording Artist. Frank Hoffmann, Dick Carty, and Quentin Riggs Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock. Theodore Gracyk Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture. Lauraine Leblanc Tahoe: From Timber Barons to Ecologists. Douglas H. Strong The Great Warpath: British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point. David R. Starbuck Feminism and Documentary. Janet Walker and Diane Waldeman Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Roger Rosenblatt, ed Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism. Walter LaFeber Vampires, Dragons and Egyptian Kings. Eric C. Schneider     

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Lawrence J. Friedman. Menninger: The Family and the Clinic. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Richard V. Francaviglia. Hard Places. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 1991. 237 pages. William D. Miller. Pretty Bubbles in the Air: America in 1919. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991. $29.95 (cloth). Spencer K. Wertz. Talking a Good Game: Inquiring into the Principles of Sport. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1991. 275 pg. $28.50 cloth, $12.50 paper. Peter Levine, ed. Baseball History 4: An Annual of Original Baseball Research. New York: Meckler, 1991. Hardback. $39.50. Western Rivermen, 1763-1841: Ohio And Mississippa Boatmen And The Myth Of The Alligator Horse. By Michael Allen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. David C. Morton, with Charles K. Wolfe. DeFord Bailey: A Black Star In Early Country Music. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Illustrated. 199 pp. Hardback. $29.95. Reginald J. Bartlette. Off The Record—Motown By Master Number, 1959-1989: Volume One—Singles. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Popular Culture, Ink,. 1991. Illustrated. 504 pp. Hardback. $55.00. Charles Panati. Panati's Parade Of Fads, Follies, And Manias: The Origins of Our Most Cherished Obsessions. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. Illustrated. 491 pp. Paperback. $13.00. Jimmy Guterman. Rockin' My Life Away: Listening To Jerry Lee Lewis. Nashville, Tennes-see: Rutledge Hill Press, 1991. Illustrated. 233 pp. Hardback, $16.95. Barbara J. Pruett. Marty Robbins: Fast Cars And Country Music. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1990. Illustrated. 601 pp. Hardback, $59.50. Wolfgang Mieder, Editor in Chief; Stewart A. Kingsbury and Kelsie B. Harder, Editors. A Dictionary of American Proverbs. New York: Oxford, 1991. Thomas Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists From Cohan To Sondheim. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991. 264 pp. $19.95.     

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Luedtke, Luther, ed. Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States. Lucy Rollin. Cradle and All: A Cultural and Psychoanalytic Reading of Nursery Rhymes. Fred W. Peterson. Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest 1850-1920. James M.O'Toole. Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'ConnelZ and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944. R. Douglas Hunt. Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Lirtle Dixie. Columbia and London: Marilyn Irvin Holt. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America.     

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Art in the Age of Mass Media, John A. Walker. New England in Fiction 1787–1990. Robert B. Slocum. By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America. Nicholas K. Bromell. Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Eric Lott. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770–1810. Shane White. M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America. H. Bruce Franklin. The Sixties: From Memory to History. David Farber, The Great American Outlaw: A Legacy of Fact and Fiction. Frank Richard Prassel. American Iconology. Edited by David C. Miller. The Ethnic Detective. Peter Freese. Wilton S. Dillon and Neil G. Kotler, editors. The Statue of Liberty REVISITED. Looking for God in the Suburbs. James Hudnut-Beumler. A Permanent Etcetera: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Post-War America. A. Robert Lee Historic Ranches of Texas. Lawrence Clayton and J.U. Salvant. Likenesses and Landscape: Thomas M. Easterly and the Art of the Daguerreotype. Delores A. Kilgo. The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse. Carol Nackenoff. All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture. Creation's Journey: Native American Identity and Belief. Garrison Keillor. Peter A. Scholl. Handbook of Old Time Radio: A Comprehensive Guide to Golden Age Radio Listening and Collecting. Jon D. Swartz and Robert C. Reinehr. Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling & Saving the West. John B. Wright.     

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Rowe and Berg. The Vietnam War and American Culture Karal Ann Marling and John Wetenhall. Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero Fredric Jameson. Signatures of the Visible Michael Kammen. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture Michael Wallis. Route 66: The Mother Road Tom Snyder. The Route 66 Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion Quinta Scott (photographs) and Susan Croce Kelly (text). Route 66: The Highway and Its People John Wood, ed. America & The Daguerreotype David Graham. Only in America: Some Unexpected Scenery Davis Sprague Herresboff. Labor into Art: The Theme of Work in Nineteenth-Century American Literature C. Richard Gillespie. The James Adams Floating Theatre Karen Linn. That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture Nigey Lennon. The Sagebrush Bohemian: Mark Twain in California     

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David Charles Sloane. The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History Manjunath Pendakur. Canadian Dreams and American Control Richard M. Fried. Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective Emily Toth. Kate Chopin: The Life of the Author of The Awakening Martin E. Marty. Modern American Religion, Volume 2: The Noise of Conflict 1919-1941 William W. Savage, Jr. Comic Books and America, 1945-1954 Gary W. Gallagher. Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign Jeffrey N. Lash. Destroyer of the Iron Horse: General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Rail Transport, 1861-1865 Francis Edward Abernethy, ed. The Bounty of Texas David A. Thornburg. Galloping Bungalows: The Rise And Demise of the American House Trailer     

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David Hackett Fischer. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. William Barlow. “Looking U p At Down”: The Emergence of Blues Culture. Carl Ryant. Profit's Prophet: Garet Garrett (1878-1954). Jan Bakker. Pastoral in Antebellum Southern Romance. Robert L. Gambone. Art and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1915-1940. Cathy N. Davidson, editor. Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Bernard F. Dick. Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. Marek Golebiowski. Being Alive: American Musical: Text, Performance, Values. Alton C. Morris, editor. Folksongs of Florida. Karen Lystra. Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America. Leonard Ashley. What's In A Name?. Jerry V. Grant and Douglas R. Allen. Shaker Furniture Makers. Andrew R.L. Cayton and Peter S. Onuf. The Midwest and the Nation. We Are Part of History: The Story of the Orphan Trains. Santa Fé. Andrew Gulliford. Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, 1885-1985. Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain. The American West: A Twentieth-Century History. Joseph J. Fucini and Suzy Fucini. Working for the Japanese: Inside Mazda's American Auto Plant. Julie Thompson Klein. Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory & Practice. Frank W. Hoffman and William G. Bailey, editors. Arts and Entertainment Fads. Scot M. Guenter. The American Flag, 1777-1924: Cultural Shifts From Creation to Codification. Samuel Kinser. Photographs by Norman Magden. Carnival American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile. Robert Schmuhl. Statecraft and Stagecraft: American Political Life in the Age of Personality. Gunther Barth. Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History. Robert S. Conte. The History of the Greenbrier, America's Resort. Susan Coultrap-McQuin. Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century. Stephen J. Whitfield. The Culture of the Cold War. Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May. Buffalo Bill and His Wild West.