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Books reviewed in this article: Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism Robert L. Gale, A Mickey Spillane Companion Samantha Barbas, Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity Dana Arnold and Margaret Iversen (eds.), Art and Thought Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra (eds.), A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema Joseph L. Coulombe, Mark Twain and the American West Mark H. Zanger, The American History Cookbook Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy (eds.), Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors Susan J. Matt, Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890–1930 David J. Cole, Eve Browning and Fred E. H. Schroeder (eds.), Encyclopedia of Modern Everyday Inventions David E. Nye, America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings James W. Wertsch, Voices of Collective Remembering Peter C. Rollins and John O'Connor (eds.), Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History     

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Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine. A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction. Victoria Aarons. Beyond the Mafia: Italian Americans and the Development of Las Vegas. Alan Balboni. Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture. S. Elizabeth Bird, ed. Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. Fergus Bordewich. Against the Tide: Women Reformers in American Society. Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds. The Comedy of Democracy. James E. Combs and Dan Nimmo. alt. Culture: An A-to-Z Guide to the '90s—Underground “on-line, and over-the-counter.” Steven Daley and Nathaniel Wice. What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence Against Wives. David Peterson Del Mar. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Paul N. Edwards. Virtual Archaeology: Re-creating Ancient Worlds. Maurizio Forte and Alberto Siliotti, eds. Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America. Richard V. Francaviglia. A Visit with Harlan Hubbard. Wade Hall. The Archaeology of the Donner Party. Donald L. Hardesty, with contributions by Michael Brodhead, Donald K. Grayson, Susan Lindstrom, and George L. Miller. Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown, eds. Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Outsiders in 19th-Century Press History: Multicultural Perspectives. Frankie Hutton and Barbara Straus Reed, eds. Women of the Far Right. The Mothers' Movement and World War II. Glen Jeansonne. The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. Michael. Kammen. Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement. Caren Kaplan. White Widow. Jim Lehrer. Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller. Janet Leigh and Christopher Nickens. Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines. Robert Lesser. Big Trouble. J. Anthony Lukas. Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community During the American Revolution. Holly A. Mayer. Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman. David Morgan, ed. Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness. Brendan O'Flaherty. Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America. Kathleen Pyne. From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775–1850. Jacqueline S. Reiner. American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s.Jennifer Scanlon and Shaaron Cosner. Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism: From Criticism to Cultural Studies. James Seaton. Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity 1800–1865. Helen Small. Art Carney: A Biography. Michael Seth Starr. John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity. Gamy Wills. Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services. James E. Wise, Jr., and Anne Collier Rehill. The Anatomy of Prejudices. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl     

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Martha Banta. Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History C. Jane Gover, The Positive Image: Women Photographers in Turn of the Century America Beth L. Bailey. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America Lawrence Clayton. Ranch Rodeos In West Texas A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Dictionary of Literary Biography Gerald Gardner. The Mocking of the President: A History of Campaign Humor from Zke to Ronnie Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence. The American Monomyth Roy Jordan. Wyoming: A Centennial Bibliografihy John Kouwenhoven. The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American about America David Grimsted. Melodrama Unveiled: American Theater & Culture 1800-1850 Karal Ann Marling. George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876-1986 Sally McMurry. Families Q Farmhouses in 19th Century America Lawrence E. Mintz. Humor in America: A Research Guide to Genres and Topics Vera Norwood and Janice Monk (eds.). The Desert is no Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art Glenda Riley. The Female Frontzer: A Comparative View of Women on the Praarie and the Plains June Sochen. Cafeteria America: New Identities in Contemporary Life Paul J. Zingg, Editor and Contributor. The Sporting Image, Readings in American Sport History     

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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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Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: The Story of Country Music in West Texas. Joe Carr and Alan Munde. American House Designs: An Index to Popular and Trade Periodicals, 1850–1915. Margaret Culbertson. The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources. Marc Jason Gilbert, ed. (Contributions in Military Studies, #109.) Sports in North America: A Documentary History/Volume 4 Sports in War, Revival and Expansion/1860–1880. George B. Kirsch. Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Eetnam America. James William Gibson. The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism. M. Keith Booker. Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender; Contests and Power. Colleen Ballerino Cohen, Richard Wilk, Beverly Stoektje, eds. The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past. Jim Cullen. The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History. Robert C. Harvey. Studies in Popular Culture Series. Jackson. Montgomery Clift: A Bio-Bibliography. Mary C. Kalfatovic. This Land Is Our Land: A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults. Alethea K. Helbig and Agnes Regan Perkins. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Judith Halberstam. The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. Thomas P. Lowry. Asian Popular Culture. John A. Lent, ed. Boulder Training the Body for China: Sports In The Moral Order Of The People's Republic. Susan Brownell, ed. The Riddle of the Titanic. Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat. Shooters: TV News Photographers and Their Work. D.M. Lindekugel. A Dark Night's Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction. Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison, eds. Sex in America: A Definitive Survey. Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann and Gina Kolata. Going All the Way: Teenage Girls' Tales of Sex, Romance, and Pregnancy. Sharon Thompson. Postmodernism and Popular Culture. Angela McRobbie. The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about Internet Culture. Dinty W. Moore. The Theater of Sport. Baltimore. Karl B. Raitz, ed. Gender in Popular Culture: Images of Men and Women in Literature, Visual Media, and Material Culture. Peter C. Rollins and Susan W. Rollins, eds. Science Fiction Fandom. Joe Sanders, ed. Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy 62. The Johnny Cash Record Catalog. Compiled by John L. Smith. The Company of Camelot: Arthurian Characters in Romance and Fantasy. Charlotte Spivack and Roberta Lynne Staples. Religion in the Contemporary South: Diversity, Community, and Identity. O. Kendall White, Jr. and Daryl White, eds. Donald Windham: A Bio-Bibliography. Bruce Kellner. Reading the Voice: Native American Poetry on the Page. Paul Zolbrod. The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley. David Adler. Literary Aftershocks: American Writers, Readers, and the Bomb. Albert E. Stone. Impostors in the Temple. Martin Anderson. American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1914–1930. Gerald Bordman. Whales, Ice & Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic. John R. Bockstoce. The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television. James Day. Mapping American Culture. Edited by Wayne Franklin & Michael Steiner. Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music. Ann M. Pescatello. The Island of California, A History of the Myth. Dora Beale Polk. Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America. Jonathan Harris. Bonfire of the Humanities: Television, Subliteracy and Long-Term Memory Loss. David Marc. Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890–1945. Edited by Patricia Trenton. The North American Railroad: Its Origin, Evolution, and Geography. James E. Vance, Jr. How the Cimarron River Got its Name and Other Stories About Coffee. Ernestine Sewell Linck. Foreword by Clay Reynolds and Epilogue by J. Frank Dobie. Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890–1920. Abigail A. Van Slyck. Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Robin J. Dunitz. American Popular Culture/La Culture Populaire Américaine. John Dean. Journal of American Studies of Turkey.     

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Melinda Bollar. God's Schools: Choice and Compromise in American Society Carol Blesser, ed. In Joy and Sorrow: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830–1900 Pamela Grundy. You Always Think of Home: A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama Lillian B. Miller and David C. Ward, eds. New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration Page Smith. Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America Francis Edward Abernethy, ed. Texas Toys and Games Michael J. Siskis, ed. Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review David S. Shields. Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics and Commerce in British America, 1690–1750 David Zarefsky. Lincoln Douglas and Slavery in the Crucible of Public Debate James F. O'Gorman. Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865–1915 John F. Sears. Sacred Places Marjorie Harness Goodwin. He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children Allen Guttmann, Richard D. Mandell, Steven A. Riess, Stephen Hardy, and Donald G. Kyle. Essays on Sport History and Sport Mythology. Ed. Donald G. Kyle and Gary D. Stark William Novaks and Moshe Waldoks, eds. The Big Book of New American Humor: The Best of the Past 25 Years Joe P. Dunn and Howard L. Preston. The Future South. A Historical Perspective For The Twenty-First Century Kenneth Allen De Ville. Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America: Origins and Legacy Ronald R. Geibert and Patrick B. Nolan. Kitty Hawk and Beyond: The Wright Brothers and the Early Years of Aviation Howard Lawrence Preston. Dirt Roads To Dixie: Accessibility and Modernization in the South, 1885–1935 Kirk Abner. Tennessee Travel Tapes: Bristol to Nashville Ellen Huening Makowski. Scenic Parks and Landscape Values Richard W. Wilkie and Jack Tager, eds. Historical Atlas of Massachusetts James Guimond. American Photography and The American Dream Karal Ann Marling. Blue Ribbon: A Social and Pictorial History of the Minnesota State Fair Richard W. Slatta. Cowboys of the Americas Nicolaus Mills. Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America Steven Saunders and Deane L. Root. The Music of Stephen C. Foster     

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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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Forgotten Americans: Footnote Figures Who Changed American History. Willard Sterne Randall and Nancy Nahra. Creating Online Media. Carole Rich. Predecessors: Intellectual Lineage's in American Studies. Rob Kroes. A Portrait of the American Jewish Community. Norman Linzer, David J. Schnall, and Jerome A. Chanes, eds. Not Like Us. Richard Pells. American Mobbing 1828‐1861 toward Civil War. David Grimsted. Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. John Seelye. Wagner Nights: An American History. Joseph Howowitz. Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History. B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley. A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792‐1995. Mary Ellen Zuckerman. Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television. Christopher Owen Lynch. Science‐Fiction: The Gernsback Years. Everett F. Bleiler, with the assistance of Richard J. Bleiler. Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema. S. Craig Watkins. Women's Sport and Spectacle: Gendered Television Coverage and the Olympic Games. Gina Daddario. The Road Ahead. Bill Gates, with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson. The Illustrated Price Guide to Scandal Magazines, 1952‐1966. Alan Betrock, ed. The Tabloid Poster Book, 1959‐1969. Alan Betrock, ed. Cult Exploitation Movie Posters, 1940‐1973. Alan Betrock, ed. Unseen America: The Greatest Cult Exploitation Magazines, 1950‐1966. Alan Betrock Laughs, Luck … and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time. Jess Oppenheimer, with Gregg Oppenheimer. Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks. Larry E. Sullivan and Lydia Cushman Schurman, eds. Creating Born Criminals. Nicole Hahn Rafter. Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History. Jennifer Ham and Matthew Senior, eds. Whores and Other Feminisrs. Jill Nagle, ed. A Whole Other Ball Game: Women? Literature on Women's Sport. Joli Sandoz, ed. Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture. Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger, eds. Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules and Men. William R. Ferris. The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen.     

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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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Pop Art and Consumer Culture: American Super Market. Christin J. Mamiya Hail to the Candidate: Presidential Campaigns From Banners to Broadcasts. Keith Melder Domestic Novelists of the Old South: Defenders of Southern Culture. Elizabeth Moss Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62. Donna DeSalvo, Paul Schimmel, et al The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History. Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, editors Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations. Archie Green Reading Rodney King: Reading Urban Uprising. Robert Gooding-Williams, editor Metapop: Self-Referentiality in American Popular Culture. Michael Dunne. Studies in Popular Culture; M. Thomas Inge, editor Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right. Michael D' Antonio Kentucky Bluegrass Country. R. Gerald Alvey Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema 1896 to the Present. Ally Acker The Cultural Geography of the United States. A Revised Edition. Wilbur Zelinsky Roadfood: The All-new, Updated and Expanded Edition of the Classic Guide to America's Best Diners, Small-town Cafes, BBQ Joints and Other Very Special Eateries Serving Great, Inexpensive Regional Food. Jane and Michael Stern Images of American Life: A History of Ideological Management in Schools, Movies, Radio and Television. Joel Spring Russian Eyes on American Literature. Sergei Chakovsky and M. Thomas Inge, editors American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services. Jessica Foy and Thomas J. Schlereth, editors Immigrants and the American City. Thomas Muller Studies in the Western. 1.1, 1992-93 British English For American Readers: A Dictionary of the Language, Customs, and Places of British Life und Literature. David Grote Kenneth Wylie and Dennis Hickey. An Enchanting Darkness: The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth Century. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. John E. Kleber, Editor in Chief The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, An Indentured Servant. Edited with an Introduction and notes by Susan E. Klepp and Billy G. Smith Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944. James M. O'Toole The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, (1872-1958). Jack Beatty Discourse and Culture: The Creation of America. Alun Munslow Regional Studies: The Interplay of Land and People. Glen E. Lich, editor Pioneer Commercial Photography: The Burgert Brothers, Tampa, Florida. Robert E. Snyder and Jack B. Moore The Way of the Cross Leads Home: The Domestication of American Methodism. A. Gregory Schneider The Tragedy of Abundance: Myth Restoration in American Culture. Jerome O. Steffen Hard At Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940. Kathryn Grover, editor Baseball Between the Wars: Memories of the Game by the Men Who Played It. Eugene Murdock     

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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.     

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Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities. Erika Doss. A Distant Heritage: The Growth of Free Speech in Early America. Larry D. Eldridge. The White House: The First Two Hundred Years. Edited by Frank Freidel and William Pencak. Dillinger: 7iie Untold Story. G. Russel Girardin with William J. Helrner. Saving ‘Old Glory’: The History of The American Flag Desecration Controversy. Robert Justin Goldstein. Railroad Postcards in The Age of Steam. H. Roger Grant. The Black Press in Mississippi 1865-1985. Julius E. Thompson. Living Witchcraf: A Contemporary American Coven. Allen Scarboro, Nancy Campbell, and Shirley Stave. April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War. William A. Tidwell. Kent Billy The Kid: His Life and Legend. John Tuska. Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes From Original Sources By and About Abraham Lincoln. Edited by P.M. Zall. Knoxville American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1869-1914. Gerald Bordman. Sport on Film and video: The North American Society for Sport History Guide. Eds. Judith A. Davidson and Daryl Adler. Mothers and Work in Popular American Magazines. Kathryn Keller. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. William Leach. Maid in the U.S.A. Mary Romero. Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics. Stephen Vaughn. Covering the Body, The Kennedy Assassination, the Media and the Shaping of Collective Memory. Barbie Zelizer. The Texas Folklore Society 1943-1971 Volume 11. Francis Edward Abernethy. Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books 1621-1922. Gillian Avery. Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: The Story of Country Music in West Texas. Joe Carr and Alan Munde. Barney Google and Snuffy Smith: 75 Years of an American Legend. Brian Walker. They Still Call Me Junior: Autobiography of a Child Star; with a Filmography. Frank ‘Junior’ Coghlan. In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. David W. Conroy. Gender, Class, and Shelter: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, V, Eds. Elizabeth C. Cromley and Carter L. Hudgins. Cowboys and the Wild West: An A-Z Guide from the Chisholm Trail to the Silver Screen. Don Cusic. Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the Ladies Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, 2880-1910. Helen Damon-Moore. Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearance. Barbara Kruger. Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Ed. John R. Gillis. Buckeye Legends: Folktales and Lore from Ohio. Michael Jay Katz. South Florida Folklife. Tina Bucuvalas, Peggy A. Bulger and Stetson Kennedy. Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. Eds. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Virginia G. McDavid, Theodore K. Lerus and Ellen Johnson. Capital Elites: High Society in Washington, D. C. after the Civil War. Kathryn Allamong Jacob. Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D. C., 1910-1940. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis. American Folklore and the Mass Media. Linda Degh. To See a Promised Land: Americans and the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century. Lester I. Vogel. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. Jonathan Shay. One United People: The ‘Federalist Papers’ and the National Idea. Edward Millican. The Lawn. A History of an American Obsession. Virginia Scott Jenkins. While the Women Only Wept: Lqalist Refigee Women in Eastern Ontario. Janice Potter-MacKinnon. A Surgeon's Civil War: The Letters and Diary of Daniel M. Holt, M.D, Ed. James M. Greiner, Janet L. Coryell and James R. Smither. The 60s: Spiritual Awakening. Robert S. Ellwood. Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of ‘Youth in Crisis.’ Charles R. Acland.     

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Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography. Joanna E. Rapf and Gary L. Green Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe 1904-1914. David Stevenson Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America. Joshua Gamson Messages from the Underground: Transnational Radio in Resistance and Solidarity. Nancy Street and Marilyn J. Matelski Comic Art of Europe: An International, Comprehensive Bibliography. John A. Lent Politically Incorrect. Ralph Reed Commercial Culture: The Media System and the Public Interest. Leo Bogart Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. Margot A. Henrikson Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays. Leigh Eric Schmidt Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time. Jonathan Arac Cultural Identities. Mike Stony and Peter Childs, eds Seductive Journeys: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age. Harvey Levenstein A Social History of Wet Nursing in America from Breast to Bottle. Janet Golden Think a Second Time. Dennis Prager Perry Mason: The Authorship and Reproduction of Popular Hero. J. Dennis Bounds Total Propaganda: From Mass Culture to Popular Culture. Alex Edelstein Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America. Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute, eds Dickens' Journalism: The Amusements of the People and Other Papers. Michael Slater, ed Monster: Living off the Big Screen. John Gregory Dunne Revolt among the Sharecroppers. Howard Kester Cain on Screen: Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Thomas G. Deveny After Pomp and Circumstance: High School Reunion as an Autobiographical Occasion. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940-1945. Kathleen Stokker, ed My American Century. Studs Terkel Love and Ideology in the Afternoon: Soap Opera, Women, and Television Genre. Laura Stempel Mumford In the Hands of a Happy God: The “No-Hellers” of Central Appalachia. Howard Dorgan The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture. Jennifer Scanlon The Language of Power: Women and Literature, 1945 to the Present. Roberta Rosenberg The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of the 1960s American Experimental Cinema. Wheeler Winston Dixon A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America. Mark Caldwell     

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Jersey Diners. Peter Genovese. Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines. Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson. Critical Conditions: American Culture at the Crossroads. Eleanor Heartney. RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative. Kris Lackey. Ohio in Historic Postcards: Self-Portrait of a State. H. Roger Grant. The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883. Gary Laderman. The Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Stephen J. McGovern. The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. Richard Handler and Eric Gable. The Theming of America: Dreams, Visions, and Commercial Spaces. Mark Gottdiener. Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature. Marilyn C. Wesley. Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Shane White and Graham White. Hollywood's World War I: Motion Picture Images. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor, eds. Of the People, By the People, For the People and Other Quotations from Abraham Lincoln. Gabor S. Boritt, ed. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock'n 'Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. Peter Biskind. Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print. Ronald Weber. Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture. Mark Seltzer. Steven Spielberg. Joseph McBride. The Abbott & Costello Story: Sixty Years of “Who's on First?” Stephen Cox and John Lofflin. Un/popular Culture: Lesbian Writing after the Sex Wars. Kathleen Martindale. The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets. David Lehman. Mexico between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-1940. Friedrich E. Schuler. Our Governors' Mansions. Cathy Keating. Home Materials: Ohio's Nineteenth-Century Regional Women's Fiction. Sandra Parker, ed. Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture. Annette Stott. Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture since World War II. Richard Pells. Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women. Kathy A. Perkins and Judith L. Stephens, eds. Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. Diana Tietjens Meyers, ed. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. Kathy Peiss. Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Ronald C. Tobey. Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality. Neal Gabler. Carl Sagan's Universe. Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson, eds.     

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Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture. Eds. George Eisen and David K. Wiggins. Women in the American Theatre: Actresses & Audiences 1790–1870. Faye E. Dudden. Coal Miners' Wives: Portraits of Endurance. Carol A.B. Giesen. Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World. Timothy D. Appalachia Inside Out: Volume I Conflict and Change. Eds. Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning and Jim Wayne Miller. Appalachia Inside Out: Volume 2 Culture and Custom. Eds. Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning and Jim Wayne Miller. Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture. 2nd. Edition. Ed. W.K. McNeil. Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness. Suellen Hoy. Cowboys and Kansas: Stories from the Tallgrass Prairie. Jim Hoy. Sol White's History of Colored Baseball, With Other Documents on the Early Black Game 1886–1936. Compiled by Jerry Malloy. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s. Karal Ann Marling. Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West 1900–1917. Joanne E. Passett. Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair. Leslie Prosterman. Dress Codes: Meanings and Messages in American Culture. Ruth P. Rubinstein. The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV and American Culture. Leslie Savan. Living Witchcraf: A Contemporary American Coven. Allen Scarboro, Nancy Campbell and Shirley Stave. The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893–1914. Matthew Schneirov. Latitudes and Attitudes: An Atlas of American Tastes, Trends, Politics, and Passions. Michael J. Weiss. Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball'S First Black Major Leaguer. David W. Zang. Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Susan E. Cayleff. A Kind of Grace: A Treasury of Sportswriting by Women. Ed. Ron Rapoport. Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies. J.W. Williamson. Our Changing White House. Ed. Wendell Garrett. Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America. Michael Brian Schiffer. Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825–1908. Compiled by and Ed. Dean A. Sullivan. Rock Music in American Popular Culture: Rock ‘n’ Roll Resources. B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney.     

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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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Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film. Lee Clark Mitchell Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe 1904‐1914. David Stevenson Big Trouble. J. Anthony Lukas Hustlers, Beats, and Others. Ned Polsky Mountain People in a Flat Land. Carl E. Feather Collis’ Zouaves: The 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War. Edward J. Hagerty Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self‐Representation. Whitney Chadwick, ed Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer. Richard Tithecott Dr. Strangelove S America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. Margot A. Henrikson Kriminalromane von Frauen fuer Frauen: Unterhal‐tungsliteratur aus Amerika. Evelyne Keitel Starting a Student/Noncommercial Radio Station. James J. McCluskey Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence. Nancy E. Green et al Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America. Joel Pfister and Nancy Schnog. eds John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity. Carry Wills Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States. Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder The Metaphysics of Star Trek. Richard Hanley     

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The Bronx: Lost, Found, and Remembered 1935-1975. Stephen Samtur and Martin Jackson. The Antidepressant Era. David Healy. The Cinematic City. David Clarke, ed. Ordinary Lives: Platoon 1005 and the Ketnam War. W. D. Ehrhart. Legacy: Southwest Indian Art at the School of American Research. Duane Anderson, ed. Stars in the Corps: Movie Actors in the United States Marines. James E. Wise, Jr., and Anne Collier Rehill. The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of Knoxville's Graveyards. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944. Adrienne Fried Block. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. Michael Kammen.     

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Cauthen, Joyce H. With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: Old Time Fiddling In Alabama Jordan, Terry G. and Matti Kaups. The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation Morgan, Winifred. An American Icon: Brother Jonathan and American Identity Keil, Hartmut. German Workers' Culture in the States 1850-1920 Braden, Donna R., Editor. Leisure and Entertainment In America Zelinsky, Wilbur. Nation Into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism Jay, Robert. The Trade-Card in Nineteenth-Century America Gevitz, Norman. Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in America St. George, Robert Blair, Editor. Material Life in America 1600-1860 Jurnovoy, Joyce and David Jenness. America on Display: A Guide to Unusual Museums and Collections in the United States and Canada Savitt, Todd L. and James Harvey Young, Editors. Disease and Distinctiueness i n the American South Levenstein, Harvey. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet