Fall Post 3: November 13, 2008

Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture

edited by Sheila Whiteley
reviewed by Joseph Michael Sommers, University of Central Arkansas
listed in: Material Culture, Social Custom

From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan’s

by Flannery Burke
reviewed by Hilary Iris Lowe, University of Kansas
listed in: Performing Arts, Southwest USA, Visual Arts

Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of American Culture, 1800-1940

by Dianne Sachko Macleod
reviewed by Stephanie Jacobe, American University
listed in: Gender, Visual Arts

In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near Triumph of American Eugenics

by Victoria F. Nourse
reviewed by Cari Keller, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma
listed in: Science, Southwest USA

Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001

by Jeremy Wallach
reviewed by Matthew J. Forss, Goddard College, Vermont
listed in: Asia, Music

Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858

by Craig Miner
reviewed by Gary L. Cheatham, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma
listed in: Southwest USA, War

Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s

by Susan K. Freeman
reviewed by Jennifer Aerts Terry, California State University, Sacramento
listed in: Gender, Social Custom

Tycoon’s War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America’s Most Famous Military Adventurer

by Stephen Dando-Collins
reviewed by Daniel Gerling, University of Texas at Austin
listed in: Latin America, War

Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives

edited by Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw, with foreword by M. Susan Savage
reviewed by Michel Demyen, University of Victoria, British Columbia
listed in: (Auto)Biography, Southwest USA

Fall Post 2: October 13, 2008

Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State

by Leigh Clemons
reviewed by L. Kym Neck, City University of New York
listed in: Southwest USA

Icons of the American West: From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley

edited by Gordon Morris Bakken
reviewed by Douglas C. Macleod, Jr., State University of New York, Albany
listed in: (Auto)Biography, Southwest USA

In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era

by Richard Iton
reviewed by Debbie Clare Olson, Oklahoma State University
listed in: African American, Performing Arts

The Metrosexual: Gender, Sexuality, and Sport

by David Coad
reviewed by Gypsey Teague, Clemson University
listed in: Gender, Social Custom

Nahuatl Theater Volume 3: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation

edited by Barry D. Sell
reviewed by Bradley Montgomery-Anderson, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma
listed in: Performing Arts, Native American

No Depression: Surveying the Past, Present and Future of American Music

edited by Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock
reviewed by Jason Mellard, University of Texas at Austin
listed in: Music, Southwest USA

Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders

by Teresa J. Wilkins
reviewed by Robin O’Brian, Elmira College
listed in: Material Culture, Native American

Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America

by Christopher H. Sterling and Michael Keith
reviewed by Joseph Michael Sommers, University of Kansas
listed in: Music, Social Custom

White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America

by Colin G. Calloway
reviewed by Andrew K. Frank, Florida State University
listed in: Europe, Native American

Fall Post 1: September 8, 2008

Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America

by Elisa Tamarkin
reviewed by Brian Cowlishaw, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma
listed in: Europe, Immigrant American

Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection

by Joyce M. Szabo, foreword by Steven L. Grafe
reviewed by Emily E. Auger, Ph. D.
listed in: Native American, Visual Arts

Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline

by Tiny Kline, ed Janet M Davis
reviewed by Robert Sugarman, Circus Historical Society
listed in: (Auto)Biography, Performing Arts

Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in the Middle East

by Ali M. Ansari
reviewed by Babak Rahimi, University of California, San Diego
listed in: Asia, War

Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication

by Marty Roth
reviewed by Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma
listed in: Social Custom

Identifying Consumption: Subjects and Objects in Consumer Society

by Robert G. Dunn
reviewed by Mary C. Carter, University of Oklahoma
listed in: Material Culture

Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence

by Cynthia Skove Nevels
reviewed by John Barnhill, Ph. D.
listed in: African American, Immigrant American

The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival

by J. Diane Pearson
reviewed by Bradley Montgomery-Anderson, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma
listed in: Native American, War

Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876

by Jerome A. Greene
reviewed by Robert E. Meyer, DePaul University
listed in: Environs, Native American, Southwest USA, War

Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theatre, and Film in the McCarthy Era

by Milly S. Barranger
reviewed by Robert Weiner, Texas Tech University
listed in: Cinema, Gender