Summer Post 1: June 17, 2009

Chinese Street Opera in Singapore

by Tong Soon Lee
reviewed by Justin Patch, University of Texas, Austin
listed in: Asia, Performing Arts

War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War

by Brian DeLay
reviewed by Bradley Montgomery-Anderson, Northeastern State University
listed in: War, Southwest USA

Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television

edited by Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler
reviewed by Cara Kinzelman, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
listed in: Cinema, Science

Spare Time in Texas: Recreation and History in the Lone Star State

by David G. McComb
reviewed by Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal, Durham University, England
listed in: Southwest USA, Environs

Living as Equals: How Three White Communities Struggled to Make Interracial Connections during the Civil Rights Era

by Phyllis Palmer
reviewed by Barclay Key, Western Illinois University
listed in: Social Custom, African American

From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859

by F. Todd Smith
reviewed by Jeff Carlisle, Oklahoma City Community College
listed in: Native American, Southwest USA

The Hidden Art of Hollywood: In Defense of the Studio Era Film

by John Fawell
reviewed by Robert E. Meyer, Depaul University
listed in: Cinema

Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison

by Michael Brian Schiffer
reviewed by Yves Laberge, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
listed in: Science

Spring Post 2: May 24, 2009

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: The Relationship between Text and Film

by R. Barton Palmer
reviewed by Laurence Raw, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey
listed in: Cinema, Literature

The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference

edited by Griselda Pollock and Victoria Turvey-Sauron
reviewed by Gypsey Teague, Clemson University
listed in: Gender, Social Custom

The Complete Route 66 Lost and Found: Ruins and Relics Revisited

by Russell A. Olsen
reviewed by Anna Thompson Hajdik, University of Texas at Austin
listed in: Environs, Material Culture

A Description of New Netherland

original text by Adriaen van der Donck
new translation by Diederik Willem Goedhuys
edited by Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna
reviewed by Wendy Lucas Castro, University of Central Arkansas
listed in: Immigrant American, Native American

The Madonna of Humility: Development, Dissemination, and Reception, c. 1340-1400

by Beth Williamson
reviewed by Denis V. Vovchenko, Northeastern State University
listed in: Europe, Visual Arts

Here, George Washington was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument

by Seth C. Bruggeman
reviewed by Nancy Zey, Sam Houston State University
listed in: Environs, Material Culture

Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges

by Glen A. Lovell
reviewed by Laurence Raw, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey
listed in: Cinema

Clint Eastwood: Evolution of a Filmmaker

by John H. Foote
reviewed by Douglas C. MacLeod, State University of New York, Albany
listed in: Cinema

Spring Post 1: April 13, 2009

The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance

edited by Chad Berry
reviewed by Sara Boslaugh
listed in: Music, Performing Arts

Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture

by Daniel Patrick Thurs
reviewed by Amy L. Thompson, Austin Peay State University
listed in: Science, Social Custom

Performing Class in British Popular Music

by Nathan Wiseman-Trowse
reviewed by Christopher Malone, Northeastern State University, OK
listed in: Music, Performing Arts

Old Roots, New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music

edited by Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching
reviewed by Justin Patch, University of Texas, Austin
listed in: Music, Material Culture

The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology

by J.P. Telotte
reviewed by A. Bowdoin van Riper, Southern Polytechnic State University, Georgia
listed in: Cinema, Science

Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television

by Matthew H. Bernstein
reviewed by Nathan G. Tipton, University of Memphis
listed in: Cinema, African American

Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film

by Barry Curtis
reviewed by Kevin M. Flanagan, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
listed in: Cinema, Environs

The Modern Age: Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence

by Kent Baxter
reviewed by Stephen Gennaro, York University, Toronto
listed in: Social Custom, Science

Winter Post 1: December 20, 2008

Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom

by Brian Chidester and Dominic Priore
review by Kristin Lawler, College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York
listed in: Music

Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968

by Anthony Macías
review by Darius V. Echeverría, Rutgers University
listed in: Native American, Latin America

The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Communication

by Daniel Herwitz
review by Erik M. Walker, Quincy College, Plymouth, Massachusetts
listed in: Cinema

America’s Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration

by Gary Kroll
review by Charles Mitchell, Elmira College
listed in: Environs

Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, The Religious Right, and the Culture Wars

by Thomas R. Lindlof
review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
listed in: Cinema

The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, Parody and the Battle over Borat

by Robert A. Saunders
review by Perin Emine Gurel, Yale University
listed in: Cinema

Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail Order Shopping

by Robin Cherry
review by Crystal Z. Campbell, University of California-San Diego
listed in: Material Culture

Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television and Politics

by Gordon B. Arnold
review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
listed in: Cinema, Television

Winter Post 2: February 1, 2009

Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History

edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor
review by David R. Buck, Thiel College
listed in: War, Cinema

Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader

by Troy Jackson
review by William Sturkey, Ohio State University
listed in: African American, Social Custom

Delta Blues: The Life and Times of The Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

by Ted Gioia.
review by Timothy J. O’Brien, University of Houston
listed in: Music, Performing Arts

Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century

by Laura Schapiro
review by Michelle Moravec, Rosemont College, Pennsylvania
listed in: Gender, Material Culture

Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humorists

by Iain Ellis
review by Justin Patch, University of Texas, Austin
listed in: Music, Social Custom

True West: An Illustrated Guide to the Heyday of the Western

by Michael Barson
review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
listed in: Television, Cinema

Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama

by Lisa M. Anderson
review by Elizabeth Johnson, Governors State University, Illinois
listed in: African American, Performing Arts

Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism

by Peter C. Myers
review by Debbie Clare Olson, Oklahoma State University
listed in: African American, Social Custom

Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History

edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor
review by Ron Briley, reprinted by permission of History News Network at http://hnn.us/
listed in: War, Cinema

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