Please contact Tim Lacy, current U.S.I.H. Book Review Editor, to volunteer to review a book.
Below is a list of completed reviews, most recent first:
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42. Round table on The Baffler, No. 19.
a. Eric Brandom's Review, posted April 30, 2012.
b. Adam Parsons' Review, posted May 1, 2012.
c. Keith Woodhouse's Review, posted May 2, 2012.
d. John Summers' reply, posted May 4, 2012.
41. Kevin Schultz's Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise. Reviewed by Fred Beuttler, April 12, 2012. A response from Kevin Schultz.
40. Sven Beckert and Julia B. Rosenbaum, Editors, The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century. Reviewed by Nicholas Cox, March 29, 2012.
39. James Livingston's Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul. Reviewed by Michael Fisher, March 22, 2012. And a response from James Livingston.
38. Round table on Daniel T. Rodgers' Age of Fracture. Editor's note: This round table took place at the Fourth Annual USIH Conference on November 18, 2011.
a. Andrew Hartman's Review, posted November 22, 2011.
b. James Livingston's Review, posted November 23, 2011.
c. Lisa Szefel's Review, posted November 25, 2011.
d. Mary Dudziak's Review, posted November 27, 2011.
e. Rodgers' Responses, posted November 28, 2011.
37. Michael Kazin’s American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation. Reviewed by Mike O'Connor, November 26, 2011.
36. Eran Shalev's Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic. Reviewed by Varad Mehta, November 3, 2011. And a response by Eran Shalev.
35. Christine Stansell's The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present. Reviewed by Louise Knight, August 4, 2011.
34. Lisa Szefel’s The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era: Reforming American Verse and Values. Reviewed by Amy Wood, July 27, 2011.
33. Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash, and Ray Raphael, eds., Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation. Reviewed by David Sehat, June 14, 2011.
32. James Kloppenberg's Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition. Reviewed by John Summers, May 27, 2011. Note: Kloppenberg Responds, June 6, 2011.
31. Round table on David Sehat's The Myth of American Religious Freedom.
a. Daniel K. Williams' Review, May 6, 2011.
b. Andrew Hartman's Review, May 14, 2011.
c. Ray Haberski's Review, May 18, 2011.
d. Christopher Hickman's Review, June 3, 2011.
e. Sehat's Responses, June 7, 2011.
30. Carl Mirra’s The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970. Reviewed by Brian Mueller, February 2011.
29. George Cotkin's Morality’s Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America. Reviewed by Tim Lacy, February 2011.
28. Michael Kimmage's The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism. Reviewed by Kevin Schultz, February 2011.
27. Robert Genter's Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America. Reviewed by Paul Murphy, January 2011.
26. Robert Vanderlan's Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire. Reviewed by Ray Haberski, January 2011.
25. Pauline Maier's Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. Reviewed by David Sehat, December 2010.
24. James Livingston's The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century. Reviewed by Andrew Hartman, November 2010.
23. Casey Nelson Blake, ed, The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State. Reviewed by Andrew Hartman, July 2010.
22. Richard Cándida Smith's The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century. Reviewed by Tim Lacy, April 2010. And a follow-up conversation with the author.
21. Daniel Geary’s Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought. Reviewed by Andrew Hartman, March 2010.
20. J. Rixey Ruffin’s A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic. Reviewed by Paul E. Teed, January 2010.
19. Jennifer Burns's The Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. Reviewed by Mike O'Connor, November 2009.
18. Susan L. Mizruchi's The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915. Reviewed by Richard L. Hughes, July 2009.
17. Touré F. Reed's Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League & the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950. Reviewed by William P. Jones, March 2009.
16. Jason Stacy's Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855. Reviewed by Tim Lacy, February 2009.
15.Bruce Kuklick's Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine. Reviewed by Andrew Hartman, November 2008.
14. Roundtable on Andrew Hartman's Education and the Cold War.
a. Introduction by Tim Lacy, August 5, 2008.
b. Review by Joe Petrulionis, August 5, 2008.
c. Review by Tim Lacy, August 5, 2008.
d. Hartman's responses, August 5, 2008 (inclusive of Milton Gaither's earlier review).
13. David Prindle's The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought. Reviewed by Mike O'Connor, June 2008.
12. Andrew Hartman's Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School. Reviewed by Milton Gaither, March 2008.
11. David Blacker's Democratic Education Stretched Thin: How Complexity Challenges a Liberal Ideal. Reviewed by Tim Lacy, August 2007.
10. Heather Cox Richardson's West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. Reviewed by Joe Petrulionis, July 2007.
9. Brink Lindsey's The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture. Reviewed by Mike O’Connor, June 2007.
8. Christopher Shannon's A World Made Safe for Differences: Cold War Intellectuals and the Politics of Identity. Reviewed by Andrew Hartman, June 2007.
7. Philip N. Johnson-Laird's How We Reason. Reviewed by Joe Petrulionis, May 2007.
6. J. David Hoeveler's The Evolutionists: American Thinkers Confront Charles Darwin, 1860-1920. Reviewed by John Thomas Scott, May 2007.
5. B. Jill Carroll's A Dialogue of Civilizations: Gülen’s Islamic Ideals and Humanistic Discourse. Reviewed by Joe Petrulionis, May 2007.
4. Douglas R. Anderson’s Philosophy Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture. Reviewed by Mike O’Connor, April 2007.
3. Michael Kazin’s A Godly Hero: the Life of William Jennings Bryan. Reviewed by Andrew Hartman, March 2007.
2. Robert B. Marks’s The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century. Reviewed by Joe Petrulionis, February 2007.
1. H. Robert Baker’s The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War. Reviewed by Joe Petrulionis, January 2007.
