Recently added articles from The Journal of American Culture:
What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960
Sep 01, 2009; ... What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960 Gordon Hutner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. This enlightening book raises a question very important to the general reading public and to the academics who try to teach them what they should read. Hutner ...
The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. This is a sad and infuriating book. How is it that in the country where formal slavery was abolished with the Civil War, real ...
The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century REFORM: A Rhetorical History of the United States. Volume V
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century REFORM: A Rhetorical History of the United States. Volume V Martha S. Watson and Thomas R. Burkholder, Editors. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2009. This comprehensive volume circles the languages and people, and cultures that generated ...
The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence William C. Edwards and Edward Steers, Jr., Editors. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Every publication on Lincoln moves our incomplete hill of knowledge about that mountain of a president, though the surrounding foothills still contain ...
The Declaration of Independence: A Global History
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Declaration of Independence: A Global History David Armitage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. In David Armitage's incisively written new book, the author asserts that the original purpose of the Declaration of Independence has been lost. Or more precisely, our ...