The World’s Fair has a 3-part interview with Aaron Sachs, author of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. The interview starts with The Humboldt Current : Science, Adventure, and Environmentalism with author Aaron Sachs. Sachs’ book was recently reviewed (not very positively) in The Journal of American History.
[link from Environmental History News]
The November 2007 issue of Pacific Historical Review features a forum on Asian-American History. The articles (links to abstracts):
Mae M. Ngai, Asian American History Forum:Introduction
Erika Lee, The “Yellow Peril” and Asian Exclusion in the Americas
Dorothy Fujita-Rony, Water and Land: Asian Americans and the U.S. West
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Journeys for Peace and Liberation: Third World Internationalism and Radical Orientalism during the U.S. War in Vietnam
Paul Spickard, Whither the Asian American Coalition
Thomas Bender, Commentary: Widening the Lens and Rethinking Asian American History
David Igler, Commentary: Re-Orienting Asian American History through Transnational and International Scales
The current issue of The Public Historian is devoted to eugenics. There’s a wealth of material: the issue covers the creation of exhibits, case studies of the public history of eugenics, and archives and media.
The latest issue of The Journal of American History features the following articles (links to History Cooperative articles):
Allen C. Guelzo, Houses Divided: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Political Landscape of 1858
Thomas A. Stapleford, Market Visions: Expenditure Surveys, Market Research, and Economic Planning in the New Deal
Andrea Friedman, The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Race, Gender, and McCarthyism
Susan J. Matt, You Can’t Go Home Again: Homesickness and Nostalgia in U.S. History
And three review essays:
Jan Shipps, Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and the New Mormon History
Richard Lyman Bushman, What’s New In Mormon History: A Response to Jan Shipps
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Putting Religion on the Map
The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor both have recent reviews of David Halberstam’s final book The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War.
The Fall 2007 issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History features a review forum on Charles S. Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors.
The other articles in this issue (links to Project Muse HTML):
Smith, Thomas H., The Discourse of Violence: Transatlantic Narratives of Lynching during High Imperialism
Owens, Geoffrey Ross, Exploring the Articulation of Governmentality and Sovereignty: The Chwaka Road and the Bombardment of Zanzibar, 1895-1896
The September 2007 issue of Diplomatic History contains the following articles (links to article summary pages):
David C. Engerman, Bernath Lecture: American Knowledge and Global Power
Mark T. Hove, The Arbenz Factor: Salvador Allende, U.S.-Chilean Relations, and the 1954 U.S. Intervention in Guatemala
Kristin L. Ahlberg, “Machiavelli with a Heart”: The Johnson Administration’s Food for Peace Program in India, 1965–1966
Donna R. Jackson, The Carter Administration and Somalia
Eric Paul Roorda, McCarthyite in Camelot: The “Loss” of Cuba, Homophobia, and the Otto Otepka Scandal in the Kennedy State Department
The latest issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies features three articles on the Cuban Missile Crisis (links to Project Muse PDFs):
Coleman, David G., The Missiles of November, December, January, February . . .: The Problem of Acceptable Risk in the Cuban Missile Crisis Settlement
Tierney, Dominic, “Pearl Harbor in Reverse”: Moral Analogies in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Cheng, Yinghong, Sino-Cuban Relations during the Early Years of the Castro Regime, 1959–1966
Also of note in this issue, a review essay on U.S. & European popular culture during the Cold War:
Chapman, Roger, Cold War Legacies: The Migration and Transformation of Popular/ Unpopular Culture
In the June 28th issue of the New York Review of Books, Roderick MacFarquhar reviews Margaret MacMillan’s Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World:
She points out that in the aftermath both sides had their disappointments. Nixon and Kissinger “went too far, for example, in making assurances to China about withdrawing American forces from Taiwan, which they were not, in the end, able to keep.” As for the “China card”—the additional leverage that the new détente with China was supposed to give to the US—the Americans found that it did not lead to the North Vietnamese either ending the war or giving ground in the Paris peace talks. Nixon’s visit occurred, she argues, because both sides came to the conclusion at the same time that it was a promising idea. In the end it was the will of just four men to begin the week that changed history.
The June 2007 issue of the Journal of American History (vol. 94, no. 1) features a round table on 20th-Century photographs:
This round table is an exploration of the diverse relationships between photographs and twentieth-century American history. To examine such relationships, this collection seeks to highlight multiple perspectives on photographs. We are interested in the often-hidden dynamics and consequences of the creation, dissemination, and reception of photo-graphs: what it is like to be a photographer, what is it like to be a subject, how images be-come consumer objects, how collections are created and ordered, and how photographs illuminate the meanings of American identity on individual, national, and global levels. These photographs focus on human faces: faces of Americans and faces Americans have photographed in the United States and abroad.
Here are the articles from this issue:
Ian Tyrrell, “Public at the Creation: Place, Memory, and Historical Practice in the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1907–1950“
Beth Bailey, “The Army in the Marketplace: Recruiting an All-Volunteer Force“
Manfred Berg, “Black Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism: The NAACP in the Early Cold War“
