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Review: The Myth Of The Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War In American Popular Culture By Ronald Smelser And Edward J. Davies Ii, Gerd Horten

CUP Faculty Research

A review of the book The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture by Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies II (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship In London, John D. Ramsbottom

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London"

Brokers Of Culture: Italian Jesuits In The American West, 1848-1919 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

History Faculty Publications

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

McKevitt, Gerald. Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780804753579

Review: The Media Were American: U.S. Mass Media In Decline By Jeremy Tunstall, Gerd Horten

CUP Faculty Research

A review of the book The Media Were American: U.S. Mass Media in Decline by Jeremy Tunstall (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

Review: Circling Home, Kate Farley

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Circling Home," by John Lane.

Review Of The Book Census Substitutes & State Census Records, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Census Substitutes & State Census Records.

Review: Electric Sounds: Technological Change And The Rise Of Corporate Mass Media By Steve J. Wurtzler, Gerd Horten

CUP Faculty Research

A review of the book Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media by Steve Wurtzler (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)

Religion And Culture In Early Modern Europe: 1500-1800 (Book Review), John B. Roney

History Faculty Publications

Book review by John B. Roney.

Greyerz, Kaspar von. Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe: 1500-1800. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

9780195327656; 9780195327663 (pbk.)

Review: Stand Up For Alabama: Governor George Wallace, Peter Otto

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Stand Up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace," by Jeff Frederick.

Review Essay: Bringing The Middle Ages Into The World History Survey Course: Some Suggestions, Tiffany A. Trimmer

Quidditas

Too often World Historians neglect coverage of the European Middle Ages, and medieval history courses tend to lose sight of the ways in which medieval Europe played a part in the wider world to which it belonged. Part of this results from the artificial pre/post 1500 CE split that dominates the organization of the typical world history survey, and part from the reluctance of World Historians to realize the potential of a global history approach to the era before the age of exploration and colonization. The works included in this essay attempt to rectify the absence of earlier European historical …

Review: Civil War Weather In Virginia, James Taylor

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Civil War Weather in Virginia," by Robert K. Krick.

Benedicte Wrensted' S Indian Photographs, Lea Rosson Delong

The Bridge

Joanna Cohan Scherer resurrects the career of Benedicte Wrensted (1859-1949), a photographer who emigrated from Denmark in 1893 and set up her studio in Pocatello, Idaho, a town of about 4,500 population. Over the next seventeen years, Wrensted produced approximately one hundred seventy known photographs of Northern Shoshone, Bannock and Lemhi tribal members who lived on the nearby Fort Hall Indian Reservation, along with numerous pictures of the Euro-American citizens of Pocatello as well. Though several of Wrensted's photographs of the Sha-Ban (as the tribes refer to themselves) were well known and had been frequently published, it was not until …

Review: The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation’S Last Stand At The University Of Alabama, Ravonne Green

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation’s Last Stand at the University of Alabama," by E. Culpepper Clark.