... is made, every American president will be seen as a jerk. After Truman, Nixon yields only to Reagan- still another Truman heir-as the jerkiest of all. Paul Buhle founded Rndical America; his recent books include Marxism in the USA (Verso, 1991)and (co-edited with Mary Jo Buhle and Dan Georgakas...

...Fernando Picó Instead of approaching the history of Puerto Rico from the habitual narrative of the failed attempts to create an independent state, this essay reviews five very different books which help give an alternative view of the island's history: Arturo Morales Carrión's Puerto Rico...

... in Early American History: A Checklist of Recent Books, Articles, and Dissertations Edwin G. Burrows The next major subject of controversy in American history is almost certainly going to be the transition, sometime between the mid- 17th...

...Joshua Brown ©Copyright October 1981, by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1981 Into the Minds of Babes: A Journey through Recent Children's History Books Joshua Brown In the summer of 1979...

... 1984 Comic Books and History: A Symposium JoshBrown: A number of American left historians and cartoonists recently have produced critical comic-book histories of the United States (notably Jim O’Brien and Nick Thorkelson’s Underhanded History...

...Michaela Appeltová Abstract The text reviews four new books in Irish women’s history and the history of sexuality: Mary McAuliffe’s biography of the revolutionary Margaret Skinnider; Jennifer Redmond’s Moving Histories , exploring the discourses about Irish women migrants to Great Britain...

...Ian Gordon This article examines some recent graphic novels and argues that they should be called comic books. Gordon evaluates the success of different artists at matching the style of art to the subject represented, discusses the representational and narrative possibilities of the comic form...

... and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801 – 1804 (2011); and Jeremy Popkin's You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (2010). Dubois Laurent , Haiti: The Aftershocks of History . New York : Metropolitan Books , 2012 . (re)views Haiti and Its Revolution: Four Recent...

...- ment for his abuse of power. Yes we remember our president Nixon. Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation; his most recent book is Professors, Politics and Pop (Verso, 1991). He is a longtime member of the RHR Collective. Max Eibaum: FinaiIy I am lining up...

... of No Ivory Tower: McCurthyism and the Universifies (Oxford University Press, 1986) and The Age of McCarthyisrn: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Books, 1994). Steve Brier: Nixon's Tombstone My all-time favorite summary of Richard Nixon's life, and my nomi- nee...

...Don Mitchell This article reviews three books that make important contributions to our understanding of how city streets and sidewalks are structured, and thus what their social and political potential might and might not be. Each of the books shows how streets and sidewalks are produced through...

...Jorge Ramirez Abstract This essay reviews four books in Indigenous studies: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo’s Indian Given (2016), Elizabeth Hoover’s The River Is in Us (2017), Dana E. Powell’s Landscapes of Power (2018), and Nancy Postero’s The Indigenous State (2018). The books address...

...Mary Conley Mary Conley reviews four recent books that explore the historical and literary relationship between Ireland, India, and the British Empire. While two of the books examine literary connections between Ireland and India, another is a historical study of the intracolonial relationships...

...Lyell Davies Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller's book Greening the Media explores the impact of information communication technologies (ICTs) and consumer electronics (CEs) on our environment and on the lives of the workers involved in the manufacture or disposal of these technologies. In their book...

...Hossein Khosrowjah Wael Ghonim's Revolution 2.0 and Tweets from Tahrir , edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns, are two different accounts of the popular anti-Mubarak uprising in January and February 2011. This review considers each book's construction of personal and national narratives...

...Kim Cary Warren This review of four books published about tourism in the US South examines the ways the region has struggled to reconcile a past rooted in slavery and violence and a modern era recast as industrial, technological, and attractive for tourists. With a focus on ghost tours, beaches...

...Diane F. George Diane George reviews three recent books examining the colonial relationship between Ireland and Great Britain from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth century through the lens of historical and cultural geography, history, and ethnography. The books under review examine...

... as a vitally important skill. As Germany endured an interregnum identity crisis, the photographic book proved an effective alternative to what were perceived to be the more subjective, traditional “fine arts” of painting and sculpture. More than innocuous collections of fine art photography, these books...