Monday, March 25, 2013

March 2013 Issue of Reviews in American History

The March 2013 issue of Reviews in American History is out. Full content is available to subscribers only, but here's a peak at some reviews of interest:

In "Constitutionalism in the American Civil War," Edward J. Blum reviews Mark E. Neely Jr., Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2011).

Eileen Boris reviews Serena Mayeri, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2011) in an essay titled "Possibilities Lost and Found: Recovering the Intersectional Vision of Legal Feminism."

In "Rethinking Legal Liberalism: The Sexual Freedom Doctrine that Never Was," Leandra Zarnow takes up Marc Stein, Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

In a reflective essay, titled "On Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America," Beryl Satter (Rutgers University-Newark) asks, "How can one elucidate the historical meaning of one's own family tragedy?" Her nine-year struggle with this question culminated in Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Picador, 2009)