Most Recent Articles from Journal of Social History

• Race, Medicine and the South 

  Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-arid Early-Twentieth-Century America. By Todd L. Savitt (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2007). Doctoring the...

  09/22/09 by Sharla M. Fett · More from publication

• Can America Ecucate Itself out of Inequality? 

  The Race between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). In 2008, the...

  09/22/09 by Michael B. Katz · More from publication

• The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 

  The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950. By Avner Offer (Oxford: Oxford University...

  09/22/09 by Susan J. Matt · More from publication

• A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States 

  A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007....

  09/22/09 by Timothy J. Gilfoyle · More from publication

• Inherited Wealth 

  Inherited Wealth. By Jens Beckert. Translated by Thomas Dunlap (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. ix, plus 382 pp.). Jens Beckert has...

  09/22/09 by James Huston · More from publication

• Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model 

  Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model. By Laura Levine Frader (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. ix plus...

  09/22/09 by Steven M. Beaudoin · More from publication

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