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The article focuses on the growth of multinational conglomerates after World War II. Topics include the postwar economic growth, the U.S. Justice Department scrutiny brought to mergers by the Celler-Kefauver Act, and the influence of high-concept corporate capitalism.

The article examines what is referred to as the whistle-blowing campaign of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Philip Agee and his opposition to U.S. interventionist foreign policies, which became a part of a transnational campaign against the security state of the U.S. and several allies during the Cold War.

The article discusses then-U.S. foreign policy strategist and diplomat George F. Kennan's emotions and his views about topics such as the Soviet Union, Russians, and a performance of the late playwright Anton Chekhov's drama "The Cherry Orchard" in 1958. Frustration and Kennan's inner personality are examined, along with his views about relations with the people, culture, and landscape of Russia during the twentieth century. Kennan's American foreign policy recommendations are assessed.

The article discusses the New York and Bermudez Company in Guanoco, Venezuela in the first decade of the twentieth century. The American company was the holder of a large lake of tar pitch, a main ingredient used in asphalt in the U.S. and the company relations with the Venezuelan government of president Cipriano Castro were strained over the control of the area. Efforts made by the administration of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, mainly secretary of state Elihu Root, to adopt a legal strategy to intercede in the matter without resorting to the use of military force, are detailed.

An essay is presented which examines the role that disability rights bills presented by the U.S. National Federation of the Blind (NFB) to the U.S. Congress in the late 1950s played in establishing precedent for later civil rights activism and legislation regarding feminist, gay, and environmental rights issues. It discusses ways in which attempts by the NFB to develop rights to organize brought public attention to social issues for the disabled and explores the origins of professionalism in the U.S.

The article presents an examination of smuggling and the United States' enforcement of import duties and trade regulation during the Gilded Age. It discusses the importance that the federal government placed on the policing of borders despite the government being underdeveloped in numerous ares. It explores the debate that this enforcement created around the authority of the federal government and discusses how the U.S. was a much stronger country at and beyond its borders that within them during this period. It also explores social aspects related to smuggling, including the targeting of women, Chinese immigrants, Jews and wealthy tourists as smugglers.

The article discusses the return of diplomatic history--specifically U.S. diplomatic history--to the mainstream of historical study in the late 20th and early 21st centuries after years of marginalization due to the rise of social and cultural history. The work of diplomatic historians in relocating their field at the juncture of domestic and international relations is discussed, including through the study of ideology or "mentalités," international history, and culture and identity. Relations between diplomatic historians and other historical fields are discussed, as are a variety of interdisciplinary approaches.

This article examines the 1960 U.S. Presidential campaign when Democratic candidate John Kennedy emphasized African issues in order to win over African-Americans. Many historians credit Kennedy's narrow victory to his efforts with this demographic. However, the author contends it has been incorrectly attributed. He suggests Kennedy made Africa a priority during the campaign. Many African countries achieved independence that year and Kennedy wanted to show support for this type of nationalism and encourage them to be open and democratic.

The article discusses important articles that the journal published in 2006-2007 including "Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past," by Roy Rosenzweig in the June 2006 issue and "All Hail the Republic of Choice: Consumer History as Contemporary Thought," by David Steigerwald in the September 2006 issue, and the roundtable "The State of Cultural History: A Conference in Honor of Lawrence W. Levine," in the December 2006 issue.

Presents a list of articles, dissertations, books and primary sources about the U.S. history. "The Art of Propaganda: Charles Alston's World War II Editorial Cartoons for the Office War Information and the Black Press," by Harry Amana in "American Journalism"; "The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis: Moderation and Social Conflict," by Karen Anderson in "Journal of Southern History"; "Nomadic Memory," by Catherine Bernard in "Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire."

Focuses on the enlistment of race in turn-of-the-century Anglo-American geopolitics and the role of racial ideology in the history of U.S. foreign policy. Argument that Anglo-Saxon racism developed as a self-conscious bond connecting Britons and U.S. citizens in the late nineteenth century; Discussion on racial exceptionalism in the entanglement of the Anglo-Boer War and the Philippine-American War; Information on the de-Saxonization of colonialism in the Philippines.

Comments on the utility of insights that were offered by Ann Laura Stoler in her essay entitled 'Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies.' Topic of the essay; Limitation of the essay; Stoler's recommendation regarding the future comparative work on empire.

Examines the meanings revealed and created by historian George F. Kennan's use of language, with specific reference to his tropes of gender and pathology, that created an emotionalized context. Background information on Kennan; Other critiques done of Kennan's work; Kennan's writings on the Cold War.

Reviewed: EUA 10: Síntesis de Su Historia, 3. Marcelo, Víctor Godínez et al., ed.

Comments on the application of electronic media such as CD-ROMs in the research, analysis and teaching of history. Databases, documentaries, games, and books on CD-ROM.

Reviewed: The USA Wars: Korea on CD-ROM. - .

Reviewed: Seven Days in August. - .

Reviewed: The Archives of History: A Moving Image Retrospective of the 20th Century. - .

Reviewed: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: History Maker. Schulman, Daniel.

Reviewed: To New Horizons: Ephemeral Films, 1931-1945. Prelinger, Richard, ed.

Reviewed: You Can't Get There from Here: Ephemeral Films, 1946-60. Prelinger, Richard, ed.

Reviewed: The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House. Haldeman, H. R.

Reviewed: Vietnam Remembered on CD-ROM. - .

Reviewed: U.S. History on CD-ROM. - .

Reviewed: History of the Blues. - .

Reviewed: Black American History: Slavery to Civil Rights. - .

Reviewed: The African-American Experience: A History. - .

Presents a list of books in the "Journal of American History." "Social Security: Visions and Revisions," by W. Andrew Achenbaum; "The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths," by John Adair; "The American Steel Navy: A Photographic History of the U.S. Navy From the Introduction of the Steel Hull in 1883 to the Cruise of the Great White Fleet, 1907-1909," by John D. Alden; "The Most Famous Soldier in America: A Biography of Lt. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1923," by Arthur J. Amchan; "James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity," by Harry Ammon.

Discusses the ideological approach used in the study of the history of U.S. foreign relations. Relation of ideology to socially established structures of meaning associated with culture; Background on the conception by realists of ideology during the Cold War; Information on scholarship concerned with ideology that focus on corporatism.

Reports on the changes and activities at the "Journal of American History" for the 1998 to 1989 period. Increase in the number of scholarly monographs in the field of history; Usage of the journal's topical index by readers; Action taken to widen the appeal of articles of the journal.

Introduces a series of articles about the history of scholarship studies on the American Constitution.

Discusses the relationship between the Constitution and foreign policy in the U.S. Impact of the changes in the U.S. foreign policy on the Constitution; Effect of the inability of states to cooperate in foreign policy in the 1780s; Arguments on the disconnection between foreign and domestic policies; Expansion of presidential power between 1789 and 1820.

Describes the way U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Harry Jacob Anslinger interpreted his legislative mandate in an effort to gain influence over narcotic foreign policy. Actions taken by Anslinger to establish a drug control program; Interest of Anslinger in foreign policy; Role of xenophobia in the formulation of the country's foreign policy.

Presents a list of books about U.S. history. "The Wages of History: The AASLH Employment Trends and Salary Survey," by Charles Phillips and Patricia Hogan; "In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas," by David A. Hollinger; "Puzzles of the Past: An Introduction to Thinking About History," by Michael T. Isenberg; "Vision and Method in Historical Sociology," edited by Theda Skocpol.

Presents updates related to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) as of 1984. Recipient of the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for 1983; Job vacancies at the "The Journal of American History" publication; Details of a survey on OAH members released by Lewis Perry at the business meeting of the OAH in Los Angeles, California on April 6, 1984.

Discusses the significance of industrialization to the creation of protectionist labor doctrines in the U.S. Role of free trade in protectionism; Economic philosophy of protectionist Henry Charles Carey regarding protectionism; Criticisms against protectionism.

The article discusses the state of the academic field of sports history. The author discusses an essay written by scholar Amy Bass concerning on the field, his perspectives on sports history and the influence of the professional sports scene in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the 1970s shaped his view of sports history and sports as an academic field, and the potential problems of fragmentation within the field of sports history. The article also examines cultural aspects in sports history.

Reviewed: The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865. Perkins, Bradford.

Reviewed: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913. LaFeber, Walter.

Reviewed: America in the Age of Soviet Power. Cohen, Warren.

Reviewed: The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945. Iriye, Akira.

The article announces future locations and dates for annual meetings of the Organization of American Historians which includes the April 2017 meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, the April 2018 meeting in Sacramento, California, and the 2019 meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A correction is presented for the review of the book “Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946," which appeared in the March 2016 issue.

Reviews the motion picture `America's Victoria: The Victoria Woodhull Story.'