Monthly Archives: February 2013

Madeline Y. Hsu’s Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 tells the complex story of Chinese migration between the city of Taishan in China’s Guangdong province and the United States. … Continue reading →

Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes’ Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922 is a welcome study of the ways that mass culture spread throughout the United States and impacted the rest of the world. Published in … Continue reading →

Reading Walter Johnson’s “On Agency” in the Journal of Social History made me rethink a lot of my responses to Stephanie Camp’s Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (2004). Camp’s goal is worthy, because … Continue reading →