Labour in the South-West

Labor in the Southwest, 1943-46: A Symposium
Las Cruces, NM, 24-25 January 2002

Call for Papers

The Department of History at New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum are co-sponsoring a World War II home front symposium on the wartime labor emergency and its resolution. Expected topics to be covered include:

Stalin and Mongolia

Shagdariin Sandag and Harry H Kendall, Poisoned Arrows: The Stalin-Choibalsan Mongolian Massacres, 1921-1941. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. xvii + 228 pp. Glossary, notes, bibliograpy, and index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8133-3710-0.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Timothy May, Department of History, University of Wisconsin.
Published by H-Russia, July 2001.

A Forgotten Purge

Making Houses

Donna J. Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Master Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 261 pp. $45 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8122-3580-0.

Reviewed for EH.NET by James B. McSwain, Department of History, Tuskegee University.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.

Wages of Sickness

Beatrix Hoffman, The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiii + 261 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8078-2588-3; $17.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8078-4902-2.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Melissa A. Thomasson, Department of Economics, Miami University.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.