Welcome to H-Amstdy, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. H-Amstdy provides a forum for research and teaching in the field of American Studies, and for interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary perspectives on culture. The li st focuses on the cultures of North America and the United States, and offers an international perspective on the study of American culture.

- CFP: American Society for Environmental History 2014--Cultural History of Trees in the US  Daegan Miller <drm43@cornell.edu> - CONF: "Performing Diaspora: The History of Urban Music in Toronto."  <kbausch@yorku.ca> - SYM: American Art in Dialogue with Africa and its Diaspora (Oct 4-5)  <ameliagoerlitz@comcast.net> - Gore Vidal - Journal of American Studies in Turkey  laurence raw <l_rawjalaurence@yahoo.com> - H-Net, Public History and Independent Scholars  H-Net <donation@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> - CFP: Cultural History in the United States: Past, Present, and Future Trajectories  *Gregory D Smithers* [gdsmithers@vcu.edu] - CFP: International Conference on Romanticism  Jeffrey Insko <insko@oakland.edu>

Reviewer: Charles Brown Title: There's Never Been a Show Like Veggie Tales: Sacred Messages in a Secular Market Author: Hillary Warren   Reviewer: Ralph Bauer Title: Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative Author: John Muthyala   Reviewer: Anna Zuschlag Title: Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965-1983 Author: Timothy Hodgdon