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Askew, Gregory, “Envy, Ambivalence, and the Culture of Consumption in Nella Larsen’s Passing,” Soundings, 88 (Fall-Winter 2005), 307–29.

Carroll, Brian, “From Fraternity to Fracture: Black Press Coverage of and Involvement in Negro League Baseball in the 1920s,” American Journalism, 23 (Spring 2006), 69–95.

Coquillette, Daniel R., “Sectionalism, Slavery, and Threat of War in Josiah Quincy Jr.’s 1773 Southern Journal,” New England Quarterly, 79 (June 2006), 181–201.

Cronin, Mary M., “C. F. Richardson and the Houston Informer’s Fight for Racial Equality in the 1920s,” American Journalism, 23 (Summer 2006), 79–103.

Ellis, R. J., “‘Latent Color’ and ‘Exaggerated Snow’: Whiteness and Race in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘The Amber Gods,’” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 40 (Aug. 2006), 257–82.

Gershenhorn, Jerry, “Double V in North Carolina,” Journalism History, 32 (Fall 2006), 156–67.

Huang, Nian-Sheng, “From the ‘Fur Cap’ to Poor Richard: The Chinese Connection,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 150 (June 2006), 205–40.

Kaszuba, Dave, “Bringing Women to the Sports Pages: Margaret Goss and the 1920s,” American Journalism, 23 (Spring 2006), 13–44.

Kavanagh, Thomas W., “Los Comanches: Pieces of an Historic, Folkloric Detective Story, Part 2,” New Mexico Historical Review, 81 (Summer 2006), 233–48.

Kennedy, Virginia, “Native Americans, African Americans, and the Space That Is America: Indian Presence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison,” in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, ed. Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, 196–217. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3812-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3865-9.)

Klyde-Silverstein, Lynn, “From the Negro News Page to the Sports Page: Mary Garber’s Influence on the Newspapers of Winston-Salem, N.C.,” American Journalism, 23 (Spring 2006), 97–113.

Kuhn, Martin, “Drawing Civil War Soldiers,” Journalism History, 32 (Summer 2006), 96–105.

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, “Mission Intolerable: Harrison Salisbury’s Trip to Hanoi and the Limits of Dissent against the Vietnam War,” Pacific Historical Review, 75 (Aug. 2006), 429–59.

Lehmann, Chris, “A. J. Liebling and the Plight of Press Criticism,” Raritan, 26 (Summer 2006), 137–51.

MacDougall, Robert, “The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation,” American Quarterly, 58 (Sept. 2006), 715–41.

Makemson, Harlen, “Beat the Press,” Journalism History, 32 (Summer 2006), 77–86.

Marcellus, Jane, “These Working Wives: Representation of the ‘Two-Job’ Woman between the World Wars,” American Journalism, 23 (Summer 2006), 53–78.

Robins, Glenn, “Soldiers of the Pen: The Literary Careers of Richard Taylor, John Bell Hood, and W. H. Tunnard,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 7 (June 2006), 281–98.

Saum, Lewis O., “James William ‘Phocion’ Howard of the Chicago Tribune Reports the Aftermath of the Little Bighorn Disaster,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Summer 2006), 82–94.

Smith, Reed, “Sports Illustrated’s African American Athlete Series as Socially Responsible Journalism,” American Journalism, 23 (Spring 2006), 45–68.

Sweeney, Michael S., “Harvey O’Higgins and ‘The Daily German Lie,’” American Journalism, 23 (Summer 2006), 9–28.

Thornton, Brian, “Pleading Their Own Cause,” Journalism History, 32 (Fall 2006), 168–78.

Walton, Laura Richardson, “In Their Own Backyard: Local Press Coverage of the Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Murders,” American Journalism, 23 (Summer 2006), 29–51.

Webb, Sheila, “A Pictorial Myth in the Pages of Life: Small-Town America as the Ideal Place,” Studies in Popular Culture, 28 (April 2006), 35–58.

White, Tom, “From McCook to Whispering Smith,” Nebraska History, 87 (Fall 2006), 98–119.

Yarrow, Andrew L., “The Big Postwar Story,” Journalism History, 32 (Summer 2006), 58–76.

 

Almansour, Ahmed Nidal, “The Middle East in Antebellum America: The Cases of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe” (Ohio State University, 2005). Order No. DA3197819.

Barron, James P., “The American Reception of Henry Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis?” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3194994.

Chin, Jim Cheung, “Realism and the Hierarchy of Racial Inclusion: Representations of African Americans and Chinese Americans in Post–Civil War Literature and Culture” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3198776.

Clifford, Clare Emily, “‘Suicides Have a Special Language’: Practicing Literary Suicide in Cold War American Poetry” (University of Alabama, 2005). Order No. DA3201242.

Gorman, Michael, “‘Versed in country things’: Pastoral Ideology, Modern American Identity, and Willa Cather” (University of Tulsa, 2005). Order No. DA3194199.

Grey, Charles R., “Four Vietnams: Conflicting Visions of the Indochina Conflict in American Culture” (Florida State University, 2005). Order No. DA3198219.

Halloran, Fiona Deans, “The Power of the Pencil: Thomas Nast and American Political Art” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3196361.

Hawley, Elizabeth Haven, “American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840–1890” (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005). Order No. DA3198547.

Horne, Jackie C., “Sympathetic Adventures: Robinsonnades, Settler Narratives, Historical Romances, and Fictionalized Histories for Children, 1802–1854” (Brandeis University, 2006). Order No. DA3199625.

Howell, William Huntting, “‘A More Perfect Copy than Heretofore’: Imitation, Emulation, and Early American Literary Culture” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3200952.

Kucukalic, Lejla, “Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3205431.

Lauhon, Carol Sinclair Cameron, “Capitola!, or, Our American Dream: ‘The Hidden Hand’ in American Culture, 1859–1929” (University of Iowa, 2005). Order No. DA3202945.

Martinek, Jason D., “‘Mental dynamite’: Radical Literacy and American Socialists’ Print Culture of Dissent, 1897–1917” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2005). Order No. DA3193409.

Mollis, Kara L., “Heart Matters: Contemporary American Fiction by Women and the Sentimental Tradition” (Duquesne University, 2006). Order No. DA3207179.

Sanmartín, Paula, “‘Custodians of History’: (Re)construction of Black Women as Historical and Literary Subject in Afro-American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3204179.

Schneider, Cynthia A., “Willa Cather’s ‘O Pioneers!’ as a Response to Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2005). Order No. DA3201780.

Schueth, Michael A., “Willa Cather and Celebrity: The Writer’s Self-Image and the Literary Marketplace” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2005). Order No. DA3201781.

Shaheen, Aaron, “Androgynous Democracy: American Modernity and the Dual-Sexed Body Politic” (University of Florida, 2005). Order No. DA3204481.

Shere, Jeremy, “Jewish American Canons: Assimilation, Identity, and the Invention of Postwar Jewish American Literature” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3204536.

Sulak, Marcela Malek, “Ligatures of Time and Space: 1920s New York as a Construction Site for Modernist ‘American’ Narrative Poetry” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3204204.

Veggian, Henry, “Mercury of the Waves: Modern Cryptology and U.S. Literature” (University of Pittsburgh, 2005). Order No. DA3206842.

Vela, Diana M., “Habitually Writing: Nuns in the American West, 1727–1877” (Texas Christian University, 2005). Order No. DA3195644.

Verhoeven, Betsy L., “Revolutionary-Era Vernacular Sphere Rhetoric in the Massachusetts Spy (1770–1775)” (University of Denver, 2005). Order No. DA3194825.

 

Blakely, Debra E., Mass Mediated Disease: A Case Study Analysis of Three Flu Pandemics and Public Health Policy. (Lanham: Lexington, 2006. viii, 189 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1387-5.)

Ferguson, Robert A., Reading the Early Republic. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii, 358 pp. Cloth, $46.50, isbn 978-0-674-01338-4. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-674-02236-2.)

 

Brown, Charles Brockden, Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker, with Related Texts, ed. Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006. xliv, 269 pp. Cloth, $37.95, isbn 978-0-87220-854-4. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-87220-853-7.) Originally published in 1799.

Romeiser, John B., ed., Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead’s World War II Diary and Memoirs. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. x, 236 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2675-7.)

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