Recent Scholarship
Politics
Abarca, María Graciela, “El Destino Manifiesto y la construcción de una nación continental” (Manifest Destiny and the construction of a continental nation), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 43–54. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.
Afinogenov, Gregory, “Lawyers and Politics in 18th-Century New York,” New York History, 89 (Spring 2008), 143–62.
Andrews, John, “Working for Water: Governor Richard F. Kneip and the Oahe Irrigation Project,” South Dakota History, 39 (Spring 2009), 27–64.
Averbach, Márgara, “Macartismo versus espíritu norteamericano: Scoundrel Time de Lillian Hellman y The Crucible de Arthur Miller” (McCarthyism vs. american spirit: Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman and The Crucible by Arthur Miller), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 253–64. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.
Belevtseva, S. N., “Pozitsiia Kongressa SShA po probleme prav cheloveka v sovetsko-amerikanskikh ontosheniiakh v period vtorogo prezidentstva R. Reigana” (The U.S. Congress’s position on human rights in Soviet-American relations during President Ronald Reagan’s second administration), Problemy izucheniia i prepodavaniia istorii zarubeznykh stran: Aktual’nye voprosy mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii i vneshnei politiki (Kursk), 6 (2008), 58–87. In Russian.
Bergera, Gary James, “‘Rising above Principle’: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1953–61, Part 1,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 41 (Fall 2008), 81–122.
Bergera, Gary James, “‘Weak-Kneed Republicans and Socialist Democrats’: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1953–61, Part 2,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 41 (Winter 2008), 55–95.
Block, Daniel R., “Public Health, Cooperatives, Local Regulation, and the Development of Modern Milk Policy: The Chicago Milkshed, 1900–1940,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (Jan. 2009), 128–53.
Boyd, Tim, “The 1966 Election in Georgia and the Ambiguity of the White Backlash,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (May 2009), 305–40.
Campbell, William J., “Converging Interests: Johnson, Croghan, the Six Nations, and the 1786 Treaty of Fort Stanwix,” New York History, 89 (Spring 2008), 127–41.
Churchill, David S., “Spectres of Anti-Communism: Richard Rorty and Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 38 (no. 2, 2008), 275–91.
Coen, Ross, “Not Old Enough to Vote but Able to Support Statehood: University of Alaska Students and the Statehood Movement, 1955–1957,” Alaska History, 24 (Spring 2009), 1–14.
Dadamo, Florencia, “Estados Unidos y la década de 1960: El despertar de la conciencia” (America and the 60s: The awakening of awareness), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 297–316. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.
Denning, Robert, “A Fragile Machine: California Senator John Conness,” California History, 85 (no. 4, 2008), 26–49, 71–73. Heavily illustrated.
Elliot, Mark, “The Question of Color-Blind Citizenship: Albion Tourgée, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Principles of the Niagara Movement,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 32 (July 2008), 23–49.
Filimonova, M. A., “Dzheims Monro” (James Monroe), Voprosy Istorii (Moscow) (no. 3, 2009), 66–80. In Russian.
Florig, Dennis, “Partisan Polarization in Congress and the Historic Shift in the Geographical Bases of U.S. Political Parties,” Journal of British & American Studies (Seoul) (no. 19, Dec. 2008), 265–97.
Fones-Wolf, Ken, “‘Traitors in Wheeling’: Secessionism in an Appalachian Unionist City,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 13 (Spring–Fall 2007), 75–95.
Fuller, Craig, “Home Rule: The Struggle to Create Duchesne County and Its County Seat,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Winter 2009), 67–90.
Gallagher, Julie, “Waging ‘the Good Fight’: The Political Career of Shirley Chisholm, 1953–1982,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Summer 2007), 392–416.
Gardocki, Rafal, “Amerykanska lekcja demokracji w czasie wojny: Wybory prezydenckie w 1944 r.” (An American lesson in democracy: The presidential election of 1944), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw) (no. 1, 2009), 83–94. In Polish.
Garneau, James F., “Presidents and Popes, Face to Face: From Benedict XV to John Paul II,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Fall 2008), 89–106.
Green, Nancy L., “Expatriation, Expatriates, and Expats: The American Transformation of a Concept,” American Historical Review, 114 (April 2009), 307–28.
Gross, Robert A., “A Yankee Rebellion? The Regulators, New England, and the New Nation,” New England Quarterly, 82 (March 2009), 112–35.
Hamilton, Shane, “The Populist Appeal of Deregulation: Independent Truckers and the Politics of Free Enterprise, 1935–1980,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 137–77.
Hayes, Danny, “Has Television Personalized Voting Behavior?,” Political Behavior, 31 (June 2009), 231–60.
Isayev, S. A., “O dukhovnoi osnove amerikanskogo konstitusionalisma (k postanovke problemy)” (Some thoughts on the theological foundation of American constitutionalism), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 19–44. In Russian.
Jacobs, Michael, “Rutherford B. Hayes and the Anti-Catholic Bugbear in the Election of 1876,” Northwest Ohio History, 76 (no. 2, 2009), 63–73.
Jenkins, Jeffrey A., and Timothy P. Nokken, “Partisanship, the Electoral Connection, and Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877–2006,” Journal of Politics, 70 (May 2008), 450–65.
Kleck, Gary, “Mass Shootings in Schools: The Worst Possible Case for Gun Control,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (June 2009), 1447–64.
Korotkova, S. A., “Mogla li Margaret Brent (1601–1671) stat’ gubernatorom kolonii Merilend?” (Could Margaret Brent have become the governor of the colony of Maryland?), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 9–18. In Russian.
Korzi, Michael J., “Theorizing Presidential Tenure: The Difficult Case of fdr’s Fourth Term,” Congress & the Presidency, 35 (Autumn 2008), 39–64.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy, “Modernizing Repression: Police Training, Political Violence, and Nation-Building in the American Century,” Diplomatic History, 33 (April 2009), 191–221.
Lemelin, Bernard, “An Isolationist Politician in an Internationalist Era: Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota and the United Nations, 1945–1946,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 37 (no. 2, 2007), 49–82.
Luconi, Stefano, “Emigrazione, vita politica, e partecipazione sindacale” (Emigration, political life, and labor militancy), in Storia d’Italia: Annali 24; Migrazioni, ed. Paola Corti and Matteo Sanfilippo, 317–42. (Turin: Einaudi, 2009. 804 pp. €95.00, isbn 978-88-061-8887-0.) In Italian.
Massey, Drew, “Leonard Bernstein and the Harvard Student Union: In Search of Political Origins,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Feb. 2009), 67–84.
Masters, Daniel A., “Did He or Didn’t He: The Dismissal of Captain Peter Austin Tyler, Company D, 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry,” Northwest Ohio History, 76 (no. 2, 2009), 74–88.
Materson, Lisa G., “African American Women, Prohibition, and the 1928 Presidential Election,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Spring 2009), 63–86.
McCarty, Nolan, “Presidential Vetoes in the Early Republic: Changing Constitutional Norms or Electoral Reform?,” Journal of Politics, 71 (April 2009), 369–84.
Mitchell, Daniel J. B., “‘Duke, Is There Perhaps Something You Forgot to Tell Me?’: Pete Wilson’s First-Term Struggle with the California Budget,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Winter 2008–2009), 379–418.
Moen, Ole O., “Nasjonalkarakteren” (The national character), in Amerikansk politikk: Politisk system og politisk tenkning (American politics: Political system and political thinking), ed. Bjørn Erik Rasch, 181–212. (Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag, 2008. 325 pp. Paper, nok 345.00, isbn 978-82-7935-180-1.) In Norwegian.
Mullgardt, Brian, “The Whole Neighborhood Is Watching: Community Influence on the Events Surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Winter 2008), 238–60.
Olson, Joel, “Friends and Enemies, Slaves and Masters: Fanaticism, Wendell Phillips, and the Limits of Democratic Theory,” Journal of Politics, 71 (Jan. 2009), 82–95.
Rakhsmir, P. Yu., “Amerikanskie neokonservatory i imperskaia ideia” (The American neoconservatives and imperial idea), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 4, 2008), 3–25. In Russian.
Reno, Janet, and Geoffrey Klineberg, “What Would Jackson Do? Some Old Advice for the New Attorney General,” Harvard Law & Policy Review, 2 (Summer 2008), 197–209.
Reonas, Matthew, “Delta Planters and the Eudora Floodway: The Politics of Persistence in 1930s Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 50 (Spring 2009), 159–87.
Roberts, Charles K., “Race, Wallace, and the ‘9–8’ Plan: The Defeat of Carl Elliott,” Alabama Review, 62 (April 2009), 113–44.
Rubinowitz, Leonard S., and Kathryn Shelton, “Non-violent Direct Action and the Legislative Process: The Chicago Freedom Movement and the Federal Fair Housing Act,” Indiana Law Review, 41 (no. 3, 2008), 663–716.
Schwartz, Thomas Alan, “Henry, . . . Winning an Election Is Terribly Important: Partisan Politics in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History, 33 (April 2009), 173–90.
Shannon, Timothy, “The World That Made Johnson,” New York History, 89 (Spring 2008), 111–25.
Siemers, David J., “Bill Clinton’s Contractarian Worldview: The Intellectual Origins and Public Face of the Clinton Philosophy,” Congress & the Presidency, 35 (Autumn 2008), 65–86.
Upham-Bornstein, Linda, “Citizens with a ‘Just Cause’: The New Hampshire Farmer-Labor Party in Depression-Era Berlin,” Historical New Hampshire, 62 (Fall 2008), 117–37.
Werner, Timothy, “Congressmen of the Silent South: The Persistence of Southern Racial Liberals, 1949–1964,” Journal of Politics, 71 (Jan. 2009), 70–81.
Wolak, Jennifer, “The Consequences of Concurrent Campaigns for Citizen Knowledge of Congressional Candidates,” Political Behavior, 31 (June 2009), 211–29.
Brewer, Curtis Anthony, “Interpreting the Policy Past: The Relationship between Education and Antipoverty Policy during the Carter Administration” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3312225.
Chopra, Ruma, “Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776–1783” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3317910.
Coverdale, John W., “An Analysis of Affirmative Action as Public Policy and Its Impact for Government, Business, and Higher Education in the United States from 1932 through 2007” (Dowling College, 2008). Order No. DA3317860.
Dunne, Matthew W., “A Cold War State of Mind: Cultural Constructions of Brainwashing in the 1950s” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3318310.
Gallagher, Douglas Steven, “‘Walking the Tightrope’: Americans for Democratic Action in the South, 1947–1963” (University of Florida, 2008). Order No. DA3322922.
Hall, Susanne E., “News That Stays News: U.S. Poetry, New Left Politics, and Mass Media in the 1960s” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3318704.
Hart, Randle Joseph, “The Truth in Time: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the American Conservative Movement, 1900–1972” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR39670.
Husbands, Paul David, “‘The People’s President’: Letter Writing, the Presidency, and Popular Politics in Late-Nineteenth to Mid-twentieth-century America” (Duke University, 2007). Order No. DA3321834.
Jones, Brian Madison, “Abolishing the Taboo: President Eisenhower and the Permissible Use of Nuclear Weapons for National Security” (Kansas State University, 2008). Order No. DA3310811.
Kabala, James Stanley, “A Christian Nation? Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3318336.
Lee, Michael James, “Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words That Made a Movement” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3321913.
Masterson, Thomas Louis, “Workforce Diversity in California Community Colleges, 1988–2007” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3318532.
McCarthy, David Shamus, “The cia and the Cult of Secrecy” (College of William and Mary, 2008). Order No. DA3319779.
McKinnon, Sara Lynn, “The Discursive Formation of Gender in Women’s Gendered Claims to U.S. Asylum” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3318436.
Pennington, Christopher John, “The Continentalist Movement in the Politics of Canada and the United States, 1887–1894” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR39518.
Senters, Melinda J., “George N. Sanders: A Political Confidence Man” (University of Kentucky, 2006). Order No. DA3322137.
Stahl, Jason Michael, “Selling Conservatism: Think Tanks, Conservative Ideology, and the Undermining of Liberalism, 1945–Present” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3318033.
Starkweather, Sarah, “Defining Extraterritorial Citizenship: The Case of American Citizens Living Abroad” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3318458.
Sund, Allona, “Exceptional States: National Esteem and Nonconformity in International Relations” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR39642.
Swartz, David R., “Left Behind: The Evangelical Left and the Limits of Evangelical Politics, 1965–1988” (University of Notre Dame, 2008). Order No. DA3318075.
Tønnessen, Alf Tomas, “Conservatives for Change: How Richard Viguerie and Paul Weyrich Helped Organize, Fund, and Empower the American Right Wing, 1964–1981” (University of Oslo Unipub, Norway, 2008).
Bass, Jack, and Scott Poole, The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 231 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-57003-814-3.)
Bernstein, R. B., The Founding Fathers Reconsidered. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xviii, 238 pp. $17.95, isbn 978-0-19-533832-4.)
Blight, James G., janet M. Lang, and David A. Welch, Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived: Virtual jfk. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xvi, 421 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7425-5699-7.)
Brandt, Karl Gerard, Ronald Reagan and the House Democrats: Gridlock, Partisanship, and the Fiscal Crisis. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. x, 254 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1835-3.)
Bruff, Harold H., Bad Advice: Bush’s Lawyers in the War on Terror. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. viii, 403 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1643-5.)
Churchill, Robert H., To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant’s Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. xiv, 370 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-472-11682-9.)
Covin, David, Black Politics after the Civil Rights Movement: Activity and Beliefs in Sacramento, 1970–2000. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. x, 226 pp. Paper, $49.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4258-4.)
Diletti, Mattia, Martino Mazzonia, and Mattia Toaldo, Come cambia l’America: Politica e società ai tempi di Obama (How America changes: Politics and society in the era of Obama). (Rome: Edizioni dell’Asino, 2009. 150 pp. €12.00, isbn 978-88-6357-009-0.) In Italian.
Durr, Kenneth D., Life of the Party: Kenneth F. Simpson and the Survival of the Republicans in 1930s New York. (Rockville, Md.: Montrose, 2009. viii, 280 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-97288-747-2.)
Godwin, Jack, Clintonomics: How Bill Clinton Reengineered the Reagan Revolution. (New York: Amacom, 2009. xiv, 290 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8144-1398-2.)
Goren, Lilly J., ed., You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. x, 289 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2544-2.)
Hay, Melba Porter, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the Battle for a New South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xiv, 353 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2532-9.)
Jacoby, Susan, Alger Hiss and the Battle for History. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. x, 256 pp. $24.00, isbn 978-0-300-12133-9.)
Jaffa, Harry V., Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 451 pp. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-0-226-39118-2.) Originally published in 1959.
Ketcham, Ralph, The Madisons at Montpelier: Reflections on the Founding Couple. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xiv, 200 pp. $23.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2811-1.)
Lamis, Renée M., The Realignment of Pennsylvania Politics since 1960: Two-Party Competition in a Battleground State. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xxx, 398 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-271-03419-5.)
Mackowska, Katarzyna, Normatywny wymiar amerykanskich wczesnych konstytucji stanowych (Normative dimension of early American states’ constitutions). (Lublin: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, 2009. 222 pp. zl. 18.00, isbn 978-8-373-63820-4.) In Polish.
Miller, Steven P., Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. vi, 304 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4151-8.)
Page, Janice, and Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr., eds., Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. viii, 198 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-1-4391-3806-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Parsons, David A., ed., Virginia Municipal League: A History of Local Governments Working Together for 100 Years, 1905–2005. (Richmond: Virginia Municipal League, 2006. 162 pp. Paper.) Heavily illustrated.
Pechatnov, V. O., Ot Dzheffersona do Klintona: Demokraticheskaia partiia SShA v bor’be za izbiratelia (From Jefferson to Clinton: The Democratic Party’s struggle for voters). (Moscow: Nauka, 2008. 503 pp. isbn 978-5-02-035978-9.) In Russian.
Rasch, Bjørn Erik, ed., Amerikansk politikk: Politisk system og politisk tenkning (American politics: Political system and political thinking). (Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag, 2008. 325 pp. Paper, nok 345.00, isbn 978-82-7935-180-1.) In Norwegian.
Rorabaugh, W. J., The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. x, 250 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1639-8.)
Stuckey, Mary E., Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xxx, 197 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-60344-074-5.)
Weingarten, Aviva, Jewish Organizations’ Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy. (Portland, Or.: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008. xii, 164 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-85303-743-9. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-85303-744-6.)
Wieciech, Tomasz, Ustroje federalne Stanów Zjednoczonych, Kanady, i Australii (Federal systems of the United States, Canada, and Australia). (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2009. 312 pp. zl. 34.20, isbn 978-8-323-32656-4.) In Polish.
Winkler, Allan M., “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and Power of Song. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xviii, 223 pp. $23.95, isbn 978-0-19-532481-5.) Includes cd.
Burton, Orville Vernon, ed., The Essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. xii, 177 pp. $17.95, isbn 978-0-8090-4307-1.)
Critchlow, Donald T., and Nancy MacLean, Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. viii, 235 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4823-7. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4824-4.)
Looney, J. Jefferson, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 5: 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. l, 737 pp. $99.50, isbn 978-0-691-13771-1.)
Oberg, Barbara B., ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 35: 1 August to 30 November 1801. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xlx, 825 pp. $99.50, isbn 978-0-691-13773-5.)
Schultz, John, No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii, 307 pp. Paper, $17.00, isbn 978-0-226-74078-2.) Originally published in 1969.
Shapiro, Larry, ed., The Words of Abraham Lincoln. (New York: Newmarket, 2009. xiv, 113 pp. Paper, $11.95, isbn 978-1-55704-830-1.)
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