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Hartman, Andrew, “Christopher Lasch: Critic of Liberalism, Historian of Its Discontents,” Rethinking History (London), 13 (Dec. 2009), 499–519.

James, Samuel, “Louis Mink, ‘Postmodernism,’ and the Vocation of Historiography,” Modern Intellectual History, 7 (April 2010), 151–84.

Kim, Jin Hee, “1930–40 Nyundae Miguk gisikineui daejung munwha insik” (New York intellectuals and mass culture in the 1930s and 1940s), Mikuthak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies, 40 (no. 3, 2008), 5–38. In Korean.

O’Neill, Johnathan, “Straussian Constitutional History and the Straussian Political Project,” Rethinking History (London), 13 (Dec. 2009), 459–78.

Park, Benjamin E., “‘Build, Therefore, Your Own World’: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, and Antebellum American Thought,” Journal of Mormon History, 36 (Winter 2010), 41–72.

 

Clark, Fendrich R., “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Rhetoric of Social Change, 1897–1907: Attitude as Incipient Action” (Duquesne University, 2009). Order No. DA3364355.

Kenny, Thomas J., “Words to Action: The Transcendental Influence on the American Reform Movement of the 1800s” (Drew University, 2009). Order No. DA3364848.

Miller, Brandon Lee, “The History of Rhetoric as Dialogue: A Consideration with Mikhail Bakhtin, of Rhetoric’s History, Past, Present, and Future” (Texas Woman’s University, 2009). Order No. DA3367244.

Millikan, Matthew, “Personality: The Science of Selfhood in Twentieth-Century America” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3362059.

Musser, Amber Jamilla, “On the Subject of Masochism” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365367.

 

Bilder, Mary Sarah, Maeva Marcus, and R. Kent Newmyer, eds., Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 287 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-49087-0.)

Cotkin, George, Morality’s Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. x, 262 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4227-0.)

Gastil, Raymond D., and Barnett Singer, The Pacific Northwest: Growth of a Regional Identity. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. vi, 221 pp. 38.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4540-0.)

Haller, John S., Jr., Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Contemporary Medicine. (West Chester: Swedenborg Foundation, 2010. xxii, 321 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-87785-331-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87785-330-5.)

Kester, Scott J., The Haunted Philosophe: James Madison, Republicanism, and Slavery. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. x, 132 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-7391-2174-0.)

Medrano, Manuel F., Américo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2010. viii, 180 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-1-57441-287-1.)

Roediger, David R., How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon. (New York: Verso, 2008. xvi, 254 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-1-84467-275-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-84467-434-3.)

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