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Berebitsky, Julie, “The Joy of Work: Helen Gurley Brown, Gender, and Sexuality in the White-Collar Office,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 15 (Jan. 2006), 89–127.

Forde, Kathy Roberts, “Libel, Freedom of the Press, and the New Yorker,” American Journalism, 23 (Fall 2006), 61–91.

Fujita, Hiroshi, “Amerika janarism no henshitsu” (American journalism in decline), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 39 (2005), 1–20. In Japanese.

Harriss, M. Cooper, “Where Is the Voice Coming from? Rhetoric, Religion, and Violence in The Confessions of Nat Turner,” Soundings, 89 (Spring–Summer 2006), 135–70.

Hume, Janice, and Noah Arceneaux, “Glittering Dust, Dormant Treasure: Press, Public Memory, and Georgia’s ‘Forgotten’ Gold Rush,” American Journalism, 23 (Fall 2006), 7–33.

Mize, Richard, “Sobering News: Choctaw Temperance Reporting and Civic Journalism,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Fall 2006), 288–307.

Schwalbe, Carol B., “Images of Brutality: The Portrayal of U.S. Racial Violence in News Photographs Published Overseas (1957–1963),” American Journalism, 23 (Fall 2006), 93–116.

Stockton, Elizabeth, “‘A Crusade against Duty’: Property, Self-Possession, and the Law in the Novels of Elizabeth Stoddard,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Sept. 2006), 413–38.

Wyss, Hilary E., “Mary Occom and Sarah Simon: Gender and Native Literacy in Colonial New England,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Sept. 2006), 387–412.

 

Cohen, Lara Langer, “Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214197.

Harthorn, Steven P., “James Fenimore Cooper, Professional Authorship, and the American Literary Marketplace, 1838–1851” (University of Tennessee, 2005). Order No. DA3205787.

Hedrick, Jeffrey B., “A Content Analysis of Editorial Regionalism in the 1960s: Midsize Newspaper Coverage of New York Times v. Sullivan (1960–1964)” (Bowling Green State University, 2006). Order No. DA3209232.

McCarthy, Timothy Patrick, “A Culture of Dissent: American Abolitionism and the Ordeal of Equality” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3203757.

Rozendal, Michael Arend, “On the Line: A Reconsideration of 1930s Modernist and Proletarian Radicalism” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3213643.

 

Boomhower, Ray E., The Soldier’s Friend: A Life of Ernie Pyle. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2006. xii, 134 pp. $17.95, isbn 978-0-87195-200-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Ference, Gregory C., ed., The Portrayal of Czechoslovakia in the American Print Media, 1938–1989. (Boulder: East European Monographs, 2006. vi, 182 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-88033-590-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Jarrett, Gene Andrew, Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 223 pp. $47.50, isbn 978-0-8122-3973-7.)

Sher, Richard B., The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxvi, 815 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-226-75252-6.)

 

Brin, Herb, “Herb Brin: The Autobiography of a Western Jewish Journalist, 1915–2003,” ed. David Brin, Western States Jewish History, 39 (Winter 2007), 101–88.

Minor, Benjamin Blake, The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834–1864. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxxii, 252 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-57003-671-2.) Originally published in 1905.

Parker, Robert Dale, ed., The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xvi, 292 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-3981-2.)

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