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Ammerman, Nancy T., “Southern Baptists and the New Christian Right,” Review of Religious Research, 50 (Oct. 2008), 69–91.
Askman, Douglas V., “Her Majesty’s Disloyal Opposition: An Examination of the English-Language Version of Robert Wilcox’s the Liberal, 1892–1893,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 177–200.
Bailey, Jeremy D., “The New Unitary Executive and Democratic Theory: The Problem of Alexander Hamilton,” American Political Science Review, 102 (Nov. 2008), 453–65.
Benowitz, June Melby, “Reading, Writing, and Radicalism: Right-Wing Women and Education in the Post-war Years,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 89–111.
Bergmann, William H., “Delivering a Nation through the Mail: The Post Office in the Ohio Valley, 1789–1815,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Fall 2008), 1–18.
Beyerlein, Kraig, and Kenneth T. Andrews, “Black Voting during the Civil Rights Movement: A Micro-level Analysis,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 65–93.
Brooke, John L., “Cultures of Nationalism, Movements of Reform, and the Composite-Federal Polity: From Revolutionary Settlement to Antebellum Crisis,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Spring 2009), 1–33.
Brown, Robert D., and John M. Bruce, “Partisan-Ideological Divergence and Changing Party Fortunes in the States, 1968–2003,” Political Research Quarterly, 61 (Dec. 2008), 585–97.
Bunker, Gary L., “‘Old Abe’ in Political Caricature: Revisiting the Drawn Lincoln,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 37–46.
Carey, George W., “Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the Declaration of Independence,” in Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Bruce P. Frohnen and Kenneth L. Grasso, 80–105. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1820-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1831-5.)
Chansky, Dorothy, “Usable Performance Feminism for Our Time: Reconsidering Betty Friedan,” Theatre Journal, 60 (Oct. 2008), 341–64.
Danielson, Chris, “‘Lily White and Hard Right’: The Mississippi Republican Party and Black Voting, 1965–1980,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 83–118.
Davis, Frank L., Albert H. Wurth, and John C. Lazarus, “The Green Vote in Presidential Elections: Past Performance and Future Promise,” Social Science Journal, 45 (Dec. 2008), 525–45.
Ecelbarger, Gary, “Before Cooper Union: Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 Cincinnati Speech and Its Impact on His Nomination,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30 (Winter 2009), 1–17.
Edwards, Mark, “‘God Has Chosen Us’: Re-membering Christian Realism, Rescuing Christendom, and the Contest of Responsibilities during the Cold War,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 67–94.
Ernst, Daniel, “Morgan and the New Dealers,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 447–81.
Everett, Derek R., “To Shed Our Blood for Our Beloved Territory: The Iowa-Missouri Borderland,” Annals of Iowa, 67 (Fall 2008), 269–97.
Fornieri, Joseph, “Tracing the Roots of Lincoln’s Democratic Vision,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 11–16.
Frohnen, Bruce P., “Individual and Group Rights: Self-Government and Claims of Right in Historical Practice,” in Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Bruce P. Frohnen and Kenneth L. Grasso, 106–31. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1820-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1831-5.)
Gordon, Cameron, “Whose Policy Is It Anyway? Interest Groups and the War on Poverty,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 22, Autumn 2008), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.
Grisinger, Joanna, “Law in Action: The Attorney General’s Committee on Administrative Procedure,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 379–418.
Hawkins, Karen M., “Rising Phoenix-Like: The African American Struggle and Mobilization for Political Rights in New Bern, North Carolina, 1968–1979,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (Oct. 2008), 379–415.
Hendrickson, Mark, “Gender Research as Labor Activism: The Women’s Bureau in the New Era,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 482–515.
Landis, Michael Todd, “‘A Champion Had Come’: William Pitt Fessenden and the Republican Party, 1854–60,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 269–85.
Massey, Douglas S., and Robert J. Sampson, “Moynihan Redux: Legacies and Lessons,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 6–27.
Nisbet, Erik C., Ronald Ostman, and James Shanahan, “Public Opinion toward Muslim Americans: Civil Liberties and the Role of Religiosity, Ideology, and Media Use,” in Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno, 161–99. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.)
Pee, Robert, “Political Warfare Old and New: The State and Private Groups in the Formation of the National Endowment for Democracy,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 22, Autumn 2008), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.
Schlozman, Daniel, “How Initiatives Don’t Always Make Citizens: Ballot Initiatives in the American States, 1978–2004,” Political Behavior, 30 (Dec. 2008), 469–89.
Schmeller, Mark, “The Political Economy of Opinion: Public Credit and Concepts of Public Opinion in the Age of Federalism,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Spring 2009), 35–61.
Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy, “Counter-organizing the Sunbelt: Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-union Conservatism, 1943–1958,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 81–119.
Silver, Matthew, “Louis Marshall and the Democratization of Jewish Identity,” American Jewish History, 94 (March–June 2008), 41–69.
Sinno, Abdulkader H., “Muslim Underrepresentation in American Politics,” in Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno, 69–95. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.)
Skillen, James R., “Closing the Public Lands Frontier: The Bureau of Land Management, 1961–1969,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 419–45.
Smallwood, James, “Operation Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Jewish Question, and the Nazi Holocaust,” East Texas Historical Journal, 47 (no. 1, 2009), 3–17.
Steele, Brian, “Thomas Jefferson, Coercion, and the Limits of Harmonious Union,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Nov. 2008), 823–54.
Stevens, Rosemary A., “History and Health Policy in the United States: The Making of a Health Care Industry, 1948–2008,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 21 (Dec. 2008), 461–83.
Thrift, Bryan Hardin, “Jesse Helms’s Politics of Pious Incitement: Race, Conservatism, and Southern Realignment in the 1950s,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Nov. 2008), 887–926.
Watkins, Susan, “Lulling Nuclear Protest,” New Left Review (London), 54 (Nov.–Dec. 2008), 5–26.
Weiner, Dana E., “Anti-abolition Violence and Freedom of Speech in Peoria, Illinois, 1843–1848,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 179–204.
Wells, Wyatt, “Public Power in the Eisenhower Administration,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 227–62.
Anderson, Melissa Cully, “Entrusting Legislators to Self-Reform: A Study of Initiative-Enabling Bills from 1897 to 1916” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306049.
Bachoo, Richard R., “Gubernatorial Decision-Making: A Case Study of Gubernatorial Influence on the Contemporary Development of Connecticut Public Higher Education from 1980–2001” (University of Connecticut, 2008). Order No. DA3313264.
Balsiger, Joerg, “Uphill Struggles: The Politics of Sustainable Mountain Development in the Swiss Alps and California’s Sierra Nevada” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306057.
Connolly, David Hugh, Jr., “A Question of Honor: State Character and the Lower South’s Defense of the African Slave Trade in Congress, 1789–1807” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309848.
DeSilvio, David M., “The Influence of Domestic Politics on Foreign Policy in the Election of 1940” (Wayne State University, 2008). Order No. DA3303514.
Herman, Luciana Louise, “1794: American Race, Republicanism, and Transnational Revolution” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306164.
Riley, Padraig Griffin, “Northern Republicans and Southern Slavery: Democracy in the Age of Jefferson, 1800–1819” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306312.
Russo, Mary Teresa Burns, “Abraham Lincoln: Prophetic Politician” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3308666.
Saldivar Hodgson, Maria Nicolasa, “A Content Analysis of Leadership Language in Selected Speeches Communicated by America’s First Ladies Hillary Rodham Clinton and Laura Welch Bush” (Our Lady of the Lake University, 2007). Order No. DA3309537.
Selinger, Jeffrey S., “Embracing Dissent: Presidential Leadership and the Development of Legitimate Party Opposition in the United States” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3311607.
Skonieczny, Amy Marie, “Trading Stories: Narrative, Event, and Social Theory in International Economic Relations” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3310631.
Teten, Ryan Lee, “Evolution of the Modern Rhetorical Presidency Reconsidered: Presidential Presentation and Development of the State of the Union Address” (Vanderbilt University, 2004). Order No. DA3312084.
Turcotte, Heather M., “Petro-Sexual Politics: Global Oil, Legitimate Violence, and Transnational Justice” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317419.
Urayama, Kaori, “Missile Defense, U.S.-Japan Alliance, and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1983–2007” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314085.
Volmert, Andrew R., “Arguing with Authority: Democratic Legitimacy and the Public Use of History” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317237.
Wright, Thomas J., “Great Power Responses to Threat Transitions and the Legitimacy Burden: U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1943–1950” (Georgetown University, 2007). Order No. DA3313020.
Young, Neil J., “We Gather Together: Catholics, Mormons, Southern Baptists, and the Question of Interfaith Politics, 1972–1984” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3305279.
Ziker, Ann Katherine, “Race, Conservative Politics, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-colonial World, 1948–1968” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3310000.
Bonk, David, Trenton and Princeton, 1776–77: Washington Crosses the Delaware. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2009. 96 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-84603-350-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Bullis, Don, New Mexico and Politicians of the Past: True Tales of Some of the State’s Founding Fathers and a Few Other Office Seekers and Holders. (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2009. 127 pp. Cloth, $27.95, isbn 978-1-890689-58-2. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-1-890689-48-3.)
Canellos, Peter S., ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. xii, 464 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-1-4391-3817-5.)
Churchyard, Charles, National Lies: The Truth About American Values. (Cambridge, Mass.: Axroide, 2009. vi, 442 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-98-5716-4-5.)
Crain, Andrew Downer, The Ford Presidency: A History. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 335 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4145-7.)
Craughwell, Thomas J., Stealing Lincoln’s Body. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007. xiv, 250 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-674-02458-8. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-674-03039-8.)
Daalder, Ivo H., and I. M. Destler, eds., In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served—From jfk to George W. Bush. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 386 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-4165-5319-9.)
Davidson, Lawrence, Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America’s National Interest. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. x, 188 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2524-4.)
Emerson, Jason, Lincoln the Inventor. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xvi, 111 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2898-7. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2897-0.)
Geggus, David Patrick, and Norman Fiering, eds., The World of the Haitian Revolution. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xviii, 419 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35232-3.)
Goetzmann, William H., Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism. (New York: Basic, 2009. xvi, 456 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-465-00495-9.)
Guelzo, Allen C., Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xii, 612 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2861-1.)
Higdon, Hal, The Union vs. Dr. Mudd. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xvi, 241 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3267-2.) Originally published in 1964.
Howland, Douglas, and Luise White, eds., The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35231-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22016-5.)
Howlett, Charles F., and Robbie Lieberman, A History of the American Peace Movement from Colonial Times to the Present. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. xxxvi, 584 pp. $149.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5092-9.)
Ikenberry, G. John, et al., The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 157 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-13969-2.)
Kahler, Gerald E., The Long Farewell: Americans Mourn the Death of George Washington. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xii, 190 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2750-3.)
Kaplan, Fred, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. x, 406 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-06-077334-2.)
Keneally, Thomas, Abraham Lincoln: A Life. (New York: Penguin, 2008. 183 pp. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-14-311475-8.)
McPherson, James M., Abraham Lincoln. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv, 79 pp. $12.95, isbn 978-0-19-537452-0.)
Miner, Craig, Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854–1858. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xvi, 305 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1612-1.)
Moss, Walter G., An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces. (New York: Anthem, 2008. xxviii, 325 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-84331-301-4.)
Mulford, Carla, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii, 183 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-0-521-87134-1. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-69186-4.)
Nicholson, Linda, Identity before Identity Politics. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. viii, 192 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-0-521-86213-4. Paper, $34.99, isbn 978-0-521-68048-6.)
Okamura, Jonathan Y., Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai‘i. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xii, 238 pp. Cloth, $79.50, isbn 978-1-59213-755-8. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-1-59213-756-5.)
Phillips, Christopher, The Making of a Southerner: William Barclay Napton’s Private Civil War. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 162 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1825-4.)
Pitch, Anthony S., “They Have Killed Papa Dead!”: The Road to Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance. (Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth, 2008. xviii, 493 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58642-158-8.)
Portolano, Marlana, The Passionate Empiricist: The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xiv, 231 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7699-4.)
Purdy, Jedediah, A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom. (New York: Knopf, 2009. 294 pp. $23.95, isbn 978-1-4000-4447-4.)
Rohatyn, Felix, Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. x, 259 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3312-2.)
Schild, Georg, Abraham Lincoln: Eine Politische Biographie (Abraham Lincoln: A political biography). (Paderborn, Germany: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2009. 269 pp. €24.90, isbn 978-3-506-76748-6.) In German.
Schneider, Gregory L., The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xiv, 261 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4284-6.)
Signer, Michael, Demagogue: The Fight To Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 272 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-230-60624-1.)
Solomon, Burt, fdr v. the Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy. (New York: Walker & Company, 2009. viii, 337 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-8027-1589-0.)
Sullivan, Timothy J., New York State and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: Redrawing Party Lines. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. x, 247 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7643-7.)
Vile, John R., William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams, eds., James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiv, 302 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1831-4. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1832-1.)
Vinovskis, Maris A., From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2009. xiv, 297 pp. Paper, $45.95, isbn 978-0-8077-4922-7.)
Walker, Clarence E., Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten By Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xiv, 128 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2777-0.)
Ward, Harry M., “Going Down Hill”: Legacies of the American Revolutionary War. (Palo Alto: Academica, 2009. xii, 353 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-1-933146-57-7.)
Wells, Allen, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, fdr, and the Jews of Sosúa. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xxxii, 447 pp. Cloth, $99.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4389-9. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4407-0.)
Williams, Frank J., and William D. Pederson, eds., Lincoln Lessons: Reflections on America’s Greatest Leader. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. viii, 184 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2891-8.)
Wood, W. Kirk, Nullification, A Constitutional History, 1776–1833, vol. 1: James Madison, Not the Father of the Constitution; Other Framers, Different Intentions, and the Origins of Nullification, 1776–1787. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. xxii, 258 pp. Paper, $38.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4011-4.)
Cohn, Ellen R., ed., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 39: January 21 through May 15, 1783. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. lxii, 676 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-300-13448-3.)
Crist, Lynda Lasswell, ed., The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. 12: June 1865–December 1870. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. lii, 624 pp. $105.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3341-5.)
Friedman, Mickey, ed., A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xx, 182 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03396-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07604-6.)
Grady, Henry F., The Memoirs of Ambassador Henry J. Grady: From the Great War to the Cold War, ed. John T. McNay. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. x, 222 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1832-2.)
Kaminski, John P., ed., The Founders on the Founders: Word Portraits from the American Revolutionary Era. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xxxiv, 589 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2757-2.)
Kreider, Angela, ed., The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 6: 8 February–24 October 1813. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xl, 775 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2756-5.)
Lemay, J. A. Leo, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748–1757. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. xxii, 746 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8122-4121-1.)
Stowell, Daniel W., ed., The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. Vol. 1: xliv, 442 pp. Vol. 2: vi, 479 pp. Vol. 3: vi, 453 pp. Vol. 4: 503 pp. $300.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2606-3.)
Vernier, Richard B., The Revolutionary Writings of Alexander Hamilton. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2008. xxiv, 206 pp. Cloth, $20.00, isbn 978-0-86597-705-1. Paper, $12.00, isbn 978-0-86597-706-8.)
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