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Alley, Bill, “‘Nightmare’ in Pen and Ink: ‘Pinto’ Colvig as Silver State Cartoonist,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 48 (Fall 2005), 369–80.
Armstrong, Robert D., “‘Impenetrable Obscurity’: The Comptroller, the Secretary, and Territorial Printing,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 99 (Sept. 2005), 411–25.
Bradshaw, Katherine A., “‘America Speaks’: George Gallup’s First Syndicated Public Opinion Poll,” Journalism History, 31 (Winter 2006), 198–205.
Cavitch, Max, “Emma Lazarus and the Golem of Liberty,” American Literary History, 18 (Spring 2006), 1–28.
Chapman, Mary, “Are Women People? Alice Duer Miller’s Poetry and Politics,” American Literary History, 18 (Spring 2006), 59–85.
Clark, Daniel A., “Piggy Goes to Harvard: Mass Magazines, the Middle Class, and the Re-Conceptualization of College for a Corporate Age, 1895–1910,” History of Higher Education Annual, 24 (2005), 1–40.
Davis, Erin K., “Printing at the Fair: The Printing Exhibits at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase International Exposition,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 99 (Sept. 2005), 427–44.
Frasca, Ralph, “Benjamin Franklin’s Printing Network and the Stamp Act,” Pennsylvania History, 71 (Autumn 2004), 403–19.
Goldberg, Martin, “The Jewel of the Valley: The Carnegie Library of Homestead,” Pennsylvania History, 70 (Spring 2003), 149–73.
Hoy, Jim, and Catherine Hoy, “Portraits of the Plains: The Photographs of F. M. Steele,” Kansas History, 28 (Winter 2005–2006), 262–73. Heavily illustrated.
Hunt, Alex, “Hunting Charles Goodnight’s Buffalo: Texas Fiction, Panhandle Folklore, and Kiowa History,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 77 (2004), 1–13.
Kim, Youn-Jin, “Hanguk Eunron eul Tonghae Bon Miguk gwa Migukhwa: Imigi wa Damnon” (America and Americanization: Images and discourses in Korean journalism), Migukhak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies (Seoul), 37 (Winter 2005), 7–38. In Korean.
Lawson, Andrew, “The Red Badge of Class: Stephen Crane and the Industrial Army,” Literature and History (Winchester), 14 (Oct. 2005), 53–68.
Massoni, Kelley, “‘Teena Goes to Market’: Seventeen Magazine and the Early Construction of the Teen Girl (as) Consumer,” Journal of American Culture, 29 (March 2006), 31–42.
Miles, George, “The Press in the West: A Roundup of Recent Work,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 99 (Sept. 2005), 445–58.
Nowatzki, Robert C., “‘Our Only Truly National Poets’: Blackface Minstrelsy and Cultural Nationalism,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (March 2006), 361–78.
Putnam, Thomas, “Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath,” Prologue, 38 (Spring 2006), 22–29.
Rhodes, Sonny, “Opposite Extremes: How Two Editors Portrayed a Civil War Atrocity,” American Journalism, 22 (Fall 2005), 27–45.
Ritchie, Donald A., “The Past Meets the Press: Historians and the News Media,” Maryland Historian, 30 (Spring 2006), 61–71.
Roberts, Timothy, “The European Revolutions of 1848 and Antebellum Violence in Kansas,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 58–68. Heavily illustrated.
Rohrbacher, Frances A., and Richard W. Rohrbacher, “The Reverend John O’Hanlon’s Irish Immigrant’s Guide for the United States in 1851,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 64, Winter 2005), 26–35.
Rowan, Steven, “The German Press in St. Louis and Missouri in the Nineteenth Century: The Establishment of a Tradition,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 99 (Sept. 2005), 459–67.
Rowley, Karen M., and John Maxwell Hamilton, “A Missing Link in the History of American War Correspondents: James Morgan Bradford and the Time Piece of St. Francisville, Louisiana,” American Journalism, 22 (Fall 2005), 7–26.
Saum, Lewis O., “The Gilded Age, Dakota, and ‘Phocion’ of the Chicago Times,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (Oct. 2004), 231–37.
Sheridan, Susan, “Adrienne Rich and the Women’s Liberation Movement: A Politics of Reception,” Women’s Studies, 35 (Jan. 2006), 17–45.
Smalley, Andrea L., “‘Our Lady Sportsmen’: Gender, Class, and Conservation in Sport Hunting Magazines, 1873–1920,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (Oct. 2005), 355–80.
Soper, Kerry, “Performing ‘Jiggs’: Irish Caricature and Comedic Ambivalence toward Assimilation and the American Dream in George McManus’s Bringing Up Father,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (April 2005), 173–213.
Tomes, Nancy, “The Great American Medicine Show Revisited,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Winter 2005), 627–63.
Unrue, Darlene Harbour, “Antonieta Rivas Mercado: Katherine Anne Porter’s Horror and Inspiration,” Journal of the Southwest, 47 (Winter 2005), 615–35.
Wallace, Aurora, “A Height Deemed Appalling: Nineteenth-Century New York Newspaper Buildings,” Journalism History, 31 (Winter 2006), 178–89.
Ward, Douglas B., “From Barbarian Farmers to Yeoman Consumers: Curtis Publishing Company and the Search for Rural America, 1910–1930,” American Journalism, 22 (Fall 2005), 47–67.
Abston, Carmen Patrice, “Representation and Signification: The Street and Dutchman as Revisions of Richard Wright’s Portrayal of Black Identity and Experience in Native Son” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3180131.
Allen, Cleo Joffrion, “Foreign News Coverage in Selected U.S. Newspapers, 1927–1997: A Content Analysis” (Louisiana State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184042.
Allred, Jeffrey B., “American Modernism and Depression Documentary” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3179698.
Alves, Jaime Osterman, “Miss Schooled: American Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178724.
Barton, John Cyril, “Literary Executions: Plotting Death Sentences in U.S. Law and Literature, 1830–1925” (University of California, Irvine, 2005). Order No. DA3181245.
Bilsky, Dana, “Tangled Skeins: Identification and Fantasmatic Genealogies of Slavery in Narratives by Jacobs, Crafts, Wilson, and Keckley” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177687.
Boggs, Nicholas Taylor, “The Critic and the Little Man: On African-American Literacy Studies in the Post–Civil Rights Era” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3182930.
Chancellor, Shannon Bradley, “Subject to Interpretation: Blood and Boundaries in American Cultural Medias, 1903–1996” (University of Southern California, 2004). Order No. DA3180769.
Chia, Christina Mei Ting, “‘People of color’: The Black-White Binary and U.S. Multiracism, 1833–1909” (Duke University, 2004). Order No. DA3181472.
Collins, Brennan, “‘Forsaking the promised land’: Raymond Andrews and the Many African-American Literary Perspectives on the South” (Georgia State University, 2005). Order No. DA3180053.
Dorsey, Carol G., “Self-Fashioning (Im)possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178630.
Duncan, James Bryan, “Literary Labor: Reform and Resistance in American Literature, 1936–1945” (University of Oregon, 2005). Order No. DA3181097.
Feerst, Alex Jonathan, “Bowery Beautiful: Progressive Slumming and Ghetto Aesthetics, 1880–1930” (Duke University, 2005). Order No. DA3183938.
Fenton, Sarah Kathleen, “Rebel Angels: American Literature across the Civil War” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177718.
Fuller, Douglas B., “Media Depictions of African Americans: An Examination of the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times, 1978, 1988, and 1998” (Howard University, 2004). Order No. DA3184869.
Hale, Alison Tracy, “Pedagogical Gothic: Education and National Identity in Early American Sensational Fiction, 1790–1830” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3183363.
Hanrahan, Heidi Michelle, “Competing for the Reader: The Writer/Editor Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2005). Order No. DA3185999.
Hatcher, Jessamyn, “Psychoanalysis and Everyday Life: The Popularization and Popular Use of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1909–1935” (Duke University, 2004). Order No. DA3177857.
Hobbs, Amy Laurel, “‘The world, our home’: The Rhetorical Vision of Women’s Clubs in American Literature, 1870–1920” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178591.
Ibrahim, Habiba, “Inside the Color Line: Reading Biracialism in Twentieth Century American Culture” (State University of New York, Albany, 2005). Order No. DA3181801.
Jensen, Melba P., “Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave: Text, Context, and Interpretation” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005). Order No. DA3179890.
Johnson, Sherita, “‘Truth is stranger than fiction’: Black Women in American Literature of the South” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005). Order No. DA3182291.
Karl, Alissa G., “Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Cultures and Consumer Capitalism, 1915–1939” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3178087.
King, Robert W., “Tales of Enchantment: Southwest Literature and Its Cultural Work, 1885–1930” (University of Utah, 2005). Order No. DA3181463.
Kobayashi, Junko, “‘Bitter sweet home’: Celebration of Biculturalism in Japanese Language Japanese American Literature, 1936–1952” (University of Iowa, 2005). Order No. DA3179090.
Lee, Julia Hyoun Joo, “Almost American: Cross-Racial Representations in African American and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3181734.
McFarland, Sarah Elizabeth, “Engendering the Wild: The Construction of Animals in Twentieth Century Nature Writing” (University of Oregon, 2005). Order No. DA3181112.
Parris, Brandy, “Emotional Labor, Women’s Work, and Sentimental Capital in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3178100.
Railton, Benjamin A., “Reconstructing the Past: History and Narrative in American Literature, 1876–1886” (Temple University, 2005). Order No. DA3178825.
Rider, Janet, “A Quest for Self: The Social and Intellectual World of Judith Sargent Murray” (University of Connecticut, 2005). Order No. DA3180248.
Robolin, Stéphane Pierre Raymond, “‘You are now in fairyland’: Remapping Resistance in South African and African American Literatures” (Duke University, 2005). Order No. DA3179214.
Roylance, Patricia Jane, “International Nationalism: World History as Usable Past in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3187339.
Schoolman, Martha Elizabeth, “American Abolitionist Geographies: Literature and the Politics of Place, 1840–1861” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3179806.
Shaffer, Donald M., Jr., “Making Space(s): The Representation of Place and Identity in Black Migration Novels, 1902–1953” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3181417.
Siddons, Louise Elizabeth, “The Future of the American Race: Reproducing the Racialized Nation in Print Media, 1925–1940” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3186401.
Singer, Amy Elisabeth, “Under the Radar: The Subversive Work of American Children’s Books, 1930–1980” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3178109.
Slater, David Jeremiah, “The American Girl, Her Life and Times: An Ideal and Its Creators, 1890–1930” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3180026.
Smith, Judy Teresa, “Magnolia Matriarchs: Six Women’s Contributions to the Community Press in Mississippi” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3180161.
Stanley, William Chad, “Uncivil Defenses: The Nuclear Fictions of Philip Wylie” (University of Connecticut, 2005). Order No. DA3180259.
Strand, Amy Dunham, “Governing Voices: Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3178113.
Trone, Carole Jeanne, “National Communications Campaigns on Public Education, 1890–1945” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005). Order No. DA3186207.
Webb-Anderson, Aerie Frances, “The Finer Shades of Difference: Race, Class, and Grammar in the Nineteenth Century of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and William Dean Howells” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2005). Order No. DA3179600.
Worden, Joel Daniel, “The Galapagos in American Consciousness: American Fiction Writers’ Responses to Darwinism” (University of Delaware, 2005). Order No. DA3181874.
Xiaohui, Chen, “Dangdai Meiguo huaren wenxue zhongde ‘ta’ xiezui: Dui Tang tingting, Tan enmei, Yan gelin degn huaren nv zuojia de duomian fenxi” (“She” in contemporary Chinese-American literature: Analysis of Chinese-American authors Tang Tingting, Tan Enmei, Yan Geling, and others) (Fujian Normal University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Xu, Chen, “Meiguo xibu xiaoshuo yanjiu” (On United States western novels) (Shaihai Normal University, China, 2004). In Chinese.
Yaping, Li, “20shiji zhonghouqi meiguo huawen wenxuede zhuti bijiao yanjiu” (Comparative research on Chinese-American literature in the later period of the twentieth century) (Jinan University, China, 2004). In Chinese.
Ying, He, “Lengzhanhou Meiguo meiti duihua fuminabaodaode jiangouzhuyi fenxi” (An analysis of U.S. media reporting toward China after the Cold War) (Fudan University, China, 2004). In Chinese.
Castillo, Susan, Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500–1786: Performing America. (London: Routledge, 2006. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $97.00, isbn 0-415-31606-5. Paper, $33.95, isbn 0-415-31607-3.)
Irwin, Raymond D., Books on Early American History and Culture, 1951–1960: An Annotated Bibliography. (Westport: Praeger, 2006. xii, 298 pp. $97.95, isbn 0-313-31433-0.)
Lawson, Andrew, Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. xxvi, 157 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-87745-973-8.)
Weber, Ronald, News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light between the Wars. (Chicago: Dee, 2006. 333 pp. $27.50, isbn 1-56663-676-0.)
Gross, Jonathan, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family, and Romantic Love Collected by America’s Third President. (South Royalton: Steerforth, 2006. xviii, 570 pp. $32.95, isbn 1-58642-107-7.)
Schmidgall, Gary, ed., Conserving Walt Whitman’s Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel’s Conservator, 1890–1919. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. lviii, 418 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-87745-972-X.)
Yarbrough, Jean M., ed., The Essential Jefferson. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006. xviii, 287 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 0-87220-747-1.)
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