Recent Scholarship
Intellectual
Burns, Dave, “The Soul of Socialism: Christianity, Civilization, and Citizenship in the Thought of Eugene Debs,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Summer 2008), 83–116.
Ceplair, Larry, “The Base and Superstructure Debate in the Hollywood Communist Party,” Science & Society, 72 (July 2008), 319–48.
Constantinesco, Thomas, “Discordant Correspondence in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘Friendship,’” New England Quarterly, 81 (June 2008), 218–51.
Cotkin, George, et al., “History’s Moral Turn,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 69 (April 2008), 293–337. Roundtable.
Durrill, Wayne K., “Becoming Rafinesque: Market Society and Academic Reputation in the Early American Republic,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (June 2008), 123–40.
Mancini, Matthew J., “Too Many Tocquevilles: The Fable of Tocqueville’s American Reception,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 69 (April 2008), 245–68.
Ortiz García, Carmen, “Raíces hispánicas y culturas americanas: Folkloristas de Norteamérica en el Centro de Estudios Históricos” (Hispanic origins and American cultures: U.S. folklorists in the Center for Historical Studies), Revista de Indias (Madrid), 67 (Jan.–April 2007), 125–62. In Spanish.
Rossi, William, “Performing Loss, Elegy, and Transcendental Friendship,” New England Quarterly, 81 (June 2008), 252–77.
Smolinski, Reiner, “How to Go to Heaven, or How Heaven Goes? Natural Science and Interpretation in Cotton Mather’s ‘Biblia Americana’ (1693–1728),” New England Quarterly, 81 (June 2008), 278–329.
Umezaki, Toru, “Teikoku, Taisei, Minshu: 1970nendai kara 80nenndai nikaketeno Amerikashi Kenkyu-kai no Mondaiishiki to Gakumon-teki Kadai” (The empire, establishment, and people: Reassessing the problem awareness and agendas of the Society of American Historical Studies in its early years), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 22–34. In Japanese.
Vaughn, Gerald F., “Teaching Moral Philosophy in the South during Slavery and Reconstruction: Edward Wadsworth of LaGrange College and Southern University,” Methodist History, 46 (April 2008), 179–88.
Winterer, Caroline, “The Big Picture: The Ancient Mediterranean in Early America,” Common-Place, 8 (July 2008), http://www.common-place.org.
Atanassow, Ewa, “Tocqueville and the Question of the Nation” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3287025.
Baland, Eileen, “Love, Truth, Beauty: A Critical Biography of Frederick Turner” (University of Texas, Dallas, 2007). Order No. DA3285269.
Chappo, John Fabian, “William H. Mahone of Virginia: An Intellectual Biography, 1830–1890” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3289727.
Chen, Owen, “John Jay Chapman: Critic and Artist” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285452.
Felber, Ron, “Lessons in Leadership: What Executives (And Everyone Else) Can Learn from Five Great Presidents” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3284515.
Gillooly, John, “Between Culture and Politics: The Mass Culture Critique among Left Intellectuals in America, 1939–1964” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285081.
Schut, Melvin Leonard, “Tocqueville on Liberty” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3287082.
Smith, Anthony Woodruff, “Ethics and Interaction: The Democratic Origins of George Herbert Mead’s Social Psychology” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285550.
Gura, Philip F., American Transcendentalism: A History. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xvi, 365 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8090-3477-2.)
Kerr, Robert L., The Corporate Free-Speech Movement: Cognitive Feudalism and the Endangered Marketplace of Ideas. (New York: lfb, 2008. x, 275 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-59332-293-9.)
Lindsay, Beverly, ed., Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 199 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03225-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Pizer, Donald, American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xviii, 88 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-03343-8.)
Sacks, Kenneth S., Emerson: Political Writings. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-521-88369-6. Paper, $23.99, isbn 978-0-521-71002-2.)
Zolberg, Aristide R., How Many Exceptionalisms? Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xiv, 362 pp. $54.50, isbn 978-1-59213-831-9.)
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