Recent Scholarship
Politics
Blackford, Mansel, “American Manufacturing, 1850–1930: A Business History Approach,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (Jan. 2010), 17–22.
Burt, John, “Lincoln’s Dred Scott: Contesting the Declaration of Independence,” American Literary History, 21 (Winter 2009), 730–51.
Capps, Michael A., “Interpreting Lincoln: A Work in Progress Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial as a Case Study,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Dec. 2009), 327–41.
Chaput, Erik J., and Russell J. DeSimone, “Strange Bedfellows: The Politics of Race in Antebellum Rhode Island,” Common-Place, 10 (Jan. 2010), http://www.common-place.org.
Cole, Lance, “Special National Investigative Commissions: Essential Powers and Procedures (Some Lessons from the Pearl Harbor, Warren Commission, and 9/11 Commission Investigations),” McGeorge Law Review, 41 (no. 1, 2009), 1–61.
Ferguson, Robert A., “Hearing Lincoln and the Making of Eloquence,” American Literary History, 21 (Winter 2009), 687–724.
Filimonova, M. A., “‘The sixth pillar’: Ratifikatsiia konstitutsii 1787 g. v Massachusetse” (“The sixth pillar”: The ratification of the Constitution of 1787 in Massachusetts), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 21–34. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.
Filimonova, M. A., “Polemika vokrug ratifikatsii Konstitutsii 1787 g. v periodicheskoi pechati SShA: Porazhenie antifederailstov” (American periodicals debate the ratification of the Constitution, 1787: The anti-federalists’s defeat), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 2; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 2 of 3 vols.), 7–46. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 260 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-276-0.) In Russian.
Floyd, Larry C., “Jake Hamon: ‘The Man Who Made Harding President,’” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Fall 2009), 294–319.
Hutchison, Anthony, “‘All the Men of Great Affairs’: The Barnard Statue, Manchester Liberalism, and Lincoln Intellectual History,” American Literary History, 21 (Winter 2009), 793–809.
Isayev, S. A., “Dzhon Teilor kak politicheskii filosof” (John Taylor as political philosopher), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 35–54. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.
Keenan, Claudia J., “Laura Carter Holloway and the First Lady’s Story,” White House Studies, 8 (no. 4, 2008), 467–88.
Kornbluh, Felicia, “Who Shot fap? The Nixon Welfare Plan and the Transformation of American Politics,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 1 (Dec. 2008), 125–50.
Kuropiatnik, G. P., “Rost politicheskogo vliianiia Ligi storonnikov Soiuza v khode izbiratel’nykh kampanii 1863–1864 godov” (The rise of the political influence and power of the American Union League with special attention to its campaign activities in 1863–1864), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 134–49. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.
Lee, R. Alton, “Joseph Ralph Burton and the ‘Ill-Fated’ Senate Seat of Kansas,” Kansas History, 32 (Winter 2009–2010), 246–65. Heavily illustrated.
Mariano, Marco, “The Liberal Dilemma: Social Rights, Civil Rights, and the Cold War in the ’Vital Center’ Liberalism,” in , 123–42.
Miller, Edward H., “They Vote for the Spoils: Massachusetts Reformers, Suffrage Restriction, and the 1884 Civil Service Law,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (July 2009), 341–64.
Morris, James McGrath, “The Political Education of Joseph Pulitzer,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Jan. 2010), 78–94. Heavily illustrated.
Percoco, James A., “Abraham Lincoln Statues in the Hoosier State,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Dec. 2009), 342–64.
Prilutskii, V. V., “Martin Van Biuren” (Martin Van Buren), Voprosy Istorii (Moscow), 8 (2009), 82–99. In Russian.
Shelden, Rachel A., “Measures for a ‘Speedy Conclusion’: A Reexamination of Conscription and Civil War Federalism,” Civil War History, 55 (Dec. 2009), 469–98.
Shepard, Randall T., “Jesse W. Weik: The Young Indiana Lawyer Who Made Herndon’s Lincoln Possible,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Dec. 2009), 365–90.
Shukunda, S. Z., “Iz istorii iazykovoi politiki SShA (XVIII–XX vv.)” (The history of U.S. language policy [the 18th–20th centuries]), Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriia: Lingvistika i mezhul’turnaia kommunikatsiia (Moscow) (no. 4, 2008), 56–63. In Russian.
Silverman, Gillian, “‘The Best Circus in Town’: Embodied Theatrics in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” American Literary History, 21 (Winter 2009), 757–87.
Stoker, Kevin, “From Prohibitionist to New Deal Liberal: The Political Evolution of Colonel Harry Mell Ayers of the Anniston Star,” Alabama Review, 62 (Oct. 2009), 262–96.
Volfson, S. B., “Deiatel’nost’ Gerberta Guvera na postu ministra torgovli SShA (1921–1928 gg.)” (Herbert Hoover as secretary of commerce of the United States [1921–1928]), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 150–61. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.
Ware, Leland, and David C. Wilson, “Jim Crow on the ‘Down Low’: Subtle Racial Appeals in Presidential Campaigns,” St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary, 24 (Fall 2009), 299–342.
Zolotukhin, V. P., “Diskussia v SShA v sviazi s prodleniem zakona 2002 goda o shkol’noi reforme” (Discussion in the United States on the prolongation of the 2002 law about school reform), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 5, 2009), 140–48. In Russian.
Alexander-Payne, Dawn Leslie, “Alexander Campbell and the Dilemma of Republican Millennialism” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3352827.
Barzilay, Karen Northrop, “Fifty Gentlemen Total Strangers: A Portrait of the First Continental Congress” (College of William and Mary, 2009). Order No. DA3353201.
Bean, Christopher B., “A Stranger amogst Strangers: An Analysis of the Freedman’s Bureau Subassistant Commissioners in Texas, 1865–1868” (University of North Texas, 2008). Order No. DA3352073.
Burns, Jennifer Louise, “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, 1930–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3353127.
Cothrum, Carrie Elaine, “Accrediting Societies and Higher Education: The Impact of Federal Regulation, 1944–2008” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3350406.
Curry, Rebecca Sue, “Making Law with Lawsuits: The Politics of Judicial Review in Federal Campaign Finance Policy” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3353238.
D’Amore, Michael Dominic, “The Influence of American Exceptionalist Thought on the Role of the United States in the Contemporary ‘War on Terrorism’” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3349718.
Foerstel Branson, Pamela Lauren, “The Study of Political Tradition through Rhetoric: The Bush Doctrine, How It Relates to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, and Its Comparison to Wilsonianism” (Claremont Graduate University, 2009). Order No. DA3351214.
Frisk, David B., “Not a Game: William Rusher and American Politics, 1940–1980” (Claremont Graduate University, 2009). Order No. DA3351392.
Golovko, Iu. M., “Formirovanie i evoliutsiia ideinykh vozzrenii Dzhona Adamsa” (The formation and evolution of John Adams’s ideas) (Briansk State University, Russia, 2008). In Russian.
Graham, Jane Robson, “The Ideally Active: Frances Willard’s Pedagogical Ministry” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3349895.
Graham, Jeffery, “‘Loose Lips Sink Ships’: A History of Rumor Control in the United States” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3344975.
Hochman, Dalia Y., “Federalism Revised? The New National Politics of Curriculum” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3348415.
Howard, Tamura Dawn, “The Politics of Civil Rights: Framing the Debate over Access to Higher Education” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3354412.
Keck, Aaron Michael, “One Nation: Cosmopolitanism and the Making of American Identity from Madison to Lincoln” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349907.
Kienker, John B., “A Peculiar Felicity of Expression: The Pursuit of Happiness and the American Founding” (Claremont Graduate University, 2009). Order No. DA3351825.
King, Amy Laine, “Evangelical Confessions: An Ideological Struggle over Evangelical Political Identity” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3352979.
Knarr, James Charles, “Batlismo and the Yankees: The United States and Uruguay, 1903–1929” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3344827.
Lawson, William H., “No Small Thing: A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1963 Freedom Vote” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3348514.
LeBaron, David, “Essays in Political Marketing” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3346333.
Lewis, Abigail Sara, “‘The Barrier Breaking Love of God’: The Multiracial Activism of the Young Women’s Christian Association, 1940s to 1970s” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349915.
Lodge, Peter M., “The United States Role in the Creation and Development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations” (University of Maine, 2008). Order No. DA3346236.
MacAllister, Craig M., “New England’s Calhounities: The Henshaw Faction of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, 1828–1850” (University of Michigan, 2009). Order No. DA3354320.
Mastrangelo, James Elliot Ficker, “City of Gods: The Rationalization of Spiritual Thought in America and the Erosion of the Foundations of Democratic Liberation” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2009). Order No. DA3350166.
Menikoff, Aaron, “Piety and Politics: Baptist Social Reform in America, 1770–1860” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3356770.
Neumann, Scott Christopher, “Eisenhower and the Internal Focus: The Persistence of Traditional Thought in American National Security Formulation” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3347487.
Nevakshenov, A. E., “Partiinaia problematika SShA v amerikanskoi istoriko-politicheskoi mysli vtoroi poloviny XX veka” (The problem of parties in American historical and political thought during the second half of the 20th century) (Tomsk State University, Russia, 2008). In Russian.
Oakes, John Stephen, “‘Conservative Revolutionaries’–A Study of the Religious and Political Thought of John Wise, Jonathan Mayhew, Andrew Eliot, and Charles Chauncey” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR46819.
Pitts, April, “Democracy and Dystopia in Post-Watergate American Fiction” (Wayne State University, 2009). Order No. DA3344928.
Reed, Jordan Lewis, “American Jacobins: Revolutionary Radicalism in the Civil War Era” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3349738.
Renouard, Joe, “Limits and Morality: The Emergence of Human Rights in America’s Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy, 1968–1981” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3344496.
Rolph, Stephanie Renee, “Displacing Race: White Resistance and Conservative Politics in the Civil Rights Era” (Mississippi State University, 2009). Order No. DA3352300.
Sagerson, Erin Jean, “Art and Bread: Mike Gold, Proletarian Art, and the Rhetoric of American Communism, 1921–1941” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3352362.
Schiffman, Kendra S., “Voting Rights and Gender Politics: Suffrage Movement Activism, State Formation, and Expanding Democracy” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3352544.
Slack, Kevin Lee, “Benjamin Franklin and the Science of Virtue” (University of Dallas, 2009). Order No. DA3357482.
Slonecker, Blake, “Living the Movement: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the New Left, 1967–1981” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3352695.
Spring, Dawn, “Selling Brand America: The Advertising Council and the ‘Invisible Hand’ of Free Enterprise, 1941–1961” (University of Cincinnati, 2009). Order No. DA3351951.
Stevens, Jennifer Audrey, “Feminizing the Urban West: Green Cities and Open Space in the Postwar Era, 1950–2000” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3350794.
Weems, Jonathan Allen, “A Challenge Constantly Renewed: Medicare and the Struggle for National Health Insurance” (University of Memphis, 2008). Order No. DA3351298.
Williams, Jakobi Emon, “Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago: A Case Study of Fred Hampton, the Illinois Black Panther Party, and the Origin of the Rainbow Coalition” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3349440.
Zibbel, John E., “‘To Promote, Encourage, or Condone’: Science, Activism, and the Political Role of Moralism in the Formation of Needle Exchange Policy in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1998–2005” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3349706.
Zummo, Paul, “Thomas Jefferson’s America: Democracy, Progress, and the Quest for Perfection” (Catholic University of America, 2008). Order No. DA3348469.
Bali, Rifat N., The Saga of a Friendship: Asa Kent Jennings and the American Friends of Turkey. (Istanbul: Libra Kitapcilik ve Yayincilik, 2009. 520 pp. Paper, $37.99, isbn 978-605-89308-3-4.)
Brady, Steven J., Eisenhower and Adenauer: Alliance Maintenance under Pressure, 1953–1960. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. xii, 277 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4225-7.)
Brinkley, Alan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii, 116 pp. $12.95, isbn 978-0-19-973202-9.)
Cooper, Phillip J., The War against Regulation: From Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xvi, 288 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1681-7.)
Daniels, Roger, ed., Immigration and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2010. xii, 211 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-93112-99-4.)
Elliott, Sam Davis, Confederate Governor and United States Senator: Isham G. Harris of Tennessee. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. xxii, 336 pp. $48.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3490-0.)
Flanagan, Jason C., Imagining the Enemy: American Presidential War Rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush. (Claremont: Regina, 2009. xiv, 236 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-1-93005360-1.)
Huret, Romain, De l’Amérique ordinaire à l’etat secret: Le cas Nixon (From ordinary America to the secret state: The Nixon case.). (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2009. 328 pp. €24,00, isbn 978-2-7246-1129-8.) In French.
Issel, William, For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. viii, 206 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-4399-0028-4.)
Jenner, Robert E., fdr’s Republicans: Domestic Political Realignment and American Foreign Policy. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. xvi, 217 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-7391-3612-6.)
Karol, David, Party Position Change in American Politics: Coalition Management. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 312 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-521-51716-4. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-73819-4.)
Kranish, Michael, Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii, 388 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-19-537462-9.)
Nosov, Iu., President: Zamechtel’nye stranitsy istorii amerikanskogo prezidentstva on Dzhordzha Vashingtona do Baraka Obamy (President: The remarkable history of the American presidency from George Washington to Barack Obama). (Moscow: Izdatel’skaia corporatsyia “Logos,” 2009. 256 pp. isbn 978-5-98704-451-3.) In Russian.
Nugent, Walter, Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xvi, 144 pp. Paper, $11.95, isbn 978-0-19-531106-8.)
Olson, Lynne, Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour. (New York: Random House, 2010. xx, 471 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-1-4000-6758-9.)
Rauterkus, Cathleen Nista, Go Get Mother’s Picket Sign: Crossing Spheres with the Material Culture of Suffrage. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2010. viii, 87 pp. Paper, $19.99, isbn 978-0-7618-4788-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Schulz, Matthias, and Thomas A. Schwartz, eds., The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv, 383 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-89999-4.)
Siemers, David J., Presidents and Political Thought. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xviii, 243 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1866-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1878-0.)
Sirotinskaia, M. M., “‘Molodaia Amerika’ i doktrina vmeshtel’stva v otsenke pressy SShA, nachalo 1850-kh gg.” (American periodicals, the Young America movement, and the involvement doctrine in the early 1850s), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 2; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 2 of 3 vols.), 91–151. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 260 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-276-0.) In Russian.
Stauber, Leland G., The American Revolution: A Grand Mistake. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2010. 292 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-59102-763-8.)
Yoo, John, Crisis and Command: The History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush. (New York: Kaplan, 2009. xx, 524 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60714-555-4.)
Leonard, Lee, A Columnist’s View of Capitol Square: Ohio Politics and Government, 1969–2005. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2010. xvi, 310 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-931968-69-0.)
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