Recent Scholarship
Politics
Cheathem, Mark R., “‘The High Minded Honourable Man’: Honor, Kinship, and Conflict in the Life of Andrew Jackson Donelson,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Summer 2007), 265–92.
Crowe, Justin, “The Forging of Judicial Autonomy: Political Entrepreneurship and the Reforms of William Howard Taft,” Journal of Politics, 69 (Feb. 2007), 73–87.
Dickinson, Matthew J., and Matthew J. Lebo, “Reexamining the Growth of the Institutional Presidency, 1940–2000,” Journal of Politics, 69 (Feb. 2007), 206–19.
Fasce, Ferdinando, “Dentro il labirinto euroamericano. Wilson, Mazzini e i percorsi atlantici della tradizione democratica” (Inside the Euro-American maze. Wilson, Mazzini, and the Atlantic routes of the democratic tradition), in Il pensiero e la forma europea della politica (The thought and shape of European politics), ed. Giuliana Laschi, 53–70. (Bologna: clueb, 2007. 139 pp. €12.00, isbn 978-88-491-2789-8.) In Italian.
Fuller, Robert L., “Mr. Halleck’s New Deal: Congressman Charles Halleck and the Limits to Reform,” Indiana Magazine of History, 103 (March 2007), 66–92.
Garry, Patrick M., “A Turning Point for Modern Conservatism,” Modern Age, 49 (Winter 2007), 24–36.
Hardt, Michael, “Jefferson and Democracy,” American Quarterly, 59 (March 2007), 41–78.
Harris, Marc, “Pennsylvania’s Border at Lake Champlain: Borders and Contexts in Colonial North America,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 32 (Fall 2006), 493–501.
Hinojosa, Victor J., and Aníbal S. Pérez-Liñán, “Presidential Survival and the Impeachment Process: The United States and Colombia,” Political Science Quarterly, 121 (Winter 2006–2007), 653–75.
Hirano, Shigeo, and James M. Snyder, “The Decline of Third-Party Voting in the United States,” Journal of Politics, 69 (Feb. 2007), 1–16. Heavily illustrated.
Hoelbling, Walter W., “America - The City on the Hill Forever under Siege: A European Perspective,” in America in the Course of Human Events: Presentations and Interpretations, ed. Josef Jarab, Marcel Arbeit, and Jenel Virden, 143–58. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2006. 306 pp. Paper, €39.50, isbn 90-5383-9925.)
Holmgren, David, “Iowa’s Governors in Cartoons,” Iowa Heritage Illustrated, 87 (Fall 2006), 126–43. Heavily illustrated.
Hoople, Robin P., “Great Stone Faces: Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Quest for American Authenticity,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 36 (no. 3, 2006), 345–62.
Horner, Jennifer Ruth, and Mark Brewin, “The Salt River Ticket, Democratic Discourse, and Nineteenth-Century American Politics,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24 (March 2007), 1–20.
Jortner, Adam, “Cholera, Christ, and Jackson: The Epidemic of 1832 and the Origins of Christian Politics in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Summer 2007), 233–64.
Kerber, Linda K., “The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other: A View from the United States,” American Historical Review, 112 (Feb. 2007), 1–34.
Leahy, Mary Lee, “The 1970 Illinois Constitution: The Realization of Equal Protection under the Law for Women,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Summer 2006), 111–23.
Lee, Michael J., “The Populist Chameleon: The People’s Party, Huey Long, George Wallace, and the Populist Argumentative Frame,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 92 (Nov. 2006), 335–78.
Mitchell, Robert B., “Untamed Greenbacker: James Baird Weaver,” Iowa Heritage Illustrated, 87 (Fall 2006), 106–19. Heavily illustrated.
Nagel, Jack H., “The Burr Dilemma in Approval Voting,” Journal of Politics, 69 (Feb. 2007), 43–58.
Nathanson, Iric, “The Oppenheimer Affair: Red Scare in Minnesota,” Minnesota History, 60 (Spring 2007), 172–86. Heavily illustrated.
Neem, Johan N., “Beyond the Wall: Reinterpreting Jefferson’s Danbury Address,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Spring 2007), 139–54.
Nugent, Walter, “The American Habit of Empire, and the Cases of Polk and Bush,” Western Historical Quarterly, 38 (Spring 2007), 5–24.
Paulos, Michael Harold, “. . . I am not and never have been a polygamist’: Reed Smoot’s Speech before the United States Senate, February 19, 1907,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 100–115.
Pospisek, Patrick A., “Springfield’s Acquisition of the Illinois Seat of Government, 1833–1845,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Spring–Summer 2006), 8–18.
Raphael, Tim, “Mo(u)rning in America: Hamlet, Reagan, and the Rights of Memory,” Theatre Journal, 59 (March 2007), 1–20.
Schiller, Wendy J., “Building Careers and Courting Constituents: U.S. Senate Representation, 1889–1924,” Studies in American Political Development, 20 (Oct. 2006), 185–97.
Scott, Rebecca J., “Grados de libertad: democracia y antidemocracia en Cuba y Luisiana, 1898–1900” (Degrees of liberty: Democracy and antidemocracy in Cuba and Louisiana, 1898–1900), Historia Social (Valencia) (no. 54, 2006), 19–50. In Spanish.
Stagg, J. C. A., “George Mathews and John McKee: Revolutionizing East Florida, Mobile, and Pensacola in 1812,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Winter 2007), 269–96.
Wiegand, Wayne A., and Shirley A. Wiegand, “Sooner State Civil Liberties in Perilous Times, 1940–1941, Part 1: The Oklahoma Federation for Constitutional Rights,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 444–63.
Wirls, Daniel, “‘The Only Mode of Avoiding Everlasting Debate’: The Overlooked Senate Gag Rule for Antislavery Petitions,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Spring 2007), 115–38.
Wise, Norton M., “Thoughts on the Politicization of Science through Commercialization,” Social Research, 73 (Winter 2006), 1253–72.
Wolensky, Robert P., Thomas J. Baldino, and John V. Hepp IV, “Remaking Municipal Government? Charter Reform in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1968–2001,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Autumn 2006), 446–79.
Wulf, Naomi, “The Politics of Past and Progress in Jacksonian Democracy,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (Dec. 2006), 647–58.
Young, Kimball L., “Utah Public Debt History,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Winter 2007), 4–21.
Ahmed, Amel F., “Constituting the Electorate: Voting System Reform and Working Class Incorporation in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1867–1913” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225423.
Baar, K. Kevyne, “Investigating Broadway: The House Committee on Un-American Activities Meets Members of the New York Theatre Community at the Foley Square Courthouse, August 15–18, 1955” (Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, 2006). Order No. DA3221146.
Black, Jason Edward, “U.S. Governmental and Native Voices in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric in the Removal and Allotment of American Indians” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222453.
Bowen, Michael D., “Fight for the Right: The Quest for Republican Identity in the Post–War Period” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3228685.
Clark, Rikki A., “The Fabricating American: Shaping a National Identity through Folk Ideas in Literature” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2006). Order No. DA3220060.
Davis, Michael A., “Politics as Usual: Franklin Roosevelt, Thomas Dewey, and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944” (University of Arkansas, 2005). Order No. DA3223249.
Den Hartog, Jonathan J., “‘Patriotism and piety’: Orthodox Religion and Federalist Political Culture” (University of Notre Dame, 2006). Order No. DA3221319.
Donoghue, John, “Radical Republicanism in England, America, and the Imperial Atlantic, 1624–1661” (University of Pittsburgh, 2006). Order No. DA3223958.
Downs, Gregory Patterson, “Declaration of Dependence: Popular Politics in North Carolina from Reconstruction to the New Deal” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225450.
Esh, Christian R., “‘The Sacred Cause of State Rights’: Theories of Union and Sovereignty in the Antebellum North” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222597.
French, Peter Murray, “Liberal and Republican Ideas in the Early Histories of America and the American Revolution: Loyalist, Federalist, and Republican” (University of New Brunswick, Canada, 2004). Order No. DANR15163.
Gifford, Laura Jane, “The Center Cannot Hold: The 1960 Presidential Election and the Rise of Modern Conservatism” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3224331.
Grant, Jimmy Randall, “Louis Francis Budenz: The Origins of a Professional Ex-Communist” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224434.
Haberman, Aaron Louis, “Civil Rights on the Right: The Modern Christian Right and the Crusade for School Prayer, 1962–1996” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224435.
Horner, Jennifer Ruth, “Blood and Ballots: Military Voting and Political Communication in the Union Army during the United States Civil War, 1861–1865” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225474.
Irwin, Jacqueline Anne, “Peace Signs: A Generic Analysis of American Protest Posters” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3223026.
Kim, Jinah, “U.S. Racial Imaginaries” (University of California, San Diego, 2006). Order No. DA3221813.
Leonard, Lynnette Grace, “A Rebel in Conservative Clothes: The Rhetorical Theory and Practice of Lydia Sigourney” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222185.
Michelmore, Mary C., “Taxing State/Welfare State: How the Politics of Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the Federal Income Tax Shaped Modern America, 1960–1980” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224699.
Ostermeier, Eric Jon, “Crime Views without the Ballyhoo: Public Opinion on Crime in a New Era of Influential Media Elites and Unresponsive Policymakers” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220020.
Parry, Sarah, “Caedmon Records, the Cold War, and the Scene of the American Postmodern” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR14024.
Purcell, Aaron D., “White Collar Radicals: New Deal Labor and Red Scare Communists in the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1935–1955” (University of Tennessee, 2006). Order No. DA3220763.
Santos, Gabriel A., “Oh, When the State Comes Marching In: The Theopolitics of Disaster in Sociological Perspective” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3220644.
Schill, Daniel Kenneth, “Stagecraft and Statecraft: The Role of Advance and Media Events in the Reagan Administration” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222178.
Skillen, James R., “The Bureau of Land Management, 1946–2001: From Livestock and Mines to Landscapes and Monuments?” (Cornell University, 2006). Order No. DA3227136.
Zygmont, Bryan John, “Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790–1825: Stuart, Vanderlyn, Trumbull, and Jarvis” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222458.
Archer, J. Clark, et al., Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1788–2004. (Washington: cq, 2006. xii, 164 pp. $150.00, isbn 978-1-56802-955-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Belko, W. Stephen, The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xii, 483 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-8262-1647-1.)
Cockburn, Andrew, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. (New York: Scribner, 2007. viii, 247 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3574-4.)
Cullen, Jim, Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph. (New York: Palgrave, 2007. xiv, 234 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-4039-7513-3.)
Fishback, Price, et al., Government and the American Economy: A New History. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xx, 613 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-226-25127-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-25128-8.)
Foner, Eric, and Manning Marable, eds., Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxiv, 270 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03029-1.)
Laschi, Giuliana, ed., Il pensiero e la forma europea della politica (The thought and shape of European politics). (Bologna: clueb, 2007. 139 pp. €12.00, isbn 978-88-491-2789-8.) In Italian.
Lewis, Catherine M., “Don’t Ask What I Shot”: How Eisenhower’s Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950s America. (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2007. xvi, 304 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-07-148570-8.)
Magliocca, Gerard N., Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 186 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1509-4.)
Mitchell, Thomas G., Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. vi, 289 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-99168-5.)
Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Women in Congress, 1917–2006. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2006. viii, 1,008 pp. $59.00, isbn 0-16-076753-9.)
Pallitto, Robert M., and William G. Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii, 261 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8582-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8583-9.)
Pomper, Gerald M., On Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy. (Boulder: Paradigm, 2007. xxiv, 304 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-59451-391-6.)
Preston, Andrew, The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, The nsc, and Vietnam. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv, 320 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-674-02198-3.)
Shirley, Craig, Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All. (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2005. xxx, 417 pp. $25.99, isbn 0-7852-6049-8.)
Starr, Paul, Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism. (New York: Basic, 2007. xii, 276 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-465-08186-8.)
Whittington, Keith E., Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii, 303 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-09640-7.)
Williams, Patrick G., Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 234 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-573-8.)
Burlingame, Michael, ed., Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xii, 174 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2738-6.)
Goldwater, Barry M., The Conscience of a Conservative, ed. C. C. Goldwater. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxvi, 144 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-691-13117-7.) Originally published in 1960.
Hammond, Scott J., Kevin R. Hardwick, and Howard L. Lubert, eds., Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought, Vol. 1: Origins through the Civil War, xxxii, 1,193 pp. Vol. 2: Reconstruction to the Present, xiv, 964 pp. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007. Cloth, $124.00/set, isbn 978-0-87220-787-5/set. Paper, $65.00/set, isbn 978-0-87220-786-8/set.)
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