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Alexander, June Granatir, “History Matters: The Origins and Development of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Summer 2006), 5–42.

Cullick, Jonathan S., “Robert Penn Warren at His Peak—A Review Essay,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 104 (Winter 2006), 77–94.

Douglas, Susan J., “Personal Influence and the Bracketing of Women’s History,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 608 (Nov. 2006), 41–50.

Galloway, Patricia, “Archives, Power, and History: Dunbar Rowland and the Beginning of the State Archives of Mississippi (1902–1936),” American Archivist, 69 (Spring–Summer 2006), 79–116.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye, “More ‘Trans-,’ Less ‘National,’” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Summer 2006), 74–84.

Lears, Jackson, “The Arrogance of Power Revisited,” Raritan, 26 (Summer 2006), 31–46.

Mailloux, Steven, “Thinking with Rhetorical Figures: Performing Racial and Disciplinary Identities in Late-Nineteenth-Century America,” American Literary History, 18 (Winter 2006), 695–711.

Martinez, David, “From the Land of Sky-Blue Water: Charles A. Eastman, Minnesota, and the 1862 U.S.-Dakota Conflict,” European Review of Native American Studies (Vienna), 20 (no. 1, 2006), 23–28.

Morel, Lucas E., “Charnwood’s Lincoln: Biography as Civic Lesson,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 27 (Summer 2006), 24–41.

Morrison, David E., “The Influences Influencing Personal Influence: Scholarship and Entrepreneurship,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 608 (Nov. 2006), 51–75.

Narbeshuber, Lisa, “Relearning Denise Levertov’s Alphabet: War, Flesh, and the Intimacy of Otherness,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 36 (no. 2, 2006), 131–48.

Newlin, Keith, “‘I Am As Ever Your Disciple’: The Friendship of Hamlin Garland and W. D. Howells,” Papers on Language and Literature, 42 (Summer 2006), 264–90.

Ngai, Mae M., “Asian American History—Reflections on the De-centering of the Field,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Summer 2006), 97–108.

Prescott, Laurence E., “Brother to Brother: The Friendship and Literary Correspondence of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Langston Hughes,” Afro-Hispanic Review, 25 (Spring 2006), 87–103.

Robinson, Gertrude J., “The Katz/Lowenthal Encounter: An Episode in the Creation of Personal Influence,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 608 (Nov. 2006), 76–96.

Roediger, David, “A Half-Jubilee: Twenty-Five Years of Multiracial Scholarship at the Journal of American Ethnic History,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Summer 2006), 43–52.

Rumbaut, Rubén G., “On the Past and Future of American Immigration and Ethnic History: A Sociologist’s Reflections on a Silver Jubilee,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Summer 2006), 160–67.

Scannell, Paddy, “Personal Influence and the End of the Masses,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 608 (Nov. 2006), 115–29.

Smith, John David, “‘To hue the line and let the chips fall where they may’: J. Winston Coleman’s Slavery Times in Kentucky Reconsidered,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 103 (Autumn 2005), 691–726.

Soto-Crespo, Ramón, “An Intractable Foundation: Luis Muñoz Marín and the Borderland State in Contemporary Puerto Rican Literature,” American Literary History, 18 (Winter 2006), 712–38.

Summers, John H., “Perpetual Revelations: C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 608 (Nov. 2006), 25–40.

Warrior, Robert, “Lone Wolf and Du Bois for a New Century: Intersections of Native American and African American Literatures,” in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, ed. Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, 181–95. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3812-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3865-9.)

Whitley, Edward, “Whitman’s Occasional Nationalism: ‘A Broadway Pageant’ and the Space of Public Poetry,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, 60 (March 2006), 451–80.

 

Howe, Andrew Christopher, “The American Avant-Garde: Acts of Disruption from Gertrude Stein to Andy Warhol” (University of California, Riverside, 2005). Order No. DA3204010.

Scharfman, Rachel, “On Common Ground: Freethought and Radical Politics in New York City, 1890–1917” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3195484.

Spangler, Jason Scott, “From the Great Depression to the Grateful Dead: Cultural Memory and the Beat Generation” (University of California, Riverside, 2005). Order No. DA3204027.

Tessitore, John E., “Whitmania: The Poetics of Free Religion” (Boston University, 2006). Order No. DA3202576.

 

Elbaum, Max, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che. (London: Verso, 2006. xiv, 380 pp. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-1-84467-563-0.) Originally published in 2002.

Irmscher, Christoph, Longfellow Redux. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xx, 350 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03063-5.)

Nabers, Deak, Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852–1867. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiv, 239 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8018-8350-4.)

 

Dunn, Susan, ed., Something That Will Surprise the World: The Essential Writings of the Founding Fathers. (New York: Basic, 2006. x, 470 pp. $32.00, isbn 978-0-465-01779-9.)

Morgan, Edmund S., ed., Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv, 303 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-300-11394-5.)

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