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Alentieva, T. V., “Dzheims Rassell Louell: Trudnye poiski istiny” (James Russell Lowell: A difficult way to the truth), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 59–82. In Russian.
Anderson, Devery S., “A History of Dialogue, Part Four: A Tale in Two Cities, 1987–92,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 41 (Fall 2008), 1–54.
Anderson, Timothy G., “Memorializing a Mountain Man: John G. Neihardt, Doane Robinson, and Jedediah Smith,” South Dakota History, 39 (Spring 2009), 1–26.
Averbach, Márgara, “Macartismo versus espíritu norteamericano: Scoundrel Time de Lillian Hellman y The Crucible de Arthur Miller” (McCarthyism vs. american spirit: Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman and The Crucible by Arthur Miller), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 253–64. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.
Battistini, Robert, “Federalist Decline and Despair on the Pennsylvanian Frontier: Hugh Henry Brackenridge’s Modern Chivalry,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (April 2009), 149–66.
Billips, Martha, “‘What a Wild and Various State’: Virginia in Lee Smith’s Oral History,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 13 (Spring–Fall 2007), 26–48.
Boykoff, Jules, “Devil or Democrat? Hugo Chavez and the U.S. Prestige Press,” New Political Science, 31 (March 2009), 3–26.
Cahill, Edward, “The Other Panic of 1819: Irving’s Sketch Book, Literary Overproduction, and the Politics of the ‘Purely Literary,’” Common-Place, 9 (April 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Campbell, Donna, “A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick’s Out of Bohemia and the Artists’ Novel of the 1890s,” Legacy, 25 (no. 2, 2008), 257–85.
Carvalho, John, and Raymond Ankney, “Haunted by the Babe: Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick’s Columns about Babe Ruth,” American Journalism, 25 (Fall 2008), 65–82.
Cavitch, Max, “Who Publishes an Early American Book? From Codex to Kindle,” Common-Place, 9 (April 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Cho, Yu-Fang, “Domesticating the Aliens Within: Sentimental Benevolence in Late-Nineteenth-Century California Magazines,” American Quarterly, 61 (March 2009), 113–36.
Clark, Robert C., “At the Corner of Bourbon and Toulouse Street: The Historical Context of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s ‘M’sieu Fortier’s Violin,’” American Literary Realism, 41 (Winter 2009), 163–79.
Connolly, Thomas F., “From First Nighter to Essayist: The (Dis)Establishment of/and Drama Critic John Mason Brown,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Fall 2008), 29–48.
Cotugno, Marianne, “A Benevolent Conspiracy: Conrad Richter, Paul Reynolds Jr., and Alfred A. Knopf,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing (Toronto), 40 (April 2009), 263–86.
D’Amore, Laura Mattoon, “Invisible Girl’s Quest for Visibility: Early Second Wave Feminism and the Comic Book Superheroine,” Americana, 7 (Fall 2008), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.
D’Amore, Maura, “Thoreau’s Unreal Estate: Playing House at Walden Pond,” New England Quarterly, 82 (March 2009), 56–79.
Drexler, Michael, “The Displacement of the American Novel: Imagining Aaron Burr and Haiti in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History,” Common-Place, 9 (April 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Engelhardt, Elizabeth, “Writing That Old Moonshine Lit: Gender, Power, and Nation in Unexpected Places,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 13 (Spring–Fall 2007), 49–74.
Filimonova, M. A., “‘Ne greki i ne troiantsy’: Amerikanskaia pressa i problema neitraliteta SShA (1793–1794)” (‘Neither Greeks nor Trojans’: The American press and the neutrality question, 1793–1794), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 45–58. In Russian.
Ford, Clyde D., “Modernism and Mormonism: James E. Talmage’s Jesus the Christ and Early Twentieth-Century Mormon Responses to Biblical Criticism,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 41 (Winter 2008), 96–120.
Hutton, T. R. C., “‘Too Much Politics, Not Enough Corn’: The Nineteenth-Century Media Battles over Appalachia,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 13 (Spring–Fall 2007), 153–66.
Kazakova, O. Yu., “Amerikanskaia tema v russkoi poesii 1850-kh–1860-kh” (American themes in Russian poetry of the 1850s–1860s), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 211–36. In Russian.
Kozuskanich, Nathan R., “Pennsylvania, the Militia, and the Second Amendment,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (April 2009), 119–47.
Kudlick, Catherine J., “Guy de Maupassant, Louisa May Alcott, and Youth at Risk: Lessons from the New Paradigm of Disability,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 45 (Feb. 2009), 37–49.
Kulesza, Sebastian, “The Etymology of U.S. Names in Relation to Amerindian Culture,” Language, Thought, and Education (Warsaw), 1 (2008), 99–109.
Lacy, Tim, “Dreams of a Democratic Culture: Revising the Origins of the Great Books Idea, 1869–1921,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (Oct. 2008), 397–442.
Lawrimore, Erin, “Margaret Cross Norton: Defining and Redefining Archives and the Archival Profession,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 2, 2009), 183–200.
Lindemann, Danielle, “From Fire and Brimstone to Property Values: The Changing Style of Arguments against Pornographic Industries, Atlanta, 1969–1997,” Sociological Perspectives, 52 (Spring 2009), 81–101.
Madsen, Annelise, “Dressing the Part: Mark Twain’s White Suit, Copyright Reform, and the Camera,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (March 2009), 53–71.
Marczewska-Zagdanska, Hanna, “Council on Foreign Relations oraz kwartalnik Foreign Affairs jako forum dyskusyjne, doradcze i opiniotwórcze w amerykanskiej polityce zagranicznej od Woodrow Wilsona do Franklina D. Roosevelta” (The Council of Foreign Relations and the Foreign Affairs quarterly as a discussion and opinion-making forum in American foreign policy, from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw) (no. 1, 2009), 3–21. In Polish.
McBurney, Christian M., “Cato Pearce’s Memoir: A Rhode Island Slave Narrative,” Rhode Island History, 67 (Winter–Spring 2009), 3–25.
Moseley, Ann, “Editing the Scholarly Edition of The Song of the Lark: The Legacy of Cather’s Journalism in the Social and Literary History of the Novel,” American Literary Realism, 41 (Winter 2009), 133–53.
Mulford, Carla, “Benjamin Franklin’s Savage Eloquence: Hoaxes from the Press at Passy, 1782,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152 (Dec. 2008), 490–530.
O’Dell, Larry, “William Meredith Cunningham: An Oklahoma Proletarian Novelist,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Fall 2008), 316–27.
Plank, Geoffrey, “The First Person in Antislavery Literature: John Woolman, His Clothes, and His Journal,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 30 (March 2009), 67–91.
Robinson, Cynthia Cole, “The Evolution of Alice Walker,” Women’s Studies, 38 (April 2009), 293–311.
Rodgers, Ronald R., “Collier’s Criticism of the Press during the Norman Hapgood Years, 1902 to 1913,” American Journalism, 25 (Fall 2008), 7–36.
Saum, Lewis, “Phocion Howard Examines the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1873,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (Oct. 2008), 443–52.
Schweizer, K. W., and M. Schumann, “Anglo-American War Reporting, 1749–63: The Press and a Research Strategy,” Canadian Journal of History (Saskatoon), 43 (no. 2, 2008), 265–78.
Smith, Diane, “Tough Trip to Publication: Tough Trip through Paradise and the Beautiful Wives of Andrew Garcia,” Montana, 58 (Winter 2008), 3–21. Heavily illustrated.
Somsen, Chelle, “The Doane Robinson Papers at the South Dakota State Historical Society,” South Dakota History, 39 (Spring 2009), 65–82.
Spack, Ruth, “Zitkala-Sa, The Song of Hiawatha, and the Carlisle Indian School Band: A Captivity Tale,” Legacy, 25 (no. 2, 2008), 211–24.
Sweet, James H., “Mistaken Identities? Olaudah Equiano, Domingos Álvares, and the Methodological Challenges of Studying the African Diaspora,” American Historical Review, 114 (April 2009), 279–306.
Tackach, James, “Abraham Lincoln in Recent American Fiction,” Lincoln Herald, 110 (Winter 2008), 238–52.
Tracy, James F., “Strikebusting in St. Petersburg: Nelson Poynter’s Postwar Assault on Union Printers,” American Journalism, 25 (Fall 2008), 37–63.
Troitskaia, L. M., “Russkii diplomat P.I. Poletika i ego Zapiska o vnutrennem polozhenii i vneshnei politike SShA (1820)” (Russian diplomat Petr Poletica and his memoir on U.S. domestic affairs and foreign policy (1820)), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 260–86. In Russian.
Walker, Christopher H., and Ann Copeland, “The Eye Prophetic: Julia Pettee,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 2, 2009), 162–82.
Washington, Margaret, “‘From Motives of Delicacy’: Sexuality and Morality in the Narratives of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Jacobs,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 57–73.
Weltzien, O. Alan, “Thomas Savage, Forgotten Novelist,” Montana, 58 (Winter 2008), 22–41. Heavily illustrated.
Wetzel, Grace, “Contradictory Subtexts in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Fall 2008), 277–91.
Wigginton, Caroline, “A Late Night Vindication: Annis Boudinot Stockton’s Reading of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” Legacy, 25 (no. 2, 2008), 225–38.
Williams, Susan S., “Forwarding Literary Interests: James Redpath and the Authorial Careers of Marion Harland, Louisa May Alcott, and Sherwood Bonner,” Legacy, 25 (no. 2, 2008), 262–74.
Winship, Michael, “Two Early American Bestsellers: Rowson’s Charlotte Temple and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Common-Place, 9 (April 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Wright, Gregory, “(Re)Writing the Captivity Narrative: Sarah Winnemucca’s Life among the Piutes Records White Male Sexual Violence,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Fall 2008), 200–218.
Yoshiko, Uzawa, “Hashimura Togo Went to War: Yellowface, the Yellow Peril, and Philosophy of ‘Poppaganda,’” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 30 (2008), 189–201.
Baker, Matthew John, “Environmental Journalism and Utah’s National Parks, 1919–1971” (University of Utah, 2008). Order No. DA3318507.
Benton, Steve, “Ichabod’s Children: Anti-intellectualism and the Pedagogical Imagination” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3316709.
Caton-Garcia, Felecia Rose, “Mutants, Mudbloods, and Futureheroes: Mixed Race Identity in Contemporary Narrative” (University of New Mexico, 2008). Order No. DA3318087.
Deitering, Cynthia, “Waste Sites: Rethinking Nature, Body, and Home in American Fiction since 1980” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3315869.
DeSpain, Jessica Rae, “Steaming across the Pond: Travel, Transatlantic Literary Culture, and the Nineteenth-Century Book” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3323410.
Fu, Wei-Hsin, “Framing Taiwan’s Independence in the Coverage of Taiwan’s Presidential Elections, 1996 to 2004: An Analysis of the U.S. Press” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3319616.
Hall, Susanne E., “News That Stays News: U.S. Poetry, New Left Politics, and Mass Media in the 1960s” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3318704.
Hood, Katherine E. Shryock, “On beyond Boo! Horror Literature for Children” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3318585.
Hou, Shen, “A Magazine of Nature: ‘Garden and Forest’ and the Rise of American Environmental Awareness” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3315264.
Hrach, Thomas J., “The News Media and Disorders: The Kerner Commission’s Examination of Race Riots and Civil Disturbances, 1967–1968” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA33199024.
Kemper, Kevin R., “William Apess, Elias Boudinot, and Samuel Cornish: Native Americans and African-Americans Looking for Freedom of Expression, Representation, and Rhetorical Sovereignty during the Age of Jackson” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2006). Order No. DA3322709.
Kilicci, Esra, “J. D. Salinger’s Characters as Existential Heroes: Encountering 1950s America” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3315401.
Kim, Min Hoe, “Present Pasts: The Politics of Memory and Strategic Representations of Identity in Ethnic American Writers’ Works since the 1980s” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3311322.
Mandel, Dena Toni Cooper, “A World of Difference: Emma Wolf, a Jewish-American Writer on the American Frontier” (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2008). Order No. DA3322397.
Mignacca, Rita M., “The United States of Italian America: Searching for the Italian Writer” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3322405.
Molholt, Stephanie, “A Buck Well Spent: Representations of American Indians in Print Advertising since 1890” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3319494.
Monrreal, Sahar Hayal, “Woman, Nation, Food: Domesticity and the Imperial Project in Ladies’ Home Journal Food Advertising, 1898–1899” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3321923.
Price, Joan E., “Eating News: The Social Construction of Food in U.S. News Magazines, 1995–2004” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3320756.
Price, Rachel, “Future Measures in Atlantic Literatures (1868–1968)” (Duke University, 2007). Order No. DA3321846.
Reimold, Daniel R., “‘Sex and the University’: Celebrity, Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution, 1997–2008” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3320798.
Rice, Maria J., “Migrations of Memory: Postmemory in Twentieth Century Ethnic American Women’s Literature” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3319447.
Roberts, Brian Russell, “Artistic Ambassadors and African American Writing at the Nation’s Edge, 1893–1940” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3322496.
Scanlan, Sean Michael, “Narrating Nostalgia: Modern Literary Homesickness in New York Narratives, 1809–1925” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3323465.
Schmidt, Tyler T., “Dreams of an Impossible Blackness: Racialized Desire and America’s Integrationist Impulse, 1945–1955” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3311212.
Thompson, Elizabeth J., “The Princess, the Convert, and the Schoolgirl: Indian Girls and Anglo Desire in American Literature, 1595–1934” (University of Tulsa, 2008). Order No. DA3319518.
Voeller, Carey R., “Masculine Interludes: Monstrosity and Compassionate Manhood in American Literature, 1845–1899” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3316125.
Youssef, Meervat Abd Al Raouf, “Negotiating National Identity on Newspaper Opinion Pages in Times of Crisis: The Case of Arab-Americans” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3323486.
Zilinskas, Rimas, “Multicultural American Literary Imagination and American Identity: Race, Language, and Nationalism in African American and East European Narratives” (University of Washington, 2008).
Alexander, Edward, Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe: And Other Stories of Literary Friendship. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2009. xiv, 124 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-4128-1014-2.)
Batalov, E. Ia., V. I. Zhuraleva, and K. V. Khzinskaia, “Rychashchii medved” na “Dikon Vostoke”: Obrazy sovremennoi Rossii v rabotakh amerikanskikh avtorov, 1992–2007 (“Roaring bear” in the “wild East”: Perceptions of contemporary Russia in American publications, 1992–2007). (Moscow: Rossiiskaia politicheskaia entsiklopediia (rosspen), 2009. 384 pp. isbn 978-5-8243-1124-2.) In Russian.
Costello, Matthew J., Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America. (New York: Continuum, 2009. viii, 293 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-8264-2997-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8264-2998-8.)
Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle, The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xxxiv, 363 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1370-8.)
Nakamura, Masahiro, Visions of Order in William Gilmore Simms: Southern Conservatism and the Other American Romance. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 222 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-817-4.)
Roberts-Miller, Patricia, Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. x, 286 pp. $38.75, isbn 978-0-8173-1642-6.)
Robisch, S. K., Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2009. xviii, 494 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-87417-772-5. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-87417-773-2.)
Smith, Christine Hill, Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2009. xviii, 213 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-764-0.)
Kienast, Evabeth Miller, and John Phillip Felt, eds., Lewis Coolidge and the Voyage of the Amethyst, 1806–1811. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xxvi, 125 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-816-7.)
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