Recent Scholarship
Politics
Abramowitz, Alan I., “Exploring the Bases of Partisanship in the American Electorate: Social Identity vs. Ideology,” Political Research Quarterly, 59 (June 2006), 175–87.
Bloodworth, Jeff, “Showdown in Chicago: Donald Peterson and New Politics Liberalism,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Winter 2006–2007), 2–11.
Clark, Thomas, “We, the Volk: Modern and Radical Constitutionalism from the American Revolution to the German Direct-Democracy Debate,” in Europe’s American Revolution, ed. Simon Newman, 123–46. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. $69.95, isbn 1-4039-8997-4.)
Dolata-Kreutzkamp, Petra, “Kennedy and Central Appalachia: Fighting Unemployment and Poverty,” in John F. Kennedy and the “Thousand Days.” New Perspectives on the Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Kennedy Administration, ed. Andreas Etges and Manfred Berg, 243–60. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2007. vi., 296 pp. €39.00, isbn 3-8253-5303-6.)
Eckstein, A. M., “Not Just Another Political Party,” American Communist History, 5 (June 2006), 115–25.
Fischer, Nick, “The Founders of American Anti-Communism,” American Communist History, 5 (June 2006), 67–101.
Garrison, Ellen, “Reactionaries or Reformers? Membership and Leadership of the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1877,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Winter 2006), 505–24.
Gatch, Loren, “Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Fall 2006), 260–87.
Holmes, Todd, “The Swing of the Political Pendulum: Congressman John Moss, the Democratic Party, and the United Farm Workers’ Grape Strike and Boycott, 1965–1970,” Southern California Quarterly, 88 (Fall 2006), 295–338.
Ireland, Robert M., “Capital Question: Efforts to Relocate Kentucky’s Seat of Government,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 104 (Spring 2006), 249–83.
Jozwiak, Elizabeth, “Bottoms Up: The Socialist Fight for the Workingman’s Saloon,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Winter 2006–2007), 14–23.
Lichtman, Robert M., “J. B. Matthews and the ‘Counter-subversives’: Names as a Political and Financial Resource in the McCarthy Era,” American Communist History, 5 (June 2006), 1–36.
Longley, Kyle, “When Character Was King? Ronald Reagan and the Issues of Ethics and Morality,” in Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America’s Fortieth President, by Kyle Longley, Jeremy D. Mayer, Michael Schaller, and John W. Sloan, 90–119. (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. xviii, 150 pp. Cloth, $56.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1590-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1591-6.)
Mayer, Jeremy D., “Reagan and Race: Prophet of Color Blindness, Baiter of the Backlash,” in Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America’s Fortieth President, by Kyle Longley, Jeremy D. Mayer, Michael Schaller, and John W. Sloan, 70–89. (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. xviii, 150 pp. Cloth, $56.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1590-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1591-6.)
McIlroy, John, and Alan Campbell, “A Peripheral Vision: Communist Historiography in Britain,” American Communist History, 4 (Dec. 2005), 125–57.
Miller, Steven P., “Whither Southern Liberalism in the Post–Civil Rights Era? The Southern Regional Council and Its Peers, 1965–1972,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Winter 2006), 547–68.
Nichols, Jeffrey, “‘The Boss of the White Slaves’: R. Bruce Johnson and African American Political Power in Utah at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Fall 2006), 349–64.
Nishikawa, Masaru, “Nu diru ki no daisan seito undo” (Crusades for the unemployed), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 39 (2005), 125–42. In Japanese.
Pisani, Donald J., “Water Planning in the Progressive Era: The Inland Waterways Commission Reconsidered,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 4, 2006), 389–418.
Slez, Adam, and John Levi Martin, “Political Action and Party Formation in the United States Constitutional Convention,” American Sociological Review, 72 (Feb. 2007), 42–67.
Sloan, John W., “The Economic Costs of Reagan Mythology,” in Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America’s Fortieth President, by Kyle Longley, Jeremy D. Mayer, Michael Schaller, and John W. Sloan, 41–69. (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. xviii, 150 pp. Cloth, $56.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1590-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1591-6.)
Stuckey, Mary, “Establishing the Rhetorical Presidency through Presidential Rhetoric: Theodore Roosevelt and the Brownsville Raid,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 92 (Aug. 2006), 287–309.
Thurber, Timothy M., “Racial Liberalism, Affirmative Action, and the Troubled History of the President’s Committee on Government Contracts,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 4, 2006), 446–76.
Williams, C. Fred, “Principles over Popularity: The Political Career of Congressman Brooks Hays,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Summer–Fall 2006), 89–98.
Auger, Robin N., “Public-Private Collaboration in Technological Innovation: An Example of U.S. Experiences since World War II” (George Mason University, 2006). Order No. DA3208967.
Bloodworth, Jeff, “Farewell to the Vital Center: A History of American Liberalism, 1968–1980” (Ohio University, 2006). Order No. DA3214003.
Burg, Robert W., “The Corruption of Liberal Republicanism, 1864–1877” (Purdue University, 2005). Order No. DA3210695.
Cleves, Rachel Hope, “Mortal Eloquence: Violence, Slavery, and Anti-Jacobinism in the Early American Republic” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3210543.
Díaz, Rosemary T., “El Senador, Dennis Chávez: New Mexico Native Son, American Senior Statesman, 1888–1962” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3210123.
Frank, Leslie, “‘I never really took much notice’: The fha and Suburbanization in the Providence Metropolitan Area, 1934–1955” (University of Connecticut, 2005). Order No. DA3205732.
Gladchuk, John Joseph, “Reticent Reds: huac, Hollywood, and the Evolution of the Red Menace, 1935–1950” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3210405.
Holmes, Kimberly Sinclair, “Voting Rights Policy Implementation, Election Format, and Local Minority Political Representation in Alabama: 1965–2000” (University of Texas, Dallas, 2006). Order No. DA3210662.
LaCombe, Michael, “Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World, 1570–1640” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3205655.
Lawrence, Eric Dunstan, “Essays on Procedural Development in the United States Congress” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3212064.
Lehr, Quincy Roland, “Terror, Reform, and Repression: Oklahoma Politics in the Early 1920s” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3209369.
Link, Daniel J., “‘Every day was a battle’: Liberal Anti-Communism in Cold War New York, 1944–1956” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3205656.
Mayeri, Serena, “Reasoning from Race: The Civil Rights Paradigm and American Legal Feminism, 1960–1979” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214242.
McMonagle, Robert John, “Explaining Policy and Subsystem Change for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (anwr): 1977 to 2005” (Temple University, 2006). Order No. DA3211894.
Schell, David A., “Keeping Control: Gifford Pinchot and the Establishment of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board” (Temple University, 2006). Order No. DA3211904.
Springer, Melanie Jean, “Electoral Institutions, Voter Turnout, and American Democracy: The States, 1920–2000” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3213601.
Stempson, Scott David, “Defenders of the Union: Five Antebellum Presidents and the Civil War” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006). Order No. DA3208126.
Epstein, Pierre, Abraham Epstein: The Forgotten Father of Social Security. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. 332 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1681-6.)
Erwin, James L., Declarations of Independence: Encyclopedia of American Autonomous and Secessionist Movements. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xviii, 240 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-313-33267-3.)
Etges, Andreas, and Manfred Berg, eds., John F. Kennedy and the “Thousand Days.” New Perspectives on the Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Kennedy Administration. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2007. vi., 296 pp. €39.00, isbn 3-8253-5303-6.)
Ferrarotti, Franco, America oggi. Capitalismo e società negli Stati Uniti (America today. Capitalism and society in the United States). (Rome: Newton Compton, 2006. 185 pp. €9.90, isbn 88-541-0732-8.) In Italian.
Gaddis, Vincent, Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919–1933. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2005. xxx, 180 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-7618-3234-3. Paper, $30.00, isbn 0-7618-3235-1.)
Graham, Cole Blease, Jr., The South Carolina State Constitution: A Reference Guide. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. xxvi, 239 pp. $150.00, isbn 0-313-29299-X.)
Gugin, Linda C., and James E. St. Clair, eds., The Governors of Indiana. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2006. xx, 436 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-87195-196-7.)
Holzer, Harold, ed., Abraham Lincoln: Portrayed in the Collections of the Indiana Historical Society. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2006. x, 253 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-87195-201-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Honda, Kazuhisa, ed., “Amerika minshishugi” no tou (Questioning “American democracy”). (Tokyo: Yuigaku shobo, 2005. 437 pp. ¥3,800, isbn 4902225204.) In Japanese.
Luconi, Stefano, La politica dello scandalo negli Stati Uniti: un limite alla sovranitá popolare? Scenari dello scontro tra partiti dopo il Watergate (The politics of scandal in the United States: A limitation to popular sovereignty? Parties in conflict after Watergate). (Torino: L’Harmattan, 2006. 205 pp. Paper, €22.50, isbn 88-7892-052-5.) In Italian.
Masters, Charles J., Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xx, 245 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2739-3.)
McHugh, Michael, The Second Gilded Age: The Great Reaction in the United States, 1973–2001. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2006. vi, 364 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-7618-3452-6.)
Melandri, Pierre, and Serge Ricard, eds., Les Etats-Unis face aux révolutions (The United States and revolutions). (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006. 268 pp. €21.00, isbn 2-7475-5214-4.) In French.
van Minnen, Cornelis A., Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and fdr Confidant. (New York: Palgrave, 2005. xvi, 352 pp. $75.00, isbn 1-4039-7049-1.)
Okayama, Hiroshi, Amerika nidai seito sei no kekuritsu (The consolidation of the American two party system). (Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2005. 325 pp. ¥5,400, isbn 4130362240.) In Japanese.
Palmer, Niall, The Twenties in America: Politics and History. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. vi, 195 pp. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2037-1.)
Pauley, Garth E., lbj’s American Promise: The 1965 Voting Rights Address. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 180 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-574-5. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-58544-581-3.)
Perret, Geoffrey, Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America’s Future. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. x, 436 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-374-10217-3.)
Portes, Jacques, Lyndon Johnson. Le paradoxe américain (Lyndon Johnson. The American Paradox). (Paris: Payot, 2007. 331 pp. €23.00, isbn 978-2-228-90150-5.) In French.
Vaudagna, Maurizio, ed., The Place of Europe in American History: Twentieth Century Perspectives. (Turin: Otto, 2007. 403 pp. €13.00, isbn 88-95285-02-6.)
Lind, Nancy S., and Bernard Ivan Tamas, eds., Controversies of the George W. Bush Presidency: Pro and Con Documents. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xii, 193 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-313-34011-0.)
Lloyd, Gordon, ed., The Two Faces of Liberalism: How the Hoover-Roosevelt Debate Shapes the 21st Century. (Salem, Mass.: M & M Scrivener, 2007. x, 420 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-9764041-2-5.)
Looney, J. Jefferson, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xlviii, 705 pp. $99.50, isbn 978-0-691-12867-2.)
Oberg, Barbara B., ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 33: 17 February to 30 April 1801. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xlviii, 751 pp. $99.50, isbn 978-0-691-12910-5.)
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