Recent Scholarship
Politics
Binder, Sarah A., “Where Do Institutions Come From? Exploring the Origins of the Senate Blue Slip,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (March 2007), 1–15.
Brandt, Karl Gerard, “The Ideological Origins of the New Democrat Movement,” Louisiana History, 48 (Summer 2007), 273–94.
Bruno, Paul R., “The Cole-Malley Scandal: Nevada’s Political System Revealed,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Summer 2007), 119–44.
Field, Jonathan Beecher, “A Key for the Gate: Roger Williams, Parliament, and Providence,” New England Quarterly, 80 (Sept. 2007), 353–82.
Gifford, Laura Jane, “‘Dixie is no longer in the bag’: South Carolina Republicans and the Election of 1960,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no. 2, 2007), 207–33.
Katagiri, Yasuhiro, “‘Let the Word Go Forth,’” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 17 (2006), 263–88.
Krohn, Raymond James, “The Limits of Jacksonian Liberalism: Individualism, Dissent, and the Gospel of Andrew according to Lysander Spooner,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, 21 (Summer 2007), 45–68.
Lough, D. Keith, “‘Hoorah for Integration!’ The Adoption of the 1955 Better Schools Amendment,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 85 (Summer 2007), 158–75.
MacLean, Elizabeth Kimball, “Joseph E. Davies: The Wisconsin Idea and the Origins of the Federal Trade Commission,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (July 2007), 249–84.
McCoy, Matthew G., “Dark Spot on the Sunbelt: Economic Stagnation and Political Corruption in 1950s Oklahoma,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 85 (Summer 2007), 176–97.
McCrary, Peyton, “The Struggle for Minority Representation in Florida, 1960–1990,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Summer 2007), 93–111.
Mettler, Suzanne, and Andrew Milstein, “American Political Development from Citizens’ Perspective: Tracking Federal Government’s Presence in Individual Lives over Time,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (March 2007), 110–30.
Mitchell, Daniel J. B., “Governor Reagan’s Ballot Box Budgeting: One That Got Away,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Summer 2007), 195–227.
Moen, Ole O., “The Frontier Myth in Modern American Politics,” Journal of American Studies of Turkey (Ankara), 17 (Spring 2006), 79–92.
Popescu, Monica, “Cold War and Hot Translation,” Safundi, 8 (Jan. 2007), http://www.safundi.com.
Schwieder, David W., and Dorothy Schwieder, “The Power of Prickliness: Iowa’s H. R. Gross in the U.S. House of Representatives,” Annals of Iowa, 65 (Fall 2006), 329–68.
Smith, Brian, “Democracy in America and the Possibilities for Law without the State,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, 21 (Summer 2007), 21–44.
Stepan-Norris, Judith, and Caleb Southworth, “Churches as Organizational Resources: A Case Study in the Geography of Religion and Political Voting in Postwar Detroit,” Social Science History, 31 (Fall 2007), 343–80.
Vavochkina, I. D., “K istorii regulirovaniia lobbizma v SShA” (Concerning the history of lobbying regulation in the United States), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow), 1 (2007), 35–47. In Russian.
Bates, Toby Glenn, “The Reagan Rhetoric: History and Memory in 1980s America” (University of Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3245989.
Castledine, Jaqueline Ann, “Gendering the Cold War: Race, Class, and Women’s Peace Politics, 1945–1975” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2006). Order No. DA3240195.
Collard, James C., “Tribal-Municipal Cooperation in Oklahoma” (University of Missouri, Saint Louis, 2006). Order No. DA3240521.
Copeland, Thomas E., “Surprise, Intelligence Failure, and Mass Casualty Terrorism” (University of Pittsburgh, 2006). Order No. DA3241192.
Diddi, Arvind, “News Media Framing of the Iraq Issue in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Campaign” (Michigan State University, 2006). Order No. DA3248540.
Gerrity, Jessica C., “Interest Group Framing in Congress and the Media: The Case of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Debate” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3243788.
Greenberg, Nadivah, “The Green and the Right: Rival Views of Consumption and the Environment in American Conservative Thought” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3246164.
Jackson, Gordon S., “Chicago Conservatism: Ideas on the Path to Power” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3245619.
Kato, Kenneth, “The Creation and Evolution of the American Presidency: Congressional Debates on Presidential Tenure” (Johns Hopkins University, 2007). Order No. DA3240743.
Kim, Min Su, “Local Expenditure and Revenue Decisions: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Cities over 100,000 Population from 1972 to 2000” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3241299.
Kozakiewicz, Lauren, “Political Episodes, 1890–1960: Three Republican Women in Twentieth Century New York State Politics” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3249956.
Lamis, Renée M., “Pennsylvania Electoral Change since 1960: Two-Party Politics in a Battleground State” (Case Western Reserve University, 2006). Order No. DA3240535.
Lynch, Shawn Michael, “‘In defense of true Americanism’: The Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Radical Free Speech, 1915–1945” (Boston College, 2006). Order No. DA3245885.
Lynn, Denise M., “Women on the March: Gender and Anti-Fascism in American Communism, 1935–1939” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3241628.
Mogg, Jennifer A., “America’s False Dichotomy: Sovereignty and the Federal/National Distinction at the Constitutional Convention of 1787” (University of Houston, 2006). Order No. DA3242258.
Morozova, E. V., “Dzhon Kvinsi Adams i politicheskaia bor’ba v 1824–1828 godakh” (John Quincy Adams and the political struggle in the United States, 1824–1828) (Briansk State University, Russia, 2006). In Russian.
Murnane, Mary Susan, “The Mellon Tax Plan: The Income Tax and the Penetration of Marginalist Economic Thought into American Life and Law in the 1920s” (Case Western Reserve University, 2006). Order No. DA3240536.
Murphy, William B., “Direct Election of U.S. Senators and the Transformation of American Politics” (Syracuse University, 2006). Order No. DA3240441.
Myers, Elizabeth A., “Burning Bras, Long Hairs, and Dashikis: Personal Politics in American Culture, 1950–1975” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3243418.
Reardon, Laurence Bernard, “The State as Parent: Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family” (Catholic University of America, 2007). Order No. DA3246957.
Rinehart, John M., “The Making of a Christian Statesman: Woodrow Wilson’s Religious Thought and Practice, 1856–1910” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3248871.
Taylor, Gregory Stanton, “‘Horatios at the bridge’: A History of the North Carolina Communist Party” (University of Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3246052.
Voldoire, Aline Cécile, “The Transnational Politics of French and American Jews, 1860–1920” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3249138.
Zinman, Donald Albert, “Constructing and Reconstructing the New Deal Regime” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3246100.
Bertrand, Romain, Jean-Louis Briquet, and Peter Pels, eds., The Hidden History of the Secret Ballot. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. viii, 256 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-34963-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-21942-8.)
Burns, Richard Dean, and Joseph M. Siracusa, Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy–Johnson Era. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2007. xxx, 396 pp. $90.00, isbn 978-0-8108-5842-8.)
Donald, Aida D., Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt. (New York: Basic, 2007. xvi, 287 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-465-00213-9.)
Filimonova, M. A., Soedinennye Shtaty na puty k konsolidatsii: Politicheskaia bor’ba v Kontinental’nom Kongresse, 1781–1788 (The United States on its way to consolidation: Political struggle in the Continental Congress, 1781–1788). (Moscow: Russian Academy of Science, Institute of World History, 2007. 278 pp. isbn 5-94067-188-8.) In Russian.
Gaillard, Frye, Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xvi, 128 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2914-7.)
Howell, William G., and Jon C. Pevehouse, While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxvi, 333 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-691-12515-2. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-691-13462-8.)
Isaev, Sergei Aleksandrovich, Dzheims Medison: Politicheskaia biografiia (James Madison: A political biography). (Moscow: Nauka, 2006. 551 pp. $39.95, isbn 5-02-026389-3.) In Russian.
Knight, Peter, The Kennedy Assassination. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. x, 177 pp. Cloth, £45.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2410-2. Paper, £12.99, isbn 978-0-7486-2411-9.)
Krabbendam, Hans, and Wil Verhoeven, eds., Who’s the Boss? Leadership and Democratic Culture in America. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2007. 220 pp. Paper, €37.50, isbn 978-90-8659-073-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Matsuoka, Yasushi, Amerika seiji to mainoriti (American politics and the minority). (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2006. 288 pp. ¥5000, isbn 4623044858.) In Japanese.
Pangle, Lorraine Smith, The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv, 277 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8018-7931-9. Paper, $20.95, isbn 978-0-8018-8666-9.)
Strahan, Randall, Leading Representatives: The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of the U.S. House. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xvi, 238 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8018-8690-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8018-8691-1.)
Flamm, Michael W., and David Steigerwald, Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. vi, 213 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-7425-2212-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7425-2213-8.)
Hackett, Mary A., et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 8: 1 September 1804–31 January 1805, With a Supplement, 1776–23 June 1804. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xlii, 644 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-8139-2365-10.)
Patrick, Christine Sternberg, ed., The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 13: 1 June–31 August 1793. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xl, 638 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2634-6.)
Reed, Roy, “‘I’ll Build You a City’: An Interview with Casey Laman,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2007), 333–59.
Sandburg, Carl, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, ed. Edward C. Goodman. (New York: Sterling, 2007. 463 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-4027-4288-0.) Originally published in 1926, 1939. Illustrated edition.
Sarvis, Will, “‘I Enjoyed My Work in the Senate’: An Oral Interview with Thomas F. Eagleton,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (Oct. 2007), 42–57.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 539 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-13475-8.) Originally published in 1963, 1967.
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