Recent Scholarship
Politics
Alston, Lee J., Jeffery A. Jenkins, and Tomas Nonnenmacher, “Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (Sept. 2006), 674–706.
Aronoff, Yael S., “In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion: The Political Conversion of Jimmy Carter,” Political Science Quarterly, 121 (Fall 2006), 425–49.
Ashenmiller, Joshua, “The Alaska Pipeline as an Internal Improvement, 1969–1973,” Pacific Historical Review, 75 (Aug. 2006), 461–89.
Barber, David, “Leading the Vanguard: White New Leftists School the Panthers on Black Revolution,” in In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement, ed. Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, 223–51. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xii, 390 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3837-6. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3890-1.)
Bloodworth, Jeff, “Senator Henry Jackson, the Solzhenitsyn Affair, and American Liberalism,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Spring 2006), 69–77.
Bonastia, Christopher, “The Historical Trajectory of Civil Rights Enforcement in Health Care,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 3, 2006), 362–86.
Bullock, Charles S., Donna R. Hoffman, and Ronald Keith Gaddie, “Regional Variations in the Realignment of American Politics, 1944–2004,” Social Science Quarterly, 87 (Sept. 2006), 494–518.
Burch, John Russell, Jr., “19th-Century Politics in the Formation of Appalachian Kentucky Counties: The McGuires and the Creation of Owsley and Lee Counties,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 11 (Spring–Fall 2005), 226–42.
Campbell, James E., “Party Systems and Realignments in the United States, 1868–2004,” Social Science History, 30 (Fall 2006), 359–86.
Connolly, Michael J., “The Correction of Our Political Philosophy: New England Whigs and the 1851 Boston Railroad Jubilee,” New England Quarterly, 79 (June 2006), 202–26.
Crespino, Joseph, “The Best Defense Is a Good Offense: The Stennis Amendment and the Fracturing of Liberal School Desegregation Policy, 1964–1972,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 3, 2006), 304–25.
Engstrom, Erik J., “Stacking the States, Stacking the House: The Partisan Consequences of Congressional Redistricting in the 19th Century,” American Political Science Review, 100 (Sept. 2006), 419–27.
Erickson, David J., “Community Capitalism: How Housing Advocates, the Private Sector, and Government Forged New Low-Income Housing Policy, 1968–1996,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 2, 2006), 167–204.
Frisch, Scott A., and Sean Q. Kelly, “Committee Assignment Politics in the U.S. Senate: Democratic Leaders and Democratic Committee Assignments, 1953–1994,” Congress & the Presidency, 33 (Spring 2006), 1–23.
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin, “Exorcising Ghosts in the Age of Automation: United Nations Experts and Atoms for Peace,” Technology and Culture, 47 (Oct. 2006), 734–56.
Han, Lori Cox, “New Strategies for an Old Medium: The Weekly Radio Addresses of Reagan and Clinton,” Congress & the Presidency, 33 (Spring 2006), 25–45.
Harrison, Robert, “From Biracial Democracy to Direct Rule: The End of Self-Government in the Nation’s Capital, 1865–1878,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 2, 2006), 241–69.
Hess, Gary R., “Presidents and the Congressional War Resolutions of 1991 and 2002,” Political Science Quarterly, 121 (Spring 2006), 93–118.
Johns, Andrew L., “Doves among Hawks: Republican Opposition to the Vietnam War, 1964–1968,” Peace & Change, 31 (Oct. 2006), 585–628.
Kohn, Edward P., “A Necessary Defeat: Theodore Roosevelt and the New York Mayoral Election of 1886,” New York History, 87 (Spring 2006), 205–27.
Koistinen, David, “Public Policies for Countering Deindustrialization in Postwar Massachusetts,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 3, 2006), 326–71.
Moe, Richard, “The Making of the Modern Vice Presidency: A Personal Reflection,” Minnesota History, 60 (Fall 2006), 88–99.
Nelson, Michael, “Tennessee: Once a Bluish State, Now a Reddish One,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Summer 2006), 162–83. Heavily illustrated.
Ortiz, Stephen R., “Rethinking the Bonus March: Federal Bonus Policy, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Origins of a Protest Movement,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 3, 2006), 275–303.
Oyos, Lynwood E., “George W. Egan: The Demagogue Who Would Be Governor,” South Dakota History, 36 (Fall 2006), 292–317.
Payne, Roz, “WACing Off: Gossip, Sex, Race, and Politics in the World of FBI Special Case Agent William A. Cohendet,” in In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement, ed. Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, 158–80. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xii, 390 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3837-6. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3890-1.)
Peretz, Pauline, “Nixon et le vote juif. La campagne présidentielle de 1972” (Nixon and the Jewish vote. The presidential campaign of 1972), Vingtième Siècle (Paris) (no. 90, April–June 2006), 109–20. In French.
Perlstein, Rick, “Thunder on the Right: The Roots of Conservative Victory in the 1960s,” oah Magazine of History, 20 (Oct. 2006), 24–27.
Robertson, David Brian, “A Pivotal Politician and Constitutional Design,” American Political Science Review, 100 (May 2006), 303–8.
Rottinghaus, Brandon, “‘Dear Mr. President’: The Institutionalization and Politicization of Public Opinion Mail in the White House,” Political Science Quarterly, 121 (Fall 2006), 451–76.
Ruotsila, Markku Mikael, “Neoconservatism Prefigures: The Social Democratic League of America and the Anticommunists of the Anglo-American Right, 1917–1921,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 40 (Aug. 2006), 327–45.
Sanson, Jerry P., “‘What he did and what he promised to do…’: Huey Long and the Horizons of Louisiana Politics,” Louisiana History, 47 (Summer 2006), 261–76.
Scofield, Merry Ellen, “The Fatigues of His Table: The Politics of Presidential Dining during the Jefferson Administration,” Journal of the Early Republic, 26 (Fall 2006), 449–69.
Siddali, Silvana R., “‘Principle, Interest, and Patriotism All Combine’: The Fight over Iowa’s Capital City,” Annals of Iowa, 64 (Spring 2005), 111–38.
Skowronek, Stephen, “The Reassociation of Ideas and Purposes: Racism, Liberalism, and the American Political Tradition,” American Political Science Review, 100 (Sept. 2006), 385–401.
Stange, Marion, “Defining a Nation: Patriotic Associations, 1774–1776,” in The Revolution of the People: Thoughts and Documents on the Revolutionary Process in North America, 1774–1776, ed. Hermann Wellenreuther, 67–89. (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2006. 358 pp. isbn 3-938616-42-3.)
Vazzano, Frank, “Rutherford B. Hayes and the Politics of Discord,” Historian, 68 (Fall 2006), 519–40.
Watson, Judith Green, “The Implementation of the Federal 1798 Direct Tax in Connecticut,” Connecticut History, 45 (Fall 2006), 229–42.
Wellenreuther, Hermann, “Associations, The People, Committee of Observation and Inspection, and the Culture of Rights, 1774–1776,” in The Revolution of the People: Thoughts and Documents on the Revolutionary Process in North America, 1774–1776, ed. Hermann Wellenreuther, 13—65. (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2006. 358 pp. isbn 3-938616-42-3.)
Wellenreuther, Hermann, “From the Past to the Future of the ‘American Israel’: Sermons in the American Revolution,” in The Revolution of the People: Thoughts and Documents on the Revolutionary Process in North America, 1774–1776, ed. Hermann Wellenreuther, 91–124. (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2006. 358 pp. isbn 3-938616-42-3.)
Wilson, Joel, “Invisible Cages: Racialized Politics and the Alliance between the Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party,” in In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement, ed. Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, 191–222. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xii, 390 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3837-6. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3890-1.)
Zalewski, David A., “A Reconsideration of the Revenue Act of 1932,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 24 (2006), 56–68.
Zegart, Amy B., “An Empirical Analysis of Failed Intelligence Reforms before September 11,” Political Science Quarterly, 121 (Spring 2006), 33–60.
Barksdale, Kevin T., “‘Upon the Shoulders of Giants’: Deconstructing the Lost State of Franklin, 1784–2005” (West Virginia University, 2005). Order No. DA3201716.
Devoti, John, “The Patriotic Business of Seeking Office: James K. Polk and the Patronage” (Temple University, 2005). Order No. DA3203004.
Durham, David I., “Henry Washington Hillard: ‘A Story of Plebeians and Patricians’” (University of Alabama, 2005). Order No. DA3201249.
Engstrom, David Freeman, “The Lost Origins of American Fair Employment Law: State Fair Employment Practices Bureaus and the Politics of Regulatory Design, 1943–1964” (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3194648.
Erwing, Douglas A., “The Constitution and the Early Federal System: A System of Governments Different in Nature” (University of Houston, 2005). Order No. DA3194299.
Foley, William A., “John F. Kennedy and the American City: The Urban Programs of the New Frontier, 1961–1963” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3204314.
Greenwald, Brian H., “Alexander Graham Bell through the Lens of Eugenics, 1883–1922” (George Washington University, 2006). Order No. DA3199914.
Harsin, Jayson Perry, “Two Episodes in the American Discourse of Economic Rights: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3200947.
Hicks, Stormy T. W., “Presidential Rhetorical Crisis Leadership: The Speeches of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and George W. Bush on the Events of 12-7-41 and 09-11-01” (Wayne State University, 2005). Order No. DA3198687.
Kelly, Brendan B., “Lend Me Your Ears: Extrapolating the Rhetorical Identity of the Democratic Party in Presidential Campaign Speeches, 1972–2000” (Wayne State University, 2005). Order No. DA3198685.
Kozuskanich, Nathan Ross, “‘For the security and protection of the community’: The Frontier and the Makings of Pennsylvania Constitutionalism” (Ohio State University, 2005). Order No. DA3197803.
Lechelt, John J., “The Semi-Institutionalized Vice Presidency: The Increasing Importance of the Vice Presidency in Foreign Policy” (University of South Carolina, 2005). Order No. DA3201348.
McMillian, John, “Smoking Typewriters: The New Left’s Print Culture, 1962–1969” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3199572.
Mickey, Robert Waite, “Paths Out of Dixie: The Decay of Authoritarian Enclaves in America’s Deep South, 1944–1972” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3194436.
Quintanilla, Linda J., “Chicana Activists of Austin and Houston, Texas: A Historical Analysis” (University of Houston, 2005). Order No. DA3195964.
Rampulla, Alicia Marie, “The State, the Noncitizen, and the Challenge of Bilateral Legitimacy in the United States, Canada, and Australia” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005). Order No. DA3193935.
Reiners, Derek S., “Institutional Effects on Decision-Making and Performance in Public Land Agencies: The Case of Wildfire in the Interior West of the United States” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3206872.
Richards, Jeremy Monroe, “The Political Life of Stanley Fletcher Morse” (University of South Carolina, 2005). Order No. DA3201365.
Sands, Eric Clark, “O Captain! O Captian! American Public Philosophy and the Mystery of Lincolnism” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3198447.
Sengupta, Satarupa, “Citizenship and Expatriation in U.S. Women’s Fiction, 1868–2004” (George Washington University, 2006). Order No. DA3199929.
Teigen, Jeremy Michael, “The Role of Previous Military Service in American Electoral Politics” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3204197.
Tobin, Joanna Bache, “Poetic Democrat: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Democracy, Self-Reliance, and the Imagination” (Georgetown University, 2005). Order No. DA3202214.
Walling, Jeremy David, “Original Design, Popular Usurpation, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Effect of Constitutional Change on the United States Senate, 1870–1945” (University of Kansas, 2005). Order No. DA3196074.
Allen, Brooke, Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. xvi, 235 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-56663-675-9.)
Burns, James MacGregor, Running Alone: Presidential Leadership—jfk to Bush II: Why It Has Failed and How We Can Fix It. (New York: Basic, 2006. viii, 278 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-465-00832-2.)
Chernus, Ira, Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin. (Boulder: Paradigm, 2006. xii, 245 pp. Cloth, $69.00, isbn 978-1-59451-275-9. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-1-59451-276-6.)
Epstein, Joseph, Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy’s Guide. (New York: Atlas, 2006. 208 pp. $21.95, isbn 978-0-06-059898-3.)
Fell, A. London, Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State, vol. 6: American Tradition and Innovation with Contemporary Import and Foreground, book 2: Superstructures (since Mid-19th Century). (Westport: Praeger, 2006. xvi, 332 pp. $149.95, isbn 0-275-98509-1.)
Gonzales, Manuel G., and Richard Delgado, The Politics of Fear: How Republicans Use Money, Race, and the Media to Win. (Boulder: Paradigm, 2006. x, 221 pp. Cloth, $72.00, isbn 978-1-59451-241-4. Paper, $21.95, isbn 1-59451-242-1.)
Grossback, Lawrence J., David A. M. Peterson, and James A. Stimson, Mandate Politics. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 208 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-521-86654-5.)
Havenaar, Ronald, Twee soorten conservatisme (Two kinds of conservatism). (Amsterdam: Vossiuspers uva, 2006. 23 pp. isbn 90-5629-436-9.) In Dutch.
Hogan, J. Michael, Woodrow Wilson’s Western Tour: Rhetoric, Public Opinion, and the League of Nations. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii, 212 pp. Cloth, $34.95, isbn 978-1-58544-524-0. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-58544-533-2.)
Lillback, Peter A., George Washington’s Sacred Fire. (Bryn Mawr: Providence Forum, 2006. 1187 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-9786052-5-X. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-9786052-6-8.)
Meckler, Michael, ed., Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America: From George Washington to George W. Bush. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2006. x, 231 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-932792-32-4.)
Miller, Richard Lawrence, Lincoln and His Word: The Early Years—Birth to Illinois Legislature. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2006. xiv, 443 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8117-0187-7.)
Rolde, Neil, Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine. (Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 2006. xvi, 368 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-88448-286-4.)
Sandoz, Ellis, Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xviii, 230 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1674-8.)
Shogan, Robert, Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. xii, 275 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-56663-674-2.)
Toplin, Robert Brent, Radical Conservatism: The Right’s Political Religion. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. viii, 306 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-7006-1487-7.)
Troy, Gil, Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xvi, 263 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-7006-1488-5.)
Wagner, Steven, Eisenhower Republicanism: Pursuing the Middle Way. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. x, 179 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-87580-362-3.)
Watterson, John Sayle, The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiv, 402 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8018-8425-X.)
Fraas, Elizabeth Duffy, ed., The Public Papers of Governor Martha Layne Collins, 1983–1987. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xxiv, 652 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-8131-0608-3.)
Kalter, Susan, ed., Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the First Nations: The Treaties of 1736–62. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvi, 453 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-252-03035-2.) Last published in 1938.
Wellenreuther, Hermann, ed., The Revolution of the People: Thoughts and Documents on the Revolutionary Process in North America, 1774–1776. (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2006. 358 pp. isbn 3-938616-42-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
Full Text
