Recent Scholarship
Politics
Anderson, A. Heath, “A Reluctant Heir: Carl Albert, Watergate, and the American Presidency,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 85 (Fall 2007), 260–79.
Bachelder, Chris, “Crashing the Party: The Ill-Fated 1968 Presidential Campaign of Governor George Romney,” Michigan Historical Review, 33 (Fall 2007), 131–62.
Bolster, W. Jeffrey, “‘The Absurdity of Nonresistance’: Reexamining Article 10 of New Hampshire’s Constitution, the ‘Right of Revolution,’” Historical New Hampshire, 61 (Fall 2007), 101–19.
Chang, Junkab, “Kennedy Hangjeongbueui Daehan Jeongchaek (1961–1963): Ganseopinga Heoypneokinga?” (The Kennedy administration’s Korean policy, 1961–1963: Intervention or cooperation?), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 24 (Nov. 2006), 133–58. In Korean.
Egan, Tara Marie, “Vietnam, the Johnson Administration, and the Role of Domestic Public Opinion,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 21,Autumn 2007), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.
Fetter, Henry D., “From ‘Stooge’ to ‘Czar’: Judge Landis, the Daily Worker, and the Integration of Baseball,” American Communist History, 6 (June 2007), 29–63.
Fordham, Benjamin O., “The Evolution of Republican and Democratic Positions on Cold War Military Spending: A Historical Puzzle,” Social Science History, 31 (Winter 2007), 603–36.
Graves, Karen L., “Containing the Perimeter: Dynamics of Race, Sexual Orientation, and the State in the 1950s and ’60s,” in The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power, ed. Eileen H. Tamura, 41–66. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 226 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60043-0.)
Harrison, Gordon S., “Alaska’s Constitutional ‘Literacy Test’ and the Question of Voting Discrimination,” Alaska History, 22 (Spring–Fall 2007), 23–38.
Haynes, John Earl, James G. Ryan, and Harvey Klehr, “Helen Lowry and Earl Browder: The Genealogy of a kgb Agent and Her Relationship to the Chief of the cpusa,” American Communist History, 6 (Dec. 2007), 229–38.
Heckelman, Jac C., and Keith L. Dougherty, “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 Revisited,” Journal of Economic History, 67 (Dec. 2007), 829–48.
Hoffman, Eric, “Poetry of Action: George Oppen and Communism,” American Communist History, 6 (June 2007), 1–28.
Holmes, John, “American Jewish Communism and Garment Unionism in the 1920s,” American Communist History, 6 (Dec. 2007), 171–95.
Kim, Hyung-Gon, “Lincoln Daetongryungeui Leadershipeui shilchae” (The essence of Abraham Lincoln’s leadership), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 25 (May 2007), 61–100.
Kostiainen, Auvo, “‘A Wonderful Man’ or ‘A Dangerous Bolshevik’? Santeri Nuorteva in the United States, 1912–1920,” American Communist History, 6 (Dec. 2007), 197–207.
Lukic, Reneo, “Vanjska politika Clintonove administracije prema ratovima u Hrvatskoj i Bosni i Hercegovini: (1993–1995)” (Foreign policy of the Clinton administration in relation to the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, [1993–1995]), Casopis za suvremenu pvijest (Zagreb), 38 (2006), 1, 7–39. In Croatian.
McNeill, Larry, “The Man from Tenaha: George Edwin Bailey Peddy,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Oct. 2007), 137–59.
Merrill, Samuel, Bernard Grofman, and Thomas L. Brunell, “Cycles in American National Electoral Politics, 1854–2006: Statistical Evidence and an Explanatory Model,” American Political Science Review, 102 (Feb. 2008), 1–17.
Palmer, Bryan D., “American Communism in the 1920s: Striving for a Panoramic View,” American Communist History, 6 (Dec. 2007), 139–49.
Pratt, William C., “Historians and the Lost World of Kansas Radicalism,” Kansas History, 30 (Winter 2007–2008), 270–91. Heavily illustrated.
Rowland, Robert C., and John M. Jones, “Recasting the American Dream and American Politics: Barack Obama’s Keynote Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 93 (Nov. 2007), 425–48.
Anslover, Nicole L., “An Executive Echo Chamber: The Evolution of America’s Vietnam Policy from Truman to Johnson” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3261049.
von Bothmer, Bernard, “Blaming ‘The Sixties’: The Political Use of an Era, 1980–2004” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3252774.
Chapman, Michael E., “Arguing Americanism: John Eoghan Kelly’s Franco Lobby, 1936–1943” (Boston College, 2006). Order No. DA3255944.
Feinberg, Carol, “The Knowledge Traders: Psychological Experts, Political Intellectuals, and the Rise of the New Right” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3255183.
Maurer, Paul J., “The Moral Rhetoric of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan” (Claremont Graduate University, 2007). Order No. DA3259951.
McCall, James Brian, “In the Shadow of John Connally: An Examination of Gubernatorial Power in Texas” (University of Texas, Dallas, 2006). Order No. DA3265634.
Mergel, Sarah Katherine, “A Report Card for Richard Nixon: Conservative Intellectuals and the President” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3258462.
Miller, Brian Stanford, “Car Tags and Cubans: Bill Clinton, Frank White, and Arkansas’ Return to Conservatism” (University of Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3259414.
Okutani, Stacy M., “Structuring Biodefense: Legacies and Current Policy Choices” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3260280.
Uhlmann, Jennifer Ruthanne, “The Communist Civil Rights Movement: Legal Activism in the United States, 1919–1946” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3257190.
Vieweg, Christian Seitz, “To Keep and Bear Arms: Armed Political Power in Virginia, 1648–1791” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3260267.
Weitz, Seth A., “Bourbon, Pork Shops, and Red Peppers: Political Immorality in Florida, 1945–1968” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3263791.
Xie, Tao, “China Policy on Capitol Hill: An Analysis of Trade, Taiwan, and Human Rights” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3260540.
Yonish, Steven J., “Who Parties? Grassroots Party Activity in the United States, 1974–1994” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007). Order No. DA3261514.
Caldwell, John, Thomas Scott: Western Federalist. (Rock Island, IL: Five Rhinos Book Company, 2008. x, 125 pp. Paper, $15.00, isbn 978-0-615-17263-7.)
Kelsey, Kerck, Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family. (Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 2008. xiv, 402 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-88448-299-4.)
Shapiro, Ian, and Sonu Bedi, eds., Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. viii, 296 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8147-4044-6.)
Swint, Kerwin, Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time. (New York: Union Square, 2008. xiv, 256 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-1-4027-5736-5.) Originally published in 2006.
Wright, Jordan M., Campaigning for President: Memorabilia from the Nation’s Finest Private Collection. (Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2008. xii, 291 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-06-123395-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Beatty, Bob, ed., “‘For the Benefit of the People’: A Conversation with Former Governor John Anderson Jr.,” Kansas History, 30 (Winter 2007–2008), 252–69. Heavily illustrated.
Black, Allida, ed., The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, vol. 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945–1948. (New York: Thomson Gale, 2007. lxiv, 1121 pp. $120.00, isbn 978-0-684-31576-8.)
Feller, Daniel, et al., eds., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. 7: 1829. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xxx, 826 pp. $79.00, isbn 978-1-57233-593-6.)
Jefferson, Thomas, The Declaration of Independence, ed. Michael Hardt. (London: Verso, 2007. xxxvi, 106 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-84467-157-1.)
Kaminski, John P., and Jill Adair McCaughan, eds., A Great and Good Man: George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xvi, 244 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-7425-5943-1.) Originally published in 1989.
Lipscomb, Terry W., ed., The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790–1794: Nation Building and Enterprise in the New American Republic. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. lxviii, 370 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-689-7.)
Looney, J. Jefferson, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 4: 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xlvi, 750 pp. $99.50, isbn 978-0-691-13565-6.)
Oberg, Barbara B., ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 34: 1 May to 31 July 1801. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xliv, 767 pp. $99.50, isbn 978-0-691-13557-1.)
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