Recent Scholarship
African American
Adeleke, Tunde, “Violence as an Option for Free Blacks in Nineteenth-Century America,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 35 (no. 1, 2005), 87–107.
Behan, Barbara Carol, “Forgotten Heritage: African Americans in the Montana Territory, 1864–1889,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Winter 2006), 23–40.
Budros, Art, “The Antislavery Movement in Early America: Religion, Social Environment, and Slave Manumissions,” Social Forces, 84 (Dec. 2005), 941–66.
Carson, Clayborne, “Between Contending Forces: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the African American Freedom Struggle,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Jan. 2005), 17–21.
Carson, Clayborne, “Paradoxes of King Historiography,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Jan. 2005), 7–10.
Carson, Clayborne, “The Unfinished Dialogue of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Jan. 2005), 22–26.
Carson, Clayborne, “To Walk in Dignity: The Montgomery Bus Boycott,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Jan. 2005), 13–15.
Christian, Mark, “Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (unia): With Special Reference to the ‘Lost’ Parade in Columbus, Ohio, September 25, 1923,” Western Journal of Black Studies, 28 (Fall 2004), 424–34.
Collins, William J., “The Political Economy of State Fair Housing Laws before 1968,” Social Science History, 30 (Spring 2006), 15–49.
Franklin, V. P., “The African American Experience in the Western States,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Winter 2006), 1–72. Special issue.
Grem, Darren E., “Sam Jones, Sam Hose, and the Theology of Racial Violence,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2006), 35–61.
Harrison, Robert, “Welfare and Employment Policies of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the District of Columbia,” Journal of Southern History, 72 (Feb. 2006), 75–110.
Johnson, Karen A., “Undaunted Courage and Faith: The Lives of Three Black Women in the West and Hawaii in the Early 19th Century,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Winter 2006), 4–22.
Marcus, Kenneth H., “Living the Los Angeles Renaissance: A Tale of Two Black Composers,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Winter 2006), 55–72.
May, Lissa Fleming, “Early Musical Development of Selected African American Jazz Musicians in Indianapolis in the 1930s and 1940s,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 27 (Oct. 2005), 21–32.
McNeil, Daniel, “Afro(Americo)centricity in Black (American) Nova Scotia,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 35 (no. 1, 2005), 57–85.
McRae, James S., “David G. Cooke Joins the United States Colored Troops,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Fall 2005), 179–85.
Moss, Hilary J., “Education’s Inequity: Opposition to Black Higher Education in Antebellum Connecticut,” History of Education Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2006), 16–35.
Nightingale, Carl H., “The Transnational Contexts of Early Twentieth-Century American Urban Segregation,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Spring 2006), 667–702.
Oliver, Mamie O., “Idaho Ebony: The African American Presence in Idaho State History,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Winter 2006), 41–54.
Osborne, Christopher M., “Invisible Hands: Slaves, Bound Laborers, and the Development of Western Pennsylvania, 1780–1820,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Winter 2005), 77–89.
Peterson, Carla L., “African Americans and the New York Draft Riots: Memory and Reconciliation in America’s Civil War,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 27 (2005), 1–14.
Phillips, Anne E., “A History of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Philadelphia, 1955–1967,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Winter 2005), 49–76.
Pocock, Emil, “Slavery and Freedom in the Early Republic: Robert Patterson’s Slaves in Kentucky and Ohio, 1804–1819,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Spring 2006), 3–26.
Quinn, John F., “The Rise and Fall of Repeal: Slavery and Irish Nationalism in Antebellum Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130 (Jan. 2006), 45–78.
Rael, Patrick, “Free Black Activism in the Antebellum North,” History Teacher, 39 (Feb. 2006), 215–53.
Sayers, Daniel O., “The Underground Railroad Reconsidered,” Western Journal of Black Studies, 28 (Fall 2004), 435–43.
Tollison, Courtney L., “In Pursuit of Excellence: Desegregation and Southern Baptist Politics at Furman University,” History of Higher Education Annual, 23 (2003–2004), 23–48.
Wallenstein, Peter, “Higher Education and Civil Rights: South Carolina, 1860s–1960s,” History of Higher Education Annual, 23 (2003–2004), 1–22.
Warren, Donald, “Slavery as an American Educational Institution: Historiographical Inquiries,” Journal of Thought, 40 (Winter 2005), 41–54.
Weir, Margaret, “States, Race, and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism,” Studies in American Political Development, 19 (Oct. 2005), 157–72.
Wolfinger, James, “‘We Are in the Front Lines in the Battle for Democracy’: Carolyn Moore and Black Activism in World War II Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Winter 2005), 1–23.
Zakim, Michael, “The Dialectics of Merchant Capital: New York City Businessmen and the Secession Crisis of 1860–61,” New York History, 87 (Winter 2006), 67–87.
Abston, Carmen Patrice, “Representation and Signification: The Street and Dutchman as Revisions of Richard Wright’s Portrayal of Black Identity and Experience in Native Son” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3180131.
Amos, Sharon L. Richardson, “Whose Dust Is Rising? Historical and Literacy Narratives of the Northern Migration of African American Women” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2005). Order No. DA3185352.
Ayabe, Masatomo, “The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923–1926” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005). Order No. DA3182215.
Bethea, Trina Caviness, “Segregation, Desegregation, Resegregation: Dudley High School as a Case in Point” (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2005). Order No. DA3182826.
Bilsky, Dana, “Tangled Skeins: Identification and Fantasmatic Genealogies of Slavery in Narratives by Jacobs, Crafts, Wilson, and Keckley” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177687.
Boggs, Nicholas Taylor, “The Critic and the Little Man: On African-American Literacy Studies in the Post–Civil Rights Era” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3182930.
Buckner, Timothy Ryan, “Constructing Identities on the Frontier of Slavery, Natchez, Mississippi, 1760–1860” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3187667.
Clavin, Matthew J., “‘Men of color, to arms!’ Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in the American Civil War” (American University, 2005). Order No. DA3182552.
Collins, Brennan, “‘Forsaking the promised land’: Raymond Andrews and the Many African-American Literary Perspectives on the South” (Georgia State University, 2005). Order No. DA3180053.
Dolinar, Brian, “Where History Turned Another Page: The Black Popular Art of Langston Hughes, Ollie Harrington, and Chester Himes” (Claremont Graduate University, 2005). Order No. DA3179498.
Fearing, Jeffrey John, “African-American Image, History, and Identity, in Twentieth-Century Washington, D.C., as Chronicled through the Art and Social Realism Photography of Addison N. Scurlock and the Scurlock Studios, 1904–1994” (Howard University, 2005). Order No. DA3184865.
Gannon, Barbara A., “The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic” (Pennsylvania State University, 2005). Order No. DA3187505.
Guorong, Xie, “Minquan yundongde qianchou: Dulumen dangzhengshiqi meiguo heiren minquanyundong wenti yanjiu” (A prelude to the civil rights movement: African American civil rights in the Truman administration period) (Nankai University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Hyra, Derek S., “Race, Politics, and Neighborhood Revitalization: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3181359.
Issa, Jahi U., “The Universal Negro Improvement Association in Louisiana: Creating a Provisional Government in Exile” (Howard University, 2005). Order No. DA3184874.
Jensen, Melba P., “Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave: Text, Context, and Interpretation” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005). Order No. DA3179890.
Johnson, Sherita, “‘Truth is stranger than fiction’: Black Women in American Literature of the South” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005). Order No. DA3182291.
Jones, James Thomas, III, “Creating Revolution As We Advance: The Revolutionary Years of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and Those Who Destroyed It” (Ohio State University, 2005). Order No. DA3177143.
Leonard, Joe E., Jr., “‘We are catchin’ hell down here’: The Struggle for Public Accommodations and Voter Franchisement by the Congress of Racial Equality in Louisiana, 1960–1965” (Howard University, 2005). Order No. DA3184879.
Lewis-Mhoon, Abena, “Adorning Adversaries, Affecting Avenues: African American Women’s Impact on Adornment and Fashion Design in Washington, D.C., 1880–1950” (Howard University, 2005). Order No. DA3184880.
Mangun, Kimberly Ann, “Beatrice Morrow Cannady and The Advocate: Building and Defending Oregon’s African American Community, 1912–1933” (University of Oregon, 2005). Order No. DA3181108.
McInneshin, Seulky, “Remapping Southern Experiences: African Americans and the Forging of Race, Class, and Southern Identities, 1877–1898” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3184958.
Robolin, Stéphane Pierre Raymond, “‘You are now in fairyland’: Remapping Resistance in South African and African American Literatures” (Duke University, 2005). Order No. DA3179214.
Roseboro, Donyell L., “Icons of Power and Landscapes of Protest: The Student Movement for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill” (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2005). Order No. DA3180090.
Shaffer, Donald M., Jr., “Making Space(s): The Representation of Place and Identity in Black Migration Novels, 1902–1953” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3181417.
Wilson, Melinda, “Coming of Age in the Black Liberation Generation: The Construction of Youth in African American Drama, 1950–1980” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177828.
Witt, Andrew, “‘Picking up the hammer’: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party with Emphasis on the Milwaukee Branch, 1966–1977” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3180965.
Dargan, William T., Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xvi, 320 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-520-23448-0.)
Finkelman, Paul, ed., Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Vol. 1: xviii, 490 pp.; Vol. 2: 543 pp.; Vol. 3: 490 pp. $375.00/setisbn 0-19-516777-5./set.)
Holzer, Harold, Edna Greene Medford, and Frank J. Williams, The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiv, 162 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8071-3144-X.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Kevorkian, Martin, Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv, 204 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8014-4443-8. Paper, $17.95, isbn 0-8014-7278-4.)
Rappleye, Charles, Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 400 pp. $27.00, isbn 0-7432-6687-0.)
Shellum, Brian G., Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxii, 175 pp. $16.95, isbn 0-8032-9315-1.)
Taylor, Andrew, and Eldrid Herrington, eds., The Afterlife of John Brown. (New York: Palgrave, 2005. xii, 243 pp. $69.95, isbn 1-4039-6992-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Vivian, Octavia, Coretta: The Story of Coretta Scott King. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. xii, 126 pp. Cloth, $17.00, isbn 0-8006-3855-7. Paper, $10.00, isbn 0-8006-3853-0.) Heavily illustrated. Commemorative edition.
Yarema, Allan, The American Colonization Society: An Avenue to Freedom? (Lanham: University Press of America, 2006. x, 90 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-7618-3359-5.)
Carson, Clayborne, “King’s Path to Antiwar Dissent,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Jan. 2005), 27–28.
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, and James David Glunt, eds., Florida Plantation Records: From the Papers of George Noble Jones. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xliv, 596 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-8130-2976-7.) Originally published in 1927.
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