Recent Scholarship
Intellectual
Afinogenov, Gregory, “Otium cum Dignitate: Economy, Politics, and Pastoral in Eighteenth-Century New York,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 42 (Summer 2009), 581–602.
Biehn, Kersten Jacobson, “‘Monkeys, Babies, Idiots,’ and ‘Primitives:’ Nature-Nurture Debates and Philanthropic Foundation Support for American Anthropology in the 1920s and 1930s,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 45 (Fall 2009), 219–35.
Bonner, Robert E., “Proslavery Extremism Goes to War: The Counterrevolutionary Confederacy and Reactionary Militarism,” Modern Intellectual History, 6 (Aug. 2009), 261–85.
Cohen-Cole, Jamie, “The Creative American: Cold War Salons, Social Science, and the Cure for Modern Society,” Isis, 100 (June 2009), 219–62.
Diner, Hasia R., “The Study of American Jewish History: In the Academy, in the Community,” Polish American Studies, 65 (Spring 2008), 41–55.
Eisen, Arnold, “Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Challenge of Religious Pluralism,” Modern Judaism, 29 (Feb. 2009), 4–15.
Goodman, David, “Loving and Hating Britain: Rereading the Isolationist Debate in the usa,” in Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, ed. Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, and Stuart Macintyre, 187–204. (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2007. 302 pp. Paper, isbn 978-0-522-85392-6.)
Green, Arthur, “Abraham Joshua Heschel: Recasting Hasidism for Moderns,” Modern Judaism, 29 (Feb. 2009), 62–79.
Green, James, and Abigail Jones, “Reinventando a história: Lincoln Gordon e as múltiplas versões de 1964” (Reinventing history: Lincoln Gordon and the multiple versions of 1964), Revista Brasileira de História, 29 (no. 57, 2009), 67–89. In Portuguese.
van der Horst, Frank C. P., and René van der Veer, “Separation and Divergence: The Untold Story of James Robertson’s and John Bowlby’s Theoretical Dispute on Mother-Child Separation,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 45 (Fall 2009), 236–52.
Hubbs, Jolene, “William Faulkner’s Rural Modernism,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Summer 2008), 461–75.
Hudson, Linda, “Uppity Women Rise Up and Have Breakfast: The East Texas Historical Association’s Women’s History Breakfast,” East Texas Historical Journal, 48 (no. 2, 2009), 48–60.
Idel, Moshe, “Abraham J. Heschel on Mysticism and Hasidism,” Modern Judaism, 29 (Feb. 2009), 80–105.
Inwood, Joshua F. J., “Searching for the Promised Land: Examining Dr. Martin Luther King’s Concept of the Beloved Community,” Antipode, 41 (June 2009), 487–508.
Isaac, Joel, “Tangled Loops: Theory, History, and the Human Sciences in Modern America,” Modern Intellectual History, 6 (Aug. 2009), 397–424.
Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Anna D., “The Polish American Historical Association: Looking Back, Looking Forward,” Polish American Studies, 65 (Spring 2008), 57–76.
Kaneko, Ayumu, “Dansei no tekishi’ kara ‘jenda-ka sareta rekishigaku’ e: Amerikashi kenkyu niokeru danseisei no ichi” (From the ‘history of men’ to ‘gendered history’: The place of masculinity in the study of American history), Rekishigaku Kenkyu (Tokyo) (May 2008), 28–37. In Japanese.
Kim, David H., “The Unexamined Frontier: Dewey, Pragmatism, and America Enlarged,” in Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire, ed. Chad Kautzer and Eduardo Mendieta, 46–72. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 319 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35311-5.)
Kimball, Bruce A., “‘This Pitiable Rejection of a Great Opportunity’: W. E. B. Du Bois, Clement G. Morgan, and the Harvard University Graduation of 1890,” Journal of African American History, 94 (Winter 2009), 5–20.
Klejment, Anne, “The Spirituality of Dorothy Day’s Pacifism,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Spring 2009), 1–24.
Lacey, Nicola, “Explaining the Enduring Resonance of the Hart-Fuller Debate,” New York University Law Review, 83 (Oct. 2008), 1059–87.
Latham, Joyce M., “Wheat and Chaff: Carl Roden, Abe Korman, and the Definitions of Intellectual Freedom in the Chicago Public Library,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 3, 2009), 279–98.
Lemak, Joseph, “Roman Grandeur in Central New York: The Classical Tradition in a Nineteenth-Century Pioneer Town,” New York History, 89 (Summer 2008), 235–56.
Magid, Shaul, “The Role of the Secular in Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Theology: (Re)Reading Heschel after 9/11,” Modern Judaism, 29 (Feb. 2009), 138–60.
Novak, David, “The Theopolitics of Abraham Joshua Heschel,” Modern Judaism, 29 (Feb. 2009), 106–16.
Ogawa, Koji, “Sekaishi toiu ‘yokai’ ga Amerika o haikaishiteiru” (A ‘specter’ is haunting the United States of America: The specter of world history), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 31 (2008), 3–20. In Japanese.
Paulett, Robert E., “The Bewildering World of William De Brahm: An Eighteenth-Century Map Maker Surveys the End of Time,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 42 (Summer 2009), 481–99.
Porter, Theodore, “How Science Became Technical,” Isis, 100 (June 2009), 292–309.
Savagian, John C., “A Question of Respect: Herbert Tanner’s Quest to Restore Hendrick Aupaumut to the Historical Record,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Summer 2009), 2–13. Heavily illustrated.
Schrag, Zachary M., “How Talking Became Human Subjects Research: The Federal Regulation of the Social Sciences, 1965–1991,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 1, 2009), 3–37.
Sokal, Michael M., “James McKeen Cattell, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Academic Freedom at Columbia University, 1902–1923,” History of Psychology, 12 (May 2009), 87–122.
Sugawara, Katsuya, “Kyoi to kyoi toshiteno Amerika: Nihon no Chishikijin/Bungakusha no senchu nikki kara” (Menacing and marvelous: ‘America’ in the diaries of Japanese intellectuals during World War II), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 8–17. In Japanese.
Vajda, Zoltan, “Individual, Community, and Government: Tropological Aspects of Calhoun’s Political Thought,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 69–89.
Vicedo, Marga, “The Father of Ethology and the Foster Mother of Ducks,” Isis, 100 (June 2009), 263–91.
Wilson, Mary Ann, “Grace King: New Orleans Literary Historian,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 137–54. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Yoshida, Akiyo, “Kindai shakai niokeru dotoku no suitai to sogai: W. D. Haueruzu no A Modern Instance to The Rise of Silas Lapham” (Moral degeneration and alienated modern individuals: W. D. Howells’s A Modern Instance and The Rise of Silas Lapham), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 113–26. In Japanese.
Zipursky, Benjamin C., “The Hart-Fuller Debate at Fifty,” New York University Law Review, 83 (Oct. 2008), 1170–212.
Forster, Sophia Ella, “The Virtues of Our Defects: Social Critique in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3320386.
Gordon, Leah N., “The Question of Prejudice: Social Science, Education, and the Struggle to Define ‘the Race Problem’ in Mid-century America, 1935–1965” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328567.
Groome, Frank, “Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Language of Puritanism, Exceptionalism, and the American-Led West” (University Collge Dublin, Ireland, 2009).
Kayorie, Susan H., “‘I Love Henry, . . . but I Cannot Like Him’: Thoreau among His Contemporaries” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3327475.
Kim, EunHyoung, “Individualism and the Sectional Crisis: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Their Responses to Slavery and Racism” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3320428.
Stein, Melissa Norelle, “Embodying Race: Gender, Sex, and the Sciences of Difference, 1830–1934” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3335559.
Stutman, Craig Michael, “Reconstruction in the Mind of W. E. B. Du Bois: Myth, Memory, and the Meaning of American Democracy” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326382.
Yudell, Michael, “Making Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20th Century American Thought” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333492.
Cullen, Jim, Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write, and Think about History. (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xii, 192 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-1-4051-8278-2.)
Dolan, Neal, Emerson’s Liberalism. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. xii, 341 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-299-22804-0.)
Fruchtman, Jack, Jr., The Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xii, 212 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9284-4.)
Ishikawa, Takafumi, Amerika renpo seifu no shisoteki kiban: Jon Adamuzu no chuo seifu-ron (The intellectual basis of the U.S. federal government: John Adams’s theory of the central government). (Tokyo: Tansuisha, 2008. 276 pp. ¥3,800, isbn 978-4-58860-301-3.) In Japanese.
Kagan, Jerome, The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii, 311 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-521-51842-0. Paper, $21.99, isbn 978-0-521-73230-7.)
Kautzer, Chad, and Eduardo Mendieta, eds., Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 319 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35311-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Kenkyu-kai, Hokubei Esunisiti, ed., Hokubei no chiisana hakubutsukan 2: “Chi” no sekaiisan (A small museum in North America 2: World heritage of “knowledge”). (Tokyo: Sairyu sha, 2009. 285 pp. ¥2,200, isbn 978-4-77911-397-0.) In Japanese.
Kihira, Eisaku, Amerika minshushugi no kako to genzai (The past and present of American democracy). (Kyoto: Mineruva Shobo, 2008. 334 pp. ¥4,725, isbn 978-4-62305-140-3.) In Japanese.
McCalman, Iain, Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution. (New York: Norton, 2009. 423 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-393-06814-6.)
Moses, Daniel Noah, The Promise of Progress: The Life and Work of Lewis Henry Morgan. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 332 pp. $47.50, isbn 978-0-8262-1818-6.)
Petigny, Alan, The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x, 292 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-88896-7. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-75722-5.)
Ruggendorfer, Peter, and Hubert D. Szemethy, eds., Felix von Luschan (1854–1924): Leben und Wirken eines Universalgelehrten (Felix von Luschan (1854–1924): Life and work of a polymath). (Wien: Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2009. 339 pp. Paper, €39.00, isbn 978-3-205-78146-2.) In German.
Sands, Eric C., American Public Philosophy and the Mystery of Lincolnism. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 222 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1849-0.)
Smock, Raymond W., Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. xii, 223 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-56663-725-1.)
Tomita, Torao, Hironori Uzuki, and Sato Madoka, eds., Amerika no rekishi o shiru tameno 60 sho (Sixty chapters for knowing U.S. history). (Tokyo: Akashi, 2009. 285 pp. ¥2,000, isbn 978-4-75032-967-3.) In Japanese.
Turner, Jack, ed., A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. x, 483 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2478-0.)
Vianello, Mino, Lo specchio americano: Dio, Cesare e la frontiera (The American mirror: God, Caesar, and the frontier). (Milan: Mondadori, 2009. 160 pp. €12.00, isbn 978-88-6184-030-0.) In Italian.
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