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Theory and Methodology

Baker, Alan R. H., “Writing Geography, Making History: D. W. Meinig’s Geographical Perspective on the History of America,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 31 (Oct. 2005), 634–46.

Block, Sharon, “Doing More with Digitization: An Introduction to Topic Modeling of Early American Sources,” Common-Place, 6 (Jan. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, “Conclusion: Reflections on Lynching Scholarship,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 6 (Sept. 2005), 401–14.

Cashion, Ty, “What’s the Matter with Texas? The Great Enigma of the Lone Star State in the American West,” Montana, 55 (Winter 2005), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.

Finney, Patrick, “Who Speaks for History?,” Rethinking History (London), 9 (Dec. 2005), 503–19.

Flagg, Barbara J., et al., “Whiteness: Some Critical Perspectives,” Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, 18 (2005), 1–265. Special issue.

Hyde, Samuel C., Jr., “‘Plain Folk’ Reconsidered: Historiographical Ambiguity in Search of Definition,” Journal of Southern History, 71 (Nov. 2005), 803–30.

John, Richard R., “Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 1–20.

Johnson, Charles, “Herodotus Who and Annales What? Historiography and the History Student,” Rethinking History (London), 9 (Dec. 2005), 521–28.

Kneeshaw, Stephen, “Biography as Environmental ‘Herstory,’” oah Magazine of History, 20 (Jan. 2006), 20–24.

McCartin, Joseph A., “Bringing the State’s Workers In: Time to Rectify an Imbalanced U.S. Labor Historiography,” Labor History, 47 (Feb. 2006), 73–94.

Nagler, Jörg, “Amerikanische Zeitgeschichte im Visier der sogenannten ‘Critical Oral History’” (American contemporary history in the focus of the so-called “Critical Oral History”), in Zeit-Geschichten. Miniaturen in Lutz Niethammers Manier (Contemporary histories. Miniatures in the style of Lutz Niethammer), ed. Jürgen John, Dirk van Laak, and Joachim von Puttkamer, 166–77. (Essen: Klartext, 2005. €22.00, isbn 3-89861-404-2.) In German.

Rael, Patrick, “What Happened and Why? Helping Students Read and Write Historians,” History Teacher, 39 (Nov. 2005), 23–32.

Rifkin, Mark, “Representing the Cherokee Nation: Subaltern Studies and Native American Sovereignty,” boundary 2, 32 (Sept. 2005), 47–80.

Waters, Tony, “Why Students Think There Are Two Kinds of American History,” History Teacher, 39 (Nov. 2005), 11–21.

Weiner, Douglas R., “A Death-Defying Attempt to Articulate a Coherent Definition of Environmental History,” Environmental History, 10 (July 2005), 404–20.

Wertheimer, Andrew B., “Quantifying the ‘Goodness’ of Library History Research: A Bibliometric Study of the Journal of Library History/Libraries & Culture,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 267–84.

Wynn, Graeme, “D. W. Meinig and The Shaping of America,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 31 (Oct. 2005), 610–33.

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