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Abruzzo, Margaret, “Apologetics of Harmony: Mathew Carey and the Rhetoric of Religious Liberty,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 134 (Jan. 2010), 5–30.

Aikin, Jane, “Histories of the Library of Congress,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 1, 2010), 5–24.

Alentieva, T. V., “‘Reka vremeni’ Uil’iama Kallena Braianta: Zhurnalistika, politika, poeziia” (“Time’s river” of William Cullen Bryant: Journalism, policy, poetry), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 107–33. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.

Alentieva, T. V., “Dzheims Gordon Bennet i ‘New York Herald’ v 1830–1860-e gg.” (James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald in the 1830s–1860s), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 2; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 2 of 3 vols.), 47–90. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 260 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-276-0.) In Russian.

Alentieva, T. V., “Revolutiia v amerikanskoi presse v 1830–1840-kh gg” (The revolution in the American press of the 1830s–1840s), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 1; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), 109–35. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2008. 262 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-226-4.) In Russian.

Arustamova, A. A., “Amerikanskaia tema v kurse russkoi slovestnosti XIX–nachala XX veka” (The American theme in a course on Russian literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), in Rossia i SShA na stranitsakh uchebnikov: Opyt vzaimnykh reprezantatsii (Russia and the United States: Mutual representations in textbooks), ed. Victoria I. Zhuravleva and Ivan I. Kurilla, 68–82. (Volgograd: Izdatel’stvo Volgogradskogo gosuderstvennogo universiteta, 2009. 408 pp. isbn 978-5-9669-0591-0.) In Russian.

Bates, Stephen, “Mixed Motives behind a Pulitzer: The Pecos Independent and Enterprise and Billie Sol Estes,” Journalism History, 35 (Winter 2010), 205–15.

Berens, Charlyne, and Nancy Mitchell, “Parallel Tracks, Same Terminus: The Role of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers and Railroads in the Settlement of Nebraska,” Great Plains Quarterly, 29 (Fall 2009), 287–300.

Bissonette, Devan L., “Between Silence and Self-Interest: Time, Life, and the Unsilent Generation’s Coming-of-Age,” Journalism History, 35 (Summer 2009), 62–71.

Blake, Matthew, “Woody Guthrie: A Dust Bowl Representative in the Communist Party Press,” Journalism History, 35 (Winter 2010), 184–93.

Crofts, Daniel W., “A Fresh Look at The Diary of a Public Man,” Civil War History, 55 (Dec. 2009), 442–68.

Edmondson, Aimee, and Earnest L. Perry Jr., “Objectivity and ‘The Journalist’s Creed’: Local Coverage of Lucile Bluford’s Fight to Enter the University of Missouri School of Journalism,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 233–40.

Elliott, Clare, “William Blake and America: Freedom and Violence in the Atlantic World,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (Sept. 2009), 209–24.

Endicott, Lucas, “Settling the ‘Printing Business’: John Dickins and the Methodist Episcopal Book Concern from 1789 to 1798,” Methodist History, 48 (Jan. 2010), 81–91.

Filimonova, M. A., “Ottsy-osnovateli kak zurnalisty” (The founding fathers as journalists), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 1; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), 41–72. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2008. 262 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-226-4.) In Russian.

Filimonova, M. A., “Polemika vokrug ratifikatsii Konstitutsii 1787 g. v periodicheskoi pechati SShA: Porazhenie antifederailstov” (American periodicals debate the ratification of the Constitution, 1787: The anti-federalists’s defeat), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 2; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 2 of 3 vols.), 7–46. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 260 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-276-0.) In Russian.

Friedman, Barbara G., and John D. Richardson, “‘A National Disgrace’: Newspaper Coverage of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign in the South and Beyond,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 224–32.

Gajda, Amy, “Judging Journalism: The Turn toward Privacy and Judicial Regulation of the Press,” California Law Review, 97 (Aug. 2009), 1039–105.

Gibbons, Michelle, “‘Voices from the People’: Letters to the American Phrenological Journal, 1854–64,” Journalism History, 35 (Summer 2009), 72–81.

Gillis, William, “Say No to Busing and the Liberal Media: Backlash against the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times, 1975–76,” Journalism History, 35 (Winter 2010), 216–28.

Greenberg, David, “The Idea of ‘the Liberal Media’ and Its Roots in the Civil Rights Movement,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 1 (Dec. 2008), 167–86.

Gwinn, Nancy E., “The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Global Exchange of Government Documents, 1834–1889,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 1, 2010), 107–22.

Haygood, Daniel Marshall, “Henry Luce’s Anti-Communist Legacy: An Analysis of U.S. News Magazines’ Coverage of China’s Cultural Revolution,” Journalism History, 35 (Summer 2009), 98–105.

Hickman, Ben, “‘Becalmed on Strange Waters’: Wordsworth, Reagan, and Late Ashbery,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (Dec. 2009), 273–84.

Isaac, Larry, “Movements, Aesthetics, and Markets in Literary Change: Making the American Labor Problem Novel,” American Sociological Review, 74 (Dec. 2009), 938–65.

James, Jon G., “Lt. James H. Bradley: The Literary Legacy of Montana’s Frontier Soldier-Historian,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 59 (Winter 2009), 46–57. Heavily illustrated.

Kaszuba, Dave, “Ringside, Hearthside: Sports Scribe Jane Dixon Embodies Struggle of Jazz Age Women Caught between Two Worlds,” Journalism History, 35 (Fall 2009), 141–50.

Kent, Holly, “How Did Women’s Antislavery Fiction Contribute to Debates about Gender, Slavery, and Abolition, 1828–1856?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 13 (March 2009), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1002090131.

Kirk, Andrew Taylor, “Dens of Hell in the Cities of Zion: Newspaper Coverage of Opium Abuse in Territoiral Utah, 1869–96,” Journalism History, 35 (Winter 2010), 229–37.

Koriakova, I. K., “Profsoiuznaia pechat’ Soedinennykh Shtatov o problemakh rekonversiii 1845–1848 gg.” (The U.S. trade union press and the reconversion problem, 1845–1848), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 2; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 2 of 3 vols.), 179–223. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 260 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-276-0.) In Russian.

Luchinskii, Iu. V., “Delo Zengera v kontekste bor’by za svobodu slova v amerikanskoi zurnalistike nachala XVIII veka” (The Zenger case, freedom of speech, and American journalism in the early 18th century), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 1; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), 11–39. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2008. 262 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-226-4.) In Russian.

Luchinskii, Iu. V., “Formirovanie kontseptsii ‘novogo zhurnalizma’ i figura Dzhozefa Pulitzera” (Joseph Pulitzer and the origins of the “new journalism” concept), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 2; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 2 of 3 vols.), 153–78. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 260 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-276-0.) In Russian.

Luconi, Stefano, “La stampa in lingua italiana negli Stati Uniti dalle origini ai giorni nostri” (The Italian-language press in the United States from its beginnings to the present), Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies (Rome), 46 (July-Sept. 2009), 547–67. In Italian.

Lumsden, Linda, “‘Women’s Lib Has No Soul’? Analysis of Women’s Movement Coverage in Black Periodicals, 1968–73,” Journalism History, 35 (Fall 2009), 118–30.

Lyne, Bill, “God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth: James Baldwin’s Black Radicalism,” Science & Society, 74 (Jan. 2010), 12–36.

Martinelli, Diana Knott, and Shannon A. Bowen, “The Public Relations Work of Journalism Trailblazer and First Lady Confidante Lorena Hickok, 1937–45,” Journalism History, 35 (Fall 2009), 131–40.

McLennan, Rachael, “Enabling Fictions: Philip Roth’s Prosthetic Anne Franks,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (Sept. 2009), 253–67.

Mellen, Roger P., “Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of Newspaper Competition in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia,” Journalism History, 35 (Fall 2009), 151–61.

Morris, James McGrath, “The Political Education of Joseph Pulitzer,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Jan. 2010), 78–94. Heavily illustrated.

Murray, Rolland, “African-American Literary Studies and the Legacies of Black Nationalism,” American Literary History, 21 (Winter 2009), 923–37.

Ostrowski, Carl, “‘The Choice of Books’: Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the Ideology of Reading, and Literary Collections at the Library of Congress in the 1870s,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 1, 2010), 70–84.

Powers, Devon, “The ‘Folk Problem’: The Village Voice Takes on Folk Music, 1955–65,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 205–14.

Preer, Jean, “‘Wake Up and Read!’: Book Promotion and National Library Week, 1958,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 1, 2010), 92–106.

Ross, Felicia Jones, “The Cleveland Call and Post and the Election of Carl B. Stokes,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 215–23.

Shilling, Dan, “Aldo Leopold Listens to the Southwest,” Journal of the Southwest, 51 (Autumn 2009), 317–50.

Sirotinskaia, M. M., “Dzhon Lui O’Salliven i ‘Democratik reviu,’ 1840-e gody” (John L. O’Sullivan and the “Democratic Review” in the 1840s), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 5, 2009), 234–45. In Russian.

Sirotinskaia, M. M., “German Melvill i ‘molodaia Amerika,’ 1840-e gody” (Herman Melville and the “young America” movement in the 1840s), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 80–106. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.

Sirotinskaia, M. M., “Zhenskoe dvizhenie v SShA, 1840–1850-e gg. (po materialam amerikanskikh periodicheskikh izdanii)” (The women’s movement in the United States as seen by American periodicals, 1840s–1850s), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 1; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), 137–88. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2008. 262 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-226-4.) In Russian.

St. John, Burton, III, “Journalism’s Counterinsurgency against ‘Free Space’: The anpa Anti-Publicity Bulletin, 1921–26,” Journalism History, 35 (Summer 2009), 91–97.

Stoker, Kevin, “From Prohibitionist to New Deal Liberal: The Political Evolution of Colonel Harry Mell Ayers of the Anniston Star,” Alabama Review, 62 (Oct. 2009), 262–96.

Sumpter, Randall S., “Core Knowledge: Early Reporting Textbooks and the Formation of Professional Identity,” Journalism History, 35 (Spring 2009), 42–51.

Troitskaia, L. M., “The North American Review I obraz SShA v vospriiatii severoamerikantsev 1815–1850” (The North American Review and the United States as seen by North Americans, 1815–1850), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 1; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), 73–108. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2008. 262 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-226-4.) In Russian.

Troitskaia, L. M., “Fratsuzskie pervoprokhodtsy severoamerikanskogo kontinenta (po materialam periodicheskikh zhurnalov SShA kontsa 1830-kh gg.)” (The French trailblazers in North America in late 1830s American periodicals), Kanadaskii ezhegodnik, Trudy roik (Moscow), 13 (2009), 107–15. In Russian.

Vashchenko, A. V., “I. S. Turgenev i Uilla Kezer: Aspekty mezhkul’turnogo dialoga” (I. S. Turgenev and Willa Kezer: Aspects of intercultural dialog), Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriia: Lingvistika i mezhul’turnaia kommunikatsiia (Moscow) (no. 2, 2009), 31–40. In Russian.

Veitch, Karen, “‘Exchange Is Creation’: The Revolutionary Politics of Muriel Rukeyser and Hugh MacDiarmid,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (Sept. 2009), 238–52.

Wagner, Venise, “‘Activities among Negroes’: Race Pride and a Call for Interracial Dialogue in California’s East Bay Region, 1920–31,” Journalism History, 35 (Summer 2009), 82–90.

Wallack, Catherine, “Dream Home: Remodeling American Expectations with Model Houses,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (Dec. 2009), 332–42.

Watts, Liz, “Lydia Maria Child: Editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1841–43,” Journalism History, 35 (Spring 2009), 12–22.

Webb, Sheila, “Prowess Unlimited: The Portrayal of Science and Technology in Life, 1936–41,” Journalism History, 35 (Winter 2010), 194–204.

Willey, Susan K., “The Founding of the Dallas Morning News’ Religion Section,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 194–204.

Zhuravleva, V. I., and D. S. Foglesong, “Konstruirovanie obraza Rossii v amerikanskoi politicheskoi karikature XX veka” (The construction of Russia’s image in American political cartoons of the 20th century), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 1; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), 189–264. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2008. 262 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-226-4.) In Russian.

Zhuravleva, V. I., and I. I. Kurilla, “‘Ne razzhigat’ vrazhdu, a sposobstvovat’ vzaimoponimaniiu mezhdu narodami: Pamiati Nikolaia Nikolaevicha Bolkhovitinova, cheloveka i uchenogo” (Not to kindle animosity, but to promote better understanding between peoples: In memory of Nikolai Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov, a person and a scholar), in Rossia i SShA na stranitsakh uchebnikov: Opyt vzaimnykh reprezantatsii (Russia and the United States: Mutual representations in textbooks), ed. Victoria I. Zhuravleva and Ivan I. Kurilla, 370–400. (Volgograd: Izdatel’stvo Volgogradskogo gosuderstvennogo universiteta, 2009. 408 pp. isbn 978-5-9669-0591-0.) In Russian.

Zhuravleva, V. I., and I. I. Kurilla, “Obrazy Rossii na stranitsakh amerikanskikh shkol’nykh uchebnikov istorii XIX–nachala XX veka” (Images of Russia in American history textbooks in the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries), in Rossia i SShA na stranitsakh uchebnikov: Opyt vzaimnykh reprezantatsii (Russia and the United States: Mutual representations in textbooks), ed. Victoria I. Zhuravleva and Ivan I. Kurilla, 16–67. (Volgograd: Izdatel’stvo Volgogradskogo gosuderstvennogo universiteta, 2009. 408 pp. isbn 978-5-9669-0591-0.) In Russian.

 

Agee, Gary Bruce, “‘A Cry for Justice’: Daniel A. Rudd’s Ecclesiologically-Centered Vision of Justice in the American Catholic Tribune” (University of Dayton, 2008). Order No. DA3346846.

Arthur, Jason, “Thinking Locally: Provincialism and Cosmopolitanism in American Literature since the Great Depression” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007). Order No. DA3348996.

Beardsworth, Adam, “Cold War Confessions: Autobiographic Poetry in the Age of Anxiety” (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR47904.

Blaque, Ellesia Ann, “Imagined Identities: Adapting White Imaginings of Black Female Identity in African American Literature before the Renaissance” (Wayne State University, 2008). Order No. DA3344780.

Block, Shelley R., “Nineteenth-Century Literary Women and the Temperance Tradition: Temperance Rhetoric in the Fiction of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007). Order No. DA3348998.

Brassaw, Mandolin R., “Divine Heresy: Women’s Revisions of Sacred Texts” (University of Oregon, 2008). Order No. DA3346641.

Brown, Lillie Anne, “Movements in Dignity: A Critical Examination of Selected Words by Ernest J. Gaines” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3348478.

Burns, Jennifer Louise, “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, 1930–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3353127.

Bynum, Tara, “‘The Saving Change’: New Birth and Conversion in Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature” (Johns Hopkins University, 2009). Order No. DA3357041.

Carluccio, Dana Marie, “Cognitive Fictions: The Evolutions of Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction and Science” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3347284.

Castagnaro, Mario, “Embellishment, Fabrication, and Scandal: Hoaxing and the American Press” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2009). Order No. DA3357585.

Chilton, Eric, “Recreating Nature: Ecocritical Readings of Yosemite and Grand Canyon” (University of Arizona, 2009). Order No. DA3350428.

Culter, John Alba, “Pochos, Vatos and Other Types of Assimilation: Masculinities in Chicano Literature, 1940–2004” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3346999.

Dow, Donald W., “Internal Differences: Secularism, Religion, and Poetic Form in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349876.

Dymond, Erica Joan, “Gothic Heirs: An Examination of Family Dynamics in the Works of Stephen King” (Lehigh University, 2009). Order No. DA3354765.

Edelstein, Sari, “The Novel and the News: Women’s Writing and the Politics of U.S. Print Cultures, 1792–1892” (Brandeis University, 2009). Order No. DA3352967.

Haberman, Robb K, “Periodical Publics: Magzines and Literary networks in Post-Revolutionary America” (University of Connecticut, 2009). Order No. DA3351334.

Hsu, Ray, “Neutralizing Typical America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3348860.

Hurh, John Paul, “Epistemology and Terror in American Literature: Edwards, Poe, Melville” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3353370.

Jividen, Jill M., “Power of Attorney: Business and Friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Maurice J. Speiser” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3351691.

Johnson, Jamie, “The Philosophy of the Animal in 20th Century Literature” (Florida Atlantic University, 2009). Order No. DA3353764.

Joiner, Jennie J., “The Big House: Marriage and Masculinity in Faulkner’s ‘Yoknapatawpha’” (University of Kansas, 2009). Order No. DA3354595.

Kavanagh, Matt, “Second Nature: American Fiction in the Age of Capitalist Realism” (McGill University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR47930.

Kracke, Alice M., “Representing Themselves and Others: Black Poets as Lay-Lawyers in the Early Transatlantic” (Tufts University, 2009). Order No. DA3354698.

Lagarón, Elizabeth M., “‘Blessed Are the Pure of Heart’: Variations on Magical Realism in the Beat Generation, Pathways to Critique and Resistance” (University of Kansas, 2009). Order No. DA3354602.

Lewis, Janaka, “Freedom Promised, Freedom Told: Black Women’s Narratives of Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1861–1892” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3352580.

Murillo, Cynthia Cupples, “The Transformative Power of the Double in American Women’s Gothic Fiction, 1870–1940” (University of New Mexico, 2008). Order No. DA3346578.

Peay, Aisha, “Reading Democracy: Anthologies of African American Women’s Writing and the Legacy of Black Feminist Criticism, 1970–1990” (Duke University, 2009). Order No. DA3350214.

Pierce, Katherine Anna, “Networks of Disunion: Politics, Print Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3353858.

Pitts, April, “Democracy and Dystopia in Post-Watergate American Fiction” (Wayne State University, 2009). Order No. DA3344928.

Rempe, Karah Elizabeth, “Intimacy in Print: Literary Celebrity and Public Interiority in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3354503.

Sagerson, Erin Jean, “Art and Bread: Mike Gold, Proletarian Art, and the Rhetoric of American Communism, 1921–1941” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3352362.

Sandler, Matt, “A Poetics of Self-Help in America” (Columbia University, 2009). Order No. DA3348402.

Sharp, Jolly Kay, “‘Between the House and the Chicken Yard’: The Masks of Mary Flannery O’Connor” (Middle Tennessee State University, 2008). Order No. DA3347094.

Suzuki, Yasuko, “Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English Beowulf” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3347543.

Tanaseichuk, A. B., “Kul’turnaia samoidentifikatsiia amerikanskoi tsivilizatsii: Na primere natsional’noi i regional’noi literaturnykh traditsii SShA XIX v.” (Cultural self-identification of the American civilization: The example of the U.S. national and regional traditions in 19th century literature) (Mordovian State University, Russia, 2008). In Russian.

Walker, Madeline Ruth, “Sauling Around: The Trouble with Conversion in African American and Mexican American Autobiography, 1965–2002” (University of Victoria, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR47324.

Wandelt, Sonja Julia, “The Translation from Memory to Postmemory: The Mother-Daughter Dialogue in Post-Holocaust Literature” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3347554.

Wilson, Ronaldo V., “Black Bodies Black Field(s): 20th Century and Contemporary Poetics of the Black Body in African American Poetry and Visual Culture” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3354677.

 

Cohen, Matt, The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. x, 237 pp. Cloth, $67.50, isbn 978-0-8166-6097-1. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-8166-6098-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Elmore, A. E., Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: Echoes of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xiv, 265 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2951-9.)

Greiman, Jennifer, Democracy’s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. xii, 276 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8232-3099-0.)

Kruszewski, Piotr, Stosunki amerykansko-chinskie w swietle Gazety Wyborczej, 1995–2005 (American-Chinese relations from the perspective of Gazeta Wyborcza,1995–2005). (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2009. 190 pp. zl. 18.40, isbn 978-83-7611-390-6.) In Polish.

Morris, Roy, Jr., Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. xviii, 282 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-9866-4.)

Shear, Kenneth, Unoriginal Misunderstanding: Press Freedom in Early America and Interpretation of the First Amendment. (Seattle: Libertary, 2009. viii, 144 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-9841786-0-5.)

Sirotinskaia, M. M., “‘Molodaia Amerika’ i doktrina vmeshtel’stva v otsenke pressy SShA, nachalo 1850-kh gg.” (American periodicals, the Young America movement, and the involvement doctrine in the early 1850s), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 2; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 2 of 3 vols.), 91–151. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 260 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-276-0.) In Russian.

 

Cherpak, Evelyn M., ed., Three Splendid Little Wars: The Diary of Joseph K. Taussig. (Newport: Naval War College, 2009. xxii, 173 pp. Paper, $27.00, isbn 978-0-16-082792-1.)

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., A Yankee in Mexican California, 1834–1836. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2010. x, 82 pp. Paper, $9.95, isbn 978-1-59714-119-2.)

Edmundson, James V., Letters to Lee: From Pearl Harbor to the War’s Final Mission, ed. Celia Edmundson. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. xiv, 222 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8232-3096-9.)

Fenton, William N., William Fenton: Selected Writings, ed. William A. Starna and Jack Campisi. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xxii, 375 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1607-5.)

Fluker, Walter Earl, ed., The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, vol. 1: My People Need Me, June 1918–March 1936. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. cviii, 377 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-1-57003-804-4.)

Kelman, Ari Y., ed., Is Diss a System? A Milt Gross Comic Reader. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. x, 293 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8147-4823-7.)

Leonard, Lee, A Columnist’s View of Capitol Square: Ohio Politics and Government, 1969–2005. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2010. xvi, 310 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-931968-69-0.)

Nation, Richard F., and Stephen E. Towne, eds., Indiana’s War: The Civil War in Documents. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xx, 252 pp. Paper, $18.65, isbn 978-0-8214-1847-5.)

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