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Amenta, Edwin, et al., “All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, and Why smo Families Appeared in the New York Times in the Twentieth Century,” American Sociological Review, 74 (Aug. 2009), 636–56.
Arenson, Adam, “The Double Life of St. Louis: Narratives of Origins and Maturity in Wade’s Urban Frontier,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Sept. 2009), 246–61.
Bahde, Thomas, “‘I Never Wood Git Tired of Wrighting to You’: Home and Family in the Civil War Letters of Joseph and Currency Van Nattan,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Summer 2009), 129–54.
Bales, Stephen, and Charlie Gee, “Fear and Loathing in Knoxvegas: Representation of the “Other” in the Official Press before and during the 1982 Knoxville World’s Fair,” Studies in Popular Culture, 31 (Spring 2009), 61–80.
Björk, Ulf Jonas, “The Swedish-American Press and the Sioux,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 60 (April 2009), 72–90.
Bruno, Robert, “Evidence of Bias in the Chicago Tribune of Organized Labor Coverage: A Quantitative Study from 1991 to 2001,” Labor Studies Journal, 34 (Sept. 2009), 385–407.
Cheffins, Brian, and Steven Bank, “Is Berle and Means Really a Myth?,” Business History Review, 83 (Autumn 2009), 443–74.
Cummins, Amy, “‘An Honor to Be a Teacher’: Antebellum Literary Depictions of Schoolwomen,” Women’s Studies, 38 (Oct. 2009), 799–817.
Den Tandt, Christophe, “From ‘Web of Life’ to Necropolis: An Ecocritical Perspective on Urban Vitalism in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Poetry,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (June 2009), 98–110.
Denzer, Anthony, “The Halliburton House and Its Architect, William Alexander,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Fall 2009), 319–41.
Dubek, Laura, “’Til Death Do Us Part: White Male Rage in Richard White’s Savage Holiday,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Fall 2008), 593–614.
duCille, Ann, “Marriage, Family, and Other ‘Peculiar Institutions’ in African-American Literary History,” American Literary History, 21 (Fall 2009), 604–17.
Elliott, Clare, “‘A Backward Glance O’er’ the (Dis)United States: William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the ‘Authentic American Religion,’” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 1, 2009), 75–93.
Estok, Simon C., “Discourses of Nation, National Ecopoetics, and Ecocriticism in the Face of the U.S.: Canada and Korea as Case Studies,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (June 2009), 85–97.
Fagg, John, “From Back Number Aesthetics to New Expression: James Gibbons Huneker‘s New Cosmopolis,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 1, 2009), 21–40.
Gaul, Theresa Strouth, “Recovering Recovery: Early American Women and Legacy’s Future,” Legacy, 26 (no. 2, 2009), 262–83.
Gillis, William, “‘Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat’: Sportswriters, African American Athletes, and Coverage of Curt Flood’s Lawsuit against Major League Baseball,” American Journalism, 26 (Spring 2009), 67–97.
Ginsburg, Jane C., “The Author’s Place in the Future of Copyright,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 153 (June 2009), 147–59.
Gray, Stephanie, “Sacagawea: A Fascination with Story Gaps,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 41 (Winter 2009), 19–37.
Harris, Sharon M., “‘Across the Gulf’: Working in the ‘Post-Recovery’ Era,” Legacy, 26 (no. 2, 2009), 284–98.
Holladay, Bob, “James Hogan, Jr. and the Conflicts of Antebellum Southern Identity in Williamson County,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 (Spring 2009), 20–39. Heavily illustrated.
Kilcup, Karen L., “Embodied Pedagogies: Femininity, Diversity, and Community in Anthologies of Women’s Writing, 1836–2009,” Legacy, 26 (no. 2, 2009), 299–328.
LeComte, Richard, “Writers Blocked: The Debate over Public Lending Right in the United States during the 1980s,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 4, 2009), 395–417.
Lowe, John, “Palette of Fire: The Aesthetics of Propaganda in Black Boy and In the Castle of My Skin,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Fall 2008), 553–80.
Luis-Brown, David, “An 1848 for the Americas: The Black Atlantic, ‘El Negro Mártir,’ and Cuban Exile Anticolonialism in New York City,” American Literary History, 21 (Fall 2009), 431–63.
Masui, Shituyo, “Reading The House of the Seven Gables in the Context of the Nineteenth-Century Urban Burial Reform Movement,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 43–62.
McAlear, Rob, “Hate, Narrative, and Propaganda in The Turner Diaries,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (Sept. 2009), 192–202.
Milder, Robert, “Hawthorne and the Problem of New England,” American Literary History, 21 (Fall 2009), 464–91.
Morley, Catherine, “Crossing the Water: Willa Cather and the Transatlantic Imaginary,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 2, 2009), 125–40.
Norman, Will, “Lolita’s ‘Time Leaks’ and Transatlantic Decadence,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 2, 2009), 185–204.
Okuda, Akiyo Ito, “‘A Nation Is Born’: Thomas Dixon’s Vision of White Nationhood and His Northern Supporters,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (Sept. 2009), 214–31.
Orlando, Emily J., “‘That I May Not Faint, or Die, or Swoon’: Reviving Pre-Raphaelite Women,” Women’s Studies, 38 (Sept. 2009), 611–46.
Parthé, Kathleen, “The Politics of Détente-Era Cultural Texts: 1969–1976,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Sept. 2009), 723–33.
Percy, Ruth, “Death at the Machine: Critiques of Industrial Capitalism in the Fiction of Labor Activist Lizzie M. Holmes,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Fall 2009), 65–88.
Peterson, Jason, “A ‘Race’ for Equality: Print Media Coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos,” American Journalism, 26 (Spring 2009), 99–121.
Rambsy, Howard, II, “The Vengeance of Black Boys: How Richard Wright, Paul Beatty, and Aaron McGruder Strike Back,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Fall 2008), 643–58.
Ray, Karen, “Sugar Candy, Sage Dressing, and Seed Wheat: The Immediacy of Food in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Houses on the Praires, a Cautionary Tale for Modern America,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 41 (Winter 2009), 5–17.
Roessner, Lori Amber, “Hero Crafting in Sporting Life, an Early Baseball Journal,” American Journalism, 26 (Spring 2009), 39–65.
Sayre, Gordon M., “Natchez Ethnohistory Revisited: New Manuscript Sources from Le Page du Pratz and Dumont de Montigni,” Louisiana History, 50 (Fall 2009), 407–36.
Sideris, Lisa H., “Fact and Fiction, Fear and Wonder: The Legacy of Rachel Carson,” Soundings, 91 (Fall–Winter 2009), 335–69.
Tonkovich, Nicole, “Of Compass Bearings and Reorientations in the Study of American Women Writers,” Legacy, 26 (no. 2, 2009), 242–61.
Tuhkanen, Mikko, “Queer Guerrillas: On Richard Wright’s and Frantz Fanon’s Dissembling Revolutionaries,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Fall 2008), 615–42.
Wilford, Marcus, “The Big Story: Our Embattled Media,” World Affairs, 172 (Fall 2009), 22–35.
Worden, Daniel, “Birth in the Briar Patch: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Problem of Racial Identity,” Southern Literary Journal, 41 (Spring 2009), 1–20.
Zink, James R., “The Language of Liberty and Law: James Wilson on America’s Written Constitution,” American Political Science Review, 103 (Aug. 2009), 442–55.
Airey, Isabelle, “The Nexus between Language and Identity in the Caribbean/Caribbean American Context” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338195.
Alexander, Christopher W., “The Logic of Earth: Nineteenth-Century Precursors to the Poetics of Robert Duncan” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2009). Order No. DA3342138.
Alter, Stewart, “Advertising and Corporate Mergers: An Examination of Editorial Coverage of the 1895–1904 Industrial ‘Trust’ Consolidation Movement in Contemporary Advertising-Trade Publications” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3346257.
Asher, Jacqueline Colleen, “Kept Boys: Scenes of Masculine Dependency in American Literature and Culture” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3345232.
Bhalla, Tamara Ayesha, “Between History and Identity: Reading the Authentic in South Asian Diasporic Literature and Community” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343010.
Butler, Rita C., “The Reality of Fiction: Diagnosing White Culture through the Lens of Mother/Nature in Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Seraph on the Suwanee’” (Florida Atlantic University, 2008). Order No. DA3338440.
Byock, Ashley M., “Embalming in Memory: Mourning, Narrativity, and Historiography in the Nineteenth-Century United States” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336546.
Champagne, Rae Cupples, “Not Your Father’s Southern Grotesque: Female Identity in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers” (University of Texas, Dallas, 2008). Order No. DA3340467.
Childers, Shari Michelle, “Renegade and Relevant: American Women’s Visions and Voices in Ecocritical Theory and Pedagogical Practice” (University of Texas, Dallas, 2008). Order No. DA3340470.
Coffman, Elesha J., “Constituting the Protestant Mainline: ‘The Christian Century,’ 1908–1947” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3331208.
Conley, John Evins, “Capital Cynicism: Literature and Production in the Post-Fordist Era” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3343547.
Cummins, Mary Caroline, “(In)Visible America: U.S.-Philippine History and the Filipino American Novel” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3345238.
Dietrich, Rayshelle, “Everyday Epistles: The Journal-Letter Writing of American Women, 1754–1836” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3337141.
Dunsmore, Katherine A., “Mediating Alliance: The Role of the Press in Sustaining Reciprocity in the U.S.-Canada Relationship” (University of Washington, 2008).
Finan, Ernest Thomas, IV, “The Register of Reality in Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3345649.
Forrest, Seth Johnson, “‘Thus Far the Transmission Is Oral’: Aurality, and the Poetry of the Black Mountain School” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3336248.
Funchion, John Richard, “Divisible Pasts: Nostalgia and Narrative in American Literature and Culture, 1848–1900” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3335653.
Goodhead, Dokubo M., “Toward a Critical Realist Reading of African and African Diaspora Literatures” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3345693.
Grate, Lanette Lawrence, “Jane Addams and the Foundationalist Fallacy: Coming to Voice at Rockford Female Seminary” (Western Michigan University, 2008). Order No. DA3340185.
Guèye, Khadidiatou, “Mapping the Liminal Identities of Mulattas in African, African American, and Caribbean Literatures” (Pennsylvania State University, 2006). Order No. DA3343682.
Healey, Elspeth Egerton, “Writing Communities: Aesthetics, Politics, and Late Modernist Literary Consolidation” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343086.
Ho, Melanie, “Useful Fiction: Why Universities Need Middlebrow Literature” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3335940.
Holt, Kerin E., “Out of the Many, One: Reading the Federal Repubilc, 1776–1865” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3335662.
Hommel, Christian, “Rewriting of the Past and Paradigm of the Feminine in ‘The Quadroons of New Orleans’ by Sidonie de La Houssaye” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3336040.
Hubbard, Elizabeth Ann, “‘Cheating the Cheaters’: The Confidence Artist in Postwar American Literature” (Fordham University, 2008). Order No. DA3337630.
Humphres, Sara Megan, “The Expendable Citizen: Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Sentiment in American Culture” (University of Waterloo, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR43281.
Hunter, Evelyn Scharf, “Embodying History: History, Memory, and Family Geneologies in Contemporary Southern Women’s Writing” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3338118.
Jefferson, Lynne T., “The Emergence of a Pioneer: The Manipulation of Hagar in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Novels” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3331474.
Kaufman, Scott Eric, “Maximal Diversity: Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory in American Fiction, 1895–1910” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3338383.
Kilgust, Barbara J., “The Borders of Community: Looking at the Roles of Talk in U.S. Regional Literature” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2008). Order No. DA3342787.
Kim, Hyo Kwang, “In Search of a Past Future: Re-politicizing Asian American Identity and Culture” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3337601.
Klein, Sabine Annegret, “‘The Dutch Threatened Them Hard’: Dutch and English Colonial Writings, 1620–1664” (Purdue University, 2008). Order No. DA3344016.
Koenigsberg, Monica, “Mediated Images of Crime and Justice: A Grounded Theory Methodology Examination of One Strand of Discourse” (Sam Houston State University, 2008). Order No. DA3341253.
Liang, Ying, “A Comparative Study of Eighteenth to Twentieth Century Chinese and American Country-of-Women Utopian Fictions” (Purdue University, 2008). Order No. DA3344071.
Lim, January Yee Hiong, “Fashioning Identities: The Semiotics of Dress in Asian American Literature” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR45556.
Mahady, Christine, “Corporeality in Turn-of-the-Century American Fiction” (University of Pittsburgh, 2008). Order No. DA3335786.
McMann, Cindy, “Women’s Spiritual Writings in the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance Movements” (University of Calgary, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR44359.
Medvesky, Angelique Hobbs, “Faulty Vision and Hearing in the Novels of Anne Tyler” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3331479.
Mendez de Coudriet, Mariela E., “Un-domesticated Mothers: Private and Public Female Subjectivities in theJournalism of Alfonsina Storni and Charlotte Perkins Gilman” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3336991.
Miller, Karen Li, “Location Reproduction: Representations of the Chinese in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (University of Connecticut, 2008). Order No. DA3345206.
Miller, Laurie S., “Willa Cather’s Journalism and Fiction: Romancing the Facts” (Indiana State University, 2008). Order No. DA3331480.
Payne, Shannon, “Locating the Homeless: Citizenship, Advocacy, and the Limits of Narratives” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3336962.
Peterson, Rachel M., “Adapting Left Culture to the Cold War: Theodore Ward, Ann Petry, and ‘Correspondence’” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343184.
Plunkett, Irene L., “A Sturdy Rose: Spiritual Feminism—A Literary Legacy of Women of the United States, 16th through 20th Centuries” (California Institute of Integral Studies, 2008). Order No. DA3343920.
Popowski, Mark, “Roman Catholic Crusading in Ten Years of ‘Triumph,’ 1966–1976: A History of a Lay-Directed, Radical Catholic Journal” (Oklahoma State University, 2008). Order No. DA3341758.
Post, Erin, “Carceral Theaters: Genet, Beckett, and Weiss between Dramatic and Postdramatic Theater” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3340974.
Proudfit, Scott, “Authority, Quotation, and Collective Composition in 20th and 21st Century U.S. Theatre and Drama” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3331149.
Purcell, Richard Errol, “Ralph Ellison and the American Pursuit of Humanism” (University of Pittsburgh, 2008). Order No. DA3335813.
Rizzo, Therese M., “The Sentimental Trickster in Nineteenth-Century American (Con)texts” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3337436.
Robison, Mark Alan, “Making a Careeer of Play: Willa Cather and the Recreation Movement” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3331443.
Ryder, Ulli Kira, “‘As Shelters against the Cold’: Women Poets of the Black Arts and Chicano Movements, 1965–1978” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3341787.
Sandosharaj, Alice, “Ghetto Proclivities: Race and Class in a Model Minority Memoir” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3339454.
Schlueter, John Paul, “Writing, Speaking, and the (After)life of American Democracy” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3340167.
Schreiber, Rachel Lynn, “Constructive Images: Gender in the Political Cartoons of the ‘Masses’ (1911–1917)” (Johns Hopkins University, 2009). Order No. DA3339885.
Sherer, Jennifer Kristene, “Mining America: Antiquarian Authorship and U.S. Empire, 1800–1855” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3340260.
Smihula, John Henry, “‘Where a Thousand Corpses Lie’: Critical Realism and the Representation of War in American Film and Literature since 1960” (University of Nevada, Reno, 2008). Order No. DA3339147.
Solomon, Jeffrey Michael, “Fabulous Potency: Getrude Stein, Truman Capote, Authorial Personae, and Homosexual Identity from the Wilde Trials to Stonewall” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3341798.
Suzuki, Shigeru, “Posthuman Visions in Postwar U.S. and Japanese Speculative Fiction: Re(con)figuring Western (Post)humanism” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3338603.
Taylor, Corey Michael, “Ambiguous Sounds: African American Music in Modernist American Literature” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3337393.
Taylor, Matthew A., “Universes without Selves: Cosmologies of the Non-human in American Literature” (Johns Hopkins University, 2009). Order No. DA3340008.
Thapa, Anirudra, “The Indic Orient, Nation, and Transnationalism: Exploring the Imperial Outposts of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literary Culture, 1840–1900” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3336435.
Toth, Margaret A., “Peripheral Visions: Picturing Human Bodies in American Literature and Visual Culture, 1900–1919” (Tufts University, 2008). Order No. DA3341725.
Trujillo, Patricia Marina, “Gentefication: A Spatial Rhetorical Analysis of Differential Landscapes in Northern New Mexican Literature and Social Space” (University of Texas, San Antonio, 2008). Order No. DA3337157.
Tucker, Kaylen Danielle, “Racial Choice at Century’s End in Contemporary African American Literature” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3339495.
Tuon, Bunkong, “Specters of War: Reclamation, Recovery, and Return in Southeast Asian-American Literature and History” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3336946.
Vollaro, Daniel R., “Origins and Orthodoxy: Anthologies of American Literature and American History” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3342534.
Wells, Stephen H., “William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism” (Duquesne University, 2008). Order No. DA3338624.
Westerman, Jennifer H., “Landscapes of Labor: Nature, Work, and Environmental Justice in Depression-Era Fiction” (University of Nevada, Reno, 2009). Order No. DA3342624.
Wheeler, Samuel Paul, “Every Spot a Grave: The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2008). Order No. DA3342329.
Yaudes, Cynthia Gwynne, “Working an Image: Radical Labor Newspapers and the American Tabloid Press, 1919–1922” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331245.
Stringer, Dorothy, “Not Even Past”: Race, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. x, 177 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8232-3147-8.)
Tatsumi, Takayuki, ed., Hanchisei no teikoku (Anti-intellectualism in American literary history). (Tokyo: Nan’un-dô, 2008. 312 pp. ¥3,333, isbn 978-4-523-29306-4.) In Japanese.
Warren, Craig A., Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. x, 223 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-60635-015-7.)
Winfield, Betty Houchin, ed., Journalism, 1908: Birth of a Profession. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 356 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1811-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1813-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Browning, Judkin, ed., The Southern Mind under Union Rule: The Diary of James Rumley, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1862–1865. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xvi, 199 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3407-2.)
Cuthbert, Robert B., and Stephen G. Hoffius, eds., Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xxviii, 274 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57003-822-8.)
Kaminski, John P., ed., The Quotable Abigail Adams. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2009. xxxviii, 403 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-674-03532-4.)
Rhoades, Nancy L., and Lucy E. Bailey, eds., Wanted—Correspondence: Women’s Letters to a Union Soldier. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xxii, 410 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1804-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1805-5.)
Royce, Josiah, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, ed. Scott L. Pratt and Shannon Sullivan. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. x, 281 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8232-3132-4. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-8232-3133-1.) Originally published in 1908.
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