Recent Scholarship
Intellectual
Bélanger, Damien-Claude, “L’antiaméricanisme et l’antimodernisme dans le discours de la droite intellectuelle du Canada, 1891–1945” (Anti-Americanism and anti-modernism in the Canadian intellectual right, 1891–1945), Revue d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française (Montreal), 61 (no. 3–4, 2008), 501–30. In French.
Benjafield, John G., “George Kelly: Cognitive Psychologist, Humanistic Psychologist, or Something Else Entirely?,” History of Psychology, 11 (Nov. 2008), 239–62.
Brickhouse, Anna, “Scholarship and the State: Robert Greenhow and Transnational American Studies 1848/2008,” American Literary History, 20 (Winter 2008), 695–722.
Castiglia, Chris, “‘A Democratic and Fraternal Humanism’: The Cant of Pessimism and Newton Arvin’s Queer Socialism,” American Literary History, 21 (Spring 2009), 159–82.
Donaldson, Anthony, “The Father of Alabama Historians: Professor George Petrie and His Survey of Slavery,” Alabama Review, 62 (Jan. 2009), 37–58.
Gohar, Saddik Mohamed, “Subverting the History of Slavery and Colonization in the Poetry of M. Al-Fayturi and Langston Hughes,” Western Journal of Black Studies, 32 (Spring 2008), 16–29.
Mata, Tiago, “Migrations and Boundary Work: Harvard, Radical Economists, and the Committee on Political Discrimination,” Science in Context (Cambridge), 22 (March 2009), 115–43.
Mitrano, G. F., “Sontag and the Europeans,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 908–20.
Penner, James, “Gendering Susan Sontag’s Criticism in the 1960s: The New York Intellectuals, the Counter Culture, and the Kulturkampf over ‘The New Sensibility,’” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 921–41.
Rhoads, Bonita, “Sontag’s Captions: Writing the Body from Riefenstahl to S&M,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 942–70.
Socolow, Michael J., “The Behaviorist in the Boardroom: The Research of Frank Stanton, Ph.D.,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52 (Dec. 2008), 526–43.
Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer, “‘This Rude Stage’: Enacting Utopia and the Utopic Sensibility in Sontag’s In America,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 1008–29.
Wilson, William Julius, “The Moynihan Report and Research on the Black Community,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 34–46.
Cortés, Ángel de Jesús, “Student Idealists and the Specter of Natural Science, 1870–1910” (University of Notre Dame, 2008). Order No. DA3309164.
Jenkins, Brad, “Writers & Typists: Intersections of Modernism and Sexology” (University of Victoria, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR37439.
Nichols, Christopher McKnight, “From Empire to Isolation: Internationalism and Isolationism in American Thought” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312186.
Sherwood, Robert M., III, “The Cartography of Alexander von Humboldt: Images of the Enlightenment in America” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307235.
Churchyard, Charles, National Lies: The Truth About American Values. (Cambridge, Mass.: Axroide, 2009. vi, 442 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-98-5716-4-5.)
Frohnen, Bruce P., and Kenneth L. Grasso, eds., Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1820-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1831-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Goetzmann, William H., Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism. (New York: Basic, 2009. xvi, 456 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-465-00495-9.)
Kurzman, Charles, Democracy Denied, 1905–1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. 396 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-03092-3.)
Matsuura, Jeffrey H., Jefferson vs. the Patent Trolls: A Populist Vision of Intellectual Property Rights. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xii, 154 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2771-8.)
Murphey, Murray G., Truth and History. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. x, 213 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7623-9.)
Pollard, Finn, The Literary Quest for an American National Character. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 257 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-96373-2.)
Purdy, Jedediah, A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom. (New York: Knopf, 2009. 294 pp. $23.95, isbn 978-1-4000-4447-4.)
Rogers, Melvin L., The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxiv, 328 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-231-14486-5.)
Signer, Michael, Demagogue: The Fight To Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 272 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-230-60624-1.)
Wood, W. Kirk, Nullification, A Constitutional History, 1776–1833, vol. 1: James Madison, Not the Father of the Constitution; Other Framers, Different Intentions, and the Origins of Nullification, 1776–1787. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. xxii, 258 pp. Paper, $38.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4011-4.)
Vernier, Richard B., The Revolutionary Writings of Alexander Hamilton. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2008. xxiv, 206 pp. Cloth, $20.00, isbn 978-0-86597-705-1. Paper, $12.00, isbn 978-0-86597-706-8.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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