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Theory and Methodology

Bell, Mary McCampbell, “Finding Original Materials by Using the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 94 (June 2006), 133–42.

Bogue, Allan G., “Tilling Agricultural History with Paul Wallace Gates and James C. Malin,” Agricultural History, 80 (Fall 2006), 436–60.

Butler, Jon, “Theory and God in Gotham,” History and Theory, 45 (Dec. 2006), 47–61.

Carson, James Taylor, “American Historians and Indians,” Historical Journal (Cambridge), 49 (Sept. 2006), 921–33.

Diner, Hasia, “American Immigration and Ethnic History: Moving the Field Forward, Staying the Course,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Summer 2006), 130–41.

Foner, Nancy, “The Challenge and the Promise of Past-Present Comparisons,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Summer 2006), 142–52.

Hoerder, Dirk, “Historians and Their Data: The Complex Shift from Nation-State Approaches to the Study of People’s Transcultural Lives,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Summer 2006), 85–96.

Jimerson, Randall C., “Embracing the Power of Archives,” American Archivist, 69 (Spring–Summer 2006), 19–32.

Lake, Tim, “The Arm(ing) of the Vanguard, Signify(ing), and Performing the Revolution: The Black Panther Party and Pedagogical Strategies for Interpreting a Revolutionary Life,” in In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement, ed. Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, 306–23. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xii, 390 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3837-6. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3890-1.)

Melzer, Arthur M., “Esotericism and the Critique of Historicism,” American Political Science Review, 100 (May 2006), 279–95.

Rommel-Ruiz, Bryan, “Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining History: African-American History in Hypertext,” Rethinking History (London), 10 (Sept. 2006), 451–70.

Yans, Virginia, “On ‘Groupness,’” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Summer 2006), 119–29.

 

Galloway, Patricia, Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 454 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-7115-9.)

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