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Adkins, Jason A., “Lincoln’s Constitution Revisited,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 36 (no. 2, 2009), 211–50.

Adler, William D., and Andrew J. Polsky, “Building the New American Nation: Economic Development, Public Goods, and the Early U.S. Army,” Political Science Quarterly, 125 (Spring 2010), 87–110.

Alentieva, T. V., “Linkol’n kak voennyi prezident” (Abraham Lincoln as a war president), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 122–38. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.

Anderson, José Felipé, “Freedom of Association, the Communist Party, and the Hollywood Ten: The Forgotten First Amendment Legacy of Charles Hamilton Houston,” McGeorge Law Review, 40 (no. 1, 2009), 25–54.

Apap, Christopher, “The Genius of Latitude: Daniel Webster and the Geographical Imagination in Early America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Summer 2010), 201–23.

Aynes, Richard L., “Enforcing the Bill of Rights against the States: The History and the Future,” Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 18 (2009), 77–152.

Aynes, Richard L., “The 39th Congress (1865–1867) and the 14th Amendment: Some Preliminary Perspectives,” Akron Law Review, 42 (no. 4, 2009), 1019–49.

Bilder, Mary Sarah, “James Madison, Law Student and Demi-lawyer,” Law & History Review, 28 (May 2010), 389–449.

Borchard, Gregory A., “Revolutions Incomplete: Horace Greeley and the Forty-eighters at Home and Abroad,” American Journalism, 27 (Winter 2010), 7–36.

Bowman, Shearer Davis, “Comparing Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 495–512.

Buckingham, Peter H., “The Texas Socialist Party,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 74–91. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)

Canipe, Lee, “Can a Baptist Be President? Jimmy Carter and the Possibility That John Smyth Might Have Been Right after All,” Journal of Church and State, 50 (Spring 2008), 277–97.

Cantrell, Gregg, “‘A Host of Sturdy Patriots’: The Texas Populists,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 53–73. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)

Corbett, Steve, and Michael J. Davidson, “The Role of the Military in Presidential Politics,” Parameters, 39 (Winter 2009–2010), 58–72.

Cox, Patrick, “A Modern Liberal Tradition in Texas?” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 209–24. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)

Cullen, David O’Donald, and Kyle G. Wilkison, “‘The Right to Work, to Starve, to Die’: The Forgotten Radical Heritage of Texas,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 1–12. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)

Curtis, Michael Kent, “The Klan, the Congress, and the Court: Congressional Enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the State Action Syllogism; A Brief Historical Overview,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 11 (July 2009), 1381–1430.

Dalrymple, Dana G., “The Smithsonian Bequest, Congress, and Nineteenth-Century Efforts to Increase and Diffuse Agricultural Knowledge in the United States,” Agricultural History Review (Oxford), 57 (Part II 2009), 207–35.

Davis, Susan G., “Ben Botkin’s fbi File,” Journal of American Folklore, 122 (Winter 2010), 3–30.

Dougherty, Keith L., “An Empirical Test of Federalist and Anti-Federalist Theories of State Contributions, 1775–1783,” Social Science History, 33 (Spring 2009), 47–74.

Ernst, Daniel R., “The Politics of Administrative Law: New York’s Anti-bureaucracy Clause and the O’Brian-Wagner Campaign of 1938,” Law & History Review, 27 (Summer 2009), 331–71.

Ernst, Howard R., “A Call to Arms: Thomas Wilson Dorr’s Forceful Effort to Implement the People’s Constitution,” Rhode Island History, 66 (Fall 2008), 59–80. Heaviliy illustrated.

Eyal-Cohen, Mirit, “When American Small Business Hit the Jackpot: Taxes, Politics, and the History of Organizational Choice in the 1950s,” Pittsburgh Tax Review, 6 (Fall 2008), 1–59.

Fried, Richard M., “‘Operation Polecat’: Thomas E. Dewey, the 1948 Election, and the Origins of McCarthyism,” Journal of Policy History, 22 (no. 1, 2010), 1–22.

Friedman, Jason, “Gerald Ford, the Mayaguez Incident, and the Post-imperial Presidency,” Congress & the Presidency, 37 (Jan.–April 2010), 22–44.

Fry, Joseph A., “To Negotiate or Bomb: Congressional Prescriptions for Withdrawing U.S. Troops from Vietnam,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 517–28.

Gamm, Gerald, and Thad Kousser, “Broad Bills or Particularistic Policy? Historical Patterns in American State Legislatures,” American Political Science Review, 104 (Feb. 2010), 151–70.

Garfinkle, Norton, “Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War: The Fight for a Middle-Class Society,” Lincoln Herald, 111 (Winter 2009), 274–85.

Garrett, Elizabeth, “New Voices in Politics: Justice Marshall’s Jurisprudence on Law and Politics,” Howard Law Journal, 52 (Spring 2009), 655–90.

Goluboff, Risa L., “The Thirteenth Amendment in Historical Perspective,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 11 (July 2009), 1451–73.

Grant, Otis B., “President Ronald Reagan and the African-American Community: Harmful Stereotyping and Games of Choice in Market-Oriented Policy Reform,” Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 57–96.

Green, Michael, “Abraham Lincoln, Nevada, and the Law of Unintended Consequences,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 52 (Summer 2009), 85–108.

Gugin, Linda C., “Sherman Minton: Restraint against a Tide of Activism,” Vanderbilt Law Review, 62 (March 2009), 757–94.

Hoff, Derek S., “‘Kick That Population Commission in the Ass’: The Nixon Administration, the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, and the Defusing of the Population Bomb,” Journal of Policy History, 22 (no. 1, 2010), 23–63.

Howell, Thomas, “Finding the Line: The Origin of Grant Parish and the Recent Dispute over Its Boundary,” Louisiana History, 51 (Spring 2010), 215–30.

Huhn, Wilson R., “The Legacy of Slaughterhouse, Bradwell, and Cruikshank in Constitutional Interpretation,” Akron Law Review, 42 (no. 4, 2009), 1051–80.

Hurn, Marcus, “State Constitutional Limits on New Hampshire’s Taxing Power: Historical Development and Modern State,” Pierce Law Review, 7 (June 2009), 251–325.

Hylton, J. Gordon, “The Perils of Popularity: David Josiah Brewer and the Politics of Judicial Reputation,” Vanderbilt Law Review, 62 (March 2009), 567–90.

Irwin, Douglas A., “Antebellum Tariff Politics: Regional Coalitions and Shifting Economic Interests,” Journal of Law & Economics, 51 (Nov. 2008), 715–42.

Jenkins, Jeffery A., Justin Peck, and Vesla M. Weaver, “Between Reconstructions: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1891–1940,” Studies in American Political Development, 24 (April 2010), 57–89.

Johnson, David G., “Flapping Coattails and Feuding Republicans: Theodore Roosevelt and the South Dakota Election of 1908,” South Dakota History, 40 (Spring 2010), 1–28. Heavily illustrated.

Jones, Robert B., and Mark E. Byrnes, “The ‘Bitterest Fight’: The Tennessee General Assembly and the Nineteenth Amendment,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 (Fall 2009), 270–95. Heavily illustrated.

Kim, Jin Hee, “New Deal jayoojueui wa Miguk nodong” (New Deal liberalism and labor in the United States), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 30 (Nov. 2009), 93–115. In Korean.

Kim, Nam Gyun, “Shinwha wa hyunshil: Lincoln geowa 1860 nyun daetongnyueng seongeo” (Myth and reality: Abraham Lincoln and the 1860 presidential election), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 30 (Nov. 2009), 1–34. In Korean.

Kimball, Jeffrey P., “Out of Primoridal Cultural Ooze: Inventing Political and Policy Legacies about the U.S. Exit from Vietnam,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 577–87.

Konig, David Thomas, “Why the Second Amendment Has a Preamble: Original Public Meaning and the Political Culture of Written Constitutions in Revolutionary America,” ucla Law Review, 56 (June 2009), 1295–1342.

Kuzma, Scott, “Rural Revolution: A Retrospective on the Kinney Secession,” Minnesota History, 62 (Spring 2010), 18–28. Heavily illustrated.

Labunski, Richard, “The Second Convention Movement, 1787–1789,” Constitutional Commentary, 24 (Fall 2007), 567–600.

LaCroix, Alison L., “The Authority for Federalism: Madison’s Negative and the Origins of Federal Ideology,” Law & History Review, 28 (May 2010), 451–505.

Lane, Julie B., “From Cab Rides to the Cold War: Richard Rovere, the New Yorker, and Postwar Washington,” Journalism History, 36 (Spring 2010), 2–12.

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, “Too Late or Too Soon? Debating the Withdrawal from Vietnam in the Age of Iraq,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 589–600.

de Leon, Cedric, “Vicarious Revolutionaries: Martial Discourse and the Origins of Mass Party Competition in the United States, 1789–1848,” Studies in American Political Development, 24 (April 2010), 121–41.

Lewis, Norman P., “The Myth of Spiro Agnew’s ‘Nattering Nabobs of Negativism,’” American Journalism, 27 (Winter 2010), 89–115.

Linde, Hans A., “What Is a Constitution, What Is Not, and Why Does It Matter?,” Oregon Law Review, 87 (no. 3, 2008), 717–30.

McMahon, Robert J., “The Politics, and Geopolitics, of American Troop Withdrawals from Vietnam, 1968–1972,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 471–83.

McMahon, Stephanie Hunter, “To Save State Residents: States’ Use of Community Property for Federal Tax Reduction, 1939–1947,” Law & History Review, 27 (Fall 2009), 585–625.

Mehrotra, Ajay K., “Lawyers, Guns, and Public Moneys: The U.S. Treasury, World War I, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State,” Law & History Review, 28 (Feb. 2010), 173–225.

Moneyhon, Carl H., “‘Texas Out-Radicals My Radicalism’: Roots of Radical Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 13–35. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)

Mooney, Ralph James, “Remembering 1857,” Oregon Law Review, 87 (no. 3, 2008), 731–81.

Murphy, William B., “The National Progressive Republican League and the Elusive Quest for Progressive Unity,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (Oct. 2009), 515–44.

Newman, Stephen A., “From John F. Kennedy’s 1960 Campaign Speech to Christian Supremacy: Religion in Modern Presidential Politics,” New York Law School Law Review, 53 (no. 4, 2008–2009), 691–733.

O’Donnell, Catherine, “Literature and Politics in the Early Republic: Views from the Bridge,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Summer 2010), 279–92.

Pach, Chester, “‘Our Worst Enemy Seems to Be the Press’: tv News, the Nixon Administration, and U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1969–1973,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 555–65.

Pepper, Andrew, “‘Hegemony Protected by the Armour of Coercion’: Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest and the State,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (May 2010), 333–49.

Perry, Clifton, “Taxpayer Standing and the Establishment Clause, James Madison’s Little Known Legacy,” Journal of Church and State, 50 (Summer 2008), 431–50.

Phipps, Kelly Elizabeth, “Marriage and Redemption: Mormon Polygamy in the Congressional Imagination, 1862–1887,” Virginia Law Review, 95 (April 2009), 435–87.

Reilly, Elizabeth, “The Union as It Wasn’t and the Constitution as It Isn’t: Section Five and Altering the Balance of Powers,” Akron Law Review, 42 (no. 4, 2009), 1081–1109.

Rich, William J., “Why ‘Privileges or Immunities’? An Explanation of the Framers’ Intent,” Akron Law Review, 42 (no. 4, 2009), 1111–27.

Rushing, Lawrence, “The Racial Identity of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: A Case Study in Racial Ambivalence and Redefinition,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 34 (Jan. 2010), 7–33.

Safonov, B. N., “Gosudarstvennoe regulirovanie trudovykh ontoshenii vo vtoroi polovine XX stoletiia v SShA” (U.S. regulation of labor relations in the second half of the 20th century), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov, iss. 2, Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays, issue 2, in memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 191–206. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.

Sanchez, George J., “Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism,” Southern California Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2010), 51–73.

Scarberry, Mark S., “Historical Considerations and Congressional Representation for the District of Columbia: Constitutionality of the D.C. House Voting Rights Bill in Light of Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment and the History of the Creation of the District,” Alabama Law Review, 60 (no. 4, 2009), 783–893.

Selverstone, Marc J., “It’s a Date: Kennedy and the Timetable for a Vietnam Troop Withdrawal,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 485–95.

Shepard, John W., Jr., “The European Background of American Freedom,” Journal of Church and State, 50 (Autumn 2008), 647–59.

Shim, In-bo, “Hyeoksinjueui sidae yeongangjueui wa tongil jubeop wundong” (Federalism and the uniform state law movement during the Progressive Era), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 29 (May 2009), 1–30. In Korean.

Silverman, Jason H., “The Greatest Duel That Never Was: Abraham Lincoln, James Shields, and Political Lessons Learned,” Lincoln Herald, 111 (Fall 2009), 179–204.

Simeone, James, “The 1830 Contest for Governor and the Politics of Resentment,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 282–306.

Small, Melvin, “Bring the Boys Home Now! Antiwar Activism and Withdrawal from Vietnam—and Iraq,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 543–53.

Smith, Glenn D., Jr., “‘The Guiding Spirit’: Philip Loeb, the Battle for Television Jurisdiction, and the Broadcasting Industry Blacklist,” American Journalism, 26 (Summer 2009), 93–150.

Smith, Jeffery A., “Lincoln’s Other War: Public Opinion, Press Issues, and Personal Pleas,” American Journalism, 26 (Fall 2009), 87–117.

Snyder, Sarah B., “‘Jerry, Don’t Go’: Domestic Opposition to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (Feb. 2010), 67–81.

Spear, Michael, “The Struggle to Build a Progressive Urban Politics: Frank Barbaro’s 1981 New York City Mayoral Campaign,” New York History, 91 (Winter 2010), 45–69.

Stefanuca, Jon Simon, “The Fall of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971: A Public Choice Explanation,” University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy, 19 (Aug. 2008), 237–70.

Stegmaier, Mark J., “Abraham Lincoln and the Danville Farmer: The President-Elect Discusses Policy with a Kentuckian,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 409–32.

Stras, David R., “Pierce Butler: A Supreme Technician,” Vanderbilt Law Review, 62 (March 2009), 695–756.

Sulmasy, Glenn, “Executive Power: The Last Thirty Years,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 30 (Summer 2009), 1355–66.

Swirski, Peter, “Literature as History: The Lives and Deaths of Richard Milhous Slurrie and Walter Bodmor Nixon,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Dec. 2009), 459–76.

Taylor, John, and Josh Silver, “The Community Reinvestment Act at 30: Looking Back and Looking to the Future,” New York Law School Law Review, 53 (no. 2, 2008–2009), 203–25.

Tonks, Paul, “Empire and Authority in Colonial New York: The Political Thought of Archibald Kennedy and Cadwallader Colden,” New York History, 91 (Winter 2010), 25–44.

Towne, Stephen E., “Worse than Vallandigham: Governor Oliver P. Morton, Lambdin P. Milligan, and the Military Arrest and Trial of Indiana State Senator Alexander J. Douglas,” Indiana Magazine of History, 106 (March 2010), 1–39.

Trask, Amy K., “A History of Revision: The Constitutional Convention Question in Hawai‘i, 1950–2008,” University of Hawai‘i Law Review, 31 (Winter 2008), 291–330.

Van Horn, Patrick, “The Small, Private Banker in New York and Regulatory Change, 1893–1933,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 28 (2010), 107–21.

Veasey, E. Norman, “What Would Madison Think? The Irony of the Twists and Turns of Federalism,” Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, 34 (no. 1, 2009), 35–56.

Watson, Alan D., “Benjamin Smith: Brunswick County ‘General’ and North Carolina Governor, 1810–1811,” North Carolina Historical Review, 87 (Jan. 2010), 25–56.

White, Ed, “The Ends of Republicanism,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Summer 2010), 179–99.

Wright, G. Richard, and Kenneth H. Wheeler, “New Men in the Old South: Joseph E. Brown and His Associates in Georgia’s Etowah Valley,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Winter 2009), 363–87.

Zackin, Emily, “‘To Change the Fundamental Law of the State’: Protective Labor Provisions in U.S. Constitutions,” Studies in American Political Development, 24 (April 2010), 1–23.

Zelizer, Julian E., “Congress and the Politics of Troop Withdrawal,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 529–41.

 

Babicz, Martin C., “For Empire, Colony, and Self-Interest: Thomas Fitch and Connecticut Colonial Politics” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009). Order No. DA3366573.

Bowden, Robin L., “Diagnosing Nazism: U.S. Perceptions of National Socialism, 1920–1933” (Kent State University, 2009). Order No. DA3367785.

Friedman, Jason Maxwell, “Heirs to the Nightmare: Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and the Post-imperial Presidency” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3363887.

Gouvêa, Heitor B., “An Iridescent Dream: Money, Politics, and the American Republic, 1865–1976” (Boston College, 2009). Order No. DA3359048.

Gronbeck-Tedesco, John A., “Reading Revolution: Politics in the U.S.-Cuban Cultural Imagination, 1930–1970” (University of Texas, Austin, 2009). Order No. DA3360304.

Hawkins, Arnette M., “On the Brink of Humor: An Examination of the History of Political Cartoons, Journalism, and the Contributions of Robert Moore Brinkerhoff” (University of Toledo, 2009). Order No. DA3364308.

Irom, Bimbisar, “Old Left, New Left, and Post-Marxist History: Political Transition and Forms of the American Novel, 1960–1990” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA3367810.

Jortner, Adam, “Reign of Witches: A Political History of American Miracles, 1780–1840” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3362839.

Lapsley, Joseph, “Rethinking Sex and Gender: The Intellectual Upheavals of the Sexual Revolution” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3364617.

Lefebvre, Andrew Robert, “Forgotten by History: The Panama Canal in World War Two” (University of Calgary, Canada, 2009). Order No. DANR49613.

Licón, Gustavo, “‘!La Unión Hace la Fuerza!’ (Unity Creates Strength!): M.E.Ch.A. and Chicana/o Student Activism in California, 1967–1999” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3368594.

Lu, Yeh-chung, “From Confrontation to Accommodation: China’s Policy toward the U.S. in the Post–Cold War Era” (George Washington University, 2009). Order No. DA3360318.

Meeks, Jack D., “From the Belly of the huac: Investigations of Hollywood, 1947–1952” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009). Order No. DA3359408.

Moss, Richard A., “Behind the Back Channel: Achieving Détente in U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1969–1972” (George Washington University, 2009). Order No. DA3366392.

Moyer, Jonathan H., “Dancing with the Devil: The Making of the Mormon-Republican Pact” (University of Utah, 2009). Order No. DA3362688.

Pettengill, Ryan S., “Communists and Community: Unionism and the Rise and Fall of Community Activism in Detroit, 1932–1968” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3364733.

Pollard, Lisa, “Violence and Hope: A History of the Murder of Brandon Teena and glbt Activism in the Modern American West” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2009). Order No. DA3360162.

Richotte, Keith Steven, Jr., “‘We The Indians of Turtle Mountain Reservation . . . ’: Rethinking Tribal Constitutionalism beyond the Colonialist/Revolutionary Dialectic” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3360388.

Risk, Shannon M., “‘In Order to Establish Justice’: The Ninteenth-Century Woman Suffrage Movements of Maine and New Brunswick” (University of Maine, 2009). Order No. DA3364713.

Scott, Katherine A., “Reining in the State: Civil Society, Congress, and the Movement to Democratize the National Security State, 1970–1978” (Temple University, 2009). Order No. DA3359707.

Simanga, Michael, “The Congress of African People (1970–1980): History and Memory of an Ideological Journey” (Union Institute, 2009). Order No. DA3361945.

Upham-Bornstein, Linda, “The Taxpayer as Reformer: ‘Pocketbook Politics’ and the Law, 1860–1940” (University of New Hampshire, 2009). Order No. DA3363735.

Waterhouse, Benjamin Cooper, “A Lobby for Capital: Organized Business and the Pursuit of Promarket Politics, 1967–1986” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365480.

Weil, Benjamin S., “Renewable Energy in California: Changing Policies, Politics, and Values, 1975–2005” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2009). Order No. DA3367765.

 

Aid, Matthew M., The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009. viii, 423 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-59691-515-2.)

Bynum, Victoria E., The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xiv, 221 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3381-0.)

Carnahan, Burrus M., Lincoln on Trial: Southern Civilians and the Law of War. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 165 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2569-5.)

Cohen, Adam, Nothing to Fear: fdr’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America. (New York: Penguin, 2009. 372 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-1-59420-196-7. Paper, $12.48, isbn 978-0-14-311665-3.)

Crofts, Daniel W., A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and “The Diary of a Public Man.” (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. 292 pp. $42.50, isbn 978-0-8071-3591-4.)

Cullen, David O’Donald, and Kyle G. Wilkison, eds., The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Graham, John D., Bush on the Homefront: Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. xii, 425 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-253-35436-5. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-253-22215-2.)

Green, John C., The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections. (Dulles: Potomac, 2010. xviii, 222 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-1-59797-430-1.) Originally published in 2007.

Hoffer, Williamjames Hull, The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 152 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9468-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8018-9469-5.)

Hook, Steven W., ed., Democratic Peace in Theory and Practice. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2010. x, 317 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-60635-031-7.)

Horner, William T., Ohio’s Kingmaker: Mark Hanna, Man and Myth. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. xii, 367 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1893-2. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1894-9.)

Kaminski, John P., The Great Triumvirate: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison in the Eyes of Their Contemporaries. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. xiv, 249 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2876-0.)

Kashatus, William C., Dapper Dan Flood: The Controversial Life of a Congressional Power Broker. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. xiv, 350 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-271-03618-2.)

Kazin, Michael, ed., The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Vol. 1: xxx, 491 pp. Vol. 2: xxiv, 499 pp. $250.00/set, isbn 978-0-691-12971-6/set.)

Kester, Scott J., The Haunted Philosophe: James Madison, Republicanism, and Slavery. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. x, 132 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-7391-2174-0.)

Lauck, Jon K., Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xx, 281 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4110-7.)

Leuchtenburg, William E., In the Shadow of fdr: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xvi, 434 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8014-4855-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8014-7568-9.) Fourth edition.

Moneyhon, Carl H., Edmund J. Davis of Texas: Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2010. xiv, 337 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-87565-405-8.)

Newbold, Stephanie P., All but Forgotten: Thomas Jefferson and the Development of Public Administration. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. xvi, 131 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-4384-3073-7.)

Nugent, Walter, Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. (New York: Knopf, 2008. xviii, 387 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-4000-4292-0.)

Rockefeller, R. J., Their Magistrates and Officials: Executive Government in Colonial Maryland, 1715–1775. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. viii, 285 pp. $84.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4186-1.)

Schmitt, Edward R., President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. xii, 324 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-55849-730-6.)

Sloan, Cliff, and David McKean, The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court. (New York: Public Affairs, 2009. xx, 258 pp. Cloth, $27.95, isbn 978-1-58648-426-2. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-58648-805-5.)

Stein, Judith, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xvi, 367 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-300-11818-6.)

Wheen, Francis, Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s, the Golden Age of Paranoia. (New York: Public Affairs, 2009. 344 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-58648-845-1.)

Williams, Zachery, ed., Africana Cultures and Policy Studies: Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii, 281 pp. $90.00, isbn 978-0-230-60280-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

 

Elliott, Mark, and John David Smith, eds., Undaunted Radical: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgée. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. xiv, 402 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3593-8.)

Gaston, Paul M., Coming of Age in Utopia: The Odyssey of an Idea. (Montgomery: NewSouth, 2010. 358 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-1-58838-225-2.)

Karl, Frederick B., The 57 Club: My Four Decades in Florida Politics. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xvi, 343 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8130-3463-8.)

Ward, Brian, ed., The 1960s: A Documentary Reader. (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xii, 241 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-1-4051-6329-3. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-4051-6330-9.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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