Recent Scholarship
Politics
Bartrum, Ian, “The Political Origins of Secular Public Education: The New York School Controversy, 1840–1842,” nyu Journal of Law and Liberty, 3 (2008), 267–348.
Battistini, Matteo, “Radical Revisions: Thomas Skidmore Reads Thomas Paine in 1829 New York,” Common-Place, 9 (July 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Baumgartner, Jody C., and Rhonda Evans Case, “Constitutional Design of the Executive: Vice Presidencies in Comparative Perspective,” Congress & the Presidency, 36 (May–Aug. 2009), 148–63.
Behrens, Richard K., “From the Connecticut Valley to the West Coast: The Role of Dartmouth College in the Building of the Nation,” Historical New Hampshire, 63 (Spring 2009), 45–68.
Bishin, Benjamin G., and Casey A. Klofstad, “Deceit, Diversity, and Mobilization? Intra-ethnic Diversity and Changing Patterns in Florida’s Hispanic Vote,” Social Science Journal, 46 (Sept. 2009), 571–83.
Bobo, Lawrence D., and Michael C. Dawson, “A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency,” Du Bois Review, 6 (March 2009), 1–14.
Bryan, Mark Evans, “‘Crusade of Conquest’: Orientalist Surrogations in Manifest-Destinarian Theatre,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 21 (Winter 2009), 21–48.
Charnock, Emily Jane, James A. McCann, and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, “Presidential Travel from Eisenhower to George W. Bush: An ‘Electoral College’ Strategy,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Summer 2009), 323–40.
Davis, Marni, “‘No Whisky Amazons in the Tents of Israel’: American Jews and the Gilded Age Temperance Movement,” American Jewish History, 94 (Sept. 2008), 143–74.
Dodd, Lawrence C., and Scot Schraufnagel, “Re-thinking Legislative Productivity: Commemorative Legislation and Policy Gridlock,” Congress & the Presidency, 36 (May–Aug. 2009), 132–47.
Drabble, John, “From White Supremacy to White Power: The fbi, cointelpro-white hate, and the Nazification of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s,” American Studies, 48 (Fall 2007), 49–74.
Ellis, Blake A., “An Alternative Politics: Texas Baptists and the Rise of the Christian Right, 1975–1985,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (April 2009), 361–86.
Etulain, Richard W., “Abraham Lincoln: Political Founding Father of the American West,” Montana, 59 (Summer 2009), 3–22. Heavily illustrated.
Fatalski, Marcin, “Miedzy antykomunizmem a demokracja: Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki wobec sytuacji politycnej w Argentynie, 1961–1963” (Between anticommunism and democracy: The United States of America and the political situation in Argentina, 1961–1963), in Doswiadczenie demokracji w Ameryce Lacinskiej: Materialy z ogólnopolskiej konferencji zorganizowanej prez Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 19–20 pazdziernika 2007 (The experience of democracy in Latin America: Materials from the national conference organized by the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, 19–20 October 2007), ed. Marta Kania and Anna Kaganiec-Kamiénska, 215–26. (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2008. 278 pp. isbn 978-83-233-2612-0.) In Polish.
Feldman, Glenn, “Southern Disillusionment with the Democratic Party: Cultural Conformity and ‘the Great Melding’ of Racial and Economic Conservatism in Alabama during World War II,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Aug. 2009), 199–230.
Fettweis, Christopher J., “Dangerous Revisionism: On the Founders, ‘Neocons,’ and the Importance of History,” Orbis, 53 (Summer 2009), 507–23.
Ford, Richard Thompson, “Barack Is the New Black: Obama and the Promise/Threat of the Post–Civil Rights Era,” Du Bois Review, 6 (March 2009), 37–48.
Frederick, Brian, “Are Female House Members Still More Liberal in a Polarized Era? The Conditional Nature of the Relationship between Descriptive and Substantive Representation,” Congress & the Presidency, 36 (May–Aug. 2009), 181–202.
Gomez, Robert A., “American Political Dynasties: From John Adams to George W. Bush . . . and Possibly Beyond,” Southern University Law Review, 35 (Spring 2008), 335–72.
Grunwald, Michael, “Swamped: Harry Truman, South Florida, and the Changing Political Geography of American Conservation,” in The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Karl Boyd Brooks, 75–88. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-93-2.)
Harris, Lashawn, “Running with the Reds: African American Women and the Communist Party during the Great Depression,” Journal of African American History, 94 (Winter 2009), 21–43.
Hirata, Miwako, “Amerika sanberuto no kyowato-ka to daitoshiken kogai: Kyosei basu tsugaku o chushin ni” (The rise of the Republican party in the sun belt South: On the problem of busing), Musashi Daigaku Jinbun Zasshi (Tokyo), 40 (no. 2, 2008), 187–214. In Japanese.
Holladay, Robert, “‘Dangerous Doctrines’: The Rise and Fall of Jacksonian Support in Williamson County, Tennessee,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 90–121.
Hostetter, David, “House Guest of the aec: Dorothy Hutchinson, the 1958 Fast at the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Domestication of Protest,” Peace & Change, 34 (April 2009), 133–47.
Housel, William, “The Persistence of Vision: Problems with Race after the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 33–45.
Hughes, L. Patrick, “Private Trials of a Public Man: Jimmie Allred and the Vicissitudes of Family,” East Texas Historical Journal, 48 (no. 2, 2009), 61–73.
Ives, William C., “Abraham Lincoln in Mercer County, Illinois, 1832, 1834, 1858,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 329–47.
Johnson, Timothy, “‘Death for Negro Lynching!’: The Communist Party, usa’s Position on the African American Question,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 243–54.
Kaneko, Ayumu, “Bukka T. Washinton no seijiteki kenriron niokeru jinshu, kaikyu, jenda” (Race, class, and gender in Booker T. Washington’s conceptualization of political rights), Hokudai Shigaku (Sapporo), 48 (Dec. 2007), 98–134. In Japanese.
Kennedy, David M., “What the New Deal Did,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Summer 2009), 251–68.
Kerber, Linda K., “Why Diamonds Really Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 153 (March 2009), 56–66.
Kohn, Edward P., “‘A Most Revolting State of Affairs’: Theodore Roosevelt’s Aldermanic Bill and the New York Assembly City Investigating Committee of 1884,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (March 2009), 71–92.
Kornat, Marek, “Dzialania presydenta Roosevelta i dyplomacji amerykanskiej na rzecz uwolnienia Józefa Becka (1940–1941)” (President Roosevelt and American diplomacy operations to release Józef Beck (1940–1941)), Zeszyty Historyczne (Warszawa) (no. 164, 2008), 121–59. In Polish.
LaFeber, Walter, “The Rise and Fall of Colin Powell and the Powell Doctrine,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Spring 2009), 71–93.
Laville, Helen, “‘Women of Conscience’ or ‘Women of Conviction’? The National Women’s Committee on Civil Rights,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Aug. 2009), 277–95.
Le Coney, Christopher, and Zoe Trodd, “Reagan’s Rainbow Rodeos: Queer Challenges to the Cowboy Dreams of Eighties America,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 2, 2009), 163–83.
Leab, Daniel J., Michael Nash, and David Levering Lewis, “Remembering the Jacksons,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 163–74.
Lewis, David Levering, “James and Esther Jackson: A Historical Assessment,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 181–90.
Lohne, Raymond, “Teams of Friends: A New Lincoln Theory and Legacy,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 285–314.
MacDonald, Jason A., “Lawmakers’ Preferences for Bureaucratic Discretion: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” Congress & the Presidency, 36 (May–Aug. 2009), 164–80.
Manning, Christopher, “‘God Didn’t Curse Me When He Made Me Black,’” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Spring 2009), 28–72.
Martinko, Whitney A, “Progress and Preservation: Representing History in Boston’s Landscape of Urban Reform, 1820–1860,” New England Quarterly, 82 (June 2009), 304–34.
Mason, Matthew, “Federalists, Abolitionists, and the Problem of Influence,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (March 2009), 1–27.
Mathewson, Joe, “The Long and Strong Tradition of State Protection of Freedom of the Press,” American Journalism, 26 (Winter 2009), 81–112.
Matsumoto, Yukio, “Washinton seikenka no renpo seifu no seiritsu to kenkoku shoki amerika shihonshugi” (The federal government of the Washington administration and early American capitalism), Amerika Keizaishi Kenkyu (Tokyo), 7 (2008), 1–19. In Japanese.
Milazzo, Paul, “From Truman to Eisenhower: Rethinking Postwar Environmental ‘Consensus,’” in The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Karl Boyd Brooks, 20–31. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-93-2.)
Minchin, Timothy J., “An Uphill Fight: Ernest F. Hollings and the Struggle to Protect the South Carolina Textile Industry, 1959–2005,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 109 (July 2008), 187–211.
Minowa, Satomi, “Saikenki Amerika niokeru furi rabu to josei sanseiken Undo: Vikutoria Uddoharu to Zenkoku Josei Sanseiken Kyoki” (Free love and the woman suffrage movement in Reconstruction America: Victoria Woodhull and the National Woman Suffrage Association), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 3–19. In Japanese.
Moats, Sandy, “The Limits of ‘Good Feeling’: Partisan Healing and Political Futures during James Monroe’s Boston Visit of 1817,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 118 (part 1, 2008), 155–91.
Moller, Stephanie, and Huiping Li, “Parties, Unions, Policies, and Occupational Sex Segregation in the United States,” Social Forces, 87 (March 2009), 1529–60.
Murata, Katsuyuki, “‘Jinshu no choteisha’ no yu’utso: Deividdo Dinkinzu to Kuraun Haitsu bodo” (Gloomy days for a racial conciliator: David N. Dinkins and the Crown Heights disturbance), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 87–106. In Japanese.
Murray, Damien, “‘Go Forth as a Missionary to Fight It’: Catholic Antisocialism and Irish American Nationalism in Post–World War I Boston,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Summer 2009), 43–65.
Nickerson, Michelle, “Politically Desperate Housewives: Women and Conservatism in Postwar Los Angeles,” California History, 86 (no. 3, 2009), 4–21. Heavily illustrated.
Olmstead, Alan L., “The First Line of Defense: Inventing the Infrastructure to Combat Animal Diseases,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (June 2009), 327–57.
Panitch, Leo, and Martijn Konings, “Myths of Neoliberal Deregulation,” New Left Review (London), 57 (May–June 2009), 67–83.
Peck, Graham A., “New Records of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the 1854 Illinois State Fair: The Missouri Republican and the Missouri Democrat Report from Springfield,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30 (Summer 2009), 25–80.
Pederson, Vernon, “Perfect Witness: Mary Stalcup Markward and the Dilemmas of Anticommunism,” American Communist History, 8 (June 2009), 29–48.
Richards, Johnetta, “Fundamentally Determined: James E. Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson and the Southern Negro Youth Congress, 1937–1946,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 191–202.
Richardson, Peter, “The Perilous Fight: The Rise of Ramparts Magazine, 1965–1966,” California History, 86 (no. 3, 2009), 22–43. Heavily illustrated.
Richert, Lucas, “Pills, Policy Making, and Perceptions: Inside the fda during the ‘Reagan Revolution,’ 1981–1982,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 2, 2009), 41–63.
Rzeszutek, Sara E., “‘All Those Rosy Dreams We Cherish’: James Jackson and Esther Cooper’s Marriage on the Front Lines of the Double Victory Campaign,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 211–25.
Sato, Chitose, “1932 nen Wisukonshin shitsugyo hosho-ho to nyudiru: ‘Wisukonshin-ha’ no Shiso to Raforetto Chiji niyoru shu-seiji o chushin ni” (The Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Act of 1932 and the New Deal: The ‘Wisconsin idea’ and the politics of Governor Philip La Follette), Shakai Keizai Shigaku (Tokyo), 73 (no, 6, 2008), 57–78. In Japanese.
Sato, Madoka, “Cheroki-zoku niokeru ‘shiminken mondai’” (‘The citizenship question’ of the Cherokee), Rekishigaku Kenkyu (Tokyo) (no. 844, Sept. 2008), 21–33. In Japanese.
Sautter, John A., “Social Transformation and the Farmers’ Alliance Experience: Populism in Saunders County, Nebraska,” Nebraska History, 90 (no. 1 2009), 6–21.
Scanlon, Sandra, “The Conservative Lobby and Nixon’s ‘Peace with Honor’ in Vietnam,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Aug. 2009), 255–76.
Scotch, Richard K., “‘Nothing about Us Without Us’: Disability Rights in America,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (July 2009), 17–22.
Shreve, Bradley G., “‘From Time Immemorial’: The Fish-In Movement and the Rise of Intertribal Activism,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Aug. 2009), 403–34.
Skinner, Richard M., “George W. Bush and the Partisan Presidency,” Political Science Quarterly, 123 (Winter 2008–2009), 605–22.
Smith, Michael Thomas, “Corruption European Style: The 1861 Frémont Scandal and Popular Fears in the Civil War North,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (March 2009), 49–69.
Smith, Rogers M., and Desmond S. King, “Barack Obama and the Future of American Racial Politics,” Du Bois Review, 6 (March 2009), 25–35.
Soares, John, “Averell Harriman Has Changed His Mind: The Seattle Speech and the Rhetoric of Cold War Confrontation,” Cold War History (London), 9 (May 2009), 267–86.
Stanley, Timothy Randolph, “‘Sailing against the Wind’: A Reappraisal of Edward Kennedy’s Campaign for the 1980 Democratic Party Presidential Nomination,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Aug. 2009), 231–58.
Stegmaier, Mark J., “‘An Imaginary Negro in an Impossible Place’? The Issue of New Mexico Statehood in the Secession Crisis, 1860–1861,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Spring 2009), 263–90.
Stevens, Errol Wayne, “Two Radicals and Their Los Angeles: Harrison Gray Otis and Job Harriman,” California History, 86 (no. 3, 2009), 44–64. Heavily illustrated.
Stevens, Mark H., “The Enigma of Meyer Lissner: Los Angeles’s Progressive Boss,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (Jan. 2009), 51–81.
Strach, Patricia, “Making Higher Education Affordable: Policy Design in Postwar America,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 1, 2009), 61–88.
Taylor, Michael J. C., “A Child Who Changed America: The Death of Benjamin Pierce and Its Significance to American History,” New England Journal of History, 65 (Spring 2009), 24–47.
Thiessen, Marc A., “Obama’s Inheritance: Al-Qaeda in Retreat,” World Affairs, 172 (Summer 2009), 74–83.
Thirkell-White, Ben, “Dealing with the Banks: Populism and the Public Interest in the Global Financial Crisis,” International Affairs (London), 85 (July 2009), 689–711.
Umezaki, Toru, “Amerika ‘60 nendai sedai’ no keisei” (The formation of the American ‘60s generation’), Rekishi Hyoron (Tokyo) (July 2008), 58–72. In Japanese.
Vajda, Zoltan, “Individual, Community, and Government: Tropological Aspects of Calhoun’s Political Thought,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 69–89.
Van Ness, Carl, “Florida’s Sledd Affair: Andrew Sledd and the Fight for Higher Education in Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2009), 319–51.
Vickery, Peter, “Race, Liberty, and the Electoral System in Massachusetts,” New England Journal of History, 65 (Spring 2009), 48–73.
Weaver, Janet, “From Barrio to ‘¡Boicoteo!’: The Emergence of Mexican American Activism in Davenport, 1917–1970,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (Summer 2009), 215–54.
West, Sharon Crook, and Joseph P. McKerns, “Death and Communists: The Funeral Industry’s Attack on Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death,” American Journalism, 26 (Winter 2009), 31–53.
Wilson, Veronica A., “Anticommunism, Millenarianism, and the Challenges of Cold War Patriarchy: The Many Lives of fbi Informant Herbert Philbrick,” American Communist History, 8 (June 2009), 73–102.
Wood, W. Kirk, “History and Recovery of the Past: John C. Calhoun and the Origins of Nullification in South Carolina, 1819–1828,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 46–68.
Woods, Clinton Jacob, “Strange Bedfellows: Congressman Howard W. Smith and the Inclusion of Sex Discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 1–32.
Zimmer, Kenyon, “Premature Anti-Communists? American Anarchism, the Russian Revolution, and Left-Wing Libertarian Anti-Communism, 1917–1939,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Summer 2009), 45–71.
Abu El-Haj, Tabatha, “Changing the People: Transformations in American Democracy (1880–1930)” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3329810.
Ahuja, Neel, “Cultures of Quarantine: Race, U.S. Empire, and the Biomedical Discourse of National Security, 1893–1960” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3330845.
Apap, Christopher C., “America Unbound: The Early American Geographical Imagination and the Shaping of the Nation” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3320765.
Beamer, B. Kamanamaikalani, “Na Wai Ka Mana? ‘Oiwi Agency and European Imperialism in the Hawaiian Kingdom” (University of Hawai‘i, 2008). Order No. DA3326432.
Canedo, Eduardo Federico, “The Rise of the Deregulation Movement in Modern America, 1957–1980” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333313.
Davies, Vernon Tad, “The Character of Government: Governing Institutions in U.S. Political Narratives, 1959–1972” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3328076.
Egolf, Jennifer Ann, “‘Keep America American’: Great Depression, Government Intervention, and Conservative Response in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1920s–1940” (West Virginia University, 2008). Order No. DA3326477.
de Fee, Nicole Reneé, “From Colony to Empire: The Decolonization of National Literary Identity in Antebellum American Literature” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3326859.
Gibson, Lynne Marie, “Motivations for Change in Support for Social Policy Bills in the United States Congress, 1972–2002” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3324891.
Groshek, Jacob, “Freedom and ‘New’ Media: Examining the Relationship between Communication Technologies and Democracy Cross-Nationally from 1946 to 2003” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3319903.
Huggins, Benjamin L., “Republican Principles, Opposition Revolutions, and Southern Whigs: Nathaniel Macon, Willie Mangum, and the Course of North Carolina Politics, 1800–1853” (George Mason University, 2009). Order No. DA3327219.
Illuzzi, Michael Joseph, “A Conceptual History of Equal Opportunity: Debating the Limits of Acceptable Inequality in U.S. History” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3324435.
Jones, Sheila, “Not ‘Part of the Job’: Sexual Harassment Policy in the U.S., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Women’s Economic Citizenship, 1975–1991” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3326252.
Kradel, Adam, “Using the Lord’s Name: The Use and Impact of Presidential Religious Rhetoric” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3327887.
Kragh, Simona, “The President, the Press, and Public Approval: Interactions and Media Management from Harry S. Truman to Geroge W. Bush” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3332255.
Lowenthal, Kristi, “Conservative Thought and the Equal Rights Amendment in Kansas” (Kansas State University, 2008). Order No. DA3320257.
McGreevey, Robert C., “Borderline Citizens: Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Migration, Race, and Empire, 1898–1948” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3316482.
McTaggart, Ursula, “Radicalism in America’s ‘Industrial Jungle’: Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3324531.
Miller, Kara, “Tell Me a War: Presidential Narratives on the Eve of Conflict, 1916–2003” (Tufts University, 2008). Order No. DA3330354.
Mitrød, Tom Arne, “‘So Great a Correspondence’: Native American Diplomacy in the Hudson Valley, 1609–1783” (Northern Illinois University, 2008). Order No. DA3335054.
Mueller, Ken S., “Benton and the People: White Nationalism on the Jacksonian Frontier, 1782–1848” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324193.
Mulcare, Daniel M., “Bound Government: Slavery Politics, Internal Improvements, and the Limits of National Power” (New School University, 2007). Order No. DA3333086.
Owens, Anthony, “The U.S. Congress and Immigration in Early Twentieth Century America” (University Collge Dublin, Ireland, 2009).
Parham, Vera Lynn, “From Medicine Creek to Daybreak: The Power of Protest in Pacific Northwest Native American History” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3332632.
Platt, Matthew Bartholomew, “The Normalization of Black Politics: Essays on the Evolution of Black Agenda Setting in Post-war America” (University of Rochester, 2008). Order No. DA3326558.
Pugia, Ross D., “An Empire of Commerce, an Empire of Finance: The U.S. and the Rise of Neoliberal Hegemony in the Twentieth Century” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3335022.
Rooney, Patricia A., “Re-presenting World War II, Reviving Neo-classicism, Reaffirming Super Power in a Post–9/11 Era: The Anomalous 2004 American National World War II Memorial” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324208.
Russell, Eric D., “Issue Co-optation: A Historical Account of the Agenda-Setting Role of Minor Parties in the American Two-Party System” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3326267.
Selby, Shawn M., “Congress, Culture, and Capitalism: Congressional Hearings into Cultural Regulation, 1953–1967” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3327134.
Seliger, Mary Aileen, “Unmasking the Myths of Democracy in the United States: Narratives of Minority Race and Rights in Twentith Century Literature and Jurisprudence” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3319875.
Shawyer, Susanne Elizabeth, “Radical Street Theatre and the Yippie Legacy: A Performance History of the Youth International Party, 1967–1968” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3324677.
Slutsky, Beth Suzanne, “Three Generations of American Communist Women: Charlotte Anita Whitney, Dorothy Ray Healey, and Kendra Alexander, 1919–1992” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3329669.
Sutto, Antoinette Patricia, “Built upon Smoke: Politics and Political Culture in Maryland, 1630–1690” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3333866.
Thompson, Todd Nathan, “Modest Proposals: American Satire and Political Change from Franklin to Lincoln” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3327450.
Williams, Christopher Newell, “Caught in the Web of Scapegoating: National Coverage of California’s Proposition 187” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3319946.
Anderson, Martin, and Annelise Anderson, Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster. (New York: Crown, 2009. xiv, 450 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-307-23861-0.)
Bean, Jonathan, ed., Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xxii, 331 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2545-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8131-9231-9.)
Brooks, Karl Boyd, ed., The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-93-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Brown, Archie, The Rise and Fall of Communism. (New York: HarperCollins, 2009. xvi, 720 pp. $35.99, isbn 978-0-06-113879-9.)
Carter, Ralph G., and James M. Scott, Choosing to Lead: Understanding Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xii, 294 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4490-2. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4503-9.)
Crouch, Jeffrey, The Presidential Pardon Power. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. viii, 208 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1646-6.)
Dunn, Charles W., ed., The Enduring Reagan. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 178 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2552-7.)
Fruchtman, Jack, Jr., The Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xii, 212 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9284-4.)
Gold, David M., Democracy in Session: A History of the Ohio General Assembly. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xx, 602 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1844-4.)
Horne, Alistair, Kissinger: 1973, the Crucial Year. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. xviii, 457 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-7432-7283-4.)
Humphrey, David C., Peg Leg: The Improbable Life of a Texas Hero, Thomas William Ward, 1807–1872. (Denton: Texas State Historical Association, 2009. xii, 340 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-87611-237-3.)
Ishikawa, Takafumi, Amerika renpo seifu no shisoteki kiban: Jon Adamuzu no chuo seifu-ron (The intellectual basis of the U.S. federal government: John Adams’s theory of the central government). (Tokyo: Tansuisha, 2008. 276 pp. ¥3,800, isbn 978-4-58860-301-3.) In Japanese.
Kihira, Eisaku, Amerika minshushugi no kako to genzai (The past and present of American democracy). (Kyoto: Mineruva Shobo, 2008. 334 pp. ¥4,725, isbn 978-4-62305-140-3.) In Japanese.
Kosaka, Noboru, Kami no kuni Amerika no ronri: Shukyo uha niyoru Isuraeru shien, chuzetsu, dosei-kon no hinin (The logic of God’s country America: The religious right’s support of Israel and disapproval of abortion and same-sex marriage). (Tokyo: Akashi, 2008. 414 pp. ¥2,940, isbn 978-4-75032-873-7.) In Japanese.
Kurashina, Itsuki, Aizenhawa seiken to Nishi-Doitzu: Domei Seisaku toshiteno tozai gunbi kanri kosho (The Eisenhower administration and West Germany: The East-West arms control negotiations as a policy of alliance). (Tokyo: Meneruva Shobo, 2008. 270 pp. ¥5,250, isbn 978-4-62305-183-0.) In Japanese.
Lyons, Paul, American Conservatism: Thinking It, Teaching It. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. xiv, 202 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8265-1625-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8265-1626-8.)
Martin, Zachary J., The Mindless Menace of Violence: Robert F. Kennedy’s Vision and the Fierce Urgency of Now. (Lanham: Hamilton, 2009. xviii, 127 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4449-5.)
Morgenthaler, Jefferson, Promised Land: Solm, Castro, and Sam Houston’s Colonization Contracts. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. xviii, 225 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-119-3.)
Muñoz, Vincent Phillip, God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x, 242 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-51515-3. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-73579-7.)
Nishikawa, Masaru, Nyudiru-ki minshuto no hen’yo: Seito soshiki, shuhyo, rieki yudo kozo (The transformation of the Democratic party in the New Deal era: Party organization, vote-getting structure, and pork-barreling). (Tokyo: Keio Daigaku Shuppankai, 2008. 287 pp. ¥5,460, isbn 978-4-76641-550-6.) In Japanese.
O’Brien, Michael, Rethinking Kennedy: An Interpretative Biography. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. x, 260 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-56663-790-9.)
Rawls, W. Lee, In Praise of Deadlock: How Partisan Struggle Makes Better Laws. (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2009. xii, 144 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9404-6. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9403-9.)
Sioli, Marco, ed., La parabola di Ronald Reagan: Da Hollywood all’ascesa dei neoconservatori (The trajectory of Ronald Reagan: From Hollywood to the neoconservative ascent). (Verona: ombre corte, 2008. 238 pp. Paper, €19.50, isbn 978-88-95366-24-1.) In Italian.
Teachout, Woden, Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism. (New York: Basic, 2009. vi, 266 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-465-00209-2.)
Trafzer, Clifford E., ed., American Indians, American Presidents: A History. (New York: HarperCollins, 2009. 272 pp. $29.99, isbn 978-0-06-146653-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Burton, David H., ed., William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 461 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8386-4251-1.)
Ehrman, John, and Michael W. Flamm, Debating the Reagan Presidency. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. x, 237 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-7425-6139-7. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7425-6140-3.)
Lindsey, Ben B., and Harvey J. O’Higgins, The Beast. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. xlvi, 239 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87081-953-7.) Originally published in 1910.
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