More Shopping OptionsThis collection brings to the public ten of the best articles in American history published in the last year and selected from over three hundred learned and popular journals. Topics range from the general to the specific and cover all aspects of American history, from the early days of the republic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It highlights and showcases the questions that today's historians are asking.
The Organization of American Historians was founded in 1907 and publishes the Journal of American History. The largest international learned society devoted to American history, it has 9,000 members in the U.S. and around the world. Joyce Appleby is professor emerita, University of California, Los Angeles, and was president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association.
"These essays do indeed represent some of the best work in American history during the past year. Historians will find new approaches, new information, and fresh interpretations. Sample one or two of the essays in your own special field of interest, and you will be tempted to read on until you have absorbed them all."--James M. McPherson
Introduction--Joyce Appleby * Inventing the Presidency From American Heritage--Joseph Ellis * ‘Divide et Impera’: Federalist 10 in a Wider Sphere From The William and Mary Quarterly--Woody Holton * ‘Overrun with Free Negroes’: Emancipation and Wartime Migration in the Upper Midwest From Civil War History--Leslie A. Schwalm* The Work Ethic of Plain Folk: Labor and Religion in the Old South From the Journal of Southern History--Carl R. Osthaus * ‘It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped’: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization and the African-American Freedom Struggle From The Journal of American History--Danielle L. McGuire * Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary From the Journal of Urban History--Eric Avila * Sing Sheng vs. Southwood: Residential ntegration in Cold War California From the Pacific Historical Review --Charlotte Brooks * Murder and Biblical Memory: The Legend of Vernon Johns From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography--Ralph E. Luker * Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945-1969 From The Journal of American History--Thomas J. Sugrue * The Suburban Origins of ‘Color-Blind’ Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis From the Journal of Urban History--Matthew D. Lassiter * Other Articles Nominated for the 2006 Competition
