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The Best American History Essays 2006
About this book
Ten of the best articles in American history published in 2006 selected from over 300 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. These are the questions that today's historians are asking.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Inventing the Presidency
- Chapter 2 "Divide et Impera": Federalist 10 in a Wider Sphere
- Chapter 3 "Overrun with Free Negroes": Emancipation and Wartime Migration in the Upper Midwest
- Chapter 4 The Work Ethic of the Plain Folk: Labor and Religion in the Old South
- Chapter 5 " 'It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped': Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle"
- Chapter 6 Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary
- Chapter 7 Sing Sheng vs. Southwood: Residential Integration in Cold War California
- Chapter 8 Murder and Biblical Memory: The Legend of Vernon Johns
- Chapter 9 Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945-1969
- Chapter 10 The Suburban Origins of "Color-Blind" Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis
- Other Articles Nominated for the 2006 Competition
- Index