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The Best American History Essays 2006

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  1. Joyce Appleby

    1. Organization of American Historians, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Joyce Appleby
    Pages 1-9

  3. Inventing the Presidency

    • Joseph Ellis
    Pages 11-26

  4. “Divide et Impera”: Federalist 10 in a Wider Sphere

    • Woody Holton
    Pages 27-60

  5. “Overrun with Free Negroes”: Emancipation and Wartime Migration in the Upper Midwest

    • Leslie A. Schwalm
    Pages 61-87

  6. The Work Ethic of the Plain Folk: Labor and Religion in the Old South

    • Carl R. Osthaus
    Pages 89-122

  7. “‘It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped’: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle”

    • Danielle L. McGuire
    Pages 123-150

  8. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary

    • Eric Avila
    Pages 151-171

  9. Sing Sheng vs. Southwood: Residential Integration in Cold War California

    • Charlotte Brooks
    Pages 173-199

  10. Murder and Biblical Memory: The Legend of Vernon Johns

    • Ralph E. Luker
    Pages 201-229

  11. Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945–1969

    • Thomas J. Sugrue
    Pages 231-261

  12. The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind” Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis

    • Matthew D. Lassiter
    Pages 263-293

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 295-305
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Organization of American Historians, USA

    Joyce Appleby

About the editor

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 USA and around the world.

JOYCE APPLEBY is Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and President of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Best American History Essays 2006

  • Editors: Joyce Appleby

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06580-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6840-1Published: 30 April 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6852-4Published: 30 April 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-06580-3Published: 23 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 305

  • Topics: History of the Americas, US History, Modern History

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