The Journal of American Studies of Turkey announces a special issue for 2005 on United States History. This issue seeks to present innovative studies in the political, diplomatic, social, military, or intellectual histories of the United States. Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches are welcome. The issue will contain research articles as well as reviews of recent books and films. Only submissions of original articles and reviews not previously published or concurrently under consideration elsewhere will be considered.

Submissions should be approximately 3000-5000 words in length, and reviews should not exceed 500 words. Four hardcopies of submissions should be sent to the address given below. The deadline for the editors' receipt of submissions for this issue is January 15, 2005.

Please visit the journal at http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/ for previous issues, additional submission guidelines, and required formatting of submissions. E-mail inquiries may be made to the Editors (e-mail address given below).

A semiannual publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, JAST operates with a blind peer referee system. It publishes work in English by scholars of any nationality. Contributors need not be members of the American Studies Association of Turkey. JAST has been indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, and the American Humanities Index since the publication of its first issue of Spring 1995, and in the MLA Directory of Periodicals since 1999.