For the past two years a team of scholars -- listed below -- has been recruiting contributors for a seven-volume Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History to be published by CQ Press. MTM Publishing, a book packaging firm in New York City, is coordinating the production of this reference work.

We are pleased to have attracted a stellar group of participants, ranging from grad students to full professors; dozens of H-Net readers are no doubt among them. In the meantime, more than 95% of the projected entries have been assigned.

There are 19 essays remaining to assign in volume 7, among them essays on Cable Television and Talk Radio, Economic Policy, Al Gore, Persian Gulf War, Internet, and Tax Policy. Each essay should look at the topic through the prism of politics, examining how it impacted—and was impacted by—the political development of the United States.

Conceived of as the first comprehensive, detailed encyclopedia to serve the needs of undergraduate and graduate researchers in this field, as well as advanced high school students and teachers, it will be published simultaneously in print and online versions. In a cross-disciplinary approach to American political history, the Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History will cover the history of all key institutions of U.S. government and politics—presidential, legislative, judicial, constitutional, and political history—as well as military, social, cultural, legal, and economic events and trends that have affected American political development. Including approximately 750 articles, it will encompass seven print volumes, each relating to an era in U.S. history and overseen by an academic editor-in-chief. These include:

Volume 1, 1500-1783 
Andrew Robertson, Herbert H. Lehman College


Volume 2, 1784-1840 
 Mike Morrison, Purdue University 


Volume 3, 1841-1877 
William Shade, Lehigh University (emeritus)
Volume 4, 1878-1920 Robert Johnston, University of Illinois at Chicago Volume 5, 1921-1945 
 Robert Zieger, University of Florida


 Volume 6, 1946-1975 
 Thomas Langston, Tulane University
Volume 7, 1976- 
 Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College

Contributors will be recompensed according to the length of their entry. Those crafting three or more entries will also receive a copy of the volume to which they contribute as partial payment. Following is a full list of the available volume 7 essays and their planned word counts. If you are interested in becoming a contributor to the encyclopedia, please send your CV to Tim Anderson at MTM Publishing at tanderson@mtmpublishing.com.

Asian Americans - 2800 words
Cable Television and talk radio - 1500
Economic Policy - 2000
Ethics and politics - 2800
Federal Reserve Bank - 2000
Gore, Al - 1500
Immigration - 2800
Internet - 800
Jackson, Jesse - 1500
Middle East Conflict - 2000
National Endowment for the Arts - 800
Persian Gulf War - 2000
Political Action Committees - 2000
Presidency - 3500
Regulatory agencies - 2000
Space policy - 1500
Tax policy - 2000
tax reform - 1500
Urbanization/suburbanization - 1500