Bibliography on Political History

Bibliography on Political History
Part 1
Compiled by: Richard Jensen

October 5, 1993

[this is the first of a 7-part bibliography on US political history that people may find of interest. Prepared by Richard Jensen, U of Illinois-Chicago]

Abbott, J. R. 1989. "Chicago Politics and the Rise of the Boss: From Yankee and Cavalier Amateurs to Professional Politicians." _Social Class and Democratic Leadership_, ed. Harold J. Bershady. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press.
Abbott, R. H. 1976. "Massachusetts: Maintaining Hegemony." _Radical Republicans in the North: State Politics During Reconstruction_, ed. James Mohr. 1-25.
Abernethy, T. P. 1927 Oct. "Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Southwestern Democracy." _American Historical Review_ 33
Abernethy, T. P. 1932. _From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee: A Study in Frontier Democracy_. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press.
Abrams, D. C. 1989. "Irony of Reform: North Carolina Blacks and the New Deal." _North Carolina Historical review_ 66:149- 178.
Abramson, J. B., Arterton, F. C. and Orren, G. R. 1988. _The Electronic Commonwealth: The Impact of New Media Technologies on Democratic Politics_. NY: Basic. [PSQ 104:348.]
Adler, S. 1937 Oct. "Congressional Elections of 1918." _South Atlantic Quarterly_ 36:447-465.
Alexander, T. B. 1966 Oct. "The Basis of Alabama's Ante-bellum Two-Party System." _Alabama Review_ 19
Alexander, T. B. 1961. "Persistent Whiggery in the Democratic South, 1860-1977." _Journal of Southern History_ 27:305-329.
Alexander, T. B. 1969. "Political Reconstruction in Tennessee." _Radicalism, Racism, and Party Realignment: The Border South_, ed. Richard O. Curry. 37-79.
Alexander, T. B. 1967. _Sectional Stress and Party Strength: The House of Representatives, 1836-1860_. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Allen, H. W. 1964 summer. "Studies of Political Loyalties of Two Nationality Groups: Isolationism and German Americans." _Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society_ 57:143-149.
Allen, H. W. and K. W. Allen. 1981. "Vote Fraud and Data Validity." _Analyzing Electoral History_, eds. J. M. Clubb, W.
Flanigan and N. H. Zingale.
Allswang, J. unkn. _Bosses_. Johns Hopkins UP.
Allswang, J. M. 1971. _A House for All Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Chicago, 1890-1936_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Allswang, J. 1978. _The New Deal and American Politics: A Study in Political Change_. New York: Wiley.
Ander, O. F. 1937 March. "The Swedish-American Press and the Election of 1892." _Mississippi Valley Historical review_ 23: 533-554.
Anderson, K. 1979. _The Creation of a Democratic Majority, 1928-1936_. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
Anderson, K. 1976. "Generation, Partisan Shift, and Reality: A Glance Back at the New Deal." _The Changing American Voter_, eds. N. Nie. 74-95. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
Appleby, J. 1984. _Capitalism and the New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s_.
Appleby, J. 1986. "Republicanism in Old and New Contexts." _William and Mary Quarterly_ 43:20-34.
Appleby, J. 1978 March. "The Social Origins of American Revolutionary Ideology." _Journal of American History_ 64
Archdeacon, T. J. 1980. "American Historians and the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Overview." _Wisconsin Magazine of History_ 63:278-298.
Archer, J. C. 1988. "Macrogeographical versus Microgeographical Cleavages in American Presidential ELections, 1940-1984." _Political Geography Journal_ 7:111-125.
Argersinger, Peter H. and J. W. Jeffries. 1986. "American Electoral History: Party Systems and Voting Behavior." _Research in Micropolitics_ 1:1-33.
Argersinger, J. A. E. 1987. "Toward a Roosevelt Coalition: The Democratic Party and the New Deal in Baltimore." _Maryland Historical Magazine_ 82:288-305.
Argersinger, P. 1974. _Politics and Populism: William Alfred Peffer and the People's Party_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Argersinger, P. H. 1987 Sum. "Populists in Power: Public Policy and Legislative Behavior." _Journal of Interdisciplinary History_ 19:81-105.
Argersinger, P. H. and J. W. Jeffries. 1986. "American Electoral History: Party Systems and Voting Behavior." _Research in Micropolitics: Voting Behavior_ 1:1-33.
Arrington, L. 1969 Aug. "The New Deal in the West." _Pacific Historical review_ 38
Ashworth, J. 1987. _Agrarians" and "Aristocrats": Party Political Ideology in the United States, 1837-1846_. New York:
Ashworth, J. 1986 Dec. "The Democratic-Republicans before the Civil War: Political Ideology and Economic Change." _Journal of American Studies_ 20:375-390.
Auerbach, J. S. 1969 Feb. "New Deal, Old Deal, or Raw Deal: Some Thoughts on New Left Historiography." _Journal of Southern History_ 35:18-30.
Baggett, J. A. 1983 March. "Origins of the Upper South Scalawag Leadership." _Civil War History_ 29:53-73.
Bailey, C. J. 1988. _The Republican Party in the US Senate, 1974-1984_. NY: St Martin's. [PSQ 104:345.]
Bailyn, B. 1973. "The Central Themes of the American Revolution: An Interpretation." _Essays on the American Revolution_, S. G. Kurtz and J. H. Hutson. 3-31.
Baker, J. 1983. _Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of the Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century_. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
Baker, J. H. 1973. _The Politics of Continuity: Maryland Political Parties from 1858 to 1870_. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Baker, J. 1974. "Political Nativism: The Maryland KnowNothings as a Case Study." _Law, Society and Economy in Early Maryland_, eds. L. G. Carr and Edward C. Papenfuse, Aubrey Land. 318-332.
Baker, P. 1984 Winter. "The Culture of Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Community and Political Behavior in Rural New York." _Journal of Social History_ 18
Baker, P. 1984 June. "The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920." _American Historical review_ 89:620-647.
Baldastry, G. J. Baldastry. 1984. "The Party Press and Politics in the Age of Jackson." _Journalism Monographs_ 89(Aug)
Banner Jr., J. M. 1969. _To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists and the Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815_. New York:
Banner, L. W. 1973 June. "Religious Benevolence as Social Control: A Critique of an Interpretation." _Journal of American History_ 60:23-41.
Banning, L. 1986 Jan. "Jeffersonian Ideology Revisited: Liberal and Classical Ideas in the New American Republic." _William and Mary Quarterly_ 43:3-19.
Barnes, D. A. 1987. "Strategy Outcome and the Growth of Protest Organizations: A Case Study of the Southern Farmers' Alliance." _Rural Sociology_ 52:164-186.
Barnes, J. A. 1947 Dec. "Myths of the Bryan Campaign." _Mississippi Valley Historical Review_ 34
Barnhart, J. D. 1925 August. "Rainfall and the Populist Party in Nebraska." _American Political Science Review_ 19:527-541.
Barnhart, J. D. 1943. "Sources of Indiana's First Constitution." _Indiana Magazine of History_ 39:55-94.
Barr, A. 1971. _Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876-1906_. University of Texas Press.
Barry, K. 1989 Dec. "Biography and the Search for Women's Subjectivity." _Woman's Studies International Forum_
Basch, N. 1983. "Equity vs. Equality: Emerging Concepts of Women'sPolitical Status in the Age of Jackson." _Journal of the Early Republic_ 3:297-319.
Baskin, D. 1970. "American Pluralism: Theory, Practice, and Ideology." _Journal of Politics_ 32
Bass, H. J. 1961. _`I Am a Democrat`: The Political Career of David Bennett Hill_. Syracuse University Press.
Baum, D. 1984. _The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts, 1848-1876_. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press.
Baum, D. 1978 Mar. "Know-Nothingism and the Republican Majority in Massachusetts: The Political Realignment of the 1850s." _Journal of American History_ 64:959-986.
Baum, D. 1985. "The Massachusetts Voter: Party Loyalty in the Gilded Age, 1872-1896." _Massachusetts in the Gilded Age: Selected Essays_, eds. Jack Trager and John. 37-66.
Baum, D. and R. A. Calvert. 63. "Texas Patrons of Husbandry: Geography, Social Contexts, and Voting Behavior." _Agricultural History_ 1989(fall):36-55.
Baum, D. and D. T. Knobel. 1984. "Anatomy of a Realignment: New York Presidential Politics, 1848-1860." _New York History_ 65:61-81.
Baum, D. and D. T. Knobel. 1984 Jan. "Anatomy of a Realignment: New York Presidential Politics, 1848-1860." _New York History_ 65
Bayor, R. H. 1989. "Race, Ethnicity, and Political Change in the Urban Sunbelt South"." _Shades of the Sunbelt_, eds. Randall M. Miller and George Pozetta. Boca Raton:
Beale, H. K. 1930. "The Tariff and Reconstruction." _American Historical Review_ 35:276-294.
Beard, C. A. 1915. _Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy_. New York:
Beck, K. M. 1987 Summer. "What Was Liberalism in the 1950s?" _Political Science Quarterly_ 102:233-258.
Beck, P. A. 1984. "The Dealignment Era in America." _Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies: Realignment or Dealignment?_, ed. P. A. Beck. Princeton: Princeton UP.
Beck, P. A. 1976. "Socialization Theory of Partisan Realignment." _Controversies in American Voting Behavior_, eds.
Becker, C. L. 1909. _The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776_. Madison,:
Beer, S. H. 1978. "In Search of a New Public Philosophy." _The New American Political System_, A. King. 5-44. Washington: AEI.
Bell, R. M. 1979 July. "Mr. Madison's War and Long-Term Congressional Voting Behavior." _William and Mary Quarterly_ 36:373-395.
Bellush, J. 1979 summer. "Old and New Left Reappraisals of the New Deal and Roosevelt's Presidency." _Presidential Studies Quarterly_ 9:243-266.
Belz, H. 1988 Spring. "Abraham Lincoln and American Constitutionalism." _Review of Politics_ 50
Bender, T. 1984. "The New History--Then and Now." _Reviews in American History_ 12:612-622.
Benedict, M. L. 1981-82 Win. "The Party Going Strong: Congress and Elections in the Mid-19th Century." _Congress and the Presidency_ 9:37-60.
Benedict, M. L. 1974. "Preserving the Constitution: The Conservative Basis of Radical Reconstruction." _Journal of American History_ 61:65-90.
Bensel, R. F. 1984. _Sectionalism and American Political Development: 1880-1980_. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press.
Bensel, R. F. 1990. _Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877_. New York:
Benson, L. 1961. _The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case_. Princeton:
Benson, L. 1955. _Merchants, Farmers, and Railroads: Railroad Regulation and New York Politics, 1850-1887_. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
Benson, L. 1957. "Research Problems in American Political Historiography." _Common Frontiers of the Social Sciences_, ed. M. Komarovsky. 113-83,418. Glencoe: Free Press.
Benson, T. W. 1989. "History, Criticism, and Theory in the Study of American Rhetoric." _American Rhetoric_, ed. T. W. Benson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP.
Bernstein, A. 1984 July. "A Mixed Record: The Political Enfranchisement of American Indian Women during the Indian New Deal." _Journal of the West_ 23:13-20.
Bernstein, B. J. 1968. "The New Deal: Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform." _Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History_, ed. B. Bernstein. 263- 288. NY:
Bernstein, B. J. 1973 spring. "Truman, The Eightieth Congress, and the Transformation of Political Culture." _Capitol Studies_ 2:64-75.
Billington, M. 1984. _Southern Politics Since the Civil War_. Krieger.
Binkley, W. E. New York. _American Political Parties: Their Natural History_. 4th edition: Knopf.
Birkner, M. J. and H. Ershkowitz. 1989. "'Men and Measures': The Creation of the Second Party System in New Jersey." _New Jersey History_ 107:41-60.
Black, B. a. Merle Black. 1987. _Politics and Society in the South_. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
Blaine, J. G. 1884. _Twenty Years of Congress_.
Bloch, R. H. 1990. "Religion and Ideological Change in the American Revolution." _Religion and American Politics_, ed. M. Noll. 44-61. NY: Oxford UP.
Blocker, e. J. S. 1979. _Alcohol, Reform, and Society_. Greenwood.
Blocker, J. J. S. 1985 spring. "Separate Paths: Suffragists and the Women's Temperance Crusade." _Signs_ 10
Blodgett, G. 1966. _The Gentle Reformers: Massachusetts Democrats in the Cleveland Era_. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
Blodgett, G. 1980 March. "The Mugwump Reputation, 1870 to the Present." _Journal of American History_ :867-887.
Blodgett, G. 1982. "Yankee Leadership in a Divided City, 1860-1910." _Journal of Urban History_ 8:371-396.
Blue, F. J. 1973. _The Free Soilers: Third Party Politics, 1848-54_. Urbana: U of Illinois Press.
Blum, J. 1954. "essay." _in The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt ed. Elting Morison_,
Bogue, A. G. 1981. _Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Bogue, A. G., J. M. Clubb, C. R. McKibbin and S. A. Traugott. 1976. "Members of the House of Representatives and the Process of Modernization." _Journal of American History_ (Sept)
Bohmer, D. A. 1974. "The Causes of Electoral Alignments: Some Considerations on How Partisan Behavior is Shaped." _Law, Society, and Economy in Early Maryland_, eds. L. G. Carr and Edward C. Papenfuse Aubrey Land. 251-276.
Bohmer, D. A. 1979. "Stability and Change in Early National Politics: The Maryland Voter and the Election of 1800." _William and Mary Quarterly_ 36:27-50.

ADDENDUM

Reading List in Modern American Political History
October 5, 1993

[Editor's Note: actually the list was compiled by Mark Kornbluh, another of the H-Pol moderators]

Thanks to Jim Mott for the bibliography/reading list. As a graduate student, I would add David Brody's _Workers in Industrial America_ still one of the best sources for info on working people in 20th c. US. His chapters on the Progressive Era, the 1920s, and the post-WW II chapters are very insightful and present a good balance to David Montgomery's work.

Samuel White <BV0325%BINGVMB@uicvm.uic.edu>
Binghamton University

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