The Best American History Essays 2006

This collection brings to the public ten of the best articles in American history published in the last year and selected from over three hundred 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. It highlights and showcases the questions that today's historians are asking.

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 U.S. and around the world. Joyce Appleby is professor emerita, University of California, Los Angeles, and was president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association.

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Introduction

1

(10)

Joyce Appleby

Inventing the Presidency

11

(16)

Joseph Ellis

From American Heritage

``Divide et Impera'': Federalist 10 in a Wider Sphere

27

(34)

Woody Holton

From The William and Mary Quarterly

``Overrun with Free Negroes'': Emancipation and Wartime Migration in the Upper Midwest

61

(28)

Leslie A. Schwalm

From Civil War History

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

89

(34)

Carl R. Osthaus

From The Journal of Southern History

```It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped': Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle''

123

(28)

Danielle L. McGuire

From The Journal of American History

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

151

(22)

Eric Avila

From The Journal of Urban History

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

173

(28)

Charlotte Brooks

From The Pacific Historical Review

Murder and Biblical Memory: The Legend of Vernon Johns

201

(30)

Ralph E. Luker

From The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

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

231

(32)

Thomas J. Sugrue

From The Journal of American History

The Suburban Origins of ``Color-Blind'' Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis

263

(32)

Matthew D. Lassiter

From The Journal of Urban History

Other Articles Nominated for the 2006 Competition

295

(2)

Index

297

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