The Long Form

A friend once dismissed one of my early articles by suggesting that it merely showed that I could do the"short form." The"long form," i.e., a book, he argued, was the test of a historian. Right or wrong, a book does generally take more concentrated attention over a longer period than most articles and offers greater room to show what you can do. One reason that Cliopatria's company pleases me is that it includes many historians who have accomplished the"long form." I don't think any group blog features more members with published books. We're pretty fair evidence against the claim that bloggers don't do scholarship.

Cliopatria's Bookshelf is the most complete list of all of our books, but here is a short list of our most recent ones:

Alan Allport, Immigration Policy (Chelsea House, 2005);
Timothy Burke and Kevin Burke, Saturday Morning Fever: Growing Up with Cartoon Culture (St. Martin's Griffin, 1998);
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Narrating Women's History in Britain, 1770-1902 (Ashgate, 2004);
James C. Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (Oxford University Press, 2005);
______________, The Brown Decision, Jim Crow and Southern Identity (University of Georgia Press, 2005);
______________ and William Stueck, eds., Globalization and the American South (University of Georgia Press, 2005);
Hala Fattah, The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia, and the Gulf, 1745-1900 (State University of New York Press, 1996);
Mark Grimsley and Stephen E. Woodworth, Shiloh: A Battlefield Guide (Bison Books, 2006);
Robert KC Johnson, Congress and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2005);
_________________ and others, The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson (W. W. Norton, 2005/06);
Michael Kazin and Joseph McCartin, eds., Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal (University of North Carolina Press, 2006);
______________, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (A. A. Knopf, 2006);
Ralph E. Luker, Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement (Scarecrow Press, 1997);
Scott McLemee, ed., C. L. R. James on the Negro Question (University Press of Mississippi, 1996);
Wilson J. Moses, Creative Conflict in African American Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2004);
Jonathan Reynolds and Eric Gilbert, Africa in World History (Prentice Hall, 2004);
_______________ and ____________, Trading Tastes: Commodity and Cultural Exchange to 1750 (Prentice Hall, 2006);
Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (Harvard University Press, 2001);
Mechel Sobel, Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era (Princeton University Press, 2002);
Sean Wilentz, Andrew Jackson (Times Books, 2005);
_____________, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (W. W. Norton, 2005);
Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Temple University Press, 2001).