William Allen's study, Rethinking Uncle Tom: The Political Thought of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Lexington Books) appeared in paperback early this year. Professor Allen will teach a Great Text course next summer on Stowe's profoundly influential anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century.

Joshua Dunn has co-edited with Martin R. West the collection, From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary's Role in American Education (Brookings Institution Press) which appeared in July. Among essays covering topics ranging from school desegregation to high-stakes testing and school finance, the book offers Dunn's piece, "Talking About Religion: Separation, Freedom of Speech, and Student Rights," and another he co-authored with West, "The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited." Dunn, who is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, co-taught the 2009 course on the Supreme Court.

The second volume in Steven Hayward's biography of Ronald Reagan, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989 appeared at the end of August. Published by Random House, the book continues the story begun in The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980 (2001), which National Review called a "grand and fascinating history" that "goes far towards making the definitive historical case for Reagan's greatness." Hayward, who is F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, co-taught last summer's American Statesmen course on FDR and Reagan.

Sidney M. Milkis, professor of Politics at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and frequent faculty member in the MAHG program, has just published a study of the 1912 presidential election: Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy (University Press of Kansas). Part of the American Political Thought series, the book details the politics of an election it calls "the decisive battle of the Progressive era" and the scene of "the first comprehensive efforts to come to terms with the fundamental conflicts raised by the industrial revolution." A four-way race between incumbent Republican President Taft, Woodrow Wilson, labor leader Eugene Debs and the Progressive leader Roosevelt—himself a former President and Republican, the 1912 election is less important, Milkis argues, for its outcome (the election of Wilson) than for introducing a new style of party politics that made use of direct primaries, exploited the new mass media, built a candidate-centered campaign, and "convened an uneasy coalition of self-styled public advocacy groups. All these features of the Progressive Party campaign make the election of 1912 look more like the election of 2008 than the election of 1908."

John Marini, who co-taught with Chris Burkett the 2009 elective, "The Western," presents his view of the genre as a reaction to progressive political thought in a recently published essay. "Defending the West: John Ford and the Creation of the Epic Western," was published in August as part of the collection Print the Legend: Politics, Culture, and Civic Virtue in the Films of John Ford, edited by Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. (Lexington Books). Marini is Professor of political science at the University of Nevada-Reno.

Melanie Marlowe has contributed the chapter, "The Unitary Executive and Review of Agency Rulemaking," to The Unitary Executive and the Modern Presidency, edited by Ryan J. Barilleaux and Christopher S. Kelley (forthcoming from Texas A&M Press, Fall 2009). Marlowe, who teaches political science at Miami University of Ohio, co-taught "The American Founding" last summer.

Natalie Taylor's essay, "The Personal is Political: Women's Magazines for the 'I'm-Not-a-Feminist-But' Generation" appeared last May in the collection You've Come A Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture, edited by Lilly J. Goren (University Press of Kentucky).