The Best American History Essays 2006

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Inventing the Presidency

Chapter 3 “Divide et Impera”: Federalist 10 in a Wider Sphere

Chapter 4 “Overrun with Free Negroes”: Emancipation and Wartime Migration in the Upper Midwest

Chapter 5 The Work Ethic of the Plain Folk: Labor and Religion in the Old South

Chapter 6 “‘It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped’: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle”

Chapter 7 Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary

Chapter 9 Murder and Biblical Memory: The Legend of Vernon Johns

Chapter 10 Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945–1969

Chapter 11 The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind” Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis