J Michael Martinez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745021 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Michael Martinez |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Martinez |
| SIGNATURE | MARTÍNEZ J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kennesaw State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-7011-5657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Age of Reconstruction
The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee has become an iconic figure in American history, the beau ideal of a military man: audacious, resourceful, and, above all, victorious. According to the standard myth, Lee, the perfect southern gentleman, reluctantly followed his beloved Virginia out of the Union in 1861 only because he could not fathom fighting against the people of the Old Dominion. He became a general officer in the Confederate army, assumed field command, and, ow…
Free the Beaches
Ned Coll is not a name familiar to most persons knowledgeable about the twentieth-century civil rights movement. In Free the Beaches, Andrew W. Kahrl of the University of Virginia makes a compelling case that it ought to be. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, twenty-two-year-old Coll—who, like the slain president, was Irish Catholic—worked at an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Dismayed over the loss of a young, dy…
Long Dark Night
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war—and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s—American society witnessed the evolution of a …
A Long Dark Night
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war—and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s—American society witnessed the evolution of a …
Searching for Freedom after the Civil War
Journal Article Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman Get access By G. Ward Hubbs. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015. xvi, 223 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw069 Published: 01 June 2016
Haunted by Atrocity
Approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers perished in Civil War military prisons, yet for decades most historians, with a few notable exceptions, ignored the subject, owing to a dearth of reliable research material. Diaries, memoirs, sermons, journal articles, newspaper stories, and congressional reports of the period were so patently biased they were almost worthless as credible sources of factual information. In recent years, many fin…
God and Gold
Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville
In Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville, Robert Scott Davis, director of the Family and Regional History Program at Wallace State Community College, has written the latest in a long line of studies by numerous scholars on the Confederate stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia. Of all Civil War prisons, Andersonville has received the most attention, and no wonder: The camp had the highest mortality rate of any Civil War prison (around 33 percent) an…
Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian Views of Nature in the Early American Republic
It is well known that Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton differed in their respective views on the appropriate role of government in the American republic; however, their views on the natural environment are far less familiar. Accordingly, this article examines the Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian thinking on nature in the context of two prevailing views of the natural environment: an intrinsic view and an instrumental view. An intrinsic view va…
Have Gun, Will Travel
This article presents a case study of the political controversy in 1995 and 1996 between the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Rifle Association (NRA) over whether the CDC should conduct policy research on firearm‐related violence as a public health issue. In 1996, largely as a result of the NRA's lobbying efforts, Congress curtailed the CDC's authority in addressing firearm violence as a public healt…
Life and Death in Civil War Prisons
The Leviathan's Choice
The Carter Administration and the Evolution of American Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1977–1981
In the wake of India's May 1998 decision to resume nuclear testing for the first time since 1974, as well as arch-rival Pakistan's subsequent response, the attention of the world again has focused on nuclear nonproliferation policy as a means of maintaining stability in politically troubled regions of the world. The 1990s proved to be an uncertain time for nonproliferation policy. Pakistan acquired nuclear capabilities. Iraq displayed its well-kn…
Confederate Symbols in the Contemporary South
This illustrated collection of essays examines the controversy surrounding the use and display of Confederate symbols in the modern South. Prominent scholars from many disciplines explore the battle between pro-Confederate-symbol forces (traditionalists) and anti-Confederate-symbol forces (reconstructionists) as they struggle to reconcile the values and customs of a racially conservative Old South and a racially liberal New South. Should the Conf…
Hazardous Materials Transportation in an Age of Devolution
The United States has entered an age of devolution. As political responsibility has begun to shift from the federal government back to the states, many questions concerning an appropriate intergovernmental relationship remain unclear. In the area of environmental law, for example, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided a case, Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) (1996), that restricted DOT’s authority to preempt state bond…
Privatizing Professional Licensing Boards
Because professional licensing boards represent nondemocratic elements in a political system founded on democratic principles, their legitimacy has been questioned in recent years. This article examines legal and medical licensing boards in three states—Georgia, California, and Massachusetts—to determine whether developments in those states suggest a trend toward appointing citizen members to boards. The article concludes that although public acc…
Law versus Ethics
Developing a workable system of public service ethics is difficult owing, to a fundamental tension between law (public duties) and ethics (private duties). This article surveys the literature on legal ethics to observe how a well-defined public service profession has reconciled this tension, to some extent, through the adoption of a "legalized" code of ethics that also allows professionals to step from behind the prescribed system of rules and en…
The Carter Administration and the Evolution of American Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1977–1981
In the wake of India's May 1998 decision to resume nuclear testing for the first time since 1974, as well as arch-rival Pakistan's subsequent response, the attention of the world again has focused on nuclear nonproliferation policy as a means of maintaining stability in politically troubled regions of the world. The 1990s proved to be an uncertain time for nonproliferation policy. Pakistan acquired nuclear capabilities. Iraq displayed its well-kn…
Law versus Ethics
Developing a workable system of public service ethics is difficult owing, to a fundamental tension between law (public duties) and ethics (private duties). This article surveys the literature on legal ethics to observe how a well-defined public service profession has reconciled this tension, to some extent, through the adoption of a "legalized" code of ethics that also allows professionals to step from behind the prescribed system of rules and en…
Free the Beaches
Ned Coll is not a name familiar to most persons knowledgeable about the twentieth-century civil rights movement. In Free the Beaches, Andrew W. Kahrl of the University of Virginia makes a compelling case that it ought to be. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, twenty-two-year-old Coll—who, like the slain president, was Irish Catholic—worked at an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Dismayed over the loss of a young, dy…
Have Gun, Will Travel
This article presents a case study of the political controversy in 1995 and 1996 between the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Rifle Association (NRA) over whether the CDC should conduct policy research on firearm‐related violence as a public health issue. In 1996, largely as a result of the NRA's lobbying efforts, Congress curtailed the CDC's authority in addressing firearm violence as a public healt…
Law versus Ethics
Developing a workable system of public service ethics is difficult owing, to a fundamental tension between law (public duties) and ethics (private duties). This article surveys the literature on legal ethics to observe how a well-defined public service profession has reconciled this tension, to some extent, through the adoption of a "legalized" code of ethics that also allows professionals to step from behind the prescribed system of rules and en…
Hazardous Materials Transportation in an Age of Devolution
The United States has entered an age of devolution. As political responsibility has begun to shift from the federal government back to the states, many questions concerning an appropriate intergovernmental relationship remain unclear. In the area of environmental law, for example, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided a case, Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) (1996), that restricted DOT’s authority to preempt state bond…
Privatizing Professional Licensing Boards
Because professional licensing boards represent nondemocratic elements in a political system founded on democratic principles, their legitimacy has been questioned in recent years. This article examines legal and medical licensing boards in three states—Georgia, California, and Massachusetts—to determine whether developments in those states suggest a trend toward appointing citizen members to boards. The article concludes that although public acc…
The Carter Administration and the Evolution of American Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1977–1981
In the wake of India's May 1998 decision to resume nuclear testing for the first time since 1974, as well as arch-rival Pakistan's subsequent response, the attention of the world again has focused on nuclear nonproliferation policy as a means of maintaining stability in politically troubled regions of the world. The 1990s proved to be an uncertain time for nonproliferation policy. Pakistan acquired nuclear capabilities. Iraq displayed its well-kn…
Confederate Symbols in the Contemporary South
This illustrated collection of essays examines the controversy surrounding the use and display of Confederate symbols in the modern South. Prominent scholars from many disciplines explore the battle between pro-Confederate-symbol forces (traditionalists) and anti-Confederate-symbol forces (reconstructionists) as they struggle to reconcile the values and customs of a racially conservative Old South and a racially liberal New South. Should the Conf…
The Leviathan's Choice
Have Gun, Will Travel
This article presents a case study of the political controversy in 1995 and 1996 between the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Rifle Association (NRA) over whether the CDC should conduct policy research on firearm‐related violence as a public health issue. In 1996, largely as a result of the NRA's lobbying efforts, Congress curtailed the CDC's authority in addressing firearm violence as a public healt…
Life and Death in Civil War Prisons
Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian Views of Nature in the Early American Republic
It is well known that Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton differed in their respective views on the appropriate role of government in the American republic; however, their views on the natural environment are far less familiar. Accordingly, this article examines the Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian thinking on nature in the context of two prevailing views of the natural environment: an intrinsic view and an instrumental view. An intrinsic view va…
Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville
In Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville, Robert Scott Davis, director of the Family and Regional History Program at Wallace State Community College, has written the latest in a long line of studies by numerous scholars on the Confederate stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia. Of all Civil War prisons, Andersonville has received the most attention, and no wonder: The camp had the highest mortality rate of any Civil War prison (around 33 percent) an…
God and Gold
Haunted by Atrocity
Approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers perished in Civil War military prisons, yet for decades most historians, with a few notable exceptions, ignored the subject, owing to a dearth of reliable research material. Diaries, memoirs, sermons, journal articles, newspaper stories, and congressional reports of the period were so patently biased they were almost worthless as credible sources of factual information. In recent years, many fin…
Long Dark Night
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war—and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s—American society witnessed the evolution of a …
A Long Dark Night
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war—and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s—American society witnessed the evolution of a …
Searching for Freedom after the Civil War
Journal Article Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman Get access By G. Ward Hubbs. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015. xvi, 223 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw069 Published: 01 June 2016
Free the Beaches
Ned Coll is not a name familiar to most persons knowledgeable about the twentieth-century civil rights movement. In Free the Beaches, Andrew W. Kahrl of the University of Virginia makes a compelling case that it ought to be. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, twenty-two-year-old Coll—who, like the slain president, was Irish Catholic—worked at an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Dismayed over the loss of a young, dy…
The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee has become an iconic figure in American history, the beau ideal of a military man: audacious, resourceful, and, above all, victorious. According to the standard myth, Lee, the perfect southern gentleman, reluctantly followed his beloved Virginia out of the Union in 1861 only because he could not fathom fighting against the people of the Old Dominion. He became a general officer in the Confederate army, assumed field command, and, ow…
The Age of Reconstruction
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