Conservatism
A State of the Field
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5703353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kimberly Phillips-Fein (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 723-743 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jar430 |
| OpenAlex | W2321024267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
December 2011 The Journal of American History 723 The historical literature of American conservatism is at a crossroads. Over the past two decades it has been one of the most dynamic subfields in American history, the subject of dozens of journal articles, books, and dissertations. In contrast to the many polemical works on conservatism that populate bookstores, this body of scholarship is wide-ranging, ecumenical, and grounded in serious archival research. The catalogs of major university and commercial presses from the past few years reveal titles on subjects ranging from libertarianism to the southern agrarians to the development of Christian conservatism. Recent meetings of the Organization of American Historians (oah) and the American Historical Association have seen panels on the intellectual history of conservatism, teaching the Right, the Right in the 1960s, military history and conservatism, and the conservative movement in the 1970s. The 2010 meeting of the oah even featured a metapanel on the expansion of the subfield: “How Should Historians Study Conservatism Now That Studying the Right Is Trendy?” In 1994 Alan Brinkley wrote an oft-cited essay for a forum published in the American Historical Review arguing that historians had ignored conservatism to the point that it was an “orphan” of American political history. Today, instead of decrying the absence of scholarship on conservatism, historians might be forgiven for asking whether there is anything left to study in the history of the Right.1 The answer is yes. The new work on conservatism has illuminated the history of a powerful and diverse political movement that organized throughout the postwar era alongside other social movements that received much more attention. Written during a time when conservatism often seemed to be the dominant force in American politics, this new scholarship has reversed the earlier vision of the Right as a marginal part of American life. The literature has described a range of different constituencies for the Conservatism: A State of the Field
American history · Conservatism · Historiography · Library science · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · State (computer science · Subject (documents · American Political and Social Dynamics · Classics · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Seeing Like a Firm
Selling Selective Anti-Statism
The New York Daily News and the History of Conservative Media
Movimento Conservador Norte Americano e o 11 de Setembro
Populist Conservatism on the Air
The modern political right in United States history standards
The Interfaith Intolerance Scale
Un parti de la loi et de l’ordre aux États-Unis ? Essai généalogique et historiographique
The Man in the Water”
Spiro Agnew, the Forgotten Americans, and the Rise of the New Right
HIV and Our World
Missouri and the Deployment of the Southern Strategy in the Twenty-First Century
The Problem of American Conservatism, Revisited
Teaching the January 6 th Insurrection
Formulating an anti-environmental opposition
Murray Rothbard, political strategy, and the making of modern libertarianism
Red China” and the “Yellow Peril”
A Democracy of Authorities
Beyond the cultural Cold War
The Search for Social Harmony at Harvard Business School, 1919–1942
The Entrepreneurial Multiplier Effect
Christianity Today , J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism
The Eisenhower Transition
Worse than cancer and worse than snakes”
Way before the Storm
Family Taxes
Bleeding Edge
Morality, Public Policy, and Partisan Politics in American History
Comprehensive Planning for Healthy Eating and Active Living
Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order
The Historical Presidency
Reaganized Rock
Yellow peril, red scare
Strategic uses of constitutional originalism by conservatives in US gun politics and beyond
George Wallace and the Myth of the White Ethnic Backlash in Milwaukee, 1958–1964
Who Is Wagging Whom? Power and the New History of American Populism
Radicals” and “Racists
The World of the John Birch Society
Citizens’ Councils, Conservatism and White Supremacy in Louisiana, 1964-1972
Managing Democracy, Defending Capitalism
God, Country, and Anita Bryant
Born Again Black Panther
The Geopolitical Imaginary of the BrazilianUltra-Right
Capitalism Needs to Be Re-encapsulated
Conservative Consciousness and the Press
| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |