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American conservatism began to get sustained attention from academic historians after Alan Brinkley's 1994 article "the Problem of American Conservatism." Brinkley argued that since historians were generally unsympathetic to conservatism, they tended to ignore conservative movements and thinkers, characterizing conservatives as reactionaries on the wrong side of a progressive historical narrative. Brinkley's article inspired a generation of historians to take conservatism seriously. Zelizer (2010) is a review essay of work inspired by Brikley's article. Kazin's (1992) review article shows that serious study of U.S. conservatism predates Brinkley's article.

Genovese (1932-2012) a historian of the American South and American slavery, was best known for Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974), which won the Bancroft Prize in 1975. Originally a Marxist who applied Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony to slavery, Genovese became a conservative while researching 'The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism' (1994), included in this bibliography. In The Southern Tradition, Genovese examines the Southern agrarians who he came to admire. Per Wikipedia on August 1, 2017, "The Southern Agrarians, [Genovese] noted, also posed a challenge to modern American conservatives who have a mistaken belief in market capitalism's compatibility with traditional social values and family structures. Genovese agreed with the Agrarians in concluding that capitalism destroyed those institutions."

Hofstader (1964) is a classic examination of fringe groups and conspiracy theories that uses the example of 19th century groups opposed to changes in monetary policy. Hofstadter was inspired by Goldwater's selection as the Republican presidential candidate in 1964.

Himmelstein (1992) and Schoenwald (2001) are both political histories of mid to late 20th-century American conservatism. Farmer (2005) takes this back to the Puritans. Farber (2010) prematurely(?) sees American conservatism as in decline. Lowndes (2008) argues that modern American conservatism grow out of an alliance between northern conservatives and southern segregationists.

Nash (2017) is a Heritage Foundation report about the future of American conservatism. I may move this piece to be with Brooks on the free enterprise page. The author argues that conservatives need to communicate in language that connects with ordinary Americans.

McGirr (2015) and Nickerson (2009) are a social histories of mid 20th-century conservatism in southern California. Williamson, Skopal, and Coggin (2011) is a sociological study of the emergence of the tea Party with participant observer research in Massachusetts.

James W. Fitfield, Jr. was a mid century Congregationalist minister who "set about convincing America’s Protestant clergy that America was a Christian nation in which government must be kept from interfering with the expression of God’s will in market economics" Stewart (2017). Fitfield's legacy is central to Kevin M. Kruse's "One Nation under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America" (2015). Kruse, a historian of the American South at Princeton University, argues that the idea of the United States as a christian nation grew out of opposition to the New Deal 'when Corporate leaders allied with conservative clergyman [like Fitfield] to promote 'Christian libertarianism' (Kerstetter 2016). Kruse has previously written a prizewinning history of desegregation in Atlanta.

One Nation under God has been positively reviewed, although reviewers are not convinced that corporations played a significant role in promoting Christian libertarianism. The positive reviews included here include Hart (2015), written by a professor at Hillsdale College, published in the Wall Street Journal.

Toy (1970) is a history of Fitfield's spiritual mobilization movement. Harvey (1971) discusses the tensions between Fitfield's congregation and its parent denomination. Haddington (2010) and Harvey (1970) in this subsection are from publications Rice does not subscribe to.

History of American Conservatism

Zelizer, Julian E. 2010. “Reflections: Rethinking the History of American Conservatism.” Reviews in American History 38 (2): 367–92. doi:10.1353/rah.0.0217.

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Brinkley, Alan. 1994. “The Problem of American Conservatism.” The American Historical Review 99 (2): 409–29. doi:10.2307/2167281.

This article led a generation of historians to seriously examine American conservatism.

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Farber, David. 2010. The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History. Princeton University Press.

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Himmelstein, Jerome L. 1992. To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism. University of California Press.

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Genovese, Eugene D. 1994. The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism. Harvard University Press.

Genovese is a former Marxist who became a conservative.

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Farmer, Brian R. 2005. American Conservatism: History, Theory and Practice. Cambridge Scholars Press.

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Schoenwald, Jonathan. 2001. A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism. Oxford University Press.

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Lowndes, Joseph E. 2008. From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism. Yale University Press.

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Williamson, Vanessa, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin. 2011. “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism.” Perspectives on Politics 9 (1): 25–43. doi:10.1017/S153759271000407X.

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Nash, George. 2017. “Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism.” The Heritage Foundation. Accessed July 20.

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Kazin, Michael. 1992. “The Grass-Roots Right: New Histories of U.S. Conservatism in the Twentieth Century.” Edited by Leonard J. Moore, Kathleen M. Blee, Jerome L. Himmelstein, Ronald P. Formisano, and Rebecca E. Klatch. The American Historical Review 97 (1): 136–55. doi:10.2307/2164542.

Review article

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McGirr, Lisa. 2015. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton University Press.

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Hofstadter, Richard. 2012. The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Citation is reprint of 1964 classic.

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Nickerson, Michelle. 2009. “Politically Desperate Housewives: Women and Conservatism in Postwar Los Angeles.” California History 86 (3): 4–67. doi:10.2307/40495217.

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James W. Fitfield, Jr.

Stewart, Katherine. 2017. “Opinion | What the ‘Government Schools’ Critics Really Mean.” The New York Times, July 31, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/opinion/donald-trump-school-choice-criticism.html.

This op ed led me to research Fitfield.

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Toy, Eckard V. 1970. “Spiritual Mobilization: The Failure of an Ultraconservative Ideal in the 1950’ S.” The Pacific Northwest Quarterly 61 (2): 77–86.

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Haddigan, Lee. 2010. “The Importance of Christian Thought for the American Libertarian Movement: Christian Libertarianism, 1950-71.” Libertarian Papers 2: 1.

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HARVEY, CHARLES E. 1971. “Dr. Fifield of Los Angeles’ First Congregational Church Against the Ecumenical Movement.” Southern California Quarterly 53 (1): 67–82. doi:10.2307/41170332.

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Harvey, Charles E. 1970. “Congregationalism on Trial, 1949-1950: An Account of the Cadman Case.” Journal of Church and State 12: 255.

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Kruse, Kevin. 2016. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Basic Books.

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Book reviews of One Nation Under God & Interview with Kruse

Ferré, John P. 2016. “One Nation under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America.” Journalism History 41 (4): 233.

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Kazin, Michael. 2015. “‘One Nation Under God,’ by Kevin M. Kruse.” The New York Times, May 15, sec. Sunday Book Review. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/books/review/one-nation-under-god-by-kevin-m-kruse.html.

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Hart, D. G. 2015. “The World Ike Wrought.” Wall Street Journal, June 9, sec. Arts. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-ike-wrought-1433891576.

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“How ‘One Nation’ Didn’t Become ‘Under God’ Until The ’50s Religious Revival.” 2017. NPR.org. Accessed August 3. http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/396365659/how-one-nation-didnt-become-under-god-until-the-50s-religious-revival.

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Kerstetter, Todd M. 2016. “<italic>One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America</Italic> by Kevin M. Kruse (Review).” Journal of Southern History 82 (3): 738–39. doi:10.1353/soh.2016.0242.

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