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Papers and Publications On this page I've listed and placed links (PDFs in some cases, links to Amazon or ExpressO in others) to a number of papers, books, reviews, or articles that I've written or published. These materials are primarily for my own use - but feel free to browse. If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear what you think. (All materials here are copyrighted; if for whatever reason you wish to use something I have posted here, please contact me for permission.)
I have not included links to various articles I'm working on. If you'd like to see something or discuss something with me, please feel free to email me. Note that most of the sources below are in Bluebook form.
Dissertation: Samuel Brenner, "Shouting At the Rain: The Voices and Ideas of Right-Wing Anti-Communist Americanists in the Era of Modern American Conservatism, 1950-1974" (History Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 2009).
Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Papers: Samuel Brenner, “I Am a Bit Sickened”: Examining Archetypes of Congressional War Crimes Oversight after My Lai and Abu Ghraib, 202 Mil. L. Rev. ???? (forthcoming). (Mil. L. Rev. is published by The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia, and is reviewed and edited by JAG attorneys.) (Link is to the version of the draft on ExpressO). Samuel Brenner, “Negro Blood In His Veins”: The Development and Disappearance of the Doctrine of Defamation Per Se by Racial Misidentification in the American South 50 Santa Clara L. Rev. 388 (2010). (Westlaw) Samuel Brenner, Note, “Airbrushed Out of the Constitutional Canon”: The Evolving Understanding of Giles v. Harris, 1903-1925, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 853 (2009). Samuel Brenner, “Protecting Colleges and Universities in the Age of Global Terror,” in 2 Homeland Security: Protecting America's Targets (Public Places and Perception) (James J.F. Forest ed., 2006).
Edited Books: The Death Penalty (Issues on Trial) (Samuel Brenner ed., 2006). Vietnam War Crimes (At Issue In History) (Samuel Brenner ed., 2005). Living Through the Vietnam War (Living Through The Cold War) (Samuel Brenner ed., 2005). Dwight David Eisenhower (Presidents and Their Decisions) (Samuel Brenner ed., 2002).
Book Reviews/Interviews/Encyclopedia Entries: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896–Present: From the Age of Segregation to the 21st Century (Paul Finkelman et al eds., 2009) (Various entries). The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellions (Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., 2007) (Various entries). Samuel Brenner, Book Review, 26 Disability Stud. Q. (Summer 2006) (reviewing John Tayman, The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai (2006)). The Home Front Encyclopedia: the United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II (James Ciment and Thaddeus Russell, eds. 2006) (Various entries). Guest on National Public Radio (NPR) program Perspectives with Curt Smith, Station WXXI in Rochester, NY, discussing Dwight Eisenhower’s record in World War II, aired November 12, 2005.
Articles in Progress: The Dog That Didn’t Bark: International Law and the Disappearance of Extradition of Terrorism Suspects from the United States after September 11th (draft available for submission). Shifting Out of Neutral: Federal Courts and the First Amendment Treatment of the Ku Klux Klan. In Good Times and In Bad: The Status and Import of Spousal Testimonial Privileges in Cases of Alternative Marriage. Segregation and Equality: Ambiguous Americanist Views of African Americans, Racism, and Civil Rights. Suspicion and Support: Ambiguous Americanist Views of Jews, Zionism, and Anti-Semitism. False Lessons and Futile Power: Early Joint Operations and Bombardment Fever in the American Civil War. Home Court: The John Birch Society in New England, 1958-1975. Strong Words: Partisan Propaganda, Inter-party Conflict, and the War of 1812 in Early Republic Rhode Island.
Conferences/Invited Presentations: Conference Paper, “Weakest At Home: The John Birch Society in New England, 1958-1975,” Panel on “Fascism and Right-wing Extremism in the 20th Century,” Conference of the New England Historical Association, October 22, 2005, the University of Rhode Island, South Kingston, RI. Paper, “Violating Preconceived Notions: The Bizarre Attitudes of Ultra-Conservative Anti-Communist Organizations to Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1950-1980 or How the John Birch Society Was Really Very Different From the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party,” presented to the Department of History, October 21, 2005, Brown University, Providence, RI. Conference Paper, “Segregation and Equality: Ambiguous Attitudes Towards African-Americans Among Extremist Anti-Communist Organizations in the United States, 1950-1980,” Panel on “Radical African Americans During the Civil Rights Era,” Seventh Annual Graduate History Conference of the Graduate Association for African-American History, September 29-30, 2005, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. Conference Paper, “Suspicion and Support: Ambiguous Views of Jews and Anti-Semitism Among Extremist Anti-Communist Organizations in the United States, 1950-1980,” Panel on “Themes in American Jewish History,” Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, September 18-19, 2005, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Commentator, Panel on “Gender and Public Policy,” Conference on Gender Across Borders, May 13-14, 2005, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Non-Published Essays and Book Reviews (Primarily from old coursework): False Promise, review of Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1991). Anne E. Blair, Lodge in Vietnam: A Patriot Abroad (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). H. R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam (New York: Harper Collins, 1997).
Political Pseudo-Science: Carol M. Swain, Academic Objectivity, and the Nature of Political Science. Review of Carol M. Swain, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African American Interests in Congress (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 1995).
The Power of Criticism: Historical Methodology in Geoffrey Blainey’s The Causes of War. Review of Geoffrey Blainey, The Causes of War, (New York: The Free Press, 1988).
C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la science: The Scientific Study of War and Peace. Review of John A. Vasquez and Marie T. Henehan, The Scientific Study of Peace and War: A Text Reader (Lanham: Lexington Books, 1992, 1999).
Columns/Op-Ed: Whose Money Is It Anyway?: W's Proposed Tax Refund. Brown Daily Herald, Spring 2001.
Graduate Students Must Question Unionization. (Printed as "Brown Graduate Students Secretly Working to Unionize"), Brown Daily Herald, April 4, 2001.
Let Me Hear You Say "Amen": the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Brown Daily Herald, Spring 2001. (Picked up and reprinted by several college and university newspapers around the country.)
Coursework Papers and Articles: Adding Race: A Proposed Model of the Determinants of African-American Political Behavior. Brown University Political Science 207: (African American Political Development) Professor Marion Orr, Fall 2002.
Brown University Political Science 207: (African American Political Development) Professor Marion Orr, Fall 2002.
Permanent Ties? The Black Utility Heuristic, “Linked Fate,” and the Enduring Power of Race in African American Political Behavior. Brown University Political Science 207: (African American Political Development) Professor Marion Orr, Fall 2002.
Applying History: The Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 and Behavioralist Theories of Warfare. Brown University Political Science 206 (Conflict and Cooperation in International Negotiation), Professor P. Terrance Hopmann, Fall 2002.
Is The Truth in the
Mail? The Relationship Between Public Opinion and Constituent Mail to
the Senate. Brown University Political Science 206 (American
Political Behavior), Professor Paul Kellstedt, Fall 2001.
Willful Men: The Filibuster and
the 107th Congress.
Brown University Political Science 110 (Congress
and Public Policy), Professor Wendy Schiller, Spring 2001.
Search and Destroy:
General William C. Westmoreland and the Failure of the United States
Strategy in Vietnam. Brown University History 191 (Vietnam:
America's Lost War), Professor Charles Neu, Fall, 2000.
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