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Electronic C.V. for Jeffrey L. Pasley

New online writings page

Conference paper:
"Thomas Paine and the U.S. Election of 1796:
 In which it is discovered that George Washington was more popular than Jesus"
from Paine conference at University of Milan, 20 October 2008

Edited work, with Edward G. Gray
Beyond the Valley of the Founders: Democracy in Early America, and After

The Common-Place Politics Issue 2008

Edited Book, 
with Andrew W. Robertson and David Waldstreicher:

BEYOND THE FOUNDERS: 
New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) 

"The Tyranny of Printers": 
Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic 
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001)

Table of Contents

Summary

Companion Web Site

"Director's Cut" of my essay in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Philosophy 

Unpublished essay: "Matthew Livingston Davis's Notes from the Political Underground: The Conflict of Political Values in the Early American Republic"

Conference paper:
  "Conspiracy Theory and American Exceptionalism from the Revolution to Roswell"  

from the festschrift for Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University, 13 May 2000

Conference paper: "A Revolution of 1800 After All:
 The Political Culture of the Earlier Early Republic and the Origins of American Democracy"
 
from "The Revolution of 1800" conference, Charlottesville, VA, 2 December 2000

Conference paper: "The Cheese and the Words: 
Popular Political Culture and Participatory Democracy in the Early American Republic"

from the 7th Annual Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, 
Glasgow, Scotland, 12 July 2001

Conference paper: 
"Minnows, Spies, and Aristocrats: 
The Social Crisis of Congress in the Age of Martin Van Buren"

from the Society for Historians of the Early Republic Annual Meeting,
Providence, R.I., 23 July 2004

Conference paper abstract:
"The Case of the Green Arrow: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Popular Culture"
for Midwest Popular Culture Association, Cleveland, OH, 8 October 2004

Book reviews available online

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HISTORICAL Texts, Sounds, and Images
19th-Century Documents (Furman University)
19th-Century Schoolbooks
Aboriginal Law and Legislation Online
Adams Family Papers Electronic Archive
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
American Journeys
American Memory: Historical Collections
for the National Digital Library (LC)
American Political Prints, 1766-1876
American Presidents: Life Portraits
The American Presidency
American Presidency Project (UCSB)
Archive.org/WayBackMachine
Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
Bartleby Library (Columbia Univ.)
Bibliomania, the Network Library
Boondocks.net
Causes of the Civil War
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Cornell Digital Library
Cupola.com (architecture, historic buildings, state capitols) 
Detroit Institute of Arts 
Visual Resources Art Image Database
David Rumsey Map Collection  
Digital Library of Georgia
Documenting the American South (UNC)
Eldritch Press (classic American lit.)
Early Americas Digital Archive
Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia Library) 
Founder's Library
French Revolutionary Calendar
GOOGLE BOOKS
Harpweek
History Channel Speech Archive
Historic Pittsburgh Project 
History of the Erie Canal
Images of American Political History 
Illinois Historical Digitization Projects

  Prairie Fire: The Illinois Country, 1673-1818

Getting the Message Out: 
National Campaign Materials, 1840-1860

Sources in American Social History

Mark Twain's Mississippi River

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (Kappler)
Jesuit Relations
John Jay Papers
Kalevala
Kansas Collection Books
Library and Archives Canada
Library of Western Fur Trade Historical Source Documents
Liberty Fund online library
Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics
McKenney and Hall Indian Portraits
Mad Cybrarian's Library
Making of America Project (University of Michigan)
Maryland State Archives
Mercury Theater on the Air
Missouri State Archives
National Portrait Gallery (US)
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
New Nation Votes
Online Books Page (from Penn)
Oyez Project (Supreme Court multimedia)
PBS history programs
Project Gutenberg
Secular Web Historical Library
Spy Letters of the American Revolution
Territorial Kansas Online
Thomas Paine National Historical Association
Universal Library
University of Missouri Digital Library
University of Texas Historical Map Collection

University of Virginia American Studies

Virtual Museum of San Francisco

LIBRARY CATALOGS

Library of Congress
MERLIN (UM system)
MOBIUS (Missouri libraries)

MU Library Web Site

Electronic Resources 

Special Collections

Daniel Boone Regional Library
HOLLIS (Harvard)
WorldCat
MEDIA OUTLETS: Newspapers online
General news sites
Air America Radio 
Associated Press
BBC
Boston Globe
Cable News Network
Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Missourian
Daily Show
Editor and Publisher
ESPN
Guardian Unlimited
The Hill
Huffington Post
The Independent
Kansas City Star
MSNBC
New York Times
The Onion
Philadelphia Inquirer
Reuters
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Scotsman
Talking Points Memo
Tallahassee Democrat
USA Today
Washington Post
World News.com
Yahoo News
Political & cultural journals
American Prospect 
Atlantic Monthly
The Baffler
Buzzflash Report  
Common-Place
Counter-Punch
Dissent
The Economist
Entertainment Weekly
History News Network
In These Times
McSweeney's
Mother Jones
The Nation
The New Republic
The New Yorker
New York Review of Books
Onion A.V. Club
PopMatters

PopPolitics

Preservation

Riverfront Times
Salon
Slate
Texas Observer
TomPaine.com
Washington Independent
Washington Monthly
OTHER 'BLOGS and COLUMNS
538.com 
Abu Aardvark 
Altercation
Andrew Sullivan
Atrios
Blogger (read them & make your own)
Cole, Juan
Daily Howler
Daily Kos
DeLong, J. Bradford
Digby
EconoSpeak
Edge of the American West
firedoglake
Greenwald, Glenn
Kleiman, Mark
Left-Wing Cub Scout (my old History News Network 'blog)
Neiwert, David
PressThink
Rozen, Laura
Talking Points Memo
Tapped
This Modern World (cartoon)
Time Pundit (my 1st 'blog -- now obsolescent)
TomDispatch 
Wolcott, James
Yglesias, Matthew
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball
Minor League Baseball
ESPN baseball scoreboard
Baseball Hall of Fame
Baseball Reference
St. Louis Cardinals
Kansas City Royals
Minnesota Twins
Boston Red Sox
Detroit Tigers
Philadelphia Phillies

 

HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS, JOURNALS, AND WEBSITES
Journal of the Early Republic
Society for Historians of the Early American  Republic
Old SHEAR site
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
American Antiquarian Society
American Studies Association
American Studies Crossroads Project
American Philosophical Society
Army Center of Military History
Bibliographical Society of America
Center for History and New Media
Chicago Historical Society
Common-Place
Connecticut Historical Society
DoHistory.org
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
History Cooperative
History News Network
H-Net
Journal for Multimedia History
Journal of Policy History
Kansas State Historical Society
Library Company of Philadelphia
Missouri Historical Society
Missouri State Archives
National Trust for Historic Preservation
New-York Historical Society
Talking History public radio show: from Albany & Creighton
War of 1812.com
Western Historical Manuscripts Collection

POLITICAL

Center for American Progress 

Corporate Governance

Democratic Party 

Democrats.com (not the party)

The Democratic Strategist 

Democratic Underground

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

Media Matters

MoveOn.org

PublicEye.org (Political Research Associates)

Republican Party

Sojourners

THOMAS (U.S. Congress)

United for Peace and Justice

Working for Change

MEDIA HISTORY

Archive of Americana
Augusta Archives
British Library Online Newspaper Archive
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
The Press and the Presidency
Media History Monographs

CONSPIRACY THEORY STUDIES

Berlet, Chip 
Conspiracy Digest 
Conspiracy Planet 
Crank Dot Net
CSICOP
Disinformation
Encyclopedia of American Conspiracy Theories
Fortean Times
International Spy Museum
Museum of Hoaxes
National Institute for Discovery Science
Nixon Era Center
PublicEye.org 
Public Information Research
Real History Archives
UFO Casebook

Urban Legends Reference Pages (Snopes.com)

REFERENCE

Annals of Congress and other congressional proceedings 

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

Artcyclopedia

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Bookwire

CIA World Factbook

College and University Home Pages

Family History Source Guide

Film Reference Sites

FSU Library Web Site

Geospatial and Statistical Data Center

Handbook of Texas Online

Infoplease

Presidential elections

LEXIS-NEXIS UNIverse

Library of Congress Main Page

National Archives

Electoral College

National Atlas

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Guide to Repositories

President Elect 

Rough Guides Travel 

UMI Newspapers Catalog

U.S. Census Data

US Geological Survey

Geographic Names Information System

SHOPPING SITES

ABE (used books) 

Alibris (used books) 

Amazon.com

Barnes & Noble online

Best Video (rentals of rare videos by mail)

Bibliofind (used books-now part of Amazon)

Buy.com

CDNow

Critic's Choice Video

Deep Discount DVD

EBay

MusicStack

mymusic

Netflix (DVD rentals by mail -- highly recommended)

Tomfolio (used books)

POP CULTURE

All-Movie Guide

All-Music Guide 

BBC Radio 6

Bloodshot Records

The Beat

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other Joss Whedon productions

"Whedonesque" blog 

Official Buffy sites: BBC

Angel: "City of Angel"; AAS 

Fan sites: BC&S; Buffyguide; Buffyworld; Slayage news

Buffy studies: philosophy; discussion board

Firefly: fansite; film version Serenity 

CBR

City of Heroes

Comixfan

COMO Music

Criterion Collection

DC Comics

Deadwood

DVD Savant 

Earle, Steve

Emergency Umbrella

Epitonic

Film Threat 

Green Arrow: Compendium; Shrine

Heroes

Hollywood Reporter

IGN

Internet Movie Database

JamBase

Jeeves and Wooster

KBXR Radio

Little Steven's Underground Garage

Live365.com

Marvel Comics

The Mekons:

Club Mekon 

Quarterstick Records

Newsarama

Ninth Art

No Depression

Not Lame Recordings

Pitchfork

Playback St. Louis

Pulp Heroes of the 1930s

The Pulse

Radar

Ragtag Cinemacafé

Roadfood 

Rotten Tomatoes

Science Fiction, Horror, & Fantasy
Film Review

Screensite

SequArt

Sharpe Appreciation Society

Show Me Eats

The Sopranos

SpiderFan

Stereogum

Teenage Fanclub

Toon Zone

TV Barn

TV Tome (collection of episode guides)

Uncut (British music magazine) 
Variety
Zap2It

SPRING 2009

History 2440, History of Missouri
History 4070/7070, Indians and Europeans in Early America

FALL 2008

History 4000/7000, Age of Jefferson
History 8004, Graduate Readings in U.S. Political History

WINTER 2008

History 2420, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracies in U.S. History and Culture
History 4004.1, American History and American Popular Culture

FALL 2007

History 1100.3, American History to 1865
History 8021, Graduate Readings on the Early American Republic

WINTER 2007

History 2420, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracies in U.S. History and Culture
History 4070/7070, Indians and Europeans in Early America

FALL 2006

History 1100.3, American History to 1865
History 8480, Historiography

WINTER 2006

 History 1100.3 (now with 3 extra digits!), American History to 1865
History 4000/7000, Age of Jefferson

FALL 2005 (now with exciting new numbering system!)

History 2420, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracies in U.S. History and Culture
History 8021, Graduate Readings on the Early American Republic

WINTER 2004

History 3.3, American History to 1865 
History 442, Graduate Readings on the Early American Republic

FALL 2003

History 127 Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracies in U.S. History and Culture
History 366 Indians and Europeans in Early America

WINTER 2003

History 287.1  Undergraduate Seminar:
 Thomas Jefferson and the Legend of the Founding Fathers
History 412  Historiography

FALL 2002

History 301.2 Indians and Europeans in Early America
History 401.1 Graduate Readings in U.S. Political History

The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden (National Museum of American History)

Emma Goldman Papers Online Exhibition

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

Heroes, Heartthrobs and Horrors: Celebrating Connecticut’s Invention of the American Comic Book

The Illustrating Traveler: 
Adventure and Illustration in
North America and the Caribbean 1760-1895

Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition

Library of Congress Exhibitions 

The Living Room Candidate (historic campaign commercials online!)

National Portrait Gallery

Red, White, Blue & Brimstone: 
New World Literature and the American Millennium

Smithsonian Institution

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

PERSONAL

Isaac's Web Site

Owen's Web Site

Cutter IT Journal 
(Karen is managing editor)

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