ARTICLES AND BOOKS BY ROBERT BRENT TOPLIN: A SELECTION FROM MORE THAN A HUNDRED ARTICLES AND SEVERAL BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
Part One features a selection from articles published by the History News Network (www.hnn.us).
Part Two features a selection of articles published in a variety of mainstream publications (New York Times, Time) as well as professional journals.
Part Three: Books Published
PART ONE: A SELECTION OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY THE HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
The President Is Disrupting the U.S. Economy. Originally published June 9, 2019 http://www.hnn.us/article/172182
If Jeff Sessions Is Serious About Cracking Down on Immigration Law Violators, He’s Going to Have to Arrest Millions of American Citizens. Originally published September 6, 2017. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166850
Ronald Reagan and the Day the Earth Stood Still. Originally published in 2009. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/58928
Journalists Need to Keep in Mind that Donald Trump Didn’t Win a Mandate for Anything. Originally published June 30, 2018. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169367
When It Matters that Hollywood Get History Right. Originally published February 15, 2015. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158464
Sure, the Economy’s Great Right Now, but that Doesn’t Mean Trump Deserves the Credit. Originally published December 2, 2018. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170566
Could a Movie Help Lead to the Departure of Scotland from the UK? Publication date? https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159433
The Case that Will Tell Us If the Supreme Court Justices Are Just Politicians in Robes. Originally published March 22, 2015. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/15881
Russia Almost Certainly Made Donald Trump President. Originally published November 5, 2017. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167370
The Democrats Should Run Against Washington Corruption. Originally published August 19, 2018. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169781
The GOP Deserves Trump. Originally published June 26, 2016. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163136
It Was Dumb to Allow a Simple Majority to Decide an Issue as Big as Brexit. Originally published June 29, 2016. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163223
“Trumpcare” – A Word Democrats Can Learn to Love. Originally published March 19, 2017. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165419
What Sunk Mitt: GOP Extremism. Originally published November 7, 2012. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/149150
Economics 101: Who’s Up, Who’s Down. Originally published during the Great Recession. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/58616
Decline of a Great Power? Original publication date? https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/124000
Was Hillary the Wrong Candidate Given Her High Unfavorable Numbers? Originally published November 1, 2016. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164284
Hillary Clinton Made the Same Darn Mistake as Al Gore. Originally published November 27, 2016. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164466
What Does Hillary’s Vote in Favor of the Iraq War Really Signify? Originally published March 3, 2016. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162280
There’s One Big Reason Bernie’s Doing Better than Hillary Against Trump and It’s Not Because He’s More Likable. Originally published May 29, 2016. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162916
Even Richard Hofstadter Would Be Amazed by Tea Party Extremism. Originally published October 7, 2013. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/153514
Social Security, George W. Bush–And the “L” Word (No, Not Liberalism). Originally published in 2005. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/10528
PART TWO: A SELECTION OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES AND IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
Just How Much Does the Economy Affect the Outcome of Presidential Elections? Time Magazine, December 19, 2014. https://time.com/3640461/economy-elections-connection/
Filmmakers Manipulate History? So Did Shakespeare. New York Times, March 9, 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/09/03/when-movies-trade-on-real-life/filmmakers-manipulate-history-so-did-shakespeare
Plugged into the Past, New York Times. August 4, 1996. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/arts/plugged-in-to-the-past.html
Titanic: Did the Maker of True Lies Tell the Truth About History? Perspectives on History, American Historical Association, March 1998. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-1998/titanic-did-the-maker-of-true-lies-tell-the-truth-about-history
Many Latin Americanists Wear Ideological Blinders. Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 1994. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Many-Latin-Americanists-Wear/92834
The Historian and Film: A Research Agenda. The Journal of American History. Vol. 78, No. 3 (Dec., 1991), pp. 1160-116. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2078957?seq=1
The Filmmaker as Historian. The American Historical Review, Volume 93, Issue 5, December 1988, Pages 1210 1227, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/93.5.1210. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/93/5/1210/67591?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Making a Slavery Docudrama. OAH Magazine of History, Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall (September) 1985, Pages 17–19, https://academic.oup.com/maghis/article-abstract/1/2/17/932636?redirectedFrom=fulltext. https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/1.2.17
The Making of Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion, Film & History, Center for the Study of Film and History. Volume 12, Number 3, September 1982, pp. 49-56. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/400640/pdf
Between Black and White: Attitudes Toward Southern Mulattoes, 1830-1861. The Journal of Southern History. Vol. 45, No. 2 (May, 1979), pp. 185-200. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2208151?seq=1
Upheaval, Violence, and the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The Case of Sao Paulo. The Hispanic American Historical Review. Vol. 49, No. 4 (Nov., 1969), pp. 639-655. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2511159?seq=1
PART THREE BOOKS PUBLISHED
History By Hollywood. Revised and expanded edition, 2010
Radical Conservatism: The Right’s Political Religion. University Press of Kansas, 2006
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11: How One Film Divided a Nation. University Press of Kansas, 2006
Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood (University Press of Kansas, 2002)
Oliver Stone’s USA: Film, History, and Controversy. Editor. (University Press of Kansas, 2000)
Ken Burns’ “The Civil War”: Historians Respond. Editor. (Oxford University Press, 1996). Main selection, History Book Club.
History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. (University of Illinois Press. 1996).
Hollywood as Mirror: Changing Views of “Outsiders” and “Enemies” in American Movies (Greenwood Press, 1993)
Freedom and Prejudice: The Legacy of Slavery in the United States and Brazil (Greenwood Press, 1982)
Unchallenged Violence: An American Ordeal (Greenwood, 1975; paperback, 1977)
Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America (Greenwood, 1974, paperback, 1976), Editor
The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil (Atheneum, 1972; paperback, 1975)
