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Currently Under Consideration
with J.R. Clark (Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), and Dwight R. Lee (Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise, The University of Georgia). "Native Americans as Prisoners of the Prisoners' Dilemma"

2007 - "Forgotten Rebels: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History," review of Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles by J.B. Bird, REASON (April 2007)

2006
"'Strange and Fearful Imaginations': Rediscovering the Terror of Baron de la Motte Fouqué," APEX SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR DIGEST, Vol. 2 Issue 4 (Winter 2006)

2006 - "The Parables of Octavia Butler: A Science-Fiction Writer's Rich Libertarian Legacy," REASON (June 2006)

2006 
"Reimagining Rose: Portrayals of Tolkien's Rosie Cotton in Twenty-First Century Fan Fiction," MYTHLORE: A JOURNAL OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN, C.S. LEWIS, CHARLES WILLIAMS, AND MYTHOPOEIC LITERATURE, Vol. 24, Numbers 93/94 (Spring 2006)

2006 - "The Myth of the Passive Indian," review of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, REASON (April 2006)

2005 - "The New Shoggoth Chic: Why H.P. Lovecraft Now?" APEX SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR DIGEST, Vol. 1 Issue 4 (Winter 2005)

2005
"Interdisciplinary Tolkien," THE ART OF TEACHING, Vol. 11, No. 4 (November 2005)  

2004 - "Harry Potter Is A Hobbit: Rowling, Tolkien, and The Question of Readership," CSL: THE BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK C.S. LEWIS SOCIETY (May/June 2004)

2004 "Not the Same Old Hickory: The Contested Legacy of Andrew Jackson," review of The Passions of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Burstein, REASON (May 2004)

2001 "Brutal History," review of The Wild Frontier: Atrocities During the American-Indian War From Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee by William M. Osborn, REASON (October 2001)

2000
"The Sword in the Starship: Arthuriana in the Four Incarnations of STAR TREK," WINEDARK SEA (March 2000)

^ click here to download PDF file of "The Sword in the Starship" (best if using Internet Explorer)

1999 "'Liberty in Perfection': Freedom in Native American Thought," IDEAS ON LIBERTY (September 1999)

1999
"Prophesies and Politics: Millenarians, Rabbis, and the Jewish Indian Theory," SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, vol. 14, no. 1 (April 1999)

1999 "Tale of Tears," REASON (March 1999)

1997 "The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism," THE LOCKESMITH REVIEW, Volume I (electronic version of original 1994 publication)



Encyclopedia Entries by AHS

2008 
multiple entries (Robert Heinlein, Rose Wilder Lane) in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIBERTARIANISM, SAGE Publications 
 
2008
one entry (J.R.R. Tolkien) in WOMEN IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, Greenwood Press
 
2006
multiple entries (Fan fiction, Lord of the Rings, Shaping of Middle-Earth) in THE J.R.R. TOLKIEN ENCYCLOPEDIA: SCHOLARSHIP AND CRITICAL ASSESSMENT, Routledge
 
2004
multiple entries (President James Monroe, Monroe's Tour of New England) AMERICANS AT WAR, Macmillan

2002
multiple entries (Osage, Kickapoo, Ponca, Winnebago) in THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, ABC-CLIO

1998
multiple entries (Nathan Green, West H. Humphreys) in THE TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HISTORY AND CULTURE, Rutledge Hill Press

 
 

Popular Features by AHS

2008 Review of "The Sparrow," STARSHIPSOFA.COM (February 2008)

2006 "Out of the Woods," POP THOUGHT (June 2006)

2006
"The View from the Apex," POP THOUGHT (May 2006)
 
2006
"Getting Gothic, Old-School Style," POP THOUGHT (March 2006)

2006 "O Big Brother, Where Art Thou?" POP THOUGHT (March 2006)

2006

"Nun of Your Business," POP THOUGHT (January 2006)

 

2005

"New Year's Resolutions for 2006," POP THOUGHT (December 2005)

 

2005

"Mood Music for the Holidays," POP THOUGHT (November 2005)

2005 "Lovecraftian Doings," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (October 2005)

2005
"Since I found SERENITY," POP THOUGHT (October 2005

2005 "Interview and Report with Glass Hammer," PARMA NÖLÉ: THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE NORTHEAST TOLKIEN SOCIETY online (September 2005)

2005
"Review Club: STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH," POP THOUGHT (May 2005)
 
2005
"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: An Interview with Steve Babb of Glass Hammer," POP THOUGHT (April 2005)

2005 "Éowyn from J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS" and "Hermione Granger from J.K. Rowling's HARRY POTTER Series" in "Top 75 Heroines of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror: Part IV," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (January 2005)

2004
"Let It Be, George" in "Three Views to Help You Choose," POP THOUGHT (November 2004)
 
2004
"Beam Me Up, King Arthur?!?! Or How the Five Incarnations of Star Trek Reflect Arthurian Legend," POP THOUGHT (October 2004) 

2004
"Looking [There And] Back Again at The Gathering of the Fellowship," reprinted as cover feature in BEYOND BREE: NEWSLETTER OF AMERICAN MENSA TOLKIEN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (June 2004)
 
2004
"My Completely Unsolicited Thoughts About Troy," POP THOUGHT (May 2004)
 
2004 "Lord of the Rings, Rock On! A Music Consideration of Lord of the Rings," POP THOUGHT (May 2004)

2004 "Sci-Fi and Fantasy Hunks," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (April 2004)

...Also excerpted in THE COMBS COMMUNIQUE, Vol. 7, Issue 3&4 (Summer/Fall 2004)

2004 By Tim O'Shea, "An Interview With Amy H. Sturgis," interviewed for POP THOUGHT (April 2004)

2004
"An Interview with Giuseppe Festa," PARMA NÖLÉ: THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK TOLKIEN SOCIETY, Issue No. 9 (February/March 2004)

2004
"Looking [There And] Back Again at The Gathering of the Fellowship," PARMA NÖLÉ: THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK TOLKIEN SOCIETY, Issue No. 9 (February/March 2004)

2003
"An Interview with Glass Hammer," PARMA NÖLÉ: THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK TOLKIEN SOCIETY, Issue No. 8 (November/December 2003)

2003 Review of "The Dead Zone," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (October 2003)

2003 Review of "Miracles," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (April 2003)

2002 "The Top Five Tolkien CDs," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (June 2002)

2001 Review of "The Battlestar Galactica Trilogy -- Battlestar Galactica: Armageddon, Battlestar Galactica: Warhawk, and Battlestar Galactica: Resurrection," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (August 2001)

2001 Review of "Alien Voices," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (August 2001)

2001 Review of "Star Trek: Voyager: 'Endgame,'" REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (August 2001)

2001 Review of "The Prisoner," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (July 2001)

2001 Review of "The X-Files: Season 8," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (July 2001)

2001 Review of "The Lone Gunmen," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (July 2001)

2001 Review of "Trek Expo 2001," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (July 2001)

2001 "An Interview with Jeremy Bulloch," REVOLUTION SCIENCE FICTION (July 2001)

2001
Review of "The Pretender 2001," ZEALOT.COM (January 2001)

2000
Review of "A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners," ZEALOT.COM (March 2000)

2000 Review of "A History and Critical Analysis of Blake's 7, The 1978-1981 British Television Space Adventure," ZEALOT.COM (February 2000)

Leonard: He's a Klingot.
Tos: A Klingon.
Archer: Where'd he come from?
Williams: Oklahoma.
"Broken Bow," STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE