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  1. Iran-Contra: Why Was Reagan Not Impeached.

    Article • European Journal of American Culture, September 2021, Intellect

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  2. Review of Martin Deppe's memoir of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago

    Article • Ethnic and Racial Studies, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  3. The UK Prison Experience of James Earl Ray and National Security

    Article • Comparative American Studies An International Journal, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  4. Review of Peniel Joseph's Stokely

    Article • Journal of American Studies, March 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  5. To what extent did the Kennedy's assassination help to pass the Civil Rights Act?

    Article • The Sixties, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  6. Martin Luther King: A Historical Biography

    Article • March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  7. Review of R. Dallek, Camelot's Court

    Article • Reviews in American History, January 2015, Project Muse

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  8. Co-edited with Sharon Monteith: this examines the role of gender in the Civil Rights Movement

    Article • March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  9. JFK: a historical biography

    Article • October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  10. Who gave money to Martin Luther King in 1963 and how was the money raised?

    Article • The Sixties, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  11. Essay in edited collection that shows that SNCC was always changing and never simply described.

    Article • August 2012, University Press of Florida

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  12. A review of Ray Arsenault's Freedom Riders

    Article • Reviews in American History, January 2007, Project Muse

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  13. Social Networks and the Civil Rights Movement

    Article • Journal of Historical Sociology, June 2006, Wiley

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  14. Review of Steve Estes's study of manhood and the black freedom struggle

    Article • Reviews in American History, January 2005, Project Muse

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  15. Reveiw essay of Jonathan Bass Blessed Are the Pe acemakers and Diane McWhoriter, Carry Me Home

    Article • Reviews in American History, January 2002, Project Muse

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  16. How does a folk song becomes so relevant to current struggles that it becomes an icon?

    Article • Prospects, October 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  17. Stanley Elkins' Slavery was controversial in its time and remains provocative.

    Article • Rethinking History, March 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  18. Local Leadership in the Early Civil Rights Movement: The South Carolina Citizenship Education Program of the Highlander Folk School

    Article • Journal of American Studies, December 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  19. Brian Urquhart, Ralph Bunche: An American Life (London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, £22.00). Pp. 496. ISBN 0 393 03526 1.

    Article • Journal of American Studies, April 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  20. Across several volumes Kammen studies the role of history in the construction of American culture.

    Article • Journal of American Studies, August 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  21. Roberta Senechal, The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot: Springfield, Illinois, in 1908. Blacks in the New World Series. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990. $29.95.

    Article • Urban History, April 1992, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  22. Gemeinschaft Into Ghetto: Black Communities and White Urban America

    Article • Urban History, May 1991, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  23. Niels Thorsen (ed.), Inventing Modern America – An Introduction to American Studies (Copenhagen: Danmark Radio, 1989, D.Kr. 158). Pp. 112.

    Article • Journal of American Studies, August 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  24. Daniel Schaffer (ed.), Two Centuries of American Planning. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd, 1988. v + 329pp. £35.00.

    Article • Urban History, May 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  25. General and Thematic Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. £19.50. Pbk £7.95.

    Article • Urban History, May 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  26. Christopher Silver, Twentieth-century Richmond: Planning, Politics and Race (Twentieth-century America Series). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

    Article • Urban History, May 1987, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling

  27. Michael Simpson, Thomas Adams and the Modern Planning Movement: Britain, Canada and the United States, 1900–1914 (Studies in History, Planning and the Environment). London: Mansell, 1985. vii + 262pp. £21.00.

    Article • Urban History, May 1987, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling