Scholarly and Creative Works
2019
- Brennan, M. C. (2019, December). The Only Real Road. Texas Books in Review. San Marcos, TX, USA: Center for the Study of the Southwest.
2016
- Brennan, M. (2016). An Unlikely First Lady: Pat Nixon. In K. Sibley (Ed.), A Companion to First Ladies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
- Brennan, M. C. (2016, July). Western Historical Quarterly. Oxford Journals. https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whw122
- Brennan, M. C. (2016). An Unlikely First Lady. In A Companion to First Ladies (pp. 535–551). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118732250.ch31
- Brennan, M. C. (2016). H-Diplo. https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhu073
- Brennan, M. C. (2016, March). [Review of Hope and Fear in Margaret Chase Smith’s America, by G. P. Gallant]. Women and Social Movements in the United States.
2014
- Brennan, M. C. (2014, January). [Review of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, by M. L. Gillette]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
2013
- Brennan, M. C. (2013). [Review of Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right, by M. Nickerson]. Journal of American History 2013.
2012
- Brennan, M. C. (2012). The True Story Behind the ‘War on Moms’. History News Network. Retrieved from http://hnn.us/articles/true-story-behind-war-moms
2011
- Brennan, M. C. (2011). Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
- Brennan, M. C. (2011, November). [Review of The Making of Modern America: The Nation from 1945 to the Present, by G. A. Donaldson]. The Journal of Southern History.
- Brennan, M. C. (2011, October). [Review of Freedom is Not Enough: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas, by W. S. Clayson]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
- Brennan, M. C. (2011). Pat Nixon: Caught Between the Housewives and the Feminists. History News Network. Retrieved from http://hnn.us/articles/137010.html
2009
- Brennan, M. C. (2009, January). [Review of Lyndon B. Johnson and the Transformation of American Politics, by J. Bullion]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
2008
- Brennan, M. C. (2008). Wives, Mothers and the Red Menace: Conservative Anticommunist Women in the Postwar Era. Denver, CO: University of Colorado Press.
- Brennan, M. C. (2008, April). [Review of LBJ’s American Promise: The Voting Rights Address, by G. E. Pauley]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
- Brennan, M. C. (2008, April). [Review of Aryan Cowboys: White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, by E. A. Schlatter]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
2006
- Brennan, M. C. (2006, June). [Review of Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s, by M. W. Flamm]. The Journal of American History.
2004
- Brennan, M. C. (2004, December). [Review of Liberalism’s Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964, by G. A. Donaldson]. American Historical Review.
- Brennan, M. C. (2004, December). [Review of The Rise of Southern Republicans, by E. Black & M. Black]. The Journal of American History.
2003
- Brennan, M. C., & Lang, P. (2003). Winning the War / Losing the Battle: The Goldwater presidential Campaign and Its Effects on the Evolution of Modern Conservatism. In D. Farber & J. Roche (Eds.), The Conservative Sixties.
- Brennan, M. C. (2003). The Election of 1964. In B. Campbell & W. Shade (Eds.), American Presidential Campaigns and Elections: A Reference Guide. NY: M.E. Sharpe.
- Brennan, M. C. (2003, December). [Review of Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement 1945-1965, by N. Bjerre-Poulsen]. American Historical Review.
2002
- Brennan, M. C. (2002, March). [Review of Suburban Warrior: The Origins of the New American Right, by L. McGirr]. Journal of American History.
2000
- Brennan, M. C. (2000, June). [Review of Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right, by G. Schneider]. American Historical Review.
1999
- Brennan, M. C. (1999, December). [Review of Triumph of the right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945-1966, by K. Schuparra]. The Journal of American History.
1998
- Brennan, M. C., & Tyler, R. (1998). Catholic Southwest.
- Brennan, M. C. (1998, December). [Review of No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America’s Social Agenda, by J. Stefancic & R. Delgado]. The Journal of American History.
- Brennan, M. C. (1998, October). [Review of From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994, by D. T. Carter]. The Alabama Review.
1996
- Brennan, M. C. (1996). [Review of Barry Goldwater, by R. A. Goldberg]. Political Science Quarterly.
1995
- Brennan, M. C. (1995). Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1992
- Brennan, M. C. (1992). A Step in the Right Direction: Conservative Republicans and the Election of 1960. Presidential Studies Quarterly.