Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Cavicchi, Elizabeth, “Charles Grafton Page’s Experiment with a Spiral Conductor,” Technology and Culture, 49 (Oct. 2008), 884–907.
Collis, Christy, and Klaus Dodds, “Assault on the Unknown: The Historical and Political Geographies of the International Geophysical Year (1957–8),” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 34 (Oct. 2008), 555–73.
Deitchman, Seymour J., “The ‘Electronic Battlefield’ in the Vietnam War,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 869–87.
Glasberg, Elena, “Who Goes There? Science, Fiction, and Belonging in Anarctica,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 34 (Oct. 2008), 639–57.
Heicht, David K., “The Atomic Hero: Robert Oppenheimer and the Making of Scientific Icons in the Early Cold War,” Technology and Culture, 49 (Oct. 2008), 943–66.
Hintz, Eric S., “Portable Power: Inventor Samuel Ruben and the Birth of Duracell,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Jan. 2009), 24–57.
Holley, I. B., Jr., “The Mechanization of Brickmaking,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Jan. 2009), 82–102.
McCray, W. Patrick, “From Lab to iPod: A Story of Discovery and Commercialization in the Post–Cold War Era,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Jan. 2009), 58–81.
Naylor, Aimon, Katrina Dean, and Martin Siegert, “The igy and the Ice Sheet: Surveying Antarctica,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 34 (Oct. 2008), 574–95.
Slavishak, Edward, “From Nation to Family: Two Careers in the Recasting of Eugenics,” Journal of Family History, 34 (Jan. 2009), 89–115.
Wells, Wyatt, “Public Power in the Eisenhower Administration,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 227–62.
Calvert, Scout Amanda Rainbow, “Technobibliocapital: Knowledge, Practice, and Play in Library Worlds” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317368.
Carruth, Allison, “Global Appetites: Literary Form and Food Politics from World War I to the World Trade Organization” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313543.
David, Shay, “Open Systems in Practice and Theory: The Social Construction of Participatory Information Networks” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317452.
Ferro, David L., “Selling Science in the Colonial American Newspaper: How the Middle Colonial American General Periodical Represented Nature, Philosophy, Medicine, and Technology, 1728–1765” (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001). Order No. DA3313206.
Lavine, Matthew, “A Cultural History of Radiation and Radioactivity in the United States, 1895–1945” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314335.
Mount, Houston Faust, “Oilfield Revolutionary: The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer” (Southern Methodist University, 2008). Order No. DA3307754.
Mullet, Shawn Khristian, “Little Man: Four Junior Physicists and the Red Scare Experience” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312464.
Paton, Miranda Vierra, “Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1894–1944” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317482.
Schwartz, Rebecca Press, “The Making of the History of the Atomic Bomb: Henry DeWolf Smyth and the Historiography of the Manhattan Project” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3312809.
Wald, Stephen E., “Minds Divided: Science, Spirituality, and the Split Brain in American Thought” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314264.
Wolff, Joshua D., “‘The Great Monopoly’: Western Union and the American Telegraph, 1845–1893” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317619.
Cimbala, Stephen J., Shield of Dreams: Missile Defense and U.S.-Russian Nuclear Strategy. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $48.00, isbn 978-1-59114-116-7. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-1-59114-117-4.)
Conway, Erik M., Atmospheric Science at nasa: A History. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xx, 386 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8984-4.)
Craft, Stephen G., Embry-Riddle at War: Aviation Training during World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xviii, 313 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3299-3.)
Dick, Steven J., ed., Remembering the Space Age. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. xiv, 465 pp. isbn 978-0-16-081723-6.)
Emerson, Jason, Lincoln the Inventor. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xvi, 111 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2898-7. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2897-0.)
Hoddeson, Lillian, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall, Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiv, 497 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-226-34623-6.)
Lassman, Thomas C., Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense: The Role of In-House Research and Development, 1945–2000. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2008. xii, 153 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-16-079418-6.)
Mudgway, Douglas J., William H. Pickering: America’s Deep Space Pioneer. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. xvi, 255 pp. isbn 978-0-16-081536-2.)
Portolano, Marlana, The Passionate Empiricist: The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xiv, 231 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7699-4.)
White, Christopher G., Unsettled Minds: Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830–1940. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xii, 266 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-520-25679-8.)
Yardley, Laura E., Generations of Service. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2008. iv, 47 pp. Paper.)
Leadership in Space: Selected Speeches of nasa Administrator Michael Griffin, May 2005–October 2008. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. xii, 329 pp.)
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