Recent Scholarship
Public History and Memory
Bertrand, Michael T., “Elvis Presley and the Politics of Popular Memory,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Fall 2007), 62–86.
Drout, Michael D. C., “A Meme-Based Approach to Oral Traditional Theory,” Oral Tradition, 21 (Oct. 2006), 269–94.
Kidwell, Deborah C., “‘Lest We Forget’: Building the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the University of Kansas,” Kansas History, 30 (Autumn 2007), 178–91. Heavily illustrated.
Leyva, Yolanda, “Monuments of Conformity: Commemorating and Protesting Oñate on the Border,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Summer 2007), 343–67.
Marx, Lesley, “Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia,” Safundi, 8 (Jan. 2007), http://www.safundi.com.
Mead, Philip, “Walking the Freedom Trail: Some Lessons from Iraq,” Common-Place, 8 (Oct. 2007), http://www.common-place.org.
Nesheim, David, “How William F. Cody Helped Save the Buffalo without Really Trying,” Great Plains Quarterly, 27 (Summer 2007), 163–75.
Plassart, Marie, “Narrating ‘America’: The Birth of the Museum of History and Technology in Washington, D.C.,” European Journal of American Studies, 2 (no. 1, 2007), http://ejas.revues.org/document1184.html.
Webster, Anthony K., “Keeping the Word: On Orality and Literacy (with a Sideways Glance at Navajo),” Oral Tradition, 21 (Oct. 2006), 295–324.
Buzinde, Christine N., “Representational Politics of Plantation Tourism: The Case of the Hampton Plantation” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006). Order No. DA3242805.
Cain, Victoria Elizabeth Moffit, “Nature under Glass: Popular Science, Professional Science, Professional Illusion, and the Transformation of American Natural History Museums, 1870–1940” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3249066.
Justice, Robert A., “Historic Preservation Leading to Heritage Tourism as an Economic Development Strategy for Small Tennessee Towns” (East Tennessee State University, 2006). Order No. DA3242690.
Keefer, Bradley S., “Constructing Memories of the ‘river of death’: Conflict, Landscape, and the Impact of the Spanish-American War on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park” (Kent State University, 2006). Order No. DA3243923.
Miller, Brian Craig, “John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory: A Cultural Biography” (University of Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3246030.
Murray, Stephen C., “War and Remembrance on Peleliu: Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of a Battle in the Pacific War” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006). Order No. DA3245927.
Powley, Tammy Janine Lynch, “Memory-Craft: The Role of Domestic Technology in Women’s Journals” (University of Central Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3242462.
Thalson, Denis, “Individual Memorials: An Emerging Typology of Ritual Mediation through Place” (Graduate Theological Union, 2006). Order No. DA3240504.
Wilson, Mabel O., “Making History Visible: World’s Fairs, Expositions, and Museums in the Black Metropolis, 1895–1995” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3247400.
Higuchi, Hayumi, ed., Rekishi no nakano “Amerika” (American histories). (Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2006. 447 pp. ¥3900, isbn 4779111471.) In Japanese.
Sachsman, David B., S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris Jr., eds., Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Cold Mountain. (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2007. xiv, 307 pp. Cloth, $62.95, isbn 978-1-55753-439-2. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-55753-440-8.)
Schwartz, Seymour I., Putting “America” on the Map: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2007. 400 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59102-513-9.)
Steers, Edward, Jr., Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xviii, 264 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2466-7.)
Ziemann, Winifred Angel, “‘My Best Pal’: The Story of a Girl and Her Horse,” ed. Zelma Zieman, South Dakota History, 37 (Fall 2007), 209–23.
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