Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Boris, Eileen, “Desirable Dress: Rosies, Sky Girls, and the Politics of Appearance,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 69 (Spring 2006), 123–42.
Dean, Patty, “Furnishing Butte: Consumerism and Homemaking in the Copper Capital, 1909–1912,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Spring 2006), 78–89. Heavily Illustrated.
Dighe, Ranjit S., “Reversal of Fortune: The Rockefellers and the Decline of Business Support for Prohibition,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 24 (2006), 69–88.
Fultz, Michael, “Black Public Libraries in the South in the Era of De Jure Segregation,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 41 (Summer 2006), 337–59.
Pollak, Oliver, “Nebraska’s Libraries at War, 1917–1919,” Nebraska History, 87 (Fall 2006), 120–32.
Sewell, Steven L., “Choctaw Beer: Tonic or Devil’s Brew?,” Journal of Cultural Geography, 23 (Spring–Summer 2006), 105–15.
Steigerwald, David, “All Hail the Republic of Choice: Consumer History as Contemporary Thought,” Journal of American History, 93 (Sept. 2006), 385–403.
Storrs, Landon, “Left-Feminism, the Consumer Movement, and Red Scare Politics in the United States, 1935–1960,” Journal of Women’s History, 18 (Fall 2006), 40–67.
Berg, Jennifer Schiff, “From Pushcart Peddlers to Gourmet Take–Out: New York City’s Iconic Foods of Jewish Orgin, 1920 to 2005” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3199966.
Bonica, Joseph S., “The Politics of Private Life in Nineteenth-Century America” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2005). Order No. DA3195657.
Ellsworth, Kirstin Lynne, “Icons on the American Landscape in the 1960s: Mapping the Culture of Car and Road” (Indiana University, 2005). Order No. DA3200635.
Ferentinos, Susan, “An Unpredictable Age: Sex, Consumption, and the Emergence of the American Teenager, 1900–1950” (Indiana University, 2005). Order No. DA3204295.
Laffey, Virginia M., “The Invisible Regiment: The Wives, Mothers, and Girlfriends of American Soldiers in Vietnam” (Boston University, 2006). Order No. DA3194767.
Lucsko, David Nicholas, “Manufacturing Muscle: The Hot Rod Industry and the American Fascination with Speed, 1915–1984” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005).
Minton, Amy Karen Rider, “A Culture of Respectability: Southerners and Social Relations in Richmond, Virginia, 1820–1865” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3198435.
Robertson, Helen J., “Marketing Food, Making Meaning: Themes in Twentieth-Century American Food Advertising” (University of Oklahoma, 2006). Order No. DA3206133.
Belasco, Warren, Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv, 358 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-520-24151-0. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-520-25035-2.)
Carr, David, A Place Not a Place: Reflection and Possibility in Museums and Libraries. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xviii, 151 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-7591-1019-9. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-7591-1020-5.)
Dunar, Andrew J., America in the Fifties. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-8156-3103-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8156-3128-6.)
Faulhaber, Charles B., and Stephen Vincent, eds., Exploring the Bancroft Library: The Centennial Guide to Its Extraordinary History, Spectacular Special Collections, Research Pleasures, Its Amazing Future, and How It All Works. (Salt Lake City: Signature, 2006. vi, 190 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-893663-19-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Jones, John Bush, The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939–1945. (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2006. xvi, 338 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58465-443-8.)
Leder, Jane Mersky, Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex, and World War II. (Westport: Praeger, 2006. xxx, 185 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-275-98879-1.)
Smith, Andrew F., The Turkey: An American Story. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxii, 224 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-252-03163-2.)
Williams, Susan, Food in the United States, 1820s–1890. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xvi, 240 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-313-33245-2.)
Kopecky, Arthur, Leaving New Buffalo Commune. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xxiv, 213 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4054-2.)
McLean, Alice L., Cooking in America, 1840–1945. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xxx, 194 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-313-33574-5.)
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