Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Bergmann, William H., “Delivering a Nation through the Mail: The Post Office in the Ohio Valley, 1789–1815,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Fall 2008), 1–18.
Carter, John E., “The Platte River Road in 1866: Charles Savage’s Visual Narrative,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 132–41.
Chambliss, Julian C., “A Question of Progress and Welfare: The Jitny Bus Phenomenon in Atlanta, 1915–1925,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Winter 2008), 486–506.
Chatterjee, Choi, “‘Odds and Ends of the Russian Revolution,’ 1917–1920: Gender and American Travel Narratives,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 10–33.
Kastor, Peter J., “‘What Are the Advantages of the Acquisition?’: Inventing Expansion in the Early American Republic,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 1003–35.
Lamadrid, Enrique R., “Pilgrimage and Cultural Commerce on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro,” New Mexico Historical Review, 83 (Fall 2008), 423–49.
Mohl, Raymond A., “The Interstates and the Cities: The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Freeway Revolt, 1966–1973,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 193–226.
Pearcy, Matthew T., “Science, Politics, and Bureaucracy: Andrew A. Humphreys and the Office of Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 85–114.
Wrobel, David M., “Global West, American Frontier,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 1–27.
Bible, Ann Vollmann, “Cakewalking into Representation: Gabriele Münter’s America Travels (1898–1900) and Art of Dailiness” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008).
Grandjean, Katherine Alysia, “Reckoning: The Communications Frontier in Early New England” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312372.
Kane, Michael David, “William Lewis Manly” (University of Utah, 2008). Order No. DA3303445.
Marsh, Allison C., “The Ultimate Vacation: Watching Other People Work, a History of Factory Tours in America, 1880–1950” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3311840.
Bass, Bob, When Steamboats Reigned in Florida. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. 171 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8130-3235-1.)
Bianculli, Anthony J., Iron Rails in the Garden State: Tales of New Jersey Railroading. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xvi, 190 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35174-6.)
Gaertner, John, The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway: A History of the Lake Superior District’s Pioneer Iron Ore Hauler. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xvi, 349 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-253-35192-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Williams, Glyn, The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. x, 197 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-674-03194-4.)
Collomp, Catherine, and Bruno Groppo, eds., An American in Hitler’s Berlin: Abraham Plotkin’s Diary, 1932–33. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xlx, 206 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03361-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07559-9.)
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