Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Bain-Selbo, Eric, “From Lost Cause to Third-and-Long: College Football and the Civil Religion of the South,” Journal of Southern Religion, 11 (2009), http://jsr.fsu.edu.
Burg, Ron Von, and Paul E. Johnson, “Yearning for a Past That Never Was: Baseball, Steroids, and the Anxiety of the American Dream,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26 (Oct. 2009), 351–71.
Dilsaver, Lary M., and William Wyckoff, “Failed National Parks in the Last Best Place,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 59 (Autumn 2009), 3–24. Heavily illustrated.
Duchemin, Michael, “Water, Power, and Tourism: Hoover Dam and the Making of the New West,” California History, 86 (no. 4, 2009), 60–78. Heavily illustrated.
Gillis, William, “‘Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat’: Sportswriters, African American Athletes, and Coverage of Curt Flood’s Lawsuit against Major League Baseball,” American Journalism, 26 (Spring 2009), 67–97.
Jenkins, John Curtis, “The National Game at Cody,” Nebraska History, 90 (Summer 2009), 66–81. Heavily illustrated.
Little, J. J., “Scenic Tourism on the Northeastern Borderland: Lake Memphremagog’s Steamboat Excursions and Resort Hotels, 1850–1900,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (Oct. 2009), 716–42.
Purnell, Brian, “Desegregating the Jim Crow North: Racial Discrimination in the Postwar Bronx and the Fight to Integrate the Castle Hill Beach Club (1953–1973),” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 47–78.
Roessner, Lori Amber, “Hero Crafting in Sporting Life, an Early Baseball Journal,” American Journalism, 26 (Spring 2009), 39–65.
Seifried, Chad, and Donna Pastore, “Analyzing the First Permanent Professional Baseball and Football Structures in the United States: How Expansion and Renovation Changed Them into Jewel Boxes,” Sport History Review, 40 (Nov. 2009), 167–96.
Thomas, Lynnell L., “‘Roots Run Deep Here’: The Construction of Black New Orleans in Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 749–68.
Andrews, Matthew Philip, “‘A Carnival of Muscle’: Popular Amusements and Public Culture in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco, 1880–1920” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3330983.
Cohen, Kenneth, “‘To Give Good Sport’: The Economic Culture of Public Sporting Events in Early America, 1750–1850” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3337455.
Gilbert, Daniel Alexander, “Expanding the Strike Zone: Baseball in the Age of Free Agency” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342592.
Ingrassia, Brian M., “A Department of the Modern University: Discipline, Manliness, and Football in American Intellectual Culture, 1869–1929” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3337801.
King-White, Ryan Edward, “Baseball, Citizenship, and National Identity in George W. Bush’s America” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3341428.
Poniatowski, Kelly L., “nbc’s Portrayal of U.S. and Canadian Hockey Players on the Olympic Stage: A Textual Analysis of Gender, Race, and Nationality Issues in the Commentary” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3336111.
Sclar, Arieh, “‘A Sport at Which Jews Excel’: Jewish Basketball in American Society, 1900–1951” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338249.
Sherman, Geoffre Neil, “The ncaa as a Cartel: Ensuring Its Existence. A Revisionist History” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331336.
Uddin, Lisa, “Breeding Grounds: Race, Space, and Species in the New American Zoo” (University of Rochester, 2009). Order No. DA3343622.
Bohn, Michael K., Heroes and Ballyhoo: How the Golden Age of the 1920s Transformed American Sports. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xii, 319 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-1-59797-412-7.)
Ford, Liam T. A., Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 364 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-226-25706-8.)
Julin, Suzanne Barta, A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles: Black Hill Tourism, 1880–1941. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2009. xiv, 221 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-9798940-6-0.)
Oriard, Michael, Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the bcs Era. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 334 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3329-2.)
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