Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Andrews, Vernon L., “Baseball, Cricket, Gridiron, and Rugby: Opposites Attract in Teaching American Sports Culture Abroad,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 104–14.
Chisholm, Ann, “Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women and Incorporations of Buoyancy: Contouring Femininity, Shaping Sex, and Regulating Middle-Class Consumption,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 84–112.
Clemmer, Richard, “The Leisure Class versus the Tourists: The Hidden Struggle in the Collecting of Pueblo Pottery at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” History and Anthropology (Chur), 19 (Sept. 2008), 187–207.
Fetter, Henry D., “Revising the Revisionists: Walter O’Malley, Robert Moses, and the End of the Brooklyn Dodgers,” New York History, 89 (Winter 2008), 55–74.
Graves, Jamie, Lori Scroggs, and Nina Collins, “They Played in Preoria: The aagpbl Redwings,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Spring 2008), 7–21.
Knowles, Coury Matthew, “Historical Comparison of Florida and National Title IX Compliance Trends in High School Sports from 1985–2005” (University of Central Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3302913.
La Croix, Rachel M., “‘You’ve Come Part of the Way, Baby’: The Status of Women and Women’s Sports in Intercollegiate Athletics 28 Years after Title IX” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301568.
Ng, Larson S. W. M., “Factors Influencing Japanese Tourism to Hawaii: A Macroeconomic Analysis (1980–2006)” (Capella University, 2008). Order No. DA3297735.
Runstedtler, Theresa E., “Journeyman: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293373.
McComb, David G., Spare Time in Texas: Recreation and History in the Lone Star State. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 290 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-292-71870-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-292-71889-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Surdam, David G., The Postwar Yankees: Baseball’s Golden Age Revisited. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 425 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1789-8.)
Zirin, Dave, A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play. (New York: New Press, 2008. xviii, 302 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-59558-100-6.)
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