Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Arnold, Lois, “The Education and Career of Carlotta J. Maury: Part 1,” Earth Sciences History, 28 (no. 2, 2009), 219–44.
Berlin, Leslie, “Robert Noyce, Silicon Valley, and the Teamwork behind the High-Technology Revolution,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (Jan. 2010), 33–36.
Harris, Howell John, “‘The Stove Trade Needs Change Continually’: Designing the First Mass-Market Consumer Durable, ca. 1810–1930,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Winter 2009), 365–406.
Huebner, Andrew J., “The Conditional Optimist: Walt Disney’s Postwar Futurism,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 2 (Dec. 2009), 227–44.
Parrett, Aaron, “‘The Huge Mass Writhed and Screamed Like a Live Thing’: Revisiting the Failure of Hauser Dam,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 59 (Winter 2009), 24–45. Heavily illustrated.
Webb, Sheila, “Prowess Unlimited: The Portrayal of Science and Technology in Life, 1936–41,” Journalism History, 35 (Winter 2010), 194–204.
Young, Davis, “Origin of the American Quantitative Igneous Rock Classification: Part 2,” Earth Sciences History, 28 (no. 2, 2009), 175–203.
Dell, Twyla, “Flame, Furnace, Fuel: Creating Kansas City in the Nineteenth Century” (Antioch New England Graduate School, 2009). Order No. DA3357563.
Ratowt, Sylwester Jan, “Discordant Consensus: Dialogues on the Earth‘s Age in American Science, 1890–1930” (University of Oklahoma, 2009). Order No. DA3354927.
Rumiel, Lisa A., “‘Random Murder by Technology’: The Role of Scientific and Biomedical Experts in the Anti-nuclear Movement, 1969–1992” (York University, Canada, 2009).
Starr, Kristen Amanda, “NASA’s Hidden Power: NACA/NASA Public Relations and the Cold War, 1945–1967” (Auburn University, 2008). Order No. DA3348297.
Carew, Michael G., Becoming the Arsenal: The American Industrial Mobilization for World War II, 1938–1942. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2010. x, 316 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-7618-4668-0. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7618-4669-7.)
Farber, Paul, and Hamilton Cravens, eds., Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009. 234 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-87071-576-1.)
Johnson, Ann, Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xviii, 207 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4526-8. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4541-1.)
Kim, Ho-Yeon, Woosaengha: Yujeonja jeongchieui yoksa (Eugenics: A history of gene politics). (Seoul: Achimiseul, 2009. 344 pp. Paper, Won 15,000, isbn 978-89-88996-97-3.) In Korean.
Koplow, David A., Death by Moderation: The U.S. Military’s Quest for Useable Weapons. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xx, 263 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-11951-1. Paper, $28.99, isbn 978-0-521-13534-4.)
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