Recent Scholarship
Material Culture and Architecture
Bergengren, Charles, “The Physical Thing Itself: The Architectural/Stylistic/Material Aspects of the Gemberling-Rex Tavern/House,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Winter 2008), 91–118.
Evans, Caroline, “Jean Patou’s American Mannequins: Early Fashion Shows and Modernism,” Modernism/Modernity, 15 (April 2008), 243–63.
Falk, Cynthia G., “Personal History for the Visiting Public,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Winter 2008), 54–66.
Kingsley, Karen, “New Orleans Architecture: Building Renewal,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 716–25.
Leslie, Thomas, “‘As Large as the Situation of the Columns Would Allow’: Building Cladding and Plate Glass in the Chicago Skyscraper, 1885–1905,” Technology and Culture, 49 (April 2008), 399–419.
Lucic, Karen, and Bruce Bernstein, “In Pursuit of the Ceremonial: The Laboratory of Anthropology’s ‘Master Collection’ of Zuni Pottery,” Journal of the Southwest, 50 (Spring 2008), 1–102.
Siry, Joseph M., “The Architecture of Earthquake Resistance: Julius Kahn’s Truscon Company and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (March 2008), 78–105.
Wenger, Diane E., “Reading the Gemberling-Rex House: The Historical Evidence,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Winter 2008), 67–85.
Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B., “Precious Metals: Silver and Gold Bracelets from the Northwest Coast” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA0818432.
Hays, Johanna, “Louise Blanchard Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881–1905)” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3273360.
Horvath, Arlene D., “Table Furnishings and Foodways, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1800–1860: Beyond the Biological Imperative” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3260917.
Keller, Patricia J., “The Quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, Context, and Meaning, 1750–1884” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3267176.
Szczesny-Adams, Christy M., “Cosmopolitan Design in the Upper Midwest: The Nineteenth-Century Architecture of Edward Townsend Mix” (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007). Order No. DA3263509.
Walker, William S., “A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian, Folklife, and the Making of the Modern Museum” (Brandeis University, 2007). Order No. DA3274388.
Allaback, Sarah, The First American Woman Architects. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 265 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-252-03321-6.)
Conzen, Michael P., and Diane Dillon, Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West. (Chicago: Newberry Library, 2007. 119 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-911028-81-2.)
Huxtable, Ada Louise, Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life. (New York: Penguin, 2004. xx, 251 pp. Cloth, $19.95, isbn 978-0-670-03342-3. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-14-311429-1.)
Paradis, Thomas W., ed., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Homes through American History. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1: xii, 291 pp. Vol. 2: xiv, 526 pp. Vol. 3: xvi, 353 pp. Vol. 4: xiv, 564 pp. $399.95/set, isbn 978-0-313-33496-2/set.)
Peterson, Fred W., Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xii, 296 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5353-9.) Heavily illustrated. Originally published in 1992.
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