Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Ahmad, Diana L., “Different Islands, Different Experiences: American Travel Accounts of Samoa and Hawai‘i, 1890–1910,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 41 (2007), 97–118.
Aldrich, Mark, “Running Out of Steam: Federal Inspection and Locomotive Safety, 1912–1940,” Journal of Economic History, 67 (Dec. 2007), 884–916.
Ash, Fred, “Submerged Ambitions,” Railroad History, 196 (Spring-Summer 2007), 6–21.
Barnett, Le Roy, “Attempting to Sail across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula,” Inland Seas, 63 (Fall 2007), 206–15.
Duensing, Dawn E., “The Hana Belt Road: Paving the Way for Tourism,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 41 (2007), 119–48.
Middleton, William D., “The Great American Railway of Asia,” Railroad History, 196 (Spring-Summer 2007), 72–90.
Reutter, Mark, “Fast Trains and Faster,” Railroad History, 196 (Spring-Summer 2007), 22–41.
Scharnhorst, Gary, “‘I Wish to Learn More About the Islands’: Kate Field in Hawai‘i, 1895–1896,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 41 (2007), 63–78.
Smith, Edgar C., “The Navy Went over the Mountains: The Wilkes Exploring Expedition,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 71, Fall 2007), 4–25.
Smith, Roger C., “‘We Shall Soon See the Consequences of Such Conduct’: John Ledyard Revisited,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 41 (2007), 35–62.
Gangloff, Amy Beth, “Medicalizing the Automobile: Public Health, Safety, and American Culture, 1920–1967” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2006). Order No. DA3258930.
Stratton, Scott David, “The End of Aviation’s Honeymoon and ‘The World’s Greatest Air Race’: The New Age of Airmindedness and the 1934 MacRobertson Air Competition” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3258175.
Kapsch, Robert J., The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007. 373 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-1-933202-18-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Karig, Martin Robert, III, Coal Cars: The First Three Hundred Years. (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2007. xii, 420 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-58966-154-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Knight, Max E., Spinning through Clouds: Tales from an Early Hoosier Aviator. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2007. x, 208 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87195-256-1.)
Rose, Lisle E., Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xxii, 544 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1782-0.)
Shomette, Donald G., Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632–2004. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii, 435 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8670-6.)
Stone, H. David, Jr., Vital Rails: The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 369 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-716-0.)
Zimmermann, Karl, The GrandLuxe Express: Traveling in High Style. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xiv, 143 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-34947-7.) Heavily illustrated.
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