Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Ashley, Scott, “How Navigators Think: The Death of Captain Cook Revisited,” Past & Present (Oxford), 194 (Feb. 2007), 107–37.
Bedeau, Michael A., “Riding the Red Dragon: McKeen Motorcar No. 70 and the Virginia and Truckee Railway,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Spring 2007), 73–90.
Cowell, Pattie, “‘Strong, and Wild, and Green’: Ethel Augur’s Western Adventure, 1911–1914,” Legacy, 24 (no. 1, 2007), 93–104.
Huffman, Wendell W., “Silver and Iron: How the Comstock Determined the Course of the Central Pacific Railroad,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Spring 2007), 3–35.
Kennard, Jim, “Discovery of the Steamer Homer Warren,” Inland Seas, 63 (Summer 2007), 126–35.
Pitter, Richard, “Building the Virginia and Truckee Railroad,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Spring 2007), 36–72.
Connelly, Maris Stella, “The Letters and European Travel Journal of James A. Bayard, 1812–1815” (Boston University, 2007). Order No. DA3246599.
Jerolimov, Douglas, “Between Passengers and Shipowners: A Technological and Commercial Transformation of Transatlantic Travel, 1818–1895” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3247589.
Cruikshank, Jeffrey L., and Chlöe G. Kline, In Peace and War: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2008. xviii, 523 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-470-13601-0.)
Votolato, Gregory, Transport Design: A Travel History. (London: Reaktion, 2007. 239 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-86189-329-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Augur, Ethel, “Excerpts from the Letters of Ethel Augur,” Legacy, 24 (no. 1, 2007), 105–16.
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