Recent Scholarship
West
Allan, Chris, “The Brief Life and Strange Times of the Hickel Highway: Alaska’s First Arctic Haul Road,” Alaska History, 24 (Fall 2009), 1–29.
Beasley-McPherson, Hillarie, “Not Just Surviving but Thriving: Jewish Life and Legacy in the Texas Panhandle,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 80 (2008), 3–22.
Hayes-Bautista, David E., Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Nancy Zuniga, “A Gold Rush Salvadoran in California’s Latino World, 1857,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Fall 2009), 257–94.
Kashay, Jennifer Fish, “Missionaries and Foodways in Early Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i,” Food & Foodways, 17 (July 2009), 159–80.
Larson, Kelli L., Annie Gustafson, and Paul Hirt, “Insatiable Thirst and a Finite Supply: An Assessment of Municipal Water-Conservation Policy in Greater Phoenix, Arizona, 1980–2007,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 2, 2009), 107–137.
du Menil, Carley, “The Bank and the Community: Panhandle Banking in Various Markets,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 80 (2008), 45–62.
Nickel, Dawn, “Dying in the West, Part 1: Hospitals and Health Care in Montana and Alberta, 1880–1950,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 59 (Autumn 2009), 25–45. Heavily illustrated.
Norris, Frank, “Drawing a Line in the Tundra: Conservationists and the Mount McKinley Park Road,” Alaska History, 24 (Fall 2009), 63–76.
Cadava, Geraldo Lujan, “Corridor of Exchange: Culture and Ethnicity in Tucson’s Modern Borderlands” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342563.
Ely, Glen Sample, “Riding the Butterfield Frontier: Life and Death along the Butterfield Overland Mail Road in Texas, 1858–1861” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3339475.
Felhousen-Giles, Kristy, “To Prove Who You Are: Freedmen Identities in Oklahoma” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3336780.
Martindale, Vivian F., “Lingítx Haa Sateeyí, We Who Are Tlingit: Contemporary Tlingit Identity and the Ancestral Relationship to the Landscape” (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2008). Order No. DA3337644.
Pierce, Jason, “Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3341230.
Simmons, Elizabeth L., “Tahosa Territory—A Colorado Front Range Family: Contextual Essay to Accompany ‘Tahosa Territory a Colorado Historical Film Documentary’” (Union Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3345033.
Cannon, Brian Q., and Jessie L. Embry, eds., Utah in the Twentieth Century. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009. x, 412 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-87421-744-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Higham, Carol L., and William H. Katerberg, Conquests and Consequences: The American West from Frontier to Region. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2009. xii, 475 pp. Paper, $44.95, isbn 978-0-88295-270-3.)
Hunner, Jon, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xvi, 248 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4046-9.)
Lekson, Stephen H., A History of the Ancient Southwest. (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2008. xii, 439 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-1-934691-10-6.)
Wooster, Robert, The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783–1900. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xviii, 361 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8263-3843-3.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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