Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Bubb, Daniel, “Transforming the Desert: Commerical Aviation as Agent of Change, Las Vegas, 1926–1945,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 52 (Fall 2009), 198–212.
Fyfe, David A., and Deryck W. Holdsworth, “Signatures of Commerce in Small-Town Hotel Guest Registers,” Social Science History, 33 (Spring 2009), 17–45.
Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, “Dr. C. F. W. and Emilie Walther: The Recollections of Margarete Lenk (1911),” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 82 (Fall 2009), 170–83.
Brandt, Anthony, The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage. (New York: Knopf, 2010. xvi, 441 pp. $28.95, isbn 978-0-307-26392-6.)
Fried, Stephen, Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. (New York: Bantam, 2010. xx, 518 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-553-80437-9.)
O’Brien, Michael, Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010. xvi, 364 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-374-21581-1.)
Wolmar, Christian, Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World. (New York: Public Affairs, 2010. xxviii, 376 pp. $28.95, isbn 978-1-58648-834-5.)
Grandin, Léon, A Parisienne in Chicago: Impressions of the World’s Columbian Exposition, trans. Mary Beth Raycraft. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xlix, 190 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03513-5.)
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