Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Davis, Timothy, “Race and Sports in America: An Historical Overview,” Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, 7 (Spring 2008), 291–311.
Duru, N. Jeremi, “The Fritz Pollard Alliance, the Rooney Rule, and the Quest to ‘Level the Playing Field’ in the National Football League,” Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, 7 (Spring 2008), 179–97.
Fink, Robert C., “Semi-Professional African American Baseball in Texas before the Great Depression,” in The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology, ed. Bruce A. Glasrud and James M. Smallwood, 218–30. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxi, 404 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-89672-609-3.)
Hofmann, Annette, “Between Ethnic Separation and Assimilation: German Immigrants and Their Athletic Endeavours in Their New American Home Country,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 25 (July 2008), 993–1009.
Longley, Neil, Todd Crosset, and Steve Jefferson, “The Migration of African-Americans to the Canadian Football League during the 1950s: An Escape from Racism?,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 25 (Sept. 2008), 1374–97.
Love, William G., “A History of Memory Grove,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 148–67.
Swaim, Ginalie, “Solving the Leisure Problem: Recreation and the wpa,” Iowa Heritage Illustrated, 88 (Fall 2007), 126–44. Heavily illustrated.
Briley, Ron, Michael K. Schoenecke, and Deborah A. Carmichael, eds., All-Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film and History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. x, 318 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2448-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Gorn, Elliott J., ed., Sports in Chicago. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. x, 322 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03317-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07523-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Kyle, Donald G., and Robert B. Fairbanks, eds., Baseball in America and America in Baseball. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 222 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-023-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
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