Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Brewin, Mark, “The Freak Election Bet and the Performance of the Democratic Paradox,” Communication Review (Yverdon), 9 (Jan.–March 2006), 37–62.
Brown, Candy Gunther, “Publicizing Domestic Piety: The Cultural Work of Religious Texts in the Woman’s Building Library,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 35–54.
Burns, Jeffrey M., “Prelude to Reform: The Church in San Francisco before the Council,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 23 (Fall 2005), 1–15.
Caric, Ric N., “From Ordered Buckets to Honored Felons: Fire Companies and Cultural Transformation in Philadelphia, 1785–1850,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Spring 2005), 117–58.
Chan, Yuen-Ying, “Reimagining America,” Social Research, 72 (Winter 2005), 935–52.
Chinnici, Joseph P., “Changing Religious Practice and the End of Christendom in the United States, 1965–1980,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 23 (Fall 2005), 61–82.
Cross, Gary, “Crowds and Leisure: Thinking Comparatively across the 20th Century,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Spring 2006), 631–50.
Davis, Erin K., “Printing at the Fair: The Printing Exhibits at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase International Exposition,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 99 (Sept. 2005), 427–44.
Elles, Marios, “Chinese Whispers: Jimi Hendrix, Fame, and ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 17, Spring 2006) http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.
Fishback, Price V., William C. Horrace, and Shawn Kantor, “The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility during the Great Depression,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (April 2006), 179–222.
Fox, John, “William Kelly, Gentleman Gold Digger California, 1849–50; Australia, 1853 and 1858,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 64, Winter 2005), 36–44.
Franklin, V. P., “The African American Experience in the Western States,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Winter 2006), 1–72. Special issue.
Freire, Olival, Jr., “Science and Exile: David Bohm, the Cold War, and a New Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 36 (no. 1, 2005), 1–34.
Gallagher, Bernice E., “Illinois Women’s Novels at the Woman’s Building Library,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 109–32.
Gautier, Amina, “African American Women’s Writings in the Woman’s Building Library,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 55–84.
Goldberg, Martin, “The Jewel of the Valley: The Carnegie Library of Homestead,” Pennsylvania History, 70 (Spring 2003), 149–73.
Gordon, Sarah, “Prestige, Professionalism, and the Paradox of Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion Nudes,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130 (Jan. 2006), 79–104.
Gordon, Stephen C., “Rustic Repose: Spring Grove and the Rural Cemetery Movement,” Timeline, 23 (April–June 2006), 2–19. Heavily illustrated.
Graham, S. E., “The (Real)politiks of Culture: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in unesco, 1946–1954,” Diplomatic History, 30 (April 2006), 231–51.
Hannah, Eleanor L., “The Gilded Age of Camp Lincoln, 1886–1916,” Chicago History, 34 (Spring 2006), 20–41. Heavily illustrated.
Hemphill, C. Dallett, “Manners and Class in the Revolutionary Era: A Transatlantic Comparison,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (April 2006), 345–72.
Hochman, Barbara, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the World’s Columbian Exposition,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 82–108.
Horowitz, Joseph, “Music and the Gilded Age: Social Control and Sacralization Revisited,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (July 2004), 227–45.
Hwang, Haesung, “‘Weeheomhan Yeosong’ Flapper: 1920 Nyondae Miguk Munwha Danmyun Ilgi” (“A Dangerous Woman,” Flapper: A reading on 1920s American culture), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 22 (Nov. 2005), 89–118. In Korean.
Ivanov, Petko, “To Chicago and Back: Bulgaria and the World’s Fair of 1893,” Chicago History, 34 (Spring 2006), 42–59. Heavily illustrated.
Keirstead, Christopher M., “In Search of the ‘Great Human Family’: Tourism, Mass Culture, and the Knowable Community of Dickens’ American Notes,” Nineteenth-Century Prose, 33 (Spring 2006), 117–32.
Kim, Deok-ho, “Naengjeon Chogi Coca-Cola wa Miguk Munwha Sanup eu Saegaewha” (Coca-Cola and the globalization of the American culture industry during the early Cold War era), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 21 (May 2005), 105–40. In Korean.
Kitch, Carolyn, “‘A Piazza from which the View Is Constantly Changing’: The Promise of Class and Gender Mobility on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Cross-Country Tours,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 505–27.
Klem, Amelia, “A Life of Her Own Choosing: Anna Gibbons’ Fifty Years as a Tattooed Lady,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 89 (Spring 2006), 28–39. Heavily illustrated.
Koslow, Jennifer, “Putting It to a Vote: The Provision of Pure Milk in Progressive Era Los Angeles,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (April 2004), 111–44.
Kruty, Paul, “Wood Bungalows and Burnt-Clay Cottages: Building a Model Brick House at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition,” Winterthur Portfolio, 40 (Summer–Autumn 2005), 133–49.
Lewis, Herbert J., “A Connecticut Yankee in Early Alabama: Henry Wilbourne Stevens and the Founding of Ordered Society, 1814–1823,” Alabama Review, 59 (April 2006), 83–106.
Lindstrom, Linda, “The Lehi Brass Band,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Winter 2006), 47–65.
Lofthus, Richard, “‘Over Here, Over There’: The World War I Correspondence of the Pvt. John Warns Family,” South Dakota History, 36 (Spring 2006), 1–31.
Lundin, Anne, “Little Pilgrims’ Progress: Literary Horizons for Children’s Literature,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 133–52.
Manca, Joseph, “On the Origins of the American Porch: Architectural Persistence in Hudson Valley Dutch Settlements,” Winterthur Portfolio, 40 (Summer–Autumn 2005), 91–132.
Massoni, Kelley, “‘Teena Goes to Market’: Seventeen Magazine and the Early Construction of the Teen Girl (as) Consumer,” Journal of American Culture, 29 (March 2006), 31–42.
McClelland, James, “1876 Centennial Craze Sweeps into Philadelphia!,” Pennsylvania Heritage, 32 (Spring 2006), 16–25. Heavily illustrated.
McGill, Jason, “The Celebrity Club: Social Change in Postwar Providence,” Rhode Island History, 63 (Summer 2005), 31–48. Heavily illustrated.
Mires, Charlene, “The Lure of New England and the Search for the Capital of the World,” New England Quarterly, 79 (March 2006), 37–64.
Mosley, Stephen, “Common Ground: Integrating Social And Environmental History,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Spring 2006), 915–33.
Nyang, Sulayman S., “U.S.-Africa Relations over the Last Century: An African Perspective,” Social Research, 72 (Winter 2005), 913–34.
Oliver, Mamie O., “Idaho Ebony: The African American Presence in Idaho State History,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Winter 2006), 41–54.
Pfaff, Carol W., and Tonjes Veenstra, “Germans in America: Immigration History and Language Development,” in Atlantic Passages: Constitution—Immigration—Internationalization, ed. Andreas Etges and Ursula Lehmkuhl, 107–15. (Münster: lit, 2006. 184 pp. €29.90, isbn 3-8258-9344-8.)
Plymire, Darcy C., “Positive Addiction: Running and Human Potential in the 1970s,” Journal of Sport History, 31 (Fall 2004), 297–315.
Pollak, Oliver B., “The Education of Henry Monsky: Omaha Nebraska’s American Jewish Hero, 1890–1947,” Western States Jewish History, 38 (Winter 2006), 133–61.
Richards, Susan L., “Making Home Pay: Italian and Scottish Boardinghouse Keepers in Barre, 1880–1910,” Vermont History, 74 (Winter–Spring 2006), 48–66.
Roberts, Blain, “A New Cure for Brightleaf Tobacco: The Origins of the Tobacco Queen during the Great Depression,” Southern Cultures, 12 (Spring 2006), 30–52.
Rumbarger, Lee, “Housekeeping: Women Modernists’ Writing on War and Home,” Women’s Studies, 35 (Jan. 2006), 1–15.
Schürer, S. M., “H. Winslow Fegley and the fsa in Pennsylvania: Agenda and Context,” Pennsylvania History, 70 (Summer 2003), 269–86.
Schweitzer, Marlis, “‘The Mad Search for Beauty’: Actresses’ Testimonials, the Cosmetics Industry, and the ‘Democratization of Beauty,’” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (July 2005), 255–92.
Sheets, Kevin B., “Antiquity Bound: The Loeb Classical Library as Middlebrow Culture in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (April 2005), 149–71.
Smucker, Janneken, “Destination Amish Quilt Country: The Consumption of Quilts in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 80 (April 2006), 185–206.
Sorby, Angela, “Symmetrical Womanhood: Poetry in the Woman’s Building Library,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 5–34.
Speltz, Mark, “An Interest in Health and Happiness as Yet Untold: The Woman’s Club of Madison, 1893–1917,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 89 (Spring 2006), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.
Teo, Hsu-Ming, “The Americanisation of Romantic Love in Australia,” in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake, 171–92. (Canberra: Australian National University, 2005. x, 278 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-920942-44-0.)
Todd, Emily B., “Afterword: The Woman’s Building Library and History,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 153–61.
Wadsworth, Sarah, ed., “The Woman’s Building Library of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 1–167. Special issue.
Ward, Douglas B., “From Barbarian Farmers to Yeoman Consumers: Curtis Publishing Company and the Search for Rural America, 1910–1930,” American Journalism, 22 (Fall 2005), 47–67.
Weaver, Michael E., “The Volunteers of 1941: The Pennsylvania National Guard and Continuity in American Military Policy,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Summer 2005), 347–68.
Webster, Wendy, “Transnational Journeys and Domestic Histories,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Spring 2006), 651–66.
Whitford, Andrew B., Jeff Yates, and Holona L. Ochs, “Ideological Extremism and Public Participation,” Social Science Quarterly, 87 (March 2006), 36–54.
Wilkerson-Freeman, Sarah, “Fat Tuesday at Dixie’s: Jack Robinson’s New Orleans Mardi Gras Photographs, 1952–1955,” Southern Cultures, 12 (Spring 2006), 42–63.
Ackerman, Joy Whiteley, “Walden: A Sacred Geography” (Antioch New England Graduate School, 2005). Order No. DA3181625.
Banning, Jennifer Lynn, “Feed Sack Fashions in South Louisiana, 1949–1968: The Use of Commodity Bags in Garment Construction” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2005). Order No. DA3184046.
Bowie, James I., “Innovation, Imitation, Legitimacy, and Deviance in the Design of Graphical Trademarks in the United States, 1884–2003” (University of Arizona, 2005). Order No. DA3179059.
Carney, Courtney Patterson, “Jazz and the Cultural Transformation of America in the 1920s” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2003). Order No. DA3182877.
Carter, Catherine Lee, “The Role of Theology in the Production of Space in Shaker Societies” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178497.
Granade, Samuel Andrew, II, “‘I was a bum once myself’: Harry Partch, ‘U.S. Highball,’ and the Dust Bowl in the American Imagination” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005). Order No. DA3182271.
Herman, Paul A., “American Homophobia: ‘The homosexual menace’ in Twentieth-Century American Culture” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3186351.
Iannacone, Rachel E., “Open Space for the Underclass: New York’s Small Parks (1880–1915)” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3179750.
Karl, Alissa G., “Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Cultures and Consumer Capitalism, 1915–1939” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3178087.
Kase, Toyoshi, “Nisei Samurai: Culture and Agency in Three Japanese American Lives” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178608.
Orcutt, Kimberly, “‘Revising History’: Creating a Canon of American Art at the Centennial Exhibition” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187359.
Parson, Edy Meiling, “Facing the Aliens: Asian American Identity through the Eyes of Both Cultures, 1870s–1940s” (Iowa State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184599.
Quirk, Martin W., “From Pioneers to Wheat Kings: The Development of Regional Image and Identity in Western Kansas, 1890–1929” (Marquette University, 2005). Order No. DA3184683.
Rohrer, Judy L., “Haole Matters: An Interrogation of Whiteness in Hawai‘i” (University of Hawai‘i, 2005). Order No. DA3184512.
Rottinghaus, Brandon, “Measure of the Mind of the Public: Patterns of Presidential Rhetoric and Public Opinion from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Bill Clinton” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177799.
Roylance, Patricia Jane, “International Nationalism: World History as Usable Past in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3187339.
Schulle, Jennifer Marie, “Fashion and Fallen Women: The Apparel Industry, the Retail Trade, Fashion, and Prostitution in Late 19th-Century St. Louis” (Iowa State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184648.
Smalley, Andrea L., “‘The liberty of killing a deer’: Histories of Wildlife Use and Political Ecology in Early America” (Northern Illinois University, 2005). Order No. DA3185449.
Stanley, William Chad, “Uncivil Defenses: The Nuclear Fictions of Philip Wylie” (University of Connecticut, 2005). Order No. DA3180259.
Starr, Clinton Robert, “Bohemian Resonance: The Beat Generation and Urban Countercultures in the United States during the Late 1950s and Early 1960s” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3185984.
Wilson, Richard Arave, “The Development of the Idaho State Library: Chronicles and Narratives, 1901 to 2004” (University of Idaho, 2005). Order No. DA3178874.
Xu, Chen, “Meiguo xibu xiaoshuo yanjiu” (On United States western novels) (Shaihai Normal University, China, 2004). In Chinese.
Abrahams, Roger D., with Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, and Robert Farris Thompson, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 102 pp. $22.50, isbn 0-8122-3959-8.)
Agnew, Jean-Christophe, and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., A Companion to Post-1945 America. (Malden: Blackwell, 2006. xviii, 584 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-4051-4984-1.) Originally published in 2002.
Arthur, Anthony, and John Broesamle, Twelve Great Clashes That Shaped Modern America: From Geronimo to George W. Bush. (New York: Pearson, 2006. viii, 360 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 0-321-41826-3.)
Barney, William L., ed., A Companion to 19th-Century America. (Malden: Blackwell, 2006. x, 414 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 1-4051-4982-5.) Originally published in 2001.
Black, Brian, Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xvi, 239 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-313-33201-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Boswell, Terry, et al., Racial Competition and Class Solidarity. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. x, 258 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-7914-6671-X.)
Brison, Jeffrey D., Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. xiv, 281 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-7735-2868-7.)
Burke, Peter, History and Social Theory: Second Edition. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xii, 224 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8014-4453-5. Paper, $21.95, isbn 0-8014-7285-7.) Originally published in 1993.
Dickerson, James L., Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2006. 271 pp. $25.00, isbn 1-59102-399-8.)
Doheny, David A., David Finley: Quiet Force in America’s Arts. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. viii, 392 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-89133-398-3.)
Eisenberg, John, The Great Match Race: When North Met South in America’s First Sports Spectacle. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. xiv, 258 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-618-55612-5.)
Emerson, Michael O., with Rodney M. Woo, People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiv, 261 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-691-12451-5.)
Field, Douglas, ed., American Cold War Culture. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. x, 214 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 0-7486-1922-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 0-7486-1923-2.)
Gennari, John, Blowin’ Hot and Cold: Jazz and Its Critics. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv, 480 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-226-28922-2.)
Haley, James L., Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas. (New York: Free Press, 2006. xviii, 636 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-684-86291-3.)
Helphand, Kenneth I., Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime. (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006. xvi, 303 pp. $34.95, isbn 1-59534-021-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Hill, Samuel S., ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 1: Religion. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xx, 248 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-8078-3003-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5674-6.)
Hinds, Harold E., Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M. S. Nelson, eds., Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. viii, 412 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 0-87972-870-1. Paper, $21.95, isbn 0-87972-871-X.)
Jeansonne, Glen, with David Luhrssen, A Time of Paradox: America since 1890. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xxxiv, 538 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 0-7425-3376-X. Paper, $32.95, isbn 0-7425-3377-8.)
Keller, Florian, Andy Kaufman: Wrestling with the American Dream. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xvi, 194 pp. $58.50, isbn 0-8166-4602-3.)
Klinger, Barbara, Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xii, 310 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-520-22315-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-520-24586-5.)
Krim, Arthur, Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway, ed. Denis Wood. (Santa Fe: Center for American Places, 2005. xx, 220 pp. $35.00, isbn 1-930066-35-X.) Heavily illustrated.
Masco, Joseph, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xvi, 425 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 0-691-12076-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-691-12077-3.)
Pillsbury, Richard, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 2: Geography. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xx, 224 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-8078-3013-5. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5681-9.)
Smith, David L., Hoosiers in Hollywood. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2006. xx, 596 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-87195-194-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Snyder, Sharon L., and David T. Mitchell, Cultural Locations of Disability. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv, 245 pp. Cloth, $58.00, isbn 0-226-76731-0. Paper, $19.00, isbn 0-226-76732-9.)
Szasz, Ferenc M., Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xviii, 298 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8263-3883-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Vickers, Daniel, ed., A Companion to Colonial America. (Malden: Blackwell, 2006. xiv, 562 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 1-4051-4985-X.) Originally published in 2003.
Volti, Rudi, Cars and Culture: The Life Story of a Technology. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xviii, 171 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8018-8399-7.)
Young, Marilyn B., and Robert Buzzanco, eds., A Companion to the Vietnam War. (Malden: Blackwell, 2006. xii, 514 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 1-4051-4983-3.) Originally published in 2002.
Eisenach, Eldon J., ed., The Social and Political Thought of American Progressivism. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006. xx, 331 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-87220-785-4. Paper, $16.95, isbn 0-87220-784-6.)
Green, Howard L., ed., Words That Make New Jersey: A Primary Source Reader. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xviii, 311 pp. $23.95, isbn 0-8135-3850-5.) Expanded Edition.
The Christian Woman’s Exchange, ed., Creole Cookery. (Gretna: Pelican, 2005. xxvi, 223 pp. $23.00, isbn 1-58980-342-6.) Originally published in 1885.
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