Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Dinces, Sean, “Padres on Mount Olympus: Los Angeles and the Production of the 1932 Olympic Mega-Event,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Summer 2005), 137–65. Heavily illustrated.
Godbey, Emily, “Disaster Tourism and the Melodrama of Authenticity: Revisiting the 1889 Johnstown Flood,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Summer 2006), 273–315.
Mason, Fred, “A Life in Multiple Majors Leagues: Fred Dunlap, Star Player and Early Labor Agitator,” New England Journal of History, 63 (Fall 2006), 1–22.
Wenn, Stephen R., and Scott G. Martyn, “Storm Watch: Richard Pound, top Sponsors, and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Summer 2005), 167–97.
Castelow, Peter L., “Katherine Montgomery: A Change of Heart on Women’s Competitive Athletics in the Early 20th Century” (Florida State University, 2005). Order No. DA3216580.
Huerta, Joel, “Red, Brown, and Blue: A History and Cultural Poetics of High School Football in Mexican America” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3215944.
Schuck, Raymond Ignatius, “Dodging the Past: The Brooklyn Dodgers as Public Memory” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3210207.
Davies, Richard O., Sports in American Life: A History. (Malden: Blackwell, 2007. xxii, 485 pp. Cloth, $99.95, isbn 978-1-4051-0647-4. Paper, $44.95, isbn 978-1-4051-0648-1.)
Giordano, Ralph G., Social Dancing in America: A History and Reference. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. Vol. 1, Fair Terpsichore to the Ghost Dance, 1607–1900: xx, 358 pp. Vol. 2, Lindy Hop to Hip Hop, 1901–2000: xviii, 403 pp. $149.95/set, isbn 978-0-313-33756-7/set.)
Kugelmass, Jack, ed., Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x, 232 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03082-6. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07324-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Scranton, Philip, and Janet F. Davidson, eds., The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. x, 288 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8122-3968-3.)
Testa, Judith, Sal Maglie: Baseball’s Demon Barber. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. xviii, 468 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-87580-367-8.)
Trumpbour, Robert C., The New Cathedrals: Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xiv, 373 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3132-3.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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