Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Berry, William B. N., “Robert M. Kleinpell: Founder of the Berkeley School of Stratigraphic Paleontology,” Earth Sciences History, 27 (no. 1 2008), 100–112.
Creager, Angela N. H., and Gregory J. Morgan, “After the Double Helix,” Isis, 99 (June 2008), 239–72.
Francaviglia, Richard V., “On the Margins of Science and Civilization: W. K. Gordon’s 1895 Geological Reconnaissance in the Trans-Pecos Borderlands,” Earth Sciences History, 27 (no. 1 2008), 113–30.
Hall, R. Cargill, “The Evolution of U.S. National Security Space Policy and Its Legal Foundations in the 20th Century,” Journal of Space Law, 33 (Summer 2007), 1–104.
McQuaid, Kim, “Sputnik Reconsidered: Image and Reality in the Early Space Age,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 37 (no. 3, 2007), 371–401.
Terzian, Sevan G., “‘Adventures in Science’: Casting Scientifically Talented Youth as National Resources on American Radio, 1942–1958,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 44 (June 2008), 309–25.
Tontonoz, Matthew, “The Scopes Trial Revisited: Social Darwinism versus Social Gospel,” Science as Culture (London), 17 (June 2008), 121–43.
Vetter, Jeremy, “Cowboys, Scientists, and Fossils,” Isis, 99 (June 2008), 273–303.
Puaca, Laura Micheletti, “A New National Defense: Feminism, Education, and the Quest for ‘Scientific Brainpower,’ 1940–1965” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3288985.
Russell, Andrew Lawrence, “‘Industrial Legislatures’: Consensus Standardization in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288527.
Shell, Hanna Rose, “Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Animal Skin, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 1859–1945” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285545.
Delfino, Susanna, and Michele Gillespie, eds., Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization: From the Antebellum Era to the Computer Age. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 215 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1795-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Dick, Steven J., and Roger D. Launius, eds., Societal Impact of Spaceflight, vol. 2: Reinventing the Airplane. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2007. xvi, 680 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-16-080190-7.)
Gillespie, Paul G., and Grant T. Weller, eds., Harnessing the Heavens: National Defense through Space. (Chicago: Imprint, 2008. xii, 235 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-879176-45-4.)
Heppenheimer, T. A., Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2007. xviii, 336 pp. $20.00.)
Kargon, Robert H., and Arthur P. Molella, Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2008. x, 190 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-262-11320-5.)
Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay Roberts, Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xviii, 418 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8814-4.)
Mahnken, Thomas G., Technology and the American Way of War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xii, 244 pp. $29.50, isbn 978-0-231-12336-5.)
Tsiao, Sunny, “Read You Loud and Clear!”: The Story of nasa’s Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. xlii, 481 pp. $59.00, isbn 978-0-16-080191-4.)
Wang, Zuoyue, In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xxii, 454 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4331-4.)
Hansen, James R., et al., eds., The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America, vol.2; Reinventing the Airplane. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2007. xxviii, 957 pp. $35.00.)
Johnston, Barbara Rose, and Holly M. Barker, Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report. (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast, 2008. 296 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-1-59874-345-6. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-1-59874-346-3.)
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