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Material Culture and Architecture

Belz, Herman, “Lincoln’s Construction of the Executive Power in the Secession Crisis,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 27 (Winter 2006), 13–38.

Brinkman, Bob, and Dan K. Utley, “A Name on the Cornerstone: The Landmark Texas Architecture of Jasper Newton Preston,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (July 2006), 1–36.

Evans, Timothy H., “Piece-Sur-Piece Horse Barns on the Laramie Plains of Southeastern Wyoming: Cultural Interplay and Adaptation,” Material Culture, 38 (Spring 2006), 54–87.

Hill, Nancy, “The Transformation of the Lincoln Tomb,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 27 (Winter 2006), 39–56.

Holliday, Kate, “‘Build More and Draw Less’: The aia and Leopold Eidlitz’s Grand Central School of Architecture,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65 (Sept. 2006), 378–401. Heavily illustrated.

Lobel, Cindy R., “The Sideboard Takes Center Stage: The Evolution of the Dining Room in the Nineteenth Century,” Common-Place, 7 (Oct. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Ogorek, Cynthia L., “Bartlett’s Souvenirs: Beverly Shores’s Century of Progress Houses,” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 18 (Summer 2006), 14–25.

Reed, Paula S., “The Hermitage, a French-Caribbean Plantation in Central Maryland,” Material Culture, 38 (Spring 2006), 1–35.

 

Braaten, Ann Wiley, “German from Russia Immigrants’ Shawls Brought to the U.S.A.: A Material Culture Study” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3194358.

Denzer, Anthony S., “Gregory Ain and the Social Politics of Housing Design” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3196347.

Fedders, Kristin Utter, “Pop Art at the 1964/65 New York World’s Fair” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3197670.

Lanier, Claire Shepherd, “Contextual Eclecticism: Designing Distinctive Campus Architecture for the University of Colorado, 1917–1921” (University of Colorado at Denver, 2005). Order No. DA3199613.

Malcolm-Woods, Rachel, “Igbo Talking Signs in Antebellum Virginia: Religion, Ancestors, and the Aesthetics of Freedom” (University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2005). Order No. DA3194173.

Meschutt, David Randolph, “The Portraiture of James Monroe, 1758–1831” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3200555.

Monteyne, David Patrick, “Shelter from the Elements: Architecture and Civil Defense during the Early Cold War” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3198122.

Raynsford, Anthony, “Sites of Lost Dwelling: The Figure of the Archaic City in the Discourses of Urban Design, 1938–1970” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3195056.

Wallace, Kim Elaine, “De/Industrializing Material Culture: Refractory Bricks and Company Housing in South-Central Pennsylvania Brickyard Towns, 1890–1990” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3197754.

 

Bishir, Catherine W., Southern Built: American Architecture, Regional Practice. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. x, 332 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 0-8139-2538-X. Paper, $35.00, isbn 0-8139-2539-8.)

Brackner, Joey, Alabama Folk Pottery. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xx, 311 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1509-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Ching, Francis D. K., Mark M. Jarzombek, and Vikramaditya Prakash, A Global History of Architecture. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2007. xvi, 800 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-471-26892-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Geier, Clarence R., David G. Orr, and Matthew B. Reeves, eds., Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment during the American Civil War. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xviii, 279 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-8130-2941-4.)

Isenstadt, Sandy, The Modern American House: Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 327 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-77013-2.)

Ore, Janet, The Seattle Bungalow: People and Houses, 1900–1940. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xx, 202 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-295-98627-1.)

van Ravenswaay, Charles, The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri: A Survey of a Vanishing Culture. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xxxvi, 539 pp. $79.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1700-4.) Originally published in 1977. Heavily illustrated.

Todd, Nancy L., New York’s Historic Armories: An Illustrated History. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xii, 322 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-7914-6911-8.) Heavily illustrated.

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