Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Agar, Jon, “What Happened in the Sixties?,” British Journal for the History of Science (London), 41 (Dec. 2008), 567–600.
Brandimarte, Cynthia, “Women on the Home Front: Hostess Houses during World War I,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Winter 2008), 201–22.
Burris, Val, “From Vietnam to Iraq: Continuity and Change in Between-Group Differences in Support for Military Action,” Social Problems, 55 (Nov. 2008), 443–79.
Dawn, Leslie, “Cross-Border Trading: Mungo Martin Carves for the World of Tomorrow,” bc Studies (Vancouver) (no. 159, Autumn 2008), 7–44.
Dibbell, Jeremy B., “‘A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors’: The First Purchase Collection of Union College,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 4, 2008), 367–96.
Fiorentino, Daniele, “Prospettive di una grande potenza, società, e cultura negli Stati Uniti a metà del XIX secolo” (Prospectives on a great power, society, and culture in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century), Giornale di storia Contemporanea (Rome), 7 (2008), 27–67. In Italian.
Howard, Vicki, “The Rise and Fall of Rudge & Guenzel: From Independent Retailer to Department Store Chain,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 102–19.
Krishnendu, Ray, “Nation and Cuisine: The Evidence from American Newspapers, ca. 1830–2003,” Food & Foodways, 16 (Oct. 2008), 259–97.
Kuzmarov, Jeremy, “From Counter-insurgency to Narco-insurgency: Vietnam and the International War on Drugs,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 344–78.
Osborn, Matthew Warner, “A Detestable Shrine: Alcohol Abuse in Antebellum Philadelphia,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Spring 2009), 101–32.
Park, Yoosun, “Facilitating Injustice: Tracing the Role of Social Workers in the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans,” Social Service Review, 82 (Sept. 2008), 447–83.
Prince, K. Stephen, “A Rebel Yell for Yankee Doodle: Selling the New South at the 1881 Atlanta International Cotton Exposition,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Fall 2008), 340–71.
Rogers, Randal, “Colonial Imitation and Racial Insubordination: Photography at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition of 1904,” History of Photography (London), 32 (Winter 2008), 347–67.
Runyon, Carl, and Randy K. Mills, “‘The Most Wonderful Thing I Have Ever Seen’: Indiana’s Contribution to Petrified Man Hoaxes,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (Dec. 2008), 367–78.
Sanderson, Nathan B., “More Than a Potluck: Shared Meals and Community-Building in Rural Nebraska at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 120–31.
Scroop, Daniel, “The Anti–Chain Store Movement and the Politics of Consumption,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 925–49.
Slavishak, Edward, “From Nation to Family: Two Careers in the Recasting of Eugenics,” Journal of Family History, 34 (Jan. 2009), 89–115.
Sparrow, James T., “‘Buying Our Boys Back’: The Mass Foundations of Fiscal Citizenship in World War II,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 263–86.
Steigerwald, David, “Did the Protestant Ethic Disappear? The Virtue of Thrift on the Cusp of Postwar Affluence,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Dec. 2008), 788–815.
Surdam, David G., “The New York Yankees Cope with the Great Depression,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Dec. 2008), 816–40.
Anderson, Karen Leona, “Classifying Life: Metaphor, Popular Biology, and Social Categorization in Emily Dickinson, Anne Spencer, Marianne Moore, and Lorine Niedecker” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317464.
Blum, Francelle L., “When Marriages Fail: Divorce in Nineteenth-Century Texas” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309835.
Burt, Ryan Edward, “Reading for Time: Race and the Politics of the American Canon in an Age of Empire” (University of Washington, 2008).
Callon, David Jerome, “Converting Catholicism: Orestes A. Brownson, Anna H. Dorsey, and Irish America, 1840–1896” (Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3316599.
Chybowski, Julia J., “Developing American Taste: A Cultural History of the Early Twentieth-Century Music Appreciation Movement” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314214.
Cserno, Isabell, “Race and Mass Consumption in Consumer Culture: National Trademark Advertising Campaigns in the United States and Germany, 1890–1930” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307782.
Duvall, Jeffery Alan, “‘Burley Paid the Bills’: Twentieth Century Tobacco Culture in the Central Ohio River Valley” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3307421.
Hinrichsen, Lisa, “Moving Forward, Looking Past: Trauma, Fantasy, and Misrecognition in Southern Literature, 1930–2001” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314030.
Houser, Tai Lynden, “Mind the Gap: Overcoming Dualities in Motor City, USA” (Florida Atlantic University, 2008). Order No. DA3316918.
Kraus-Friedberg, Chana, “‘Where You Stay?’: Transnational Identity in Sugar Plantation Worker Cemeteries, Pahala, Hawai‘i” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309461.
Lawler, Kristin, “Radical: The Image of the Surfer and the Politics of Popular Culture” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310642.
McAndrew, Jennifer Malia, “All-American Beauty: The Experiences of African American, European American, and Japanese American Women with Beauty Culture in the Mid-twentieth Century United States” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307835.
Mellis, Delia Cunningham, “‘The Monsters We Defy’: Washington, D.C. in the Red Summer of 1919” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310654.
Nehls, Christopher Courtney, “‘A Grand and Glorious Feeling’: The American Legion and American Nationalism between the World Wars” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3305894.
O’Heron, Diane M., “Renunciation and Resistance: Confessions of the Alcoholic and Addicted Experience in the 19th and 20th Centuries” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3310690.
Otis, Katherine Ann, “Everything Old Is New Again: A Social and Cultural History of Life on the Retirement Frontier, 1950–2000” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304374.
Possner, Roger, “Cultures of Militarism: Preparations for War in the Progressive Era” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3305660.
Reynolds, Claire E., “Speaking Out: Class, Race, and Gender in the Writings of Ruth McEnery Stuart, Edith Summers Kelley, and Harriette Simpson Arnow” (University of Rhode Island, 2008). Order No. DA3314458.
Scott, William Ramsey, “Dressing Down: Modernism, Masculinity, and the Men’s Leisurewear Industry in California, 1930–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306335.
Thaler, Valerie Sandler, “The Reshaping of American Jewish Identity, 1945 to 1960” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317230.
Tracy, Daniel, “Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913–1932” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314917.
Walter, Christina Michelle, “The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality from Optics to Aesthetics” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314930.
Wolkowski, Jenifer Lynn, “Ideas of Community in Three Depression-Era Southern Novels: Faulkner’s The Hamlet, Dargan’s Call from the Heart, and Still’s River of Earth” (Case Western Reserve University, 2008). Order No. DA3316917.
Batchelor, Bob, The 2000s. (Westport: Greenwood, 2009. xxii, 236 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-34912-6.)
Brownell, Susan, ed., The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xviii, 471 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1098-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Gootenberg, Paul, Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xx, 442 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3229-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5905-6.)
Grieveson, Lee, and Haidee Wasson, eds., Inventing Film Studies. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xxxii, 446 pp. Cloth, $99.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4289-2. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4307-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Jackson, Gregory S., The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 409 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-226-39003-1. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-226-39004-8.)
King, Rob, The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xvi, 355 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-520-25537-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-25538-8.)
Koritz, Amy, Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 200 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03384-1.)
Missal, Alexander, Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xii, 267 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-299-22940-5.)
Ryan, Maureen, The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii, 340 pp. Cloth, $98.00, isbn 978-1-55849-685-9. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-686-6.)
Santana, Richard W., and Gregory Erickson, Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. vi, 225 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3553-1.)
Tidwell, John Edgar, and Steven C. Tracy, eds., After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxvi, 470 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-19-536580-1.)
Tobia, Simona, Advertising America: The United States Information Service in Italy, 1945–1956. (Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2008. 323 pp. Paper, €33.00, isbn 978-88-7916-400-9.)
Woolfork, Lisa, Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 233 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03390-2.)
Stewart, Bruce E., ed., King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. lxii, 127 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-57233-640-7.)
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