Recent Scholarship
Family
Aaron, Henry J., “Longer Life Spans: Boon or Burden?,” Daedalus, 135 (Winter 2006), 9–19.
Berkman, Lisa F., and M. Maria Glymour, “How Society Shapes Aging: The Centrality of Variability,” Daedalus, 135 (Winter 2006), 105–14.
Blakey, George T., “Morgan’s Raid: Childhood Memories of the Civil War in Indiana,” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 17 (Fall 2005), 24–33. Heavily illustrated.
Clark, Kenneth, “The Artist Grows Old,” Daedalus, 135 (Winter 2006), 77–90.
Griffin, Rebecca, “Courtship Contests and the Meaning of Conflict in the Folklore of Slaves,” Journal of Southern History, 71 (Nov. 2005), 769–802.
Hirschman, Charles, “Immigration and the American Century,” Demography, 42 (Nov. 2005), 595–620.
Ostendorf, Ann M., “Where Music Is Not the Devil Enters: Children’s Music Instruction in Late Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 89 (Winter 2005–2006), 2–11. Heavily illustrated.
Phalen, Patricia F., “Profound Sound: Family Theater Radio, 1947–1970,” Journal of Radio Studies, 11 (June 2004), 116–30.
Schwartz, Christine R., and Robert D. Mare, “Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage from 1940 to 2003,” Demography, 42 (Nov. 2005), 621–46.
Shaffer, Donald R., and Elizabeth Regosin, “Voices of Emancipation: Union Pension Files Giving Voice to Former Slaves,” Prologue, 37 (Winter 2005), 22–31. Heavily illustrated.
Smith, Andrea, “Mormon Forestdale,” Journal of the Southwest, 47 (Summer 2005), 165–208.
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Christina Collins, and Mark J. Stern, “Falling Far from the Tree: Transitions to Adulthood and the Social History of Twentieth-Century America,” Social Science History, 29 (Winter 2005), 625–48.
Starks, Brian, “Who Values the Obedient Child Now? The Religious Factor in Adult Values for Children, 1986–2002,” Social Forces, 84 (Sept. 2005), 343–59.
McGinity, Keren R., “Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America” (Brown University, 2005). Order No. DA3174645.
Shiner, Marlene Michelle, “A Child’s Place in the Home: Creating a Post-Divorce Legally Enforceable Right for Children in the Family Home” (Cornell University, 2005). Order No. DA3173385.
Kessler, Lauren, Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 2005. xii, 308 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 0-87595-296-8.)
Adams, Judith M., ed., “A Late-Ninteenth-Century Childhood in East Calais: Recollections of Ida Clee Bemis,” Vermont History, 73 (Summer–Fall 2005), 152–59.
Goodall, Harold Lloyd, Jr., A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a cia Family. (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast, 2006. 396 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 1-59874-014-5.)
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