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Sports and Recreation

Anderson, Christopher J., “The World’s Fair of 1919: Ethnographic and Technological Exhibits on Display at the Centenary of American Methodist Missions,” Methodist History, 43 (April 2005), 273–85.

Cain, Louis P., and David D. Haddock, “Similar Economic Histories, Different Industrial Structures: Transatlantic Contrasts in the Evolution of Professional Sports Leagues,” Journal of Economic History, 65 (Dec. 2005), 1116–47.

Goudsouzian, Aram, “‘Can Basketball Survive Chamberlain?’: The Kansas Years of Wilt the Stilt,” Kansas History, 28 (Autumn 2005), 150–73.

Harrison, Blake, “Tourism, Farm Abandonment, and the ‘Typical’ Vermonter, 1880–1930,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 31 (July 2005), 478–95.

Herman, Daniel Justin, “Hunting Democracy,” Montana, 55 (Autumn 2005), 22–33. Heavily illustrated.

Potter, James E., “‘The Great Source of Amusement’: Hunting in the Frontier Army,” Montana, 55 (Autumn 2005), 34–47.

Soifer, Paul, “Lillian Copeland Speaks Out on the Olympics: Los Angeles 1932, Berlin 1936,” Western States Jewish History, 38 (Fall 2005), 2–16.

Stange, Mary Zeiss, “Women and Hunting in the West,” Montana, 55 (Autumn 2005), 14–21.

 

Elzey, Christopher Clark, “Munich 1972: Sport, Politics, and Tragedy” (Purdue University, 2004). Order No. DA3166617.

Li, Jinzhao, “Constructing Chinese America in Hawai‘i: The Narcissus Festival, Ethnic Identity, and Community Transformation, 1949–2005” (University of Hawai‘i, 2005). Order No. DA3171056.

Schultz, Jessica Lynn, “Moments of Impact: Race, Injury, and Football History in Iowa’s Collective Memory” (University of Iowa, 2005). Order No. DA3172441.

 

Djata, Sundiata, Blacks at the Net, vol. 1: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xviii, 294 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8156-0818-7.)

Hogan, Lawrence D., Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball. (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006. xxiv, 422 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-7922-5306-X.) Heavily illustrated.

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