Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Benson, Susan Porter, “What Goes ‘Round Comes ‘Round: Secondhand Clothing, Furniture, and Tools in Working-Class Lives in the Interwar United States,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (no. 1, 2007), 17–31.
Brady, Kevin M., “A University at War: The Impact of World War II on Baylor University,” Military History of the West, 36 (2006), 35–53.
Cinotto, Simone, “Il mondo nel piatto: globalizzazione e cucine nazionali tra passato e presente” (The World on a plate: Globalization and national cuisines between past and present), Quaderni storici (Bologna), 16 (2006), 609–38. In Italian.
Ernst, John, and Yvonne Baldwin, “The Not So Silent Minority: Louisville’s Antiwar Movement, 1966–1975,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Feb. 2007), 105–142.
Faye, Cathy, “Governing the Grapevine: The Study of Rumor during World War II,” History of Psychology, 10 (Feb. 2007), 1–21.
Friedman, Monroe, ed., “Consumer Culture,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 1–109. Special issue.
Godfrey, Audrey M., “‘The Queen of Inventions’: The Sewing Machine Comes to Utah,” Journal of Mormon History, 32 (Fall 2006), 82–103.
Green, Thomas, “Tricksters and the Marketing of Breakfast Cereals,” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (Feb. 2007), 49–68.
Hayes-Bautista, David E., and Cynthia L. Chamberlin, “Cinco de Mayo’s First Seventy-Five Years in Alta California: From Spontaneous Behavior to Sedimented Memory, 1862 to 1937,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Spring 2007), 23–64.
Kerber, Stephen, “The Mississippi River Festival at Edwardsville, 1969–1980,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Fall–Winter 2006–2007), 263–85.
Le Beau, Bryan F., “Art in the Parlor: Consumer Culture and Currier and Ives,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 18–37. Heavily illustrated.
LeCain, Timothy J., “‘See America the Bountiful’: Butte’s Berkeley Pit and the American Culture of Consumption,” Montana, 56 (Winter 2006), 5–17, 97. Heavily illustrated.
Lloyd, Jane Dale, “La sotolería, el canto y la lectura en voz alta: espacios y formas de socialización de una ideología radical, 1905–1911” (La Sotolería, singing, and reading out loud: Spaces and forms of socialization of a radical ideology, 1905–1911), Historia y Grafía (Mexico City) (no. 27, 2006), 75–105. In Spanish.
Matt, Susan J., “A Hunger for Home: Homesickness and Food in a Global Consumer Society,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 6–17.
Moss, Richard, “Creating a Jewish American Identity in Indianapolis: The Jewish Welfare Federation and the Regulation of Leisure, 1920–1934,” Indiana Magazine of History, 103 (March 2007), 39–65.
Pettit, Michael, “‘The Joy in Believing’: The Cardiff Giant, Commercial Deceptions, and Styles of Observation in Gilded Age America,” Isis, 97 (Dec. 2006), 659–77.
Pollak, Oliver, “Nebraska’s Libraries at War, 1917–1919,” Nebraska History, 87 (Fall 2006), 120–32. Heavily illustrated.
Renouard, Joe, “The Predicaments of Plenty: Interwar Intellectuals and American Consumerism,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 54–67.
Rosen, Judith Friedman, “Earlier American Jewish Anniversary Celebrations: 1905 and 1954,” American Jewish History, 92 (Dec. 2004), 481–497.
Stole, Inger L., and Rebecca Livesay, “Consumer Activism, Commercialism, and Curriculum Choices: Advertising in Schools in the 1930s,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 68–80.
Banda, Anne E., “A Tale of Two Cities: Public Library Development in Milwaukee and Montreal” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2006). Order No. DA3222393.
Buerglener, Robert, “Creating the American Automobile Driver, 1898–1918” (University of Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3219495.
Flemma, Thomas James, “Taming the ‘Chaos of a mighty world’: Contesting California Culture, 1846–1856” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3218468.
Hilliard, Kathleen Mary, “Spending in Black and White: Race, Slavery, and Consumer Values in the Antebellum South” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224439.
Mack, Adam, “‘Good things to eat in suburbia’: Supermarkets and American Consumer Culture, 1930–1970” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224456.
McKinnon, Andrew M., “Jesus, the American Advertising Man: Bruce Barton, ‘The Man Nobody Knows,’ and Faith in Consumer Capitalism” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR15952.
Shales, Ezra, “John Cotton Dana and the Business of Enlightening Newark: Applied Art at the Newark Public Library and Museum, 1902–1929” (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2007). Order No. DA3222573.
Smock, Thomas Maynard, “From Myth to Identity: Oral History, Popular Culture, and the Making of the Greatest Generation” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222219.
Calvo Buezas, Tomás, ed., El gigante dormido: El poder hispano en los Estados Unidos (The sleeping giant: Hispanic power in the United States). (Madrid: sgel, 2006. 176 pp. isbn 8-483-19284-5.) In Spanish.
Calvo Buezas, Tomás, ed., Hispanos en Estados Unidos, inmigrantes en España: ¿amenaza o nueva civilización? (Hispanics in the United States, immigrants in Spain: threat or new civilization?). (Madrid: sgel, 2006. 416 pp. isbn 8-483-19280-2.) In Spanish.
Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xxx, 248 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-313-33526-6.)
Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America: From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xxx, 182 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-313-33534-1.)
Hoelbling, Walter W., Klaus Rieser, and Susanne Rieser, eds., U.S. Icons and Iconicity. (Münster: lit, 2006. 304 pp. €29.90, isbn 3-825-88669-7.)
Malcolm, Cheryl A., and Jopi Nyman, Eros. usa: Essays on the Culture and Literature of Desire. (Gdansk: Gdansk University Press, 2005. 221 pp. isbn 8-373-26282-2.)
Rosenberg, Chaim M., Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-579-1. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-55849-580-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Young, William H., and Nancy K. Young, The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. Vol. 1, A–M: xxviii, 344 pp. Vol. 2, N–Z: xviii, 323 pp. $175.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-33520-4/set.)
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