Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Camp, Gregory S., “Triumph and Tragedy: The Return Home,” North Dakota History, 72 (nos. 3–4 2005), 38–57. Heavily illustrated.
Flamm, Bradley, “Putting the Brakes on ‘Non-Essential’ Travel: 1940s Wartime Mobility, Prosperity, and the U.S. Office of Defense,” Journal of Transport History (Manchester), 27 (March 2006), 71–92.
Karamanski, Ted, “Schooner to Chicago: The Experience of Passenger Travel on Great Lakes Sailing Ships, 1815–1850,” Inland Seas, 62 (Summer 2006), 102–120.
Larson, George A., “The First Space Race? The Explorer II Balloon Flight of 1935,” Air Power History, 53 (Fall 2006), 40–49.
Scharnhorst, Gary, “Kate Field on ‘Despised Alaska’: 1887–1894,” Alaska History, 21 (Fall 2006), 27–46.
Wrobel, David M., “Exceptionalism and Globalism: Travel Writers and the Nineteenth-Century American West,” Historian, 68 (Fall 2006), 431–60.
Hamilton, Shane L., “Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of Rural Life in Postwar America” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005).
Marinova, Margarita Dimitrova, “Visitation Rights (and Wrongs): Americans and Russians Discover Each Other in Narratives of Travel between 1867 and 1905” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3204193.
Rodrigue, Barry, “Maine’s Canada Road Frontier, Settlement, and Development, 1790–1860” (University of Maine, 2000). Order No. DA3194267.
Shaw-Thornburg, Angela, “Reading and Writing African American Travel Narrative” (State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, 2006). Order No. DA3203402.
Snow, Rachel, “Incidental Tourists: Vernacular Photo-Travel Books, 1900–1940” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3205457.
Grant, H. Roger, Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xvi, 223 pp. $36.00, isbn 978-0-87580-365-4.)
Hicks, Brian, When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake. (New York: Free Press, 2006. xxii, 346 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-7432-8008-2.)
Watson, William E., et al., The Ghosts of Duffy’s Cut: The Irish Who Died Building America’s Most Dangerous Stretch of Railroad. (Westport: Praeger, 2006. x, 216 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-275-98727-2.)
Whisnant, Anne Mitchell, Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xxvi, 434 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3037-6.)
Evans, George W. B., Mexican Gold Trail: The Journal of a Forty-Niner, ed. Glenn S. Dumke. (San Marino: Huntington Library, 2006. xxx, 340 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-87328-222-1.) Originally published 1945.
LeClercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley, ed., Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe’s Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890–1910. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xl, 120 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57003-633-0.)
Taylor, Henry, From Lead Mines to Gold Fields: Memories of an Incredibly Long Life, ed. Donald L. Parman. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxvi, 225 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-9461-5.)
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