Organization of American Historians Journal of American History

Recent Scholarship

Visual and Performing Arts

 

Amaki, Amalia, “Being Richard A. Long: The Life, the Odyssey,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 3, 2009), 2–13.

Black, Jennifer M., “Corporate Calling Cards: Advertising Trade Cards and Logos in the United States, 1876–1890,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (Dec. 2009), 291–306.

Canning, Charlotte M., “‘In the Interest of the State’: A Cold War National Theatre for the United States,” Theatre Journal, 61 (Oct. 2009), 407–20.

Croft, Clare, “Ballet Nations: The New York City Ballet’s 1962 U.S. State Department–Sponsored Tour of the Soviet Union,” Theatre Journal, 61 (Oct. 2009), 421–42.

Garvin, Donna-Belle, “The Decorative Family Records of Schoolmaster George Melvill,” Historical New Hampshire, 63 (Fall 2009), 101–19. Heavily illustrated.

Hanners, John, “The Mighty Atom: Hymie Lichenstein,” Western States Jewish History, 42 (Fall 2009), 3–15.

Kelly, Patricia, “When Push Comes to Shove: Barnett Newman, Abstraction, and the Politics of 1968,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 1 (June 2008), 27–47.

Korzenik, Diana, “Face to Face: Fanny Appleton and the Old Man of the Mountain,” Historical New Hampshire, 63 (Fall 2009), 121–39. Heavily illustrated.

Lee, Elizabeth, “When Sailors Kiss: Picturing Homosexuality in Post–World War II America,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (Dec. 2009), 318–31.

Moravec, Michelle, “How Did the Los Angeles Woman’s Building Keep Feminism Alive?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (March 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1001000038.

Oman, Kerry R., “‘Rejoicing in the Beauties of Nature’: The Image of the Western Landscape during the Fur Trade,” Great Plains Quarterly, 29 (Fall 2009), 301–16.

Pearo, Charles, “Elizabeth Jane Gardner and the American Colony in Paris: ‘Making Hay while the Sun Shines’ in the Business of Art,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Winter 2009), 275–312.

Pridmore-Brown, Michele, “Annie Leibovitz’s Queer Consumption of Motherhood,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Fall–Winter 2009), 81–95.

Prieto, Laura, “How Did Women Sculptors Contribute to and Draw Support from the Antislavery and Woman’s Rights Movements, 1855–1875?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (Dec. 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1001234554.

Shaffer, Jason, “Unveiling the American Actor: The Evolution of Celebrity in the Early American Theater,” Common-Place, 10 (Jan. 2010), http://www.common-place.org.

Simpson, Mary Caroline, “American Artists Paint the City: Katharine Kuh, the 1956 Venice Biennale, and New York’s Place in the Cold War Art World,” American Studies, 48 (Fall 2007), 31–57.

Winton, Alexandra Griffith, “Color and Personality: Dorothy Liebes and American Design,” Archives of American Art Journal, 48 (nos. 1–2, 2009), 4–17.

 

Abbott, Janet Gail, “The Barnett Aden Gallery: A Home for Diversity in a Segregated City” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3346281.

Allison, Lara N., “Perception and Pedagogy: Design, Advertising, and Education in Chicago c. 1935–1955” (Columbia University, 2009). Order No. DA3348374.

Anderson, Sherman Reed, “James Ormsbee Chapin and the Marvin Paintings: An Epic of the American Farm” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3344798.

Anderson, Virginia, “Beyond Angels: Broadway Theatre and the AIDS Epidemic, 1981–2006” (Tufts University, 2009). Order No. DA3354683.

Bailly, Austen Barron, “”Painting the ‘American Historical Epic’: Thomas Hart Benton and Race, 1919–1936” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Order No. DA3350329.

Basquin, Mary Smyth, “Words Expand Postmodern Prints: Pat Steir, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Lynne Allen, and Lesley Dill” (Union Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3351169.

Edgecomb, Sean Fredric, “Still Ridiculous: The Legacy of Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatre Movement, 1987–2007” (Tufts University, 2009). Order No. DA3354693.

Eschen, Nicole Marie, “Performing the Past: Theatrical Revisions of Cold War Culture” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3346906.

Freij, Maysoun, “The Lighter Side of Evil: Arab American Artists in New York” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3349974.

Knappe, Brett, “Barbara Morgan’s Photographic Interpretation of American Culture, 1935–1980” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3349839.

Murayama, Nina, “Donald Judd’s Furniture, from Do-It-Yourself to the Art of Lifestyle” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3354668.

Oppedisano, Callie, “‘Worthy of Imitation’: Contemporary Mormon Drama on the Latter Day Stage” (Tufts University, 2009). Order No. DA3354703.

Pagel, Teresa Kathleen, “Native Sons, Native Daughters: Representations of the African American Spirit in August Wilson‘s ‘Jitney’” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009). Order No. DA3354545.

Rompilla, Denise M., “From Hiroshima to the Hydrogen Bomb: American Artists Witness the Birth of the Atomic Age” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349931.

Zalewski, Leanne M., “The Golden Age of French Academic Painting in America, 1867-1893” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3354678.

 

Fahlman, Betsy, New Deal Art in Arizona. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. xvi, 203 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8165-2292-7.) Heavily illustrated.

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

Recent Issues

Icon Downarrow Full Text

The full text of current issues (1999–present) of the Journal of American History is available to subscribers electronically at the History Cooperative. Back issues are available at JSTOR.

Icon Downarrow Subscribe to the JAH

A subscription to the JAH is one of the many benefits available to members of the Organization of American Historians (oah). To join the oah and receive the JAH, complete and submit a membership application at the oah Web site.

Read more >

Icon Downarrow Purchase a Single Issue

Selected current and back issues of the JAH are available both as single issues and for large quantities, at volume pricing. Please the OAH fulfillment department regarding your order.