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Material Culture and Architecture

Bachrach, Susan, “Deadly Medicine,” Public Historian, 29 (Summer 2007), 19–32.

Brave, Ralph, and Kathryn Sylva, “Exhibiting Eugenics: Response and Resistance to a Hidden History,” Public Historian, 29 (Summer 2007), 33–51.

Clark, Emily, “Elite Designs and Popular Uprisings: Building and Rebuilding New Orleans, 1721, 1788, 2005,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 33 (Summer 2007), 161–82.

Delaney, Kate, “Exhibiting Leadership: Definitions and Displays of Leadership in Presidential and Other Museums,” in Who’s the Boss? Leadership and Democratic Culture in America, ed. Hans Krabbendam and Wil Verhoeven, 115–28. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2007. 220 pp. Paper, €37.50, isbn 978-90-8659-073-5.)

DeSilvey, Caitlin, “Art and Archive: Memory-Work on a Montana Homestead,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (Oct. 2007), 878–900.

Gonzales, Angela, Judy Kertesz, and Gabrielle Tayac, “Eugenics as Indian Removal: Sociohistorical Process and the De(con)struction of American Indians in the Southeast,” Public Historian, 29 (Summer 2007), 53–67.

Thayer, Charles W., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, “John Bush of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts: Master Horn Carver,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 95 (June 2007), 85–102.

Wallace, Edie, “Reclaiming the Forgotten History and Cultural Landscapes of African-Americans in Rural Washington County, Maryland,” Material Culture, 39 (Spring 2007), 9–32. Heavily illustrated.

 

Hunting, Mary Anne, “Edward Durell Stone: Perception and Criticism” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3249917.

Lessing, Lauren Keach, “Presiding Divinities: Ideal Sculpture in Nineteenth-Century American Domestic Interiors” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3243769.

Wilk, Deborah J., “The Representation of Immigration in Art and Architecture in New York City, 1850–1920” (University of Kansas, 2005). Order No. DA3250049.

 

Landau, Barry H., The President’s Table: Two Hundred Years of Dining and Diplomacy. (New York: Collins, 2007. x, 292 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-06-089910-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Schofield, John, and Wayne Cocroft, eds., A Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War. (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast, 2007. 333 pp. $79.00, isbn 978-1-59874-258-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Sheumaker, Helen, and Shirley Teresa Wajda, eds., Material Culture in America: Understanding Everyday Life. (Santa Barbara: abc-clio, 2008. xviii, 569 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-1-57607-647-7.)

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