Recent Scholarship
Public History and Memory
Gentry, Glenn W., “Walking with the Dead: The Place of Ghost Walk Tourism in Savannah, Georgia,” Southeastern Geographer, 47 (Nov. 2007), 222–38.
Phillips, Faye, “Writing Louisiana Colonial History in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Charles Gayarré, Benjamin Franklin French, and the Louisiana Historical Society,” Louisiana History, 49 (Spring 2008), 163–90.
Russell-Ciardi, Maggie, “The Museum as a Democracy-Building Institution: Reflections on the Shared Journeys Program at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum,” Public Historian, 30 (Feb. 2008), 39–52.
Calhoun, Lindsay Regan, “Remembering Sand Creek: Nation, Identity, and Collective Memory in Narrative and Performance” (University of Utah, 2007). Order No. DA3273464.
Cherbosque, Cathy, “Washington Crossing the Delaware and Paul Conrad: Dual Agents of Historical Consciousness and Memory” (Claremont Graduate University, 2007). Order No. DA3272598.
Jones, Gordon L., “‘Gut history’: Civil War Reenacting and the Making of an American Past” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264078.
Worthington, David L., “American Exceptionalism and the Shoah: The Case of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3268343.
Gallagher, Gary W., Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 274 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3206-6.)
Hamilton, Paula, and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xviii, 302 pp. Cloth, $79.50, isbn 978-1-59213-140-2. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-59213-141-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Kwon, Heonik, Ghosts of War in Vietnam. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. viii, 222 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-521-88061-9.)
Moses, Nancy, Lost in the Museum: Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell. (Walnut Creek: AltaMira, 2008. x, 167 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-7591-1069-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7591-1070-0.)
Paris, Michael, ed., Repicturing the Second World War: Representations in Film and Television. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. x, 235 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-230-00257-9.)
Sherman, Daniel J., ed., Museums and Difference. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xii, 386 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-253-34946-0. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-253-21935-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Young, Robert A., Historic Preservation Technology. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2008. xii, 435 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-471-78836-2.)
Zenzen, Joan M., Fort Stanwix National Monument: Reconstructing the Past and Partnering for the Future. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 298 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7433-4.)
Herzog, Tobey C., Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O’Brien, Butler. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008. xxii, 217 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-58729-631-4.)
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