Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Britton, John A., “‘The Confusion Provoked by Instantaneous Discussion’: The New International Communications Network and the Chilean Crisis of 1891–1892 in the United States,” Technology and Culture, 48 (Oct. 2007), 729–57.
Burke, Chloe S., and Christopher J. Castaneda, “The Public and Private History of Eugenics: An Introduction,” Public Historian, 29 (Summer 2007), 5–17.
Choi, Hyungsub, “The Boundaries of Industrial Research: Making Transistors at rca, 1948–1960,” Technology and Culture, 48 (Oct. 2007), 758–82.
Cullen, David, “Back to the Future: Eugenics—A Bibliographic Essay,” Public Historian, 29 (Summer 2007), 163–75.
Gutmann, James T., “Geologic Studies in the Pinacate Volcanic Field,” Journal of the Southwest, 49 (Spring 2007), 189–244. Heavily illustrated.
Lovett, Laura L., “‘Fitter Families for Future Firesides’: Florence Sherbon and Popular Eugenics,” Public Historian, 29 (Summer 2007), 69–85.
Turner, Raymond M., “Desert on the March,” Journal of the Southwest, 49 (Spring 2007), 141–64. Heavily illustrated.
Burns, John Conor, “Networking Ohio Valley Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR21895.
Gormley, Melinda, “Geneticist L. C. Dunn: Politics, Activism, and Community” (Oregon State University, 2007). Order No. DA3247822.
Nisbett, Catherine Elaine, “Business Practice: The Rise of American Astrophysics, 1859–1919” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3247803.
Petrick, Gabriella M., “The Arbiters of Taste: Producers, Consumers, and the Industrialization of Taste in America, 1900–1960” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3247684.
Pettit, Michael John, “The Science of Deception: The Human Sciences, the Law, and Commercial Culture in America, 1860s–1920s” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR21890.
Spurlock, James William, “The Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Military-Industrial Complex: The Jewett-Buckley Years, 1925–1951” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3248464.
Andrejevic, Mark, iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 325 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1528-5.)
Bernstein, Jeremy, Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 299 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-521-88408-2.)
Chiles, James R., The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks; The Story of the Helicopter. (New York: Bantam, 2007. xii, 354 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-553-80447-8.)
D’Antonio, Michael, A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957; The Space Race Begins. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 306 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-7432-9431-7.)
French, Francis, and Colin Burgess, In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965–1969. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xx, 425 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1128-5.)
Israel, Paul B., et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, vol. 6: Electrifying New York and Abroad, April 1881–March 1883. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xlvi, 893 pp. $90.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8640-9.)
Mendenhall, Richard, “A Sketch on Tanning,” Southern Friend, 28 (no. 1, 2006), 8–29.
Sykes, Godfrey G., “The ‘Lost’ 1907 Pinacate Diary of Godfrey G. Sykes,” ed. Diane Boyer, Journal of the Southwest, 49 (Spring 2007), 165–87.
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