Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Anderson, Timothy G., “Memorializing a Mountain Man: John G. Neihardt, Doane Robinson, and Jedediah Smith,” South Dakota History, 39 (Spring 2009), 1–26.
Churella, Albert J., “Delivery to the Customer’s Door: Efficiency, Regulatory Policy, and Integrated Rail-Truck Operations, 1900–1938,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 98–136.
Hamilton, Shane, “The Populist Appeal of Deregulation: Independent Truckers and the Politics of Free Enterprise, 1935–1980,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 137–77.
Howes, William F., Jr., “Upholding the Standard: An Inside Look at How Baltimore & Ohio Adapted Its Dining Service to a Changing Market,” Railroad History (no. 199, Fall–Winter 2008), 16–29. Heavily illustrated.
Junqueria, Mary Ann, “Charles Wilkes, a U.S. Exploring Expedition e a busca dos Estados Unidos da América por um lugar no mundo (1838–1842)” (Charles Wilkes, a U.S. Exploring Expedition, and the United States’s search for its place in the world (1838–1842)), Tempo (Rio de Janeiro), 13 (no. 25, 2008), 120–38. In Portugese.
Karsner, Douglas, “A Yen for the Dollar: Airlines and the Transformation of U.S.-Japanese Tourism, 1947–1977,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 27 (2009), 15–29.
Larson, Robert W., “Chief Gall and Abe Lincoln’s Railroad,” North Dakota History, 74 (no. 3–4, 2007), 17–27.
Levinson, Marc, “Two Cheers for Discrimination: Deregulation and Efficiency in the Reform of U.S. Freight Transportation, 1976–1998,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 178–215.
Rowe, Beverly J., and David Jeane, “Catering to Railroad Travelers in Early Texarkana,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 375–85.
Saum, Lewis, “Phocion Howard Examines the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1873,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (Oct. 2008), 443–52.
Suárez Argüello, Ana Rosa, “Imaginar a la patria en la distancia: Cuatro viajeros mexicanos en Estados Unidos a fines de la primera república federal” (Imagining the country home from far away: Four Mexican travelers in the United States at the end of the first federal republic), in La construcción del discurso nacional en México: Un anhelo persistente (The construction of a national discourse in Mexico: A persistent yearning), ed. Nicole Giron, 71–107. (Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 2007. isbn 978-970-684-165-0.) In Spanish.
Thayer, Robert B., “The Curious Disappearance of America’s First Locomotive: What Happened to Stephenson’s Pride of Newcastle,” Railroad History (no. 199, Fall–Winter 2008), 48–68.
DeSpain, Jessica Rae, “Steaming across the Pond: Travel, Transatlantic Literary Culture, and the Nineteenth-Century Book” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3323410.
Pryor, Elizabeth Anne, “‘Jim Crow’ Cars, Passport Denials, and Atlantic Crossings: African-American Travel, Protest, and Citizenship at Home and Abroad, 1827–1865” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3319792.
Ruiz, Jason, “Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Mexico in the U.S. Popular Imagination, 1876–1920” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3321930.
Danisi, Thomas C., and John C. Jackson, Meriwether Lewis. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2009. 424 pp. $28.98, isbn 978-1-59102-702-7.)
Mortimer, Gavin, Chasing Icarus: The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation. (New York: Walker & Company, 2009. xii, 305 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-8027-1711-5.)
Nordahl, Darrin, My Kind of Transit: Rethinking Public Transportation in America. (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2008. xvi, 175 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-1-930066-88-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Puffert, Douglas J., Tracks across Continents, Paths through History: The Economic Dynamics of Standardization in Railway Gauge. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 360 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-226-68509-0.)
Renehan, Edward J., Jr., Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. (New York: Basic, 2007. xx, 364 pp. Cloth, $27.50, isbn 978-0-465-00255-9. Paper, $17.50, isbn 978-0-465-00256-6.)
Rust, Daniel L., Flying across America: The Airline Passenger Experience. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. viii, 260 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8061-3870-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Yanik, Anthony J., Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. xii, 189 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8143-3423-2.)
Yochim, Michael J., Yellowstone and the Snowmobile: Locking Horns over National Park Use. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xii, 317 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1642-8.)
Gill, Harold B., Jr., and George M. Curtis III, eds., A Man Apart: The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774–1781. (Lanham: Lexington, 2009. xxx, 229 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-7391-2847-3. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-7391-2848-0.)
Macmillan, Donald B., How Peary Reached the Pole: The Personal Story of His Assistant. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. 368 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-773-53450-6.)
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