Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Bailey, Joe R., “Union Lifeline in Tennessee: A Military History of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 106–23. Heavily illustrated.
Flynt, Wayne, “The Cross-Florida Canal and the Politics of Interest-Group Democracy,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Summer 2008), 1–15.
Grinev, A. V., “Germans in the History of Russian America,” trans. Richard L. Bland, Journal of the West, 47 (Spring 2008), 32–43.
Kinbacher, Kurt E., and William G. Thomas III, “Shaping Nebraska: An Analysis of Railroad and Land Sales, 1870–1880,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Summer 2008), 191–207.
Lass, William E., “The Mythical Platte River Voyage of the Steamboat El Paso,” Nebraska History, 89 (Summer 2008), 54–66.
Lukens, Rob, “Samuel J. Entrikin and the Peary Greenland Expedition of 1893–1895: Gender, Race, and Society at the New American Frontier,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Autumn 2008), 505–26.
Marrs, Aaron W., “Railroads and Time Consciousness in the Antebellum South,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Sept. 2008), 433–56.
Millward, Robert, and Kathleen Millward, “Making History in the Wilderness: Christopher Gist’s Explorations into Western Pennsylvania,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Summer 2008), 22–33. Heavily illustrated.
Tennant, Brad, “After Lewis and Clark: Expedition Personalities and South Dakota History,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 40 (Fall–Winter 2007), 5–16.
Ingram, Tammy Leigh, “Dixie Highway: Private Enterprise and State Building in the South, 1900–1930” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293330.
Johnson, James Clayton, “Flights Past: The Wright Brothers’ Legacy and Dayton, Ohio” (Western Michigan University, 2007). Order No. DA3293176.
Weller, Grant Thomas, “‘Come Hell, High Water, or Nazis’: The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Develops and Implements the First Motorized Logistics System, 1919–1945” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300383.
Grant, H. Roger, Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv, 258 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-35216-3.)
McGoogan, Ken, Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane. (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008. xii, 380 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-58243-440-7.)
Remley, David A., Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. xx, 253 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-1-60223-037-8.) Originally published in 1976.
Cummings, Amos Jay, A Remarkable Curiosity: Dispatches from a New York City Journalist’s 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West, ed. Jerald T. Milanich. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-87081-926-1.)
van der Donck, Adriaen, A Description of New Netherland, ed. Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna, trans. Diederik Willem Goedhuys. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxiv, 176 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1088-2.) First published in 1655.
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