Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Ashby, LeRoy, “The Rising of Popular Culture: A Historiographical Sketch,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (April 2010), 11–14.
Barth, Jonathan Edward, “‘The Sinke of America’: Society in the Albemarle Borderlands of North Carolina, 1663–1729,” North Carolina Historical Review, 87 (Jan. 2010), 1–27.
Christman, Carrie A., “Voices of New Philadelphia: Memories and Stories of the People and Place,” Historical Archaeology, 44 (no. 1, 2010), 102–11.
Dement, Rebekah, “The Phenomenon of Five Thousand Soldiers Milling around One Business Block: World War II and Tullahoma, Tennessee,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 (Fall 2009), 296–323.
Doherty, Thomas, “The Rom-com Genre and the Shopping Gene,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (April 2010), 25–28.
Edmonds, Michael, “More Groovy Than Woodstock: The Sound Storm Festival of April 1970,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Spring 2010), 28–41.
Engelhardt, Elizabeth, “Canning Tomatoes, Growing ‘Better and More Perfect Women’: The Girls’ Tomato Club Movement,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Winter 2009), 78–92.
Ferris, Marcie Cohen, “The Edible South,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Winter 2009), 3–27.
Frankel, Oz, “Hard Facts for Hard Times: Social Knowledge and Social Crisis in the Nineteenth Century,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/frankel/.
Fyfe, David A., and Deryck W. Holdsworth, “Signatures of Commerce in Small-Town Hotel Guest Registers,” Social Science History, 33 (Spring 2009), 17–45.
Gross, Robert A., “‘Doctor Ripley’s Church’: Congregational Life in Concord, Massachusetts, 1778–1841,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 33 (2009–2010), 1–37.
Hwang, Haesung, “Miyoanseongeui mosaic: Migukeui ‘60nyeondae’ wa ’Jeolmunideuleui Ballan’ yeongu” (Unfinished mosaic: Studies on ‘the Sixties’ and ‘Youthquake’), Seoyangsaron/Korean Journal of Western History, 99 (Dec. 2008), 239–69. In Korean.
Janik, Erika, “Food Will Win the War: Food Conservation in World War I,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Spring 2010), 16–27. Heavily illustrated.
Jones, Preston, “Loyalty and Civic Culture on the Farthest Frontier: Anchorage and the Great War, 1917–1919,” Alaska History, 25 (Spring 2010), 23–37.
Kibler, M. Alison, “‘Freedom of the Theater’ and ‘Practical Censorship’: Two Theater Riots in the Early Twentieth Century,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (April 2010), 15–19.
Kim, Jin Hee, “1930–40 Nyundae Miguk gisikineui daejung munwha insik” (New York intellectuals and mass culture in the 1930s and 1940s), Mikuthak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies, 40 (no. 3, 2008), 5–38. In Korean.
King, Charlotte, “Separated by Death and Color: The African American Cemetery of New Philadelphia, Illinois,” Historical Archaeology, 44 (no. 1, 2010), 125–37.
Lewis, Michael, “Keeping Sin from Sacred Spaces: Southern Evangelicals and the Socio-legal Control of Alcohol, 1865–1915,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Summer 2009), 40–60.
Martin, Terrance J., and Claire Fuller Martin, “Courtly, Careful, Thrifty: Subsistence and Regional Origin at New Philadelphia,” Historical Archaeology, 44 (no. 1, 2010), 85–101.
Parker, Sylvia, “A Riverton Retreat: Royal Charter to State Forest,” Vermont History, 78 (Winter–Spring 2010), 95–111.
Petigny, Alan, “The Spread of Permissive Religion,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 4, 2009), 399–422.
Sarvis, Will, “Land and Home in the American Mind,” Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law, 22 (no. 2, 2008–2009), 107–37.
Sollors, Werner, “Multilingualism in the United States: A Less Well-Known Source of Vitality in American Culture as an Issue of Social Justice and of Historical Memory,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 31 (2009), 59–75.
Stoever-Ackerman, Jennifer, “Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York,” Social Text, 28 (Spring 2010), 59–85.
Swanson, Drew A., “Wormsloe’s Belly: The History of a Southern Plantation through Food,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Winter 2009), 50–66.
Sweet, Julie Anne, “‘That Cursed Evil Rum’: The Trustees’ Prohibition Policy in Colonial Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 94 (Spring 2010), 1–29.
Theriot, Jason P., “Cajun Country during World War II,” Louisiana History, 51 (Spring 2010), 133–70.
Atkinson, Jennifer Wren, “Seeds of Change: Rewriting the Garden in American Literature and Culture, 1854–2009” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3361763.
Becksvoort, Andrea Lynn, “Adventure Capitalists: Commodifying Self, Experience, and Performance in American Culture, 1890–1940” (Yale University, 2009). Order No. DA3361876.
Dahn, Eurie, “The Art of Living: American Manners, Modernism, and Race Relations” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3361786.
Gilliam, Tanji, “‘That Crack in the Concrete’: Hip-Hop, Politics, and the Archive in Black Urban Video Culture, 1989–2004” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3362021.
Gradisek, Amanda R., “Passing Figures: Fashion and the Formation of Modernist Identity in the American Novel” (University of Arizona, 2009). Order No. DA3360043.
Grasso, Glenn Michael, “The Maritime Revival: Antimodernity, Class, and Culture, 1870–1940” (University of New Hampshire, 2009). Order No. DA3363718.
Hildebrandt, Lori Madeline, “Mat Game: The Rise of American Wrestling” (University of Maine, 2009). Order No. DA3364704.
Lallas, Demetrios J., “Salt of the Earth Country: A Genealogy of ‘the American Dream,’ 1914–1968” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA 3368269.
Marley, Anna O’Day, “Rooms with a View: Landscape Representation in the Early National and Late Colonial Domestic Interior” (University of Delaware, 2009). Order No. DA3360244.
Martin, Michael S., “Imaginative Thanatopsis: Death and the 19th-Century American Subject” (Temple University, 2009). Order No. DA3359675.
Mehlman-Petrzela, Natalia Yael, “Origins of the Culture Wars: Sex, Language, School, and State in California, 1968–1978” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3365516.
Milnarik, Elizabeth Ann, “The Federally Funded American Dream: Public Housing as an Engine for Social Improvement, 1933–1937” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3364897.
Ostendorf, Ann, “Sounding America: Identity and the Music Culture of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800–1860” (Marquette University, 2009). Order No. DA3357967.
Parker, Michael L., “Uncanny Capitalism: The Gothic, Power, and the Market Revolution in American Literature” (University of Arizona, 2009). Order No. DA3366214.
Pietruska, Jamie L., “Propheteering: A Cultural History of Prediction in the Gilded Age” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009).
Tillman, Aaron, “Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film” (University of Rhode Island, 2009). Order No. DA3368007.
Tone-Pah-Hote, Jenny Elizabeth, “Envisioning Nationhood: Kiowa Expressive Culture, 1875–1939” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3366939.
Winer, Daniel H., “The Development and Meaning of Firefighting, 1650–1850” (University of Delaware, 2009). Order No. DA3360270.
Witt, Susan Powell, “The Gendered Language of War: Picturing the Parlor in Civil War America” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3364482.
Battles, David M., The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South: Or, Leaving behind the Plow. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2009. viii, 173 pp. Paper, $44.00, isbn 978-0-8108-6247-0.)
Berman, Marshall, On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square. (New York: Verso, 2009. xxxvi, 264 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-84467-397-1.) Originally published in 2006.
Boyer, Pascal, and James V. Wertsch, eds., Memory in Mind and Culture. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. viii, 323 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-521-76078-2. Paper, $35.99, isbn 978-0-521-75892-5.)
Dillard, Tom, Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics: A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2010. xvi, 266 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-55728-927-8.)
Eisenberg, Ellen, Ava F. Kahn, and William Toll, Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America’s Edge. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. xvi, 309 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-295-98965-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Gilroy, Paul, Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2010. 207 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-674-03570-6.)
Goldstein, Richard, Helluva Town: The Story of New York City during World War II. (New York: Free Press, 2010. xii, 321 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-1-4165-8996-9.)
Grimes, William, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. (New York: North Point, 2009. xiv, 368 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-86547-692-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Holloway, Pippa, ed., Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. viii, 451 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2984-0. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8203-3052-5.)
Lauck, Jon K., Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xx, 281 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4110-7.)
Marcus, Greil, When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison. (New York: Public Affairs, 2010. x, 195 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-1-58648-821-5.) cd included.
Matthews, Mark, Droppers: America’s First Hippie Commune, Drop City. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 233 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4058-2.)
Moore, Michael Scott, Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results. (New York: Rodale, 2010. viii, 328 pp. $25.99, isbn 978-1-60529-427-8.)
Nowak, Martin S., The White House in Mourning: Deaths and Funerals of Presidents in Office. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. x, 247 pp. Paper, $38.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4775-6.)
Oldenziel, Ruth, and Karin Zachmann, eds., Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2009. x, 415 pp. $36.00, isbn 978-0-262-15119-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Ruby, Robert H., The Oglala Sioux: Warriors in Transition. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xxiii, 120 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2622-7.) Originally published in 1955.
Ruck, Rob, Maggie Jones Patterson, and Michael P. Weber, Rooney: A Sporting Life. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xxx, 641 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2283-0.)
Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr., Workers of the World, Enjoy! Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. viii, 215 pp. $59.50, isbn 978-1-59213-764-0.)
Wheen, Francis, Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s, the Golden Age of Paranoia. (New York: Public Affairs, 2009. 344 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-58648-845-1.)
Beidler, Philip D., The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. xii, 279 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1684-6.)
Grandin, Léon, A Parisienne in Chicago: Impressions of the World’s Columbian Exposition, trans. Mary Beth Raycraft. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xlix, 190 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03513-5.)
Ward, Brian, ed., The 1960s: A Documentary Reader. (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xii, 241 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-1-4051-6329-3. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-4051-6330-9.)
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