Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Amidon, Kevin S., “The Visible Hand and the New American Biology: Toward an Integrated Historiography of Railroad-Supported Agricultural Research,” Agricultural History, 82 (Summer 2008), 309–36.
Bates, Milton J., “Navigating the Kilbourn Canal,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Spring 2008), 42–53. Heavily illustrated.
Langbauer, Laurie, “Early British Travelers to the U.S. South,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 1–18.
Luckin, Richard W., “The Dining Car and Railroad China,” Railroad History (no. 198, Spring–Summer 2008), 28–41. Heavily illustrated.
Schwieterman, Joseph P., “Midwest Metamorphosis,” Railroad History (no. 198, Spring–Summer 2008), 42–59. Heavily illustrated.
Skidmore, Max J., “Following the Theodore Roosevelt Trail into the Heart of New Hampshire,” Historical New Hampshire, 62 (Spring 2008), 3–18. Heavily illustrated.
White, John H., Jr., “A Short History of American Locomotive Builders in the Steam Era,” Railroad History (no. 197, Fall–Winter 2007), 8–85.
Bennett-Bealer, Nichole, “The Beginning of Willa Cather’s European Journeys: Fourteen Travel Articles from 1902” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3284511.
Cabello, Juanita, “Literary Travel, the Woman Traveler, and Twentieth Century Constructions of Mexican Tourist Spaces” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287469.
Hardesty, Michele L., “The Ambivalent American: Political Travel Writing during the Cold War” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285086.
Quinn, Katrina J., “Journalism, Letters, and Nation: The Newspaper Letters of Samuel Bowles’s Across the Continent (1865)” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3284289.
Roth, Matthew William, “Concrete Utopia: The Development of Roads and Freeways in Los Angeles, 1910–1950” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3283519.
Harwood, Herbert H., Jr., The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway: J. P. Morgan’s Magnificent Mistake. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. x, 155 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35143-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Holley, I. B., Jr., The Highway Revolution, 1895–1925: How the United States Got Out of the Mud. (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. x, 204 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-59460-353-2.)
Morgan, Cecilia, “A Happy Holiday”: English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870–1930. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xxiv, 461 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-0-8020-9758-3. Paper, $37.95, isbn 978-0-8020-9518-3.)
Taylor, Jerry, and Ray Poteat, The csx Clinchfield Route in the 21st Century. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xii, 165 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35085-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Turner, Gregg M., A Journey into Florida Railroad History. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xii, 283 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8130-3233-7.)
Hansen, James R., et al., eds., The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America, vol.2; Reinventing the Airplane. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2007. xxviii, 957 pp. $35.00.)
Steinbach, Matthias, and Sven Schlotter, eds., Zweimal Amerika: Deutsche reisetagebücher, 1926 und 1990 (Two Americas: German travel diaries, 1926 and 1990). (Jena: Verlag Dr. Bussert & Stadeler, 2007. 140 pp. €24.90, isbn 978-3-932906-78-7.)
Wallace, Andrew, and Richard H. Hevly, eds., From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, Surgeon-Naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xl, 357 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-89672-597-3.)
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