Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Allen, Deborah J., “Acquiring ‘Knowledge of Our Own Continent’: Geopolitics, Science, and Jeffersonian Geography, 1783–1803,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 40 (Aug. 2006), 205–32.
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, and Anna Duncan Johnson, “G. Stanley Hall’s Contribution to Science, Practice, and Policy: The Child Study, Parent Education, and Child Welfare Movements,” History of Psychology, 9 (Aug. 2006), 247–58.
Brown, Alexander, “Accidents, Engineering, and History at nasa, 1967–2003,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 377–402. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Butrica, Andrew J., “Reusable Launch Vehicles or Expendable Launch Vehicles? A Perennial Debate,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 301–41. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Crowther-Heyck, Hunter, “Herbert Simon and the GSIA: Building an Interdisciplinary Community,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 42 (Fall 2006), 311–34.
Crowther-Heyck, Hunter, “Patrons of the Revolution: Ideals and Institutions in Postwar Behavioral Sciences,” Isis, 97 (Sept. 2006), 420–46.
DeVorkin, David A., “Space Artifacts: Are They Historical Evidence?,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 573–600. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Gorman, Carma, “Educating the Eye: Body Mechanics and Streamlining in the United States, 1925–1950,” American Quarterly, 58 (Sept. 2006), 839–68.
Hays, Peter, “nasa and the Department of Defense: Enduring Themes in Three Keys Areas,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 199–238. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Johnson, Stephen B., “The History and Historiography of National Security Space,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 481–548. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Krige, John, “Technology, Foreign Policy, and International Cooperation in Space,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 239–62. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Launius, Roger D., “Compelling Rationales for Spaceflight? History and the Search for Relevance,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 37–70. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Martin, Paul S., “Green Mansions of Tamaulipas,” Journal of the Southwest, 48 (Summer 2006), 115–88.
Mindell, David A., “Human and Machine in the History of Spaceflight,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 141–62. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Pyne, Stephen J., “Seeking Newer Worlds: An Historical Context for Space Exploration,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 7–35. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Rall, Denise N., “The ‘House That Dick Built’: Constructing the Team that Built the Bomb,” Social Studies of Science, 36 (Dec. 2006), 943–57.
Siddiqi, Asif A., “American Space History: Legacies, Questions, and Opportunities for Future Research,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 433–80. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Stalter, Sunny, “Farewell to the El: Nostalgic Urban Visuality on the Third Avenue Elevated Train,” American Quarterly, 58 (Sept. 2006), 869–90.
Vaughan, Diane, “Changing nasa: The Challenges of Organizational System Failures,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 349–75. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Weitekamp, Margaret A., “Critical Theory as a Toolbox: Suggestions for Space History’s Relationship to the History Subdisciplines,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 549–72. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)
Brinkman, Paul David, “The Second American Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, 1895–1905” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3198076.
Cohen, Benjamin R., “Notes from the Ground: Science and Agricultural Improvements in the Early American Republic” (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2005). Order No. DA3202649.
Levens, Joshua P., “Sex, Neurosis, and Animal Behavior: The Emergence of American Psychobiology and the Research of W. Horsley Gantt and Frank A. Beach” (Johns Hopkins University, 2006). Order No. DA3197186.
Vicedo Castello, Maria Margarita, “The Maternal Instinct: Mother Love and the Search for Human Nature” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3194472.
Walling, Olivia Weaver, “Research at the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, 1920s–1960s: A Small Narrative of Physics in the Twentieth Century” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3198144.
Zajácz, Rita, “Technological Change, Hegemonic Transition, and Communication Policy: State-mnc Relations in the Wireless Telegraph Industry, 1896–1934” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3195577.
Beatty, Barbara, Emily D. Cahan, and Julia Grant, eds., When Science Encounters the Child: Education, Parenting, and Child Welfare in 20th-Century America. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2006. xii, 248 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 0-8077-4691-6.)
Conway, Erik M., Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiv, 218 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8018-8449-7.)
McNichol, Tom, AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006. viii, 198 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-7879-8267-6.)
Stephens, Lester D., and Dale R. Calder, Seafaring Scientist: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xvi, 220 pp. Cloth, $54.95, isbn 978-1-57003-641-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-57003-642-2.)
Wheeler, Tom, Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War. (New York: Collins, 2006. xxiv, 227 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-06-112978-0.)
Willingham, William F., Northwest Passages: A History of the Seattle District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, vol. 2, 1920–1970. (Washington: Department of the Army, 2006. viii, 158 pp. Paper.) Available online at www.nws.usace.army.mil/.
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