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Material Culture and Architecture

 

Denzer, Anthony, “The Halliburton House and Its Architect, William Alexander,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Fall 2009), 319–41.

Goodwin, George M., “The Gateway to Newport’s Jewish Cemetery,” Rhode Island History, 67 (Summer–Fall 2009), 61–74. Heavily illustrated.

Grubiak, Margaret M., “Reassessing Yale’s Cathedral Orgy: The Ecclesiastical Metaphor and the Sterling Memorial Library,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Summer/Autumn 2009), 159–84.

Hassell, Hank, “The Battle for Rainbow Bridge,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Fall 2009), 300–15.

La Vere, David, “The 1937 Chowan River ‘Dare Stone’: A Re-evaluation,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (July 2009), 250–81.

Launius, Roger D., “Abandoned in Place: Interpreting the U.S. Material Culture of the Moon Race,” Public Historian, 31 (Aug. 2009), 9–38.

Murphy, Kevin D., “‘Secure from All Intrusion’: Heterotopia, Queer Space, and the Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century American Resort,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Summer/Autumn 2009), 185–228.

Robb, Jenny E., “Bill Blackbeard: The Collector Who Rescued the Comics,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (Sept. 2009), 244–56.

Steffensen, Ingrid, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the ‘Gift’ of Genius,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (Sept. 2009), 257–66.

Strazdes, Diana, “Catharine Beecher and the American Woman’s Puritan Home,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Sept. 2009), 452–89.

 

Holst, Nancy A., “Pattern Books and the Suburbanization of Germantown, Pennsylvania, in the Mid-nineteenth Century” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3337426.

Osman, Michael, “Regulation, Architecture, and Modernism in the United States, 1890–1920” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008).

Upitis, Alise, “Nature Normative: The Design Methods Movement, 1944–1967” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008).

Wells, Joshua J., “The Vincennes Phase: Mississippians and Ethnic Plurality in the Wabash Drainage of Indiana and Illinois” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331273.

 

Matrana, Marc R., Lost Plantations of the South. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xvi, 320 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-57806-942-2.) Heavily illustrated.

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