Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Brown, Carroll A., “The History and Evolution of the Shag: A Carolina Tradition,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 54 (Spring–Summer 2007), 18–32.
Crump, James, “Art of Acquisition: The Eye of Sam Wagstaff,” Archives of American Art Journal, 46 (nos. 3–4, 2007), 4–13.
Ferrell, Merri, and Christopher Augerson, “Concord Ornamental Painter John Burgum and the Artistry of Carriage Painting,” Historical New Hampshire, 61 (Fall 2007), 78–100.
Granshaw, Michelle, “Beyond the Caricature: Harrigan, Hart, and Braham’s Music and the Construction of New York Irish Identity,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 19 (Fall 2007), 51–78.
Guterman, Gad, “Reviewing the Rosenbergs: Donald Freed’s Inquest and Its Jurors,” Theatre Survey, 48 (Nov. 2007), 265–87.
Hulst, Titia, “The Leo Castelli Gallery,” Archives of American Art Journal, 46 (nos. 3–4, 2007), 14–27.
Ikard, Robert W., “Meyer Wolfe: Southern Regionalist Artist,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 66 (Summer 2007), 98–125. Heavily illustrated.
Langlois, Karen S., “Mary Austin and Andrew Forbes: Poetry, Photography, and the Eastern Sierra,” California History, 85 (no. 1, 2007), 24–43.
Levering, Marijean, “History on Stage: The Detroit Players, Prohibition, and the Great Depression,” Michigan Historical Review, 33 (Fall 2007), 47–79.
MacLennan, Carol, “Kilauea Sugar Plantation in 1912: A Snapshot,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 41 (2007), 1–34. Heavily illustrated.
Mally, Lynn, “Inside a Communist Front: A Post–Cold War Analysis of the New Theatre League,” American Communist History, 6 (June 2007), 65–95.
Raiford, Leigh, “‘Come Let Us Build a New World Together’: sncc and Photography of the Civil Rights Movement,” American Quarterly, 59 (Dec. 2007), 1129–57.
Rebhorn, Matthew, “What Is It? The Frontier, Melodrama, and Boucicault’s Amalgamated Drama,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 19 (Fall 2007), 5–34.
Tenneriello, Susan, “The Industry of Spectacle Entertainment: Imre Kiralfy’s Grand Dramatic Historical Production of The Fall of Babylon and Nero, or the Destruction of Rome in Staten Island,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 19 (Fall 2007), 35–50.
Barbee, Matthew Mace, “Memory, Race, and Communal Belonging in Narrative and Art: Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue, 1948–1996” (Bowling Green State University, 2007). Order No. DA3260623.
Booth, Catherine Mary, “Fairy Stars and the Mother Lode: Children as Aesthetic, Economic, and Sentimental Commodities in California Gold Rush Theatre” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3252655.
Brandenburg, Hazel Crews, “The Evolution of a Cultural Icon: Currier & Ives and Twentieth-Century American Culture” (George Mason University, 2007). Order No. DA3255983.
Copeland, Huey, “Bound to Appear: Figures of Slavery in the Art of Glenn Ligon, Lorna Simpson, and Fred Wilson” (University of California, Berkeley, 2006). Order No. DA3253816.
Hillman-McCord, Jessica, “From the Shtetl to 42nd Street: Nostalgia and Postmemory in Jewish American Musicals, 1961–Today” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007). Order No. DA3256432.
Kennedy, Jeff, “The Artistic Life of the Provincetown Playhouse, 1918–1922” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3259701.
Kim, Linda, “Malvina Hoffman’s ‘Races of Mankind’ and the Materiality of Race in Early Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Photography” (University of California, Berkeley, 2006). Order No. DA3253923.
McCormack, Ann, “Nellie McCaslin: An American Leader in the Development of Creative Drama and Theatre for Young Audiences” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3259704.
Myers, Julian D., “No-Places: Earthworks and Urbanism circa 1970” (University of California, Berkeley, 2006). Order No. DA3253998.
Osborne, Elizabeth Ann, “Staging the People: Revising and Reenvisioning Community in the Federal Theatre Project” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3260427.
Peariso, Craig John, “Re/citing: Radical Activism in Late-1960s America” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2006). Order No. DA3258872.
Richards, Elizabeth Ann, “Fabrics in Modern and Contemporary American Art: Unraveling Threads of Discourse” (Cornell University, 2007). Order No. DA3260854.
Stroik, Adrienne Lisbeth, “The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893: The Production of Fair Performers and Fairgoers” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3257708.
White Ndounou, Monica, “The Color of Hollywood: The Cultural Politics Controlling the Production of African American Original Screenplays, Stage Plays, and Novels Adapted into Films from 1980 to 2000” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3262143.
White, Ann Eleanor Folino, “‘Paradox of Want amid Plenty’: Aesthetics of New Deal Food Rights Performances” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3255924.
Whitehead, Margaret, “The Making of the Museum of Modern Art’s Photography Canon: Beaumont Newhall and the Rejection of 1930s Modernity in New York” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3258485.
Duncan, Bob, Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan. (Nashville: Turner, 2008. x, 204 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-59652-422-4.) Heavily illustrated.
Holzer, Harold, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neely Jr., The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xxii, 234 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-252-06984-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Mack, Angela D., and Stephen G. Hoffius, eds., Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xviii, 166 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-719-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-57003-720-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Price, B. Byron, ed., Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xx, 348 pp. $125.00, isbn 978-0-8061-3836-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Sharf, Frederic A., Art of Collecting: The Spaulding Brothers and Their Legacy. (Boston: mfa, 2007. 144 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-87846-723-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Szabo, Joyce M., Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. x, 197 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3883-1. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3889-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Leiren, Terje I., trans., Selected Plays of Marcus Thrane. (Northfield: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 2007. xiv, 245 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-87732-096-8.)
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