Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Bales, Stephen, and Charlie Gee, “Fear and Loathing in Knoxvegas: Representation of the “Other” in the Official Press before and during the 1982 Knoxville World’s Fair,” Studies in Popular Culture, 31 (Spring 2009), 61–80.
Hartnell, Anna, “Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 723–48.
Herzberg, David, “‘Will Wonder Drugs Never Cease!’: A Prehistory of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,” Pharmacy in History, 51 (no. 2, 2009), 47–56.
Kim, Jin Hee, “1930–40 Neyondae Miguk Jisikineu Daejungmunwha Insik” (The New York intellectuals and mass culture in the 1930s–40s), Migukhaknongip, 40 (Dec. 2008), 5–38. In Korean.
Masco, Joseph, “‘Survival Is Your Business’: Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America,” Cultural Anthropology, 24 (Aug. 2009), 361–98.
McLear, Patrick, “Anslinger vs. Donnici: Narcotics Trafficking and Federal Justice in Kansas City, Missouri, 1939,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Oct. 2009), 40–52.
Oh, Minjoo, “Fast Food Frontiers: I’ve Got a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore,” Studies in Popular Culture, 31 (Spring 2009), 1–22.
Winter, Robert, “Pasadena, 1900–1910: The Birth of Its Culture,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Fall 2009), 295–318.
Andrews, Matthew Philip, “‘A Carnival of Muscle’: Popular Amusements and Public Culture in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco, 1880–1920” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3330983.
Boussios, Emanuel Gregory, “Public Opinion and War: Attitudes towards War in the United States from 1950–2008” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3340089.
Cox, Graham, “What Irony! Herbert C. Pell, Crimes against Humanity, and the Negro Problem” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3342759.
Herrera, Brian Eugenio, “Latin Explosion: Latinos, Racial Formation, and Twentieth Century U.S. Popular Performance” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342601.
Katayama, Hanae, “A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Humor in Stand-up Comedy in the United States and Japan” (Pennsylvania State University, 2006). Order No. DA3335596.
Roney, Jessica Choppin, “‘First Movers in Every Useful Undertaking’: Formal Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725–1775” (Johns Hopkins University, 2009). Order No. DA3339964.
Sachtjen, Tracy Anne, “American Ugly: Appearance and Aesthetics in Cultures of U.S. Nationalism, 1848–1915” (University of California, Irvine, 2009). Order No. DA3342897.
Snyder, Matthew Steven, “Welcome to the Suck: Film and Media Phantasms of the Gulf War” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3345255.
Staros, James D., “The Making of Public Morality: Politics, Social Engineering, and the Development of a Safer Cigarette” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2008). Order No. DA3342324.
Turpin, John Coy Bond, “The Life and Work of Dorothy Draper, Interior Designer: A Study of Class Values and Success” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3339540.
Veit, Helen Elizabeth, “Victory over Ourselves: American Food and Progressivism in the Era of the Great War” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342689.
Winter, Aaron McLean, “The Laughing Dove: Satire in 19th-Century U.S. Anti-war Rhetoric” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3342931.
Baker, James W., Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2009. xiv, 273 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-1-58465-801-6.)
Blevins, Brooks, Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. x, 242 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-55728-905-6.)
Bohn, Michael K., Heroes and Ballyhoo: How the Golden Age of the 1920s Transformed American Sports. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xii, 319 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-1-59797-412-7.)
Cottrell, Robert C., Icons of American Popular Culture: From P. T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2010. xxxiv, 243 pp. Cloth, $74.95, isbn 978-0-7656-2298-3. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-7656-2299-0.)
Flammang, Janet A., The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv, 325 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03490-9. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07673-2.)
Freeland, David, Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. xxviii, 269 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-2762-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8147-2763-8.)
Issitt, Micah L., Hippies: A Guide to an American Subculture. (Santa Barbara: abc-clio, 2009. xxii, 164 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-313-36572-0.)
Konadu, Kwasi, A View from the East: Black Cultural Nationalism and Education in New York City. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 209 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3206-1.) Originally published in 2005.
Kovac, Jeffrey, Refusing War, Affirming Peace: A History of Civilian Public Service Camp #21 at Cascade Locks. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009. 192 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-87071-575-4.)
Kulik, Gary, “War Stories”: False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter Soldiers—What Really Happened in Vietnam. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xii, 305 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59797-304-5.)
Ossian, Lisa L., The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xviii, 242 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1856-8.)
Poole, W. Scott, Satan in America: The Devil We Know. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xxvi, 243 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7425-6171-7.)
Rosenbaum, Fred, Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xviii, 439 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-520-25913-3.)
Roznowski, Tom, An American Hometown: Terre Haute, Indiana, 1927. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xviii, 264 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22129-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Williams, Maria Shaa Tláa, ed., The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture, Politics. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xxii, 387 pp. Cloth, $94.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4465-0. Paper, $25.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4480-3.)
Buttenwieser, Ann L., Governors Island: The Jewel of New York Harbor. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xviii, 234 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8156-0936-0.) Heavily illustrated.
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