Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Allen, Arly, “Seeking ‘The Great White Hope’: Heavyweight Boxing in Springfield, 1910–1912, Part 1,” Missouri Historical Review, 100 (April 2006), 159–73.
Allen, Arly, “Seeking ‘The Great White Hope’: Heavyweight Boxing in Springfield, 1910–1912, Part 2,” Missouri Historical Review, 100 (July 2006), 212–23.
Davis, Mark H., “Market Hunters vs. Sportsmen on the Prairie: The Case of William Kerr and Robert Poole,” Minnesota History, 60 (Summer 2006), 48–60.
Morrow, Lynn, “Before Bass Pro: St. Louis Sporting Clubs on the Gasconade River,” Missouri Historical Review, 99 (Oct. 2004), 1–23.
Giltner, Scott Edward, “‘The art of serving is with them innate’: Hunting, Fishing, and Independence in the Post-Emancipation South, 1865–1920” (University of Pittsburgh, 2005). Order No. DA3192948.
Huey, Rodney A., “Social Construction of the American Circus Clown: Production of Clowning in the United States from 1968 to 1997” (George Mason University, 2005). Order No. DA3188687.
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, ed., Adventures into Mexico: American Tourism beyond the Border. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. viii, 230 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-7425-3744-6. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7425-3745-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Bond, Hallie E., Joan Jacobs Brumberg, and Leslie Paris, “A Paradise for Boys and Girls”: Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xiv, 146 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8156-0822-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Coenen, Craig R., From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920–1967. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. xii, 342 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-57233-447-9.)
Nemec, David, The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. x, 1046 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1499-6.)
Riess, Steven A., ed., Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs Vol. 1: The National League, xxvi, 461 pp. Vol. 2: The American League, vii, 604 pp. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. $199.95/set, isbn 0-313-32991-5/set.)
Walters, Guy, Berlin Games: How the Nazis Stole the Olympic Dream. (New York: William Morrow, 2006. xvi, 368 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-06-087412-4.)
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