Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Devine, Jenny Barker, “The Farmer and the Atom: The Iowa State Cooperative Extension Service and Rural Civil Defense, 1955–1970,” Annals of Iowa, 66 (Spring 2007), 161–94.
Gaillard, Frye, “After the Storms: Tradition and Change in Bayou La Batre,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 856–62.
Kim, Deok-Ho, “Gwanggoreul tonghaesseo bon Coca-Cola eui byunsin: Teukheo maeyak eiseo cheongryang eumryoro, 1885–1916” (Coca-Cola’s metamorphosis seen through its advertising: From patent medicine to soft drink, 1885–1916), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 26 (Nov. 2007), 31–62. In Korean.
Kirtunç, Ayse Lahur, “Çengelde sallanan Amerikan rüyasi” (The American dream hanging by a hook), Dogu Bati: Düsünce Dergisi (Istanbul), 42 (June–Aug. 2007), 35–50. In Turkish.
Long, Lucy, “Green Bean Casserole and Midwestern Identity: A Regional Foodways Aesthetic and Ethos,” Midwestern Folklore, 33 (Spring 2007), 29–44.
Manuel, Jeffrey T., “The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music’s ‘Social Origins,’” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Oct. 2008), 417–31.
Mitchell, Reid, “Carnival and Katrina,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 789–94.
Otte, Marline, “The Mourning After: Languages of Loss and Grief in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 828–36.
Park, Hyun Sook, “Miguk Sinyeoseong(flapper)eui jaehyun yangsanggwa sobijabonjueui” (Representation of the New Woman (flapper) and consumerism), Hanguk Yeoseonghak/Korean Women’s Studies (Seoul), 23 (no. 1, 2007), 103–30. In Korean.
Powell, Lawrence N., “What Does American History Tell Us about Katrina and Vice Versa?,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 863–76.
Swartz, David, “Social Closure in American Elite Higher Education,” Theory and Society (Dordrecht), 37 (August 2008), 409–19.
Barrella, Jessica Rose, “Landscape of Fear: A Social History of the Missile during the Early Years of the Cold War, 1950–1965” (Florida International University, 2007). Order No. DA3279216.
Bongiorno, Thomas Michael, “Dreams Lost to Capital: A Social and Cultural History of an Artisan’s Community, San Francisco Bay Area, 1967–2005” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3264309.
Cheezum, Eric Alan, “Discovering Chessie: Waterfront, Regional Identity, and the Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster, 1960–2000” (University of South Carolina, 2007). Order No. DA3280305.
Cohen, Michael C., “Cultures of Poetry in Late Nineteenth-Century America” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3269777.
Geiger, Brian Keith, “‘In Praise of Bishop Valentine’: The Creation of Modern Valentine’s Day in Antebellum America” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3268800.
Guettel, Jens-Uwe, “Reading America, Studying Empire: German Perceptions of Indians, Slavery, and the American West, 1789–1900” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267256.
Gunn, Michelle Wallace, “Talking Trash: Grotesque Realism and the Poor White in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264074.
Hall, Vanessa, “‘Put yourself in my shoes’: The Cultural Geography of Raymond Carver’s America” (Purdue University, 2006). Order No. DA3263579.
Lassner, Matthew Gordon, “No Lawn to Mow: Co-ops, Condominiums, and the Revolution in Collective Homeownership in Metropolitan America, 1881–1973” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3265184.
Latham, Joyce M., “White Collar Read: The American Public Library and the Left-Led cio: A Case Study of the Chicago Public Library, 1929–1952” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3269955.
Lawrence, Sarah Raphael, “On Their Own Terms: African Americans and Birth Control in the Rural South, 1900–1942” (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Order No. DA3266149.
Mattox, Jake D., “Alternate Imperialisms in the Age of Manifest Destiny” (University of California, San Diego, 2007). Order No. DA3266840.
Palmer, Scott Norris, “‘The image of democracy’: The Politics of American Race, Vision, and Mobility from the Early Republic to the Daguerrean Era” (Tufts University, 2007). Order No. DA3274608.
Rasmussen, Shane E., “Arbitrary Traditionality: Cultural Authenticity and Modern Mainstream American Deathways” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2007). Order No. DA3261778.
Schmitz, John Eric, “Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War” (American University, 2007). Order No. DA3273603.
Shrum, Rebecca Kathleen, “Mirroring Others/Fashioning Selves: A History of the Looking Glass in America” (University of South Carolina, 2007). Order No. DA3272487.
Silverman, Joel Matthew, “Pursuing Celebrity, Ensuing Masculinity: Morris Ernst, Obscenity, and the Search for Recognition” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3266888.
Zindel, Brian Daniel, “Seeking a Techno-fix: Postmodern War, U.S. Culture, and Invisible Killing Zones” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3265440.
Alanen, Arnold R., Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xviii, 338 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4136-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-5166-4137-6.)
Axelrod, Alan, Profiles in Folly: History’s Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong. (New York: Sterling, 2008. x, 358 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-1-4027-4768-7.)
Donohue, Laura K., The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 500 pp. Cloth, $99.00, isbn 978-0-521-84444-4. Paper, $28.99, isbn 978-0-521-60587-8.)
Foertsch, Jacqueline, American Culture in the 1940s. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. xxxii, 280 pp. Cloth, £50.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2412-6. Paper, $27.50, isbn 978-0-7486-2413-3.)
Gair, Christopher, The American Counterculture. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 234 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7486-1988-7. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-7486-1989-4.)
Gentry, Mary Jane, The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber, 1886–1933, ed. T. Lindsay Baker. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xl, 205 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-629-2.)
Halttunen, Karen, ed., A Companion to American Cultural History. (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 2008. xiv, 462 pp. $200.00, isbn 978-0-631-23566-8.)
Harman, Chris, A People’s History of the World. (New York: Verso, 2008. viii, 729 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-84467-238-7.) Originally published in 1999.
Heckman, Davin, A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 214 pp. Cloth, $74.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4134-5. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4134-5.)
Hieronimus, Robert, The United Symbolism of America: Deciphering Hidden Meanings in America’s Most Familiar Art, Architecture, and Logos. (Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page, 2008. 313 pp. Paper, $17.99, isbn 978-1-60163-001-8.)
Kealing, Bob, Tupperware Unsealed: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xii, 250 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-8130-3227-6.)
Klotter, James C., and Freda C. Klotter, A Concise History of Kentucky. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xiv, 238 pp. Cloth, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2498-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8131-9192-8.)
Mittelman, Amy, Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer. (New York: Algora, 2008. 229 pp. Cloth, $34.95, isbn 978-0-87586-573-7. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-87586-572-0.)
Ozersky, Josh, The Hamburger: A History. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 147 pp. $22.00, isbn 978-0-300-11758-5.)
Ripper, Jason, American Stories: Living American History. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2008. Vol. 1: To 1877. xviii, 299 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1918-1. Vol. 2: From 1865. xii, 279 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1920-4.)
Roediger, David, ed., The Best American History Essays, 2008. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 274 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-230-60590-9. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-230-60591-6.)
Sageman, Marc, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. viii, 200 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4065-8.)
Saunders, Janice, Cricket’s Child, 1945–1955: How I Never Learned to Love the Bomb. (Lanham: Hamilton, 2008. x, 117 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7618-3994-1.)
Storey, John W., and Mary L. Kelley, eds., Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008. vi, 480 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-57441-245-1. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-57441-246-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Virden, Jenel, Americans and the Wars of the Twentieth Century. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xvi, 203 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-333-72660-0. Paper, $31.95, isbn 978-0-333-72661-7.)
Yalom, Marilyn, The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. xvi, 336 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-618-62427-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Crouse, Eric C., ed., Dear Senator Smith: Small-Town Maine Writes to Senator Margaret Chase Smith about the Vietnam War, 1967–1971. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. viii, 231 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-7391-2484-0.)
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