Recent Scholarship
Biography
Aguilera Linde, Mauricio D., “Hemingway and Gender: Biography Revisited,” Atlantis. Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Salamanca), 27 (Dec. 2005), 15–26.
Araki, Keiko, “Makasu gabei and pan-Africanism” (Marcus Garvey and pan-Africanism), Hogaku seijigaku ronkyu (Tokyo), 61 (2004), 129–62. In Japanese.
Baker, Alan R. H., “Writing Geography, Making History: D. W. Meinig’s Geographical Perspective on the History of America,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 31 (Oct. 2005), 634–46.
Bick, Sally, “Of Mice and Men: Copland, Hollywood, and American Musical Modernism,” American Music, 23 (Winter 2005), 426–72.
Binkley, Cameron, “A Cult of Beauty: The Public Life and Civic Work of Laura Lyon White,” California History, 83 (no. 2, 2005), 40–61.
Buzzard, Karen S., “James Seiler of the American Research Bureau,” Journal of Radio Studies, 10 (Winter 2003), 186–201.
Cleary, Johanna, “Creating ‘America’s Storyteller’: The Early Radio Career of Charles Kuralt,” Journal of Radio Studies, 11 (Dec. 2004), 226–38.
Crain, John W., “Isaac Watts Burton: The Glorious Years, 1832–1843,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Oct. 2005), 173–87.
Dunley, Ruth, “In Search of A. D. Smith: A History Detective’s Quest,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 89 (Winter 2005–2006), 16–27. Heavily illustrated.
Fahlman, Betsy, “The Great Draper Woman: Muriel Draper and the Art of the Salon,” Woman’s Art Journal, 26 (Fall–Winter 2005–2006), 33–37. Heavily illustrated.
Fair, John D., “The Intellectual jfk: Lessons in Statesmanship from British History,” Diplomatic History, 30 (Jan. 2006), 119–42.
Gardner, Mark L., “Introduction,” in The Southwestern Journals of Zebulon Pike, 1806–1807, ed. Stephen Harding Hart and Archer Butler Hulbert, 1–11. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. vi, 280 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-8263-3389-3.)
Gohlke, Frank, “Photography and Place: The Concord Photographs of Herbert W. Gleason,” Exposure, 38 (no. 2, 2005), 14–21. Heavily illustrated.
Howell, Sarah M., “Daughter of Amnicola: Sallie Crutchfield Gaut,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Summer 2005), 120–33. Heavily illustrated.
Kamisar, Yale, “How Earl Warren’s Twenty-Two Years in Law Enforcement Affected His Work as Chief Justice,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 3 (Fall 2005), 11–31.
Lewis, David L., “Introduction,” in My Forty Years with Ford, by Charles E. Sorensen with Samuel T. Williamson, vii–xvii. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. xviii, 345 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8143-3279-X.)
Malone, Cheryl Knott, Hermina G. B. Anghelescu, and John Mark Tucker, eds., “Chronology and Bibliography of Donald G. Davis Jr.,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 475–91.
Miller, Leta E., and Rob Collins, “The Cowell-Ives Relationship: A New Look at Cowell’s Prison Years,” American Music, 23 (Winter 2005), 473–92.
Oliver, Bette W., “From Libraries & Culture to the Bibliothèque nationale,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 455–59.
Powers, Janine A., “Worlds beyond Medicine: Nils P. Larsen’s Impact on Hawa‘i,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 39 (2005), 91–113.
Purcell, Aaron D., “A Spirit for Speculation: David Burford, Antebellum Entrepreneur of Middle Tennessee,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Summer 2005), 90–109.
Shimizu, Tadashige, “1850 nendai no f. douglass” (Frederick Douglass during the 1850s), Kobe Jogakuin Daigaku Ronshu (Kobe), 50 (no. 3, 2004), 43–58. In Japanese.
Shockley, Jay, and Susan Tunick, “The Cooper Union Building and Architectural Terra Cotta,” Winterthur Portfolio, 39 (Winter 2004), 207–28. Heavily illustrated.
Soyer, Daniel, “Soviet Travel and the Making of an American Jewish Communist: Moissaye Olgin’s Trip to Russia in 1920–1921,” American Communist History, 4 (June 2005), 1–20.
Steffensen, Ingrid A., and Patricia Likos Ricci, “Alice Stallknecht: Every Woman to Her Trade,” Woman’s Art Journal, 26 (Fall–Winter 2005–2006), 14–18. Heavily illustrated.
Vivian, Daniel J., “‘A Practical Architect’: Frank P. Milburn and the Transformation of Architectural Practice in the New South, 1890–1925,” Winterthur Portfolio, 40 (Spring 2005), 17–43. Heavily illustrated.
Wernet, Mary Linn, “The United States Senator Overton Collection and the History It Holds Relating to the Controls of Floods in the Alluvial Valley of the Mississippi, 1936–1948,” Louisiana History, 46 (Fall 2005), 449–64.
Winpenny, Thomas R., “A Father Who Distracts and a Family That Underfinances: The Early, Bittersweet Career of Milton S. Hershey,” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 107 (Fall 2005), 62–73.
Wojtowicz, Robert, “A Model House and a House’s Model: Reexamining Frank Lloyd Wright’s House on the Mesa Project,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 64 (Dec. 2005), 522–51. Heavily illustrated.
Wynn, Graeme, “D. W. Meinig and The Shaping of America,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 31 (Oct. 2005), 610–33.
Aley, Ginette M., “Westward Expansion, John Tipton, and the Emergence of the American Midwest, 1800–1839” (Iowa State University, 2005). Order No. DA3172197.
Armbruster, Elif S., “Reading in Three Dimensions: Architectural Biography from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Edith Wharton” (Boston University, 2005). Order No. DA3171126.
Barnard, Timothy L., “‘Far out past’: Hemingway, Manhood, and Modernism” (College of William and Mary, 2005). Order No. DA3172887.
Barton, Minka Aranka Misangyi, “The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, Journal Volume 10, 1855–1856” (Northern Illinois University, 2005). Order No. DA3173579.
Baum, Rachel Leah, “Andy Warhol, 1962–1965: The Crisis of Modernist Subjectivity in Abstraction” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3173858.
Briones, Matthew Manuel, “‘An American type’: The Kikuchi Diaries, a Cultural Biography (1941–1947)” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3173866.
Gullatt, Velvia Yvette, “The Crisis of Exuberance: Faith and Nation in Early African American Autobiography” (University of California, Berkeley, 2004). Order No. DA3167198.
Hall, Irene, “The Unsung Partner: The Educational Work and Philosophy of Alice Chipman Dewey” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3176333.
Hawkes, Andrea Constantine, “The Life of Elizabeth McClintock Phillips, 1821–1896: A Story of Family, Friends, Community, and a Self-Made Woman” (University of Maine, 2005). Order No. DA3169622.
Hearst, Kathryn P., “Phoebe Apperson Hearst: The Making of an Upper-Class Woman, 1842–1919” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3174808.
Holloway, Ernest Robert, III, “The Princeton Ecclesiology: Thomas Smyth, Republican Ideology, and the Princeton Circle, 1830–1861” (Westminster Theological Seminary, 2005). Order No. DA3173305.
Humphreys, James Scott, “South Carolina Rustic: Historian Francis Butler Simkins, a Life” (Mississippi State University, 2005). Order No. DA3171409.
LaFantasie, Glenn Warren, “William C. Oates: A Biography” (Brown University, 2005). Order No. DA3174631.
Lee, Kyu Sang, “Rationality, Minds, and Machines in the Laboratory: A Thematic History of Vernon Smith’s Experimental Economics” (University of Notre Dame, 2005). Order No. DA3171624.
Okuda, Akiyo Ito, “Literary Re-constructionists: The Makers and Makings of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition, Thomas Dixon’s The Leopard’s Spots, and Walter Hines Page’s The Southerner” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170521.
Rapp, Anne Barbara, “A Marginalized Voice for Racial Justice: Charlotta Bass and Oppositional Politics, 1914–1960” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Order No. DA3174386.
Rieken, John W., “George Frederick Zook: Educational Leader in a Crucial Decade” (Georgia State University, 2005). Order No. DA3166985.
Ryan, Thomas R., “Jacob Eichholtz and an Artist’s Construction of Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century Lancaster, Pennsylvania” (University of Delaware, 2005). Order No. DA3169532.
Schmidt, Elizabeth, “Alone with God: Emily Dickinson’s Early Religious Rebellion” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170873.
Serdari, Thomaï, “Albert Mayer, Architect and Town Planner: The Case for a Total Professional” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170875.
Tsai, Shuyuan, “An Influential Pedagogue, Robert Scholz (1902–1986): Catalogue and Sources” (University of Northern Colorado, 2005). Order No. DA3171936.
Bradley, Craig, ed., The Rehnquist Legacy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii, 392 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 0-521-85919-0. Paper, $35.99, isbn 0-521-68366-1.)
Bushman, Richard Lyman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. (New York: Knopf, 2005. xxiv, 740 pp. $35.00, isbn 1-4000-4270-4.)
Cash, Arthur H., John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv, 482 pp. $37.50, isbn 0-300-10871-0.)
D’Antonio, Michael, Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 305 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-7432-6409-6.)
Dean, Virgil W., ed., John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xiv, 408 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-7006-1429-X.)
Fujimoto, Kazumi, ed., Johnson daitoryo to america seiji (President Johnson and American politics). (Tokyo: Tsunan shuppan, 2004. 306 pp. ¥3,500, isbn 4901199358.) In Japanese.
Jones, Charles Edwin, The Wesleyan Holiness Movement: A Comprehensive Guide. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2005. Vol. 1: lxiv, 815; Vol. 2: 1016 pp. $225.00, isbn 0-8108-5433-3.)
Kessler, Lauren, Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 2005. xii, 308 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 0-87595-296-8.)
Laird, Helen L., A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888–1982. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. xviii, 508 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-299-21450-8.)
McFeatters, Ann Carey, Sandra Day O’Connor: Justice in the Balance. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. viii, 224 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 0-8263-3218-8.)
Morton, Joseph C., Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Biographical Dictionary. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xvi, 368 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-313-33021-2.)
Ogura, Izumi, John Cotton and Puritanism. (Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2004. 340 pp. ¥4,500, isbn 4882028808.) In English.
Reeves, Richard, President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. xviii, 571 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-7432-3022-1.)
Risjord, Norman K., Giants in Their Times: Representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. x, 259 pp. Cloth, $72.00, isbn 0-7425-2784-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-7425-2785-9.)
Rossum, Ralph A., Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 298 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-7006-1447-8.)
Scheer, Teva J., Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. xx, 287 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8262-1626-9.)
Tilman, Jeffrey T., Arthur Brown Jr.: Progressive Classicist. (New York: Norton, 2006. 271 pp. $60.00, isbn 0-393-73178-2.) Heavily illustrated.
van Minnen, Cornelius, Amerika’s beroemdste Nederlander: Een biografie van Hendrik Willem van Loon (America’s most famous Dutchman: A biography of Hendrik Willem van Loon). (Amsterdam: Boom, 2005. 447 pp. €34.50, isbn 90-8506-180-6.) In Dutch.
Waldrup, Carole Chandler, The Vice Presidents: Biographies of 45 Men Who Have Held the Second Highest Office in the United States. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. viii, 271 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-7864-2611-X.) Originally published in 1996.
Waller, Spencer Weber, Thurman Arnold: A Biography. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. xii, 273 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-8147-9392-4.)
White, G. Edward, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 161 pp. $17.95, isbn 0-19-530536-1.)
Yuhasz, Mary H., In Defense of a Career: John Ferral McBlain — Captain, 9th Cavalry, U. S. Army. (Denver: Outskirts, 2005. 201 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 1-59800-044-6.)
Barnum, Phineas T., The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like It in the Universe, ed. James W. Cook. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. x, 258 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 0-252-03054-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-252-07295-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Bauer, Nancy Marshall, “A Quaker Gentleman’s Adventures Abroad: Samuel Marshall’s Trip to Europe and the Middle East,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 89 (Winter 2005–2006), 28–43. Heavily illustrated.
Cohen, Jocelyn, and Daniel Soyer, eds., My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xii, 329 pp. $39.00, isbn 0-8147-4019-7.)
Giesbert, Franz-Olivier, The American, trans. Barbara Johnson. (New York: Pantheon, 2005. 151 pp. $21.00, isbn 0-375-42367-2.) Originally published in French as L’Américan (2004).
Goodman, Grant K., America’s Japan: The First Year, 1945–1946. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. xii, 155 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8232-2515-1.)
Hart, Stephen Harding, and Archer Butler Hulbert, eds., The Southwestern Journals of Zebulon Pike, 1806–1807. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. vi, 280 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-8263-3389-3.)
Hawkins, Hugh, Railway Man’s Son: A Plains Family Memoir. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006. xxiv, 196 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-89672-557-X.)
Looney, J. Jefferson, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 2: 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xliv, 728 pp. $99.50, isbn 0-691-12490-6.)
Oberg, Barbara B., ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 32: June 1800 to February 1801. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xl, 677 pp. $99.50, isbn 0-691-12489-2.)
Perry, Elisabeth Israels, and Jennifer Ann Price, eds., An American Girl and Her Four Years in a Boys’ College. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. vi, 217 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 0-472-09916-7. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-472-06916-0.)
Preston, Daniel, ed., The Papers of James Monroe, vol. 2: Selected Correspondence and Papers, 1776–1794. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xl, 747 pp. $125.00, isbn 0-313-31979-0.)
Reséndez, Andrés, trans. and ed., A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition. (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2005. xxxiv, 134 pp. $55.00, isbn 1-929531-10-9.)
Sorensen, Charles E., with Samuel T. Williamson, My Forty Years with Ford. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. xviii, 345 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8143-3279-X.) Originally published in 1956.
Steffens, Lincoln, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2005. xx, 882 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 1-59714-016-3.) Originally published in 1931.
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