Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Kim, Ho Yeon, “Miguk woosanhak woondongeui jaegeomto, 1890neyondae–1940neyondae” (Revision of the American eugenic movement between the 1890s and 1940s), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 26 (Nov. 2007), 63–96. In Korean.
Light, Jennifer, “Taking Games Seriously,” Technology and Culture, 49 (April 2008), 347–75.
Messer-Kruse, Timothy, “Technology and the Decline of Child Labor: The Impact of the Owens Bottle Machine Reconsidered,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Spring 2008), 23–45.
Schiffer, Michael Brian, “A Cognitive Analysis of Component-Stimulated Invention: Electromagnetic, Telegraph, and the Capitol Dome’s Electric Gas-Lighter,” Technology and Culture, 49 (April 2008), 376–98.
Clark, Charles P., Jr., “Modernity and Technological Adaptation in the U.S. Army, 1918–1945” (University of Alabama, 2007). Order No. DA3270486.
Feaster, Patrick, “‘The following record’: Making Sense of Phonographic Performance, 1877–1908” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3264321.
Keltner, Kathy A., “From Myth to Metaphor to Memory: A Rhetorical Analysis of Televised Representations of Project Apollo, 1968–2004” (Ohio University, 2007). Order No. DA3280032.
Lane, Kristina Maria Doyle, “Imaginative Geographies of Mars: The Science and Significance of the Red Planet, 1877–1910” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3263361.
Thomas, Gerald William, “A Veteran Science: Operations Research and Anglo-American Scientific Cultures, 1940–1960” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3265109.
Tousignant, Noémi R., “Pain and the Pursuit of Objectivity: Pain-Measuring Technologies in the United States, c. 1890–1975” (McGill University, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR27851.
Verhoff, Gwendolyn, “The Intractable Atom: The Challenge of Radiation and Radioactive Waste in American Life, 1942 to Present” (Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3268095.
Gainor, Chris, To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxvi, 236 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2209-0.)
Hunley, J. D., Preludes to U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology: Goddard Rockets to Minuteman III. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xiv, 468 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3177-4.)
Hunley, J. D., U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xiv, 453 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3178-1.)
Power, Max S., America’s Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2008. xxii, 192 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87422-295-1.)
Shulman, Seth, The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret. (New York: Norton, 2008. 256 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-393-06206-9.)
Thomson, Keith, The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xviii, 386 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-300-11704-2.)
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