Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Christgau, John, “Walter Van Tilburg Clark and the Hoopsters: The Iron Men of Virginia City,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 49 (Spring 2006), 3–21.
Kaszuba, Dave, “Bringing Women to the Sports Pages: Margaret Goss and the 1920s,” American Journalism, 23 (Spring 2006), 13–44.
Lomax, Michael E., “Black Baseball Entrepreneurship in the Quaker City: The Philadelphia Giants and the Rise and Fall of the nacbc,” Sport History Review, 37 (Nov. 2006), 100–129.
Barnett, Williams C., “From Gateway to Getaway: Labor, Leisure, and Environment in American Maritime Cities” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005). Order No. DA3200127.
Beisel, Jennifer (Perky), “The American Upper Class and the American Horse Industry from 1865 to 1929” (Middle Tennessee State University, 2005). Order No. DA3194581.
Ferguson, Paul-Thomas, “Leisure Pursuits in Ethnic Milwaukee, 1830–1930” (Marquette University, 2005). Order No. DA3201920.
Shackleford, Ben A., “Going National while Staying Southern: Stock Car Racing in America, 1949–1979” (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004). Order No. DA3199305.
Sproul, David Kent, “Post-Modern Cowboys: The Transformation of Sport in the Twentieth Century” (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2005). Order No. DA3194254.
Stirk, David B., “Observatory and Labyrinth: Central Park and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture” (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3193339.
Benson, Peter, Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. xvi, 343 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-55728-816-5.)
Dell, Chad, The Revenge of Hatpin Mary: Women, Professional Wrestling and Fan Culture in the 1950s. (New York: Lang, 2006. xii, 172 pp. Paper, $25.95, isbn 0-8204-7270-0.)
Lorge, Michael M., and Gary P. Zola, eds., A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xii, 228 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1486-6. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8173-5293-6.)
Watterson, John Sayle, The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiv, 402 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8018-8425-X.)
Wiggins, David K., ed., Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. xii, 459 pp. $34.95, isbn 1-55728-826-7.)
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