Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Bassett, Lynne Z., “The Sober People of Hadley: Sumptuary Legislation and Clothing in Hadley Men’s Probate Inventories, 1663–1731,” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 191–210. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)
Benjamin, David, “Only in Photographs: Memories of Beloved Wisconsin Dells Attractions,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Summer 2009), 14–23. Heavily illustrated.
Cummings, Jennifer, “‘How Can We Fail?’ The Texas State Library’s Traveling Libraries and Bookmobiles, 1916–1966,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 3, 2009), 299–325.
DeWitt, Petra, “‘Drifting Back into Their Old Ways’: Local Efforts to Banish the German Language from Missouri during the Great War,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (April 2009), 161–82.
Finnegan, John R., and Cara A. Finnegan, “Birth of a Resort: The Chase Hotel and the Rise of Lakeside Tourism,” Minnesota History, 61 (Summer 2009), 272–83. Heavily illustrated.
Garfield, Seth, “A Amazônia no imaginário norte-americano em tempo de guerra” (Amazonia in the U.S. wartime imaginary), Revista Brasileira de História, 29 (no. 57, 2009), 19–65. In Portuguese.
Hall, Susan Grove, “The Protean Character of Jello, Icon of Food and Identity,” Studies in Popular Culture, 31 (Fall 2008), 69–80.
Kwilecki, Susan, “Twenty-First-Century American Ghosts: The After-Death Communication—Therapy and Revelation from beyond the Grave,” Religion and American Culture, 19 (Winter 2009), 101–33.
Latham, Joyce M., “Wheat and Chaff: Carl Roden, Abe Korman, and the Definitions of Intellectual Freedom in the Chicago Public Library,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 3, 2009), 279–98.
Law, Michael John, “Turning Night into Day: Transgression and Americanization at the English Inter-war Roadhouse,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (July 2009), 473–94.
Lawrence, John W., Paul W. Schopp, and Robert J. Lore, “‘They Even Threaten the Sick That They Will Not Be Buried in the Churchyard’: Salvage Archaeology of the Raritan-in-the-Hills Cemetery, Somerset County, New Jersey,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 93–114.
Mathews, Burgin, “‘When I Say Get It’: A Brief History of the Boogie,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Fall 2009), 24–52.
May, Elaine Tyler, “Cold War Minnesota,” Minnesota History, 61 (Spring 2009), 218–29.
Mays, Dorothy, “Gatorland: Survival of the Fittest among Florida’s Mid-tier Tourist Attractions,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Spring 2009), 509–39.
Mosby, Ian, “‘That Won-Ton Soup Headache’: The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, msg, and the Making of American Food, 1968–1980,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 22 (April 2009), 133–51.
Nance, Susan, “The Veiled Prophet’s Oriental Tale: St. Louis’s Famous Festivals in Context, 1878–1900,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (Jan. 2009), 90–107.
Phung, Thao T., Julia A. King, and Douglas H. Ubelaker, “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Excessive Animal Protein: The Question of an Adequate Diet in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 2, 2009), 61–82.
Riordan, Timothy B., “‘Carry Me to Yon Kirk Yard’: An Investigation of Changing Burial Practices in the Seventeenth-Century Cemetery at St. Mary’s City, Maryland,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 81–92.
Stanonis, Anthony J., “The Triumph of Epicure: A Global History of New Orleans Culinary Tourism,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 145–61.
Umezaki, Toru, “Amerika ‘60 nendai sedai’ no keisei” (The Formation of the American ‘60s generation’), Rekishi Hyoron (Tokyo) (no. 698, July 2008), 58–72. In Japanese.
Veit, Richard F., “‘Resolved to Strike Out a New Path’: Consumerism and Iconographic Change in New Jersey Gravestones, 1680–1820,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 115–41.
Carter, William Howard, “Chains of Consumption: The Iroquois and Consumer Goods, 1550–1800” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3323175.
Çelimli, Isli, “Production of a Cultural Practice: The Transformation of Dining in New York City” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333316.
Coleman, Brenda Weeks, “Keeping the Faith: The Public Library’s Commitment to Adult Education, 1950–2006” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2008). Order No. DA3326698.
Levine, Jonathan, “Credit Where It Is Due: A Social History of Consumer Credit in America” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330146.
Rounds, Christopher Damien, “Ireland for Sale: The Marketing and Consumerism of the Irish-American Identity since 1880” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3332286.
Shoop, Casey, “Meta-California: Culture, Critical Theory, and the Ends of History in the Golden State” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333439.
Swihart, Ryan T. A., “An Ornament and a Promise: Discourses on Culture in Nineteenth-Century America” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3325394.
Turner, Katherine Leonard, “Good Food for Little Money: Food and Cooking among Urban Working-Class Americans, 1875–1930” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3324472.
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, American Consumer Society, 1865–2005: From Hearth to hdtv. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2009. xiv, 330 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-88295-264-2.)
Brown, Gordon S., Incidental Architect: William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washington, D.C., 1794–1828. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xiv, 141 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1862-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1863-5.)
Currell, Susan, American Culture in the 1920s. (New York: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. xx, 252 pp. Cloth, $100.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2521-5. Paper, $29.50, isbn 978-0-7486-2522-2.)
Fabbi, Giovanni, Le trincee lontane: Il sud degli Stati Uniti e la prima guerra mondiale; Il caso del sud carolina (Distant trenches: The U.S. South and World War One; The case of South Carolina). (Turin: Otto, 2009. 258 pp. €20.00, isbn 978-88-95285-12-2.) In Italian.
Leder, Jane Mersky, Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex, and World War II. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xxx, 185 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-59797-277-2.)
Mendelson, Richard, From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xviii, 302 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-520-25943-0.)
Petigny, Alan, The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x, 292 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-88896-7. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-75722-5.)
Wegner, Phillip E., Life between Two Deaths, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xiv, 279 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4473-5. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4473-5.)
Gottfried, Herbert, and Jan Jennings, American Vernacular Buildings and Interiors: 1870–1960. (New York: Norton, 2009. 471 pp. Paper, $55.00, isbn 978-0-393-73262-7.) Previously published in 1988. Heavily illustrated.
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