Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Baer, Christopher T., “Salvaging History,” Railroad History (no. 192, Spring–Summer 2005), 76–87. Heavily illustrated.
Estrada, Gilbert, “If You Build It, They Will Move: The Los Angeles Freeway System and the Displacement of Mexican East Los Angeles, 1944–1972,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Fall 2005), 287–315.
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.)
Green, Leah Moren, “The Erie Canal and the American Imagination: The Erie Canal’s Effects on American Legal Development, 1817–1869,” Alabama Law Review, 56 (Summer 2005), 1167–86.
Ingraham, Ruth Ann, “I Remember When: Clarence ‘Cap’ Cornish—A Life in Flight,” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 17 (Fall 2005), 4–13. Heavily illustrated.
Lee, J. Lawrence, “Baltimore’s Belt,” Railroad History (no. 192, Spring–Summer 2005), 30–51. Heavily illustrated.
Levitt, Alan M., “Picturing the Railway,” Railroad History (no. 192, Spring–Summer 2005), 64–75. Heavily illustrated.
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, and Robert Gottlieb, “A Road as a Route and Place: The Evolution and Transformation of the Arroyo Seco Parkway,” California History, 83 (no. 1, 2005), 28–40. Heavily illustrated.
Mortimer, John, “Dark Genius,” Railroad History (no. 192, Spring–Summer 2005), 20–29. Heavily illustrated.
Pearson, Lennart, “When Fredrika Bremer Came to Charleston,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 56 (Oct. 2005), 214–30.
Raitz, Karl, and Nancy O’Malley, “The Nineteenth-Century Evolution of Local-Scale Roads in Kentucky’s Bluegrass,” Geographical Review, 94 (Oct. 2005), 415–39.
Roldán, Dario, “Sarmiento, Tocqueville, los viajes y la democracia en América” (Sarmiento, Tocqueville, travel, and democracy in America), Revista de Occidente (Madrid) (no. 289, June 2005), 61–81. In Spanish.
Smith, Dale, “Speed Freak: How the Fastest Bomber Faded at the Finish,” Air & Space, 20 (Dec. 2005–Jan. 2006), 64–71. Heavily illustrated.
Sweetman, Bill, “The Short, Happy Life of the Prop-Fan,” Air & Space, 20 (Aug.–Sept. 2005), 42–49. Heavily illustrated.
Weber, Joe, “The Morphogenesis of State Highway Networks in the United States,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 31 (Oct. 2005), 723–43.
Foster, Amy Elizabeth, “Sex in Space: The Politics and Logistics of Sexually Integrating nasa’s Astronaut Corps” (Auburn University, 2005). Order No. DA3173479.
Loosbrock, Richard D., “Living with the Octopus: Life, Work, and Community in a Western Railroad Town” (University of New Mexico, 2005). Order No. DA3177095.
Shapiro, Aaron Alex, “‘One crop worth cultivating’: Tourism in the Upper Great Lakes, 1910–1965” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3168390.
Corbin, Annalies, The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud or How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xviii, 145 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 1-58544-484-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-58544-516-9.)
Gove, Bill, Logging Railroads of the Adirondacks. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xvi, 256 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8156-0794-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Hofsommer, Don L., Minneapolis and the Age of Railways. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xiv, 337 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8166-4501-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Runte, Alfred, Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2006. xx, 195 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-931112-52-5.) Heavily illustrated.
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.)
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