Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Aikin, Jane, “Histories of the Library of Congress,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 1, 2010), 5–24.
Black, Jennifer M., “Corporate Calling Cards: Advertising Trade Cards and Logos in the United States, 1876–1890,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (Dec. 2009), 291–306.
Gwinn, Nancy E., “The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Global Exchange of Government Documents, 1834–1889,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 1, 2010), 107–22.
Ostrowski, Carl, “‘The Choice of Books’: Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the Ideology of Reading, and Literary Collections at the Library of Congress in the 1870s,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 1, 2010), 70–84.
Preer, Jean, “‘Wake Up and Read!’: Book Promotion and National Library Week, 1958,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 1, 2010), 92–106.
Shukunda, S. Z., “Iz istorii iazykovoi politiki SShA (XVIII–XX vv.)” (The history of U.S. language policy [the 18th–20th centuries]), Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriia: Lingvistika i mezhul’turnaia kommunikatsiia (Moscow) (no. 4, 2008), 56–63. In Russian.
Unger, Nancy C., “Women for a Peaceful Christmas: Wisconsin Homemakers Seek to Remake American Culture,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Winter 2009–2010), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.
Baptista, Lori Danielle Barcliff, “Stirring the Melting Pot: Food and the Performance of Inclusion in Newark’s Ironbound Neighborhood” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3355668.
Graham, Jeffery, “‘Loose Lips Sink Ships’: A History of Rumor Control in the United States” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3344975.
Hsu, Ray, “Neutralizing Typical America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3348860.
Ides, Matthew Allan, “Cruising for Community: Youth Culture and Politics in Los Angeles, 1910–1970” (University of Michigan, 2009). Order No. DA3354175.
Lake, Stephanie, “Bonnie Cashin: Fashion and Costume Design ca. 1923–1985” (The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, New York, 2009). Order No. DA3351364.
Lipoma, Lorraine, “Laughing with Lucifer: Satan Comedy in American Literature and Popular Culture” (Union Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3347413.
Lord, Jill Marie, “Improving the Public: Cultural and Typological Change in Nineteenth-Century Libraries” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3354665.
Lorts, Justin T., “Black Laughter/Black Protest: Civil Rights, Respectability, and the Cultural Politics of African American Comedy, 1934–1968” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349917.
Massengill, Rebekah Peeples, “Critical Capitalism: Moral Discourse in the Debate over Wal-Mart” (Princeton University, 2009). Order No. DA3350829.
Rhea, Regan, “Teen Obsession: Competing Images of Adolescents in American Culture, 1945–1963” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3348838.
Saunders, John Hanson, “The Evolution of Snow White: A Close Textual Analysis of Three Versions of the Snow White Fairy Tale” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3346369.
Shintani, Kiyoshi, “Cooking Up Modernity: Culinary Reformers and the Making of Consumer Culture, 1876–1916” (University of Oregon, 2008). Order No. DA3346664.
Waltzer, Lucas S., “An Uneasy Idealism: The Reconstruction of American Adolescence from World War II to the War on Poverty” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3349486.
Yankaskas, Lynda K., “Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and American Civic Life, 1731–1854” (Brandeis University, 2009). Order No. DA3354528.
Bianculli, David, Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. (New York: Touchstone, 2009. xvi, 382 pp. $24.99, isbn 978-1-4391-0116-2.)
Cooke, James J., Chewing Gum, Candy Bars, and Beer: The Army px in World War II. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 186 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1867-4.)
Eighmey, Rae Katherine, Food Will Win the War: Minnesota Crops, Cooks, and Conservation during World War I. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2010. xii, 260 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87351-718-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Hinson, Glenn, and William Ferris, eds., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 14: Folklife. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xx, 402 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3346-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5989-6.)
Joslin, Katherine, Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. xviii, 209 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-58465-779-8.)
Kimura, G. W., ed., Alaska at 50: The Past, Present, and Next Fifty Years of Alaska Statehood. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2009. xviii, 285 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-60223-061-3.)
Lause, Mark A., The Antebellum Crisis and America’s First Bohemians. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. x, 181 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-60635-033-1.)
Smyth, J. E., Edna Ferber’s Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. xiv, 337 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-292-71984-2.)
Wardrop, Daneen, Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. xiv, 246 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-58465-780-4.)
Holzer, Harold, ed., Lincoln and New York. (New York: New York Historical Society, 2009. xiii, 277 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-85667-669-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Phillips, Ted Ashton, Jr., City of the Silent: The Charlestonians of Magnolia Cemetery. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. xxii, 217 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-872-3.)
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