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Antonetti, Martin, “The ‘Goffe Bible’: Succor for the Regicides?” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 121–34. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

Baugher, Sherene, “The John Street Methodist Church: An Archaeological Excavation with Native American Cooperation,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 46–64.

Callaway, Judson, and Su Richards, “Old Lamps for New: The Failed Campaign to Bring Electric Street Lighting to Salt Lake City,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Summer 2009), 222–41.

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.

Desiderio, Francis, “‘A Catalyst for Downtown’: Detroit’s Renaissance Center,” Michigan Historical Review, 35 (Spring 2009), 83–112.

Hood, J. Edward, and Rita Reinke, “The Fortification of Hadley in the Seventeenth Century,” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 68–90. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

Klassen, Teri, “How Depression-Era Quiltmakers Constructed Domestic Space: An Interracial Processual Study,” Midwestern Folklore, 34 (Fall 2008), 17–47.

Klassen, Teri, “Representations of African American Quiltmaking: From Omission to High Art,” Journal of American Folklore, 122 (Summer 2009), 297–334.

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, Deborah, and Jon Lawrence, “The Old Sacramento City Cemetery,” California Territorial Quarterly (Spring 2009), 28–38.

Lemak, Joseph, “Roman Grandeur in Central New York: The Classical Tradition in a Nineteenth-Century Pioneer Town,” New York History, 89 (Summer 2008), 235–56.

Mackintosh, Phillip Gordon, and Clyde R. Forsberg, “Performing the Lodge: Masonry, Masculinity, and Nineteenth-Century North American Moral Geography,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (July 2009), 451–72.

Ovnick, Merry, “The Mark of Zorro: Silent Film’s Impact on 1920s Architecture in Los Angeles,” California History, 86 (no. 1, 2008), 28–64. Heavily illustrated.

Parezo, Nancy J., and Angeline R. Jones, “What’s in a Name? The 1940s–1950s ‘Squaw Dress,’” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Summer 2009), 373–404.

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.

Savage, Cynthia, “A Modern Response to the Cold War: Paul Harris and the Lawton National Guard Armory,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Winter 2008–2009), 410–27.

Scharfenberger, Gerard P., “Upon This Rock: Salvage Archaeology at the Early-Eighteenth-Century Holmdel Baptist Church,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 12–29.

Stone, Gaynell, “Sacred Landscapes: Material Evidence of Ideological and Ethnic Choice in Long Island, New York, Gravestones, 1680–1800,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 142–59.

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.

Ward, Jeanne A., and John P. McCarthy, “Tea in God’s Light: An Analysis of Artifacts from the Friends Meetinghouse Site, Burlington, New Jersey,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 30–45.

 

Drews, Marie Ilene, “Cooking Up Trouble: The Cultural Work of Kitchen Kitsch” (Washington State University, 2008). Order No. DA3333929.

Gollannek, Eric Frederick, “‘Empire Follows Art’: Exchange and the Sensory Worlds of Empire in Britain and Its Colonies, 1740–1775” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3329779.

Hannah, Dorita, “Event-Space: Theater Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330713.

Henderson, Amy Hudson, “Furnishing the Republican Court: Building and Decorating Philadelphia Homes, 1790–1800” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3325494.

Mauro, Hayes Peter, “Made in the U.S.A.: Americanizing Aesthetics at Carlisle” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3334676.

Petersen, Anne Margaret, “Adobe Days, Lost and Found: Imagining Southern California History in San Juan Capistrano and Santa Barbara, 1870–1940” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3335021.

 

Nickell, Joe, Real or Fake: Studies in Authentification. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xii, 239 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2534-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Orvell, Miles, and Jeffrey L. Meikle, eds., Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. 460 pp. €92.00, isbn 978-90-420-2574-5.)

Pfeffenberger, Dyne L., The Historic Fort Wayne Embassy Theatre. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xvi, 91 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-31369-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Rosenblum, Constance, Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. xii, 267 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8147-7608-7.)

Short, John Rennie, Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World. (London: Reaktion, 2009. 176 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-86189-436-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Teachout, Woden, Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism. (New York: Basic, 2009. vi, 266 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-465-00209-2.)

Whittaker, William E., ed., Frontier Forts of Iowa: Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, 1682–1862. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. 266 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-58729-831-8.) Heavily illustrated.

 

McShane, Stephen G., and Gary S. Wilk, Steel Giants: Historic Images from the Calumet Regional Archives. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xviii, 283 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35299-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna, Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii, 196 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-226-52078-0.) Heavily illustrated.

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