Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Boles, Frank, “‘Stirring Constantly’: 150 Years of Michigan Cookbooks,” Michigan Historical Review, 32 (Fall 2006), 33–62.
Carlson, Hannah, “Vulgar Things: James Fenimore Cooper’s ‘Clairvoyant’ Pocket Handkerchief,” Common-Place, 7 (Jan. 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr., “A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907–1946,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Fall 2006), 308–21.
Craig, R. Bruce, “Presidential Libraries and Museums: Opportunities for Genuine Reform,” Public Historian, 28 (Fall 2006), 75–84.
Glynn, Tom, “The Professionalization of a Calling: Mission and Method at the New York Library Club, 1885–1901,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 41 (Fall 2006), 438–61.
Igo, Sarah E., “‘A gold mine and a tool for democracy’: George Gallup, Elmo Roper, and the Business of Scientific Polling, 1935–1955,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 42 (Spring 2006), 109–34.
Kohl, Seena B., “Love, Valor, and Endurance: World War II War Brides Making a Home in Montana,” Montana, 56 (Autumn 2006), 22–37.
Lawrimore, Erin R., “‘Let us hasten to redeem the time that is lost’: J. G. M. Ramsey’s Role in the Collection and Promotion of Tennessee History,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 41 (Fall 2006), 419–37.
Lear, Bernadette A., “‘Tis better to be brief than tedious?’ The Evolution of the American Public Library Annual Report, 1876–2004,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 41 (Fall 2006), 462–86.
Rugh, Susan Sessions, “Branding Utah: Industrial Tourism in the Postwar American West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Winter 2006), 445–72.
Stotts, Stuart, “A Thousand Little Libraries: Lutie Stearns, Wisconsin’s Johnny Appleseed of Books,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Winter 2006–2007), 38–49.
Torii, Yusuke, “Demokurashi no shonin” (Selling democracy), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 39 (2005), 143–62. In Japanese.
Yamamoto, Akiyo, “Shikago banpaku to hangari kei shudan no bunka” (The Chicago Exhibition and Hungarian groups’ culture), Rekishi Hyoron (Tokyo) (no. 659, 2005), 58–71. In Japanese.
Yasuda, Kozue, “Edowado Banezu to josei no kitsuen pr” (pr strategies for female smokers), Americashi-kenkyu (Tokyo), 28 (2005), 76–91. In Japanese.
Yoshimi, Shunya, “Amerika o kataru koto” (Reinventing America as the other), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 39 (2005), 85–104. In Japanese.
Hamilton, Alissa Anne, “Fabricated Fresh: What Industry and the fda Failed to Tell You about Processed Orange Juice” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214214.
Lawrence, Jeanne Catherine, “From High-Class Goods to Bargain Basements: Department Stores, Urban Life, and Labor in Chicago and Glasgow, 1880–1930” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214236.
Levi, Tamara J., “Food, Control, and Resistance: Rations and Indigenous Peoples in the American Great Plains and South Australia” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006). Order No. DA3215320.
McGrath, Maria, “Food for Dissent: A History of Natural Foods and Dietary Health Politics and Culture since the 1960s” (Lehigh University, 2005). Order No. DA3203823.
Smith, Kristine Runberg, “Following Buster Brown’s Footsteps: Leading Families into the Middle-Class Consumer Society” (Saint Louis University, 2005). Order No. DA3211638.
Burns, Eric, The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. 270 pp. $29.00, isbn 1-59213-480-7.)
Frenette, Yves, Marcel Martel, and John Willis, eds., Envoyer et recevoir. Lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones (Sending and receiving. Letters and letter-writing in the francophone diasporas). (Quebec: Editions de l’iqrs and les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2006. 312 pp. $39.00, isbn 2-7637-8391-0.) In French.
Jones, Preston, Empire’s Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898–1934. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2007. x, 158 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-889963-89-1.)
Shearer, Benjamin F., ed., Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans during Wartime. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. Vol. 1, A–F: liv, 322 pp. Vol. 2, G–N: xlviii, 318 pp. Vol. 3, O–Z: xlviii, 292 pp. $275.00/set, isbn 0-313-33420-X/set.)
Takita, Yoshiko, ed., Taiheiyo sekai no bunka to amerika (Culture in the Pacific region and America). (Tokyo: Sairyu sha, 2005. 275 pp. ¥3,800, isbn 4882029669.) In Japanese.
Tsunematsu, Hiroshi, and Yuko Matsumoto, eds., Shohi to amerika shakai (Consumer culture in American history). (Tokyo: Yamakawa shuppansha, 2005. 257 pp. ¥3,000, isbn 4634640155.) In Japanese.
Wakao, Yuji, and Shoji Haga, eds., Kiroku to kioku no hikaku bunka shi (Comparative cultural history through documents and memories). (Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2005. ¥5,700, isbn 4815805016.) In Japanese. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
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