Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Allen, Arly, “Jess Willard and Carl Morris: Heavyweight Boxing in Oklahoma,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 83 (Winter 2005–2006), 432–51.
Carson, Bob, “imp: Ohio’s Queen of the Turf,” Timeline, 23 (April–June 2006), 24–33. Heavily illustrated.
Demas, Lane, “The Brown Bomber’s Dark Day: Louis-Schmeling I and America’s Black Hero,” Journal of Sport History, 31 (Fall 2004), 253–71.
Heiskanan, Benita, “The Latinization of Boxing: A Texas Case-Study,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Spring 2005), 6.
Kemper, Kurt Edward, “The Smell of Roses and the Color of the Players: College Football and the Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement in the West,” Journal of Sport History, 31 (Fall 2004), 317–39.
Kirsch, George B., “Municipal Golf Courses in the United States: 1895 to 1930,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Spring 2005), 23–44.
Norris, Frank, “A Room with a View: Controversies over Hotel Development in Mount McKinley National Park, 1927–1970,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 96 (Fall 2005), 171–80. Heavily illustrated.
Pfeiffer, David A., and John Vernon, “Beyond the Box Score,” Prologue, 38 (Spring 2006), 12–21.
Plymire, Darcy C., “Positive Addiction: Running and Human Potential in the 1970s,” Journal of Sport History, 31 (Fall 2004), 297–315.
Schultz, Jaime, “‘A Wager Concerning a Diplomatic Pig’: A Crooked Reading of the Floyd of Rosedale Narrative,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Spring 2005), 1–21.
Smalley, Andrea L., “‘Our Lady Sportsmen’: Gender, Class, and Conservation in Sport Hunting Magazines, 1873–1920,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (Oct. 2005), 355–80.
Taylor, J., “Mapping Adventure: A Historical Geography of Yosemite Valley Climbing Landscapes,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 32 (Jan. 2006), 190–219.
Young, T., “False, Cheap, and Degraded: When History, Economy, and Environment Collided at Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 32 (Jan. 2006), 169–89.
Iannacone, Rachel E., “Open Space for the Underclass: New York’s Small Parks (1880–1915)” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3179750.
Shukalo, Alice Marie, “Communing with the Gods: Bodybuilding, Masculinity, and U.S. Imperialism, 1875–1900” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3183973.
Eisenberg, John, The Great Match Race: When North Met South in America’s First Sports Spectacle. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. xiv, 258 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-618-55612-5.)
Guttmann, Allen, Sports: The First Five Millennia. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xvi, 448 pp. $34.95, isbn 1-55849-470-7.)
Morris, Peter, A Game of Inches: The Game on the Field—The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball. (Chicago: Dee, 2006. xxvi, 533 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-56663-677-9.)
Porter, Karra, Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women’s Professional Basketball League, 1978–1981. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xvi, 336 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-8032-8789-5.)
Schwartz, David G., Cutting the Wire: Gambling Prohibition and the Internet. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005. xiv, 282 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-87417-619-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-87417-620-4.)
Pollock, Alan J., Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams, ed. James A. Riley. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xii, 407 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-8173-1495-4.)
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