Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Aldrich, Mark, “A Mighty Rough Road: The Deterioration of Work Safety on American Railroads, 1955–75,” Labor History, 46 (Aug. 2005), 307–28.
Carter, Julian, “On Mother-Love: History, Queer Theory, and Nonlesbian Identity,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 14 (Jan./April 2005), 107–38.
Cruikshank, Kate, et al., “How Do We Show You What We’ve Got? Access to Archival Collections in the Digital Age,” Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 8 (Sept. 2005) http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/jahcindex.htm.
de la Peña, Carolyn Thomas, “‘Bleaching the Ethiopian’: Desegregating Race and Technology through Early X-Ray Experiments,” Technology and Culture, 47 (Jan. 2006), 27–55.
Freire, Olival, Jr., “Science and Exile: David Bohm, the Cold War, and a New Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 36 (no. 1, 2005), 1–34.
Kanazawa, Mark, “Investment in Private Water Development: Property Rights and Contractual Opportunism during the California Gold Rush,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (April 2006), 357–81.
Kimmel, Julie, “Web Evaluation in the History Classroom: Reconsidering the Checklist,” Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 8 (Sept. 2005) http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/jahcindex.htm.
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory, “Nature, Not Books: Scientists and the Origins of the Nature-Study Movement in the 1890s,” Isis, 96 (Sept. 2005), 324–52.
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory, “‘Thoughts in Things,’” Isis, 96 (Dec. 2005), 586–601.
Krimsky, Sheldon, “From Asilomar to Industrial Biotechnology: Risks, Reductionism, and Regulation,” Science as Culture (London), 14 (Dec. 2005), 309–23.
Lake, Marilyn, “From the Mississippi to Melbourne via Natal: The Invention of the Literacy Test as a Technology of Racial Exclusion,” in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake, 209–29. (Canberra: Australian National University, 2005. x, 278 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-920942-44-0.)
McQuaid, Kim, “Selling the Space Age: nasa and Earth’s Environment, 1958–1990,” Environment and History (Cambridge), 12 (May 2006), 127–63.
Mezzano, Michael, “The Progressive Origins of Eugenics Critics: Raymond Pearl, Herbert S. Jennings, and the Defense of Scientific Inquiry,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (Jan. 2005), 83–97.
Mody, Cyrus C. M., “Corporations, Universities, and Instrumental Communities: Commercializing Probe Microscopy, 1981–1996,” Technology and Culture, 47 (Jan. 2006), 56–80.
Park, Hee-Joo, “Mediating the Evolution Controversy in America: The Case of the American Scientific Association,” Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 20 (Nov. 2004), 193–222.
Plunkett, W. Howard, “Radar Bombing during Rolling Thunder—Part I: Ryan’s Raiders,” Air Power History, 53 (Spring 2006), 4–21.
Robbins, Jane, “The ‘Problem of the Gifted Student’: National Research Council Efforts to Identify and Cultivate Undergraduate Talent in a New Era of Mass Education, 1919–1929,” History of Higher Education Annual, 24 (2005), 91–124.
Rudolph, John L., “Turning Science to Account: Chicago and the General Science Movement in Secondary Education, 1905–1920,” Isis, 96 (Sept. 2005), 353–89.
Soderstrom, Mark, “Family Trees and Timber Rights: Albert E. Jenks, Americanization, and the Rise of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (April 2004), 176–204.
Telotte, J. P., “Lost in Space: Television as Science Fiction Icon,” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 33 (Winter 2006), 178–86.
Tilley, David Rogers, “National Metabolism and Communications Technology Development in the United States, 1790–2000,” Environment and History (Cambridge), 12 (May 2006), 165–90.
Tucker, Jennifer, “The Historian, the Picture, and the Archive,” Isis, 97 (March 2006), 111–20.
Emin-Tunc, Tanfer, “Technologies of Choice: A History of Abortion Techniques in the United States, 1850–1980” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2005). Order No. DA3179633.
Miller, Kimberly A., “Eugenics and American Theatre, 1912–1921” (University of Kansas, 2005). Order No. DA3185194.
Shuhong, Gong, “Meiguo jiaoyu jishuxue de lishi yu fanshu yanjiu” (On the history and the paradigm of United States technological education) (South China Normal University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Vetter, Jeremy, “The Regional Development of Science: Knowledge, Environment, and Field Work in the U.S. Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, 1860–1920” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3179825.
Worden, Joel Daniel, “The Galapagos in American Consciousness: American Fiction Writers’ Responses to Darwinism” (University of Delaware, 2005). Order No. DA3181874.
Abbott, Carl, Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 230 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-7006-1430-3.)
Conant, Jennet, 109 East Place: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. xx, 424 pp. Paper, $14.00, isbn 0-7432-5008-7.)
Dawson, Virginia P., and Mark D. Bowles, eds., Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903–2003. (Washington: nasa, 2005. xvi, 310 pp. $20.00, isbn 2005018938.)
Lemov, Rebecca, World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. 291 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-8090-7464-8.)
Masco, Joseph, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xvi, 425 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 0-691-12076-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-691-12077-3.)
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