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Gilded Age and Progressive Era

 

Beaudreau, Sylvie, “Commemorating a Transnational Hero: The 1909 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Discovery of Lake Champlain,” Vermont History, 77 (Summer–Fall 2009), 99–118.

Brinkley, Douglas, “tr’s Wild Side,” American Heritage, 59 (Fall 2009), 26–35.

Dann, Kevin, “Pageants, Parades, and Patriotism: Celebrating Champlain in 1909,” Vermont History, 77 (Summer–Fall 2009), 87–98.

Fagg, John, “From Back Number Aesthetics to New Expression: James Gibbons Huneker‘s New Cosmopolis,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 1, 2009), 21–40.

Holley, Val, “Showdown at Geddes Gulch: How Prior Appropriation Ambushed Weber County,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Fall 2009), 333–50.

Mendez, Jesus, “1892—A Year of Crucial Decisions in Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Summer 2009), 83–106.

Puschendorf, L. Robert, “Two Trails of the Twentieth Century: John C. Nicholson and Newton, Kansas,” Kansas History, 32 (Autumn 2009), 154–67. Heavily illustrated.

Romesburg, Don, “‘Wouldn’t a Boy Do?’: Placing Early-Twentieth-Century Male Youth Sex Work into Histories of Sexuality,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (Sept. 2009), 367–92.

 

Rosenow, Michael K., “Injuries to All: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death among United States Workers, 1877–1910” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3337899.

 

Tichi, Cecelia, Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us). (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xviii, 382 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3300-1.)

Winfield, Betty Houchin, ed., Journalism, 1908: Birth of a Profession. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 356 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1811-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1813-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

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