Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Baird, Lisa A., “Susan Sontag and Diane Arbus: The Siamese Twins of Photographic Art,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 971–86.
Carter, John E., “The Platte River Road in 1866: Charles Savage’s Visual Narrative,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 132–41.
Chansky, Dorothy, “Usable Performance Feminism for Our Time: Reconsidering Betty Friedan,” Theatre Journal, 60 (Oct. 2008), 341–64.
Greaves, Brendan, “‘A Paper Wedding’: The Vernacular Modernism of Felipe Jesus Consalvos,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 55 (Spring–Summer 2008), 4–16.
Hammond, Anne, “Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keeffe: On the Intangible in Art and Nature,” History of Photography (London), 32 (Winter 2008), 301–13.
Kibler, M. Alison, “Pigs, Green Whiskers, and Drunken Widows: Irish Nationalists and the ‘Practical Censorship’ of McFadden’s Row of Flats in 1902 and 1903,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 489–514.
Le Beau, Bryan F., “The Mind of the North in Pictures: Currier and Ives’s Civil War,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Maimon, Vered, “Displaced ‘Origins’: William Henry Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature,” History of Photography (London), 32 (Winter 2008), 314–25.
Rogers, Randal, “Colonial Imitation and Racial Insubordination: Photography at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition of 1904,” History of Photography (London), 32 (Winter 2008), 347–67.
Schmitt, Natalie Crohn, “Creating Community: Experiments in Drama at Francis W. Parker School, Chicago,” Theatre Survey, 49 (May 2008), 37–64.
Sehat, David, “Gender and Theatrical Realism: The Problem of Clyde Fitch,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (July 2008), 325–52.
Wall, David, “‘A Chaos of Sin and Folly’: Art, Culture, and Carnival in Antebellum America,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 515–35.
Browne, Dorothy M., “New York City Museums and Cultural Leadership, 1917–1940” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310757.
Chung, Nogin, “Picturing American Women: Popular Culture Images of Postwar Womanhood in the United States” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3313431.
Clancy, Jonathan, “Transcendentalism and the Crisis of Self in American Art and Culture, 1830–1930” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3306980.
Gibbs, Jenna Marie, “Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Rights, and Revolution in Transatlantic Theatricality (1760s–1830s)” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3318238.
Harvey, Douglas S., “Theater and Empire: A History of Assumptions in the English-Speaking Atlantic World, 1700–1860” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3307726.
Heydt, Stephanie Gray Mayer, “The Art of The Gift: Edward L. Carey, William Sidney Mount, Daniel Huntington, and the Antebellum Gift Book” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314029.
Joyce, Valerie Michelle, “‘You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun’ and Other Life Lessons: Biography in the American Musical Theatre” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307892.
McCleary, Timothy Paul, “Ghosts on the Land: Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Interpretations of Rock Art” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314852.
Napolitano, Laura Groves, “Nurturing Change: Lilly Martin Spencer’s Images of Children” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307822.
Nasstrom, Heidi, “‘Live in the Country with Faith’: Jane and Ralph Whitehead, the Simple Life Movement, and Arts and Crafts in the United States, England, and on the Continent, 1870–1930” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307767.
Ragar, Cheryl R., “Plunging into the Very Depths of the Souls of Our People: The Life and Art of Aaron Douglas” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3307709.
Shanks, Samuel T., “Crowd Pleasing Moves: Acting Technique, Social Performance, and the Popularization of the Nineteenth Century American Theatre” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3303794.
Baker, Nicholas, and Margaret M. Betts, John Prentiss Benson: American Marine Artist. (Portsmouth: Baker Marine, 2008. 136 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-9821761-0-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Bernier, Celeste-Marie, and Judith Newman, eds., Public Art, Memorials, and Atlantic Slavery. (London: Routledge, 2009. 178 pp. $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-48315-5.)
Dusselier, Jane E., Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xvi, 200 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4407-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4408-3.)
Hausdoerffer, John, Caitlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xvi, 184 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1631-2.)
Stewart, Todd, Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 125 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3951-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Thomas, Kenneth, The Religious Dancing of American Slaves, 1820–1865: Spiritual Ecstasy at Baptisms, Funerals, and Sunday Meetings. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. x, 136 pp. $99.95, isbn 978-0-7734-4926-8.)
Kramer, Hilton, The Age of the Avant-Garde, 1956–1972. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2009. xxiv, 565 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-4128-0834-7.) Originally published in 1973.
Lea, Tom, The Two Thousand Yard Stare: Tom Lea’s World War II, ed. Brendan M. Greeley Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xx, 227 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-60344-008-0.) Heavily illustrated.
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