Recent Scholarship
Rural
Harris, Carmen V., “‘Well I Just Generally Bes the President of Everything’: Rural Black Women’s Empowerment through South Carolina Home Demonstration,” Black Women, Gender, and Families, 3 (Spring 2009), 91–112.
Jensen, Joan, “The World of Theta Mead, County Nurse: Private and Public Health Care in Rural Wisconsin, 1900–1922,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Spring 2009), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.
Lawrence, John W., Paul W. Schopp, and Robert J. Lore, “‘They Even Threaten the Sick That They Will Not Be Buried in the Churchyard’: Salvage Archaeology of the Raritan-in-the-Hills Cemetery, Somerset County, New Jersey,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 93–114.
McPherson, Robert S., “Soldiering in a Corner, Living on the Fringe: Military Operations in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1890,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Spring 2009), 126–50.
Sherrod, Ricky L., “Plain Folk, Planters, and the Complexities of Southern Society: Kinship Ties in Nineteenth-Century Northwest Louisiana and Northeast Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 113 (July 2009), 1–31.
Birk, Megan Elizabeth, “Alone in the Country: Rural Social Welfare for Dependent Children, 1865–1920” (Purdue University, 2008). Order No. DA3330230.
Egolf, Jennifer Ann, “‘Keep America American’: Great Depression, Government Intervention, and Conservative Response in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1920s–1940” (West Virginia University, 2008). Order No. DA3326477.
Fyfe, David Allen, “Commerce and Sociability in Small-Town America: Explorations in Historical giscience” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3325913.
Martin, Lou, “Working for Independence: The Failure of New Deal Politics in a Rural Industrial Place” (West Virginia University, 2008). Order No. DA3326908.
Montague, Rodney, “The Tie That Binds: A Study of White Farmers in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333409.
Mudgett, Jill, “The Hills of Home: Environmental Identity in the Rural North, 1815–1860” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3325253.
Wittman, Barbara Kathleen, “A Community of Letters: A Quaker Woman’s Correspondence and the Making of the American Frontier, 1791–1824” (University of Akron, 2008). Order No. DA3323988.
Miller, Marla R., ed., Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Whittaker, William E., ed., Frontier Forts of Iowa: Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, 1682–1862. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. 266 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-58729-831-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Burton, Thomas, Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. xxii, 133 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-1-57233-665-0.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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