Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Arceneaux, Noah, “A Sales Floor in the Sky: Philadelphia Department Stores and the Radio Boom of the 1920s,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 53 (March 2009), 76–89.
Brandt, Lydia Mattice, “Re-creating Mount Vernon: The Virginia Building at the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Spring 2009), 79–114.
Brinson, Susan L., “Politics and Defense: The fcc’s Radio Intelligence Division, 1940–1947,” Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 16 (Jan. 2009), 2–16.
Burt, Laura, “Vivian Harsh, Adult Education, and the Library’s Role as Community Center,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 2, 2009), 234–55.
Cunningham, Patricia A., “From Underwear to Swimwear: Branding at Atlas and bvd in the Late 1930s,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (March 2009), 38–52.
Davidson, James M., and Robert C. Mainfort Jr., “Two Late Nineteenth-Century Cemeteries in Northwest Arkansas: A Study in Contrasts,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 414–28.
Galván, Gary, “The abcs of the wpa Music Copying Project and the Fleisher Collection,” American Music, 26 (Winter 2008), 514–38.
Kohn, Richard H., “The Danger of Militarization in an Endless ‘War’ on Terrorism,” Journal of Military History, 73 (Jan. 2009), 177–208.
Kuznetsov, D. V., “Voina v Irake i obschchestvennoe mnenie SShA v 2003–2008 gg.” (War in Iraq and the U.S. public opinion, 2003–2008), SShA-Kanada: Economika, Politika, Kul’tura (Moscow) (no. 10, 2008), 25–42. In Russian.
Labode, Modupe, “A Carnival for a Cathedral: The 1906 Carnival of Nations in Denver,” Colorado Heritage (Autumn 2008), 14–25. Heavily illustrated.
Launius, Roger D., “Heroes in a Vacuum: The Apollo Astronaut as Cultural Icon,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Fall 2008), 174–209.
Lawrimore, Erin, “Margaret Cross Norton: Defining and Redefining Archives and the Archival Profession,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 2, 2009), 183–200.
Lush, Paige Clark, “The All American Other: Native American Music and Musicians on the Circuit Chautauqua,” Americana, 7 (Fall 2008), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.
Marcus, Daniel, “William Wyler’s World War II Films and the Bombing of Civilian Populations,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (March 2009), 79–90.
Massey, Carissa, “Appalachian Stereotypes: Cultural History, Gender, and Sexual Rhetoric,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 13 (Spring–Fall 2007), 124–36.
Moen, Ole O., “Nasjonalkarakteren” (The national character), in Amerikansk politikk: Politisk system og politisk tenkning (American politics: Political system and political thinking), ed. Bjřrn Erik Rasch, 181–212. (Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag, 2008. 325 pp. Paper, nok 345.00, isbn 978-82-7935-180-1.) In Norwegian.
Neem, Johann N., “Creating Social Capital in the Early American Republic: The View from Connecticut,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 39 (Spring 2009), 471–95.
Nylander, Jane C., “Coaching Parades in Bethlehem and North Conway, 1887–1896,” Historical New Hampshire, 62 (Fall 2008), 79–99.
Parafianowicz, Halina, “Internowanie Japonczyków w usa w czasie II wojny swiatowej: Próba nowego spojrzenia” (Internment of Japanese in the United States during World War II: An attempt at a new approach), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 6, 2008), 177–96. In Polish.
Peavler, David J., “African Americans in Omaha and the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Summer 2008), 337–61.
Peres, Tanya M., “Foodways, Economic Status, and the Antebellum Upland South in Central Kentucky,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 4, 2008), 88–104.
Ruffner, Malissa, and Emily J. Glenn, “Highly Subjective: The Librarianship of Winifred Sewell,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 2, 2009), 256–75.
Savel’eva, I. M., and A. V. Poletaev, “Istoricheskie znaniia amerikantsev” (Americans’ historical knowledge), Vremia, Istoriia, Pamiat’: Istoricheskoe Soznanie v Prostranstve Kul’tury (IVI RAN) (Moscow) (2007), 287–318. In Russian.
Semmes, Clovis E., “The Origins of Chicago’s Bud Billiken Parade: Correcting Historical Misconceptions,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Winter 2008), 277–90.
Walker, Christopher H., and Ann Copeland, “The Eye Prophetic: Julia Pettee,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 2, 2009), 162–82.
Winship, Michael, “Two Early American Bestsellers: Rowson’s Charlotte Temple and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Common-Place, 9 (April 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Atkins, Jennifer, “Setting the Stage: Dance and Gender in Old-Line New Orleans Carnival Balls, 1870–1920” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3321453.
Hollingshaus, Wade James, “Currencies of Rock Performance: Youth, Electricity, and Capital” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3318017.
Jayasanker, Laresh Krishna, “Sameness in Diversity: Food Culture and Globalization in the San Francisco Bay Area and America, 1965–2005” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3315079.
Miller, Timothy, “The Path to the Table: Cooking in Postwar American Suburbs” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3315563.
Nichols, Caroline Carpenter, “Celebrity and the National Body: Encounters with the Exotic in Late Nineteenth-Century America” (College of William and Mary, 2008). Order No. DA3319781.
Price, Joan E., “Eating News: The Social Construction of Food in U.S. News Magazines, 1995–2004” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3320756.
Buhs, Joshua Blu, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xvi, 279 pp. $29.00, isbn 978-0-226-07979-0.)
Call, Steve, Selling Air Power: Military Aviation and American Popular Culture after World War II. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. xiv, 224 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-1-60344-091-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-60344-100-1.)
Ernst, Donna B., The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xxiv, 233 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3982-1.)
Jones, John Bush, All-Out for Victory! Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front. (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2009. xiv, 314 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-768-2.)
Kaufman, Will, American Culture in the 1970s. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. xxxii, 231 pp. Cloth, Ł60.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2142-2. Paper, $17.99, isbn 978-0-7486-2143-9.)
Marty, Myron A., Communities of Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesin and Beyond. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. x, 306 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-87590-396-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Mileur, Jerome M., High-Flying Birds: The 1942 St. Louis Cardinals. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1834-6.)
Ring, Jennifer, Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv, 200 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-03282-0.)
Savel’eva, I. M., and A. V. Poletaev, Sotsial’nye predstavleniia o proshlom, ili Znaiut li amerikantsy istoriiu? (Social perceptions of the past; or, Do Americans know history?). (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2008. 454 pp. isbn 978-5-86793-622-8.) In Russian.
Shanken, Andrew M., 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. x, 254 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-5365-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5366-9.)
Sunic, Tomislav, Homo Americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age. (Bloomington, Ind.: BookSurge, 2007. 252 pp. Paper, $15.99, isbn 978-1-419-65984-3.)
Togyer, Jason, For the Love of Murphy’s: The Behind-the-Counter Story of a Great American Retailer. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xii, 279 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-271-03370-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Jones, Russell M., and John H. Swanson, eds., Dear Helen: Wartime Letters from a Londoner to Her American Pen Pal. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xiv, 247 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1850-6.)
Josephson, Barney, and Terry Trilling-Josephson, Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxii, 376 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-03413-8.)
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