Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Fleming, James Rodger, “The Pathological History of Weather and Climate Modification: Three Cycles of Promise and Hype,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 37 (no. 1, 2006), 3–25.
Freeze, Karen Johnson, “Innovation and Technology Transfer during the Cold War: The Case of the Open-End Spinning Machine from Communist Czechoslovakia,” Technology and Culture, 48 (April 2007), 249–85.
Kaiser, David, “The Physics of Spin: Sputnik Politics and American Physicists in the 1950s,” Social Research, 73 (Winter 2006), 1225–52.
Mathewson, Kent, “Alexander von Humboldt’s Image and Influence in North American Geography, 1804–2004,” Geographical Review, 96 (July 2006), 416–38.
McCray, Patrick W., “Amateur Scientists, the International Geophysical Year, and the Ambitions of Fred Whipple,” Isis, 97 (Dec. 2006), 634–58.
Nichols, Sandra, “Why Was Humboldt Forgotten in the United States?,” Geographical Review, 96 (July 2006), 399–415.
Nordlund, Christer, “Endocrinology and Expectations in 1930s America: Louis Berman’s Ideas on New Creations in Human Beings,” British Journal for the History of Science (London), 40 (March 2007), 83–104.
Oliver, Marc, “George Eastman’s Modern Stone-Age Family: Snapshot Photography and the Brownie,” Technology and Culture, 48 (Jan. 2007), 1–19.
Scharlott, Bradford W., and Mary Carmen Cupito, “Proto-Broadcasting in Cincinnati, 1847–1875: The Flow of Telegraph News to Merchants and the Press,” Ohio Valley History, 7 (Spring 2007), 32–46.
Walker, J. Samuel, “An ‘Atomic Garbage Dump’ for Kansas,” Kansas History, 29 (Winter 2006), 266–85. Heavily illustrated.
Westwick, Peter J., “Reengineering Engineers: Management Philosophies at jpl in the 1990s,” Technology and Culture, 48 (Jan. 2007), 67–91.
Wise, Norton M., “Thoughts on the Politicization of Science through Commercialization,” Social Research, 73 (Winter 2006), 1253–72.
Wood, David Lyle, “‘The Dearest Laborers’: Pilgrims on the Lightning Road to Zion,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Winter 2007), 44–62.
Asner, Glen Ross, “The Cold War and American Industrial Research” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2006). Order No. DA3226868.
Bills, Emily, “The Telephone Shapes Los Angeles: Communications and Built Space, 1880–1950” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221929.
Bryant, William Harold, “Whole System, Whole Earth: The Convergence of Technology and Ecology in Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225584.
Gart, Jason Howard, “Electronics and Aerospace Industry in Cold War Arizona, 1945–1968: Motorola, Hughes Aircraft, Goodyear Aircraft” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220301.
Kalic, Sean N., “U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946–1967: ‘We believe in the peaceful use of space’” (Kansas State University, 2006). Order No. DA3223375.
November, Joseph Adam, “Digitizing Life: The Introduction of Computers to Biology and Medicine” (Princeton University, 2006). Order No. DA3223838.
Schloegel, Judith Johns, “Intimate Biology: Herbert Spencer Jennings, Tracy Sonneborn, and the Career of American Protozoan Genetics” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3223050.
Bowles, Mark D., Science in Flux: nasa’s Nuclear Program at Plum Brook Station, 1955–2005. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006. xxx, 335 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4317.)
French, Francis, and Colin Burgess, Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxx, 397 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1146-9.)
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