Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Anker, Peder, “The Ecological Colonization of Space,” Environmental History, 10 (April 2005), 239–68.
Bedwell, Don, “Going Nowhere Fast: The Supersonic Transport Was Both Inevitable and Beneficial—Until It Turned Out to Be Neither,” American Heritage of Invention & Technology, 21 (Winter 2006), 8–18.
Brenner, Susan W., “The Fourth Amendment in an Era of Ubiquitous Technology,” Mississippi Law Journal, 75 (Fall 2005), 1–84.
Burke, John A., “Lake Erie Coal Loading Machines,” Inland Seas, 61 (Fall 2005), 182–95.
Chaplin, Joyce E., “Overboard: A Historian’s Life at Sea,” Common-Place, 6 (Jan. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Gauger, Michael, “Flickering Images: Live Television Coverage and Viewership of the Army—McCarthy Hearings,” Historian, 67 (Winter 2005), 678–93.
Greenfield, Steven, “A Lake By Mistake,” American Heritage of Invention & Technology, 21 (Winter 2006), 38–49.
Huntington, Tom, “King Kong: How the Greatest Special Effects Movie Was Made with the Simplest Technology,” American Heritage of Invention & Technology, 21 (Winter 2006), 20–31.
Jackson, Steven J., “Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 22 (Oct. 2005), 263–80.
Larew, Karl G., “From Pigeons to Crystals: The Development of Radio Communication in U.S. Army Tanks in World War II,” Historian, 67 (Winter 2005), 664–77.
Lyons, Jeffrey K., “The Pacific Cable, Hawai‘i, and Global Communication,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 39 (2005), 35–52.
Oden, Derek, “Selling Safety: The Farm Safety Movement’s Emergence and Evolution from 1940–1975,” Agricultural History, 79 (Fall 2005), 412–38.
Sweetman, Bill, “The Short, Happy Life of the Prop-Fan,” Air & Space, 20 (Aug.–Sept. 2005), 42–49. Heavily illustrated.
Thompson, Raymond H., “Anthropology at the University of Arizona, 1893–2005,” Journal of the Southwest, 47 (Autumn 2005), 327–74.
Barrow, Heather B., “The Automobile in the Garden: Henry Ford, Suburbanization, and the Detroit Metropolis, 1919–1941” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3168316.
Casey, Kathleen, “Noise Making Subjects” (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3170240.
Egan, Michael, “Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival” (Washington State University, 2004). Order No. DA3172345.
Granados, Francisco J., “Globalization of Technological Industries: Production, Innovation, and Markets” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3172800.
Hecht, David K., “Tumult in the Clouds: Robert Oppenheimer and American Science” (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3168908.
Jack, Jordynn Marguerite, “Rhetorics of Time: Women’s Role in Wartime Science, 1939–1945” (Pennsylvania State University, 2005). Order No. DA3172978.
Reid, Mandy Aimil, “‘A most terrible spectacle’: Visualizing Racial Science in American Literature and Culture, 1839–1929” (Rice University, 2005). Order No. DA3168131.
Wassmann, Claudia, “The Science of Emotion: Studying Emotions in Germany, France, and the U.S., 1860–1920” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3168411.
Doubles, Malcolm C., A Century Plus: A History of Sonoco Products Company. (Hartsville: Coker College Press, 2005. xvi, 373 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-9703644-1-5.)
Herzig, Rebecca M., Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8135-3662-6.)
Jackson, John P., Jr., and Nadine M. Weidman, Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xvi, 403 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8135-3736-3.)
Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May, Women and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xxxvi, 409 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8135-3737-1.)
Stojanowski, Christopher M., Biocultural Histories in La Florida: A Bioarchaeological Perspective. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-8173-1485-7. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8173-5267-8.)
Vilensky, Joel A., Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America’s World War I Weapon of Mass Destruction. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xxvi, 213 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-253-34612-6.)
Watkins, Billy, Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xxiv, 202 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-275-98702-7.)
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