Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Boone, M. Scott, “The Past, Present, and Future of Computing and Its Impact on Digital Rights Management,” Michigan State Law Review (Spring 2008), 413–34.
Callaway, Judson, and Su Richards, “Old Lamps for New: The Failed Campaign to Bring Electric Street Lighting to Salt Lake City,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Summer 2009), 222–41.
Fernlund, Kevin J., “To Think Like a Star: The American West, Modern Cosmology, and Big History,” Montana, 59 (Summer 2009), 23–44. Heavily illustrated.
Hadden, R. Lee, “The Heringen Collection of the U.S. Geological Survey Library, Reston, Virginia,” Earth Sciences History, 27 (no. 2 2008), 242–65.
Kessler, Bree, “Recruiting Wombs: Surrogates as the New Security Moms,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 167–82.
Kurosaki, Akira, “Kakuheiki no kyozon o mosakusuru kagakusha: Paguwosshu kaigi niokeru saishogen yokushiron no juyo to beikokiu no kagakusha no yakuwari, 1955–1963 nen” (The Pugwash Conference and American scientists’ quest for disarmament and stable mutual deterrence, 1955–1963), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 77–98. In Japanese.
Layne, Linda L., “The Home Pregnancy Test: A Feminist Technology?,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 61–79.
Matsuda, Hiroyuki, “Amerika niokeru denshin-shi no shakaishi” (A social history of telegraph operators in America), Joho-Tsushin Gakkai-shi (Tokyo), 85 (Jan. 2008), 59–68. In Japanese.
Matsuda, Hiroyuki, “Morusu denshinshi no Uchu: Amerika Gasshuikoku, 1846–1907 nen; Joho-Tsushin rodo no soseishi” (A world of the Morse telegrapher in the United States, from 1846 to 1907: On the formation of information-communication technology work), Koshien Daigaku Kiyo (Takarazuka), 35 (2007), 123–62. In Japanese.
Misoe, Atsuro, “Reisen no hotei-jutsu: Kakujidai niokeru hochoki tekunoroji no gensetsu to hyosho” (Prosthetics in the Cold War: Discourses and representations of the hearing aid in the atomic age), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 119–36. In Japanese.
Orna, Mary Virginia, “Women Chemists in the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame: Their Remarkable Lives and Their Award-Winning Research,” Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 34 (no. 1, 2009), 51–60.
Pandora, Katherine, “Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context,” Isis, 100 (June 2009), 346–58.
Porter, Theodore, “How Science Became Technical,” Isis, 100 (June 2009), 292–309.
Shimizu, Hiroshi, and Takashi Hirao, “Inter-organizational Collaborative Research Networks in Semiconductor Lasers, 1975–1994,” Social Science Journal, 46 (June 2009), 233–51.
Swanson, Kara W., “Human Milk as Technology and Technologies of Human Milk: Medical Imaginings in the Early Twentieth-Century United States,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 21–37.
Swanson, Kara W., “The Emergence of the Professional Patent Practitioner,” Technology and Culture, 50 (July 2009), 519–48.
Tsuchida, Eiko, “Tekunoroji to imin no Amerikanizumu: Suweden-kei imin-shakai niyoru gunkan ‘Monita’ to Jon Erikuson no hyosho” (Technology and an immigrant version of Americanism: Swedish-American representation of the ironclad Monitor and John Ericsson), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 155–73. In Japanese.
Williams, Robert V., “Enhancing the Cultural Record: Recent Trends and Issues in the History of Information Science and Technology,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 3, 2009), 326–42.
Young, Davis A., “Origins of the American Quantitative Igneous Rock Classifications: Part 1,” Earth Sciences History, 27 (no. 2 2008), 188–219.
Alcorn, Aaron L., “Modeling Behavior: Boyhood, Engineering, and the Model Airplane in American Culture” (Case Western Reserve University, 2008). Order No. DA3326297.
Goldsmith, Julie Ann, “The People’s Art: The Chicago Tribune’s Transformation of Visual Journalism in the Early 20th Century” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3331917.
Julyk, David P., “‘The Trouble with Machines Is People’: The Computer as Icon in Post-war America, 1946–1970” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3328859.
Mills, Mara C., “The Dead Room: Deafness and Communication Engineering” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3334769.
Nienkamp, Paul, “A Culture of Technical Knowledge: Professionalizing Science and Engineering Education in Late-Nineteenth Century America” (Iowa State University, 2008). Order No. DA3316176.
Sweeney, Patrick C., “Collateral Damage: Technology’s Influence upon the American Warrior’s Ethical Obligation to the Noncombatant from the Civil War” (Salve Regina University, 2008). Order No. DA3333058.
Tobbell, Dominique Avril, “Pharmaceutical Networks: The Political Economy of Drug Development in the United States, 1945–1980” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328664.
Vogel, Sarah A., “The Politics of Plastics: The Economic, Political, and Scientific History of Bisphenol A” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333456.
Yi, Doogab, “The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Biotechnology at Stanford, 1959–1980” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3324311.
Colten, Craig E., Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. x, 195 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-60473-238-2.)
Kagan, Jerome, The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii, 311 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-521-51842-0. Paper, $21.99, isbn 978-0-521-73230-7.)
McCalman, Iain, Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution. (New York: Norton, 2009. 423 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-393-06814-6.)
Nishikawa, Junko, Amerika koku uchu sangyo: Rekishi to genzai (American aerospace industry: History and the present). (Tokyo: Nihonkeizai Hyoronsha, 2008. 328 pp. ¥4,725, isbn 978-4-81881-964-1.) In Japanese.
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