Recent Scholarship
Social Welfare and Public Health
Brooke, John L., “Cultures of Nationalism, Movements of Reform, and the Composite-Federal Polity: From Revolutionary Settlement to Antebellum Crisis,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Spring 2009), 1–33.
Gutman, Marta, “Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the wpa Swimming Pools in New York City,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 532–61.
Hutchinson, John M., “What Was Tad Lincoln’s Speech Problem?,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30 (Winter 2009), 35–51.
Mittelstadt, Jennifer, “Philanthropy, Feminism, and Left Liberalism, 1960–1985,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 105–31.
Renner, Andrea, “A Nation That Bathes Together: New York City’s Progressive Era Public Baths,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 504–31.
Richardson, Janine M., “‘None of Them Came for Me’: The Kapi‘olani Home for Girls, 1885–1938,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 1–26.
Browder, Dorothea, “From Uplift to Agitation: Working Women, Race, and Coalition in the Young Women’s Christian Association, 1908–1950” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314380.
Crust, Louis, “Challenging Nonprofit Legal Services: Four Cases from New Orleans, 1970–2004” (University of New Orleans, 2007). Order No. DA3313777.
Field, Corinne T., “Woman’s Rights and the Politics of Adulthood in the United States, 1792–1939” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317547.
Venit, Tamara Hilary, “A Squatters’ Republic: Land Rights, Reform, and Anti-monopoly in California and the Nation, 1850–1920” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313680.
Greenwald, Brian H., and John Vickrey Van Cleve, eds., A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2008. xii, 198 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-56368-395-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Kirkland, Kate Sayen, The Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. xxii, 373 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-292-71865-4.)
Gunn, Thomas Butler, ed., The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xxxiv, 200 pp. Cloth, $68.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4439-7. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4440-2.)
Lynd, Alice, and Staughton Lynd, Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together. (Lanham: Lexington, 2009. xvi, 191 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-7391-2749-0.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.


