Recent Scholarship
Public History and Memory
Black, Jason Edward, “Memories of the Alabama Creek War, 1813–1814: U.S. Governmental and Native Identities at the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Spring 2009), 200–229.
Blank, Trevor J., “Contesting the Contested: Preservation Politics, Collective Memory, and the First Institution for the Criminally Insane in America,” Material Culture, 41 (Spring 2009), 39–60.
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.
Brew, Wayne, “The Hole in the Map: Letterkenny Army Depot, Historic Preservation, and Base Realignment and Closure (brac),” Material Culture, 41 (Spring 2009), 61–77. Heavily illustrated.
Murray, Jennifer M., “‘Far above Our Poor Power to Add or Detract’: National Park Service Administration of the Gettysburg Battlefield, 1933–1938,” Civil War History, 55 (March 2009), 56–81.
Pratt, Claudia M., and Kathleen Davison, “Sculpting Lincoln: North Dakota’s Gift to the People of Norway,” North Dakota History, 74 (no. 3–4, 2007), 28–44.
Quigley, Paul, “Independence Day Dilemmas in the American South, 1848–1865,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (May 2009), 235–66.
Schwenkel, Christina, “From John McCain to Abu Ghraib: Tortured Bodies and Historical Unaccountability of U.S. Empire,” American Anthropologist, 111 (March 2009), 30–42.
Sergeant, Sharon E., “The Myth of Impossible Proof: Modern Genealogy Methods and a Holocaust Fraud,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 96 (Sept. 2008), 177–91.
Stocka, Anna, “Echa obchodów setnej roczicy podpisania przez usa Deklaracji Niepodleglosci w prasie warszawskiej” (The centennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: Echoes in the Warsaw press), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 6, 2008), 95–112. In Polish.
Tackach, James, “Abraham Lincoln in Recent American Fiction,” Lincoln Herald, 110 (Winter 2008), 238–52.
Wiesen, Jonathan, “Service above Self? Rotary Clubs, National Socialism, and Transnational Memory in the 1960s and 1970s,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 23 (Spring 2009), 1–25.
Erekson, Keith A., “Alternative Paths to the Past: The ‘Lincoln Inquiry’ and the Practice of History in America, 1880–1939” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3315924.
Hanson, Robin A., “The National Cemetery: Race and Sectional Reconciliation in a Contested Landscape” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324166.
Kim, Min Hoe, “Present Pasts: The Politics of Memory and Strategic Representations of Identity in Ethnic American Writers’ Works since the 1980s” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3311322.
King, Lisa Michelle, “Representing the Museum and the People: Rhetorical Sovereignty and the Representational Genres of American Indian Museums” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3315190.
Miller, Pamela W., “What We Do Best: Quality Collections Care Practices in Small Museums in Utah” (Utah State University, 2008). Order No. DA3315972.
Swigger, Jessica, “‘History Is Bunk’: Historical Memories at Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3315376.
Theye, Kirsten Elise, “The Reconstruction of National Identity following Tragic Events” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3316007.
Jacoby, Susan, Alger Hiss and the Battle for History. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. x, 256 pp. $24.00, isbn 978-0-300-12133-9.)
Ross, Marc Howard, ed., Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies: Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. xii, 295 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8122-4145-7.)
Walkowitz, David J., and Lisa Maya Knauer, Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. viii, 365 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4217-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4217-5.)
Wonderley, Anthony, At the Font of the Marvelous: Exploring Oral Narrative and Mythic Imagery of the Iroquois and Their Neighbors. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxxiv, 188 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3207-8.)
Parham, Claire Puccia, The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxxiv, 353 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0913-1.)
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