Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Brumbaugh, Lee P., “Everyday Mysteries: Roy Curtis’s Photographs of Reno in the 1920s,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 48 (Winter 2005), 431–64.
Cherry, James M., “Rituals of Nostalgia: Old-Fashioned Melodrama at the Millenium,” Americana, 4 (Fall 2005) http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.
Epstein, Edward, and Marybeth Gasman, “A Not-So-Systematic Effort to Study Art: Albert Barnes and Lincoln University,” History of Higher Education Annual, 24 (2005), 173–90.
Gordon, Sarah, “Prestige, Professionalism, and the Paradox of Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion Nudes,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130 (Jan. 2006), 79–104.
Hoy, Jim, and Catherine Hoy, “Portraits of the Plains: The Photographs of F. M. Steele,” Kansas History, 28 (Winter 2005–2006), 262–73. Heavily illustrated.
Mayer, Roberta A., “Family Ties: Thomas Eakins and the Sartains,” Nineteenth Century, 25 (Fall 2005), 13–22. Heavily illustrated.
McElhinney, James L., “Lost in Our Own Backyard: How American Landscape Painting Lost Its Way,” American Arts Quarterly, 22 (Fall 2005), 13–18. Heavily illustrated.
McNally, Michael D., “The Indian Passion Play: Contesting the Real Indian in Song of Hiawatha Pageants, 1901–1965,” American Quarterly, 58 (March 2006), 105–36.
Pegler-Gordon, Anna, “Chinese Exclusion, Photography, and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy,” American Quarterly, 58 (March 2006), 51–77.
Saum, Lewis O., “The Gilded Age, Dakota, and ‘Phocion’ of the Chicago Times,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (Oct. 2004), 231–37.
Schürer, S. M., “H. Winslow Fegley and the fsa in Pennsylvania: Agenda and Context,” Pennsylvania History, 70 (Summer 2003), 269–86.
Shaffer, Jason, “Making ‘an Excellent Die’: Death, Mourning, and Patriot Plays in the Propaganda Plays of the American Revolution,” Early American Literature, 41 (March 2006), 1–27.
Swensen, James R., “Passing Through: Arthur Rothstein’s Photographic Account of Utah, March 1940,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Winter 2006), 66–78.
Synn, Chaeki, “Miguk Misul eui Gukjaewha Gwajeong gwa Iminja Misuleui Yoekhal” (The role of immigrant art in the internationalization of American art), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 20 (Nov. 2004), 119–40. In Korean.
Watson, Claudia, “The Photography of Dayton’s Albert Kern,” Timeline, 23 (April–June 2006), 50–67. Heavily illustrated.
Wilkerson-Freeman, Sarah, “Fat Tuesday at Dixie’s: Jack Robinson’s New Orleans Mardi Gras Photographs, 1952–1955,” Southern Cultures, 12 (Spring 2006), 42–63.
Zryd, Michael, “The Academy and the Avant-Garde: A Relationship of Dependence and Resistance,” Cinema Journal, 45 (Winter 2006), 17–42.
Addeo, Deborah Bershad, “The New York City Hall Portrait Collection, 1790–1830” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187356.
Fisler, Benjamin Daniel, “The Phenomenology of Racialism: Blackface Puppetry in American Theatre, 1872–1939” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178726.
Marshall, Jennifer Jane, “The Stuff of Modern Life: Materiality and Thingness in the Museum of Modern Art’s Machine Art Show, 1934” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3181735.
Miller, Kimberly A., “Eugenics and American Theatre, 1912–1921” (University of Kansas, 2005). Order No. DA3185194.
Moeschen, Sheila C., “Benevolent Actors and Charitable ‘Objects’: Physical Disability and the Theatricality of Charity in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century America” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177779.
Orcutt, Kimberly, “‘Revising History’: Creating a Canon of American Art at the Centennial Exhibition” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187359.
Pittenger, Peach, “Women in American Popular Entertainment: Creating a Niche in the Vaudevillian Era, 1890s to 1930s” (Ohio State University, 2005). Order No. DA3177183.
Rothman, Korey, “Somewhere There’s Music: Nancy Hamilton, the Old Girl’s Network, and the American Musical Theatre of the 1930s and 1940s” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178609.
Watson, Samuel E., “Childhood’s End: Representing American Youth, c. 1940–1970” (University of Kansas, 2005). Order No. DA3185242.
Wilson, Melinda, “Coming of Age in the Black Liberation Generation: The Construction of Youth in African American Drama, 1950–1980” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177828.
Anreus, Alejandro, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg, The Social and the Real: Political Art in the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xxii, 362 pp. Paper, $50.00, isbn 0-271-02691-X.) Heavily illustrated.
Bohan, Ruth L., Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv, 261 pp. $50.00, isbn 0-271-02702-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Kutz, Kevin, Lincoln Highway: Painting and Drawings. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2006. vi, 122 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8117-3264-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Severa, Joan L., My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2005. xx, 303 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-87338-837-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Wyckoff, William, On the Road Again: Montana’s Changing Landscape. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xviii, 180 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 0-295-98612-3.) Heavily illustrated.
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