Recent Scholarship
Midwest
Alonso, Kathleen, “3,937 Pounds of Letters: National Air Mail Week in Nebraska, May 1938,” Nebraska History, 86 (Winter 2005), 110–23.
Beuttler, Fred W., “Envisioning an Urban University: President David Henry and the Chicago Circle Campus of the University of Illinois, 1955–1975,” History of Higher Education Annual, 23 (2003–2004), 107–41.
Carson, Bob, “imp: Ohio’s Queen of the Turf,” Timeline, 23 (April–June 2006), 24–33. Heavily illustrated.
Christian, Mark, “Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (unia): With Special Reference to the ‘Lost’ Parade in Columbus, Ohio, September 25, 1923,” Western Journal of Black Studies, 28 (Fall 2004), 424–34.
Daly, Walter J., “The ‘Slows’: The Torment of Milk Sickness on the Midwest Frontier,” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (March 2006), 29–40.
Diggins, John P., “Arthur O. Lovejoy and the Challenge of Intellectual History,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 67 (Jan. 2006), 181–208.
Post, Chris, “Company Town Culture: Sunflower Village, Kansas, in the 1940s,” Material Culture, 37 (Fall 2005), 42–59.
Watson, Claudia, “The Photography of Dayton’s Albert Kern,” Timeline, 23 (April–June 2006), 50–67. Heavily illustrated.
Watts, Liz, “The Flying Newsboy Takes to the Air,” Nebraska History, 86 (Winter 2005), 132–45.
Anderson, Joseph Leslie, “Industrializing the Corn Belt: Iowa Farmers, Technology, and the Midwestern Landscape, 1945–1972” (Iowa State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184581.
Coil, William Russell, “‘New Deal Republican’: James A. Rhodes and the Transformation of the Republican Party, 1933–1983” (Ohio State University, 2005). Order No. DA3180621.
Hopkins, Rosemary, “‘Tried in the furnace of affliction’: Political and Social Activism among Civil War Era St. Louis Women” (Saint Louis University, 2005). Order No. DA3185067.
Morrison, Thomas A., “Ball State University Corporate History, 1984–2000: The Worthen Presidency” (Ball State University, 2005). Order No. DA3179579.
Quirk, Martin W., “From Pioneers to Wheat Kings: The Development of Regional Image and Identity in Western Kansas, 1890–1929” (Marquette University, 2005). Order No. DA3184683.
Strobel, Christoph, “Contested Grounds: The Transformation of the American Upper Ohio Valley and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770–1850” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005). Order No. DA3179929.
Williams-Searle, Bridgett Mary, “Intimate Empires: Domestic Order, Property Relations, and the Law in the Western Country, 1760–1830” (University of Iowa, 2005). Order No. DA3184768.
Rosenfeld, Richard, ed., Hidden Assets: Connecting the Past to the Future of St. Louis. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 2006. xx, 188 pp. $22.95, isbn 1-883982-56-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
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