Recent Scholarship
Material Culture and Architecture
Cleary, Richard, “Texas Gothic, French Accent: The Architecture of the Roman Catholic Church in Antebellum Texas,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65 (March 2007), 60–83.
Haddad, John R., “Imagined Journeys to Distant Cathay: Constructing China with Ceramics, 1780–1920,” Winterthur Portfolio, 41 (Spring 2007), 53–80.
Harmon, Mella Rothwell, “The Extraordinary Career of Frederic J. DeLongchamps,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 49 (Fall 2006), 183–220.
Martinez, Katharine, “The Dickinsons of Amherst Collect: Pictures and Their Meanings in a Victorian Home,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Nunamaker, Erika, “Lincoln’s Pursuit of ‘Egalitarian Refinement’: Evidence from His Mahogany Sofa,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 28 (Winter 2007), 30–51.
Rohan, Timothy M., “Challenging the Curtain Wall: Paul Rudolph’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Building,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65 (March 2007), 84–109.
Schuetz-Miller, Mardith K., “Pre-Euclidian Geometry in the Design of Mission Churches of the Spanish Borderlands,” Journal of the Southwest, 48 (Winter 2006), 331–591. Special issue.
Simpson, Pamela H., “Butter Cows and Butter Buildings: A History of an Unconventional Sculptural Medium,” Winterthur Portfolio, 41 (Spring 2007), 1–19. Heavily illustrated.
Tharp, Bruce M., “Valued Amish Possessions: Expanding Material Culture and Consumption,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 38–53.
Grubiak, Margaret Mary, “Preserving Religion in the Campus: Religious Architecture in the Modern American University, 1890–1955” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3218413.
Hodge, Christina J., “A Middling Gentility: Taste, Status, and Material Culture at the Eighteenth-Century Wood Lot, Wanton-Lyman-Hazard Site, Newport, Rhode Island” (Boston University, 2007). Order No. DA3218543.
Jacobs, James Andrew, “‘You can’t dream yourself a house’: The Evolving Postwar Dwelling and its Preeminent Position within a Renewed Consumer World, 1945–1970” (George Washington University, 2005). Order No. DA3217557.
Shales, Ezra, “John Cotton Dana and the Business of Enlightening Newark: Applied Art at the Newark Public Library and Museum, 1902–1929” (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2007). Order No. DA3222573.
Smith, Jeffrey Allen, “Made Beings: Cahuilla and Chemehuevi Material Culture as Seen through the Cary Collection” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226568.
Vermeer, Andrea C., “Making the West: Approaches to the Archaeology of Prostitution on the 19th-Century Mining Frontier” (University of Arizona, 2006). Order No. DA3219738.
Walden, Lisa Riggin, “The Spanish Missions: The Death and Resurrection of a California Institution” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226573.
Wortham, Brooke D., “Mythologies of an American Everyday Landscape: Henry Ford at the Wayside Inn” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006).
Birchfield, James D., Clay Lancaster’s Kentucky: Architectural Photographs of a Preservation Pioneer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xiv, 130 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2421-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Parmal, Pamela A., et al., Textile and Fashion Arts. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2006. 208 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-87846-699-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Styles, John, and Amanda Vickery, eds., Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. x, 358 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-300-11659-5.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Upton, Dell, “Understanding New Orleans’s Architectural Ecology,” in Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, ed. Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, 275–87. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii, 375 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-1980-7.)
Tedesco, Paul H., and James B. Tedesco, Portable and Prefabricated Houses of the Thirties: The E. F. Hodgson Company 1935 and 1939 Catalogs; An Unabridged Reprint. (Lake Forest, Ill.: JBT Publishing, 2007. xliv, 114 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-9792059-1-0.)
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