Recent Scholarship
Social Welfare and Public Health
Adams, Jane, and D. Gorton, “This Land Ain’t My Land: The Eviction of Sharecroppers by the Farm Security Administration,” Agricultural History, 83 (Spring 2009), 323–51.
Burch, Susan, “(Extraordinary) Bodies of Knowledge: Recent Scholarship in American Disability History,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (July 2009), 29–34.
Clare, Rod, “Resisting ‘the Doldrums’: The League of Women Voters in North Carolina in the 1950s,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (April 2009), 180–207.
Gerber, David, “Creating Group Identity: Disabled Veterans and American Government,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (July 2009), 23–28.
Hiratai, Yumi, “Amerika nambu koshu eisei gyosei no tenkai: Rokkufera Eisei Linkai to 20 Seiki no kochubyo kontororu” (Development of public health in the South: The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission and the control of hookworm disease in the early twentieth century), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 20–35. In Japanese.
Kennedy, David M., “What the New Deal Did,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Summer 2009), 251–68.
Lansing, Michael J., “‘Salvaging the Man Power of America’: Conservation, Manhood, and Disabled Veterans during World War I,” Environmental History, 14 (Jan. 2009), 32–57.
Longmore, Paul, “Making Disability an Essential Part of American History,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (July 2009), 11–15.
Miller, Leta E., and Catherine Parsons Smith, “Playing with Politics: Crisis in the San Francisco Federal Music Project,” California History, 86 (no. 2, 2009), 26–47. Heavily illustrated.
Pajot, Dennis, “‘The Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played Anywhere,’” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Spring 2009), 36–47. Heavily illustrated.
Petty, Christina, “Broken Thread: The Choctaw Spinning Association, 1937–1943,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Winter 2008–2009), 428–45.
Pope-Levison, Priscilla, “A ‘Thirty Year War’ and More: Exposing Complexities in the Methodist Deaconess Movement,” Methodist History, 47 (Jan. 2009), 101–16.
Richert, Lucas, “Pills, Policy Making, and Perceptions: Inside the fda during the ‘Reagan Revolution,’ 1981–1982,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 2, 2009), 41–63.
Rogers, Bethany, “‘Better’ People, Better Teaching: The Vision of the National Teacher Corps, 1965–1968,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Aug. 2009), 347–72.
Sato, Chitose, “1932 nen Wisukonshin shitsugyo hosho-ho to nyudiru: ‘Wisukonshin-ha’ no Shiso to Raforetto Chiji niyoru shu-seiji o chushin ni” (The Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Act of 1932 and the New Deal: The ‘Wisconsin idea’ and the politics of Governor Philip La Follette), Shakai Keizai Shigaku (Tokyo), 73 (no. 6, 2008), 57–78. In Japanese.
Scotch, Richard K., “‘Nothing about Us Without Us’: Disability Rights in America,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (July 2009), 17–22.
Shultis, Christopher, “A ‘New Deal’ for American Composers: How the wpa Music Copying Project Added American Music to the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection,” American Music, 27 (Spring 2009), 87–101.
Strach, Patricia, “Making Higher Education Affordable: Policy Design in Postwar America,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 1, 2009), 61–88.
Trachtenberg, Alan, “Minnesota in the Camera’s Eye, 1935–43,” Minnesota History, 61 (Spring 2009), 174–95. Heavily illustrated.
Turley, David, “Religion and Approaches to Reform: Boston Unitarians versus Evangelicals in the Context of the 1820s and 1830s,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (June 2009), 187–210.
Ahuja, Neel, “Cultures of Quarantine: Race, U.S. Empire, and the Biomedical Discourse of National Security, 1893–1960” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3330845.
Anderson, Patricia Dockman, “‘By Legal or Moral Suasion Let Us Put It Away’: Temperance in Baltimore, 1829–1870” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3329783.
Bergman, Jonathan C., “The Shape of Disaster and the Universe of Relief: A Social History of Disaster Relief and the ‘Hurricane of ’38,’ Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, 1938–1941” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3320427.
Birk, Megan Elizabeth, “Alone in the Country: Rural Social Welfare for Dependent Children, 1865–1920” (Purdue University, 2008). Order No. DA3330230.
Briggs, Tracey, “Twenty Years at Greenwich House” (University of Toledo, 2008). Order No. DA3329499.
Coleman, Amanda, “Reform(ulat)ing the Region: Competing Discourses of Region and Regional Change in the Depression-Era U.S. South” (University of Oregon, 2008). Order No. DA3325653.
Davis, Helen Louise, “Compassionate Consumerism: Mass Movements, Youth Markets, and the Evolution of an Ethic from Band Aid to Idol Aid” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3331890.
Jennings, Audra R., “With Minds Fixed on the Horrors of War: Liberalism and Disability Activism, 1940–1960” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3325734.
Lock, Sarah Jo, “The People in the Neighborhood: Samaritans and Saviors in Middle-Class Women’s Social Settlement Writings, 1895–1914” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3324871.
Moniz, Amanda Bowie, “‘Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe’: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760–1815” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3328913.
Rose, Sarah Frances, “No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1850–1930” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3327434.
Smith, Freddy Carl, “Shadows over Goshen: Plain Whites, Progressives, and Paternalism in the Depression South” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2008). Order No. DA3329751.
Stipelman, Brian Eric, “‘Necessitous Men Are Not Free Men’: The Political Theory of the New Deal” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3335560.
Wrenn, Marion, “Inventing Warriors: U.S. Philanthropies and the Post-war Reorientation of Foreign Journalists” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3332522.
Hunt, D. Bradford, Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. x, 380 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-36085-0.)
Mendelson, Richard, From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xviii, 302 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-520-25943-0.)
Nishiyama, Takayuki, Amerika-gata fukushi kokka to toshi seiji: Nyuyoku-shi niokeru aban riberarizumu u no tenkai (An American-style welfare state and urban politics: The development of urban liberalism in New York City). (Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2008. 334 pp. ¥6,825, isbn 978-4-13036-231-3.) In Japanese.
Davis, Anita Price, New Deal Art in Virginia: The Oils, Murals, Reliefs, and Frescoes, and Their Creators. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. vi, 218 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4185-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Lindsey, Ben B., and Harvey J. O’Higgins, The Beast. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. xlvi, 239 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87081-953-7.) Originally published in 1910.
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