Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Case, Theresa A., “Blaming Martin Irons: Leadership and Popular Protest in the 1886 Southwest Strike,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (Jan. 2009), 111–36.
Charnock, Emily Jane, James A. McCann, and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, “Presidential Travel from Eisenhower to George W. Bush: An ‘Electoral College’ Strategy,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Summer 2009), 323–40.
Clements, Eric L., “Selling the Switzerland of America: Colorado’s Railroads Promote Pleasure and Health Seeking, 1870–1930,” Colorado Heritage (March–April 2009), 14–23. Heavily illustrated.
Hofsommer, Don L., “‘Temples of Mammon and Hives of Industry’: Railroads and the Minneapolis Milling District,” Minnesota History, 61 (Summer 2009), 248–59. Heavily illustrated.
Jensen, Joan M., “Silver City Health Tourism in the Early Twentieth Century: A Case Study,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Summer 2009), 321–61.
Middleton, William D., “Reaching 200,” Railroad History, 200 (Spring–Summer 2009), 36–47. Heavily illustrated.
Morser, Eric John, “Hinterland Dreams and Midwestern Rails: Public Power and Railroading in Nineteenth-Century La Crosse, Wisconsin,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (June 2009), 367–410.
Post, Robert C., “The Land Speed Record and the Last Green Monster,” Technology and Culture, 50 (July 2009), 586–93.
Tarr, Joel A., “The Horse Era in Pittsburgh,” Western Pennsylvania History, 92 (Summer 2009), 28–41. Heavily illustrated.
Frank, Marti Jaye, “Carrying the Mill: Steam, Waterpower, and New England Textile Mills in the 19th Century” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3334725.
Garcia, Ivonne Marie, “Anticipating 1898: Writings of U.S. Empire on Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, and Hawai‘i” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3324111.
Vantoch, Victoria, “Ambassador of the Air: The Airline Stewardess, Glamour, and Technology during the Cold War, 1945–1969” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3325202.
Grant, H. Roger, and Don L. Hofsommer, Iowa’s Railroads: An Album. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xii, 301 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-253-31425-3. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-253-22073-8.) Heavily illustrated.
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