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FEBRUARY 8. MATERIAL CULTURE

  • Bill: T. H. Breen, "Narrative of Commercial Life: Consumption, Ideology, and Community on the Eve of the American Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly 50 (July 1993): 471-501 (JSTOR)
  • Jared: Robert F. Dalzell, Jr., "Constructing Independence: Monticello, Mount Vernon, and the Men Who Built Them," Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (Summer 1993): 543-580. (JSTOR)
  • Jay: C. M. Harris, "Washington's Gamble, L'Enfant's Dream: Politics, Design, and the Founding of the National Capital," William and Mary Quarterly 56 (July 1999): 527-564 (JSTOR).
  • Donna Merwick, "Dutch Townsmen and Land Use: A Spatial Perspective on Seventeenth-Century Albany, New York," William and Mary Quarterly 37 (January 1980): 53-78 (JSTOR).

 

FEBRUARY 15. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

  • Alison K. Hoagland, "Village Constructions: U. S. Army Forts on the Plains, 1848-1890," Winterthur Portfolio 34 (Winter 1999): 215-237 (JSTOR)
  • Edward T. Price, "The Central Courthouse Square in the American County Seat," Geographical Review 58 (January 1968): 29-60 (JSTOR).
  • Mary P. Ryan, "'A Laudable Pride in the Whole of Us': City Halls and Civic Materialism," American Historical Review 105 (October 2000): 1131-1170. (JSTOR)
  • Gwen: Diane Shaw, "Building an Urban Identity: The Clustered Spires of Frederick, Maryland," and Peter E. Kurtze, "A School House Well Arranged": Baltimore Public School Buildings on the Lancasterian Plan, 1829-1839," and Susan Garfinkel, "Letting in "the World": (Re)interpretive Tensions in the Quaker Meeting House," all in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture 5 (1995): 55-92 (JSTOR)

 

FEBRUARY 22. ENVIRONMENT AND GEOGRAPHY

  • Cronon, "Gateway City," Nature's Metropolis, 263-309; 387-390
  • Roger: Stanley K. Schultz; Clay McShane, "To Engineer the Metropolis: Sewers, Sanitation, and City Planning in Late-Nineteenth-Century America" Journal of American History 65, (September 1978): 389-411. (JSTOR)
  • Kurt: Nancy Shoemaker, "Whale Meat in American History," Environmental History 10 (April 2005): 269-294 (History Cooperative)
  • Ian Tyrrell, "Peripheral Visions: Californian-Australian Environmental Contacts, c. 1850s-1910 ," Journal of World History 8 (Fall 1997): 275-302 (Project Muse)

 

MARCH 1. IMAGES

 

  • John E. Crowley, "'Taken on the Spot': The Visual Appropriation of New France for the Global British Landscape" Canadian Historical Review 86 (March 2005): 1-28 (Project Muse)
  • Alan: Peter Bacon Hales, "Photography And The World's Columbian Exposition: A Case Study," Journal of Urban History 15 (1989): 247-273 (Fenwick Periodicals)
  • Kurt: Gregory H. Nobles, "Straight Lines and Stability: Mapping the Political Order of the Anglo-American Frontier," Journal of American History 80 (June 1993): 9-35 (JSTOR).
  • Lianne McTavish, "Learning to See in New Brunswick, 1862-1929," Canadian Historical Review 87, (December 2006): 553-581 (Project Muse)
  • H. Daniel Peck, "Unlikely Kindred Spirits: A New Vision of Landscape in the Works of Henry David Thoreau and Asher B. Durand," American Literary History 17 (Winter 2005): 687-713. (Project Muse)

 

 

MARCH 8. INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY

  • Trevor: Lindy Biggs, "The Engineered Factory," Technology and Culture 36 (April 1995): S174-S188 (JSTOR) and Thomas E. Leary, "Shadows in the Cave: Industrial Ecology and Museum Practice," Public Historian" 11 (Autumn 1989): 39-60. (JSTOR)
  • Roger Burt, "Innovation or Imitation? Technological Dependency in the American Nonferrous Mining Industry," Technology and Culture 41 (April 2000): 321-347 (Project Muse)
  • Ken Cruikshank and Nancy B. Bouchier, "Blighted Areas And Obnoxious Industries: Constructing Environmental Inequality On An Industrial Waterfront, Hamilton, Ontario, 1890-1960," Environmental History 9 (2004): 464-496 (ProQuest)
  • Rich: David M. Introcaso, "The Politics of Technology: The 'Unpleasant Truth about Pleasant Dam, '" Western Historical Quarterly 26 (Autumn 1995): 332-352 (JSTOR)
  • Jared: Chad Montrie, "Expedient Environmentalism: Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in Appalachia and the United Mine Workers of America, 1945-1975," Environmental History 5 (January 2000): 75-98.

 

MARCH 15. NO CLASS (SPRING BREAK)

MARCH 22. LITERATURE

  • Melissa: William A. Gleason, "Chesnutt's Piazza Tales: Architecture, Race, and Memory in the Conjure Stories," American Quarterly 51 (March 1999): 33-77 (Project Muse)
  • Roger: Barbara Hahn, "Union Terminal: Business Clubs, Railroads, and City Planning in Cincinnati, 1880-1933," Journal of Urban History 30 (2004): 707 - 728. (Sage)
  • Laura Gruber Godfrey, "Hemingway and Cultural Geography: The Landscape of Logging in 'The End of Something,' Hemingway Review 26 (Fall 2006): 47-62 (Project Muse)
  • Alan: Gregg Mitman, "Hay Fever Holiday: Health, Leisure, and Place in Gilded-Age America," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77 (Fall 2003): 600-635 (Project Muse)

 

MARCH 29. ARCHITECTURE

 

  • Scott G. Knowles and Stuart W. Leslie, "Industrial Versailles": Eero Saarinen's Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T," Isis 92 (March 2001): 1-33.
  • Trevor: Jane C. Loeffler, "The Architecture of Diplomacy: Heyday of the United States Embassy-Building Program, 1954-1960," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 49, (September 1990): 251-278 (JSTOR)
  • Gwen: Joseph M. Siry, "Chicago's Auditorium Building: Opera or Anarchism," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 57 (June 1998): 128-159 (JSTOR).
  • Carol Willis, "Zoning and 'Zeitgeist': The Skyscraper City in the 1920s," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 45 (March 1986): 47-59 and Daniel M. Bluestone, "Detroit's City Beautiful and the Problem of Commerce, "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 47 (September 1988): 245-262. (JSTOR)

 

APRIL 5. TYPAGE

 

  • Lizabeth Cohen, "Is There An Urban History Of Consumption?" Journal of Urban History 29 (2003): 87 - 106 (Sage).
  • Lance: William R. Leach, "Transformations in a Culture of Consumption: Women and Department Stores, 1890-1925," Journal of American History 71 (September 1984): 319-342 (JSTOR).
  • Jay: Richard Longstreth, "The Neighborhood Shopping Center in Washington, D.C., 1930-1941," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 51(1992): 5-34 (JSTOR)
  • Stephanie: Jessica Sewell, "Sidewalks and Store Windows as Political Landscapes," Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture 9 (2003): 85-98 AND Stephanie Dyer, "Designing 'Community' in the Cherry Hill Mall: The Social Production of a Consumer Space," Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture 9 (2003): 263-275 (both in JSTOR).

 

APRIL 12. POLICY (URBAN)

 

  • Stephanie: Arnold R. Hirsch, "Containment on the Home Front: Race and Federal Housing Policy from the New Deal to the Cold War," Journal of Urban History 26 (2000): 158 - 189 (Sage).
  • Judge: Greg Hise, "Home Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles: The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region," Journal of Urban History 19 (1993): 95-125. (Fenwick Periodicals)
  • Bill: Thomas J. Sugrue, "Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940-1964," Journal of American History 82 (September 1995): 551-578 (JSTOR).
  • Kristin M. Szylvian, "Industrial Housing Reform and the Emergency Fleet Corporation," Journal of Urban History 25 (1999): pp. 647 - 689 (Sage).

 

APRIL 19. POLICY (SUBURBAN)

 

  • Timothy J. Garvey, "Garden Becomes Machine: Images of Suburbia in the Painting of Roger Brown," Smithsonian Studies in American Art 3 (Summer 1989): 2-23 (JSTOR)
  • Judge: Thomas W. Hanchett, "U.S. Tax Policy and the Shopping-Center Boom of the 1950s and 1960s," American Historical Review 101 (October 1996): 1082-1110. (JSTOR)
  • Becky M. Nicolaides, "The Neighborhood Politics of Class in a Working-Class Suburb of Los Angeles, 1920-1940," Journal of Urban History 30 (2004): 428 - 451. (Sage)
  • Lance: James Morton Turner, "From Woodcraft to 'Leave No Trace': Wilderness, consumerism, and Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America," Environmental History 7 (2002): 462-484 (ProQuest).

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