The Libraries would like to highlight some more new and diverse titles that have been added recently to the National Museum of American History Library.
Did Lincoln own slaves?: and other frequently asked questions about Abraham Lincoln. Gerald J. Prokopowicz. Vintage Books, 2009
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007020889.html
Marcha!: Latino Chicago and the immigrant rights movement, edited by Amalia Pallares and Nilda Flores-González.
University of Illinois Press, c2010.
F548.9.S75 M37 2010
Bound for Santa Fe: the road to New Mexico and the American conquest, 1806-1848. Stephen G. Hyslop.
University of Oklahoma Press, c2002.
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001052268.html
F800 .H97 2002
Folk medicine in southern Appalachia. Anthony Cavender.
University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/2003010305.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip043/2003010305.html
GR108.15 .C38 2003
Uncovering labour in information revolutions, 1750-2000, edited by Aad Blok and Greg Downey.
Cambridge University Press, [2003]
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam051/2004300517.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam051/2004300517.html
HD6331 .U45 2003

America and the pill: a history of promise, peril, and liberation. Elaine Tyler May.
Basic Books, c2010.
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1012/2009046957-d.html
HQ766.5.U5 M39 2010

Record makers and breakers: voices of the independent rock 'n' roll pioneers. John Broven.
University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008027204.html
ML405 .B76 2009
The Cambridge companion to the musical, edited by William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird.
Cambridge University Press, c2008.
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007053042-d.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007053042-t.html
ML2054 .C35 2008
The 1772 Philadelphia furniture price book: a facsimile, with an introduction and guide by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, c2005.
NK2438.P5 A16 2005
The long route to the invention of the telescope. Rolf Willach.
American Philosophical Society, 2008.
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008035637.html
QB88 .W53 2008

America's wetland: an environmental and cultural history of tidewater Virginia and North Carolina. Roy T. Sawyer.
University of Virginia Press, 2010.
QH105.V8 S27 2010
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Ice-age enclave — Relict fauna — Water's environmental facets — Period of European colonization — Agricultural history — Sturgeon, herring, and other fisheries — Antebellum golden age : transportation canals — African American experience — Armed conflict : a recurring theme — Intracoastal waterways : war canals — Forests then and now — Droughts and forest fires — From peat mining to wildlife refuges — Lost heritage : last river highway — Urbanization and depopulation.
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Wetland ecology — Virginia — Atlantic Coast.
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Wetland ecology — North Carolina — Atlantic Coast.
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Drainage — Environmental aspects — Virginia — Atlantic Coast.
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Drainage — Environmental aspects — North Carolina — Atlantic Coast.
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Climatic changes — Virginia — Atlantic Coast.
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Climatic changes — North Carolina — Atlantic Coast.
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Atlantic Coast (Va.) — Environmental conditions.
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Atlantic Coast (N.C.) — Environmental conditions.
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Examining Tuskegee: the infamous syphilis study and its legacy. Susan M. Reverby.
University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
R853.H8 R48 2009
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Introduction : race, medical uncertainty, and American culture — Historical contingencies : Tuskegee Institute, the Public Health Service, and syphilis — Planned, plotted, & official : the study begins — Almost undone : the study continues — What makes it stop? — Testimony : the public story in the 1970s — What happened to the men & their families? — Why & wherefore : the Public Health Service doctors — Triage & "powerful sympathizing" : Eugene H. Dibble, Jr — The best care : Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie — Bioethics, history, & the study as gospel — The court of imagination — The political spectacle of blame & apology — Epilogue : the difficulties of treating racism with "Tuskegee".
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Hunting and fishing in the new South: black labor and white leisure after the Civil War. Scott E. Giltner.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008007845-d.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0812/2008007845.html
SK43 .G55 2008

From BetaMax to Blockbuster: video stores and the invention of movies on video. Joshua M. Greenberg.
MIT Press, c2008.
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007018942.html
TK6655.V5 G74 2008

Appetite for America: how visionary businessman Fred Harvey built a railroad hospitality empire that civilized the Wild West. Stephen Fried.
Bantam Books, c2010
TX910.5.H34 F75 2010
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Part One: Fred discovers America (and vice versa), 1853-1901 — Pot Walloper — The last train stop in America — A gentleman among the Bleeding Kansans — Railroad warrior — Opportunistic sponge — Savage and unnatural feeding — They'll try anything — Suited to the most exigent or epicurean taste — Cowboy victualer — Viva Las Vegas — We are in the wilds, we are not of them — Harvey girls — Like a house afire — Acute Americanitis — Transcontinental Fred — Biting the hand — The biggest catered lunch in American history — Let the boys do it — Rough ridden — The clutches of the grim monster — Part Two: Exceeding the Standard, 1901-1948 — A little journey in the wilderness — The Fred Harvey Indian Department — Tenth Legion — On the very brink of the dizzy gulf — Trainiacs — Kansas City Stars — National parking — Daring young Freddy and his flying machines — Soroptimistas — The roar of the twenties — Santa fated — A wonderful live toy to play with — Poised for takeoff — Ford Harvey has a cold — Freddy spreads his wings — Pay no attention to that crashing sound — Loaves and fishes — Heir raising — Great expectations — Tailspin — Kitty blinks — Private Pringle to the rescue — The spies at La Fonda — Big Hollywood ending — Epilogue — Appendix I: The grand tour of Fred Harvey's America — Appendix II: Meals by Fred Harvey — Apppendix III: Fred was here: a master list of Fred Harvey locations — Acknowledgments & Outshouts — Freditor's notes & sources — Bibliography — Index.
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Harvey, Fred.
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Fred Harvey (Firm)
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Restaurateurs — United States — Biography.
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Cooking, American.
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Railroads — West (U.S.) — History.
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—Chris Cottrill