History of Science in the United States: The Nineteenth Century

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Religion and Theology (Relations to Science)

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Religion and theology (relations to science)

Albanese, Catherine L. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. 267pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Barnard, G. William. Exploring Unseen Worlds: William James and the Philosophy of Mysticism. 422 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, c1997.

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Cashdollar, Charles D. The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890: Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America. 489pp. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Conser, Walter H., Jr. God and the Natural World: Religion and Science in Antebellum America. 191pp. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Dalton, Lisle Woodruff. “Between the Enlightenment and Public Protestantism: Religion and the American Phrenological Movement. DAI 60/03 (1999): 774-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998)

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Davis, Dennis R. “Presbyterian Attitudes Toward Science and the Coming of Darwinism in America, 1859-1929. DAI 41/11 (1981): 4800-A. (Doct. diss., University of Illinois, 1980)

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)

Hampton, Monte Harrell. “ ‘Handmaid’ or ‘Assailant’: Debating Science and Scripture in the Culture of the Lost Cause.” DAI 65/07 (2005): 2734-A. (Doct. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2004)

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Hazen, Craig James. “The Village Enlightenment in America: Science and the Emergence of New Religious Ideas. DAI 57/09 (1997): 3978-A. (Doct. diss., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1996)

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Hazen, Craig James. The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century. 194pp. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Livingstone, David N. Darwins Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought. 210pp. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans; Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987.

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)

MacPherson, Ryan Cameron. “The Vestiges of Creation and America’s Pre-Darwinian Evolution Debates: Interpreting Theology and the Natural Sciences in Three Academic Communities.” DAI 64/01 (2003): 265-A. (Doct. diss., University of Notre Dame, 2003) 

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Moore, James R. The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900. 502pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Paul, Erich Robert. Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology. 272pp. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Roberts, Jon H. Darwinisn and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859-1900. (History of American Thought and Culture). 339pp. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Smith, Frank J. “The Philosophy of Science in Late 19th Century Southern Presbyterianism. DAI 53/04 (1992): 1187-A. (Doct. diss., City University of New York, 1992)

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Stiling, Rodney L. “The Diminishing Deluge: Noah’s Flood in 19th Century American Thought. DAI 52/11 (1992): 4066-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991)

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)

Thornbury, Gregory Alan. “The Legacy of Natural Theology in the Northern Baptist Theological Tradition, 1827–1918.” DAI 62/02 (2001): 643-A. (Doct. diss., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2001) 

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Turner, James. Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America. 316pp. Baltimore / London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Wolfgang, James S. “Science and Religion in the American Restoration Movement. DAI 58/12 (1998): 4784-A. (Doct. diss., University of Kentucky, 1997)

Religion and theology (relations to science)

Zabilka, Ivan L. “Nineteenth Century British and American Perspectives on the Plurality of Worlds: A Consideration of Scientific and Christian Attitudes. DAI 41/06 (1980): 2743-A. (Doct. diss., University of Kentucky, 1980)

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Astore, W. J. Observing God: Thomas Dick (1774-1857), Evangelism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and Antebellum America. (Doct. diss., University of Oxford, 1995)

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE):

Biographical

Astore, William J. Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America. 304pp. Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2001. 

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Capps, Donald and Janet Liebman Jacobs, editors. The Struggle for Life: A Companion to William Jamess The Varieties of Religious Experience. (Monograph series / Society for the Scientific Study of Religion; no. 9). 311 pp. [West Lafayette, Ind.]: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, c1995.

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Croce, Paul Jerome. “The Education of William James: Religion, Science and the Possibilities for Belief Without Certainty in the Early Intellectual Development of William James. DAI 48/04 (1987): 963-A. (Doct. diss., Brown University, 1987)

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Croce, Paul Jerome. Science and Religion in the Era of William James. Vol. 1: Eclipse of Certainty, 1820-1880. 350pp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995-.

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Fry, C. George and Jon Paul Fry. Congregationalists and Evolution: Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz. 23pp. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1989.

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Fry, C. George and Jon Paul Fry. Pioneering a Theology of Evolution: Washington Gladden and Pierre Teilhard deChardin. 26pp. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1989.

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Gardner, Martin. The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy: The Rise and Fall of Christian Science. 255pp. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1993.

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

James, Robert E. “‘Bow to the Rising Sun’: Emerson, Unitarianism, and the 1833-1834 Lectures on Science. DAI 56/12 (1996): 4773-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1995)

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE):

Biographical

Kittelstrom, Amy. “The Religion of Democracy: William James and Practical Idealism in Evolutionary America, 1870-1910.” DAI 65/03 (2004): 1084-A. (Doct. diss., Boston University, 2004) 

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Lester, Jacob F. “John Fiske’s Philosophy of Science: The Union of Science and Religion through the Principle of Evolution. DAI 40/02 (1979): 1037-A. (Doct. diss., Oregon State University, 1979)

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Reid, Tim S. “Mormons and Evolution: A History of B.H. Roberts and His Attempt to Reconcile Science and Religion. DAI 58/05 (1997): 1884-A. (Doct. diss., Oregon State University, 1997)

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Schoepflin, Gary Lee. Denison Olmsted (1791-1859), Scientist, Teacher, Christian: A Biographical Study of the Connection of Science with Religion in Antebellum America. DAI 38/07 (1978): 4336-A. (Doct. diss., Oregon State University, 1977)

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Biographical

Wells, John C. “Charles Hodge’s Critique of Darwinism: The Argument to Design. DAI 47/09 (1987): 3461-A. (Doct. diss., Yale University, 1986)

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Institutional

Brooke, John L. The Refiners Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. 421pp. Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Institutional

Noll, Mark A., editor and compiler. The Princeton Theology: Scripture, Science and Theological Method from Archibald Alexander to Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield. 322pp. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1983.

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE):

Institutional

Schoepflin, Rennie B. Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America. 301pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 

Religion and theology (relations to science):

Institutional

Tachikawa, Akira. “The Two Sciences and Religion in Antebellum New England: The Founding of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. DAI 39/09 (1979): 5368-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1978)

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE):

Sources

Ryan, Frank X., editor. Darwinism and Theology in America, 1850-1930. 4 vols. (1500pp). Chicago: Thoemmes, 2002. 

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Research Institutions (Non-Profit)

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Research institutions (non-profit):

Biographical

Portolano, Marlana. “John Quincy Adams and the Rhetoric of the Smithsonian’s Inception. DAI 59/06 (1998): 2080-A. (Doct. diss., Catholic University of America, 1998)

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Rhetoric, Public Relations, and Public Images of Science

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RHETORIC, PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND PUBLIC IMAGES OF SCIENCE

Longo, Bernadette. Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing. (Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication). 204pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 

RHETORIC, PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND PUBLIC IMAGES OF SCIENCE

Nadis, Fred Robert. “Wonder Shows: Science, Religion, and Magic on the American Stage, 1845-2001.” DAI 64/12 (2004): 4508-A. (Doct. diss., University of Texas, Austin, 2002) 

RHETORIC, PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND PUBLIC IMAGES OF SCIENCE

Nadis, Fred. Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America. 318pp. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.

RHETORIC, PUBLICATIONS, AND PUBLIC IMAGES OF SCIENCE

Walsh, Lynda Christine. “The Rhetoric of the Scientific Media Hoax: Humanist Interventions in the Popularization of Nineteenth-Century American Science.” DAI 64/12 (2004): 4450-A. (Doct. diss., University of Texas, Austin, 2003) 

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Science (General)

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Science (general)

Cohen, I. Bernard, advisory editor. Three Centuries of Science in America. Editorial board: A. Hunter Dupree, Donald H. Fleming, Brooke Hindle. 66 books in 77 volumes. New York: Arno Press, 1980. (From advertising booklet: “Included are reprints of primary [printed] sources... There are also many interpretive volumes that have gone out of print... A special feature of the series is a set of anthologies containing collections of articles and pamphl

Science (general)

Cravens, Hamilton, Alan I. Marcus, and David M. Katzman, editors. Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology, and Medicine since the Early 1800s. (History of American science and technology series). 265 pp. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c1996.

Science (general)

Gifford, George E., Jr. Medicine and Science in America: Being the Collected Essays of George Edmund Gifford, Jr., 1930-1981. Edited by Dorothy I. Lansing. 388pp. [n.p.]: Friends of George E. Gifford, Jr., 1982. (Privately printed)

Science (general)

Kuklick, Bruce. Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930. 253pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1996.

SCIENCE (GENERAL):

Arizona

Webb, George Ernest. Science in the American Southwest: A Topical History. 271pp. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. 

Science (general):

Biographical

Jenkins, Edward Sidney. To Fathom More: African American Scientists and Inventors. 399pp. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, c1996.

SCIENCE (GENERAL):

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

Cayton, Mary Kupiec and Peter W. Williams, editors. Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 2001. 

Science (general):

Historiography

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory and Margaret W. Rossiter, editors. Historical Writing on American Science. Osiris, 2nd series, volume 1 (1985): 1-321.

Science (general):

Historiography

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory and Margaret W. Rossiter, editors. Historical Writing on American Science: Perspectives and Prospects. 328pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. (Paperback re-issue of Osiris 2nd ser., Vol. 1)

Science (general):

Historiography

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory and Margaret W. Rossiter, editors. Historical Writing on American Science: Perspectives and Prospects. 321pp. Philadelphia: History of Science Society, 1985; Baltimore / London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. (A reprinting of Osiris n.s. vol. 1)

Science (general):

New Mexico

Hsi, David and Janda Panitz, editors. From Sundaggers to Space Exploration: Significant Contributions to Science and Technology in New Mexico. (New Mexico Journal of Science, vol. 25, no. 1). 434pp. Las Vegas: New Mexico Academy of Science and New Mexico Sigma Xi Chapters and Clubs, 1986.

Science (general):

Texas

Klosterman, Leo J., Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. and Sylvia Rose, editors. 100 Years of Science and Technology in Texas. A Sigma Xi Centennial Volume. 391pp. Houston, Texas: Rice University Press, 1986.

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Science (General): 1789-1865

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Science (general): 1789-1865

Bruce, Robert V. The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876. 446pp. New York: Knopf, 1987.

Science (general): 1789-1865

Greene, John C. American Science in the Age of Jefferson. 476pp. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1983.

SCIENCE (GENERAL): 1789-1865:

Biographical

Bedini, Silvio A. Jefferson and Science. (Monticello Monograph Series). 126pp. [Charlottesville, Va.?]: Thomas Jefferson Foundation; distributed by Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 

SCIENCE (GENERAL): 1789-1865:

Biographical

Chapin, David. Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity. 258pp. Amherst / Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.

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Science (General): 1865-1920

SCIENCE (GENERAL): 1865-1920

Vetter, Jeremy. “The Regional Development of Science: Knowledge, Environment, and Field Work in the United States Central Plains and the Rocky Mountains, 1860-1920.” DAI 66/06 (2005): 2363-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2005)

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Science Fiction

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SCIENCE FICTION

Alkon, Paul K. Science Fiction before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology. (Genres in Context). 176pp. New York: Routledge: 2002. (First published: New York : Twayne; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994) 

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Scientists (Community and Characteristics)

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Scientists (community and characteristics)

Beaver, Donald deB. The American Scientific Community, 1800-1860: A Statistical-Historical Study. (Dissertations in Sociology [Yale University 1966]). 379pp. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

Scientists (community and characteristics)

Ciarlante, Marjorie H. “A Statistical Profile of Eminent American Inventors, 1700-1860: Social Origins and Role. DAI 39/10 (1979): 6295-A. (Doct. diss., Northwestern University, 1978)

Scientists (community and characteristics)

Gillispie, Charles C. The Professionalization of Science: France 1770-1830 Compared to the United States 1910-1970. (The Third Neesima Lectures, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 1981). 40pp. Kyoto: Doshisha University Press, 1983.

Scientists (community and characteristics)

Haber, Samuel. The Quest for Authority and Honor in the American Professions, 1750-1900. 478pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. (Includes medicine, engineering, and professors)

Scientists (community and characteristics)

Hatch, Nathan O., editor. The Professions in American History. 220pp. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame, 1988. (Includes science, medicine, engineering)

Scientists (community and characteristics)

Herzig, Rebecca M. “In the Name of Truth: Sacrificial Ideals and American Science, 1870-1930. DAI 59/10 (1999): 3945-A. (Doct. diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)

SCIENTISTS (COMMUNITY AND CHARACTERISTICS)

Herzig, Rebecca M. Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. 194pp. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Scientists (community and characteristics)

Jones, Keith Wayne. “A Study of the Historical Role of African Americans in Science, Engineering, and Technology. DAI 61/04 (2000): 1584-A. (Doct. diss., Union Institute, 2000)

Scientists (community and characteristics)

Kimball, Bruce A. The True Professional Ideal in America: A History. 429pp. Cambridge, Mass./ Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1992.

Scientists (community and characteristics)

Levy, Richard M. “The Professionalization of American Architects and Civil Engineers, 1865-1917. DAI 41/07 (1981): 3218-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Berkeley, 1980)

SCIENTISTS (COMMUNITY AND CHARACTERISTICS)

Stewart, Elizabeth Pritchard. “Who Shall Decide When Doctors Disagree? Hoaxes and American Men of Science in the Nineteenth Century.” DAI 64/02 (2003): 629-A. (Doct. diss., American University, 2003) 

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Seismology

SEISMOLOGY

Page, Jake and Charles Officer. The Big One: The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science. 239pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

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Sex and Sexuality

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Sex and sexuality

D’Emilio, John and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. 428pp. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

SEX AND SEXUALITY

Goodfellow, Sarah. “ ‘The Sexual Hush’: Representations of Late-Life Sexuality in Western Europe and America, 1870-1930.” DAI 65/07 (2005): 2740-A. (Doct. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 2004)

Sex and sexuality

Haller, John S., Jr. and Robin M. Haller. The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America. With new preface. 331pp. Carbondale / Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995. (Originally published 1974)

SEX AND SEXUALITY

Hatheway, Jay. The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia. 232pp. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 

SEX AND SEXUALITY

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America. 514pp. New York: Knopf, 2002. 

SEX AND SEXUALITY

Maybrey, Catherine R. “From Onanism to Orgasm: Masturbation, Medicine and Gender in America, 1646-1953.” DAI 66/05 (2005): 1927-A. (Doct. diss., Loyola University, Chicago, 2005)

Sex and sexuality

Melody, M. E. and Linda M. Peterson. Teaching America about Sex: Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth. 286pp. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Sex and sexuality

Seidman, Steven. Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980. 247pp. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Sex and sexuality:

Biographical

Beisel, Nicola. Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America. (Princeton Studies in American Politics). 275pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Sex and sexuality:

Biographical

Schaechterle, Inez L. “Speaking of Sex: The Rhetorical Strategies of Frances Willard, Victoria Woodhull, and Ida Craddock.” DAI 66/04 (2005): 1477-A. (Doct. diss., Bowling Green State University, 2005)

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Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Social and behavioral sciences

Bannister, Robert C. Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought. (American Civilization). 292pp. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979.

Social and behavioral sciences

Buchholz, Karen Schoenewaldt. “The Politics of Research: Social Scientists and the New Immigrant Labor, 1880-1924. DAI 53/09 (1993): 3343-A. (Doct. diss., Temple University, 1992)

Social and behavioral sciences

Bulmer, Martin, Kevin Bales and Kathryn Kish Sklar, editors. The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940. 383pp. Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Social and behavioral sciences

Converse, Jean M. Survey Research in the United States: Roots and Emergence, 1890-1960. 564pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Social and behavioral sciences

Degler, Carl N. In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought. 400pp. New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Social and behavioral sciences

Frankel, Oz. “States of Inquiry: The Politics, Rituals, and Texts of Social Investigations in Britain and the U.S., 1830-1870. 578pp. DAI 60/03 (1999): 847-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1998)

Social and behavioral sciences

Freeberg, Ernest Frithiof. “The Education of Laura Bridgman: Human Nature and Social Reform in Antebellum New England. DAI 56/07 (1996): 2834-A. (Doct. diss., Emory University, 1995)

Social and behavioral sciences

Hawkins, Mike. Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945: Nature as Model and Nature as Threat. 344pp. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Social and behavioral sciences

McClymer, John F. War and Welfare: Social Engineering in America, 1890-1925. (Contributions in American History, 84). 249pp. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Social and behavioral sciences

Pittenger, Mark. “Science and the New Social Order: American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870-1919. DAI 45/07 (1985): 2153-A. (Doct. diss., University of Michigan, 1984)

Social and behavioral sciences

Pittenger, Mark. American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870-1920. (History of American Thought and Culture). 310pp. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.

Social and behavioral sciences

Ross, Dorothy, editor. Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930. 379pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. (Includes U.S.)

Social and behavioral sciences

Ross, Dorothy. The Origins of American Social Science. (Ideas in context Series). 508pp. Cambridge / New York / Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Social and behavioral sciences

Safford, John Lugton. Pragmatism and the Progressive Movement in the United States: The Origin of the New Social Sciences. 255pp. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987.

Social and behavioral sciences

Scott, Daryl M. “The Damaged Black Psyche: The Liberal Creation and Use of Social Science Imagery, 1890-1970. DAI 54/12 (1994): 4554-A. (Doct. diss., Stanford University, 1994)

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Sklansky, Jeffrey. The Soul’s Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920. 313pp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. (On the history of social science) 

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Tomlinson, Stephen. Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought. 437pp. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. (Includes US topics)

Social and behavioral sciences:

Biographical

Alter, Stephen George. “William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language. DAI 54/07 (1994): 2704-A. (Doct. diss., University of Michigan, 1993)

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES:

Biographical

Alter, Stephen G. William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language. (Studies in Historical and Political Science). 339pp. Baltimore / London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 

Social and behavioral sciences:

Biographical

Deegan, Mary Jo. Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918. 352pp. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1988.

Social and behavioral sciences:

Biographical

Lee, Hyungdae. “The Search for Authority in American Social Thought: Sumner, Dewey, Lippmann, and Niebuhr. DAI 57/07 (1997): 3211-A. (Doct. diss., Ohio University, 1996)

Social and behavioral sciences:

Biographical

Zamir, Shamoon. Dark Voices: W.E.B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903. 294 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES:

Institutional

Fuller, Kathryn Wagnild. “‘Cool and calm inquiry’: Women and the American Social Science Association, 1865–1890.” DAI 62/02 (2001): 739-A. (Doct. diss., Indiana University, 2001) 

Social and behavioral sciences:

New York

Recchiuti, John L. “The Origins of American Progressivism: New York’s Social Science Community, 1880-1917. DAI 53/03 (1992): 929-A. (Doct. diss., Columbia University, 1992)

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES:

Sources

Ryan, Frank X., editor. Darwin’s Impact: Social Evolution in America, 1880-1920. Introductions by Frank X. Ryan, Rick Tilman, and Peter Landry. 3 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001. (Collection of writings contemporary with the time period covered) 

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Social Aspects and Relations of Science

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Social aspects and relations of science

Elworthy, Samuel J. “The Social Origins of Uncertainty: Popular Struggles over Science and Truth in America, 1870-1914. 378pp. DAI 60/02 (1999): 522-A. (Doct. diss., State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, 1999)

Social aspects and relations of science

Kynell, Teresa C. “Bridging Technology and Humanism: The Evolution of Technical Writing as a Discipline in America, 1850-1950. DAI 55/10 (1995): 3179-A. (Doct. diss., Michigan Technological University, 1994)

Social aspects and relations of science

Rosenberg, Charles E. No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought. Revised and expanded ed. 311 pp. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Social aspects and relations of science

Schultze, Quentin. “Advertising, Science, and Professionalism, 1885-1917. DAI 39/12 (1979): 7039-A. (Doct. diss., University of Illinois, 1978)

Social aspects and relations of science

Tchudi, Stephen, [editor]. Science, Values, and the American West. 256pp. Reno: Nevada Humanities Committee, 1997.

Social aspects and relations of science

Whalen, Matthew D. “American Science, Society, and Civilization in the Age of Energy: An Investigation of the Relationships among Neo-Lamarckism, Social Evolution, and the Myth of Atlantis between 1860-1920. DAI 39/07 (1979): 4348-A. (Doct. diss., University of Maryland, 1978)

Social aspects and relations of science

Wrobel, Arthur, editor. Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth Century America. 245pp. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Social aspects and relations of science:

Biographical

Largent, Mark Aaron. “‘These are times of scientific ideals’: Vernon Lyman Kellogg and Scientific Activism, 1890-1930. DAI 60/12 (2000): 4580-A. (Doct. diss., University of Minnesota, 2000)

Social aspects and relations of science:

Biographical

Lutz, Reinhart C. “Henry Adams: The Virgin’s Spirituality and the Spirit of Electricity. DAI 52/11 (1992): 3940-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Santa Cruz, 1991)

Social aspects and relations of science:

California

Smith, Michael L. “Surveying Eldorado: The Social Role of California’s Scientific Community, 1850-1915. DAI 47/06 (1986): 2292-A. (Doct. diss., Yale University, 1983)

Social aspects and relations of science:

California

Smith, Michael L. Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915. 243pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.

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Societies and Associations

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CITATION

Societies and associations

Goldstein, Daniel. Midwestern Naturalists: Academies of Science in the Mississippi Valley, 1850-1900. DAI 50/11 (1990): 3717-A. (Doct. diss., Yale University, 1989)

Societies and associations

Midgette, Nancy S. “The Role of the State Academies of Science in the Emergence of the Scientific Profession in the South, 1883-1983. DAI 45/06 (1984): 1849-A. (Doct. diss., University of Georgia, 1984)

Societies and associations

Oleson, Alexandra and John Voss, editors. The Organization of Knowledge in Modern America, 1860-1920. 480pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

Societies and associations:

Institutional

Carter, Edward C. II. One Grand Pursuit: A Brief History of the American Philosophical Societys First 250 Years, 1743-1993. 118pp. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1993.

Societies and associations:

Institutional

Daily, William Allen and Fay Kenoyer Daily. History of the Indiana Academy of Science 1885-1984: A Centennial Volume. 249pp. Indianapolis: Indiana Academy of Science, 1984.

Societies and associations:

Institutional

Ellsworth, Mary Ellen. A History of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1799-1999. (Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 55). 254pp. New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999.

Societies and associations:

Institutional

Franklin Institute and the Making of Industrial America. A. Michal McMahon and Stephanie Morris, editorial advisers. 536 microfiche, with 74p. printed guide. Bethesda, Md.: Congressional Information Service, Inc. / Academic Editions, 1987. (Archival records and related material, both textual and visual)

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Goodyear, George F. with others. Society and Museum: A History of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1861-1993 and the Buffalo Museum of Science, 1928-1993. (Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, v. 34). 325pp. Buffalo, N.Y.: The Society, 1994.

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Hittell, Theodore Henry. The California Academy of Sciences: A Narrative History, 1853-1906. Edited, revised, and enlarged by Alan E. Leviton and Michele L. Aldrich. 623pp. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1997.

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Klunk, Edward T. “The Chicago Academy of Sciences: The Development and Method of Educational Work in Natural History. DAI 56/05 (1995): 1686-A. (Doct. diss., Loyola University, 1995)

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Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory, Michael M. Sokal, and Bruce V. Lowenstein. The Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Introduction by Keith Benson and Jane Maienschein. 236pp. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 1999.

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Baatz, Simon. Knowledge, Culture and Science in the Metropolis: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1817-1970. (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 584). 269pp. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1990.

 

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